Soba's got my mind, my body and my soul to do her bidding. I will willingly be a Soba minion. :) I'm *so* glad you found your camererera - I know that is part of the reason you felt so out of sorts. Now you can continue your move onward and upward. I'm sending out all kinds of Postive Thought Vibes in your direction (not that you need them after that YUMMY retail therapy). Just remember we're all rooting for you and sending out the PTVs tomorrow and all will be well (see? I got some of the prophetic gift as well!!!) Oh, Purl; so many people love you and appreciate you. And its clearly not just ether love. And anytime you think Soba needs a vacation, she can come here and put my Bucket in his place. :)

HUGS to you all.

YEEEAY! SO GLAD YOU FOUND IT!! Am I the first???
Un believable!!!and yet another yeay for the rockin yarn purchases!!! I havent been to my not so local yarn shop. Im cutting my teeth on the so so OK selections at my STUPID jobby and Michaels. I would probably start convulsing at the sight of the primo stuffs.( I have very vivid recollections of the yarn supply room of the weaving department in college..) First exposure was 79 in JR hi teacher was a weaver..so I became a beginner.Vague memories but then again in 83 began the rebirth.Who majors in weaving?? Really.NOW I'm convinced
i've been yarn starved all these years!PLus I know I cant afford the extra deluxeness.But thanks to you I think I'm gonna find out if they have a newsletter and hit the major sale!!! I've been worried about you all weekend. Glad to see you are back to your old yarn freakin self!Can I send you some Midwest snow??

BTW, how is it possible that you are able to take pictures while driving, yet you use the "I drive a stick and have no interior light" excuse for not being able to find places you haven't been before using mapquest?! Mmm-hmmm.

Roy looks like he's feeling a little better, at least. Soba looks like she's waiting for someone to foolishly lean down and pat her warm furry tummy so that she can see just how far into a human arm her tooth could go. NEVER be fooled by the sunwarmed furry tummy plot, people. I have the scars.

Glad that you are sounding happier and that Roy is feeling better.

When I had to help my friend feed her cat a pill, we did the towel thing, then my friend shoved the pill into the cat's mouth and blew a little air into the cat's face, which apparently makes cats swallow. I have no idea if this is true, but you might want to give it a try if you get bored of cat's antibiotics spit all over you ;-)

Glad to see Roy is back on form. Love the CSI thing. My sister was in vegas two weeks ago and bought me an official CSI t-shirt - I am very proud!

Dear Aunt Perl,
You and your cats and your camera and your fans who leave comments are all fabulous.
My knitting group is having an anonnymous secret santa in two weeks. Everyone's probably already got enough stitch markers and row counters so what do I bring?
I'm simply tied in knots about this!
:)Tiffany

Mmmm...shopping...gooddd!

Of course, because we substitute song lyrics here in the Catty house, the picture of Soba made me start singing, "We had joy, we had fun, we had Soba in the sun. But the joy she could reach was just our skin between her teeth." I know, we won't quit our day jobs.

And of course, allow me to make a recommendation on the antibiotic administration. Sit Roy on your lap, facing away from you (wrap him in a towel), tilt his head up so his nose is almost pointed to the ceiling. Gently, using your thumb on on one jaw joint and your middle finger on the other (your index finger will be at the front center of his jaw), push in to open his jaw (your index finger can help keep it open). Slip the dropperful of meds in at the BACK of his teeth (right at the corner of where his upper and lower "lips" meet). Squooosh! and you're done. Keeping his head up and coming in from the side help keep the dropper away from his sightline and help the meds get down his throat before he has a chance to Jackson Pollock your bathroom.

Oh Yeah....
I forgot to mention....have you ever smelled or tasted that pink anti-biotic liquid?? I think its made for children primarily cause it smells like bubble gum or banana or something?...... I can't blame Roy for resisting....How tough would it be to make a tuna flavored one for cats?? or liver for dogs??Maybe you could get the opossum bra chick at the vet to look into it?I'm just sayin.....

Hey CAP - retail therapy - especially at bargain prices - ROCKS.

As.

Do.

You.

Just a reminder from a blog-stalkin', crochetin', kitty-lovin' Internet friend.

Lorrian

Oh, I hate that pink stuff! We had to give it to Amanda (the long-haired kitty who had a raging case of hairballs gone wrong) a few months ago and she spit it all over the place. Including me and a t-shirt from college that I LOVED and it stained and I can no longer wear it outside of the apartment (and I wasn't even the one holding her down to give her the medicine, I was just passing by). Just a word of caution--wear an apron if you like your outfit!

Oooh, I really like the fuzzy pink yarn and that silky looking blue one toward the right of the photo. Pretty!

Glad Roy is back in fighting form!

Holy moly, I am loving that stash of yarn you just picked up. Having said that, whatcha gonna knit now? Pretty yarn therapy makes life SO much better.

I love the picture with Frankie in the background sleeping while standing up. That always cracks me up when cats do that. They're so bored that they can't even bother to lay back down to sleep. Funny.

I agree with the blowing in their face tactic for pill-swallowing.

Nice stash enhancements!

By the looks of that splatter Roy must be feeling better. He has such a sweet face! And aren't we all glad CSI Nick shaved that cheesy mustache? He was starting to look like one of the Village People.

God I live CSI. If it was one 24 hours a day I would never leave the house. Someday I am going to crawl throught my TV and coax Gil Grisson or Greg Sanders or even sad eyed Captain Brass to run away with me. Nick is obviously a closet case and of course Warrick has that gambling problem..uh..anyway...

I too have had the magenta CSI cat antibiotic crime scene splatter on the walls, the floor the couch, the perp (me). If it is the same one I am thinking of do you know why they hate it so much?? It tastes like bubble gum!!! Oh, yes, I also had it splatter in my mouth once. It is basically baby antibiotics. If they want cats to take it they would make it salmon, tuna flavored, catnip flavored or somthing that cats eat. Have you ever seen a cat digging through your purse to get to your last piece of Double Bubble?

I am a CSI fan also... hated that it was a repeat this week.... I am glad Roy is on the mend.
Try that Mr. Clean eraser thingie to wash the pink spots....
hugs to you and the furbabies...

Just so y'all know. I really can spell. I just can't type.

Retail therapy works wonders for the soul. Nice haul you've got there!
So glad to hear you sounding happier and see Roy looking better. Seeing the sunlight on Soba's tummy made me very jealous, I've been dealing with snow all day and a sunwarmed tummy would be very nice indeed.

I can relate with giving the cat that nasty liquid antibiotic with an eye dropper. Tigger had a cut on one of his paw pads that wasn't getting any better and had to take until it was all gone that stuff. Yeah, it was pretty much all gone alright, all over me, my clothes, the floor, the chair, down his chin, in my hair etc etc. OMG what a mess. When there were times I had captured him and thought I hit pay dirt getting it down his throat he managed to spit it out.. imagine that. Long story short, it didn't work and he unfortunately lost the one paw pad. I was devastated. He was in the kitty hospital for 3 days and I was a nervous wreck already ontop of being a nervous wreck.. my baby was sick. Anyways, he's all better now. Glad to see Roy is making a come back :) Andrea in Ohio

Hi

So any ideas in mind of what you are gonna make with the new yarn? Or did you just buy it cause it was pretty? I have a problem buying things just cause they are pretty. Lol

If I were you and the CSI team showed up at my house, I would let Nick take Roy as long as I got to go along. Of course, he would have to shave off that cheesy moustache first. What was he thinking? Then again Greg is more my type.

I think that Soba's mind control is starting to work because I briefly forgot that these are not people in the real world -- as opposed to all the folks on the reality shows I like as well.

I say if Roy is 25% of your divorce settlement, then you did quite well.

In our home we call the kitchen (at all times) the Scene of the Crime, and we afectionately call Gil Grissom, Science Guy - mostly cuz I can never remember the names of things, and so, make up my own, and the show is now and forever Science Guy.

Your blog is great, you are a wonder, and though I have never written, have off and on read, and have alughed out loud, and you are the only person in blogland that wins the award of making me snort coffee out my nose, in the morning. Ok possibly too gross for my first comment, but nevertheless... such is life.

I'm so glad to hear Roy is improving!! And happy to hear you and your camera have been reunited. Mine broke this fall due to stupid carelessness on my part, but I was saved when beloved Amy sent me her old camera. Life without camera (and with a sick cat) is a sad life indeed.
xox

Love the Toyota!
BTW, I usually get the non-pink-stuff antibiotics for my cat and then mix it with a little turkey baby food and they gobble it right up. And isn't it hilarious the way vets act like getting a CAT to take a syringe-full of pink liquid should be no big deal?? My vet actually thought I could give one of mine 2 pills a day -- for life!
I suppose all cats of vets are docile and obedient creatures. . .

Glad everyone at Chez Spinster is doing so well...

I can see the t-shirt now: "Crazy Aunt Purl. So much fun you'll snort coffee out your nose!" Thanks for the image, Liz!

Y'know, Laurie, if you started a CAP cafepress shop, you'd probably make enough for traveling, retail therapy, world domination, etc. And besides, I need a new mug for work. ;>

The cats are so cool. I love your cat photos 'cause I'm missin' mine so much. We're in the process of moving across the country and my husband already has the cats moved out west. So... I'm catless but enjoying your cat photos. Thanks.

Roy is lookin' pretty good!

Yes! We must have a Crazy Aunt Purl shop! I'd definitely buy something.

Laurie, we'll be thinking of you tomorrow. It may be a toughie, but you'll come through it.

:)

At least you didn't have to put the medicine where there is no sunshine!

Lurve the Yarn! Yippie Ron is better! Yummy Shiraz! Joy to You!

I love Nick Stokes.

You have such cute kids! ;) I'm glad to see Frankie - she has been incognito for a while.

Thanks for telling us about your friend Haji. I raided two different Dollar Tree stores this week to get the most pang for my buck and I'm going to try to get this stuff in the mail this week. Stop by - I posted pictures yesterday of the hats that I've finished to send.

Yay! Camera.
Yay! Shopping
YAY! ROY!!!
Yay! Laurie who will be free from the hell of being married to an ugly smelly couch and can luxuriate in the possibly of life without an ugly smelly couch who wants it's "creativity" back.

So glad Roy is better. I found a good sized syringe (no needle) used for giving liquid meds to young kids perfect for using with cats. Put the tip at the back of the teeth and push the plunger. Not perfect, but it works better than anything else I've tried in over 25 years of kitties.

I'd rather have my kitty than my ex.

Congratulations on your divorce! You are free of that awful useless excess baggage that was just weighing you down and had no place in your real life! Yippee, Woo Hoo!! (Woman to friend: I just lost 180 ugly pounds! Friend: No! How did you do it? Woman: I got a divorce! (Okay, it's an oldie...))

We have had no luck with the pink liquid and now use a pill shooter (bought from the vet office or they have them at http://www.drsfostersmith.com/) which works much better for us and is cleaner than Crime Scene fluid! Glad Roy is better!

Yummy yarn. Can't wait to see it knitted up into fun stuff!

Hang tight, your life is going to only get better! Hugs and kisses to you and your most excellent divorce settlement! (How the hell do I make paragraphs here?!?)

Oh, never mind about the paragraphs. They don't show when I preview. I get a duh! for the day...

It's almost 4 am. What am I doing? You guessed it...not sleeping, but reading your blog and feeling happy that Roy is doing better. :D

Hope all goes well for you today. Can you take ironic or embarrassing pictures in court? If not, can you do court sketches? Either way, good luck.

Laurie, I feel your pain on the subject of medicating a cat =) The best way I have found is to get the cat on the floor (carpeted or with a towel under him) and sit on him.... well not really *sit* on him, but get on your knees with him between and lower yourself over him so he's basically trapped. You can hold him pretty well that way, then following the advice above, using a syringe at the back of the teeth, squirt the gunk in. Do not let go till he swallows, blow in his face if needed. Follow with whatever kitty treat is his favorite thing of all time (yes, bribery lol) Repeat as needed ;)

Good luck!

glad roy's feeling better and is back to human death plotting. yay!

and i want to see all of the yarn you bought. each glorious skein. the colors are so pretty.

as for that car -- i know you're mocking (you're mocking admit it) but that's a thing that amazed us when we last visited LA. all of the old cars. with the snow and ice and salt, a car last 10 years here tops before it starts leaving parts on the mass pike or leaks oil and gas.

If you want Roy to take his medicine like a good boy, try mixing it in with some canned food since it is liquid form now. Not a lot, and don't let the others have any, but this usually tricks them into sucking it down. Also, I have found that when you towel-wrap a cat, you should cover the eyes so he can't see what you're doing. Congratulations on finding your camera. Love your blog!

I too have lived throught the cat Rx splatter evidence scene.... You have to get the syringe way in there & When you do the mummy thing, hold onto the towel and the cat up by the head - so the cat hands can not wriggle up through the towel....

CSI! So fabulous. But Sara wouldn't be bored...I refuse to believe her character hates cats. Don't crush my dreams of being like her, Aunt Purl!

Ahem. No more posting for Steph coffee, especially about TV shows that bring out obsessive qualities in the best of times.

Aren't antibiotics fun? The only thing worse was the stuff I had to put in my cats eyes. The vet goes, yeah, just hold them and squeeze a strip on their eyeballs....yeah. Sure, buddy. Whatever you say. I looked like I'd had a run in with a very angry bush full of razor blades I was so scratched up.

GO TEAM ROY!!! Glad he's feeling better! I have to give one of my four Clavamox, which is the white version of the pink. It smells like nasty banana flavoring- NO WONDER SHE HATES IT! I'm supposed to give it to her 2x day... YEAH. Right. Not only is she practically feral and manages to hide places I can't reach her, but it's fake banana flavored medicine! The smell alone gags me.

Give 'em hell today, Laurie!

Glad to hear Roy is feeling a little better.

I'm so jealous of your 50% off sale! *Almost* worth a trip to LA...lol. Enjoy your new fibery goodness!

Well, you have the most beautiful cats in the world! Each one of them screams their personality from their eyes and postures! It's the first time I saw pictures of them all! You have a lovely family! Furry kisses to them all!

I believe you did a great job with your retail therapy! Nothing's better than going to buy something wonderful and then having the store practically PAY you to take it!

Take care, you ROCK! And Mr. X is in dire need of a baseball bat upside the head. I will travel to take care of this oversight, if need be!

Again roy reminds me of Jester....who is meek and mild at the vet. She wanted him on a course of antiinflamatories, I said 'I doubt it', she said 'this is how you pill a cat'....he sat meekly and took it...demonstrating to the vet I'm full of it. The course lasted 3 days of escalating violence that ended with a foot long gash in the couch and cat pee all over me.

Why am I putting off his toothickie extraction I wonder?

P.S. Good vibes being sent your way today...

Go Roy!! glad he is feeling better! Good luck today. Remember, this is all about moving forward. You get to be free of useless baggage. (I am sure he won't mind me saying that about him :)

Yeah for Roy!!

I love the yarns you got -- I remeber seeing some of them in the store, so cute. Glad Snaggletooth is better! What's funny about the Bob & Frankie picture is that I am guessing Frankie is looking down onto where Soba is sunning herself, wondering if she should risk a beat-down to try to get some.

Love the lovely yarns! Kitties look very comforting (well, they look more comfortable, but I'm sure they're comforting too)
Hope you're out there kicking *ss today!

Sending lots of Love, Light, and Sparkly Thoughts your way!

It's official ... I'm a knitter! ARGH! I took one look at your yarn purchases picture and felt my breath quicken with excitement.

That's just wrong, people ... W-R-O-N-G!

(but congrats to you on the purchase ... and on .. errr .. ya know ... surviving today! You go, girl!)

Hey Laurie! Just a thing that may help you with those magenta walls...

When I had to give Giles (RIP) stuff via syringe (ICK) I gave him a water chaser - so to speak. I pulled some warm water into the syringe first and then his medication. This way (hopefully) the icky taste would be down his throat before he could taste it. And (again, hopefully) the colorful spit would be less colorful.

Take THAT Grissom!

Damn that was funny (and accurate) about the whole CSI gig!

I did not KNOW that the Unwind was so good to the customers. My LYS over in the other side of the valley gives a frequent buyer card, too... but you only get one freebie yarn (up to $13) when you buy 16 other yarns.

I'm going to Burbank. Seriously. Also, Stitches From the Heart in Santa Monica has the good thing going on with buy $200, get $20 free!

I love my free yarn! And also, any other yarn.

(Except Red Heart. *shudder*)

Thank god I didn't see this and therefore didn't hear about the Unwind sale until after the weekend. That could have been ugly. I have been on a yarn buying moratorium since September. Which means I've only bought about 30 skeins since then. Must make it at least until the end of winter sales!

Knitting, check.
Wine, check.
Camera, no check. Must get camera!
Damn dog said, "No Cats" (son of a bitch).

I recently discovered that one of my cats actually likes the pink stuff!!!

This was after several horrible days of syringe/cat wrestling when I was just about to give up and go cry in the corner ... I let the cat go... and instead of bolting from the room to find a new unreachable hiding place, she came up to me and rubbed on my antibiotic covered fingers. She started sniffing and then licked up all the medicine off me, the floor and the syringe.

Now I just put it in a spoon and act like it's a treat.

Could be that with some it's not that they don't like the medicine, but, being cats, it's that they don't like being made to do anything.

Try offering it to him in a spoon.

I've decided to come out of lurkdom to say how happy I am to hear that Roy is doing better. I have a 19 y/o that can be very sick but suddenly grows stronger by the second to avoid having that medicine. As the pretty vet lady said, she's a bit wirey......
Also by the time you see this you will be a free (if not poor) woman. He lost SO much, and while you need to grieve the loss of this marriage, you need to rejoice at all the new friends and skills (I've seen your hats!!! and the Math!) you've accomplished along the way. Now go out and buy a REALLY expensive skein of yarn and knit yourself a kick ass camera cozy for your newly found digital friend!!!

you Aunt Purl website is very funny. and true.
i was looking at the picture of the toyota corolla and wondered if in fact it was a toyota corona? before toyota had numerous car models, they had the corolla and the corona, and the corona was in fact a pricer model than the corolla.