So cute, so Frankie and Bob. I love her little half-n-half face.

You made me smile this Friday. Thank you!

That was great!!!!!

That is so cute!

OMG, this is soooooo funny! thanks for making my friday!

Yep, that's what friends are for, to slobber all over your face.

Share the Love but get a room!

Awesome. I love your cats. And I love when they talk to me.

YAY kitty pics!

How do you *stand* such cuteness on a daily basis?

Bwahaha... Around here we call it the bath of death. They make with the licking, then the biting, and the chasing and the tumbling, and then it's back to the bathing.

Just what I needed on a Friday afternoon. The mouse-over captions are priceless!

2cute

TOO damned cute!!

So cute! Thanks for the smile this morning!

I think I almost wet myself

That is SO adorable!!

Oh, I guess I should tell you--my 2.5-year-old son saw me reading your book yesterday, and whenever he saw either the legs with the high heels on the front, or your picture on the back, he said, "Mama!"

Not that I ever wear strappy heels, or that you and I really look alike. I think he thinks every woman is Mama, to be honest. I'm so glad I've apparently made such a strong impression on him. ;-)

Meow, meow meowmeow meow meow. Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow!!!

Meow.

Perfect day for some kitty snuggles.

Enjoy the drizzle.

Oh, and WMG does the same thing - "I BRUSHED!!!" And I say the same thing - "Liar, Liar, pants on fire."

Then I feel guilty.

I really needed a smile today - thanks! Is there hope this will become an ongoing saga?

Monkey I love the grey skies, it feels like weather! Real weather!

And it makes me want to knitknitknit.

Bob, dude, Frankie so has your number.

Ah, a storyboard! Love it, LOVE it! Almost choked on lunch but hey, worth it! Don't you just want to eat them? Sometimes I want to have my Teddy Bear for lunch.

Ok, that was really weird...I didn't realize your one cat had a "half and half" colored face and the third picture down looked like you photo-shopped the two cats together with the head in two different colors (because I didn't see Bob's head at first)! It looked like two cats with one head!! Too funny.

I needed this!
More, more please!!

Kitty love!

Adorable! My sister is very skeptical that my kitties "talk" to Frank and I - maybe I need to put together a storyboard like this one!

Have a GREAT weekend! Amazon says I'm getting my copy of your book next week - YAY! I can't wait to read it!

Adorable! Thanks for the kitty pix to start the weekend off with a lick, purr & meow!

I swear on a stack of 'Cat Fancy', you've always got the best photos in a blog anywhere - sharp, clear and the little dialogue thingies are perfect!

Sigh,I can just feel the fuzzy cat-ness. Their profiles are kiss-kiss-kissable. Frankie's face could be on a poster or kitty-food box, it is unique. Thanks for the Friday wonderfullness.

Too cute!! And got me thinking: "Frankie and Bob sittin' in a tree..." (even though they're on the couch).

I too am waiting on my copy of the book. Amazon held it for a few days before shipping. Right now it is in Ohio and I am in Idaho. damn!

looooove the cats! You can always give us more. It's like little kitty vitamins, good for the soul!

If you just swap the cat on the right for a basic black and white, it looks just like my cats! You did a great job of capturing the expressions on their little furry faces :)

Sooo cute!!! Thanks for the Friday smile!

seriously can't stop laughing at this.

LOL! I have sibling cats who never that get close to each other. Yours all seem to get along so well. How do you do that?

I think they have to band together because La Soba hates cats so much.

Cute! Reminds me of a comic book. Thank you so much for these posts--you blog is really fun to read and always cheers me up.

Ya' know, I think it's those incredibly sweet Bobster toes that won Frankie over ... who could possibly resist them?

OOOH! I just noticed this new ad!!! It's over there on the right side of the page and it's for Meow Mix and it says:

"Enter our Think Like a Cat Sweepstakes for a chance to Win an all-inclusive, culinary-inspired adventure in Napa Valley, California, with celebrity chef Cat Cora."

Do you think I am eligible to enter too even though it's an ad here? LOL. I want a free all-inclusive culinary adventure in wine country!! The fact that they have a celebrity cat chef just makes it surreal enough to be potentially AWESOME.

hi-frickin-larious!!

Luv me some kittie pic's--thanks, great way to end
the week.:):)

man o man, your kitties are sooooo cute!

Awww! so cute!

You absolutely need to enter that contest. I'll have to hide this page from my lone kitty, who will resent me even more if she knows what she's missing out on because she's forced to live with stinky canines.

"The Bobster"
LOL! Awwwwwwww!!!

Evidence that I don't really live in the middle of nowhere even though Maine sure can feel that way....

I was passing time so I went into a local bookstore. Guess what I found. Yes, your book! Right there! On the shelf. Yippee - I don't have to order it from Amazon. Who'd a thunk? So, how's about doin' a little touring up in this neck of the woods?

Awwwww. Thanks, Laurie, that really cheered me up today! Bob and Frankie are funny and adorable and cute. But you don't have to tell them I said that.

Awww... all my cats hate other cats. Except for, maybe, Joey. She likes the idea of liking other cats but she's skeptical.

Hey Laurie, Cat Cora is on the Iron Chef food tv show if you've never seen it. She's from Mississippi. Cats, food, Napa Valley wine and a Southern chef - how can you beat that?

OMG, Cat Cora is on IRON CHEF???? How have I been missing this???

I am so entering that contest. I want a trip to meet Celebrity CAT Cora!

And Michele I would love to come to Maine ... le sigh. I love Maine. I went there once on a vacation and tried to stay!!

You never fail to amuse me, but sometimes you scare me. ;)

Awwwwww -- I tried showing that to Evangeline and Lilliane as an example. Lilly said, 'AS IF!" and Evangeline made a snuffy little snerf and walked away. Guess it's not happening. At least they're not (often) snurling and spitting, but I'm going to go broke on Feliway. :sigh:

Oh - and I checked mt tracking at Amazon and it says "NO ORDERS"!! They *told* me that it had shipped but now, no record of transaction. Thank heavens I bought the book at B&N!

My cats do that very same thing but I never have the camera handy.

and when I try to sneak off to get the camera (thinking they are oblivious to my movements), I turn around and they are all there.........standing behind me........like they're waiting for me to get them their treats.
Another missed photo op and getting the stare of a thousand suns...until I'm mindlessly opening the bag of treats.

Foiled again!
Have a great weekend and thanks for the pics.

Sweet kitty pics, as always, right out of my living room. Also, I had to ask a Barnes and Noble employee to helo me find your book. I looked in Self-Help, Humor, Cultural Studies... Nothing. So I got over my clerk-shyness, always worst in bookstores (no, I'm NOT buying Proust, get over it), and walked up to the big scar desk and said out-loud,"Where will I find Laurie Perry, Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair?" Which didn't sound as funny in my head as it did in the clerk's. So I repeated, slowly, and of course, some smart person put it under knitting. DUH! By the way, I'm halfway through knitting obnoxiously brightly striped legwarmers----- for a Halloween costume for my mom.

Hey Laurie, what you doing Oct 3rd?

Al Gore - An Inconvenient Truth Tour
October 3, 2007 at 7:30PM
Santa Ana Star Casino
For tickets

Too funny! "Kitty love, my kitty love, I need ya, oh how I need ya..." Um. Sorry about that... Tommy the Sith Apprentice Cat only has my face to wash. In the middle of the night. Breathing Breath of Death into my face the whole time. Um. Yeah.

O. M. G.!!!

Your book is for auction on Ebay!

(okay, I just noticed this. please don't anyone tell me that you guys already knew)

I don't even own a cat (well I have a pussy) but I signed up for the Cat Cora sweepstakes!

Hello WINE COUNTRY!

YAY..my book just arrived!!

Just in time for weekend reading!!

Clara .. can you paste the link for tickets? I'm so going to check it out!!! And do you think the secret service know about me?

LOL Reminds me of our two - Cheshire would wash Nutmeg's face and ears and then would move to the neck area, where her vampiric tendencies would win out. This was the stage where Nut would do her nut and start fighting. She usually whacked Cheshire on top of the head. We didn't figure out for ages why Cheshire always had scabs (and the odd abscess) there.

i tried to get a picture of cute kitty lovin' the other day and was met with looks of utter disgust. By the cats.

So cute!
I just started your box and am loving every word of it thusfar!

They were offering free tickets at the Duke City Fix but I was too late. http://www.dukecityfix.com/index.php?itemid=3215

Here is the link for tickets.

http://www.gettix.net/concert/?event_id=2106

I wouldn't worry about the Secret Service unless you plan on bringing the Sobanator.

Bob and Frankie sittin' in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!

Oh, gosh, dear Laurie. . . I've just been through a very stressful time of things one's not supposed to talk about. In the words of an old tune, "...I think it's gonna be allright, I guess the worst is over now . . the morning sun is rising like a red rubber ball". Was that by 'Circus' . .help. Whatever that source, you've cheered me on many days. And, I especially love you cat family portraits. XOXOXO ..Audie

Can I trade your cute kitties for my have-cute-moments kiddies?

Bob is waaaay too cute to have the Dragon-Breath. :)

Audie: you're close - it was by Cyrkle. (I think they spelled it that way. They didn't spell it properly, I remember that much.) :) Good song, but I'm sorry to hear you've been through it...

Cheers!

Awwww - - how cute! They remind me of my Callie girl and my big boy Carmichael - - they do that a lot (until Callie gets her fill of his 'tuna breath' and smacks him a good one! lol)

Perfect. Friday. Post.

Too cute :D

OMG!!! Gratuitous cat pix!
I lurrrrve me some cat pix.

Bet I know which one is the male...;->

Ang

My Amazon order has shipped!!!

I don't think that has ever excited me more :-) I'm so happy, happy for you Laurie.

Bob had me at "i lurrrrve you"!!

Got your book a few hours ago. Yippee !! About to sit down with my bevvie of choice, your book, my schnauzer, and become... "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in DOG Hair". (Well, I was already those. Now, I have a narrator. LOL !)

Cheers !

They're sweeter than my cats... I just heard a yipe, a growl, and a hiss.... I think Lil Man wanted to play and Bebe wanted NO part of it.

Love the book! I found it in the knitting section of the Barnes and Noble in Dallas and read the whole thing on my way back to Oklahoma. My boyfriend was kind enough to drive so I could read and crochet. I laughed out loud several times and I look forward to your next book!! :)

Hello Laurie! My boyfriend was running to Borders tonight on his way home from work and just happened to be sweet enough to ask if I "needed" anything from there, and the first thing that popped into my head was your book! I'm so excited....now I have it to start this weekend! Lucky me! =)

Aww. Frankie rocks and Bob, is such a love.

Such cute photos! It's nice to see that Bob hasn't lost his charm. Frankie is seductive, as always.

It was also nice to hear you on Cast On. I'm so happy that your book is doing well!

THUD *overcome by the cuteness*

That photo series reminds me of my crazy kitten and my psycho chihuahua puppy snuggling. Kitty is always like "ZOMG WTF YOU SNIFFED MY BUTT HOW DARE YOU!!! but... oh... you're so... warm... *purrrrrr*" and my dog is like "*sniff sniff* Mmmm cat butt.... OOO IT VIBRATES! *snoogle*"

*sings* I get Crazy Aunt Purl book in the maaaail!!! Amazon.com is love! It's like getting presents... but from yourself! :D

*taps foot and checks watch* Dangit hurry the @#%& up mailman!

Please forgive me for posting a non-related comment (I did post earlier about the Bobster toes!) but I just had to shout to the world ...

MY COPY OF YOUR BOOK FINALLY CAME TODAY!!!

I heard the mailman's car and I went running, very undignified and screeching with glee, down the driveway to snatch my Amazon box from his frightened grasp. Poor fella', he'll forevermore be afraid for his life when he nears my mailbox, of this I'm certain. Ah well, I'm cackling and deliriously happy and the mailman will just have to deal with it.

Yee Hah!

Awwwww...kitty love. Those photos make it that much harder to resist getting another cat. Me luvs the kitties!

Loving your book, Laurie ! I'm on Chapter 18 and had to stop long enough to thank you for making it into bite-sized chapter morsels. I used to really LOVE to read, but have only recently gotten back into the habit. I couldn't concentrate on what I was reading because of all the mind-wandering.

I had actually started reading your book last night, but I had to go back and re-read quite a few chapters. Damn the "leaded" Sonic Strawberry Limeades. Damn them all. All THREE of them ! (They were strong and resistance was futile, but they were SOOOOO good !) ; )

Damned funny book. You could be narrating my OWN life, Chickie. I embraced the hermitishness and drank every night the first year after my husband walked out. I did buy knitting needles, and yarn, and books about knitting, and more yarn... But, I never did learn to knit.

Cute yarn recipes and a bit of yarn porn at the end of the book, a bag of unused yarn paraphenalia, another Saturday night. At Home. Alone. and some vodka (!!!) still left in the kitchen cabinet, so maybe, just maybe...

Loving your book, Laurie ! I'm on Chapter 18 and had to stop long enough to thank you for making it into bite-sized chapter morsels. I used to really LOVE to read, but have only recently gotten back into the habit. I couldn't concentrate on what I was reading because of all the mind-wandering.

I had actually started reading your book last night, but I had to go back and re-read quite a few chapters. Damn the "leaded" Sonic Strawberry Limeades. Damn them all. All THREE of them ! (They were strong and resistance was futile, but they were SOOOOO good !) ; )

Damned funny book. You could be narrating my OWN life, Chickie. I embraced the hermitishness and drank EVERY night the first year after my husband walked out. I did buy knitting needles, and yarn, and books about knitting, and more yarn... But, I never did learn to knit.

Cute yarn recipes and a bit of yarn porn at the end of the book, a bag of unused yarn paraphenalia, another Saturday night. At Home. Alone. and some vodka (!!!) still left in the kitchen cabinet, so maybe, just maybe...

Oops. Sorry about the multi-posting.

Thank goodness for the cat pix. My depression worsens as more people have the book and I do not yet.

I will gaze lovingly at the photos and try not to worry that the "cool kids" all have the book before I do.

Must get Prozac....

I just lurrve the Bob and the Frankie. 'Course I lurrve the Soba too (wouldn't want to get the dictator mad at me).

Seems that all cats like to start sweet and then end up eating each others ears!!!! =)

They're so sweet!!

Do you really read these? Been lurking for so long. Wanted to say that your book just came from Amazon. Yeah!!! Can't wait to read it. Looks so good. Good luck with sales and all that goes with it.

My Amazon email came - my book is shipping soon, can't wait!!!

My girls sometimes groom one another too. Its so cute but maybe they just taste good?
Bought your book today at Chapters in Pointe Claire!

I can't believe they continued their exchange with you pointing the camera at them! But I'm glad, because it was a wonderful photo essay. :-)

I got your book too! Love, love, love it!!!!

Hmmm...after bringing home a headless bunny, my daughter renamed her Tortie, Cheetah, to "Death Breath". Maybe it runs in the breed!

I love your cats. I mean that.

So cute and so funny. Glad to see I'm not the only mad catknitting woman.....

Comments are closed on one of your previous posts, but I wanted to say that your interview with Brenda Dayne was Wonderful. (with a capitol 'W') You really have inspired me.
Oh, and I have you as a first read now. Thanks for sharing so well. All of us enjoy it, but some of us really, really need it:)

Ang

Oh my goodness...I really enjoyed this post! I love cats!

That was really creative, and your little kit kats are so cute.

I see Frankie knows how to take care of someone who's sexually harrasing her. Bite 'em on the nose!

It's good they're willing to do a demonstration on how to deal with an frisky kitty.

Does Bob do his own stunts, or did you use a stunt cat??

Too funny! I'm so glad I'm not the only one out there who makes up conversations for my pets :)

What cute kitties! I JUST finished your book, it came yesterday and I read it straight through. So very touching and sweet. It was like you were sitting there right next to me, telling me your story while we shared wine and cheetos. I even got a little weepy at the picture of Bob T. Cat. You should be proud.

ROFLMAO! Wow that was too funny and so catty!

Jessica

That was soo cute- I could almost hear them talk.
My copy of your book will be delivered today- I´m proud to announce :-)

This is hilarous! thank you for sharing.

Laurie,
I love your posts but kitty pics are definitely my favorites!
Thanks for sharing the furballs.

Do you think you could possibly come to Chicago on your book tour?

Very cute!

"snurrggle up"

how can you not love that???