Too Cute! Happy New Year to you and yours!!

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Happy New Year to you Laurie. Thank you for a all your wonderful, happy, funny, and heartfelt entries this year. It really makes my heart sing to see you rise above all of life's problems that were thrown at you. It has been an joyful education to watch the cocoon open and see the butterfly emerge.

Happy New Year Laurie and to those adorable cats!

I finally found your book at a Barnes & Noble when I was in AZ for xmas. They weren't selling them out my way in MA this fall. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from me and Daisy and Pip and Gus.

Back atcha from that house of two cats, neither of whom can read minds.

Hee! Happy new year yourself, Aunt P. May 2008 be filled with even more joy and contentment!

Yay, kitty pics! Happy New Year to you and your furry crew!

Happy New Year to you from me (of course) and Maddie (the beagle) and Penny, Stewie, Fifi, Lily, Olivia, Laurie (your namesake!), Debbie and Amy (the cats). Oh! and Chavella and Veruca the rats, too!!

Please don't call the authorities on me, okay?

As always, love the kitty pics. I hope you have an absolutely wonderful 2008! I think, for you, 2007 was just a warm-up. :)

I get a real kick out of your blog. It makes me wonder if I would have anything to scrapbook about or to blog about if I was single with no children!? I'm sure I'd be much more boring! And I'd probably have a dog and not cats.

Awwwwwwwwww very cute pictures of the wee ones :)

Happy New Year to you and your family Laurie. Cheers to you Ms. Butterfly :)

Happy New Year to all the residents at Chez Purl. Thank you for bringing a bright spot to my days. I wish you all the best in 2008!

All the very best to you and the Posse! If Sobokawa can read my mind, she'll know I'm wishing her the Year of the best catnip ever!

Has anyone else seen the HypnoToad on Futurama? I hear that same sound when I look into Soba's eyes. . .

All the best for you and the kitties in 2008!!! 2007 was a blast, wasn't it????

Happy Mew Year. Sorry, it had to be said.

Just wanted to wish you a Happy New Year. I have so enjoyed your blog, got your book also. You are so funny! Keep up the good work.

Dolores

Oh look at the smile Bob has on his furry face! What a handsome boy he is.

Bob is a handsome, adorable guy. he makes me smile just looking at his baby face!

Thanks for all the entertainment in 2007. The pictures of those kitties are enough to make anyone smile. Me loves me some kitttttays!

Happy New Year from Chez Cat Hair to Chez Purl!

Hi Aunt Purl and all! Just wanted to say I found your website by searching on cat urethrotomy. Was trying to put the correct spelling on myspace page for a photo tag. My Sunni Bunni received a male to female sex change last summer. All went well until this summer and he had to be completely redone due to scar tissue! TALK ABOUT SCARED!!! Then I was to express his bladder. Turned out he can go on his own!!! You know the drill! Anyway after 2 to 3 more times to the vet to reopen his urethra "spot" he seems to be doing just fine! Knock on Wood! I LUV YOUR SITE!!!

Oh no, Soba has infiltrated the fortress of my mind!! (Maybe she will now do my job for me...)

Happy New Year to you and the kitties!

Happy New Year Laurie, et al! I have one that also reads minds. She always seems to be angry with what I'm thinking.

Found cat new years resolution page. http://www.joke-archives.com/cats/catsnewyearsresolutions.html

Why can't I get my kids to pose like that?

Awwww...(yes, even Sobakowa!)

Currently, my pastel tortie is growling at and biting her tail. Not sure what that's all about.

Happy New Year!!

Uh,oh. Who's that knocking on my door?? Run, kitties, run!! It's the AUTHORITIES!!!!!
I just wanted to make you smile, sweetie!
Big hugs and lots of love!

Happy New Year to you! Thank you for your writing. I look forward to reading it every day.

Happy New Year - thanks for making me smile, and pigsnort a little bit with laughter in 2007.

Happy New Year!
I went to the bookstore with my Christmas gift certificate and your book was the first thing I picked up! I love reading your blog, and your book and your overall cuteness and the way you have turned what was a crappy situation around into a ROCKING life for yourself. (It is. Believe me.You went on a BOOK TOUR. I mean really, how cool is that?)

Love your cat pictures and captions!

haha... Soba maintains her dominion over the awesome scratcher toy. Too funny. Happy new year to you & the felines!!

Happy New Year! May it be filled with travel and wicked awesome and fun activities. And pool boys bearing alcoholic beverages with little umbrellas in them. And catnip all around! (for those of the feline persuasion, that is)

Happy New Year Laurie! I got your book as a Christmas present from my SIL. I've alreay read it and I loved it! Thank you for sharing your life with us!

Happy New Year to you and all the kitties!

Happy New Year to you and the fur babies! Thank you for sharing another wonderful year of your entertaining life, and for writing that lovely book. I met you you at Mall of America and was just "starstruck"! You truly are a great woman, and I can't wait to see what 2008 brings to your life. I wish you and yours the very best. You rock, girl!!!

HNY!

Happy New Year back atcha!! Don't Party too Hearty tonight! May 2008 be peaceful and prosperous in every way for you and yours.

This NYE is bittersweet for us. We lost our Soshie kitty this morning. I'm trying not to think about it but find myself telling everyone.

Tomorrow will be Hoppin John Cajun style(seasoned with celery, onion, green pepper and cayenne) with collard greens and smoked pork over brown rice. That will help somewhat and knowing she isn't suffering does too. Ok, get me off this subject pleeeeeze.

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

Happy New Year to you!
A friend forwarded me your blog back in September, but I can't just come into a story (or a life) in the middle. It took many, many lunch hours, but after starting with your very first post, I am officially Up To Speed. It's been great getting to know you. You are truly inspiring :-)

Happiest of New Years, Laurie...Make 2008 Great...that's my mantra!!

You really have come into your own... may the butterfly write, love life and drink (V.C. champagne?) and continue to give us the chance to drink in your life with gratitude.

Well, back to the cheaper champagne & the (thank you Lord/Goddess) heated pool...would still rather be in PDX though.

Hugs, K.

Would Bob consider coming to live with us? I'd give him chin scritches every night ...

Also, Nappy Hew Year!

A very happy New Year Laurie! I know that blessings, and MUCH joy will find you in 2008! Ickyboogies are over and happydancin' shall be the thang!!!

Happy New Year, Laurie! I wish you many more successes with your writing. I've certainly enjoyed your every word! Give the kitty-kids a huge hug for me!
AT

I saw you today for the first time on what I can only figure is a rerun of Northwest Afternoon. You did a segment on your book and they mentioned your blog so I got on it and read some of your entries and had a great laugh. I'll keep posted and keep laughing. Happy new year y'all.

That is some handsome family you have there, ma'am. Happy New Year to you all.

Happy New Year to you and the kitties. I have pretty hair. (just kidding, I wanted to be like your kitty with the split color face, but she's far more lovely than me or my hair.)

Molly(East Texas),I'm very sorry about your kitty - please know that there are angels caring for her now and that she knows how much she will always be loved...I wish you and Laurie & all furbabies and mommies and daddies of furbabies a very Happy New Fabulous,Prosperous Year that brings many blessings!

Laurie,

as always, the pictures of your furry kids are awesome!

I hope you have a WONDERFUL new year.

I hope you get the chance to take the vacations that you want to, and just get some time to unwind.

Sending you love, hugs, and maybe some hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps.

SAN ANTONIO FAN!!!

"Happy flippin' new year"--my sentiments exactly!! Just got in from bringing my almost 90 year old stepdad home from the hospital and I have bronchitis--AGAIN! I will see the new year in looking at the underside of my down comforter and probably most of the new year day. However--I'm so grateful to still have my mom and my stepdad--he almost died--but he's a tough old geezer. laurie your writing is a bright spot in my day--it's so nice to hear there's someone else out there who is content with where she is in life right now and also has a sense of humor. Happy 2008 to you and the kids!

LOL i had to show these to my kids (we're up at 11:41 pm in hotlanta, waiting for that lil ole Peach to drop)

Have a GREAT New Year!

The best of 2008 to you (whatever that may be...you pick it) and greetings from my mouthy cat to your herd. I actually found the only copy of your book I have ever seen in these parts under a table and with a foot print embedded on a crinkled page. All this luck whilst looking for love at B&N in Albany, NY on the Saturday before Christmas. After about two paragraphs I said, "This girl and I were separated at birth". After purchasing the "bumped" (aka stepped on and slightly mashed)copy I took it home and put the kettle on for tea... and put the book on the other burner. Sadly, you can imagine the rest. The sights and smells and the sound of the smoke alarm bringing my neighbor running. Now I have, I believe, a unique copy with well roasted dark brown burn rings on the back. I also managed to vaporize the last five pages. What were they? But I love ya anyway. You make me (us) laugh and you give us the straight dope. Thanks so much, you made a rough year end oh so much better. Cheers!

I hope 2008 is as full of fun and high living as 2007 was! Happy New Yr to you and all your nuggly babies from Me, Hubby, Son and our nuggly babies!
BTW, my 11 yr old kitty has a split colored face too!

Happy New Year to you and the kitties! They are adorable.

Happy New Year!!!

I love Bob, can I please have him? :-) Wish I were in sunny California right now. We're having another snowstorm.

PS: don't mean to upset you, but I miss Roy. Saved a little pic of him. Oh, those beautiful blue eyes ...

Yikes! I posted the comment above (the one about Bob and Roy) under the name anonymous@toronto. Now I see it appears under "Batty"???

Happy New Year Laurie and the kitty crew from me and my kitty who expects me to read HER mind.

Happy New Year, Laurie and the Furballs!

Happy new year to you and the cats

This is it. I see it unfolding in front of me. 2008 is when it is all going to kick-off! Sobakowa takes over the world and unrolls her manifesto!!

This time next year don't say I didn't warn all y'all!

Laurie, thank you so much for sharing your life with us.

2007 was a very good year for you - - 2008 will be even more so!

Happy New Year from me and my furbabies, Carmichael and Squeak!

Happy New Year to Laurie and the kitties and to all of your readers!

Molly, hugs and sympathy on the loss of your Soshie.

Happy 2008 to you and all the furbabies. May life at Chez CAP be full of happiness, health and good cheer (as well as financial security if not more than abundant cashola).

Thanks for sharing your growth/life with us. Blessings on you and yours.

Happy New Year to the feline lovies and you as well. Thanks for sharing the photos with their (and your) fans. Sadly catless at present, I so enjoy your cat photos ;-)

Happy 2008 to you and your brood, lovely funny lady!

Great captions, great pics. happy new year!

Happy New Year Laurie and all the cats - from Mauigirl, Baxter and Diva.

Thanks for a great year's worth of posts and wishing you a wonderful 2008!

Happy New Year.
I see Soba has assumed her position atop the throne of cardboard.

Happy New Year.
I see Soba has assumed her position atop the throne of cardboard.

Happy New Year, I live vicariously through your kitties - sneezy husband - thanks for an entertaining year! Hope yours is wonderful.

Happy New Year to all of you too! The pictures are so cute!
My husband gave me your book as a Christmas gift! I love it!

Happy New Year to all of you too! The pictures are so cute!
My husband gave me your book as a Christmas gift! I love it!

Happy New Year Laurie!! I hope I get to see you more often in 2008; that's my resolution by god!

xo

Happy New Year to all of you!

Happy new year! Love the kittehs =)

A little late to the party (so to speak) but I wanted to add my adoration for the kitties (of course The Soba most of all!) and join all the others who have thanked you for sharing your life and laughs (and tears) so far and wishing you a Fantastic New Year!

Aww, Happy New Year to you and the kitties! Give Bob a snuggle for me as he's just too cute for words in that photo.

I love your cats.

Happy New Year.

Does anyone else think it's odd that you have two cats that have faces that are divided right down the center and that they are the exact opposite of each other? ONe is black/cream, and the other is cream/black.

I call it cream because it reminds me of the center orange creaminess that's in the middle of a cadbury cream egg...

This has nothing to do with the new year, I just thought you all might like to see one of my local news channels story about Spanx. :)

http://kmtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7568839

Very Cute ! Cats just have a way of taking over the house :)

GAH! ::thunk:: <-- passed out from the cuteness of Bob

Hi & happy new year to you and yours Laurie! I discovered your blog this year and read your book. I hope you are writing another one - you're a hoot!

I wanted to share this with all animal lovers, all you animal lovers. This is pretty simple.. There is an animal rescue site that depends on clicks to get funding from advertisers... weird, but I hope it works. It's The Animal Rescue Site and it is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals.

It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals' for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising.

Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

If you were wondering...

Snopes.com says this is legitimate!
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/charity/animalrescue.asp

Happy New Year. I have just received from Amazon and read your book in one sitting. It is very compelling. While there were so many intentionally funny lines in the book (I will never look at my Tupperware collection in the same way again...) I burst out laughing reading the hcibooks survey pasted in the middle of the book when I noticed it included one of those dreaded check boxes demanding an exact definition of one's singlehood (single? divorced? widowed?) as if it really mattered.

I found a big stack of the curved scratching things at our Target. I tried to get my MIL to get one for their cat. She bought the cheaper flat one. Glad to see your kitties are still enjoying theirs.

Best Wishes for a Great 2008!!!!!!

Happy (belated) New Year!

That bottom cat looks exactly like one that I had as a child... she was called Tammy.

Your other cats are gorgeous too!

I've yet to check out our local Target for those great cat scratching things. My four furbabies would jes luv to have one also!

Thank you so much for everything you've shared with us over the last year. Your humor and "mullings" have been something I've looked forward to every time I have time to get on the computer. Take the best of care, and have a wonderful 2008.