Happy Christmas!

Merry Christmas Laurie! What a great Christmas card! :)

Very cute, Laurie. Have a wonderful, fuzzy holiday.

Merry X-mas...and if anyone wants to know what selfish jerk bought the last 2 packages of Pillsbury Pie Dough at the Hows on Lankershim.....IT WAS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Photoshopping a hat on a cat is a whole lot easier than trying to put one on with your naked, vulnerable hands, right? Great picture, though. Merry Christmas, Laurie--just finished your book and I enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks for bringing some laughter to a rather harried last-few-days-before Christmas.

Happy Happy Holidays! I will be spending my days off re-reading your awesome book! xoxo dana

Merry Christmas, Laurie!! I'm so glad your year brought so many good things!!

Happy holidays!

I just showed this to my 12 year old daughter who said:

That is awesome.

Have a Merry Christmas!

Oh, the cuteness!

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

A very merry Christmas to you! Meeting you in Nashville was a highlight of 2007 for me. Wishing you all the best in the new year.

Wishing you & yours a very Merry Christmas too and a Happy 2008 with more great things to come.

I LOVE Santa Soba!! Although I hope she didn't leave what I think she left in my stocking. . . (my dog might appreciate it, though)

Hope you & your family have a wonderful holiday!

Merry Christmas, sweetie!! Sending holiday hugs and smooches to you and your furry family!!

Laurie,

Here's wishing you and your furbabies a Wonderful, Beautiful and Merry Christmas!

From Dizzy Ms. Lizzy, Mr. Dizzy, Carmichael, and Squeak

Thank you for being an inspiration, for making me think, for helping me change, for encouraging me to be kind. You rock!

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you and all the kitties a lovely Christmas. What a year you have had....It has been so awesome to vicariously live through it all courtesy of your great way with words. Loved the book and have even used in my divorced women's networking group as a VALUABLE survival resource.
You are the best!

yeah . . . what they said.

Merry Christmas and an awesome New Year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to the kids!

She who brings the presents rules the world!!

Merry Christmas Laurie, hope it as fantabulous as all get out!

Molly

Wow, Santa Soba..... The image is burned forever into my brain.

Wishing you and the furry ones love, happiness and all good things. It's wonderful watching you grow, discover and share the wisdom with us, Laurie. Thank you.

hugs from Leslie in Mass & Perry Penelope

Ho Ho Ho!! Merry Christmas and Cheers!

The Dictator commands you to express sincere merriment!

Love the blog, happy holidays and an awesome New Year to you and yours and anyone who reads this!

Snicker snort! Did not need that mental picture!
Laurie thank you so much for being you and sharing you with us, you make all our days a bit brighter.

Are we sure that my Jezebel and Soba weren't separated at birth? She's been known to leave *ahem* INTERESTING presents in beds and such... (Jezebel also came from a shelter, where they told me they had a hard time finding homes for torties because people thought they were ugly, so she wants to let Soba know that she can't wait to see the Manifesto when it's ready!)

Merry Christmas to all of you from all of us!

Robin, Jezebel, Delenn and Lucy (my step-cat; her human/my roommate is away for the holidays)

Merry Christmas to you and the fuzzbottoms! :)

Merry Christmas! I enjoyed your book and was saying, "THAT IS ME!" Been divorced a while and it is my cat and I this year...

Thanks

Merry Christmas! I wish you great naps of peace.

Nice to see that the dictator has a soft side! ;-)

Merry Christmas to you, too!

And a very Merry Christmas to you Laurie!!!

Soba looks freakishly peaceful. Oh dear, the plan for world domination must be underway.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you too, Laurie, from Oregon! You brighten my day with every blog post!

My Siamese Harry says Merry Christmas to your furry clan. From over here. Not by them. (He's not very social.) :)

And that hat's just ever so much more hilarious on Soba than any of the others. Something about dignity? Or lack of?

Four years ago I had a five month old kitten at Christmas time and I used one of those sweet-sleeping-in-a-perfect-circle pics and photoshopped it into the center of a Christmas wreath for my holiday cards that year. It was actually the last year I did cards!

Merry Christmas!

I love Sobakowa's expression...I can't quite decide if she is trying to hypnotize you into giving her a whole tin of Pounce or just thinking "I will have my revenge for this, human. Oh yes, I will have my revenge."

ES

Merry Christmas, Laurie, to you and yours! (I have a large warm cat kneading my belly at this moment up here in snowy Canada! The cat is one to pick - she is a pudding!) I hope next year is even better than this one for you - of course it will be - you will go on holiday!

Happy Christmas Laurie and best wishes for a Wonderful and Prosperous New Year! I hope Soba gets what she wants 'cause I know that look. I usually get it from the top of my china cabinet when my little tortie Teemu wants something from the kitchen counter! What torties want torties get!

HOW can you top 2007? you are a smashing success!

happy happy thoughts of the season to you and the cat kids. ooooops, I think one of my cats just found soba's special giftee...

steven and meredith send their meows and purrs to you and yours!

Wishing you all the best, Laurie! Happy Christmas!

Laurie,

Wishing you and your family, furry and human, a peaceful Christmas. Thanks for the wonderful reading you've given everyone over the years.

Lots of love,
Laura
aka
bluecat

Merry Christmas Laurie, Soba, Bob and Frankie!! From our house to yours! From my Teddy Bear to your kitties!

Have a wonderful Christmas!

Laurie, thanks for the laughter, and the lessons. May you and your tribe share the joys of sunbeams, catnip and chasing (and achieving!) your dreams.

Most of all, thanks for writing your book. We all knew you could do it, and guess what? You did! We anxiously await the publication date of Book #2. Hopefully, it will be soon?

Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

We're also watching a lot of Turner Classic Movies - Frank is the KING of cheesy 50s science fiction, but I am constantly amazed at how many other really cool old movies he knows! It's really fun to watch the old ones made in LA in the 50s, and try to figure out where they were filmed! I love that!

I do hope you Photo Shopped that or we all are going to be paying for your hospital stay.

Merry Christmas, from me and my herd (Kaleb, Mustang, Callisto and Manhattan) and all the best in the New Year.

Liza {who got some very unhelpful "help" while typing this reply}

Merry Christmas, Laurie....I thank the Palm Beach Post for doing that article on you & your wonderful book, or I would have never found this site, which has brought me so much laughter (& of course a few tears), as well as a chance to read these wonderful comments.

Hopefully, when you next book comes out & you tour, you'll return to S. FL and I can actually meet you!

Shine on, my friend (whom I've never met!),

Kate

Merry Christmas, Laurie, and a Meowy Christmouse to the brood!

Merry Christmas Laurie to you and your family and your wonderful pussycats. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Merry Christmas and I wish you all the best of everything in 2009!!!

Merry Christmas Laurie! Give your grandma and cats a hug from San Antonio. I hope to come and meet you on your next book tour!!! =)

Merry Christmas to you, Miss Laurie! Have a merry time!

Got your book for Christmas!

How cool is my husband?
(although he didn't know I already purchased it in October, read it and sent it to my future DIL)
gotta love him anyway............he is paying attention.

Merry Christmas from
Dixie
Dewie
Spookie
Pete

Happy Christmas!!

merry merry Christmas to the kitties and to their servant, Laurie! So glad the book is working out. There are many cat toys that need homes...well, need to be at your home ;-)

There's a Christmas carol for you over at my place.

Peace.

kitty roca?

Merry Christmas to you too!!

I got your book, from my mommy, and LOVE it.

You are seriously the best.

*hugs from me and the kitties*

From my almost tortie and my calico kitty to your brood, Merry Christmas! My Beast (the almost tortie) had a fit and bit me this morning because I didn't have a present for her! Give me a break! I have 2 jobs and she's dammned lucky I even remember to feed her.

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

glad to see you survived the application of hat to cat long enough to create this post.

Christmas here at Trash Towers was spent watching 'Gone with the wind', eating home-baked ham and curled on the sofa reading the the adventures of 'L.A. Girl and her four super cats'. I already have plans to knit the sexy shawl in 2008. Thanks C.A.P.

It might not BE coal, but it sure LOOKS like it.

(Not to worry, I found you through Kudzu Keetha with whom I share a first name.)

Merry Christmas! And happy Boxing Day, since it is now the day after Christmas and that is what we would say if we were in England.

just thought you should know i bought your book and had my daughter wrap it for me so i could open it on christmas morning. she thought that was weird.

merry, merry.
mck.

Your book was delivered on Christmas Eve and I finished it yesterday. As one Southern woman to another (and one twice divorced and much older than you) life is good--with or without a man, with or without kids, but never, ever without cats (4 of my own) and dogs (3) and one tortoise--and hopefully an empty nest within the next 2 years. Keep writing.

Merry Christmas, Laurie! Oh and surely you can put a real kitty hat on Soba? Well not without getting your face eaten off, I suppose! Cheers and merriment,

Coral

Laurie, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas! And I wish you the best New Year ever!

A belated Merry Christmas to you too! (Memo to Bob: no, the poinsettias aren't really poisonous, but you still shouldn't eat them.)

I gave my cats the Video Catnip dvd. They loved it. You should give it to your critters. too.

Hope you had a merry Christmas! You should check out Roman Holiday if you really want to get woozy over Gregory Peck. He's unbelievably dreamy.

HI ~ Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Laurie! I hope you had a wonderful holiday

Meowy Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your kitties. My fur kids are waving at yours.

I hope you had a Merry Christmas! Ours was especially good since my dog was able to restrain himself from chewing through the pile of gifts while we were at church.

Glad to learn I'm not the only "Old Movie" nut out there. My "Netflix" cue is about 50% new releases and 50% oldies.

I don't think Gene Kelly was ever matinee idol material. He was an okay actor but never had the acting chops of Peck. But he was probably the most masculine of the musical stars of the era. His dancing style is absolutely unique. His "Singing in the Rain" solo is the Gold Standard! You've no doubt seen it, since it shows up on almost on the "Best of" movie compilations, and the full movie is also worth watching.

I'll have to confess that my fave Sexy Bygone Guy is Yul Brynner. That scene in "The King and I" where stops the "Shall We Dance?" number to put his arms around Deborah Kerr ...

Is it hot in here???

Happy Tivo-ing!

Aww, merry Christmas to you, too! :)

Hope Santy-claws found you and yours :o) Merry Christmas from Hotlanta - Tiger a.k.a. "talk to the butt" sends greetings to you and your kin!

I thought of you on Christmas morning this year as I sat on the couch with my downstairs neighbor knitting away, watching a Crossing Jordan marathon while our dogs played and our cats pretended not to notice. I bought your book for a friend of mine going through a rough divorce and my neighbor bought your book for me :)

Merry Catmas!!

That's quite an intense look on the cat's face. I wonder what it's really thinking.........

Merry Christmas Laurie! Now it's time to enjoy the after Christmas sales (and get the things you didn't receive...).

I received your book for Christmas - my mother was so excited for you when she found out you got published! It was cute.

what beautiful kitties! my dog left me something other than a lump of coal... not pleasant.

CALL BARBARA about your book reading on Saturday. She has some vital information for you and needs to connect with you about it ASAP!