Aww . . . great way to usher in the month. Clean sheets and Bob!

Since when is August fresh and clean? LOL

I always considered it hot & muggy!

Love Bob, though :)

Phew! We made it!!

Have a wonderful weekend, sweetie! Don't forget to RELAX!! (I'm sorry if I come off like a nervous mother; I just can't help worrying about you)(drive safely and don't forget about the clean underpants!) ;o)

Ooohhhh! I like your night stand. I think I'll try something like that. Mine is just one skimpy drawer on legs - no shelves even.

Oh, and love Bob, of course!

I just love Bob. By the way, how do the kitties react when there is an earthquake?

Happy August!

Where, by the way, are our horoscopes?

Johann-

Don't you mean, "horror-scopes"?

LOL

I have that exact same bookshelf at home. It's even on the same side of my bed! Do your cats rub their chins on it to mark it? Mine does just about every morning. Preferably with his butt about 2 inches from my face. Good morning to you, too!

April was my "please, Great Cannoli, let it be over soon," month this year. Actually, April seems to be that month every year. I've had car wrecks, lay offs, floods, tickets, painful and unwise surgeries, and all manner of crappiness in April. You'd think by now I'd have learned to duck and cover. Sadly, you'd be wrong.

Hope your August improves! (I was going to say "rocks," but after the recent earthquake, you've probably had enough of that for a while!)

whatcha readin ?

Laurie, I see your problem! You're leaving a book open and face down on the bed! As my mother would say (and here I am quoting my mother, yikes) that brings bad luck. And thanks for the pictures - I love seeing how other people decorate and have neat ideas for storage, etc. Plus I'm nosy that way.

i love your serene, white reading place.

Clean sheets, a good book, and an adorable cat to snuggle with are the only known cure for the blahs. (I'm assuming the glass of wine is on the floor tucked away out of the photo....)

You are off to a good start.

I love the Valley Scorch White Room we're inclined to create during the Summer blast furnace. Have a happy Friday! Have a best August!!!!

Our cat is quite the sniffer as well. One of his nicknames is actually "the ring-tailed sniffer." We actually hold different things up to his nose just so he can smell them.

Hi Laurie, I'm a long time reader, never commenter! Love your blog and your words of wisdom. You've inspired me to break out of my hermittyness! And...Bob is totally cute!

Amen, sister!

I always have at least 2 books in that face down position on the other half of the bed...sure hope that Cathy is wrong about the bad luck! I was thinking though, in the spirit of "making room" for what you want in your life...that maybe I shouldn't put the books there b/c that is where the man would be sleeping (theoretially, if there was an actual man). Guess I'd better use my bedside table so there is room for the man!

Sorry that was me just now...

Here's to starting fresh! (And now I will add "open books on the bed" to my list of superstitions. Hats on the bed, purses on the floor... my list is getting long!)

Anybody else wake up this morning wondering why you set your alarm to go off on Saturday morning at 5:30 am? Then reality hit.......ouch! It's only Friday :(

Happy August, Laurie! Great pic.

Never put your hat on the bed, son, never put your hat on the bed, Cause if your hat's on the bed you might wake up dead, so don't you never put your hat on the bed...

This tune brought to you by Corb Lund (singer/songwriter) and by the month of August.

May it not suck.

Here, here. Or is it hear, hear?

Yes, the start of a new month is quite lovely.

yum... clean sheets :)

OH that bed looks so good and with a snuggly cat too. You are a lucky woman and funny too!

Here's hoping that August goes better than July did. Or June. Or all of 2008 so far.

Hang in there, Laurie, and I will also . . .

My husband calls books and magazines left open like that "dead birds!" When my mother was alive and came to visit she would leave them all over my house, which would drive my slightly-OCD hubby crazy!

Love how comfy the bed looks, and the cat is of course the perfect adornment.

I dont like August. My vision problems started in August of 2006, and so because of that, for me, August sucks.

But, I hope you have a happy August. Me, I'm waiting for December.

I don't mind the books being open face down (so long as the spine isn't cracked) it is when someone has folded down a corner - grrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Thought you might enjoy this kitty film:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s13dLaTIHSg

There is truly something magical about the start of a new month. It's like a mini-New Year's that you get twelve times a year.

Happy August, Laurie!

Mmm, fresh new month yes ma'am! Have a lovely week-end.

FOR REALLY AND FOR TRUE happy August 1st!

Sorry I cant say as I will be particularly enjoying the month because a friend of mine will be going in for a total masectomy sorry cant spell since she has breast cancer. Then again I cant say much for the month of February either because I managed to break my right ring finger and get the flu.
Do love the picture of Bob he does tend to enjoy fresh clean laundry lol. Such cuteness.

Hurrah for putting July to rest!! While mine wasn't as bad as some of y'all's (despite my retail hell job), it stunk...August has some promise; but, let's all start prayin now for NO hurricanes in Sept./Oct., which, I swear, is when they really start!!

Whoever posted abt. Ittybittykittycommittee, I'm now totally hooked & when I go out to PDX in Oct., I'm tempted to drive up to Tacoma & pick me up a kittypoo.

Hugs to all...especially our CAP!! K.

Nice room - I wish mine could stay that clean! LOL!

LOVE Bob (sssshhhh - don't tell, but he's my fav !)

Sue

have you ever read www.failblog.org?

you should send some of your pix to add to the humor... like the made in america one, and the cerda-fied :)

The caption of the photo should be:

Bob: Ooh, I can smell that Febreze smell! Ahhhhh....

:-P

I just stumbled upon this while looking at knitting blogs, and having four cats myself (though 21 and not yet divorced, or married, for that matter), I had to say your cats are FANTASTIC. Great cats and great pictures!!! :)

oh thank goodness, I couldn't take anymore JUly!

i loved july. always have. the birth of a nation, my birth month and tons of good holiday fun.

it's today (8/2) that always makes me pause to nod at life's crazy quirks....two divoreced marriages - both with 8/2 wedding anniversaries.

enjoy august, everyone. enjoy every day to its fullest.

mkc.

How did Bob manage to get the bed to himself?
Soba working on her manifesto in the office?

Is it funny that I saw a recipe for zucchini 'crab' cakes and thought of you first? Specifically because it mentions this recipe as a way to use up a 'bumper crop' of zucchini.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Connies-Zucchini-Crab-Cakes/Detail.aspx

Someone may have already mentioned this before, but I think the perfect title for your next book would be "Cats Aren't Clutter" I spent much of the weekend reading old entries and notice you say this a lot (and its so true!). I also noticed many people commenting on working organizing into your next book storyline, so it would be appropriate.

Laurie, have you ever given any thought to becoming a professional organizer? (I think it would be easier to do someone else's stuff than to do your own...). Then you wouldn't have to park at the Park & Ride and ride that pokey bus down to that glass building in an earthquake-prone city. You could make your own hours, wear what you want, etc. Just a thought!

There's nothing better than clean sheets, a cat with a striped tail, and a good book.

I love my beloved kitty yesterday and for some reason this picture gave me comfort.

Just want to know how the sewing is going?

Hi Laurie! Just thinking about you! (hugs)

omg thank you, DebH, for the funny funny YouTube link!! I was just about in tears there for a minute on the "let me in" one!!

I hope August is surpassing all y'all's expectations so far! :)