Morning Amusements with Ellen

I'm not much for philosophizing anything, I mean, give me a direct hit on the carpet with a sunbeam and I'm a happy cat. However, Mama likes to challenge herself from time to time first thing in the day, with things like the following quiz - Battleground God. If I could roll my eyes, I would, coz it sounds like a video game, but its a bunch of true/false questions.

http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/god.htm

Mama scored: How did you do compared to other people?
378950 people have completed this activity to date.
You suffered zero direct hits and bit 2 bullets.
This compares with the average player of this activity to date who takes 1.39 hits and bites 1.11 bullets.
45.73% of the people who have completed this activity, like you, took very little damage and were awarded the TPM Medal of Distinction.
7.69% of the people who have completed this activity emerged unscathed with the TPM Medal of Honour

Mama's reading:

nothing right now. Waiting for the rains to stop so she can go to the library...

Mama's listening to:

Pearl Jam. Oodles of it...a friend of hers once burnt 7 of their cds for her last year, she's just starting to listen to them now. Puts one on, lets it play two or three times in a row, then picks another one. She's not picked any "favorite" songs from them like that, either, and is rethinking the way to get to know a cd properly.

Off to the kitchen counter,
Ellen Cherry Charles

Sissy has her say

http://romereborn.virginia.edu which is a virtual tour of someplace called Rome, Mama says that it is from days gone by and I say what do they matter anyways? Play fetch with me now - that matters, but Mama said some of the pictures were stunning and really brought the place to life. There are videos and other things to look at too - Mama just looked at the pictures, what with being on the old computer until the new one comes back, and will snoop the site good'n'proper when her new computer makes its way back home.

Meanwhile, Mama has bronchitis. She's went through 5 boxes of tissues, has very sore ribs from coughing and a dime-sized coldsore on her lip that is quite scary. She's got drugs for all ailments though!

Soon there will be a picture of me on here! Rhonda came and got her camera and will load pics on her computer and email them here. They all agree that I have at least one stunning photo on there, which is good, because I was getting tired of the flash in the eyes.

They are working on the street and there are a lot of big noisy vehicles trundling by. They are also filming down the block...its just noisy. Right now there are no less than 3 vehicles making beeping noises on this street! Trucks going backward...and someone hammering for all their worth too. Mama's not happy but you know us cats - we can sleep (or appear to sleep) through anything.

Mama's Not Reading

Mama's Not Listening to anything

Mama's sleeping a lot and watchin the tv


Attacking your hand when you least expect it,
Sissy

Miss ECC update

Ellen here...

Not much new happening around here.

Mama's sick - has a summer cold - and is using up a lot of kleenex and napping a lot.

She bought us a vibrating cat toy that Sissy chewed the string thingie off so it stopped vibrating easily - that was within the first 10 minutes of it being here.

Mama made us catnip bags - one for each of us. Its fun getting into all of them at once and rolling around a lot!

Mama also started taking us outside on a leash - I'm the only one who hasn't went yet, but she assures me that I'll be okay when I'm outside because I used to go outside before. Her concern is that if there is a fire and she has to chuck us all out a window, that we are familiar with our surroundings. V'lu hadn't felt grass under her feet since she was 6 weeks old! And Sissy and Bebe are too chicken to even leave the steps, but Mama is going to be taking us all out during the summer here, so that we are comfortable with it. Maybe Mama worries too much..? She just thinks that if there is a fire, and she is able to get us all out, that we are comfortable enough and will come to her when she comes looking for us, for she said she will always take care of us. I don't know that she should worry about a fire so much now that it is just Mama and Darren living in the house, but you never know, is what she said.

There are buses going down the street today. Last time buses went down the street was over a year ago, and a dog got hit right outside the house while Mama was having her first cigarette of the day. She is still "unwell" with that day.

Mama is Reading:
About to start Inside Secret Societies - what they don't want you to know. Mama is a sucker for titles like that. She last read "Tuesdays with Morrie" and she's been mulling that over for about a week, going back and rereading passages. It is about how to make peace with yourself before you die, or, if you learn how to die you'll learn how to live. It is a book she'd like to own someday.

Mama is Listening To:
The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Here's to the summers of 77, 78...when disco wasn't cool but the songs got stuck in your head anyway.