There is a disturbance in the force.

Life has been really sucky since Sunday night because my daddy didn't come home. He got a new job and he's gone for training during the week. I really hate this! I cried all night long Sunday night and kept my mommy awake. So I've been mad at my daddy but I'm over him now because my mommy is overcompensating for his absence with toys and treats! Yay, Mommy!

Today, I got a new catnip mouse, a blue feather boa, and a new thing of Whisker Lickin's shrimp & tuna flavored treats. They're crunchy! I just can't figure out how to open it so I can steal treats, but I won't give up trying to figure it out. I have been playing hard this afternoon with my new toys.

Now that I'm the man of the house, I am so much more important than ever before -- as if that were possible.

Gotta go. I feel a nap coming on.

Our first real live tree!

This one is so much cooler than the faux Christmas tree we had! I really love this tree.

My Granny Rosemary knows what I am!

My Granny Rosemary says I am a Bombay kitty and she must be right! Just read about Bombay kitties and you'll see -- it's me! I'm a Bombay! Yay!

Here is how I fit the Bombay kitty profile:

1. I have black feets.

2. My hair is black and shiny.

3. I am proud to be my mommy's "lap fungus." I own her and will sit on her as I wish.

4. I do follow my mommy from room to room and have things to say out loud about what is going on.

5. I am wonderful with company and dogs. I especially love all my doggy friends: Betty, Wilma, and Hoku!

6. I would never hide under the bed when people come over! I love people! I want to meet everybody. I'd like to meet you too.

7. I am opinionated and I know how the household should be run better than anybody. It's my house! Those humans just get to live in it because I like them. I would collect more humans for pets if only I had more rooms.

8. I have a round head with a short muzzle.

9. I am not fat, but I am heavy when you pick me up. My Grandpa Richard is always shocked at what I weigh when he picks me up! I'm just solid as a rock, like the Great Bob Seger sings.

10. Loud noises freak me out. I was sitting on the window sill one afternoon when a nasty Valley Metro bus drove by and made a big noise. I flew off the window sill!

11. I purr so loud sometimes, my mommy says I sound like a little piggy oinking.

12. I like to dominate other cats. Sorry, Uncle Jimmy. It's just who I am.

13. I have chewed through a bag to get to bread. I love carbs! The wiki says that's a Bombay trait.

14. I'm a "head bumper" and a "nose rubber."

15. I like being an indoor cat. I don't like to be far from my mommy because I like to get attention all the time.

So that's me -- a Bombay! I'm a little freaked out that my first ancestor came from Kentucky in 1958, to be honest. I know that Kentucky is where inbred rednecks come from. I hope there's no inbred redneck in my bloodline. No country in The Traz! That would be horrible!

I'm too classy though to have come from an ancestor who was inbred. My manners are too good. Most animals like a dog or cat would just eat any old thing that falls on the floor. But I won't. I won't even eat a piece of food if it falls out of my bowl as I eat. I'm not a savage.

I do not play fetch because that is below The Traz. I also don't take to leash training. Yeah, right!

I'm a bit upset about this Boston University thing

Look at this! Just look at this!



Can't you what is going on here? The Boston University mascot is a terrier. That is just deplorable. I'm pissed.

My mommy is attending Boston University online, which is good because we don't have to move to Boston and she can still get a good education. My mommy is pretty smart and there's no way she'd go to ASU with all those little party sluts. But I'd almost choose some party sluts over a school with a terrier as its mascot. I mean, please.

Doesn't Boston University know that the black cat is where it's at? Silly B.U. I don't care if Martin Luther King went to school there. A terrier is not a good mascot. That's just lame.

I got in big trouble today.

I meant well, though, I really did! There was a new tree in my house today! I was so excited because I really love trees. It was so nice when we had our fake Christmas tree in the House of Traz last month even though it was faux. When I was just a little kitten and we lived at our old place, my mommy used to let me climb this small tree in the courtyard. It was so fun. But there are no trees to climb at my new place because they're all too new and puny. That makes me sad. But there are plenty of climbing places in our apartment, or as I call it, the House of Traz.

Today though this fabulous new real tree showed up in the House of Traz! It was kind of tall and grew upwards, not outwards so I couldn't climb it so good but I sure tried! I kept it low-key at first, just sniffing and rubbing against the new tree. Then I tried to see if I could stand up on my hind legs to make myself tall like the tree. Then I tried to make myself part of the tree. I tried to climb a little and took a leaf off to chew on and that's when my momma yelled at me! I was just trying to make friends with the little tree.

But my mommy was mad and said I was harming the tree. Then she took the tree away from me! It's in the other room and I can see it if I look at the patio door and into the window of the other room.

I just like trees. That's all.

This penguin didn't see it coming

I am the alpha! Ha ha!

Take that, stupid penguin!

I can kick a penguin's ass!

I beat up penguins

This penguin showed his face on the wrong side of the apartment! I let him have it!

The perfect spot

This is the perfect spot in our home -- me in my bed with my super catnip cactus. It's on the bathroom counter so I have a bird's eye view.

Ask your humans to buy you one of these.

This crackle tube is so cool! We play so many games with it! We play hide and seek and I like to pounce on it. I like to run from across the room and pounce on it. I pounce on it because it makes this damn noise that won't stop! But it's fun to crawl inside too. It keeps me busy.

I love my bed!

I got this bed from Santa Claus for Christmas and it's just wonderful. Lately, I have been feeling like napping all day and I do that here when I'm not napping in the linen closet. I like to sleep here all night too. This bed is so fabulous! It's the perfect nest for me and I make it go how I want it. Sometimes I like the sides up, which is how my mommy leaves them. Then I like to take them down myself. I keep my catnip cactus toy here at all times so I feel extra cozy.

The holidays were an adventure but they have long been over

My mommy has finally downloaded pictures from her camera, so I will post them now. For Christmas, I got a warm new bed and a crackle tube to play in. Then my birthday was New Year's Day (no one knows what day I was actually born) and I got a toy that hangs on the door. My mommy has finally figured out that the bathroom linen closet belongs to me and that she's lucky I let her put her makeup on the shelf I can't reach. So she's let me have the second shelf all to myself, she thinks. I knew from day one it was all mine! This photo shows me & my crackle tube toy.