Peek-A-Boo!

My lastest insanity was captured in a shop window ;)

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Guido-the-Cat

Guido-the-cat watchin' TV with me last night! :D

UM....YIKES!!!!

Cool new template, hmm?!

Unfortunately, I've lost the links to all my blog Peeps!

If you visit and want me to visit, please leave your blog URL in your comment.

Please please please

I have blog visitin' needs!!!

*cries*

Buddy Can You Spare A Coin?

Hi.

My name is HaphazardKat.

I am addicted to Photography and WoW (world of warcraft).

I have neglected my blog Peeps.

I have neglected my overflowing laundry baskets.

My conversations with Lord V consist of:

"Yes, Hun. Just a minute. I have to finish this quest"

or

"Check this one out! I took it with my iPhone!"

or

"I'll help you with that in a minute. I gotta finish my kill and get to a safe place..."

It's not pretty, Peeps.

Addiction.

And all its ugly faces.

Send help.

And while yer at it?

Send gold.

I need 110 gold pieces to purchase riding training and a horse.

Don't be mac'n on me...the World of Warcraft is a fracken huge place and I've wore out 6 pair of leather boots running everywhere!

Right now I've got 26 gold jinglin' in my leather hip pouch so I need...(hang on a minute)

*110 minus 26 equals*
*cross out the zero, make it a ten*
*cross out the 1, subtract one cuz I borrowed from the zero to make a ten*
*cross out the 1 cuz you borrowed and subtracted...*

brain cramp. brain cramp!

Well whateverrrrr.

I need a whole shizzle more.

I put my soul up for auction in Stormcity and someone named DaRkDoMiNiOn bought it for 6 gold.

*snort*

sucker.

I'd have taken 2.

hehehe

noobs.

Another Soul Passes

Thanks to everyone for your well wishes to me during my sickies.

I seem to have conquered the flu bug that held me in its grip last week...and successfully (?) passed it onto Lord V. (sorry, Hun)

So far MiniWarrior remains unscathed. I hope this stays that way through the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend!

I had some sad news when I returned to work this morning. Seems one of my coworkers from our team in the South, suddenly passed away this weekend. Apparently she had been battling cancer. I had no idea as there was not a day that hasn't gone by where I haven't seen an email from her detailing some network issue she was working on.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the fact that she is gone.

It's not clicking.

It's unfathomable to me how a person can one day be here and then gone.

There has been a lot of loss this year.

I think the Universe is in the RED karma wise.

She better start filling up the gaps she's been leaving behind or she and I are gonna have a pissed off kat on her back moment. ;)

Ever have an angry feline on your back?

MMmm hmm.

It's a scarring experience.

I'm just sayin...

Work Train Reflections

I am not well this morning.

The flu lurks behind my skin, slithering inside my joints and muscles leaving behind slug trails of misery.

*sigh*

It is very hard to be at work on days like these.

Self Portrait

I was walking during lunchtime at work (yet again) and trying to capture the brilliant colors of a warm Fall day in the City with my iPhone eyeball--when I inadvertantly took a picture of myself.



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Rainy Lunchtime Walk

I snapped up my umbrella and headed out into the wind and driving rain on my lunchtime at work today.

I love wild weather and how it changes the normal every day world into a moody, shadowy place.

I couldn't resist trying to capture a piece of it with the tiny eye of my iPhone.

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Busy Busy Crazy Busy

Today was a holiday a work. Normally that would mean a quiet, relaxing day for me, but alas, it was not to be.

We had an air conditioner meltdown that had me scrambling on my hands and knees frantically pulling floor tiles to try and find an outlet to plug the emergency air cooler in before everything melted like the wicked witch of Oz.

Just a wee bit frantic busy as I was the only one working, but I managed to get things fixed and the Wicked Work Witch lives to melt another day ;)

I came home to relax and play me some World of Warcraft and guess what? THEIR wicked witch of the server realm apparently melted as its now 7:43pm and their servers are still down.

BOO.

HISS.

*sulk*

*shakes a hat in your direction*

Psst. Hey Buddy. Can you spare a server?

Rain Rain Go Away....

I'm sulky this morning 'cuz it's raining and I can't take Chanda out to capture the colors of Fall.

Yeah, I know. There are those things called "rain sleeves" that I can put her in (saw one on CSI last night--pretty cool)--but seriously, Peeps...that would require me to go in the rain...

Yeah.

Not gonna happen...

So.

Plans for the day?

World of Warcraft.

Yes. I have joined the WOW lemmings.

*hangs head*

Election Watch

A Kats Eye View of History in the Making :)

Innerestin' Day, Ain't It?

The air seems abnormally charged today with the energy of thousands of people moving in sync towards the Voter Booths.

No matter the preferred choice for Candidate...I feel closer as a Nation--and that ain't a bad thing :)

I revel in the fact that we have the right to make a choice without fear of reprisal and this year? This year we are moving forth in record numbers to exercise that choice.


We rock :)

I Gots a Fevah!

I have cabin fever, Peeps...and its Fall.

Isn't this phenomenon only supposed to happen in the Springtime when birds are chirpin' and the smell of fresh cut grass is in the air?

*Sigh*

I'm suffering.

S.U.F.F.E.R.I.N.G.

I feel like I'm gonna pop right outta my skin.

And that ain't good.

Not good at all.

This world couldn't handle skeletal me.

*Mutter* *Hiss*

*eyeballs the clock*

*SIGH*

I've got 6 more hours of work left...

Bah.

Humbug.

Good Evening...

Go HERE!

If. You. Dare.

Mwahahahahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

*cough* *hack* *wheeze*

...

Dang hairballs.

A Boy And His Cat

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Mantis Boy

MiniWarrior has managed to capture what is probably the last two living Mantis's of the season.

Lord V carting MiniWarrior back to his Dads house on Sunday packed in his trunk:

2 Mantis cages and
1 Hermit crab cage.

What MiniWarrior didn't pack was his school backpack or cricket victims for his caged prey.

So, last night after work I slipped by the pet store and picked up a baggie of crickets and toted them and MiniWarriors backpack over to him at his Dads house.

With my iPhone eyeball always at the ready...I bring to you--images of Mantis Boy and his creepy Prisoners.

Love Outside The Box

I was walking back from my lunch break at work today. The sun was shining, the ground beneath my feet was littered with colored fall leaves, the wind blew just sharp enough for me to enjoy the comfort of my sweater vest and just soft enough for me to smile at it tugging at my hair.

Two men walked down the hill in front of me. One tripped and stumbled off the sidewalk. I smiled as his friend reached out and caught his arm before he could fall and then watched him rib his friend good naturedly on how goofy he looked falling off the curb.

They strode on turning to chat at each other along the way then the one who had stumbled reached over and ran a loving hand across and down the other mans back.

How nice, I thought. They obviously care deeply for each other.

My foot crunched down on a brittle pile of leaves and the one who had stroked the other guys back turned sharply at the noise and gave me a quick look.

He stepped further away from the other guy and assumed a more macho walk.

How sad, I thought. That we still live in a time where loving affection for another is smiled or frowned upon depending on the gender.

That we aren't fully free to be who we are without fear of reprisal.

The sunshine dimmed a bit for me and I shuffled back to work with a moody heart.

Pillow Thief

MiniWarrior aka Dr Doolittle

MiniWarrior, my 10 year old insect, animal, vampire loving, special boy--now stands as tall as my eyebrows.

This morning I woke and crept out of bed as the house and all its occupants lay sleeping.

I shuffled to the coffee maker and filled its belly with ground up beans and water and set it to work.

With the sounds of the water steaming I did a quick check of email and headline news then walked softly up the stairs to MiniWarriors nest.

The red light over Jabba-the-frogs cage illuminated the mantis habitats on his desk. Joset-the-green-mantis and Willy-the-brown-mantis hung upside down, their cages littered with the bodies of half eaten crickets.

A rustle of movement from the cricket cage told me the sacrificial creatures were busy nibbling on their breakfast of lettuce leaves and grapes.

Yes. Eat hearty my little victims. Think not of being speared on Mantis spines while your head is being noshed on nor think upon the lightening fast frog tongue that will pull you into its mouth and suck you down into its amphibian belly.

I passed by the hermit crab as he lay quietly, nestled against empty shells, its cage tucked into shadowy corners of the table then turned and walked into MiniWarriors bedroom.

He lay sprawled across his bed, rubber crickets and grasshoppers, stuffed cats, frogs and dogs, lay entwined in his sheets.

I lay beside him for a moment, stroking the soft outline of his ear. He stirred and pressed against me mumbling in his sleep.

I wrapped my arms around him and held him like I have for so many years now. The memories flickered through my head of a brown eyed baby, chubby legged toddler, now a lanky boy-man running on sun brown legs, chasing after another victim to add to his collection of cages.

Is it possible to love a human being more than I do this child?

I cannot imagine how.

Sunrise

I awoke this morning to this view. Being the geek that I am--I lept out of bed, wrapped both my cameras around my neck and dashed outside in my Hello Kitty PJ's to capture it. :)




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