Yes, dear readers, Kittilicious - The Blog has changed names to a Straight Jacket & a Padded Room.

Seemed more fitting with less than 365 days until I am the parent of two teenagers!

This weekend pretty much revolved around Demon #2's 12th birthday....

I'll throw it up for a Sunday WW, too!

Can't forget the Camera Critters, too!

Due to Saki's surgery, she isn't much of a photogenic canine this week, so Chico gets the limelight!

Just a normal ring, please.

I love my friends & family, I really do but there are a certain few of them that I HATE to call. Why? Because they feel the need to have these stupid ass answer tones. Why do people use these? You choose something YOU like, but YOU never hear it... only people calling you do. I have a friend, love her to death, who has Ron White's "Tater Salad" comedy routine as the tone... so every time I call her I get to hear Ron White tell me about how when he was arrested the cop asked him if he was Ron "Tater Salad" White.

I've been hearing it for months... maybe years, even decades, I don't know.

I now hate it.

I was channel surfing yesterday and came across that and I just about threw the remote at the tv. SHUT UP!!!! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOUR DRUNKEN ESCAPES DID TO YOU!!!!

I now will never be able to watch/listen that one again.... and it was my favorite of his.

It's like a broken record. Why do people do this? The worst ones are of songs that you don't even know.. or can't understand because the quality is so shitty. People, just let it be. I just want to hear a ring - nothing more. Save this stuff for your own ring-tone... so YOU can hear it over and over and over and over again, leave the answer tones to just a plain old ring-ring.

Whats funny is that these people FORGET what they even have as their answer tones because THEY NEVER HEAR IT!!

"Oh I just love that song!"

THEN WHY AM I FORCED TO LISTEN TO IT?!?!?! PUT IT AS YOUR RING TONE, NOT A FRICKEN ANSWER TONE!

If you have some family & friends who have stopped calling you or don't call you as often... do you have an answer tone? They just might be sick of hearing it.

Take it off.

Responsible Pet Owner, I Am (Don't let my human babies have surgery!)

I was a responsible pet owner and had my sweet baby spayed (and her dew claws removed... I think she thought they were actual thumbs because she always tried to use them as such. I have the scratches to prove it!!).

My poor Saki girl... she's so pathetic! When she goes potty or poop she makes me wanna cry! She stands there with those big puppy dog eyes crying "Mama, it hurts!!!".


Chico is being a spaz, actually he's just being a typical canine, he's growling & barking at her every chance he gets - but he won't leave her side. Go figure.

Good God, please don't ever let one of my human babies have surgery... I won't be able to handle it.

Happy Birthday Kristina-Bear

Doesn't seem like 11 years ago we celebrated my baby's (aka Demon #2) 1st birthday.

But it is.

Today is my youngest, my baby, Krissy's 12th birthday.

What I wouldn't give for those terrible two's again... back when she couldn't sleep unless it was right next to her big sister (now, of course, they are lucky they can sleep in the same house without fighting!)...

... back when she would fall asleep every night with a book in hand.

.... oh wait, she still does that....

back to loose teeth and tooth fairies.... and frosting on faces....

....oh wait... she still gets frosting on her face....back to devilish grins that meant trouble was brewing....

.... oh wait, she still does that too.....

back to the innocence of childhood.... when a pile of leaves was still the most fun in the worldback to when her world was pink and if it wasn't pink she wouldn't wear it....but I guess even knocking on the doors of being a teenager, I will find more "back whens" 12 years from today.
Until then, I will still sit and wonder where the last 12 years have gone and what happened to my baby bear and when the hell did she grow up without me seeing?

New Pet Bowls at the store - quick, go look!

Just a quickie note to say that we now have pet bowls available at InsanityWear.com & SledderWear.com!!!
Each of our designs is available on either the small or large pet bowl. Ok, so not all the designs "make sense" for a dog or cat... but hey, who am I to say they don't look good printed on it, right?

I'm thinking these could even be considered at water dishes for reptiles! How sweet would that be? Or rabbits... or ferrets... I guess that's why they are called "pet" bowls and not "feline" or "canine" bowls.

Of course, as always, we'll personalize for ya! You can bet that Saki & Chico will be getting their own personalized bowls! Spoiled brats that they are.

Speaking of Saki... think a quick good thought for her today. She had "the surgery" today. (she done got spayed!) I am a responsible pet owner, hear me roar! No puppies for my Saki-girl! I called the vet already (did you expect less?) and she did great... made it through surgery fine and is resting.

.... all alone in a cage by herself...

She has an e-collar on, so I bet she's just pissed off! It's one of those cone-head things so she can't bite at her stitches. You can bet there will be embarrassing pics of her on here tomorrow! I can pick her up anytime after 9am tomorrow. I can't wait!

.... because she'll be all alone in a cage all by herself all night long.....

Ok, yes, I have issues. I HATE leaving my animals overnight at a vet. The cats I won't leave. Saki I did just because of how big & hyper she is and I don't know that I can keep her quiet, calm and rested so soon after surgery. They say they keep them overnight for "observation". Tell me... who is there all night long to observe them? That's my point. Nobody is. So if she tears her stitches at 11pm tonight and is bleeding all over the place, nobody will be there to see it until 6:30tomorrow morning.

I know, I need to let this go. She'll be fine.

Right?

Anyway... go buy a pet bowl.

Life as we know it

It's been a strange, makes you think type week.

My brother's mother....I know that sounds strange.. I sorta giggle everytime I say it. He's technically my half-brother, but I tried to figure out which 1/2 was my half one time and gave up. He's my brother, the technicalities don't matter - except in times like this..... his mother passed away from a 3 year battle with cancer the other day.

Then yesterday afternoon I get a phone call from someone I barely remember. He was a roomate of some friends of ours, Chad & Jody, from years ago, back when Taryn was just a baby. He tells me that Chad died the night before, in Jody's arms. It took a moment for my mind to wrap those words together into a sentence that made sense. "How? What happened?"

They think it was a heart attack.

A heart attack? Chad is only 34 years old! He has a son not much younger than Taryn! And Jody - she doesn't know life without Chad. They've been together since she was a teenager - he was her first everything.

So I was thinking yesterday and I know this has been thought many times by many people and really, the answer doesn't matter - it doesn't change anything, but you think it just the same. Which is better or worse? A long battle, knowing the outcome and knowing it's coming... so that you can say what you have to say, do what you have to do? Or... one minute you are here, the next you are gone. I don't know the answer and I don't think there is one. All I know is that 2 families that I know are suffering right now in different ways - they both feel sadness, loneliness and heartbreak, but one... feels a sense of peace, when the other is in a whirlwind of confusion and panic.

Even though we haven't talked to Chad & Jody in years, I know that no matter what - Chad died right where he would have wanted to.

And Carol, she was surrounded by family & friends, just as she wanted. She had enormous amounts of love surrounding her up until the last moment.

It all makes you really stop and think.

Bubble Fun

I am really slacking on the whole picture taking thing, ain't I?

Mother's Day was relaxing.. went out to eat with my parents, got the girls' haircuts, stopped at a Dollar Store where they had to have bubbles (how old are they?) and who am I to resist the whining of children in a store? So we came home, the husband mowed the lawn and I watched the girls play with bubbles.

Did you know they make scented bubbles? Who the frick cares what they smell like? These particular bubbles smell like blueberry... and according to Demon #1, taste like them too.

And this is my Mother's Day present.

This is for the Weekend Snapshot meme and the Weekly Winners. I could double-post the 2 pictures I posted for Wordless Wednesday last week... but I won't. I'll just link both of them. #1 (Saki through a window) and #2 (turtles on the grass). Or you could just scroll down, it would probably be easier and less work for your mouse-clicking finger.

Just trying to make things easier for ya....

What I did today.

Brought a snake to school.
Spent 3/4 of the day with a headache.
Bought Mother's Day cards.
Folded laundry.
Got more sections in my store.
Made some kick-ass fishing designs in my store!
Make homemade hamburgers.
Pulled weeds at my parent's house.
Got a kid ready for a red-carpet 7th grade dance.
Talked to Kimberella.
Had a backdoor appointment with the eye doctor.

Not all in that order.

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Asking, pleading, crying out for help!

So if you are a regular reader here, you know I run 2 online stores and thats, like, my job. Sometimes that job actually takes up so much of my time that I forget about this blog! Really, it happens.

Well, now is one of those times and as I'm sitting here asking the dogs for help with ideas and where I should go now I'm realizing that they really are no help to me and I need real ideas and real help! So HELP ME! Please.

Over the next couple months I have to "break up" my InsanityWear.com store into at least one more store. I might do two more, maybe three... thats where I'm stuck. Should I open a "Quotes & Sayings" store and move all my quotes-type designs over to that, should I open a "Fishing & Rec" store and move those types of designs over.... I don't know what the best thing to do is!

Sad thing is, I have to move something to a new store, there is no way around it. Basically, InsanityWear is too big and I have to downsize it, but I'm not deleting anything, just creating a new store(s).

So... please, if you have the time or you are over there shopping & such... could you please help a girl out and give me ideas, opinions... that sort of thing?

I just am not sure the best route to take here. Sometimes I have a hard time looking at my own stores as a "shopper", so if you have any ideas...