new and improved!

Here are some photos of new things around the house. These new things consist mainly of a cat and a couple of coats of new paint on the walls. The paint was planned; the cat, as they say, was a “surprise.”

loki is so freakin’ cute that, as doc says, we have both developed a blood sugar disorder.

his tiny golden eyes remind me of those chocolate easter bunnies we used to get as kids, that had little yellow sugar eyes with huge blue pupils. remember those? i loved eating that crunchy eyeball off the bunny. that’s what loki’s eyes look like… except, of course, i have no desire to chew on them.

neko is being soooo super-sweet. she has turned into a snuggly lap cat. go figure. maybe she’s sucking up, or maybe she’s trying to prove that she’s still a kitten, that she’s still the cute little babycat. maybe she’s trying to solidify her position as tertiary cat, fearing that she might be bumped down to quarternary cat (is that the right term?) in the pecking order.

she was looking at me earlier tonight as i sat here at the computer. her eyes were HUGE and liquidy and the black pupils were as big as her eyes themselves. remember puss in boots from shrek 2? and how he started purring and his eyes got all liquidy and huge and you just wanted to die from cuteness? THAT is exactly what neko was doing. she must have been watching HBO while we were gone and picked up that technique.

loki, the grand unifier, the kitten of mischief and fire, has brought balance and order to the cativerse. all four cats are strangely peaceful. neko rarely chases martini anymore (she got a taste of her own medicine, haha!), and martini and angst are getting used to the new kitten MUCH faster and more smoothly than we thought they would.

this third photo is my lava lamp against our new red wall. i tried to take a photo of our new paint job but i think i’m going to have to get doc to do that for me. nothing i took came out worth a darn, except for this lava lamp photo.

the house looks AMAZING. it’s incredible what a couple of gallons of paint can do for a place. i feel like we’re living in a designer magazine (that is, if i ignore our shabby furniture) instead of a cruddy beige 1980s white-walled plain old boring pre-trading-spaces-looking house.

next project: painting the upstairs. or, getting new flooring to replace our carpet. or, redoing the kitchen. or, getting a new tree for the courtyard…

ah, homeownership.