Sunbeam* Therapy

I know the title might be misleading but it is not me who will be

 getting Sunbeam Therapy.  Mom is happy to finally be getting

treatment for her cancer.  It will be starting January 4, 2012

for three times a week it is a whole lot to do, but worth it.

Mom also will be taking horsie pills to help to fight the bad

cells, through they say the sunbeam will probably be For-EVER.

This will be a really, really long time for Sunbeams.

Mom is happy to get to this step as it was so long that

it took to get all the doctory stuff.  She said that it is

good that through it was rare it was slow and that so

far it is only the skin that is trouble and now it will be in

control with the Sunbeam therapy.

*It is not really sunbeam, but a light box with special

rays that will fight the icky cancer t cells.

Secret Paw Revealed

Mom showed me the Secret Paw Package from Derby and Ducky

who I never blogged with so it was exciting to get to meet two

new kitties through Secret Paws

Mom opened it very quickly as I tried to get under

the box to open it up.  She had put it on the bed and

I was pestering her so she got her key and used the

box skillz to open it up real quick to get a look at what I got.

It was a whole lot of treats of Greenies and Crispies

as well as a few different types of toys including a

stocking of  a multitude of different mousies and balls

in that one stocking.

The card was the part that I was most interested in

as I wanted to learn more about Derby and Ducky.

It was a very cool card that I could not resist and

took from Mom when she gave it to me to sniff.

It was nom.  I read the card and found that Derby was

an original blogger.  I am happy that I pawed at Mom

to do  Secret Paws even when she was very busy as

this was a chance to make some more blogging furiends

After all this inspection Mom put the Secret Paws stuff in the box

to be put away in the cabinet and my toy "box" bucket. 

Checking In

My Mom let me check in on every kitty to know

that we are all right. I was able to visit a little, but not

comment as Mom was super-duper busy with everything.

I keep every kitty in my mind even though there was no

time to do things.

I have helped my Mom very much during this time

with purry good soopervision of getting the right shipping

box for my Secret Paw that I will get her to send at

the end of the week.  I have also done other inventory.

I look into every package coming home and give my

seal of approval.  I hope soon Mom will let me comment

as things should be easier for a little bit of time.  I am

purry excited about this time, but until then I will

purr with Mom to encourage her to get things done.

Busy as Bees

Mom and me are very busy bees right now with the end

of the semester coming on and various papers are being due.

I am telling Mom to take a little bit of rest before making her

work on the writing as she is stuck on how to get started

on one of them and a little bit of rest is good for kitties.

I told Mom to relax a bit as there is always a little time

to chiill.  I know once school is done that she would

have a little downtime.  I love that Mom still made time for

me to participate in Secret Paws and in the napping contest. 

I was very pleased that Mom choose this photo

for the Kat's Kat sleeping contest. Through I might not

win it is always so nice to be a part of the community.

I love Mom very much as she spoils me with treats and

toys that a cat can imagine.

MEOW-Gency Test

This is a TEST

It is ONLY a TEST

This is the test of the MEOW-Gency

System

If There Were A REAL MEOW-Gency

there would be a message here telling

you what to do (Pet the Cat)

This is the Conclusion of the MEOW-Gency

System. You Can Go Back to Your

Regularly Scheduled Cat Nap

PURRS Willow

Marking My Birthday

I am so happy that Mom let me celebrate my birthday 

with everyone even as she was busy.  It was such

fun on my Gotcha Day and now I got Mom to take time

off to set up a little something for my day.  She even made

a movie of me marking all of the items in the living room as

mine because that is a way to mark my birthday.

I have a lot of things that are mine in the house

even if Mom does not think that isn't it the cats

prerogative to make it ours.  I am so purry lately

with all of the attention and hope that you can

hear my purrs in the video that just beam with

the happiness of marking my birthday with my

most exciting activity.

The Ladies of Autumn

When we last posted Momo said that I should be a part of The Lady of Autumn

a group that formed by Bess the Cat.  This group celebrates our multiple

autumn colors. I proded Mom to enroll me before

she got busy so I could be a Lady of Autumn as a birthday present.

I am so happy to have been accepted into this wonderful

organization and am posting about it today as I wanted

to shout it out as my proud tortie individuality.  Mom was

so nice to do this for me and I have been a good kitty

and finally slept in the Hammock that she brought me for

my Gotcha Day through there were no pictures

as I meowed and walked away. 

I am looking forward to celebrating my birthday here

as Mom promised a little time to be able to go over

and party.  I am going have to set up the place to make

it nice as the guests will have stuff to do at my party.

Meditation Monday

This couch has become my place for mediation as I can

wait for Mom there when she comes back home.  She

was happy to hear that I stayed out and even played with the

downstairs neighbor on October 20th as she felt proud.

Of course I had to wait until she got home to show her my

"present" by going to the litter box when she got home.

I know that Mom has to wait and go again to hear the treatment

so meditation helps me with kitty patience.

I am also meditation if I should ask her to do something

big for my birthday on October 31st.  She is busy, but

I want to do something even though it is not my real

birthdate as Mom choose it for me because of

my love of the holiday and Holloween colors. Purrs

to all of my furiends and have a peaceful week.

Inspired Courage

Today I am purring up a message of  Hope. My

Mom has recently been affected by this terrible diagnosis

and I am comforting her as we wait to go to New York

City on October 20th.  We know that this can be beaten

and that eventually with hard work this can be combated.

 I missed you guys as I spent a lot of time trying to get

Mom to use the computer and blog to no avail.  Mom

said something about books and papers due on Wednesday

and when there was time. I love Mom as she spends

time and provides for me too.

I got to stand on top of a new box and I purred on her

and sit on her as she reads and does papers through I am

shooed as I try to type for her.  She means the world and

I am glad she will get answers and the get the help needed

to get better.

I know that I am all over the place, but I want

to make sure to tell everything as I know Mom would

be busy for a bit.  It is little things like the award from

Brian's Home  that keeps us going until things settle down.

As we are constantly inspired by our friends to continue as

it makes our hearts sing.  Even if things are missed important

events are acknowledged. Purring a huge thanks

for the friends encouragement and support.

Meow Like A Pirate Day

Ahoy Matey I am not usually a seafaring wench, but

today is a special day as it is Meow Like A Pirate

Day on the Cat Blogosphere.  In the spirit of this day

I prepared my Crows Nest for this rollicking adventure

 on the high seas.

I had to check for the sturdiness of the ship to determine

whether it was sea worthy as a solid ship is essential

for the life as a pirate.  I using my blanket as a cape as

those seas send mighty storms to naive pirates.

Arrg there is some rough areas in my boat my servant

is going to have to walk the plank if she does not

get on the duty of providing a seaworthy vessel. Purrs

will be withdrawn as well as a sea captian is nothing without

a loyal crew that follows directions.

Hark I am on my way to sail the briny deep now

that the inspection is over and plan to bring a

large tresure of salmon home for a feast.

Purrs Captain Willow.



MO-Cats Day

Before I started blogging there was a hissy human

that wanted to stop cats from being on the internet

and tried to declare a No Cat Day.  As you now we

cats have claws and it was declared that instead every

year on 09-09 that it was MO-Cats Day.

I will celebrate MO-Cats Day by inquiring for

MO room for the Cat living here.

I have meowed about the roadblocks in the room before,

but there has to be a better way to provide ample room

so things are not impeding my way.  I know that this puts

the books in the same room so Mom does not have to travel

far, but there are other alternatives to put the reading than in

the purrfect little retreat.

She could use the bookcase in the main room to put

the stuff even if it is more inconvinent instead of just using it

for library books.  A bit of room is better even if there are

all of these straps to play with from the bags that are put in my

way.  I measured the bookcase and there is space for a bazillion

books so there would be MO room for this Cat.

Thankful Tortie Tuesday

Hi it is me Willow I convinced Mom to write a blog post

as she got done with all her work earlier than expected.

I am grateful that you understood why I needed

to limit the amount of blogging that I am doing now as

Mom has a case of the busies and can not spend as much

time helping me with the obligations in blogging.

I should have know that  my furiends would be supportive

of this change in schedule.  We were just grumpy pants

because of the amount of stuff she was dealing with as well as the rudeness

of bus people.  This was the second time that a stranger made a

comment about Mom's peeling face and these individuals did it in such

an icky manner it made Mom sad because it is not like

she does not know this and it is a scary thing what the diagnosis.

We know that with this new schedule of reading three to five

books a week and writing papers that there will not be as much

visiting, but we know that you will be there when I do have the chance

to blog.  I am a thankful tortie girl to have such good blogging furiends.

Blogging Break

I am going to be going on a little bit of a blogging break

as Mom is going through a lot of stuff right now.  She

will not be able to go visit as many blogs as she goes

to New York City, working, and graduate school.  We

have been getting fewer comments and we feel that is because

she has not been able to keep up with our friends and they

might think we do not care about them.

I will try to do important cat events like Mo Cats Day

and Talk Like a Pirate as we do still want to be involved in

the community.  It is just that there has not been as many

visitors and with everything it would just be too much on

the plate to keep up with the pace as it seems that we

lost some friends by not visiting them as much as we could.

Purrs Willow

Tortie Tuesday-Roadblock

Often times I find my path in Mom's room has changed.

This means that I have to investigate the area to see if

all is going to be well.  It is important to do a sniiff inspection

on the area as there could be something strange that needs

to be dealt with by an experienced kitty.

Then there are times when the thing becomes a roadblock

that should have been moved out of the way of cat

traffic flow.  As there is stuff on the other side including a

toy basket that has to be played with.  So in those instances

I stare at the object to get it moved out of the way before proceeding onward.

Searching

Where did all the commotion go everything is so much

more quiet now.  I am looking here and there and I

can not find as much excitment.  It might have something I said as

 there was a lot going on and now I do not see the same level

of activity as before so things are peaceful.

Thank Cod that some things have calmed down and

that the flurry of activity has somewhat slowed down.  As

there was much to much going on so a little bit of an Easy

is much appreciated as I get some purrsonal time with Mom

before she becomes extra busy in the coming weeks.

Rowboat?

Does any kitty have a rowboat as I now have

my own private little river outside from Irene.

She was actually not so bad once she reached here

with no power outages as other East Coaster's had.

I spent a lot of the time under the bed, but once the

worst was over I slowly ventured out to survey all

of the water outside.  This made me again purr for being in a

safe home where Mom was purrpared to take us

to safety with a plan for both of us,

Rolling Around

It is an uneasy Sunday as I roll around in wait for

our turn with Hurricane Irene.  It has become smaller

in size, but it still has its bite.  I spent much

of yesterday under the table after Mom got home

from shopping as I did not want to invite Irene in

as a guest to our home on Sunday when she's been so rude

to the rest of the East Coast.

I have been weird with slipping in just opened closets

and dropping a bunch of books on the floor as

I meow my protest to Mom.  Mom thinks my different

 behavior was because there was too much activity

with the noise and moving of stuff from the neighbors.

As well as her getting ready to start back up with Grad

School next week and that a little bit of Fishy Flakes will

make me feel more purry and calm as we stay largely

technology free tomorrow with the high winds and rain so no

surges hurt the computer and other appliances. Purrs

Photo Hunt: Symbolic

Normally I love to rest under the umbrella, but I 

decided to bitey the umbrella in a symbolic gesture

in response to the Hurricane.  Mother Nature has been

very temperamental lately by difficult weather for all of

our friends by drought conditions for some areas and

then this hurricane here so I am taking my furstration on this

symbol of the crazy weather with a twitch of my tail and a good bitey.

Then I gave a symbolic talk to the tail to the umbrella

so that it would not be bothersome and instead start to

behave.  The weather needed a talking to and one

way to do that is to express my displeasure at

a popular symbol of inclement weather.

What all of this bad weather taught Mom was

that it is good idea to have a plan as the 

historical has happened in the last week. So 

I am going over my plan with Mom and posting

 Zoolarty's graphic to keep provisions on paw as these

weird weather patterns persist.