Something cutesie this way comes

minion was sucking on my finger, laying on my arm, and fell asleep. i can tell b/c she's doing that twitchy-asleep thing. but my finger pad is still between her teeth and she keeps biting down. she is so obnoxious and cute.

things have gotten stormy in the meowee east. the problem is minion's idea of a good time is to jump up in the air and land on haley's back. over and over. it's not appreciated.

[She's off my hand! She almost punctured the skin of my finger! The rotten bum.]

She also doesn't respect Haley's high up hiding places, so there's no way to escape unless I lock Minion up.

I read that little kitties are often inappropriately aggressive in play and their mothers have to teach them to play more gently. So I've been teaching her the meaning of NO! And often: MINION!!! I've been successful enough that I was able to get her off Haley's perch, without having to get up and physically remove her, for the time today. Since I've started this, things have settled down a little.

I have all these Cutesie pictures of Minion, and not Haley, cause she likes to sit on the couch with me. So Haley doesn't. (Except during Minion Lockdown.) Though since I've been taming the beast, Haley's been hanging around a little more.

So much for not being dominant. Interestingly Haley never gives Minion the smackdown I suspect she's fully capable of. She yells, she hisses, she swats--but I have personally been on the receiving end of a Wolverbean, so I know she can do more. I don't know if she holds back because Minion's a baby? Or she only believes in savaging humans, and not fellow cats?

Ah well, here's the latest pics.

Happiness is a warm kitty on your lap, on a chilly night.

It's hard to take a picture of a cat when she keeps chasing the camera strap.

It is done.

I finally realized how to give myself an asymmetrical shag haircut. A regular layered cut is easiest to do by tipping your head upside down and cutting in a straight line. So I thought, well, just cut in a diagonal!

It worked perfectly. I decided to go with a longer cut, and I can make it super short on the one side if I want, next time. The problem with a real short cut is you have to part your hair unnaturally really to the side, and I don't know if it would always be flipping back and bugging me.

initial cut

drying

I love the first shower after a haircut--washing your hair goes zoom!

I also gave myself thicker bangs, starting further up my head. We'll see how I like that.

shave shave shave

This is kind of what it would look like. I just don't know if it fits dress code at work.


But depending on where I put the part, I could just flip the hair back over the shaved part, when at work.

Now this wouldn't be hard to do. Bzzzzzz. Hmm. Tempting.

choppitty

I'm researching asymmetrical cuts and trying to work up the guts to do it myself. After all, such cuts started with punks, and I assume a REAL punk haircut is given at home! So if I do it myself, it's old school... right?

chop chop chop

I need to cut my bangs today. I'm also wondering if I have the energy to give myself a haircut, or just wait til I'm on vacation and go someplace.

I've given myself layered cuts before. And I think I could manage to cut a shag, cause it's just a more drastic layered cut.

I might like a choppy do, but don't know how to do it.

And I don't know if I could manage an asymmetrical cut. That's what I think I'd like, though.

more random info about my trip

Here's my upcoming trip!

From Montreal to Toronto...

...to Stratford, to Toronto, to Niagara-on-the-Lake, to Toronto...

...to Victoria (my dad suggested I fly in there if I want a Victoria trip, and he'll fetch me there)...

...from Victoria to Nanaimo, to Richmond!

Ending up at my leetle hotel on the park.

Where there's an Irish pub across the street. (Not that I drink, but fries are good at pubs!)

And zipping over to my mother's. That's my brother in the Google Street View outside my mum's house. He saw the truck coming, grabbed Sassy the dog, and headed back out to pose!

In other news... I found two other stores that sell fancier bentos.


Murata (15 E. Broadway)


Utsuwa-No-Yakata (Aberdeen mall, same as Daiso)