New year's resolutions for 2012

I'm in my PJ's on my couch which obviously means I'm not going anywhere tonight. Staying home making sure the kittens are ok with all the loud noises coming from outside. So far they don't seem to care, which is a very good thing. I personally, though, wished that Finland would stop selling fireworks to individuals and those who need to have them in their lives could just pay small fee to the city to have professionals handle them. No need for this 24/7 for 3 days bullshit. And no need for all those eye accidents and burns and mental anguish idiots inflict on others. I have a scar in my eye ball which I got when I was a kid from a wayward spark from a roman candle and since then I've had major hatred for less-than-professionally-handled-fireworks.

Anyway, I have beer, guacamole, chips, pop corn, candy and salad to take care of my nourishment and kittens to keep me company. And noisy neighbors. What else could you need?

If there are Conan O'Brien fans out there, you might remember his Late night with Conan O'Brien skit for new years where one of the band members sang "In the year 2000...In the year 2000" after which Conan and a celeb guest would made all kinds of predictions for the coming year... Here's him with Megan Mullally (Karen from Will and Grace)



So that's what I'm gonna do too. In stead of making resolutions that I won't keep, I'm gonna predict the future. So here goes nothing!

In the year 2000...In the year 2000...

I will continue NOT to go to the gym but instead let my waist expand.

I will continue enjoying Corona's even though they destroy my budget.

I will continue embrace my OCSFPD, Obsessive Compulsive Shopping-For-Pets Disorder.

I will continue to be excited by everything the kittens do and gush about it on every possible media I can.

I will continue to be lazy.

I will continue to hate fireworks.

I will get the hell away from Forssa. One way or another.


In the year 2000...In the year 2000...and 12.

So, there you have it. Hope you are able to keep your New Year's resolutions. Have a great 2012! See you next year!

It's the little things

If it wasn't for the fact that my pictures come out as a serial killer on steroids, I'd take and post a picture of the HUGE GIANT smile on my face right now! No, I didn't win the lottery. And no, I didn't get a job and I doubt even that would put a huge smile on my face. What is it then, you ask?

I caught Brooklyn fetching on camera! Like seriously, that kitten, that 4,5-month-old-kitten, can fetch! And I didn't teach him, he just started bringing the ball to me! And when I tell him to bring the ball to me, he just blobs down and expects me to get it. Showing his dominance over his slave! It's the little things in live. I feel like a proud mama! So accomplished! In the 2 months they've been with me I've done something right! Now I wish everyone else was as excited as I am about this but as a single mom I guess it's my duty/privilege alone.



Now I'm seriously thinking about teaching Brooklyn to use the toilet bowl... If he's this smart as just a mare kitten, imagine what we could do when he's little older! We could rule the world!

O.M.G Part 2

Discovered the kittens in a compromising position this evening. Let's hope there won't be any kitten babies coming in few months. I'm so not ready to be a grandma anytime soon!

O.M.G!!!

Or Oh Your God would be more accurate! This single parenthood is so not my thing! Like seriously! I figured out why Dunkin Donuts is speaking Swedish! SHE'S IN HEAT!!! My effin 4-month-old-kitty-cat IS IN HEAT! The good thing is, Brooklyn doesn't seem to be so hopefully I don't have to worry about my kittens having kittens right now...But seriously freaky stuff! And something I have to deal by myself!

Dunkin Donuts is meowing like there's no tomorrow, sometimes in Swedish and sometimes her soft little bird chirps. She's also on her back a lot, just rolling around. And then she's on her stomach with her tail up or to the side. Like seriously, no matter how broke I am in February, they are both getting neutered the first chance I got! I don't want to be acting as a kitten contraception! What should I do? Put a diaper on her? Is there such a thing as cat chastity belt?

And why does she have to roll in the kitty litter? With her long fur it gets everywhere!

I'm so not cut out for this! Is it February already?

Christmas riddle

Answer this:

How does a Finnish cat with an American name speak Swedish? I know Brooklyn is like the world's most intelligent cat but Dunkin Donuts is more of a pretty face...so how does she have a Swedish intonation to her meowing? Her meow's go up at the end, not like Finnish which is kinda even or ends going down. It's very riksvenska. And she's been really vocal this christmas.

It just came to me. Had to share. And in case you're some random person reading this, I'm not really crazy nor do I believe my cats can speak in tongues. Also, she sounds like bird when she's excited and purring.

I'll go back to trying to record her meowing now...maybe I'll be able to prove it!

p.s. Social media and twitter in particular are weird media...I mentioned on twitter as a joke that my kittens should take acting lessons because they do the "it wasn't me, I'm innocent"-face so well and all of a sudden someone sends me a link to a website about acting! Someone who doesn't follow me nor do I follow him. And I did mention KITTENS in that tweet.

Also, as I started to get more and more hooker/porn star followers I decided to change my twitter name. I really really liked my twitter name but as it could be construed as something less than legal/up-and-up, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The last straw was a follower who had a picture of (his) butt as his profile picture. Naked butt I might add.

Snowman

What an inspiring christmas weather we have! I don't remember weather this blah on christmas since...years ago? Last christmas we had more snow than north pole and the 3 christmases before that I spent in New York so snow was a crap shoot anyway. But this is just sad. It was raining yesterday and it hasn't really snowed that much this year yet, if it even will. I think Santa's sleigh might get stuck in this weather. And the only snowman you'll see is on TV.

In spite of the crappy weather have a merry christmas! Hyvää Joulua! God Jul!

Classic!

Now, when I eventually have american friends visiting me here, the first thing I'm gonna do is fight with them and end up in jail! What am I talking about? Adam Lambert is visiting his boyfriend Sauli for x-mas and during a little partying at DTM last night they got into a fight with each other and ended up in jail... I was watching Sauli's little show on Iltasanomat on Monday where he was talking about the places he was gonna show Adam...I did end it before it was finished so I'm not exactly sure of the places he mentioned but I doubt jail was one of them! Anyway... This is what it must have looked like!



Brooklyn and Dunkin Donuts boxing. I tried so hard not to laugh at them.

And this is them in "jail".

X-mas miracle

I know I already posted once today but this was too exciting to wait till tomorrow!

I just played FETCH with Brooklyn for like 10 times in a row! Dunkin Donuts was participating too but she didn't bring the ball back! Of course, as soon as I took the camera and started videoing it, Brooklyn became camera shy! I will see if I can capture it tomorrow! It'll be on youtube in no time!

Recycling Center of El Viiru

Let's make it short and sweet again. Lots to say, no patience to write. When did I lose all my patience???

It's good to know I'm not the only one who is having trouble talking like normal person when interacting with Dunkin Donuts and Brooklyn. Marianne was here on Thursday and she's just as bad as I am with the baby talk! But you would understand and most likely be like me if you met the little terrorists yourself. I mean they are seriously cute. And fluffy. And beautiful. And adorable. And intelligent. They just require few "Ohhhh's" and "Awww's". There's nothing you can do. I think we, as humans, are conditioned to do that when facing cute fluffy kittens. It's natural. It's in our DNA. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Elviira had invited us to go check out their new house (now that they've actually moved in) and Marianne offered me a ride there so she came over beforehand to check the kittens. She hasn't seen them since the day they moved in so it was about time since they've grown so much. We gossiped a little, had some glögi and joulutorttu and then I kicked Elviira's butt in WII bowling few times before getting tired (I'm not in shape) and losing the third one. And then it was time to do some "saving the planet" and take home some of their left over furniture that had become expendable in the new place. I got myself a living room table, new drawer for the bathroom and one for the hallway that we carried in yesterday. It's like my living room could be their "town home" with almost all the furniture coming from them. And they live in the "'burbs" now...

I went to see the movie "New Year's Eve" yesterday with Elviira and Finland was very well represented in the movie. Michelle Pfeiffer was carrying a Marimekko bag in her first scenes and John Lithgow was playing Angry Birds! Angry Birds has obviously taken over the world and there is, I believe, a Marimekko store in NYC so it's not so surprising to find Marimekko in New York City. Movie itself was cute chick flick but won't win any Oscars anytime soon. 

The casualties left behind by the terrorists are mounting. First it was the iPod earphones they chewed through, then it was one of the speakers for my computer and/or iPod and now yesterday I realized they chewed the other speaker as well! Awesome! So no speakers...means no listening to iPod, right? Wrong!  I realized that even though I don't have the iDog speaker I got from Santa few x-mases ago because it's either in fresh kills landfill in NYC or in other top secret location, I DO have the cable that goes with it and the cable, after a little jiggling, goes into the AUX inlets in my stereo system so I can listen to it on big speakers! I'm so brilliant sometimes I even surprise myself. And all this while writing this post and bitching about the weapons of mass destruction ruining my things! 

I think that's about it for now...I will try to post before the week is over but if not...Merry merry and happy happy!

Hormones

I took Brooklyn and Dunkin Donuts to see the vet last week and as I suspected, they had ticks in their ears. She gave them the medicine and told me to come back for a check up in a month. She also told me that I should probably have them neutered at 6 months old to prevent accidental litters. Which would be in 2 months from now as they are celebrating their 4-month birthdays today.

Ever since then I've been keeping an close eye on Brooklyn. I think he's becoming a hormonal teenager. He's definitely meowing more than he used to and he's sometimes acting a little too friendly/aggressive towards DD. And his little pee pee's out. I find that there are all kinds of things you need to think about when you have kittens. Like I said before, with Sox and Bailey all these things were taken care of. And they were old and peaceful.

Earlier today I was thinking about taking Brooklyn outside to use some of his excess energy. He's running from the door to the living room and back like a crazy cat and then he's jumping on the kitchen counters like 5 times in a row even after I tell him NO and spray him. And it's funny cuz they definitely know that kitchen counters are of limits and when they hear me getting off the couch they jump off. And run off to hide. And then they do it again.

I have now entered the bribing stages of the leash training. I don't give them treats anymore unless we walk from the kitchen to the front door twice. I dangle a bag of treats in front of them and when we're done they each get a treat. When they are done I take the leashes off. That way hopefully at some point they'll learn that even if they don't see the bag, they'll get a treat after we're done. I also thought that it would be good to train them together but I think BK might be ready to go outside sooner. He's more outgoing so trying to watch him and get DD to walk at the same time is almost impossible at this stage. I've taken them out to the balcony and BK wants to see everything but DD is just staying inside so I'm thinking BK should do fine on his own. Plus now they are growing so fast that I don't have hands anymore to hold both of them.

We've also tried some human foods that were on the list of acceptable foods their foster mom gave me. The ham I gave them was ok and DD was into boiled eggs too, she kept growling at BK. Bk wasn't a fan. Maybe I'll do one of the recipes I was given for them for x-mas. Little x-mas treat.

I'm debating whether I wanna go outside today at all since the wind is howling like it's a tornado season. But I do like the fact that it's starting to look like a winter wonderland outside! Love snow!

Have a great weekend!

Later

First snow of the year!

It's December 5th and the first snowfall of the season is upon us! YES! Just in time for the gay dance/Independence day celebration tomorrow!

And they say there's no global warming!

What is in a name?

This was just too good not to pass on. A friend of mine shared an article on Facebook which was about Finnish names and what type of personality goes with a name. This is what Jenni means:
"Jenni is a good friend, great girlfriend and even better wife! You're never bored with Jenni and Jenni knows how to take care of her loved ones!"

So there! It's in black and white! "Jenni is a great girlfriend and even BETTER wife! Too bad I can't legally be anybody's wife (yet) but when I can...remember, it's in my name!

I guess that's why they created dating!

Avoidance 101: The cat edition

When you don't want to hear the lecture about what you did wrong, start cleaning yourself.

Below are the pictures of DD and BK that they were "sold" with. Look how small they were!

DD looks so dope in hers...She's really grown into herself! And she's much darker than the picture makes her appear. Her whole face is black now.

And Brooklyn just looks innocent as hell. Right! Brooklyn kind of reminds me of Bailey, actually. Obviously not the coloring but his face reminds me of Bailey's baby face. Just as DD reminds me of Sox.

Brooklyn is starting to look like Maine Coon or Norwegian, just without the tips of hair in the ears.

This is how we hang out in my house! Just chill! Brooklyn is SO mush!

Kitty cat bunk beds!

Is there anything cuter than kittens sleeping together? It's like overload of cuteness!

Brooklyn showing off his bicep workout. We start young in my house. He's actually trying to jump up there but was just a bit off still. In few weeks he'll be big enough to do that. Not looking forward to that!

When kids go quiet you know they're up to no good! Same with kittens. I guess they thought they were laundry and needed to be dried out!

Brooklyn's an avid reader. Or book chewer. Which ever way he learns best I guess... But isn't he cute?

More sleeping kittens. 

Brooklyn with a mohican. Or is that DD's tail?

DD decided to borrow TJ's jersey. She's not happy with the way the Eagles have played this season.

Getting acquainted with their harnesses. 

Posing with my stuffed animals. Don't BK and TJ look so much alike?

Brooklyn doing his daily yoga.

If that's not the world's cutest kitten tummy than I don't know what is. 

Brooklyn's innocent face and DD's paws. I do have a thing for DD's paws too. 

Bye!

1 month celebration

Clearly I'm not the only one who's sensitive to our time together. I've now had the weapons of mass destruction for a month and they have really been on good behavior. Honeymoon of sorts, if you will. There hasn't been any major disasters, they haven't broken anything and the only thing really not cool was DD peeing in my bed the second day they were home. But of all of the glass candle holders and other little nick nacks around, nothing has been broken or fell down. Except yesterday, finally they decided that it's time to start causing some trouble. I was on my way to see my mom, put my wallet, iPod shuffle and keys on the floor, turned around for few minutes and when I went to pick them up, the ear phones for the iPod were chewed into pieces! And shuffle's a funny gadget, it doesn't have any controls except in the ear phones so I can't control it. I can use other ear phones to listen but without remote can't control the volume or change songs, play lists, nothing. Thanks monsters!

I am taking the monsters to the vet today. I think they have ear ticks (I am 100% that that's the accurate English term but don't feel like googling cuz it's so time consuming so just go with it) and I want them to be checked out. They shake their heads a lot and scratch them and have this dark stuff in their ears and according to my pamphlets that's the most likely cause. It's not like I'm really rolling in money but better safe than sorry. Besides, these are my babies! And I don't want it to turn into ear infections or anything more serious.

I was in a adventurous mood yesterday and decided to try to take the monsters outside. Of the apartment at least. Every time I leave the apartment now the terrorists are trying to come with me so I kinda need to move in the speed of light and shut the door in their faces and hope they stay inside. So I put the leashes on them and opened the door. They came out just fine but when it was time to go down the stairs DD wouldn't move and BK was heading down. I'm in the middle of the stairs when the lights go off. My hands are extended as far away from each other as can be and I can't reach the switch. We were able to go down one flight of stairs before I called it quits. DD really wasn't being cooperative and I was basically just wiping the floors with them so it's gonna take some time to get them used to the leashes. Harnesses go on and off easily but leashes are totally different story. Like they do in AA, one day at a time! But at least the stairs are clean now. No mopping necessary!

Gotta go! Later