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1. 1 day ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thank you for the update!! That’s great news from emiesty, and it’s a relief to know she’s doing well. I hope she gets well soon enough to enjoy the rest of the summer, too!

2. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Glad to hear the ‘check engine’ light is an easy fix. Sorry to hear about J’s storage pod situation. I gotta say movers aren’t mind readers, BUT they should’ve informed everyone about their early arrival, so J could’ve had more time to keep her necessaries accessible. I hope she can get her stuff out of storage without too much hassle!

3. 3 days ago on Wallace the Brave

   I think Wallace would be pleased to know that herrings can communicate through making air bubbles, esp. farting. It’s TRUE! Google it!!!

4. 3 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’d love to see some before/after photos of that room. Cats will make a place look lived in and loved. It’s too bad the Tidy Woman will never understand this. Hopefully, after Sophie’s done expressing herself, the TW will NEVER be tempted to bring another four-legger into her home again!

5. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Wow. An open floor plan looks great in pretty magazines, but they have no acoustic privacy. I remember reading about style conscious elites who spent $$$ renovating their homes into open floor plans, which looked beautiful BUT then the pandemic hit, and then these people had to work from home. Between distance learning for the kids, and adults trying to have zoom conferences, it was acoustic chaos.

6. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I had to look up Canopy Green and WOW!! That is a BOLD color! I’m not sure I could paint my walls with that, but I wouldn’t mind having a shirt in that color. :D

7. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Ugh, on the road repairs are so very bleepy. I hope it turns out to be a cheap fix, and you’ll be able to make it back home without any more problems!

8. 4 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Her attempt to get me to white wash my home was the least of what my MIL did. Sigh. The things she used to say and do were so beyond the pale that it was, well, unbelievable. People thought I was exaggerating, and kept encouraging me to give her the benefit of the doubt, which I did do for about 20+ years. At some point I was driven to seek therapy, and ultimately got treated for depression.

   You’re right, btw. My MIL died a few years back. She was a little over 100 yrs old and had arranged for a medically assisted death. I thought maybe my in-laws’ behavior would improve without her direct influence, but her legacy lives on. My husband’s family are profoundly self-absorbed people. Imagine a dinner table in which everyone is performing a monologue, but none of them bother listening to each other. It’s exhausting.

9. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   “ … consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds," said Emerson. But I much prefer PDQ Bach’s version: “Consistency is the hemoglobin of small minds.”

10. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    The more I learn about the Tidy Woman, the more she reminds me of my mother-in-law. She was a a very controlling woman who also favored white, and wasn’t the sort of person who tolerated disagreement. I remember when we first moved into our current house, she sat me down and spent over an hour — yes, I timed it — trying to get me to promise her I’d paint all the walls white. She also wanted me to buy white appliances, which is weird considering how she refused to replace her 45+ year old harvest gold cooking range. The oven couldn’t maintain whatever temperature it was set at, and had a tendency to cremate everything placed inside.