Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat

... because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at.

Yeah, I'm a cat person. I love dogs, don't get me wrong. I almost adopted a little terrier-lab mix (and no, I don't know how that happened. God, please let the mother be the Labrador, because otherwise, owie.), but tickle my feet and make me declare, and I'm cat girl all the way.

I'm feeling the need to announce my cat allegiance because of My Cat From Hell and its host, Jackson Galaxy.

This would be Jackson Galaxy, and yes, real men DO love cats.

I have two cats myself, Maggie (Margaret May, for when she's in trouble) and Sammy (Samhain Murray, for when he's in trouble), and while they are not cats from Hell by any stretch of the imagination, the things that I've learned from Jackson Galaxy and My Cat From Hell have made me understand my kids a little bit better.

Book Review: The Man Who Left Too Soon (Barry Forshaw)

Earlier this month, I blogged about all the reasons that I don't do reviews. And then, as I went to my local library with my mom, we were browsing the stacks together and she found The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Life and Works of Stieg Larsson. Being a fan of the Millennium trilogy, and knowing that I liked the books too, Mom picked it up for me and I checked it out.

Big, big mistake.

Reviews and Reports

You know, I sometimes wonder why I don't write reviews.

And then I re-read some of the reviews I've written in the past, and I realize why I don't. I suck at it. It's not for lack of trying; God knows I've tried. But I just don't have the right voice for it.

I've tried to write reviews for Flash Gordon as well as for Supernatural, and while I think my Supernatural reviews might not suck, they're also not gold standard.

Confirmed, Plausible, or Busted?

As you may or may not know--or care--I am a huge Mythbusters fan. Adam Savage is the unrivaled soul-mate to my inner five-year-old; Jamie Hyneman is the type-A personality that I love to watch, hate to work with, and want to be like. They've done more towards making science and building cool than Mr. Wizard and Bill Nye combined, and the show is hilarious.

Back to School (Again)

As it might surprise you to know, I dropped out of college after a car accident. I broke my ankle, and there was no way I could navigate the stairs and carry my backpack with my leg in a cast up to my thigh (don't ask me why it was so high, when the broken bone was way down on the other end of the leg), and so I withdrew from all my classes and pretty much dropped out.

Cross-Stitch For Life

Shockingly enough, I cross-stitch. I'm not as good as my mother or my aunt, but I get by. I've been doing it on and off for a few years now, more than I'll actually admit to, but I've never really progressed beyond the intermediate stage.

I've been stitching a lot more lately, and I've found some patterns online that are amazing. Carrie Luhmann Pieniozek maintains a site, Free Patterns Online, that offers a nice variety of free and relatively simple-to-use cross-stitch patterns. I've printed a lot of hers out, and are using them this Christmas.

For now, though, I'm sharing some of the projects I've actually finished stitching.

Ten Ways To Survive A Horror Movie

As you may or may not know, I love horror movies. I love watching them, I love getting scared by them, I love crying over them, everything. So, while I'm by no means a connoisseur nor an expert, I have come up with a list of survival tips. Just a few things that'll help you out if you ever get caught up in a horror movie.