I Accept this Award and This One and This Other One

I've gotten three different awards in the past few weeks. Before I begin to tell you about them, I want to apologize for my lack of posting and visits to my furrends. Things have been crazy around here. Well, that's what TW told me to say but, let's face it, she's just damn lazy, is all.

My #WLF comrade, Savannah of Savannah's Paw Tracks gave me the Liebster Award. If you recall, I also won that award on February 26 from Glogirly and Katie. You can read my answers from that post. The only answer that's really different is the last post I visited cos this time I visited Savannah's blog.

King Spitty the Kitty presented me with the Illuminating Blogger Award. He wants me to share an illuminating fact about myself and then pass it on to 5 other bloggers.

The first part is easy enough. I've shared a couple of illuminating facts lately, such as that I'd never had a sunpuddle until very recently. My sunpuddles are gone by about 9 a.m. so I have to get up early.

The other fact was the I haven't drank water in over a year. OK, I took a few laps at Pop's sink about six months ago. My Drinkwell fountain arrived and I haven't LOOKED at it. I barely go into the room that it's in. It arrived to much fanfare four days ago.. TW has kept the box in case it's such a bust that she has to return it. My fur is tented almost daily and the peeps make sure I eat extra stinky goodness. In addition, my stinky goodness contains high moisture for hydration and healthy urinary and kidney function and low ash and low carbohydrates to help maintain urine pH balance so hopefully all is well.

This past Caturday, my new doggie pals Dogs N Pawz gave me the Sunshine Award, which I'd won in March 2010. That was a long time ago when Mariodacat gave it to me. This time around, it comes with some questions. If you have questions; I have answers.

Favorite number: I've been digging on Pink's Raise Your Glass recently. That's quite the dance number to make my paws start tapping. The peeps like old peoples' music like the Ramones and Velvet Underground. To each, their own.

Favorite Non-alcoholic drink: At Nipclub, I only drink Niptinis (shaken, not stirred) made the special way Mario or @KConlon1 makes them for me. At home, I drink the pumpkin soup from my Luna Tuna and a little of my humans' blood.

Facebook or Twitter: Twitter, hands down! On Twitter, your followers aren't always sending you notifications to play dumb games and attend stupid events that are important to only them. Twitter is totally cool because I'm a DJ at the Nipclub and Nipclub Monthly and I have my MLB Anipal furrends @LilyLuWhoT, @SeattleP, @CrazyFusa and @Boomiethecat. We all root for different teams, but we respect and love each other.

My Passion: Playing in my tunnel, with my Silvervine fishie and, especially, playing catch the foam rubber rockets that TW shoots to me. TW even says I have a one-track mind cos that's the only thing I like to do. I'm also passionate about biting the peeps, tuna and napping.

Check out all those yellow rockets waiting to be played with! My pathetic nip plant is behind me
 but look at the ugly basil plant cluttering up my windowsill.

Favorite Pattern: I don't exactly know what that means. I kinda like the pattern that's on my peeps green papers. You know, the ones with big George Washingtons. The Benjamins are even better.

Yeah, this is my favorite pattern.

Favorite Day of the Week: Thursday cos that's Nipclub night! Caturday comes in a close second cos Pop is home.

Favorite Flower: Tuna! Tuna is a flower, isn't it??

The beautiful tuna is apparently a tropical flower.

Anyone who hasn't yet received these awards should feel free to claim them cos anyone reading this far deserves recognition. I would love to pass the Sunshine Award and Liebster Awards to is my new furrend Selina of One Eye On the Future because I just met her, although I did know her from Brian's Place and trying to find her a home. I'd love to know more about what makes her tick purr.

Keeping my paws crossed that it won't be another whole week until I see you guys.

Wednesday Word—Variety

"They" say variety is the spice of life. I say, who the hell are they? I don't think I like spice but I do like variety—sometimes. I love to vary the place I eat. I mean, don't your peeps love to eat out occasionally? So does this little kitteh.

My feeding station in the kitchen

My placemat and food/water dishes were always in the kitchen. That is, until TW started dropping things out of the cabinet onto my head while I was eating. You might remember the tale of the Quick Oats. Our galley kitchen is 7 x 7 and that's including the appliances so that'd leave about 7 x 3 feet to actually walk in. When the kitchen was remodeled several years ago, the peeps got the bright idea to put cabinets above my feeding station. Not a good idea to inconvenience the cat.

My feeding station was moved out into the foyer. The light was better and I didn't get claustrophobia whenever I ate. When I want to "dine out", I either go to the Litterbox Lounge or Pop's Place. That is, whenever I get finicky, TW moves my food dish to accommodate me. (Now tell me I don't have her well trained!)

The "Litterbox Lounge" is halfway between my normal feeding station and my litterbox. Unfortunately, the placemat comes with my bowl since this is squarely on the rug in the hall. Even though, Pop's Place is off the ground, I consider the Litterbox Lounge more upscale, since it's carpeted. "Pop''s Place" is self explanatory. It's on the table where Pop's food usually sits. I'll go there for a leisurely Sunday brunch. Yes, I get to sit ON THE TABLE! How many of you guys get your meal ON the table?

A diagram of my new feeding station and the "restaurants" I frequent.

My kibble dish and (heh heh) water dish are still in the kitchen. I think TW is trying to discourage me from eating my kibble.

BREAKING NEWS: TW ordered a Drinkwell Fountain for me!!! Finally! I had a cheap ripoff fountain a few years ago that I wouldn't use. I believe TW has threatened me if I don't drink from the Drinkwell that she paid a lot of green papers for. I take that as a "dare" so we'll have a standoff for sure. As my furrends know, I haven't drank anything except the pumpkin soup in my grain-free food since September 2010. The peeps don't know what turned me off water. They suspect it was the anti-plaque stuff the v-e-t told them to mix in it. They have water bowls in every room for me and they stand untouched. As a Great Man—as opposed to "they"—once said: Water rusts your stomach. That Great Man was my Grampa.

Who's going to Blogpaws?

Today we all find out who will be using TW's pass to Blogpaws 2012. I read Pop all the entries, without telling him who posted what, and he's gonna whisper the winner in my ear. Wait, did I hear correctly??

Certainly not me since once again I'm in soft focus. Sheesh!

With the winning entry of "Ugh! This doesn't taste at all like tuna! Whoever tricked me will pay dearly for this!" two new furry furrends will be enjoying Blogpaws 2012 in beautiful Salt Lake City.

Without further delay, I give you …

Easy Like Sunday

Today I'm doing easy on the kitchen chair right next to Pop, who's reading the Sunday papers. I finally got off his paper and settled on this chair. Yeah, he still gets REAL papers. I'm waiting for the peeps to get into the 21st century so I can lay on the keyboard while he's trying to read. Actually, I think this chair is more comfy that any keyboard. Hope my homeys are enjoying their easy.

DON'T FORGET to enter my contest for a pass to Blogpaws 2012. Airfare and hotel is not included. Enter here. Contest ends tomorrow night after Pop comes home and reads the comments.

AND… Whoa! I got my 200th blog follower. Thanx Truman!

June is Busting Out All Over

Amid much fanfare, I present to you the June 2012 Cathy Keisha Stunning Calendar.

I chose this picture because Pop is petting me on the head and June is the month we honor our Dads. I've already ordered Pop's gift. Even though, they aren't a sponsor of this blog, can I recommend you go to Beyond the Rack for some cool deals? The deals change every day. Even though their prices are discounted anywhere from 40-80%, it's always smart to compare prices like we do. This month, they feature a lot of men's gifts but shop early because they're not too swift when it comes to delivery times, which could take 3 weeks to a month. If you decide to buy from them, please use the following invitation link: http://www.beyondtherack.com/member/invite/B33B7538 so TW can get a very small kickback. To fully disclose, she gets $10 for each friend that we invite who places an order. This is the site where TW got that soft blue bamboo/cotton blankie that I love so much and my raised food dishes. We've bought quite a few things from them and have always been satisfied. Wait till Pop sees what I got him this year! I'm sure he'll love them as much as I will.

DON'T FORGET to enter my contest for a pass to Blogpaws 2012. Airfare and hotel is not included. Enter here. Hey, Woman, you forgot to put Blogpaws on my calendar. It's so hard to get good help!