No, but I managed to accordion myself between the wall and my bed! I was laughing so hard it took me a few minutes to extricate myself (I’m really small)😂🤣
That's not how it works around here. I come home to find a detailed set of drawings showing exactly where the furniture et al is supposed to now be with expectations I will move everything to match the plan. At least my wife knows how to use a tape measure (old jokes aside). So usually it all fits.
Ha ha, right now both of my daughters are out of town and we now have 4 dogs in my house. No room for humans on the furniture. Anybody want to volunteer to pick up my back yard this weekend? I'll supply the pooper scooper.
I am in the midst of remodeling. My Spnnis here part time. He keeps telling me it’s my house but generally challenges every choice I make. It’s exhausting.
Here's to our cat, not-so-bad, not at all, just within goldilocks! 🥂🍾 Here's looking at you, kids numbering in dozens of thousands, with hands avidly raised high into luminous sky! 🥳✨
Concatulations and felinitations, el gato malo/gatito bueno!! 😸
My Substack turns two on April 25—I didn't realize our Stackiversaries were so close together! Cheers to another two years of rabble-rousing ungovernability! 🍾🥂
EGM, Still the best site on Substack. Who knew coming into this that you were a polymath? But so happy to see it. Even gave me the courage to manually put all the caps back into your article so that it could be published on Brownstone. You can never get too much exposure.
So much love for you our wonderful feline master; your writing, research, depth of knowledge & elegant sense of humour is utterly amazing. Couldn't have done without you in these darkest of times 💖
did you know it's also "respect your cat day" ?? i didn't know that myself until this morning when chewy the pet supply company emailed me about it . even then, i thought they were just yanking my hind paw trying to sell me something, but i looked it up. it's an official holiday i guess.
happy birthday to badcattitude substack - and many happy returns !
I’m fairly certain stumbling on to your platform has gotten me into a decent amount of trouble, but I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Onward and upwards!
Wow, time flies when you're systematically destroying the arguments of the 'experts' and having fun doing it!
The only feat more difficult is winning an argument with my wife about how to rearrange our furniture...
Sorry, I just experienced that yesterday.
I rearranged my bedroom, forgot about it, used the washroom in the middle of the night and then jumped back into my bed….that wasn’t there😳
Truly hilarious. I can make that happen with half a bottle of wine. God forbid, I leave my slippers as a trip hazard.
Well did you find all the random crap under the bed that was no longer there? It's always like a treasure hunt for me. lol....:)
Only half a bottle? C' mon man!
slacker...I know
Lol
No, but I managed to accordion myself between the wall and my bed! I was laughing so hard it took me a few minutes to extricate myself (I’m really small)😂🤣
Isn't that what cats are for? (trip hazard)
That made me lol! Sorry, schadenfreude.
@Caroline- a friend called it Schadenfreudelicious once and now it's the only way I say it. Because it certainly can be.
That is now cemented in my brain, and how I will always think it!
You should have seen me!
I see that happening to me during this remodeling
Oopsie!
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I'm sorry, Sirka, but that's just too funny.
I'd probably trip over the bed, fall, and bust out my front teeth. 🤨😖
See my reply to Ryan, I was literally “stuck”
bwahahah!
Good on you! I came home the other day to a transformed living room. Rugs, artwork and furniture rearranged and changed up. I decided to roll with it.
I like symmetrical - she's more asymmetrical
but it really was about the location of my lazy-boy - we go way "back" I thought I owed it for it's insufferable commitment.
" NO! NOT THE COMFY CHAIR!"
gotta keep the lazy-boy.
Oh no! I just put one out on the curb! The chair not the human
Lol. I misread that at first
thats what happened on regular basis when my husband lived. I love to rearrange!
It's the only way to truly clean behind and under said furniture. That was always my excuse anyway.
Was there really another choice? 🤔🤷♀️😻
I am trying to let go as well. Choices, battle, and all that
"I came home the other day to a transformed living room." A couple of questions come to mind. How drunk were you? And, Were you in the right house?
That's not how it works around here. I come home to find a detailed set of drawings showing exactly where the furniture et al is supposed to now be with expectations I will move everything to match the plan. At least my wife knows how to use a tape measure (old jokes aside). So usually it all fits.
Some recent trauma, I see! 🤣
blunt force. I had to do a "vitals check" to make sure there wasn't any permanent damage to the internals.
She would just kill me for saying this stuff.....but I can't help myself...cuz I WON for the first time EVER!...lol
My wife and I never argue about the furniture.... but our dogs always do!
Right? I have to fight for my spot on the couch. Then they fight over who gets my lap.
Ha ha, right now both of my daughters are out of town and we now have 4 dogs in my house. No room for humans on the furniture. Anybody want to volunteer to pick up my back yard this weekend? I'll supply the pooper scooper.
Don't push your luck, my man! 😆
I'd say don't push it...but then. * I * always revel in small victories. Take that lap, man!
: ]]]
This is a safe place. : ) My Son would be in a huff.
Or so she has led you to believe....
Congratulations to you and your comfy chair!
I am in the midst of remodeling. My Spnnis here part time. He keeps telling me it’s my house but generally challenges every choice I make. It’s exhausting.
looooong walks....:)
You too!? This exactly is why I tell my husband I have no interest in building a new house
Let me help you out. Jump to the end: do it her way.
Well, that's what happens in this house (for the last 36 years)
Agree...BUT you just mentioned my biggest pet peeve:; not knowing how to use a tape measure!...lol
Measuring is not my strength
Well..it took a couple decades but she's got it now ;-).
LOL!! Retired interior designer here... you’re not going to win.
I gave up a long time ago. I realized I was really just fighting myself!...)
Ha! My sister inlaw fancies herself a interior design expert and you know what happens when she stays for a visit! I don't care for her much.
Thank you, thank you, a thousand thank yous, bad cat. You provided a light for many of us during a very, very dark time.❤
Most definitely! Well said.
Here's to our cat, not-so-bad, not at all, just within goldilocks! 🥂🍾 Here's looking at you, kids numbering in dozens of thousands, with hands avidly raised high into luminous sky! 🥳✨
Concatulations and felinitations, el gato malo/gatito bueno!! 😸
My Substack turns two on April 25—I didn't realize our Stackiversaries were so close together! Cheers to another two years of rabble-rousing ungovernability! 🍾🥂
concatulations and felinitations !!! wow I love your newly built words Margaret Anna ! Stackiversaries. We need a new dictionary again !
Great idea, Ingrid!
Someone did add "philanthropath" to the Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=philanthropath) after I published my Anatomy of a Philanthropath series (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-philanthropath-dreams), and this tweet (https://twitter.com/TheKerryTaylor1/status/1546462503609274370) tagged the OED and asked them to add it, so that's something, although I wish I knew how to correct the Urban Dictionary definition to reflect my official one ("a psychopath masquerading as a philanthropist")!
I love the word. It is immediately recognizable for what it is, even if reading it for the first time, and is spot on in terms of its meaning.
Yaaaay!! Congrats
¡Felinetaciones! came to mind so thought I'd tack it on here:)
Thank you for the bastion of sanity. I really think we'd be in a much scarier place without blogs like this and platforms like Substack.
Too true! I am definitely the only one in my extended family who is awake, so these spaces are saving my sanity.
I whole heartedly agree.
Definitely! No question about that.
EGM, Still the best site on Substack. Who knew coming into this that you were a polymath? But so happy to see it. Even gave me the courage to manually put all the caps back into your article so that it could be published on Brownstone. You can never get too much exposure.
Happy Birthday!
So much love for you our wonderful feline master; your writing, research, depth of knowledge & elegant sense of humour is utterly amazing. Couldn't have done without you in these darkest of times 💖
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
- Einstein
Keep blowing shit up!...:)
Thank you for helping bring together the smartest crowds I've ever had the pleasure of being associated with.
I love this quote. Thank you, Ryan
I so remember having to untangle my cassette tapes 🤣 Happy Birthday
Pencils
I know, right?
Yes!!
I do remember that technique. I think i used it on VHS tapes as well
I never knew the scotch tape fix...but spent copious amounts of time rewind garbled cassettes
did you ever have to use scotch tape to fix it when you accidentally tore it?
Oh indeed - it was called tech support : )
Hell! That ain't nothing, you ever try fixing an 8track?
I had the yellow 8track player with the plunger handle on the top - what a nightmare!
Don't remember that type of player with a plunger handle, must of been a prototype. Lol
Just commented on that. 8 tracks were awful.
LOLOLOL. Oh that was funny!
Yes, I thought I was the only one.
no way! 8 tracks were even worse!
Oh shit Ryan, you beat me to it!🤣
Me too. I’m late to the game.
I did. eventually becomes a systemic problem
Does that work? I always found 8 tracks to be the worse
Agree. But my 8 track collection was bad ass!
Had a friend with the '2XL - talking robot'. The 8Track gobbler.
(30 sec commercial) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am3lvHXNUdQ
Classic
Check this one out. It even has a cat in it!
https://youtu.be/SgEkpcPC2I8
I worked a baseball concession stand the entire summer of 80' to buy this...;-p
Was??? Where is it? I still have a collection and a player. Wonder if it still works…
The Dark Side of the Moon was the first one I inherited for my 78' t-bird with white wall tires...lol
I had that one too, but my player ate it. 65 dodge coronet, 383 w/ 4 on the floor. Loved that car, the back seat was very spacious. 😉
My Zopplin tape survived, still have it in my basement somewhere.
Love it!
Same
A Kangaroo that’s been to jail. Too funny.
So happy I got on this bus. Looking forward to another year. Cats rule!!!!!!!!
High Paw 5 back at you !
Happy Birthday. Look forward to many more years of sanity.
This whole stack made me smile. Happiest Substack Birthday!
did you know it's also "respect your cat day" ?? i didn't know that myself until this morning when chewy the pet supply company emailed me about it . even then, i thought they were just yanking my hind paw trying to sell me something, but i looked it up. it's an official holiday i guess.
happy birthday to badcattitude substack - and many happy returns !
According to my cats every day is respect your cat day.
my cats said so as well, but did expect more for the holiday
I'm sure you've seen it already, but here it is anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0
I haven't seen it but I love it and I never knew the words until the this video. thanks.
Happy birthday 💙 🐈
I’m fairly certain stumbling on to your platform has gotten me into a decent amount of trouble, but I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Onward and upwards!
- 🐕