Zuzu: I Don't Like You!

Remember this post a while back?

Zuzu, she don't like him, that plush Himmie.
I will show you!

"Oh! What you has there?!"


"What is YOU?!"


"NOW IT MOVING!!!"


"I hides from it!"


"It FINDS ME! I squish mahself
'gainst wall AWAY from it!"


"I not even going to LOOK at it!"


"May be I safe down here?"


"That's it!
I WHACK you!"

"Good -- FINALLY you take it away!
Now I show you mah butt.
Bet you sorry now!"

Next New Cartoon?

I think I must attempt to draw Sweet Praline.
I will need to buy more markers to get her coloring right!

In the meantime, here's a 30 second quick sketch I drew on the back of my paycheck -- MUST CAPTURE THAT BELLY!

"SEE MY BELLY?"

Kitty Cartoon One

I don't consider myself an "artist." I've never been wonderfully good at drawing and have a hard time translating an image I see in my head to paper.

Still, when I rescued Little Girl, my first Himalayan (see right sidebar), she inspired me to suddenly start drawing all kinds of kitty cartoons. I still don't consider myself an "artist," but I did enjoy making these cartoons.

Little Girl seemed to know when I was trying to draw her -- I used to sit on the couch with my knees tucked up under my chin when I drew. During this time, Little Girl would always come an plunk herself down between my feet.

Here is the first cartoon I ever drew in a series of Himalayan cartoons. The whole "Made in Heaven by angels" theme was truly heartfelt, as every time I looked at Little Girl I was in awe in her. I'd wanted a Himalayan forever and here she was -- in all her sweet, friendly, "you can touch me anywhere, even my belly, and I just purr purr purr!" glory!

Two errors on this cartoon: Yes, I spelled "marshmallow"' wrong and also Little Girl was a blue-cream point, not a tortie-point.

She had a little orange on her face:

which I thought meant tortie.

After she died, Anna and Zu's breeder Suzette helped me correctly identify her coloring by looking at photos.

I still say Himalayans are made by angels!
They are just the sweetest, softest, (fattest!) kitties!

(Click on photos if you're having trouble reading to enlarge.)

Enjoy! :)

Election Day at Our House!

It got pretty exciting (and okay, a little weird) around here on election day ...

As many of you know, Goma was a candidate. (See?) My nine-year old daughter Mia loves Goma's website as much as I do. When she learned that Goma was running for president, she threw herself into his campaign. Mia decided that Anna should run for president also, with Zuzu as her running mate (she decided Zuzu is too shy to be president and that Anna is a little ... ah, well, let's just say a bit mentally challenged to run the country, therefore they could balance out each other's shortcomings.)

Mia spent a good couple hours on November 4th decorating the house with campaign posters:

These last two are my favorites:

That bottom Goma picture was of course, directly inspired by this super sexxxay Goma Supermodel shot found here:
Fearing sibling rivalry, Mia even drew up an agreement for Goma, Anna and Zuzu to sign:

(Now how on earth did Goma get his paw print on this document? He lives over four hours away!)

Eventually Mia, myself, my husband, Zuzu and Carter (dog) all cast our ballots:

The ballot box

Mia assured me the Carter and Zuzu votes were completely fair: she held out pieces of paper with each candidate's name on them. Carter sniffed at his choice and Zuzu CHEWED on her choice!

The final tally was ...

(Drumroll please!)

Goma!

Luckily, Anna and Zuzu aren't upset at all.
Zuzu spent the day sleeping happily with a friend:

"I has DREAMZ 'bout Gomabrother he say "Free catznips for Zuzu!"

(That's not fair, Zuzu -- only you get free catnip???)

Anna, ah, well, she didn't really understand the whole thing:

"MY BELLY HAS PRESIDENTZ WINS CUZ MY FEETZES ON TABLE! HOORAY"

(Um, what???)

Congratulations on your victory at our house in Connnecticut, Goma!

Lastly, in other news, our Goma Buttons arrived today!

Thank you, Sachie!

Stay tuned for Anna and Zuzu's attempt at super-edgy, high couture photo shoot -- featuring our new buttons!

TRICKS!

Ooooh, boy!
They MAGIC KITTIES!

Zuzu says ...

Zuzu has just one quick thing to say this morning:

I has a little flatface.

Goma is TOO MUCH!

Oh my God.
This is too, too much!
I nearly had to be admitted to the emergency room after viewing!
Sachie's lastest Goma post is dangerous!
He too too cute! See?
TOO MUCH CUTE!

Usually the girls only hang out by the computer with me in the early mornings. But tonight, as I viewed Sachie's post, both of them jumped up on the desk.

You think they wanted to see Goma's supermodel shots?

Anna: GOMABROTHER BE FIERCE FASHION MODEL STAR!
Zuzu: Yes. He do be. Anna, you stinky funny. I smells you.

Zuzu: I close my eyesz and wish some good day I meet Gomabrother.
Anna: Me too wish! I wish so hardz my eyez glow!

Coming soon: fierce fashon shots of Anna and Zuzu with their Goma buttons when they arrive?
I hope they hold still for their big shoot!