Fone You Can't Help Believing

We played the phone game with Laura's number last night. Her phone is named Janet Lee which, when googled, brings up this adorable old sepia tinged photo, from the 40's or so. Apparently Janet Lee Simpson was born into a family of famous pilots called the Flying Hutchinsons with who Janet took her very first flight at only 18 months all over the US. So sometimes when Laura's phone doesn't work now I just say it has jetlag, from the 20's.

The google search also brought up some shady characters with their mugshots, all women charged with larceny, theft, and psychic fraud? That's a new one. I'll let you make your own joke. It also brought up a naked billiard player. I'll spare you the latter, but not the former.

psychic fraud ^

Meet Emily Nielson, My Phone

I put on the same cardigan everyday, one is green and one is grey. Apparently I'm writing a poem about it. That's not what I'm trying to get to here. Actually I lost my train of thought. I was going to have some grandiose statement about knowing your surroundings and the comfort of routine and how that correlates to what I'm about to tell you I discovered this morning is now lost on me because I decided to rhyme. Anyhow...

Did you know our phones have names!? Me neither. (or) Well why didn't you tell me? I was curious about this so I, while lying in bed went on to find my phones identity. And here she is...

Emily Nielson

In the flesh people, my cell phone personified. Not bad, blonde, blue eyes, looks healthy. I don't see any signs of all those times I dropped "her" and the constant poking hasn't left much in the way of facial bruising so, yeah, I'm pretty pleased with Emily.

Would you like to know the name of your phone? Ok. Go to this facebook page and scroll down to the post about this subject and type in the last 4 digits of your phone number like this:

@*[000:0]

Then go back and remove the asterisk and press enter and VOILA! your phone's moniker revealed. Then a fun thing to do is google your phones name and post it up on facebook or your stupid blog or something. Yay!

Oh, and I'm wearing the grey cardigan today.

Eyes: Big Bang Theory
Ears: Dan DeChellis Trio - My Age Of Anxiety

We Knew What Then

This is from July 4th.



I suck at photoshop.

After the name hit the public we had a few more curious friends try and define her name for us. Laura's sister, Theresa found out that the Latin meaning for the word is 'little bear'. That's cute. We've called her little bear a few times. We also have bear in the backyard so... full circle there. Laura's old kinesiologist from Atlanta, a man who is a wealth of useless knowledge and a personal hero of mine, said the name is and ancient Eskimo word for 'from an eccentric family'. Everyone thinks that one's just hilarious. Also, he say that her middle name, Ondine, apparently means 'water nymph'. Now it's become a mess. We've given life to a little bear from an eccentric family that wants to grow up and become a water nymph. Sounds like a Disney movie. Anybody have Robert Iger's number?

Apparently I'm Conflicted

Baby book is mean.

Baby's Drink Of Choice

For a girl...

...how about Shirley?

Ineffable Effable Effanineffable

Fawsja

Gabukobiwe

The Naming Of Cats

It took us over two weeks but I think we've finally come to terms with some tags for these kittens. And if you haven't voted for what you'd like us to name the boy the polls will stay open for another day or two but then we may end up having to change his name & then kitten identity crisis and therapy down the road; just ugly. So without further adieu...

Let's go alphabetical

ALPS



Alps is the boy. Alps is the name we liked the best, and whadya know, it also won in the poll by a whopping 2 votes. Alps is a frigin sweetheart. He loves to nuzzle you right in the face and let you wear him like a neck brace. If you blow warm air on his neck he will pass out like I've never seen a cat pass out.



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HØGNI



The first night we brought them home Høgni was the last one out of the carrier, by like 20 minutes. Since then she's been coming out of her shell and actually turned into a bit of a hellian, but she's always the first one to climb into bed at night and sleep hard. She is the most well behaved of the four and usually just wants to be on you.



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L'SCHTUPPE



This cat is frigin nuts. She likes to incite riots and has a propensity for fits of rage if anyone tries to mess with her little pink jingle mouse. She's fast as all getout and always one step ahead of me when I go to try and prepare their food out of reach. L'Schtuppe is also the loner of the group.



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OBLADI



Obladi is definitely the runt of the group. She's always running to catch up with the others, is usually oblivious to whatever game is being played or just generally getting knocked out or beaten up by L'Schtuppe. But she is a perfect little calico and stinking purr machine. I can hear her now and I'm across the house.



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I know we are crazy to adopt 4 more kittens but could you have broken them up?

Kitten Poll

We've come to some decisions regarding the naming of the kittens. The three girls are fairly set in stone (about 85%) but the boy gets a new name every ten seconds. We can't settle on anything. So we've decided to reach out for a little help and put out a poll.

There on the right side of the page you should be able to see a little poll where you yourself can vote on what you think we should name our new little boy. Doesn't mean we're gonna listen to you. We'd just like to see what happens.

Here's the boy:

Nameless & pathetic