Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Finding the Humor in Hairballs

I woke up early this morning (maybe it was the middle of the night?) shivering. As my sleepy self tried to wake up, I groped around looking for my blanket, and I realized that somehow the sheet and the comforter and the blanket had all gotten turned down, I was completely uncovered to my waist.

Brr! I pulled everything back up and snuggled down, and after a few minutes I was warm again and went back to sleep.

A couple of hours later the alarm went off, and I stood up and put my glasses on. I looked down at the bed, and saw... a big kitty puke hairball on my blanket, right above where I was sleeping!

So my cat vomited up a hairball ON ME while I was sleeping, then covered it up by pulling the covers down off of me.

Oh my goodness. Being barfed ON is so much worse than the dreaded getting-up-to-pee-and-stepping-in-puke-in-the-dark moment. I had honestly never considered that I would be puked UPON.

I had to laugh, standing there looking at my hairball-encrusted blanket. Ugh.

So in the spirit of laughing at my tragic misfortune, I happily accept the Lemonade Award!



This award was given to me by Deborah on her beautiful silk painting blog. She seems to think I have a positive attitude! :)

I love her blog. She writes about her silk painting artistry, and posts lovely pictures of her work. She is a big part of what inspired me to get back into silk painting, 10 years after having stopped. I love silk painting, and I love Deborah!

Ack, I do sound pretty positive... I am clearly losing my punk edge. I need to dig out my old Decline of the Western Civilization soundtrack.

I am nominating the lovely horror-stricken Marniekat to pass this Lemonade award on to. She is a loving wife and mother and makes beautiful jewelry, much of it horror inspired. I particularly love her Dexter pieces, and the Twilight necklace with the two red beads at the neck to symbolize blood drops from a vampire bite. :) Check out her Etsy store.

A kitty puke hairball necklace would be scarier, but I would totally not buy that, as I already have PLENTY.

4 comments:

  1. Too funny Ellen! I'm sure kitty was just giving you a gift out of love! (better you than me though... lol)

    Looking forward to seeing some new silk painting pix!

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  2. LOL. Ellen...you are hilarious...made my morning!! Great story.
    Warmly,
    Tracey

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  3. Thank you so much for the Lemonade Award!

    Oh... my friend, I can feel your pain. We don't have cats anymore because Mr. B is allergic but we have a dog and he likes to eat and throw up socks. Whole.

    However today was a much different scenario. Check my blog for the deets. I'm sure it will make you feel even better about your hairball incident. ;)

    Marnie

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  4. I don't think Daisy has actually ever puked on me, but she has puked in her own bed, and then of course meowed like crazy until I found the mess and washed the bedding and put it all back nice and comfy for her! Our cats! We are so lucky they have us.

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