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It’s October 31, 2009….

Two years since I found a certain KB-cat in the road and took him to the vet for help….

Two years since encountering this strangely loving creature who has touched so many lives and continues to touch more….

Two years since I found out just how amazing people all over the world can be, donating to a kitty they’ve never met….

And almost two years since I realized… this cat has a great future.

Happy Birthday, KB.

May you have many bunnies, many bags of treats, and many more returns of the day. I love you so much.

–mumma

I bounced over to ihasahotdog (ICHC’s little-brother site). There’s a picture of a homeless man holding his dog. Another commenter indicated a charity called Feeding Pets of the Homeless, a non-profit charity that teams up with local vets and food-kitchens to help provide for a homeless person’s companion animals.

Oklahoma hasn’t got representation, of course, but I know it’d be useful. There are several places that I imagine would participate in helping an organization such as Feeding Pets of the Homeless.

I’ve got a lot on my plate, (final exams, moving, medical crap and, oh yeah moving) but I wonder if I could nudge some of KB’s vet-friends toward helping? Would Dr. George help? What about the folks at Southern Agriculture?

If KB’s cheez-friends end up helping beyond KB’s needs. . . . I’ll put the overage toward getting Tulsa on the map with FPH.

It’s only fair, after all.

–Em

MANY HUGE HUGS TO EVERYONE FROM ICHC!!!!

I cannot believe it!!

I’ve been getting a lot of support from the folks over at icanhascheezburger as I proceed (painfully, today) through the process of miscarriage. People who rarely comment are coming out of the woodwork to let me know they’re sending warm thoughts, light, love, prayers …. EVERYTHING …. my way as I deal with my loss. I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and love from the chz-frenz!!

Just to top it, because chz-frenz don’t stop the love, it seems…. I signed into my Yahoo email and found NINE FOURTEEN donations from people who love KB!!

That’s more than the payment I normally send each month… it’s about 150% of my usual amount! Instead of paying the card off in 10-12 months, it’ll be paid off way sooner… and… that means…. Less worry about how much it costs to landscape before selling my house… less worry about the cost of new flooring …. less worry about my credit report looking like an utter catastrophe when we go to get a new mortgage for the house in Tennessee….

The folks who frequent ICHC are just amazing. There is so much caring and compassion and generosity in that incredible group of people - I’m just awestruck.

To everyone from ICHC:

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Words cannot even begin to express how grateful I am for your donations and your support.

–Em (And Karmic Balance)

moar humorous pics

I’ve been actively participating over at www.icanhascheezburger.com (see link on the right) so much so that I now am a registered user of the blog (A “nugget”, rather than a “burger”) … and I posts this:

Step one: Think of something to say. This is tricky for some people.

We’ll try a simple, common comment to start:
“That’s a really cute cat. And look, he has a bow on his head!”

Step two: “Engrish” it.
1) Mis-decline verbs, especially misuse the verb “to be”
2) Misuse gerunds
3) Overuse prepositional phrases
4) Blatant rearrangement of syntax
5) Incorrect plurals and past-tense verbs
6) “noun” your adjectives. (For instance, the adjective “blue” can become the noun “blueness”)
7) Improper pronouns
8 ) Drop the articles (”a”, “and”, “the”) in favor of adding “-age” to the end of a noun
9) Use “younger” words (”kitty” versus “cat”, “fuzzy” versus “furry”, etc.)
10) Use the word “with” inappropriately.
11) If you really can’t wrap your head around the concepts behind “Engrish”, try this: Go to babelfish.altavista.com, type your desired comment in, hit “english-to-Japanese”, then re-translate back to English. You have to be able to view special characters (the kanji). If you can’t get that to work, try translating to a different, european-text language, like German.

So, we get:
“That being the kitty very full of cuteness. And to be with looking! Him gots bowage on hims head!”

Step three: Misspell everything. There’s no wrong way to do this, just try not to accidentally correctly spell a completely different word (especially one that’s pronounced differently than your spelling intends). Some words (usually short words) should simply remain spelled correctly for continuity’s sake.
1) Think like a little kid / cat / dog / goldfish, and get hukd on foniks
2) I cannot stress this enough: Vowels are your friends! Do not neglect vowels!! We’re speaking LolKitteh here, not text messaging! (My advice: use alternate vowels, Y’s are particularly handy, but don’t overuse them.)
3) Extra W’s and H’s (”awl” instead of “all”)
4) Z’s instead of S’s are easy
5) Double-letters versus single letters are always fun
6) Don’t be afraid to further pluralize things, including your verbs
7) Remember that the word “THE” must always be spelled “TEH”

We now have:
“Dat beesing teh kiti vary ful ov kutenis. An to bees lukingz! Hims gotz bowwagez on hims hed!!”

Step four: Add exclamations and extra words.
1) Use commonly accepted internet abbreviations. Misspell them if necessary. (LOL = lawlz! ROTFL = rofflz! OMG = omgwtfbbq!?! … etc … )
2) Imagine that you’re actually in a crowd of people and you want everyone to look at this particular picture. Extra exclamations are thus necessary.
3) Think Valley Girl. The words “like,” “totally,” etc can be added. Remember to misspell!
4) Some common statements have been severely abbreviated into one single multi-syllabic word. These are good to use. The best example is “Okay, thank you, good-bye!” Which has been shortened to “kthxbye” (or “kthxbai”)

And, we have:
“OMG wau!! Dat beesing a kiti vary ful ov tewtul kutenis!! Bees wif da lukingz! Omg him gotz da bowwagez on himz hed lyk WTF?!?”

Step five: Add additional information. This can be the desire to interact with the subject of the photo, personal information, empathetic or sympathetic statements, responses to other posts, etc. Again, nothing right or wrong here, just whatever comes to mind.

Finally:
“OMG wau!! Dat beesings a kiti vary ful ov tewtul kutenis!! Bees wif da lukingz!! Omg him gotz da bowwagez on himz hed lyk WTF?!? OMG I tewtul wuntz to grabz dat kiti and fuzziez himz awl ovar … him sooooooo mooshy an fullz ov win!! Don werry lil kiti, I no eetz u! I luvz kitiz! I can has bunchiz ov dem! Mah kitiz luvz bowwagez too! YETH!! GIMME!! Kthxbai!”

Remember that all of the above steps are basic guidelines for conversational lol-cat. Some regions do not always rearrange syntax. This a treasure for you. With some practice, you too can be writing in Conversational LolKitteh!

(this class is copyright ELFN 2007, all rights reserved, pliz to be kreditz if u be usingz da verbatumz kthxbai.)