Photos of the Day - 1/5 - 1/7

Photo of the day: 1/5/09

This is Sassy. She's about 13 or so years old. We inherited her, reluctantly, from Jim's mother, when she died in 2000. Prior to that, no one liked Sassy because Sassy liked no one. Except for Jim's mom. We tried to figure out how to get rid of her after June died, but realized that we'd never do a good sales job on anyone - we'd long called her the cat from hell, so we knew we'd never find anyone to take her. So, we kept her. And have come to love her very much. She's a typical Siamese, with gorgeous slanted blue eyes and that really annoying Siamese cry. She sleeps with us every night; in the winter, she slinks down under the covers between us; in the summer, she sleeps on top of the covers, but still between us. We have another cat, Del, and some day it will be his turn to be featured on Photo of the Day.

Photo of the day: 1/6/09

These are Cheryl's bags. I think the flowery one is her handbag; the other one holds her yarn. The blue is the cuffs of her jeans, a little tender ankle showing above the leather of her clog. Cheryl is in one of my knitting groups and is a fellow writer.

Photo of the day: 1/7/09

This is my knitting bag, with a pink project I have going. Both of these items are on my desk at work. Yes, I knit at work. Sometimes. I spend a lot of time in meetings on the phone. If I'm not running the meeting, and I just need to listen, I knit. It is very soothing. It keeps me from stressing out about my work.

Bonus photo of the day:

This is my skeleton, riding a lamp on my desk at work. That is a penguin-topped pencil jutting thru the skeleton's rib cage. Those are maps in the background - a map of the US and a map of the world, in case you can't quite tell.

I love to pose this skeleton in various ways on my desk thru the year. I used to just put him out at Halloween time, then I kept him out thru Christmas, when I would put a jaunty scarf on him. And now, he's too much fun to ever put away. He's held this pose for quite awhile, so it's probably time to find a new position for him.