Mancat Monday: Ballicai + Box = Boxicai

Momma ordered some books, and they came in a box that's just the right size fur us Ballicai! I was the first Ballicus to check out the boxie. Here's a movie of me cleanin my paw in the boxie, and then I saw that Dorydoo was waitin her turn in the box. I'm a good bruther. I let her have the box furry soon after Momma made this movie!




Here's a regular pickshure, just in case the video is wonky.



And here's Brainball, lookin like Lion King of the Box!



The gurlz have played in the box, too, but me and Brainball spend more time in it than they do. Here's Dorydoo lookin purrty while she relaxes inna reckliner...



And here's Marilyn playin peekaboo from behind Momma's pooter skreen. Check out her lazur eye!

Meezer Mancat Monday

Me and my sweetiepie Ariel just wanted to give effurybody a remindur!

Our wunnerful wedding plannur Sammy Meezer (thankies so much, Sammy! We love you!) maded us a beeyootiful wedding bloggie. Please come see us there, leave conCATulashuns, and be a part of our speshul day, this Saturday on August 30 - our ceremony at 1:00 p.m. and recepshun at 2:00 p.m.! We can't wait to see you there!

The blogger user ID for our wedding bloggie is arielandmaowedding and the password is concatulations.

Mancat Monday

I wanna devote this Mancat Monday to Brainball beckause he kept us safe from the noisy-boomy fireworks ofur the Fourth of July weekend.



The fireworkies started goin off in our neighborhood the night of July 3. Me and Dorydoo and Brainball were sleepin on the bed, and Marilyn was sleepin on the weight benchie. When the boomies started boomin, they didn't bothur Marilyn much beckause she's partially deaf.

But me and Dorydoo both got skeered. Dorydoo ran and hid undur Momma's desk, and I went and hid inna baffroom.

But Brainball rushed out, ready to take on those boomies. The booms made him nervous, sure, but he didn't hide. He got into patrollin mode and patrolled and patrolled all ofur the housie to make sure efurryone stayed safe and snug. And he did the same thing onna night of the Fourth.

I'm so proud of him. So's Momma and Daddy. Momma called him her Big Brave Lion Boy and hugged and kissed him and thanked him fur takin such good care of us and lovin all of us so muchies.

His Gotcha Day's comin up on August 1! He'll have been gotted fur seven years. The vet guessed that Brainball was about three years old when Momma and Daddy adopted him, so they figure he's about ten years old now.

When Brainball was youngur, he was a lot more fiery. Like a Feline Alexander the Great. When he lived with the neighbors, he was an outdoor kitty, and he got into fights for territory with othur cats. He still has a scar on his eyelid from one of those long-ago fights. But he always came out the winnur cuz he was the biggest and the baddest. Then the icky neighbors abandoned him, and Momma and Daddy tooked him in and made him an indoor kitty.

Here's one of the furry first pickshures of Brainball in existence, taken back in 2001, the year he was adopted. It was tooked with a primitive digital kamera, that's why it's so grainy. But you can get an idea of what he looked like when he was a young, feisty and fiery mancat. He was just as handsum then as he is now. This pickshure is furry purreshus to Momma. She lost bunchies of old pickshures of Brainball and kitten pickshures of Dorydoo in a hard drive crash back two years ago, and only a few of those older pickshures are left. She still kicks her own butt fur losin those pickshures.



As the years have gone by, Brainball mellowed out a whole lot. And when Momma and Daddy adopted Dorydoo, Brainball fell in love with her. He's a Gentle Giant and loves alla us Ballicai and is the bestest Alpha Cat we could efur have. He loves gettin massages frum Daddy, and he's Momma's helpur. From day one, he loved to help her do alla the housie chores. She sez she doesn't know how she efur got by without Kitty Assistance.

Here's a video of Brainball cuddlin with Dorydoo on his favorite shirt. They're furry furry close. He helped Momma raise her frum a little kitten.





And here's a pickshure of Brainball washin Dorydoo's head:


So this Mancat Monday, we wanna celebrate our Brainball. We'll be cellebrating him on his Gotcha Day, too. But ya can't celebrate a good Alpha Cat too much, that's fur sure. He's King Leonidas Ballicus I, but he's also our Good Ol' Brainball, and we love him bunchies.

(And we Ballicai still can't believe Momma and Daddy thoughted he was a GURL for so long. Beans. SHEESH!!!!)

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Alla us Ballicai are furry ecksited about my engagement to my sweetiepie -- my FIANCE -- Ariel, and I'm the most ecksited of all, hehe! Me and Ariel will set a date soonies, but whenefur we have the wedding, effuryone's invited!

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Us Ballicai have some furry sad news to report. Our dear bunny furriend, Tidbit, wented to the Rainbow Bridge Saturday. Please go vizzit her fambly, and give 'em lots and lots of purrs and hugs. Tidbit was a purreshus bungirl and will be furry missed.

Rest in peace, sweet Tid. You are loved, and will always be.

Meezer, Mancat, and Midnight Monday

We Ballicai have all kinds of newsies today!

First, I wanna proudly announce that I wonned a prize in the Red Carpet Buzz contest, and Brainball was runner-up! Here's our badgies.





Me and Brainball are two ecksited mancats! It was funsies walkin on that Red Carpet.

And Dorydoo hadded a beeyootiful portrait done of her by Diamond on the House Panthurs Bloggie. Isn't Dorydoo a purrty gurl? She's our midnight-velvety, gold-eyed Ballicus. We're proud of her -- she's not just beeyootiful but she's furry smart.



And we Ballicai are so proud: our preshus sister-furriend-cousin, Gretchen, awarded us the Toadally Awesome Awardie! hehehe, that's so kool! Thankies, Gretchen! We Ballicai think you are toadally awesome -- and pawesome-- too.



Us Ballicai are gonna pass the awardie on to our Toadally Awesome Sweetiepies:

My sweetiepie, Ariel
Dorydoo's sweetiepie, Earl Grey (and all the Furry Kids)
Brainball's sweetiepie, Patches Lady (and all the Big Piney Woods Girls)

Mancat Monday -- For Caesar

We Ballicai are furry sad today. One of our furry bestest furriends, Caesar, has gone to the Rainbow Bridgie.



We will miss you so much, Caesar. You will always be our furriend. And Caesar, you will always and fureffur be my muzzie twin and one of my most speshul mancat mentors. We love you. Rest in peace, preshus furriend. Our love and purrs are with Prinnie and yur wunnerful fambly.

Caesar -- April 15, 1991 - January 20, 2008


NOTE FROM THE BRIDGE
author unknown

To my dearest family,
some things I'd like to say.
But first of all, to let you know,
that I arrived okay.

I'm writing this from the Bridge.
Here I dwell with God above.
Here there's no more tears of sadness.
Here is just eternal love.

Please do not be unhappy
just because I'm out of sight.
Remember that I am with you
every morning, noon and night.

That day I had to leave you
when my life on earth was through,
God picked me up and hugged me
and He said, "I welcome you.

It's good to have you back again,
you were missed while you were gone.
As for your dearest family,
They'll be here later on."

God gave me a list of things,
that he wished for me to do.
And foremost on the list,
was to watch and care for you.

And when you lie in bed at night
the day's chores put to flight,
God and I are closest to you...
in the middle of the night.

When you think of my life on earth,
and all those loving years,
because you are only human,
they are bound to bring you tears.

But do not be afraid to cry,
it does relieve the pain.
Remember there would be no flowers,
unless there was some rain.

I wish that I could tell you
all that God has planned.
If I were to tell you,
you wouldn't understand.

But one thing is for certain,
though my life on earth is o'er.
I'm closer to you now,
than I ever was before.

There are rocky roads ahead of you
and many hills to climb;
But together we can do it
by taking one day at a time.

It was always my philosophy
and I'd like it for you too;
That as you give unto the world,
the world will give to you.

If you can help somebody
who's in sorrow and pain;
Then you can say to God at night...
"My day was not in vain."

And now I am contented...
that my life was worthwhile.
Knowing as I passed along
I made somebody smile.

So if you meet somebody
who is sad and feeling low;
Just lend a hand to pick him up,
as on your way you go.

When you're walking down the street
with me on your mind;
I'm walking in your footsteps
only half a step behind.

And when it's time for you to go...
from that body to be free.
Remember you're not going...
you're coming here to me.

Mancat Monday: Seven Things

*whew*, us Ballicai are finally gettin to blog today -- thankies, Mom! It's been plumb wild around here lately what with family Thanksgiving celebrashuns, and then Momma hoggin the compooter somethin fierce for that novel-writin stuff she does.

Anyhows, I was taggied by my sweet new furriend Chase for the Seven Thingies Meme, and I thought me and Brainball would do it togethur -- make it a Mancat Seven Things Meme!

Okeydokeys, here goes:

1. Here's a pickshure of Brainball. Ain't he handsum?



He's our big Alpha Cat. Well, if you look real close at the top of his right eye, you'll see a scar. He had it before he lived with Momma and Daddy. He used to live with neybors, and them neybors abandoned Brainball when they moved away. So Momma and Daddy took him in. And Brainball used to spend a lot of time outdoors before he became Momma and Daddy's kitty, and Momma and Daddy are pretty sure he got that scar in a fight, when he still lived with those neybors. Brainball's a real sweet mancat, but he can be tough, and when he was youngur, he was superduper fierce and territorial.

2. When Momma and Daddy adopted Brainball, he was about three years old. And he became an indoor only cat. While he's always been sweet as can be with the beans, he stayed fierce when it came to othur kitties! Anytime he sawed anuther cat out on the back porchie -- espeshully a big tomcat-lookin cat! -- he'd go nuts. He'd puff up real big and huge and growl and howl like a mountain lion. He's a lot more easygoing now, and he is a gentle giant and a furry bennevolunt Alpha Cat. Sometimes he gets a little growly when he sees outdoor kitties, but nothin like how he used to be. He's mellowed out a lot, from what Momma sez.

3. I'm gettin BIGGUR! When I showed up as a stray kitty and Momma and Daddy tooked me in the housie, I was still a kitten, efun though I was close to a year old. Now I am about a year and a half. And I'm still growin! Momma and Daddy were lookin at me the othur day and they were struck by how Mancatly I looked, less boykitty and more Mancat. I've heard Mancats can keep growin 'til they're about two years old or so. Wouldn't that be kool if I gotted as big as Brainball! But I'm biggur than both Dorydoo and Marilyn now. YIPPEE!!! Here's a pickshure of me gettin ready to give Dorydoo a nose kissie.



4. And speakin of Dorydoo, we are SPAZCATS together. We are both furry energetick and like to run around the housie playin thunderin herd of eleffants 'til we wear each othur out, and I like to chase her because when I chase her, I make her SQUEEK!

5. Brainball gets along great with both me and Dorydoo, efun though he's quite a bit older than we are. He's goin on ten years old, but we young-uns don't get on his nerves at all. He loves playin with us, and he's furry big brutherly and evun fatherly with both of us. Furry protecktive, furry loving and tollerunt.

6. Me and Brainball and Dorydoo like Marilyn, too, our furry oldest sistur -- but Marilyn prefers to have her own space. So we respeckt that. But sometimes I just can't help myself and have to chase Marilyn all ofur the housie. She gets all hyper and tuddles around and says MWRAAAH! MWRAAAH! And I like to watch both my sisturs when they're inna litter boxie. I guess that's kind of pesky, but I just can't help it. It's funsies to get GURLS all fuzzed up. Hey, I'm the baby of the fambly, aftur all, hehe!

7. I love both my sisturs, but Brainball is my furry favorite sibling. Me and him are furry, furry close, and he is my bestest furriend and role moddel. Here we are, snoozin togethur.



The next meme we do will be sweet Miss Peachy's Box of Life Meme, fur which we were taggied by my beeyootiful sweetiepie Ariel!

And here's a furry impawtant announcemunt: Marilyn's Gotcha Day is coming up on Saturday, December 1 -- she will have been with Momma and Daddy fur a whole year! Isn't that ecksiting? But like with alla us Ballicai, Momma and Daddy feel like they've had her for a lot longer than that. They feel like we've all been togethur forrefur!

Anyhows, we Ballicai are gonna throw a pawtay on Marilyn's bloggie on December 1, so efurrykitty mark yur calendurs!

Mancat Monday: Smile!

Cool Beanies, my momma's friend -- we call her Auntie Bunnygirl -- gave us Ballicai a Smile Awardie! Thankies so much, Auntie Bunnygirl. We are furry honored!

Auntie Bunnygirl is a Bunnygirl cuz she's gotta bunny named Tidbit. She's also got a kitty named Pixel! Bunnygirl is a writer like Momma, she's furry furry nice, and she makes us smile, too, with her ecksellent fickshun!



Here's Brainball, lookin furry mancatly. Momma's been callin him King Leonidas a lot, or King Leo fur short. Brainball's been doing furry well since he got ofur his bronchitis. He rassles with Dorydoo and me a whole bunch and likes to hang out with Momma on her desk. And since Momma's still busy with novel-writin and is hogging the compooter a lot, Brainball's tryin to hypnotize her with his lasur eyes to make her give us the pooter back.



And here's Dorydoo and me hangin out close to the heatur. Since we're short-haired kitties, we love hangin out near the heatur. The weathur has cooled off a LOT!



We're gonna pass the Smile Awardie on to our Significint Kitty Othurs...

My Sweetiepie Ariel
Brainball's lovely Patches Lady
Dorydoo's speshul furriend Earl Grey

Mancat Monday

I'm so lucky to have Brainball. Not only is he my big bruther but he's my furry bestest furriend. And I'm happy to say he's all bettur now -- and we Ballicai are so glad to have our big Alpha Cat back in top formies! YIPPETY YAY YAHOOIE!




hehe, I like how that kamera angle makes me look as big as Brainball! In trooth, though, I'm just ofur half his size.

We Ballicai are kontinuing to purr with alla our might fur our lovely sistur, Miss Peachy!

And my sweetiepie Ariel -- lovies and kissies to you! I hopes yur Momma is feelin bettur.

Mancat Monday: Meezer, Alpha, and Fluffhead

It's good to be back to bloggin' aftur Momma hogged our 'pooter all weekend! Here's me sayin', Momma, aren't you gonna let us have our 'pooter back yet??



And here's Brainball, patiently waiting... check out those floofy pawsies! He's doin' much bettur and doesn't have to take meds no more. He's glad. He thought they were ickypoo.


But efun though we've been impayshunt to get back to bloggin', we've been havin' a whole lotta fun! See, we have a third mancat inna housie this week. His name is Mike the Mysterious, and he's a fluffhead kitty who lives with our sister Gretchen! Mike's decided he wants to see the wurld and have advenchures, so he's telleported ofur to our housie to spend the week with us. Here he is, takin' a nappie inna laundry with me and Brainball and Dorydoo.



And Marilyn's posed fur a pickshure with him on her bloggie, too!

Here's Mike's Portal. When he finishes his visit, we're gonna post on his portal and tell all about his advenchures with us and all the fun we had, and post more pickshures, too. Mike is a superduper fella! He's not just Mysterious, he's mischievyus too, which makes him my kind of dude!

And he's wantin' to have more fun advenchures, so if you'd like Mike to telleport ofur to yur housie, let him know at Gretchen's bloggie or at his Portal! He's already buildin' up qwite a travel itinerary -- aftur he finishes his visit with us Ballicai, he's gonna visit Kellie the Orange Cat, and then he's goin' to Sweden to visit my bruther Yoggie!

I send love and kissies to my sweetie Ariel, Brainball sends love and kissies to his Patches Lady, and Dorydoo's winkin' and smilin' at Earl Grey!

Mancat Monday and I Love Your Blog Awardie!

Here's me and my big bruther Brainball, hangin' out on Momma's desk fur Mancat Monday! We is the bestest of furriends. I guess you can tell that, cuz there are so many pickshures of us two togethur!



The othur day, our furriend Stormie gave Brainball the I Love Yur Bloggie Award, and today, our furriend Karl gave the awardie to me, too! Thankies so much, Karl! I love yur bloggie, and you, too!



Brainball's doin' really, really good -- he's got almost one week left to take medisun, but not only has he been back to his Alpha Cat Patrols, but he's been playin', too! Here he is with the catnip bananer Henry sent Marilyn for winnin' his kontest! Marilyn's been sharin' her 'nip toys with the rest of us, and we're all havin' FUNSIES! In that pickshure, Brainball just got done bunnykikkin' the 'naner.



And here's me playin' with the catnip 'naner! Yeah, I'm kinda blurry inna pickshure... I'm a feller who likes to play FAST!



Happy Mancat Monday, effurykitty! Me and Brainball send love and kissies to our kittygurls, Sweet Ariel and Patches Lady (Patches Lady, look onna sidebar under Brainball's pickshure -- he made a new graffic fur him and you!). And Dorydoo sends winks to the handsum mancat, Earl Grey!

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Don't furget -- Dorydoo's Burfday Pawtay is TOMORROW, Tuesday the 16th, and it starts at 12:01 a.m. onna bloggie!

Meezer Mancat Monday

Here I am with Daddy at his workbench. Me and him have a lotta fun together. I'm a real handy mancat, just like my Daddy. Can you see? He likes it when I put my paw on him while he's doin' stuff. Well maybe that makes me Pawey instead of Handy.




And here I am talkin'. I talk to Daddy while he's workin', too. I'm alwayz fulla suggestions. MAO! I say. MAO! MAO! MAO! MAO! MAOMAOMAOMAO! Momma and Daddy have gotten flooent in MAOese, hehehe.



And that little can you see by Daddy's hand in that second pikshure? It used to be a Fancy Feast can! Daddy likes Momma to save those for him to put teeny parts in. Of course they're washed out real good. Daddy doesn't think stinky goodness smells as good as I do. I think there must be somethin' wrong with his nose.

I hope my bee-yootiful girlkittyfurriend Ariel thinks I look sooperdooper mancatly in these pikshures!

Mancat Monday

My purr-etty friend Ariel is talking on her bloggie about how she has a crush on a mancat who's got bee-yootiful eyes. She ain't tellin' who the lucky feller is, but she said he's got his own bloggie.

She also said he's got bee-yootiful eyes.


Whaddya think? Could he be me?

I'm keepin' my pawsies crossed, hehehe!

(Hey, MA-RI-LYN! willya teach me howta write poetry, pleez, pleez, pleez... and why did Dorydoo's butt have to get into my pretty eyez pikshure... who wants to look at my sistur's butt...)

Okay, I'm back... and I founded out he's ME! he's ME! Purr-etty Ariel's gotta crush on ME! I'm spazzin' and dancin' all ovur the house!

Mancat Monday and Tagged!

My purr-etty friend Ariel tagged me for a "My Favorites" meme. Cool Beaniez!

I like this picture of me and Brainball, too, 'cause I'm in front of her and the camera angle makes me look like I'm a great big mancat!



Time of Day: Stinky Goodness Time, after Momma gets up! The very second she gets outta bed I start hollerin', MAO! MAO! MAO! MAO! MAOMAOMAOMAOMAO! And Momma knows what that means: "I want my stinky goodness, I want my stinky goodness!"

Day of the week: I like every day of the week the same. There's always somethin' good to eat and always somethin' fun to play with.

Season of the year: I like winter 'cause I love layin' in front of the heater!

Holiday: I think groundhog day's really cool 'cause I'd like to meet a groundhog and play with him.

Beaches: What's a beach?

Song: "TNT" by AC/DC. That's my theme song. I love head bangin' heavy metal!

Flower: Daffy-dills.

Talk show: Don't watch no talk shows but I'd love to have one of my own. I think it'd be lotsa fun to get on camera and say MAO! MAO! MAO! MAOMAOMAO!

Movie: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Party on, dude!

Soaps: I like soap. I like battin' it outta the soap holdin' thingie and knockin' it around the bathtubbie.

Beverage: tuna juice rocks.

Fruit: I kinda like naners a little bit. You know, that long yellow fruitie.

Snack: POUNCE!

Food: Stinky goodness, stinky goodness, and stinky goodness. And yeah, dry food, Pounce, and any yummy human foods I can get my pawsies on. I LOVE FOOD!!!!

Restaurant: I'd love me a nice stinky goodness buffet with all kindsa stinky goodness flavors!

Oh, fiddle-fardle, I fergot to tag me somekitties. Okeydokey, I'm gonna tag:

Kimo & Sabi
Jeter
DaisyMae
Sammy at Meezer Tails
Speedy

Mancat Monday

Here I am, takin' a quiz that Dragonheart linked to on his bloggie.


Here's what the quiz said about my name:

C is for Charmer

H is for Hottie

A is for All Mine

I is for Itchy Lips

R is for Rum Raisin

M is for Munchkin

A is for Angel

N is for Nugget

M is for Mushy

A is for Almond

O is for Other Half

I guess I could be called a "Munchkin" 'cause Momma and Daddy call me "little fella", and I ain't gonna argue with Charmer or Hottie, hehehe. But my sistur Marilyn's the Mushy one what with all her loveydovey stuff with Mick, and uhhh... I sure ain't got no itchy lips. And ain't "almond" some kind of nut? I gave up lookin' for my nuts a long time ago.

I can hang with "nugget" if it's a nugget of stinky goodness. And I'm definitely Momma's angel, even if my halo's sometimes a little crooked!

Mancat Monday

Chairman Mao sez: Nope, you can't fold this towel, Momma. It's mine.

Mancat Monday

Here I am, Chairman Mao, for Mancat Monday!



Singin' along with "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters:

I'm a man
I spell mmm, aaa child, nnn
That represents man
No B, O child, Y
That means mannish boy
I'm a man
I'm a full grown man
I'm a man
I'm a natural born lovers man
I'm a man
I'm a rollin' stone
I'm a man
I'm a hoochie coochie man.

I don't even know what "hoochie coochie man" means, but anyways.

And Marilyn MonREOW wanted me to post this picture for her mancat, Mickey Mantle. See, Mick, she's winkin' atchya!



I'm doin' some editing to add: Mickey gave Marilyn a rose yesterday. Whatta great fella.

Mancat Monday!

Seein' as how I'm the only mancat in the house, here's a picture of me, Chairman Mao. I'm sleepin' 'cause my sister Marilyn MonREOW's plumb wearin' me out. All she talks about is Mickey Mantle, her big, handsome kitty boyfriend, and she keeps prancin' around in that sparkly new dress he got her.

And now she's in a swoon 'cause she saw a picture of Mickey posted over on his brother Jeter's bloggie for Mancat Monday. Loveydovey girlkitties sure are funny, aren't they?