Thankies, Everykitty!

Thankies, everykitty, for makin' Brainball's Gotcha Day a super-speshul day for her! We love you all furry furry much.

Happy Gotcha Day, Brainball! It's PAW-TAY Time!

From Mom and Dad: Brainball, you've been one of our most precious life gifts. You were the first kitty we had together, and because of you, we discovered the joy of being kitty parents. And there was no looking back. You, our true and steadfast Alpha Cat, began a Kitty Dynasty: the Ballicai, and you shall forever bear the title Ballicus the First (Ballicus I). Thank you, precious Brainball, for the joy you bring to our family every day, thank you for your sweet, loving, tough, steadfast nature, thank you for being the kitty who watches over the rest of us with vigilance, protection, and abiding love. We adore you, our first kitty daughter, our trusted friend, our cherished companion of many years, our Good Ol' Brainball, our precious ambulatory fuzzball with eyes. May we all share many, many, many more happy years together.

From Dorydoo: Hey there, Brainball, I wish you the best Gotcha Day ever! With my Gotcha Day wish comes worlds of thanks and appreciation for all you have done for me and all you have taught me. You helped Momma raise me. You became my Momcat, the Momcat I didn't ever have to leave. You and I made fast friends, and I found a warm, secure place in your big and loving heart and against your welcoming, floofy tummy. I am a big girl now, all grown up at almost-three years old, but I will always be your little Dorydoo, you'll always be my Momcat I never have to leave, and I will always love you more than I can say.

From Marilyn: Brainball, I know that sometimes you and I have our differences, but I love you very much, and my respect for you is immense. You are like the Great Warrior Queen Boudicea come back to earth as a cat, and you are an excellent influence on me, little Marilyn MonREOW with her oh-so-dreamy nature *smile*. You have taught me a great deal about both toughness and diplomacy, about standing one's ground with all four paws planted firmly on the earth and working things out. I learn something new from you every day, and I am so happy that you let me kiss your sweet ear yesterday. Sister dear, I wish you a wonderful, happy Gotcha Day.

From Chairman MaoMao: Wowie, Brainball, you're been with Momma and Daddy fur six years? That'sa whole lotta years! I think I must be the luckiest kittyboy in the world to wind up inna housie where you're the Alpha Cat. You teach me a lot efurry day about patrollin', lookin' after the other sisturs, lookin' after the beans, and all sorts of impawtant Alpha Cat stuff, and I know that you're groomin' me to be Ballicus II someday, and I can only hope that I'll make you proud when I'm followin' in your paw-steps. You're a tuff act to foller, and though I hope to be as good an Alpha Cat as you someday, I could nefur, efur be bettur. You're not only my sistur but you're my bestest friend and my mentor and a superduper cuddlebuddy, too. I love you, Brainball, and thankies for bein' the bestest big sistur a kittyboy could efur have. (And you take the bestest baths and you have the bestest pink tummy, hehe!)



From Brainball: Awwww. *sniff*. Thank you, everybody. I couldn't have had a happier home these past six years, and I hope I am here for sixty more years (MaoMao, it might be a while before you ascend to Ballicus II *wink*). I love all of you, and before I get too dad-blasted mushy (*sniff, sniff, sniff*), I'll get this party rockin'! HOOAH!!!!

PARTY ON THE BLOG!!!!

We've got 'nip, we've got tuna, we've got tuna juice, and we've got 'niptinis and tunatinis and lobster, shrimp, and stinky goodness by the bucketful, too! Everybody come party whenever you like, as often as you like! I love all of you, my Cat Blogosphere friends, and guess what... if you've never before seen a Butt Kickin' Girl Alpha Cat get seriously NIPPED, then you're in for a treat! *chortle*!

One More Day!

One more day 'til Brainball's Gotcha Day Pawtay!

We Ballicai are gettin' excited!

The PAW-tay starts August 1 at 12:01 a.m. EST and will run for alla the 24 hours of August 1 -- effurybodies drop in whenefurs you like, as often as you like. We'll be here onna bloggie all day -- sometimes we'll be a li'l quieter (when Mom is asleep or runnin' errands or doin' some bean work, hehe), but there's toona and 'nip and shrimpies and stinky goodness and lots and lots of toona jooce! And niptinis! And toonatinis! We're gonna PAWTY as much as we can, and we look forward to seein' alla you here, our furriends!

Just a Remindur...

...three days 'til Brainball's Gotcha Day PAW-TAY (August 1), and efurrykitty is invited!

This is onna my furry favrit pickshures of me and Brainball 'cause it shows me givin' her a bruther kissie. I love Brainball so furry much, she's such a superduper sistur and a kick-butt Alpha Cat. And my sweetie Ariel, you'll love her just as much when she becomes yur sistur-in-law someday!

Talkin' to Brainball

Brainball: Hey, MaoMao! Guess what.

MaoMao: Huh, what? (fiddlefardle, where'd that evil coffee stirrer get to... and Ariel might want me to teleport ofur and kick that evil coat hangur's butt again....)

Brainball: Wow, Mao, you're quite a multi-tasker. Anyway, I was just going to say, it's only eleven days until my Gotcha Day Party!


MaoMao: Wowie wow, time flies, don't it? I can't wait until the PAW-Tay! And I hope you don't mind if a lotta us kitties get silly on 'niptinis.



Brainball: Pardon me while I scratch my ear. No, of course I don't mind if kitties get nipped. It's a party, after all. I want everyone to have fun.

MaoMao: Cool Beanies! So are you gonna get nipped, too, Brainball?

Brainball: Hmm, I just might. Even Alpha Cats need to let their hair down sometimes. Though in my case, that's an awful lot of hair....

MaoMao to Ariel: I'm lookin' forward to snugglin' with you at the Paw-Tay!

MaoMao to EFURRYBODIES: Don't forget: effurrybodies is invited, and the Paw-Tay is August 1!

Meezer Mancat Monday: Bein' a Good Bruther

This is one of my favrit pickshures of me and Brainball. It shows Brainball real good in all her ginormous floofosity and Lion Kittytude!



Here's some more about my great sistur Brainball's upcomin' Gotcha Day Paw-tay on August 1!

Tyler asked how old Brainball's gonna be. Well, we celabrate her Gotcha Day on August 1 cuz that's when she came to live with Momma and Daddy six years ago, but the vet said she thought Brainball was about three years old back then. So that makes her around nine now.

Monty asked if this was a dress-up kinda thingie or if stripies are ok. This is a furry free-wheelin' paw-tay -- whoever wants to dress up, dress up, and effuryone who wants to come in their burffday suit, do that, and stripes are always superduper! Brainball likes her stripes furry much, hehe.

Karl and Anastasia asked if the paw-tay will be formal and what stuffies effuryone should bring. Nah, it won't be formal. But there will be lotsa good foodies! There will be 'nip, 'niptinis and tunatinis, there will be tuna and lobster and chikken and ham and turkeys and fishies and shrimpies. And fourteen billion squillion tons of stinky goodness! My sistur Marilyn's gonna make them yummy tuna puffs of hers, too! But bring anything you want, maybe even evil coffee stirrers for efurryone to play with, or maybe some nice crunchy buggies.

And hopefully I won't drink too many tunatinis and barf alla way to Mars.

Thankies effurybodies for your nice and sweet komments, and Brainball thanks you, too! We Ballicai are getting furry ecksited about her Paw-tay!

(and hehe, Ariel, I can't wait to snuggle with you and give you kissies!)

Two Furry Impawtant Announsements

My buddy Jeter's Kool Squillion Kontest starts at 12:01 a.m., EST on Sunday, Jooly 15 -- that's less than five hours from now, wowie! Countin' down! I'm gettin' furry ecksited, aren't you?



And guess what's comin' up August 1... it's Brainball's Gotcha Day!




We Ballicai are gonna have a PAW-tay right here on this bloggie, and we hope effurybodies can come!