Archive for October, 2009

• hey @omarg, @emil285 just called you lame. It was good to see you on TV! #
• We ( @loriluza @sostakitty @emil285 @purrrrrl ) are all watching NCIS. #
• RT @myerman What happens when stores start putting up Christmas stuff before halloween? ZOMBIES IN THE MANGER http://bit.ly/KfNn #
• oops. I thought the luncheon started at 12noon. I could make it if I hurry, but I choose not to kill myself over it. Next time, maybe. #
• RT @TexasDPS_PIO AMBER ALERT 1yr old boy w/ Jose David Mascorro 24 5’11″ 185# brown hair/eyes. dk gray 2008 Dodge Magnum TX LP BB6K357 #

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• Alaskan Snow Crab with new potates and Robert Mondavi CabSav, followed by the fudgiest chocolate cake ever! Thank you, @emil285 ! #
• @mnthomas You can also use @trackthis and get a Tweet each time your package moves! It’s pretty cool. #
• Fighting with RitzPix and Ritz/Wolf Camera websties. Don’t they know where their own stores are? #
• all us kitties is on the cowch: @LoriLuza, @SostaKitty, @Emil285, and @Purrrrrl in that order. #
• ack! 18 days?? What to be???? RT @HaloweenCostume Halloween Countdown: 18 DAYS. … #halloween #
• @brianboyko Oh, I think that might invade my personal bubble, but I’ve never been to 6th for halloween, so maybe I should make a plan! #
• @spam @marysandbeach #
• I’m loving the new laptop lapdesk @emil285 bought for me! Keeps my legs cool and isn’t bulky or annoying. #
• @NathanFillion Not watching live, but will certainly look for the Firefly reference! yay! #
• Another great session with #awtwx what a great group it’s shaping up to be. #
• Does anyone else think the current winning tshirt design for Susan G Komen looks like a pack of birth control pills? #
• I HATE shopping for myself. Why am i here? ::sigh:: #
• Made the mistake of going in a store where she called me Sweetie and Darlin three times in two sentences. Hrumph. #

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After spending some time with the Little One, I decided she needed a better name. I wanted her name to have alliteration so I wanted it to start with an S. A friend dug through an Italian verb book and found the word sosta, a noun for stopover.  Since she used to stop over at my patio every night, it was perfect. It was easy to add Themis (in honor of Zeta Tau Alpha) as her middle name. Sosta, Sosta T., and Sosta Themis all had a nice ring to them.

There was another benefit. She has never responded to “here kitty kitty…” but has always been responsive to a “pss pss pss” sound.

To get her used to her name, I’d whisper it over and over while she was drifting off to sleep. “Sooooo-sssssta” went the lullaby.

It always amazed her Grand-pa-pa (her nick name for my dad) that she liked the “pss pss pss” sound and didn’t care for “here kitty kitty…” Of course, at that time in life, he’d never had a cat. He used to hate them, even. He would have much to learn from the Little One named Sosta.

“Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party…”
-Scarlett O’Hara, Gone With the Wind

• RT @annamunoz RT @pourmecoffee Today we celebrate Christopher Columbus winning Season One of “The Amazing Race.” Nice win. #
• ATX: Join Room to Read for Indian Nights Thur, Oct 15, 6-10pm at Clay Pit 1601 Guadalupe. Tickets $40 http://tinyurl.com/RtRIndia #
• I’m going to have to go elsewhere to work today. Our Internet is just crawling. #
• Dear monday, you are really starting to suck. Can you let just a couple of things go right, please? #
• Hill Country as daily scenic view. I love Austin! It’? the little things! #
• @incslinger I’m sure banks make more money when closed than they do when open. #
• Really Yelp? I ask for seafood & get Catfish Parlour, LJSilvers, & Luby’s? Not all places that serve fish are seafood restaurants. com’ on! #

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• We’re on a ghost tour! Learning about the hauntings of Austin. Oooooooooo & Boo! #
• Tooo cool that there are photographer stories on the ghost tour. ({ wish they weren’t so overly commercial.) #
• Whoosh whoosh!!! FINAL Rattlers (Florida A&M) 16, Hurricanes (Miami) 48.(AP) #
• #GwoP sighting at Bekini’s on 6th. Surprise! LOL #
• Maybe there’s a reason no one’s in this bar: it’s a /good/ place. Cheap drinks. Good atmo. Games are on, & music is low enough we can talk! #
• Good to know that @IleenieWeenie is willing to bail friends ( @maczter @myerman ) out of jail, if needed! #
• Silly @IleenieWeenie ! Wally is mad at you ’cause you Tweeted you’d sell him! #
• Well that was, of course, too good to last. Smarmy little manager made the music much too loud. #
• @myerman oh I (also @asyouwish ) am well aware and excited to see the group gel so well! #
• @DennisGrimes Oh, we did have fun. The tour was pretty good & 6th Street on game day was fun, too. Mostly we just enjoyed the cool weather! #
• @LaniAR Oh, they totally need to make those for all the schools with hand gestures…and then it needs an Informed… http://post.ly/8401 #

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• RT @JonAston A professional competes against himself, an amateur competes with others #BrandCampU (RT @ConversationAge) #
• Onl our way! RT @keepaustinwierd Get thee to the Austin record convention now! $5 all weekend long! via@austinrecords http://bit.ly/dUqGP #
• http://twitpic.com/kz2ay – FWD: #
• RT @myerman Fall has arrived in Austin. Had to use heater in car this a.m. Next week will probably be blazing hot, so enjoy it now. #
• RT @Colorburned: Are there any resume writers out there? via @maczter #
• @Colorburned @maczter Angela Loeb is a resume writer @angelarloeb http://www.insyncresources.com/ #
• We are bundling up in sweaters and getting ready for a haunted tour of Austin! #
• Go ‘Canes!!! Whoosh whoosh! NCAAFTBL START Rattlers (Florida A&M) v Hurricanes (Miami). Kick off – Game underway. (AP) #

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I always wanted a cat, but I had different plans for how it would come to be. I grew up in a dog family. I imagined getting married (no, there were no marrying prospects in my life at that time) and buying a house. Then, I wanted three dogs and two cats. I wanted a little puppy-in-my-pocket that I could take everywhere with me. I also wanted to large dogs and two cats. I wanted them to grow up together and love one another. I wanted them in pairs so they would have company when I was at work. I had this big elaborate pet fantasy.

The Little One has a short learning curve and made her appearance at my apartment every evening after the other critters vanished. She made sure to stick around long enough for me to notice her. Her reward was a nightly meal.

After a few days of this pattern I went out of town for the weekend. I was so excited to come home and hoped that my absence didn’t cause her to wander too far away from being able to find me again. I put food out immediately and waited and hoped for the Little One’s return.

I wasn’t even unpacked from the short trip when she wandered up the door! She was a little hungrier than usual and seemed quite happy that I had come back.

Over the course of the next few nights, she’d stop by to eat and then I’d invite her inside. At first, she’d only stay a minute, but each visit grew longer. By the end of the week, she was napping in my lap after her supper and winning my heart.

By the weekend, she didn’t want to back outside when it was time for bed. So, she stayed the night. She had me wrapped around her little paw.

Sosta’s adoption of me messed with that fantasy pet plan big time. At the time, however, I didn’t even notice.

• Bring Trader Joe’s to Austin Petition Petition http://bit.ly/IVJ4 #
• @LaniAR ….but have you seen this one? http://bit.ly/BvOjg. http://post.ly/7nK7 #
• RT @grouponaustin No time to cook? We can help with this pre-assembled meal sampler http://bit.ly/4nCbRE #
• I love it that people are talking about Hallowe’en. Give me a good excuse to wear my lime green socks with a purple tshirt. #

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• @LaniAR Thank you for including the n’ in your last Tweet. #
• @LaniAR nope. Different Matt. (but when @mherzber sees the reference on fb and twitter, he’ll laugh since that’s something he’d do!) #
• @JohnnyBravvo All I can think of is Stubbs, but I bet they already have big plans for that night. Maybe they can refer? #
• Irony is a funny little worm. #
• @Barb_G http://twitpic.com/kqzyp – Is he going to a Roaring 20s themed fundraiser? Was there a flapper in the vicinity? #

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