Friday Mishmash

My cats are weird.  Henry and Kip do not get along.  Well, it's Kip who gets all agitated.  Henry could care less.  The other morning, I was lying in bed (I was not being lazy - it really was early)(Jeff had gotten up at 4am to leave for an out-of-town job)(no one would willingly get up at 4am, right?) and I heard Kip yowling and hissing at Henry.  When he wouldn't stop, I finally got up to separate them...and guess what?  Kip was on one side of our dining room window, and poor Henry was on the other side - yes, HE was outside.  Kip just doesn't like him, and that was not in my plans when we adopted both of them at the same time, from the same cage at the animal shelter.  Companion kittens/cats, that's what I was going for.  More like Cain and Abel is what I got.  Anyway, they make for fun photography subjects - here's the latest:

Henry in his favorite spot - Paco's chair:

Time for a little grooming...

But not if you are going to watch me, lady!  Sheesh - can't a cat get a little privacy?!?

And then there's Kip, who never met a ladder he didn't climb:

Partway through our family room project - inspector Kip was on the job!

Seriously, I know this is what he's thinking!

Harder to tell, but he's on another ladder - this shot was taken in 2006.  Kippers loves it when we paint the house - it's laddertime, baby!

In the interest of equal time, here's Paco:

His bed isn't enough - now he needs my new throw!

Such a sweet face - how could I deny him anything?

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Recently, I won a giveaway from Rachel, who blogs at Losing It!  The prize was winner's choice of a spice blend from Savory Spice Shop - one of her favorite places to find inspiration for cooking.  She is a newlywed, and they gave away spice blends as wedding favors - cute idea, right?!  Anyway, I chose Spiced Vanilla Bean Sugar, which I'm going to try in my granola (instead of using brown sugar).  Rachel also sent some Baker's Brew Coffee Spice along with a recipe for Caramelized Coffee Spiced Chicken - sounds good and pretty easy to make (a big criteria when it comes to me and cooking, lol).

She also threw in a couple of extra goodies - check out the cool test-tube packaging!  These will be fun to try next time we fire up the grill.

Thanks, Rachel!

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Finally, I leave you with this video - $hit Women Say to Personal Trainers.  Max found it - I died laughing when I watched it.   Also, I think I owe Brad, my former trainer, an apology...

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Have a great weekend - we are off to Ikea (yet again) to hopefully get the wall/TV system for our family room...should be *fun* as it looks like they are having a huge event - ack, crowds!