It’s Ghost and Sirius in their big screen debut! This is from almost a month ago, the first night we had them, I can’t believe how much they’ve grown since then.
Zelda’s gotten quite lazy after the passing of his brother, Hershell Saxby the First, so what better way to liven him up than by adopting two evil kittens who will no doubt torture him endlessly?
Meet Sirius and Ghost:
We adopted them from the Kalamazoo County Animal Services shelter. They’re about 2 months old and were bottle fed by a foster mom, so they LOVE people.
The KCASE shelter is offering a 2 for 1 deal on all cats and kittens through at least the end of August, so if you’re looking for some furry friends, please check out their info here: http://www.kalcounty.com/ac/adoptions.htm
Adoption fees are $82 for males and $92 for females, and that covers a rabies vaccination, microchip, and spay/neutering. That’s an awesome price for just one cat, let alone two!
RIP Hershell Saxby the first. Thank you for being a super rad cat for over 8 awesome years.
He loved rubberbands, the smell of garlic, boxes, mice, half finished projects, squirrels, popcorn, and brocolli.
He hated plastic bags and vacuum cleaners.
Here’s the newest in the world of Smarmy. Two formal dresses and one casual.
All are available as Made To Order, so you can get your exact size (and you can even customize the design, if you want). Partay!
Nightshade black metallic ruffle gown
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Here I am, forgetting to update my blog again. Shame on me!
Here are some updates…
If you notice some stuff missing from my Etsy shop, it’s because they’ve gone cuckoo about trademark/copyright stuff lately, shutting down shops without warning, so I will no longer be selling my licensed (i.e. perfectly legal) reconstructions there. They’re all still available at SmarmyClothes.com though, so no worries.
I have some exciting new things coming to the shop soon. I can hardly contain myself!
I have some exciting things non-Smarmy related coming soon, as well. Again, more problems containing myself.
Totally random thing: my kitty Zelda has become terrified of going outside, and I blame the stupid dumb German Shepard next door. Poo on his stupid German dogface.
Zelda the Grey
Giveaways are still in full swing at WhatTheCraft… enter and win some awesome handmade goods!
And finally, what you’ve all been waiting for… new Smarments!
HOWL AT THE MOON wolf bat stripe top
Calico Jack pirate skull stripe corset top
Fall Out Boy camo racerback tunic top
RELAX 80s stripe one shoulder tank
Dick Deadeye pirate skull cameo stripe hoodie top
Harry Potter Gryffindor hoodie tunic top
Harry Potter Slytherin corset hoodie shrug - SOLD!
30 Seconds to Mars halter corset tank
Demon Skull stripe d-ring top
Bouncing Souls plaid stars top - SOLD!
Huzzah! I finished updating Zen Cart and managed to avoid breaking down into tears. It’s a miracle.
I hate to disappoint, but there won’t actually be any kittens in this post. I couldn’t think of a suitable title, and I like kittens, so there you go.
Now that my site is updated, I can start listing the mountain of things I’ve made in the past two weeks, which is probably more than I usually make in a month. I don’t know what’s gotten into me.
Before I do that, here are the most recent additions to the smarmy shop, patchwork SMARMWARMERS! All upcycled from my fabric scraps.
And just because I like you so much, here are some kittens. Because it would be wrong to promise kittens and then not deliver.
Also… I WANT THESE KITTENS!!!! A whole basket of gray kittens would be the equivalent of winning the lottery, because in case you don’t know, gray cats are the best cats.
Ugh. Have I mentioned that every trip to the grocery store convinces me that we need to cease allowing people to freely breed? (Yes, we had to go to the grocery store again, this time we decided we had to make homemade protein bars. Christ, I’m starting to sound like a hippie.)
I think everyone should be temporarily (or not) sterilized at birth and anyone that would like to have children should have to start out with a goldfish first. Once they’ve mastered caring for the goldfish, they can move on to the next pet. I haven’t figured out what the second test pet should be… I suggested a hamster or gerbil, but Mr. Smarmy said we shouldn’t move onto mammals so quickly. A bird? A lizard? A frog?
Either way, prospective parents will move up the evolutionary chain… cat, dog, etc., until they get to have a live, human child. (As opposed to a dead one? Insert dead baby joke here.) I believe this would prevent such local news stories as- House Burns Down, Local Girl Dies Because Parents Had Her Chained To Bed.
That’s a real local news story we have been getting updates on over the past few months. I’ve never been so pissed off at some stupid news story as when they announced that the jury found them not guilty on the murder charges. Fuck that. I hope there’s a Hell just so they can burn in it. Hey half-retarded hillbillies! How about you slap on a condom when you bang your old lady, and then you won’t have to use the lame ass excuse that you were only chaining your daughter to the bed to “keep her safe” when she dies a horrible, horrible death.
That’s not very fun blog fodder, is it? Here’s a local news story that’s more fun:
Last night a drunk woman drove her car into a Burger King. On purpose. Why, you ask? Because they wouldn’t allow her to WALK through the drive thru.
Awe. Some. It sounds like a stupid joke you’d read in one of those Kids Giant Joke Books.
Q. Why did the drunk woman drive her car into the Burger King?
A. Because they wouldn’t let her walk through the drive thru!
I think I’ll start counting wigs when I go to the store, because I noticed today there were quite a few. Perhaps it was Wear A Wig And Get A Discount Day, and I was not aware of it. They should promote these offers more clearly.
I find it amusing (or perhaps more annoying) that my cat, Zelda, will insist on being fed at certain times of day, only to refuse to eat what’s put in front of him. So you’re going to pester the shit out of us for the 40 minutes prior to your feeding time- meowing, knocking things off the table, knocking things off the balcony over the stairway, nomming plastic loudly, scratching the furniture- and then, THEN you have the balls to turn your nose up at the food YOU BEGGED FOR?! You have no qualms about licking your own (and the other cat’s) ass, you frequently taste test random bits of who-knows-what off the floor, but the Friskies Mariner’s Catch is beneath you.
I was just tweeting about how I spent $80 on cat litter, and it occurred to me what a wonderful blog post that would make!
I’m only half joking.
First of all, $80 sounds like a lot, but this amount will last me an entire year with two cats. Ha, now you’re wondering what my secret is, aren’t you?
Silica crystal litter is the answer. This stuff is AWESOME. It is stick-your-nose-right-up-to-the-litterbox-and-barely-smell-a-thing awesome. Not that I would stick my nose in a litter box… *cough* Ahem…
Seriously though, I have two super pooper cats. I swear they each crap three times a day. And they whiz twice as often. Add on the fact that Mr. Saxby has been known to show his disapproval for a stinky litterbox by pissing on the carpet, and you’ll understand that I mean business.
Saxby aka The Carpet Pisser
Don’t let his fancy looks fool you.
Anyway, I really can’t say enough good things about the silica litter. There is almost no smell. The crystals are big enough (at least the brand I use) that the cats don’t track it all over the house… there’s nothing like finding a little pile of litter on your BED.
AND the way the silica works is by drying the bejesus out of the pee and poo. No more damp clumps of piss-soaked clay! The cat crap winds up looking a lot like fossilized dinosaur shit, so I just pretend I’m an archeologist looking for hidden treasures when I clean the litter box.
If you’ve seen the silica litter at the store, you might have noticed it’s kind of expensive. One little jug will last you a whole month (or more), but if you want it on the cheap, the best place I’ve found is PetFoodDirect.com. That $80 gets me about 60 pounds of the litter, which lasts me an entire year with 2 cats.
I had expected that 60 lbs to only last 4 months when I bought it last year. I’d forgotten that my cats much prefer going outside, if they have the choice. I don’t think the litter needed to be changed all summer, because they barely touched it. So if you have indoor cats, you’ll probably go through it faster.
Obviously, I’d suggest that you try the litter before buying it in bulk. Some cats are super picky and might need to be weened onto it. Other cats might refuse to use it altogether.
But I definitely recommend trying it. If you wanna buy from PFD, I used the coupon code CABIN5 for 10% off. That $80 includes shipping, by the way. I recall figuring out that 60 lbs (which is 3 boxes of litter) ships for the same price as 1 box, which is why I bought so much at once.
Hello dear readers!
It’s been 60 degrees the past few days, and it’s starting to feel like fall here in the Kalamazizzle. My favorite season! Halloween, crunchy leaves, fire place a-roarin’, and perfect weather for soup! Not that I need such an excuse for soup. I’ve never understood the concept of seasonal dishes- to me, ice cream is just as appropriate in winter, and soup is just as delicious in the suffocating heat of summer.
I’m a raging soup fiend, you see. I could live on a good chicken noodle. In fact I once tried to order seconds of the chicken noodle soup for dessert (instead of the chocolate brownie bomb melty things everyone else was getting) in this really kickass restaurant in Pennsylvania, only to be thwarted by the fact that they were OUT! I still look back on that day in sadness.
I am aware that other people don’t quite share my love for soup, so I take every chance to sneak it in whenever the opportunity presents itself. “Hey look! It’s cold! Let’s have soup!”
The soup du jour for this entry? Roasted Butternut Squash, a house favorite.
Creamy Butternut Squash Soup!
