Humpty!

Last night's dance class was a great one. People were prompt, classes started on time, and it seems like everyone is refreshed from the summer break and ready to get down to business. The two tap routines (3?) we started were neat, and the jazz seems like it will be a lot of fun. Its a very smooth almost soft-shoe like jazz to "Delovely" by Cole Porter. This version is from the recent movie soundtrack (versus "Anything Goes" directly) which reminded me, I still haven't seen it. I need to bump it up on my netflix list. I had finished reading the front half of my Tap Encyclopedia (and flipped through the back glossary bit) and I made copies of the history of tap dance section to leave for people at the studio. I'm on to my next book, finally giving "Love in the Time of Cholera" a chance (picking it up from the library tonight).

Post class I headed home to spend some time with Brian in the den and watch Dancing with the Stars. This season's performers seem to be a bar above the last, with not too many being totally uncoordinated. I'm very surprised with how well Jerry Springer is doing. I'm not a fan of reality TV but I love talent shows - particularly dance. I think its a throwback to my formative TV years of Dance Fever, Solid Gold, Community Auditions and Star Search. :)

I learned this morning that contrary to what I thought, I'm NOT eligible for free lifetime membership using WW online (there is something about that on a FAQ section on the site). This is 6 weeks that I've been within my goal range. I decided today to cancel membership to the site, so I won't have that resource directly anymore. I think I'll still be fine with keeping up on things via other nutritional websites, peeking into Brian's computer from time to time, and the cookbook we have. I'm still planning on weighing myself each Wednesday just to monitor things, and if I start to slide I'll know to keep on top of it at the time (I tend to gain a bit of weight over the fall and winter normally anyway, but don't want to go nuts with it).

This week starts concert craziness: Journey/Def Leppard this week, Megadeth next, Iron Maiden after that. Its already going to be a busy fall, and I've held off on making plans on some things so that stuff wouldn't be too crazy. :)

Kitties

Mal and Jayne are getting more and more comfortable with us, and our routines. Its weird thinking of how things were before them, because we've all kind of settled in together.

Jayne's new thing is sitting in our downstairs bathroom sink. He fills the whole thing since its small (and he's decidedly not). He seems to love water, and will climb into whatever sink he can. Weird cat.

Mal was freaked out by the little ladybug on the heel part of my slippers last night, and he would cautiously approach, bat at the "bug", and back off a bit. Jayne walked right up and smelled it, confirming it wasn't in fact a bug and Mal seemed to calm down a bit after that. Alas, he didn't care about them later in the night when I tried to get him to do it again for Brian.

Those slippers are really comfy by the way, though every piece of lint in my house sticks to them.

In not so happy kitty news, my Sister's cat isn't doing very well at all. She's the last of the three kittens that my siblings and I picked out 22 years ago, and she's been having more shaky face tremors as of late, and is vomiting most of what she's eating. I'm glad at least now that my Sister is settled in her new house, and that they can bury Toni there if they want to.

Here's an old pic of the three of them soon after we first brought them home all of those years ago (Toni is the one with more white than white+orange): http://www.diabolis.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=282&pos=22 . Please keep her (and my Sister and Nephew) in your thoughts.

Who knew?

I guess cats in sinks is common enough to warrant its own website: http://catsinsinks.com/ (thanks, L!) :)