Skinny Chaos

Hello and Happy New Year, blogfriends...I hope the holidays treated all of you well! I wanted to mention that I have recently joined Tumblr, so for those of you with Tumblr accounts, please say hello! I still plan on posting here, but I'll likely have more frequent updates (sketchbook pages, doodles and such) over there.

Anyway, it's been a while since I've posted any stories about Chaos (the ugly-sitting wondercat), so I thought I'd give an update on the little guy. Chaos has always been a voracious eater, and as a person who grew up exclusively around dogs, I wasn't sure how to tackle his weight issues when I first inherited him.
 
When he ballooned to 19 lbs, I took him to the vet, who instructed me to take him off of kibble and feed him a high-protein canned food diet instead.
 
At first, Carrie and I didn't really notice any change in size, but now, months later, he is noticeably smaller!



In addition to being trimmer, Skinny Chaos has a lot more energy. Unfortunately, this means that he's been getting into a bit more mischief than usual.

He is lighter now, and so he can jump onto places he was simply too heavy to reach before...

 

 He seems to want to hide in places he doesn't normally hide:

While Skinny Chaos seems to be embracing the physical freedom his newfound lightness provides him, he hasn't entirely adjusted to his change in size. The other night, this happened:

Overall though, I think Skinny Chaos is a happier, more playful cat than Fat Chaos was. And though he's been on a pretty strict diet, we let him have do let him have his carbs once in a while:

Being Sick this Weekend and Encountering the Taylor Swift Guy...

I ended up being at CTN-X this weekend for a total of maybe 3 hours. Much of that time was spent sitting at a table at the bar, nursing a mug of tea in a near catatonic state. Basically I came down with some cold or flu almost immediately after I arrived on Saturday afternoon, and when I woke up Sunday morning I was feeling too terrible to go back. I'm still really bummed out that I didn't get a chance to meet a lot of you guys, especially those of you who came such a long way to be at the convention!

But alas, this was me on Sunday morning, feverish, wishing I could have been there:

 After sleeping away most of the day, I ventured out to the market seeking ingredients for chicken soup. While I was there, I witnessed something kind of amazing:

You can't make this kind of dialogue up. Ran into these two in the cereal aisle sometime later, before the song was finished playing...the guy seriously knew every. Single. Lyric. I almost wish that damned "Call Me Maybe" song had come on immediately afterward just so I could see the other guy in his element.

Post-It Doodles and Fake Boobs

Happy Monday, friends! I decided to put up some quick post-it doodles that Carrie and I exchanged today as they were far too silly not to share.

Friday was Carrie's birthday, and a few of us went to grab dinner at a place in Hollywood. Our waitress was a slender girl who wore an incredibly form fitting, low cut top that prominently displayed her obviously enhanced chest. It was seriously distracting...

At some point in the evening, I felt some unnaturally firm, round object rest on my shoulder. After a few moments, I realized that this was what was happening:

I actually don't think she noticed....

Carrie pointed out that I had actually drawn our waitress in too modest a top and reminded me that she was in fact showing way more skin. Here were her hilarious interpretations:

We tried to generally recall what our waitress looked like.


My first attempt:

This was my second attempt:

Carrie's next attempt:

Mine:

Carrie's:

 (I freaking love the booblashes..nice touch, Carrie)


If any of the rest of you guys who were there that night want to offer your own interpretation of the subject, please post them or send them to me because I'd love to see your take on this....