How is this my life? ... and overheards and overseens.

[resonant]

So today I buried a headless baby rabbit that had somehow shown up on my lawn. Possibly this is the suburban Mafia at work. Also, the cat threw up on the catechism. I don't even know why we still have a catechism. There are no Catholics left in this house unless one of the cats has converted.

So here are some of the fruits of my eavesdropping.

At the coffee shop: "Stanford is where money swims upstream to spawn."



At the coffee shop:
"You like my sweater? It's new. It will last thirty years."
"Thirty years from now, you'll be a hundred years old. You just might want different clothes."

In the choir room: "I am so ready for Lent to be over. I want to hear a major chord again."

Kidlet: "Recycled paper has been paper before. It knows what to do."

At the coffee shop: "This kid wasn't all that disruptive; he was just worthless."

Choirmaster: "You want to run through it one more time?"
Two college girls who have been pressed into service singing the guys' part because none of the men showed up: "If you make us sing it one more time, we won't be tenors any more."

Kidlet: "Want to see what I did with the kitten? See, he works for a newspaper, so he has to be locked up in a cubicle."

Me: "He's such a happy cat. Why is he so happy?"
Spouse: "His wants do not exceed the nut-sized capacity of his brain."

Comments

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, I once had to wring the neck of a baby rabbit. I was dog-sitting and the dog caught the baby rabbit and injured it badly, so that I felt compelled to put it out of its misery. In penance I then reread Watership Down...

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I don't know if I'd have had the courage.

[tealin.livejournal.com]

Oh man, thank you for the laugh! Those overheard snippets were wonderful.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[celli]

Cante hairballed on one of my rough drafts once. Everyone's a critic. *sigh*

(she was right, too, it was much better after the rewrite.)

[kbhiddema.livejournal.com]

Our cat once peed all over our copy of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff. Since I'm pretty sure she's not religious, it may have been literary criticism. Or she was trying to tell us to clean the litter box right the fuck NOW, thankyouverymuch.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

The saddest thing about this is that it confirmed us in our slovenly ways: the Catechism was lying horizontally on top of a shelf of books, and if it hadn't been there, I would have been cleaning cat vomit off the top of a whole row of books.

[kbhiddema.livejournal.com]

The copy of Lamb was next to the bathtub. Because one or the other of us had been reading. In the tub.

But the fact that the Catechism saved other books is good, right? Isn't that what religion is supposed to do, save others? That book just might make it into heaven!

I'm hyped up on decongestants and nervous as hell about our big event tomorrow - that, and I'm weird. Sue me.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Greater love hath no book ...

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! Delightfully funny, thanks for sharing! I particularly liked the Lenten comment, because that is just so true! I think it must be written down somewhere, "Thou shalt not write a hymn to be sung duringst the period of Lent that is written in a major key." Heh.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Lenten music tends to aim for the solemn, but this year ours overshot and ended up in the lugubrious.

[incidental-fire.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's...almost impressive. One way to make sure we're all rooting for Easter to come once again, I suppose. :)

[amalthia]

rofl

[vass]

In the choir room: "I am so ready for Lent to be over. I want to hear a major chord again."

*sympathy*

Kidlet: "Want to see what I did with the kitten? See, he works for a newspaper, so he has to be locked up in a cubicle."

Ahahahahahahahahahaha. Your kidlet is very creative.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

The spouse works for a newspaper, but I don't know if he told her cubicles were prisons or if she thought that one up on her own.

[20thcenturyvole.livejournal.com]

My cat once brought home a headless banded sea snake. He didn't die, so I assume he managed to avoid chewing on any venom sacs, but he did look damn proud when he deposited it at my mother's feet. My mother, of course, had to pick it up with a stick and bury it, while me and my siblings ran around going "OMG SO COOL!", my dad hid in a corner flailing his hands in disgust, and said cat trotted alongside her going, "What do you mean you don't like it?"

Sorry, just... talk of burying small headless animals does bring back memories. Ah, cats.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

That's pretty impressive. My Aunt Bet used to live by a creek, and her enormous tribe of motheaten barn cats would bring home dead copperheads.

[worn-words.livejournal.com]

awwww, poor kitty locked in his cubicle! I hope he at least has internet access.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

bwah!

Well, unlike other cubicle dwellers, he got to crouch down and pounce on the feet of all passersby.

[cat-latin.livejournal.com]

Awesome, and once again, the kidlet wins.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

She's her parents' kid, for better and worse.

[trickofthedark.livejournal.com]

Our cat (back when I was a kid) once brought us a headless rabbit, a big one. My mother got rid of it screaming in disgust. The cat watched this, attempted to translate this odd action into Cat Sense, and 30 minutes later brought us an entire live rabbit uninjured and complete with head, which he let loose in the kitchen. We told him he was a good kitty and made much of him and he stopped bringing us things. :/

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Oh, cat logic!

I'm told that you can train a cat to hunt for you, if your cat likes to bring you live or nearly-live prey. If you gut the carcass in front of the cat and give it the offal immediately, it will think you are the most wonderful and helpful monkey ever, and will bring you as much similar prey as it can. My grandparents knew several families that made it through the Depression this way.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I have told these two stories to so many people! Almost makes me want to let Barnabas out and see if he brings us anything.

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

Kidlet: "Recycled paper has been paper before. It knows what to do."

Kidlet is teh cool :D

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thx! We got her for the entertainment value.

[orpheus-samhain.livejournal.com]

I never thought about it but indeed recycled paper is better than the common one.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

We can all use a little practice!

[cjk1701.livejournal.com]

Kidlet: "Recycled paper has been paper before. It knows what to do."

Has the kidlet read anything by Terry Pratchett? :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

She reads the Tiffany books obsessively -- is that a Pratchettism? When I asked her, she said she was thinking of Pippi Longstocking preferring ships that had been shipwrecked before because they knew what to do.

[cjk1701.livejournal.com]

Hee, that's brilliant. :)

The thing that came immediately to mind is one of the plot points of The Truth, that it's blasphemy of sorts to use type for, say, a book of Magic and then take the type apart to use it for a cooking recipe, because once the letters have been magic they retain the characteristics of it. I'm not explaining very well, am I?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd forgotten that part!

[chickwriter.livejournal.com]

Recycled paper has been paper before. It knows what to do

Dude, sympathetic magic! ::g:: (teh kidlet is tres amusing)

I <3 your snippets o'eavesdropping.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm glad!

[scoradh.livejournal.com]

Me: "He's such a happy cat. Why is he so happy?"
Spouse: "His wants do not exceed the nut-sized capacity of his brain."

A parable of life, I feel.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

He's the happiest warmblooded creature in the house.

On the other hand, he has run at top speed headfirst into my ankle at least twice, so the lack of brains is causing some problems.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Recyled paper!! *loves*

I am very interested in the Stanford remark... :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Your future home, eh? The spouse confirms that it is indeed a spawning ground for money.

[myalexandria.livejournal.com]

maybe it got ahold of some communion after all?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Evidently it didn't agree with her.

[bravecows.livejournal.com]

Kidlet: "Recycled paper has been paper before. It knows what to do."

Heeee! I love your quotes posts.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I ahve an excuse to keep making them! I've been collecting quotes since high school.

[bipagan.livejournal.com]

The idea that your cat converted and your suburban mafia decapitates rabbits gave me bad bad funny mental images. For example, it may not have been the mafia but rather that particular bunny lost during the sword match with another immortal.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

There can be only Bun!

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

Your kidlet is the best kidlet ever.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I recommend them. It's like having small aliens in the house.