The Kat House

The 2,996 Project was created in order to honor each victim of 9/11. You can sign up for the project here, and you will be randomly assigned a 9/11 victim. The idea is that each victim will be honored on a blog on September 11, 2006. When I signed up a few minutes ago, I [...]

A new month, a new challenge! The August theme for Self Portrait Challenge is Enclosed Spaces. Here is my first contribution. My friend Barry participated this week as well. This is his third week of Self Portrait Challenge. You can check out his half-nekkid body in an enclosed space here. Now it’s your turn to [...]

Blogathon 2006 was a huge success, raising over $100,000 for various charitable organizations. I can’t wait to be a part of Blogathon 2007. Anyone want to be part of my team? Barry blogged from 9 PM Saturday night until 3 AM Sunday morning, and yours truly kept him company. And get this – he wrote [...]

Molly has been sick for the last several days, so I took her to the vet this morning. She’ll be just fine, but as for me, that might be a different story. I have a serious pain in the pocketbook. Molly has had vomiting and other gastro-intestinal problems for the last three days, so that [...]

I have been a vegetarian now for almost seven weeks! Three people have mentioned that they have noticed my weight loss. I’ve averaged losing about a pound per week. Sean Michael Currier, a Christian singer on my MySpace friend list, left a comment wishing me a happy birthday last month. He asked for my address [...]

Feast One-hundred & Four – Friday, July 28, 2006 Appetizer – What’s the funniest dream you can remember having? This seems funny now, but at the time, it was terrifying! I take daily prescription eyedrops to control my glaucoma. In my dream, I was lying on my bed, getting ready to use my eyedrops. As [...]

It was two months ago today that I first met Brico in person. It has been a wonderful two months! Out of curiosity, I went back to see when Brico and I first “met” via our blogs. The first comment he left on my blog was on September 1, 2005. Thus began a beautiful friendship [...]

My friend Barry is participating in Blogathon 2006 on July 29-30. Participating bloggers must post every 30 minutes for 24 hours. Barry will be co-blogging with two other people, and their charity of choice is Farm Aid. You can check out their blog here. So far, there are 379 blogs set up for Blogathon 2006, [...]

Thanks so much to Belly for finding out just who Cootie Brown really was! According to the Farmer’s Almanac, Cooter (Cootie) Brown lived along the Mason-Dixon Line at the start of the Civil War. He had family on both sides. Not wishing to be drafted by the North or the South, he decided to get [...]

See, I wear my seat belt! Now it’s your turn to take the Self Portrait Challenge!