Scamperdoo the Ham - posing in the garden

[sugarplumkitty]

Dainty girl

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[ex-nyxluna594.livejournal.com]

what a gorgeous kitty!!

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

Thanks! She's my little sweetheart. Good thing she's beautiful, because she's not too bright. LOL

[kitfoxx.livejournal.com]

I never realized she was calico! You can't really see anything but black and white in your icon. She's gorgeous. (:

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, the orange on her head disappears in tiny pictures.

Here she is from behind:

[kitfoxx.livejournal.com]

hee hee that picture makes me want to call her lardo! d;

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

She's very flat when she lies like that! She has manx hips that swivel out sideways. But she is fat, there's no doubt about it!

[sweet-byrd.livejournal.com]

It looks like she might be a cousin of one of Mike's parents cats.

[yrushallow.livejournal.com]

Pretty! This isn't a calico, right? I saw every color but gray. Pretty cat though. Do you live in a country setting? I have stopped letting ANY cats outside at my house since Peepers got sick. They all think its like the movie "1984" here. I don't care. I live in a busy traffic neighborhood and don't want to (and cannot afford to) worry about them getting into tangles with cars, raccoons or rabid mice.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

She's calico. The ones with grey are dilute calico.

You're probably thinking the kitten we rescued was white, but that's because when Eric caught sight of her, it was her white fur that he saw.

[yrushallow.livejournal.com]

So which kitten is this? Do you still have her? This is one of the most reasons why I friended you. That story I really could relate to.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

There's a cat in commercials the last two years that looks just like her, too. The only difference is that our baby only has a stump tail and the one in commercials has a long one.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

She's the one that was thrown from a truck at the wildlife refuge. The one you friended me because of!

[yrushallow.livejournal.com]

Ahh. What a pumpkin. You are a kind person and I think you are actually lucky to have found Eric too. When did you meet him?

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

We met a little over 14 years ago when he was the guest speaker at my al-anon ACA meeting.

[yrushallow.livejournal.com]

Really? What does ACA mean? My friend Beth was in ACA. but I don't know what ACA means.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

Adult Children of Alcoholics

My mom, thankfully, got sober just before our wedding.

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

She is such a pretty cat! =)

[yrushallow.livejournal.com]

Oh. I should be a member of that organization. I didn't know it existed. My dad stopped drinking in 1980 (I was a freshman in high school). I think his damage was already done to himself (he had 80 mini strokes in 2000 and he has coronary artery disease and he made me strange and not mainstream to deal with.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

That may be why we're friends. We find each other. I was able to undo a lot of emotional damage through the program. So was my hubby. I think my happiest result is that I led the way to sobriety for my parents. I started going because I was tired of not fitting anywhere and I'd realized my resentment toward my mom was toxic to me. I needed to get rid of it. A guy I was dating led me there.

I educated my sister who was in denial about Mom's alcoholism - we knew she was crazy, just not why - and we were able to step in with an intervention when the time was right. Both parents ended up diagnosed as alcoholics and put into a year-long outpatient program. It saved their marriage and started Mom on a path of healing I'm still amazed about. They had 10 truly happy years of marriage before we lost my dad to Hodgkin's disease.

Today, I have the relationship with my mom I always wanted. I love her and I'm proud of her.

You know, I almost hemmed and hawed and said we met at a "self-help group." There's a whole anonymity thing about program. I'm very open about my end of it. Eric is a bit more discreet.
I'm so glad now I didn't!

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We think so too! Who knew that the scrap of filthy starving kitten we rescued would turn out to be such a beauty?

[dolphingirl.livejournal.com]

Oooh, she's beautiful! And I didn't know she was a calico either :)

[san-simeon-girl.livejournal.com]

Wow, she's beautiful from the front, and HUGE from the behind! Or is it that the way she is draped over the arm of the couch just makes her look huge?

At least she knows how to relax!!

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

It's a little of both. She's manx, and has a tendency to be a kitty brick. Since she has severe arthritis in her lower back, she's sedentary.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

I guess I should share pictures more often!

[angelsmum.livejournal.com]

(^_^) Lucky Scamperdoo.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

Lucky us. She's a blessing.

[yrushallow.livejournal.com]

I found you though Yeoww and mainly because you are a very kind, compassionate, helpful person. You wrote me posts on my kitties when they were sick (and when I was posting to yeoww) and it intrigued me enough to look you up and read your journal. Even after reading your journal I still didn't know you were a child of an alcoholic. I got the whole animal kindness and changing careers (we have that in common too) and friended you without further reading.

[sugarplumkitty.livejournal.com]

I'm glad!

[yrushallow.livejournal.com]

me too!