The decision: kittens

Lydia — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:20:58 +0000

Even though Adrian would love a couple of Saint Bernards or Dachshunds he has compromised by giving me exactly what I want – two little kittens. I am super excited. I now have four large boxes from the ever-generous Internet that contain all the food and equipment to make our house cat friendly, including a kitty back-pack to bring them home on the train. As they will be living on the 11th floor, they will not have access to any actual trees, but I hope that this structure will suffice:

Image from zooplus

I am in contact with a Chartreux breeder near Charleroi using Google Translate as my intermediary. If Google is correct, the breeder has two female kittens who are currently nine weeks old, and we can go and pick them up in three weeks and bring them home. I may be visiting them this weekend to make my reservation. So now Adrian and I are currently working on potential cat names. He has vetoed names derived from television or movies, and technically Chartreux kittens born in 2009 should start their names with ‘E’. The naming of cats is a difficult matter. This is my current list:

Blauwe Kat and Kattebelletje
Pepper and Mint
Socks and Mittens
Misha-Penguin and Misha-non-Penguin
Hopscotch and Peppermint Whiskers
Moppet and Mittens
Smudge and Sage
Pickles and Pattycakes
Dot and Dash
Hocus and Pocus
Buttercup and Daisy
Midge and Middles
Medley and Mopsy
Bubbles and Buttons
Puddles and Pumpkin
Stardust and Teapot

We haven’t seen our little ones yet, but they should look something like this:

Images from annonces-animalieres

Britney Jean Spears

Lydia — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:21:47 +0000

Yesterday my ticket to see Britney Spears perform at the O2 Arena in London arrived. I bought it way back in December, nervously refreshing my email to get my presale passcode so I could get the best seat. Since then, over one million tickets have been sold, and all eight of the the London dates have been completely sold out. The ticket then had to be posted from England to my mum’s house (credit card billing address) in Australia and then she had to post it to Belgium, all before June 6. It arrived yesterday, so I will indeed be attending The Circus: starring Britney Spears next week.

I feel like I have grown up with her and shared in her many lows and highs. So many people are dismissive of her work, but she is able to make so many people happy and bring a smile to so many faces. I am so proud of her for working so hard, and so glad that I can share in her success. She is younger than I am, yet she has gone through so much more, living under a microscope since she joined the Mickey Mouse club when she was twelve. She has never had the luxury of making her mistakes in private. Yet she has this inner strength that helped her face her fears and doubts to rebuild her life.

The circus tour will be staged in three rings, and will include magicians, acrobatics, aerialists, martial artists, clowns, pyrotechnics and dancers. It will feature the songs Circus, Piece of Me, Radar, Gimme More, Ooh Ooh Baby, Hot as Ice, Boys, If U Seek Amy, Me Against the Music, Freakshow, Get Naked, Breathe on Me, Touch of My Hand, Do Something, Slave, Toxic, Baby One More Time, and Womanizer. The show will take just over one and a half hours, and she will be supported by Ciara.

There is something about Britney that makes her truly special. She has that indescribable “it” factor. People are always rooting for her, even when she was at her lowest lows. We genuinely want to see her succeed! We’ve seen her grow up in front of our eyes, and we love her – shortcomings and all. She may not be perfect, but that’s okay. She’s our Britney. ~ PerezHilton

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The decision: kittens

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