INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY -- Post 'em if you got 'em. Giselle!

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

First two are Miss Millie, my heart cat who passed about 2 yeas ago. Then Spooky who passed in 1999. Then Cocoa my first heart cat that I grew up with. then Nala who I had for a bit but now lives with my youngest daughter, and is quite old now.

Kiri Kiri & Wisspurr Wisspurr Purrin Purr-Dee Kiri & Purr-Dee Wisspurr Stormy & babies ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

Beautiful fur babies!

My furr-babies!! Rory and Theodosia (Thea) and Parker

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

Pretty babies!

A question for survivors.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

My personal opinion is that counseling can't hurt. It can help you sort out the confusion. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Good luck to you, it's been quite a journey.

Where can I get one?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

I want one!! NOW!

This was my favorite pastime when I was a child, how about you?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

I remember playing often with my sister. We used a slightly different layout.

My cat thinks my head is a pillow.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

My cats think I am a pillow, and trampoline, and generally here for their amusement and service. OMG, they're right!

Seems like Traitor Trump needs a little push... Who will sign up?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

Thanks for posting, wonderful stuff!!

This is my reaction to most of the orange wonder’s lies.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 8, 2018:

Cats and Trump bashing, like perfect!! Thanks for posting!

Do men have a duty to provide?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

In this day and age it is the need and responsibilities for all parties to contribute to the family well being. You are working for your future to provide a better life for you and your son. Why isn't your ex getting off her ass and working for her kid? Stay the course, it will be better for you in the long run. When you are in a better place you can contribute to your kid.

@Donotbelieve: the other day you posted a pic of your kitty, Chomper.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Poor baby!! Lucky baby!! My heart cat that passed about 18 months ago was blind due to a congenital eye condition. Her eyes got so bad I asked the vet to just take them out. She was blind about 5 years and I moved 3 times with her. She always found the litter box, my bed, where ever I was , and food. I had a roommate for a few months that was legally blind. She used to cadge food from him and he was soft enough to give in to her.

I am 100% against circumcision it's a form of religious child abuse no different to FGM.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

When I was pregnant with #3, I discussed circumcision with my ex/father of my children. His opinion was that because he was baby should be. It became a moot issues cuz #3 was another girl. I would not choose to do it for my own child. However, my first ex was not circumcised and not into good person hygiene. ICK.

This is going to be a long 80 days waiting for these bananas

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Waiting sucks but the rewards!!

There, there

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Who's the fragile snowflake now?

Seems accurate.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Very apt description! Thanks for posting!

Does religion equal goodness

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

OMG, you look at the headlines. The xians screaming at people of color, worried about sharing a stall next to a trans person, worried about gays adopting babies or getting married and on and on and on. Aside from the fact I know some truly great Christians who really embody the best of humankind, I'm not too impressed with Xian generosity, kindness, gentleness, or intelligence. So, no religion is about the opposite of goodness.

This explains it. Lol.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Yep!!

Wise words.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

For sure!

Don't disturb the cat.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Nope, when I gotta pee the cats gotta go!

Well played Air Force One...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Thanks for posting!

We waited 2,000 years for this?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Perfect, thanks for posting!

Mueller's coming

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Perfect, just shared to FB. thanks for posting!

I've still been down today but I just pulled a pre-emptive strike -- a nice cup of coffee and some ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

You're doing good, just remember one day at a time.

Bill Cosby wasn't offensive enough to have his star removed, but this guy . . . [nypost.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

YAY!! I hope it is gone soon!

Remember those two gray hair fat boys with a t-shirt saying: I rather be a Russian than a Democrat ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Perfect!! Thanks for posting!

Trump's Americans.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Thanks for posting, these are great!

Here's an interesting one. Barbecued Watermelon! Someone want to try this and let us know?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I have seen that, and it just doesn't look appealing to me.

Hehehe Not happening

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Perfect!!! Thanks for posting!

Donald Trump is literally the official face of lung cancer. [washingtonpost.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

He is a cancer on the soul of America, why not the face of asbestos.

The infamous corgi "sploot"

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

My golden did that as a puppy.

Vote D for democracy, R for Russia.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Love theses, especially the sheep! Thanks for posting!

I’m wondering, if someone is high as fuck, they feel this pressure buildup in their right ear, ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I couldn't even begin to guess.

[facebook.com] Rosie O is Washington DC protest today and interviewed on CNN.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

She can kick some ass and take some names!!

Granny gets high. [facebook.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

l think being on a swing after smoking would be awesome. However, I'd have to move from my bed. My bed needs to swing. I'm a Granny too!

I'll leave this right here.....

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Too funny!

This looks like a berry good pie. [tasty.co]

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

It does look delish!!

That was unexpected.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I get more of a "You talking to me?" reaction.

Republicans “"Sure, our guy is corrupt and a reflexive liar, but so is everyone else in ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

He's better and being an swamp dwelling asshole, what a thing to excel at.

What do you call your mother-in-law?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

Generally I called my inlaws by their first names. They were kind of standoffish, and the daughters in law were not on the same level as the sons.

Mental health warriors: tell me about something you're really good at.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I am a stitcher and quilter. I am good at encouraging. I'm a good mom and grandmother.

This pic showed up in my FB memories from last year.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

A combination of hydrogen peroxide and dish soap will remove stains from carpet. Saturate the stain, put a paper towel over it,and weight it down and it will suck that stain up. I was treating my stains one morning. My dog knocked the weight over and ate the paper towel. I didn't notice, and then we walked down the street to the mail box. Enroute we encountered a huge garter snake. Chief was so excited! His first snake buddy. Then the cleaning mixture hit... and he ran into the grass and hurled his toenails up. When he was done he came back to the snake, took a sniff, and backed off. It was sooo funny, but I'm sure Chiefy didn't think so.

OK.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I'd discuss a second date...

I still sometimes think this reality is some nightmare that I'll wake up from...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

This is the nightmare that never ends.

Good morning

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 7, 2018:

I may need a caffeine central line today

‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

For a rapidly growing share of older Americans, traditional ideas about life in retirement are being upended by a dismal reality: bankruptcy. The signs of potential trouble — vanishing pensions, soaring medical expenses, inadequate savings — have been building for years. Now, new research sheds light on the scope of the problem: The rate of people 65 and older filing for bankruptcy is three times what it was in 1991, the study found, and the same group accounts for a far greater share of all filers. Driving the surge, the study suggests, is a three-decade shift of financial risk from government and employers to individuals, who are bearing an ever-greater responsibility for their own financial well-being as the social safety net shrinks. The transfer has come in the form of, among other things, longer waits for full Social Security benefits, the replacement of employer-provided pensions with 401(k) savings plans and more out-of-pocket spending on health care. Declining incomes, whether in retirement or leading up to it, compound the challenge. Cheryl Mcleod of Las Vegas filed for bankruptcy in January after struggling to keep up with her mortgage payments and other expenses. “I am 70, and I am working for less money than I ever did in my life,” she said. “This life stuff happens.” As the study, from the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, explains, older people whose finances are precarious have few places to turn. “When the costs of aging are off-loaded onto a population that simply does not have access to adequate resources, something has to give,” the study says, “and older Americans turn to what little is left of the social safety net — bankruptcy court.” “You can manage O.K. until there is a little stumble,” said Deborah Thorne, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Idaho and an author of the study. “It doesn’t even take a big thing.” The forces at work affect many Americans, but older people are often less able to weather them, according to Professor Thorne and her colleagues in the study. Finding, and keeping, one job is hard enough for an older person. Taking on another to pay unexpected bills is almost unfathomable. Bankruptcy can offer a fresh start for people who need one, but for older Americans it “is too little too late,” the study says. “By the time they file, their wealth has vanished and they simply do not have enough years to get back on their feet.”

If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be, and why aren't you there already?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

For me, it isn't where I live, it is who I live near. SamSam and Austin are less than 30 minutes away. I'm where I belong and where I want to be.

I wonder; is it possible to learn what can cause people to fall out of love with a significant ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

The opposite of love is indifference. I became indifferent to my ex because he consistently put his xian website above time w/me and the kids. That and he was a condescending conservative twit with no imagination. He watched Fox news when he wasn't working on his website.

Found this growing wild in my sisters Garden last year, can you guess what it is, it's a size of a ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

the leaves look radish-ish

Remember that slow little city garden up in Nova Scotia?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Lovely!!

Are you an adventurous eater?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

I love ethnic foods. I don't eat bugs or hot/spicy foods, but I will try almost anything.

Thanks to cannabis, I am (hopefully not jinxing) about to hit the six months seizure free mark.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Wow!! Good news!!

Cats have come a long ways LOL

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

LOL. My cats still find yarn.

The bond of community in this group is a marvel!??

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

It is what keeps me coming back.

Always ?❤

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

My kids tell me frequently how much they appreciate me, and I tell them all the time how proud of them I am and how I love the people they have become.

Remember you or your mom using this?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

I have a few of them and use them as well!

I can't have kids, so instead I have an Asha "Nugget" Morgoth.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

I have human kids, and they're awesome but I recognize they are not for everyone. I have almost always had a cat, and I tell everyone they are my fur children. They never ask for the car keys, will never need braces, and won't go to college. In fact, a potential relationship interest cooled off when I let him know cats ARE my kids and I will always have cats. Love me, love my cat. Simple as that.

A Sisyphean task.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Thanks for posting!!

Pig of The Year

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Yikes, stuff of nightmares!

New algebra.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

And don't even get into Z or any of that other crap.

Here's an idea.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Excellent choice!! Thanks for posting!

Early in my relationship with my now ex-husband, I had a small crush on a fellow grad student who ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Life is made from the choices we make and the lessons we learn. Good hypothetical situation, and I don't have an answer except that life rarely works out as planned. You spin the wheel and take your chances and move forward, no do overs.

A take on the dogs playing poker picture - the Oatmeal is spot on with this. Love it!

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Too cute!

If you had the opportunity to have a one night stand with and actor actress (past or present), who ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

I would not do a one night stand with anyone. The 20 year old me would have, but she was kinda stupid and not selective or wise.

OK - Advice needed.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Nope, I am hanging on to my job as long as I can. My manager and I have decided I am not working out, so she is going to see what is available in the company that I can move to. They do want to keep me and it is a big company. If nothing is available they will give me a few weeks to find something else. I could end up unemployed in a few weeks. I do have some savings and I'm over 60 so could hit my retirement savings. But it is scary as hell.

What is something in your life that is a point of constant anxiety/stress?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

My job. For two years I've struggled with it. Now we've come to the conclusion I need a new position. My manager is going to reach out to her peers in other departments. Either I will make a lateral move, or be out of the company. I can deal with a bit of unemployment, but it is kind of a relief and scary at the same time.

Good dog Donnie, good dog.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

EWWWW, all great! and EWWWW. Thanks for posting!

Gotta love Orwell...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Love it! Posted the 5th on to FB. Thanks !

Have you ever deliberately gone out in the rain and played as an adult?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

LOL, played football in the rain at Ft. Devens, MA, I was 19. Yeah we got in trouble cuz one of the players sprained a finger which took them out of training for a couple of weeks.

If you could be alone with tRump in a locked room for 5 minutes what would you do?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 6, 2018:

Nope, never want to be that close to that man. That amount of evil/insanity is just too much for me to deal with.

Which one did you have? I had both of them at one time.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

I think at one time we had both of them. I preferred the slinky.

Sir help me?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

This made me think of my childhood kitty. She was so sweet and so accepting. My sister dressed her up in baby clothes. This is Cocoa. She was my first heart cat, and the most gentle cat we ever had. When a small child picked her up, she'd go limp. And when that child put her down, she'd head for the hills. She was perfect for a house full of kids.

Sir help me?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

LOL!! love it!

I'm curious, how many of you have friends and family on this site, and I'm not counting those that ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

I am not related to anyone on this site, and there are 4 people I know in real life on the site. Two are from my humanist group, one person I went out of my way to meet, and one person that I know found the site. My real life family is pretty awesome but busy with their own lives.

A bit literal.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

LOL!

When I was married, it bothered my husband that I didn’t “need” him I always thought he ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Did you ever read Kahlil Gibran's book The Prophet. It is kinda religious, but lots of good stuff in it. On Marriage he wrote: Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Getting in on the act.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

I WANT THIS NOW!!!

I had another date last night.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

I like kissing, but timing is everything.

Cat on cat.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Purrrrrfect!!

Cat cartoon time

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Cute. My cats are my babies. My human babies feel the same way. They're all grown up with cats of their own (and some human babies).

Disclaimer: this is Twitler parody account not the realdonaldtrump.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

These are perfect!! I am sharing the last one on FB.

I forgot the corn that I still had to pick in todays harvest, also want to show the Brazilian ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

My kids like the hot spicy stuff. Me not so much. I tolerate a little wasabi in Sushi once in a while. How hot are the starfish peppers? I have never encountered them before.

My daughters cat Bagels. She looks innocent - anything but .... she’s a rascal

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Who could resist that sweet face!

I'm a big fan of Jim Wright and Stonekettle station.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

And take better care of the veterans!

What Change would you like to see in Politics?

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

I'd like to see an end to the two party system. It does not serve the people adequately. There are so many other shade of political affiliation that needs to be represented. We need to end gerrymandering. We need shorter election seasons. We need to get big money and private influence out of politics, let campaigns be run with tax money, spending limits, and total transparency. We need to end the electoral college, one person one vote. Corporations are not people and should not have a vote. Lobbyists should be banned. Congress needs a heck of a pay cut and total transparency of all donations.

We've a bunch of these guys in our garden this year:

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Beautiful!

Around 2000 I developed ptsd and major depression (clinical, dibilitating, on dissability).

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

I am so sorry you've had such a hard time. You are definitely NOT alone. I am struggling with you and I am terrified. (and now that I have admitted that I'm also crying which is likely a good thing, but sucks.) But no AJ, we're here for you, I'm here for you. Stay strong.

Today's pet rock.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

This is especially funny to me. Back in the 70s Pet Rocks were a thing. I won one from a radio contest in 1975 or 1976. I still have it and I've moved 23 times! I am so proud of my little rock, he is smarter than the president!! Who'd a thunk!

The Dr. Seuss parody is great!

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Thanks for posting! These are great!

Today harvest. and some Bee happy stuff.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

That is way cool!! I Harvested a few tomatoes today. The birds or someone/thing has been hard on them.

My son's cat she looks so mischievous.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

That is a look of intense concentration, better bolt your doors tonight.

Nothing this bizarre has happened to me because of weed...but still

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Awwww! I'd be worried about where the Mama is, and where my dog is. This is anohter reason I don't leave the house under the influence of anything.

...seriously!

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Love it!!

Chomper doesn't like being held.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

The LOOK! He does look like he is simmering....

Thank you all for your great support regarding my post [agnostic.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

You sound like you are surrounded by naysayers and really crappy people. Just a suggestion, but filter what you discuss with people who have a track record of being unsupportive. I know it is hard, but there are not many people I share very much with outside people I really trust. For me, that is kids, my sister, and one GF. And one of my kids gets a strongly edited version because of her living circumstances. How do you define "being in a relationship/" If you have been with someone for an extended period of time that is a relationship. If you've lived with someone but not married them, you've been in a relationship.

I knew it.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

My cats are better company for me than some people I met. I am glad to be a minion to my furballs. They know I think I am in charge, and they let me keep that delusion.

Trump Wants Us To Stop Telling The Truth

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

The truth will set us free, and majorly mess up his administration.

So, I am turning over a new leaf.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Good for you. Work on your first. Be the best you that you can be. Be true to you. Then if that person doesn't show up or doesn't recognize you, you'll still be amazing.

Giant blep, for a big kitty doing what all kitties do...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Just a big sweet kitty!

Twin morons.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Delightful couple, do you suppose their combined IQ is above 5?

When the nip kicks in

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 5, 2018:

Tooo cute!!