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Friday, July 18, 2014

As most of you know Grandma went in for surgery on her knee today. She's already out and in recovery. The doctor said it went well but that he had to repair more ligaments than he did with her other knee so this recovery may take longer or be somewhat more painful :(

Please send her good vibes and positive thoughts of health and healing while she starts the recovery process.

So lovely.

And I almost forgot! There may be a little visitor in town from the South West region! I'll give you a hint. It may be one of these two....

I'd go with the more innocent looking of the pair

Why the stink face, ma?

Cat Facts. Part Deux

The week after our successful cat-fact episode with Oryan we racked our brains for our next unsuspecting cat-fact victim.

There were many failed attempts. I don't know how people automatically assume this is me....??

We were wondering if we would ever again pull off another successful cat-fact! But then, when in doubt just cat-fact a parent.

I texted Becca to see if Eric was at home and told her what I was about to do so she could monitor his reactions....

I like how he responded with 'cancel' just in case you had to follow the cat-fact rules precisely....

During this time I was asking Becca what he was doing. She said she could see him texting but he wasn't saying anything to anyone.

Still not saying anything to anyone about getting cat-fact messages on his phone.

He really did miss an "s". My Mom asked him who he was texting and he said it was some dumb robot sending him cat facts. LOL

At this point I can imagine he was about ready to throw his phone across the room. And I wasn't really expecting a text back so we both went to bed. And then 5 minutes later Christina came running into my room with the last message from him!

I assured her that he didn't really call Verizon and even if he had Verizon WOULDN'T CANCEL A CELL PHONE FOR SENDING CAT FACTS.... they would simply tell the person to block the sender. "Jokes on us" almost. But still a good try :)

Then it was Dad's turn at playing cat-fact victim. I had planned it a week in advance knowing that Becca was going out to eat with him on Thursday night.

I sent him the standard "welcome to cat facts" messages and then started in with a myriad of facts.

1. Every year, nearly four million cats are eaten in Asia. <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>
2. Approximately 24 cat skins can make a coat. <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>
3. According to Hebrew legend, Noah prayed to God for help protecting all the food he stored on the ark from being eaten by rats. In reply, God made the lion sneeze, and out popped a cat. <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>
4. On average, cats spend 2/3 of every day sleeping. That means a nine year old cat has been awake for only three years of its life. <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>
5. Unlike dogs, cats do not have a sweet tooth. Scientists believe this is due to a mutation in a key taste receptor. <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>
6. The technical term for a cat's hairball is "bezoar." <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>
7. A group of cats is called a "clowder." <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>
8. Female cats tend to be right pawed, while male cats are more often left pawed. Interestingly, while 90% of humans are right handed, the remaining 10% of lefties also tend to be male. <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>
9. A cat cannot climb head first down a tree because its claws are curved the wrong way. To get down from a tree, a cat must back down. <To cancel Daily Cat Facts reply, 'cancel'>

He never responded directly to the messages but the play-by-play we were getting from Becca was priceless.

Becca asked Dad if he wanted her to text cancel to see if they would stop and he said yes, so she did. And he really wasn't into responding but after a while he sure got to liking all the unique and interesting facts about cats!!

At one point Becca saw him start scrolling through all the messages and he goes "HEY, who said "cancel"???? And Becca said - I did, Dad. you asked me to. He said NOOOO I want to see what they're going to keep sending me!!

I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard.

He still doesn't know it was us. I sent him another random cat fact on Friday but no response. Guess we'll keep em coming.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Cat facts. Part One

There is a new phenomenon taking over the inter-webs....FACTS ABOUT CATS.

When you think about it, you can never know too much about cats. Who doesn't talk about cats at least 32-37 times a day? In a given conversation I usually reference at least 4-5 cat facts, whether relevant to the topic of conversation, or not.

In all seriousness these cat fact texts are quite FUNNY. And so are the reactions of the receiving individual (aka "cat-fact-victim").

It all started one boring afternoon while Christina and I were looking for something to do. Out of the blue she received a text from one of her humorous friends and relayed our boredom to him. He asked if she had ever heard of "cat facts" and the rest was history. The first victim was Oryan because he was in close proximity and he didn't have the phone number of the texting cat fact friend.

Here is how it started:

whaaaaaat......me?????

The hysterical part about all of this was the fact that Oryan didn't say anything to us for quite a while. He silently kept texting cat facts back telling it to stop, thinking that he did in fact accidentally sign up for such a silly service. Until he showed Christina and said "is this Rachel?" "of course it's not Rachel. She's right here and her phone is over there."

So on cat facts went, texting poor, unsuspecting, Oryan. As soon as we got in the car, Christina asked her friend to start sending more facts so we could see him actually check his phone! But cat fact friend was actually starting to run out of cat facts! He said most people threaten to call the cops by now! Oryan is too patient!

And so we had to start plotting our next cat-fact-victims...

Stay tuned tomorrow for Cat Facts Part Deux, where things really get funny! And Dad, if you're reading this. I'm sorry.