My husband calls me at work all the time and most of the time I just let it go to voicemail. Here’s why:
*ring*
Me: This is Jenny.
Victor: Hey, why don’t they make chocolate slurpees?
Me: Um…what?
Victor: Chocolate slurpees. Why don’t they exist?
Me: They do. They’re called Mocha Frappuccinos.
Victor: Nope. Not the same thing. Frappuccino’s don’t have that little spoon on the end of the straw like slurpees do.
Me: Those are Icees, not slurpees.
Victor: Next time I go into Starbucks I’m going to be all, “I want a spoon on my straw, a-hole!” How else are you gonna get that little last bit in the bottom, huh? Spoon straw!
Me: ?
Victor: They need to join forces, 7-11 and Starbucks.
Me: Mochaslurpeeccino?
Victor: Or maybe a slurpamachiato. Now that would be an Unholy Union.
Me: So did you actually need something from me or…?
Victor: Doo-Doo, Wa-Wa.
Me: Huh. What was that?
Victor: That’s my Anti-Christ music.
Me: Of course it is.
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Bubba update: He’s home and he seems much happier but he still can’t use his back legs although his thighs are starting to work more, and the purple foot is way pinker. Yay! He’ll be living in our bathtub for the next 6 weeks. If he can’t get back at least one leg by then we’ll put him down. And before you judge me, it’s a garden tub, so yeah, it’s pretty swanky. Also, we had him shaved so he’ll be easier to clean. Mindy was all “Oh God, you aren’t going to show your poor, shaved tub-cat on your blog are you?” and the answer is: Of course I’m going to show my shaved, paralyzed tub-cat on my blog. That’s pretty much what blogs are made for. I’m surprised you didn’t know this.
My dog told me that when he gets to the point that I have to put him down he wants to be shot out of a cannon over Snake Canyon (just like Evil Knievel).
Oh also, he told me to listen to Nirvana’s Incesticide backwards to get his next orders.
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I missed the previous posts about your cat, sorry. It sounds like there is some improvement…I hope things continue to improve for him!
Also, I call those drinks “slushies”.
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He’s soo cute. But he looks soo pissed.
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I really like the lion tail look. On your cat. I’m talking about your cat.
Tell your husband to just take some extra spaws (stroons?) from the quickie mart and keep them stocked for his trips to Starbucks. Like you’ve got nothing to do but solve his world problems on your blog?! You’ve got an ass-bald cat to care for!
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Aaaaawwww. Yay Bubba! Funny, ‘cuz my thighs are just starting to work again today too (working out, nothin’ dirty ;). We are like twins! 7-11 joining forces w/ Starbucks. New axis of evil!
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Your Husband is a phenomenal thinker and I would follow him to heck and back about a Slurpeemachiato.
As for Bubba, it’s not funny, but it’s funny. I’m glad he is doing better.
This is so cute. (The conversation and Bubba, both.)
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The labels on the picture made my day. Thanks! On a Friday it’s exactly what I needed.
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Glad Bubba is home and making your life oh so much easier! Maybe he just needs a slurmouseiatto or something like that!
Thanks for the laugh, Jenny.
Aw, poor angry shaved tub-cat. I hope he keeps getting better.
And your husband has a good point. I guess Starbucks thinks they’re too fancy for spoon straws… Pretentious pigs.
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Bubba! I am unhealthily obsessed with your health updates. Also your owner, but whatever. Feel better, smush face.
I reckon that by the time Bubba’s legs are better he will have hatched an awesome plan to get you back for that photo!
Excellent stuff!
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Geez Jenny, now it just seems mean that you were commenting about running in the panty wind when Bubba can’t even walk. Poor poor Bubba. Hey! You need to make a Bubba movie! Seriously it would be GREAT.
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in my experience, persians are pretty darn happy with a lion clip: they get loads of attention for their weirdness and they snuggle close. i think bubba looks slammin’.
oh, and why is it that it’s GUYS who are always after the girliest damned drinks at Starbucks?
That’s better than the conversation I had with my husband yesterday… Men!
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What, no pervy comments about your shaved … cat?
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Oh, your poor cat! But he is too, too cute. I hope he gets better well before six weeks have gone by!
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That is one pissed off looking pussy.
(Sounds dirty…snicker.) I’ve got fingers and toes that Bubba gets better.
I like Mochaslurpeeccino better. LOL.
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The puff at the end of the tail makes it all worth it.
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OMG! You absolutely crack me up! I LOVE your conversations with your hubby. Oh, and tell Mindy that at least you didn’t put pictures of poop up like I did. You are way more tactful than me…
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I just gagged at the thought of a chocolate slurpee.
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My husband and I have those conversations via email, or text message. I swear, teaching him to text was both the best and worst thing I ever did. As usual, y’all’s conversation cracked me up. You’re right re: the frappuccino totally already being a chocolate slurpee, btw.
I am glad to see that Bubba is home with his mama and doing a little better. He looks very handsome with his new buzz cut. 😛
That conversation is hilarious. Slurpamachiato, hah! (You guys should trademark that right now so you can claim your big money later.)
Glad to see Bubba is home and recovering.
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Vicor cracks me up!
Welcome home Bubba:)
Victor’s insane — a chocolate slurpee would just taste like a cold chocolate Tootsie Roll Pop, which itself tastes like rareified cough syurp.
Although, it does remind me of my favorite “chocolate shake” quote:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421460/quotes
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I know this sounds immensely cheesy, but your blog just really makes me happy. This is such a hilarious post, and your poor cat…OMG. I’m sure it’s sad for you, but thank you for the laugh and for showing us his fluffy awesomeness.
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Such conversations are a good indication why it would be a Very Bad Thing(TM) to go off and sell people caffeine concentrate in a 44oz cup.
Besides, I think Sbux tried the death-by-chocolate drink some time back. Just looking at it too intently could give you diabetes!
Oh, and didn’t I see Disgruntled Bubba in a movie several years ago?
~EdT.
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He looks like a little lamb – so precious!
Your husband is wise.
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WTF? You work in accounting now?
I wish I’d known that. Next time YOU divvy up the bar bill.
Okay to read your post…
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Bubba cannot be sulking about the shave because he looks too fab.I know cats know when they look fab.
I believe that is the classic “no photos because your camera sucks the soul from my body” expression popular with cats and small children directly related to me.
I’m glad he’s home, in all seriousness and hope he improves. (hugs) to you because we love our pets.
I’d get a slurpamachiato. With spoon straw. Although…maybe a spork straw, because I like the kind with stuff added in, like at Sonic on Valentine’s Day (brownie bites and cherries).
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Victor’s insane…you should upload your voice mails for an audio blog.
And Bubba? And the “shaved ‘cat'” comments…
oh, my…visually, verbally HEE-LAIR-EE-OUS!!!
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Slurpees are vile. Icees are the bomb though. An Iceemochachino, now there’s something the world is missing out on. Oh, and I think you, Victor, Hailey, and Posey should all shave off all your hair too. You know, like a show of support.
I’m totally craving a chocolate slurpee now. I blame you and Victor. And also, it’s called a SLUSHIE back home. Or a SHIVER. Yum.
Poor wee cat. Will be thinking of him!
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You and Victor are a pretty good match, I think. LOL.
And poor Bubba. He does look disgruntled.
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I forget… what is the URL to Victor’s blog again?
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Sounds like our conversations :. LOL!
You poor kitty! Hope she can use her legs soon.
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At least your husband calls you from work. I have to call mine to find out ANYTHING. (like are you going to be home today?) And then when we are done talking my husband always says to me “Thanks for calling” like I’m some old acquaintance.
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Poor Bubba. I hope he recovers use of that leg. It would be a shame to lose that kind of blog fodder.
I kid, of course. Fingers crossed for Bubba.
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Thank god cat’s don’t have that whole opposable thumb thing going for them. If they did I’m sure they’d figure out how to take pictures of us as payback for all of the time we took pictures of them when when they were in compromising positions.
When ever my husband threatens to shave our cat I warn him that they’ll pay him back by pooping in his shoes. The whole pooping in shoes thing seems to have caught on, so now whenever a cat wants something (ie the bathtub turned on for a little drinky drink) and we refuse their meows the other person immediately shouts POOP IN YOUR SHOES!
Yes, we clearly need help. Further confirmed by my intentions to show this picture of Bubba to my husband as he seems to have fallen in love with that vacuum cleaner commercial where the husband says “well, you can’t shave a cat.”
I don’t know what it is with my husband and shaving pussies. *cough*
Furiousball’s comment made me snort cupcake up my nose. Thanks, man.
So today I was driving Tacy to kindergarten, and we passed a woman walking a dog in some semblance of a dog wheelchair. The dog’s hind legs were strapped into this wheeled contraption, and he was walking with his front legs. Of course Tacy was fascinated (and saddened, sensitive little thing) by the sight, but her big question was “Do they make those for cats too?”
Which in turn made me think of Bubba. Because if you can find a cat-sized version of that same wheeled contraption, I think he’ll be good to go.
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Poor kitty. Did his legs stop working because he was running away from Victor and his antichrist music?
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Bubba, in spite of that sour look, looks pretty good with his shaved body. The little lion tail is too cute. I used to shave my brother (body builder, parts he couldn’t reach).
Victor? It’s a man-thing. My husband comes off the wall with weird stuff like that too…
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Yeah… I can totally relate, except I’m normally the one doing that to my husband!
Hope the cat gets better!
Husbands shouldn’t be allowed telephone access.
Glad Bubba’s home!
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I bet Victor likes sporks, too. I do. Sporks are the SHIT.
Bubba Tub Cat. No, wait.
Bubbatubcat. I like it. I’m glad he’s doing better. He’ll get those legs going, he will.
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That cat has been cracking me up all day long.
Oh Bubba! The indignity of it all! That’s a whole tubba-bubba.
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I missed the post about Bubba too, so I was unable to adequately “read” his expression in this latest photo. Luckily for me it looks like the expressions he has in all the other pics and so his…uh…untimely incapacitation sort of explains what’s going on. He looks to be in a foul humor.
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What a cutie cat! I love his furry head and shaved body. I swear! I think Victor and my husband are related.
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Oh Bubba, you tiger cat! That whole conversation, pre-cat had too many carbs for me.
Hello.
This is totally irrelevant to your topic, but thank you for stopping by my LiveJournal and giving your kind words. It’s nice to know that even a total stranger cares about my existence. I’m speechless, and it made me feel that little bit better about myself.
Thank you very much.
~ Takato
Glad to hear that Bubba is home.
And Victor is odd . . . in case, you hadn’t noticed. But maybe he’s onto something with the union of 7-11 and Starbucks!
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I was going to post a comment about the cat wheelchair but mothergoosemouse beat me to it. People seem to feel really strongly about cat/dog wheelchairs – they either love them or hate them. I think they’re cool. Anyway, if you just type “paralyzed cat cart” (without the quotes, of course) into google, it gives you a bunch of websites that have these carts for cats, and also some youtube videos.
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You, your gimp cat, and your pixellated hubby are Da Bomb.
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PS I just saw your comment at OTJ about the eye holes and cracked right the heck up!
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Oh man, I hope he does ok! And I’m pretty sure Todd would tell you that I’ve called him at work with similar stories to tell. So except for the penis thing and all – I would say Victor and I might be kind of alike.
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You know, he has a point about the spoon-straw. There’s be a lot less of those awful vacuum-y noises in Starbucks in the summer if they’d just put out for the spoon-straws.
And I’m glad your tub cat is on the mend – hope he soon surprises you by springing out of the tub and landing on your lap just when you learn to ignore him and go to the bathrom without eying him nervously.
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It’s just that Bubba can’t talk! My kids add, “And don’t put that on your blog!” to just about every sentence.
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Poor Bubba!
(But I love that they left him a “dignity tuft” of hair on the end of his tail. That’s classy! *grin*)
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That is one bad-assed lookin’ cat! 😉 Hope his hind end starts working so he doesn’t have to go to kitty heaven!
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First, I’m so glad that Bubba is feeling better.
And I really could go for a Mochaslurpeeccino witha spoon straw, I think.
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I got sick from the Blair Witch movie…I have opted out of this one.
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Hi Jenny,
Long time reader, first time commenter.(?)
I do believe that Icee has some sort of frozen coffee concoction now. I remember seeing an ad for it at the Valero corner store last night.
I immediately thought of your husband.
That sounded wrong.
You know what I mean.
Love your blog.
You crack me up.
Sarah, I love first-time commenters. I love your website. I love that you are unintentionally hitting on my husband.
I never thought about the straw spoon…his got a really good point there.
Awww poor pussy cat. Glad he is getting better.
Thanks for the laugh. love it.
Somebody has prolly already said this… but is it wrong that I just laughed at that picture of that cat?
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I was in 7-11 this morning and lo and behold, there, next to the cherry, coke, and blue-flavored slurpees, was a slurpeechino [sic?]. I presume the spoon-bottomed straw is still available. Take that, SBux!
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Mochaslurpeeccino?
LOVE IT!
You and husband both are so hilarious! I stumbled on your site by accident but I love what I’ve read so far…
I wish my hubby would call me to murmur hilarious nothings in my ear. I get a text sometimes… does that count?
ps luv yr blog