Sleepy Sunday Selfie and Friendly Fill-Ins

I got woken up so I can take a selfie. 

We are joining our furriends at

The Cat on my Head 

for

We are also joining furriends 

Four-Legged Furballs and 15andmeowing 

for

Friendly Fill-Ins 

1. I won’t pay more than ________________ for __________________. 2. The last ______________ I ____________________ was ______________. 3. I recently had the opportunity to _________. 4. _________ is cause for celebration.


MARIE
1. I won’t pay more than £20 for a handbag. I don't give a flying f about designer wear. Even if I was rich I wouldn't care.

2. The last time I went shopping was yesterday with my mum. We went to our local Tesco (supermarket here in the UK). And yes, the toilet paper had run out due to panic-buying. We weren't there to buy toilet roll anyway, because we had already bought ours when we ordered online.

3. I recently had the opportunity to start recording reaction videos on my YouTube channel. I decided to start doing it after watching countless other music reactors and I'm actually enjoying it. Even though I come across as nervous I decided to feel the fear and do it anyway. Not bad for an introvert, eh? I'm just being me. I don't do fake.

4. Adopting a rescue pet is a cause for celebration.


ATHENA
1. I won’t pay more than... I'll leave this one to Mum because I don't pay for anything!

2. The last time I got fed was a few hours ago before my nap.

3. I recently had the opportunity to annoy my mum. It's fun and she doesn't mind.

4. Adopting a human is a cause for celebration.

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Christmas Throwback the Music for Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday

Nostalgia with Athena and Marie 

First, here is a photo throwback to July 2013

My, what a big paw I have 😸

And now for a special Throwback the Music post. We haven't done one of these for quite a while!

Now, many of you who have been reading our blog for a long time know that Mum struggles with depression and anxiety. She is also an introvert. But burning deep within her is a creative spirit who won't settle which makes her even more depressed. She worries about getting on as she is in her early 50s now and is crazily worried that none of her dreams have come true. Her anxiety has restricted her for so many years.

Being a cat mum is her proudest achievement and she would love to do that forever. But she tells me that to live in the human materialistic world she has to do things other humans find so easy to do.

Talking is not her thing. Especially participating in small talk. That's why she became a writer. It's so much easier for her to communicate her thoughts that way. She does find it hard to talk to people and has gotten worse over the last few years. She is like a cat really as it takes her a while to trust people. 

What I'm leading up to is this:

I believe inside my mother is an extrovert trying to get out. There is nothing wrong with her being an introvert. In fact, it's a gift because it's what makes her HER.

So, to CHALLENGE herself she has made the choice to take the next step up from blogging to become a VLOGGER.

Don't worry. She is not giving up blogging, but she wants to try to build up her YouTube Channel (which she has had for years).

She will also try to build mine up too, but for now, she is concentrating on my Instagram, which is where I seem to be the most popular. I'm popular here in the blogoshere too, which is all thanks to you great guys 💚 We both love Instagram and I have so many more followers than Mum, which she is cool with and says she wouldn't have it any other way. We've started TikTok too, but she's a little confused with that one. It seems to be more for the younger generation.

Have you guys heard of REACTION videos? They are so popular on YouTube it seems.

Mum has become addicted to watching them (mainly reactions to music videos). The vocal coach ones are the best as you gain super tips if you are interested in singing.

Anyway, Mum sings (she says she will record more singing videos) though for the moment she has decided to react to music and we might do reaction to some cats too. You must watch because I'm in some of her reaction videos.

Here I am in two CHRISTMAS ones.

We are reacting to two Christmas songs from 1984. A year that was truly one of Mum's favourites from her teens. She says she went to a lot of concerts that year and most of her favourite musicians from that weird hairstyle decade are in the Band Aid video.

WHAM! LAST CHRISTMAS REACTION 

Click to view on YouTube

MY CAT AND I REACT TO BAND AID'S "DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS" 1984

Click here to view on YouTube

🎄🎅🤶

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 We are also participating in tomorrow's Feline Friday, hosted by Comedy Plus

Wide Eyes Whiskers Wednesday - Also Wordless

with Comedy Plus

with Dash Kitten, Basil's Blog & Barking from the Bayou

😻

New YouTube Video

Mum tormented me with her vocal exercises yesterday. Yeah, she's suddenly started singing again. Now, I do love her when she sings softly but these operatic vocal gymnastics are a bit freaky and shrieky to feline ears.

She says she just wanted to film me for fun. No animals were harmed in this video! Mum has another room in the house where she practices her singing. But she wanted to film my reaction to see how many views we got on YouTube (and Instagram and TikTok) as well as other social media accounts. It's not fair that other cats seem to have all the luck with the views, don't you think? She posted it on her YouTube channel, though. It should have been on mine since I have the most subscribers (not many, though😿)

Thank the gods the recording and the exercising only lasted a few minutes! 

View on YouTube for my reaction video if you can't see it below https://youtu.be/7Xypgpod7CM

💚💚💚

Adopt a Cat from Cyprus

Tortilla is being cared for by Cyprus Pride House and is seeking a forever home in UK or Europe.

Photo: Cyprus Pride House

"Very sweet, affectionate cat, although shy to start with. He was found with a terrible injury to his tail and so it had to be amputated so now he is tailless but it does not cause him any problems. He adores other cats so he needs a home with another affectionate kitty. Would be ok to home with older children but not a toddler who would frighten him"



 

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