MajorMalfunction

By tookat on Apr 8, 2012 at 5:18 PM

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By tookat on Dec 31, 2011 at 2:44 PM

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By tookat on Dec 24, 2011 at 6:00 PM

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By MajorMalfunction on Sep 21, 2011 at 8:38 PM

Thank you, and I hope you don't dream of eight legged freaks. *hugs*

By tookat on Sep 21, 2011 at 8:35 PM

Family court is sooooo misnamed. It is a horror show that badly needs to be stripped apart and totally overhauled. I am off to bed. I hope you have some good dreams tonight...and an even better time tomorrow.

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 21, 2011 at 8:25 PM

It's family court, which is a monster out of control in much of the country, but especially in California. Some districts are even being audited by the state. Not mine, more's the pity.

By tookat on Sep 21, 2011 at 8:22 PM

ED....custody issues. major hugs for you! If (Goddess forbid!) you lose in any way, look at it as an opportunity for your kids to get to know what your marriage was really like. Just manifest it, deeply. It may make your relationship with the kids far, far closer. Just remember the adage about the window opening.

By tookat on Sep 21, 2011 at 8:19 PM

Good for you for making such huge progress then! We abused ones don't always turn our lives around. Sorry you are having a bad time with the courts. I do not feel government, the courts and bureaucracy in general have enough compassion.

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 21, 2011 at 8:13 PM

Oh, yeah, tons of abuse all my life, including via the court these days. I knew I'd reached a balance when the dreams no longer scared me. It's all part of the "normal" subconscious landscape for me now.

By tookat on Sep 21, 2011 at 8:12 PM

hum.... scary houses? Childhood fears or abuse? that may be too personal to ask... but when I was going after my memories and reconstructing my childhood and healing myself emotionally I had tons of houses that were maleficent...and dreams of endless labyrinths of tunnels where I was being chased by a serial killer. We knew I was pretty much healed when I had the townsfolk band together for safety...and then they actually went out and caught the killer. I don't often have nightmares anymore...but I listen up when I do.

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 21, 2011 at 7:58 PM

Pretty scary houses. I always feel these are the three ways I manifest anxiety in my sleep. I"m always anxious, so I needed three representatives so my subconscious doesn't get bored. LOL

By tookat on Sep 21, 2011 at 7:56 PM

mmmm. don't know about the sentient houses...might know in a sec or three. Searching dreams in general means there is something you are looking for or trying to decide. Ah! Na.ho.mesh says the sentient houses are dreams of safe places.

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 21, 2011 at 7:46 PM

*ED* Man, I never get the fun of dreaming of spiders. All mine are about zombies and strangely sentient houses and cities I can't find my way around in.

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 17, 2011 at 11:17 PM

Hee hee. I've actually gotten used to classical Indian music, but I don't think I'll ever grow an ear for Chinese opera.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 8:50 PM

ROFLMAO!!!! I have a great appreciation for almost all things asian....but the singing...ah, I think you need to be born there to like it.

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 17, 2011 at 8:18 PM

I just think Rajah has a hidden desire to sing in the Beijing Opera. LOL

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 8:08 PM

Mage doesn't engage in as many yowling kitty crazies since we asked him not to, but he gets very excited sometimes playing with his various "invisible" friends. I think he yowls loudest when one of them catches whatever they are batting around first.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM

mimulus...definitely mimulus. The yowl? Sigh...forget it, some cats have yowling built in apparently. Some will barely meow, others are very talkative. Have you tried asking him not to yowl so loudly at night? Sometimes that works.

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 17, 2011 at 8:01 PM

He's fine. I think it's his nature, what with the relatively recent wild genes and all. He's a lovely boy, very affectionate with me. Lets me touch his belly, and even pick him up from time to time. Plus, he does a few tricks. It does amuse me, though, that a cat as large as he is can be so jumpy. If he wanted to, he could hurt someone with the huge claws he has. But all he does is run and hide behind the couch if it gets to be too much for him. He's come out of his shell considerably since I got him. I just accept him for who he is -- though he really needs to learn not to yowl when people are trying to sleep.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 7:10 PM

you could probably have sued the breeder for not telling you the cat was sick with a communicable condition. Not many know, but ringworm can be passed from animal to animal and to humans as well. The upshot was that Rajah went to a good responsible and magical home. That is what is important. He can become less skittish if you give him Bach Mimulus or Rockwater three times a month on his belly or between his shoulder blades. You will need to muscle test while thinking about him to see which of the two remedies will be best. Then again...nothing is terribly borked...so why fix it?

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 17, 2011 at 6:52 PM

Rajah's problem was that he had ringworm and they didn't tell me when I bought him. I should have known something was up when I got him for a fraction of what they could have charged for him. It took a lot of work, but I got him cleaned up and fungus free. It was worth the effort; Bengals are amazing cats.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 6:08 PM

Pound kitties and dogs on the other hand are usually among the most affectionate unless they came to the pound from the wild or from abusive circumstances. Camille spent part of her life at the pound and was immensely grateful to her original "parents" for giving her a home, even if it was a home with three other cats and two dogs. Sigh, I kept being invited by other kitties to adopt them and I knew it would break Camille's heart so I didn't.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 6:05 PM

sad how many purebred cats are not well treated by their breeders. Animal breeding and showing is just a business to some and many folks who want a purebred are surprised to get a an animal that is not well socialized at all. IMHO they are almost as bad as breeding mills. So are the ones who breed for "popular" breed characteristics and create animals who look unnatural and who have potential physical weaknesses.

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 17, 2011 at 5:59 PM

Phantom is a pound rescue and had spent half of his kittenhood in a cage before I brought him home. So he's super grateful and knows just who to thank for that. Not the sharpest crayon in the box, but definitely the sweetest cat I've ever known. I adopted him especially because he was a black cat. So many people and their stuporstitions won't adopt little black cats and they're the ones with the most placid temperaments for the most part. My Bengal is smart but is a big scaredy cat. He wasn't treated well by his breeder, and as far as he's concerned I am his "only" human, though he tolerates the kids petting him and likes some of my adult friends.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 5:30 PM

"The further kittywisdom of Peskycat" Kitties show affection by twining the legs and rubbing against a person. If your kitties do that to your daughter, she has no reason to complain. The greatest sign of kitteh affection is licking. If a ktty licks you it is really in love. The exception to this is the orally fixated cat who will lick or chew on things...or themselves constantly. That kitty needs Hornbeam or maybe another three remedies including Aspen or Mimulus.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 5:27 PM

Pesky says she hopes your daughter someday has a kitty she can call a "my kitty" as mamagwyn used to say. That is a kitty who will be affectionate to whomever they please...as kitties will, but they usually own only one - three people. You can tell when they own someone because they will boss that person around.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 5:10 PM

I got head bonks from Camille but never as many as I wanted...and I did want them because they felt very good for some reason....(must be some esoteric kitty majik in that). Pesky tells me it is because Camille and I could never agree to be equal partners and each of us wanted to be the one in control. Alas! Sometimes she was right, sometimes I was. Much better to be a partner and discuss things.

By tookat on Sep 17, 2011 at 5:08 PM

Pesky says there are folks out there who may learn or know cat language and still never get head bonked. That is the signal for you are my comrade in thick and thin. It is usually reserved for other animal companions in the same household, and given on occasion to familiars or to the acknowledged head of the household. Sometimes they give a bonk just to say...HI! I like you!

By MajorMalfunction on Sep 17, 2011 at 8:34 AM

That is an awesome story! Cats are the funniest little creatures. They know what they want and who they love. My daughter is jealous because both of mine treat me like their mother. She wants Phantom (our basement cat) to stand on his hind legs and headbonk her in the forehead like he does me. I keep telling her it's because she hasn't learned to read cat language yet and she doesn't always stop petting them when they tell her to. She'll learn.

By tookat on Sep 16, 2011 at 12:08 AM

I was never given a choice! Camille just started sneaking into the house at first and if I tried to kick her out she hid. I spoke to her owners about it and they said "she likes to visit...goes to several houses." The visits became longer as she proved to me that my cat allergy did not work with her unless I was very very stressed in some way, usually by other allergens. We never fed her, just accepted we had a visitor, then some friends who were over for dinner thought it would be funny to feed her from the table. The upshot was her finally refusing to go home. she would go visit her old home, but if I tried keeping her out, she would howl outside whatever window or door was closest to where I was. Finally my neighbors just begged me to become her forever home because everyone was tired of the racket she made. She was adamant about wanting to be an only cat....and the first thing she worked on was getting rid of my ex. She liked the boob, but saw he wasn't good for me. I understand that for a while she "tested" each of us to decide for whom she would become a familiar. The boob just wasn't witchy enough in the long run. I feel honored she stuck it out with me, because I know she continued to add new houses and people to visit, but I must have been doing something right, what with my being a human being and all..and therefore "not very smart".