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Spoiled Cat
Sep. 25th, 2010 10:48 pmThe Onion, never stop being awesome. Today's fit of giggles was brought to you by: Obama = Cactus! XDDD
Tabitha is currently reclining on my ironing board, gazing down at me, eyes heavy-lidded with disdain. Well, it looks like disdain, but it's really just her "I'm really relaxed and I luuuurve you" face. I can hear her purring.
I received a package this morning -- or rather, Tabitha received a package. The brand of cat food I buy her does a yearly campaign where you can send in bar codes from their products in exchange for various items. I'd intended to do it last year, but never got around to mailing in my bar codes. I saved them, though, which meant that I had lots for this year's campaign. I sent in the first 50 bar codes back in... June, I think it was, asking for their cute little eco bag (of course it has cats on it!). The papers said that items would be shipped within three months, so I didn't expect anything for a while. Then, since the promotion ended at the end of August, when I got back from China I mailed in another 150 bar codes in exchange for a bunch of boxes and cans of cat food. It was the cat food that arrived this morning, which leaves me to wonder... where the hell is my eco bag?!
Unless I misread the info and it said the items would be mailed within three months from the end of the campaign? o_O No, I just checked their website, and it says "three months after sending in your request," but I don't remember exactly when I mailed it, so I'll give them a couple more weeks before calling to demand my eco bag.
Ah, Japan, the land of point cards and customer loyalty campaigns that really do pay off. The amount of cat food in the package is worth around Y2,000 in stores, I'd say.
Anyway, I'll continue to save all the bar codes. Maybe next year, I'll have enough for one of the bigger items. With 250, I think it was, you can get either a cat bed or a tea cup set. I'll go for the tea cups, naturally, because I can make Tabitha a cat bed myself!
Speaking of making stuff, I'm definitely allergic to something in the fabrics I've been getting from Tomato. I did some sewing today (instead of doing other stuff I should have been doing -- avoidance! watch me practice it!), all with fabric that I've washed, and here I am wheezing like I've got asthma. I can't even take a deep enough breath to sneeze properly.
Arg, I just had the thought that what if it's not the fabric, it's my machine? Not sure how that would be possible, though. And the way I feel is exactly the way I have in the past when using straight-from-the-bolt fabric on machines other than mine, so I'll stick to my sizing allergy theory. So does this mean I should wash all my fabrics twice? Bother.
In spite of the shortness of breath, I made a new cover for my computer chair, because the old one was beyond gross: the metallic dye on it, which was originally golden, has gone completely green in places that had regular contact with my sweaty body. The new cover also has metallic accents, but they're metallic thread (as opposed to painted on) and it's actually upholstery fabric, so let's hope it holds up better. Also, autumn has finally arrived, so I won't be sweating as much, or at least not until next summer. This new cover also deserves a special mention because I bought the fabric for it exactly a week ago. I BOUGHT FABRIC AND USED IT WITHIN A WEEK! Fabric that I had no specific plan for, even. Just, "Hey, this is pretty! I'll get a metre of it! :D"
I got some curtains mostly done (with fabric I bought within the last six months, GO ME!) in the hopes of actually redecorating. Or what passes for redecorating around these parts, anyway. I really need to make some sort of slip cover for my blankets, because at the moment, and as I keep piling them on as the weather gets colder, my futon's colour story is pretty much, "Hey, try to find a colour that is not represented here!"
Then there are all my quilt ideas, of course, which I continue to believe I will get around to translating into reality. At least I've got the scrap practice one on the go.
Hah, why had I never though to make Tabitha a cat bed?! What a perfect use for fabric I can't think of any other use for. Just need to find some good foam for it...
In the meantime, I'll go cut up some more old clothes. Let the rest of my ideas simmer a bit.
Things I meant to do today but didn't: go to ballet class, scan stuff that needs scanning, write my last China post, finish going through my Kagoshima pictures.
In the hour or so before bed, maybe I can knock at least one of those off the list? *stares intently at Kagoshima pictures*
Tabitha is currently reclining on my ironing board, gazing down at me, eyes heavy-lidded with disdain. Well, it looks like disdain, but it's really just her "I'm really relaxed and I luuuurve you" face. I can hear her purring.
I received a package this morning -- or rather, Tabitha received a package. The brand of cat food I buy her does a yearly campaign where you can send in bar codes from their products in exchange for various items. I'd intended to do it last year, but never got around to mailing in my bar codes. I saved them, though, which meant that I had lots for this year's campaign. I sent in the first 50 bar codes back in... June, I think it was, asking for their cute little eco bag (of course it has cats on it!). The papers said that items would be shipped within three months, so I didn't expect anything for a while. Then, since the promotion ended at the end of August, when I got back from China I mailed in another 150 bar codes in exchange for a bunch of boxes and cans of cat food. It was the cat food that arrived this morning, which leaves me to wonder... where the hell is my eco bag?!
Unless I misread the info and it said the items would be mailed within three months from the end of the campaign? o_O No, I just checked their website, and it says "three months after sending in your request," but I don't remember exactly when I mailed it, so I'll give them a couple more weeks before calling to demand my eco bag.
Ah, Japan, the land of point cards and customer loyalty campaigns that really do pay off. The amount of cat food in the package is worth around Y2,000 in stores, I'd say.
Anyway, I'll continue to save all the bar codes. Maybe next year, I'll have enough for one of the bigger items. With 250, I think it was, you can get either a cat bed or a tea cup set. I'll go for the tea cups, naturally, because I can make Tabitha a cat bed myself!
Speaking of making stuff, I'm definitely allergic to something in the fabrics I've been getting from Tomato. I did some sewing today (instead of doing other stuff I should have been doing -- avoidance! watch me practice it!), all with fabric that I've washed, and here I am wheezing like I've got asthma. I can't even take a deep enough breath to sneeze properly.
Arg, I just had the thought that what if it's not the fabric, it's my machine? Not sure how that would be possible, though. And the way I feel is exactly the way I have in the past when using straight-from-the-bolt fabric on machines other than mine, so I'll stick to my sizing allergy theory. So does this mean I should wash all my fabrics twice? Bother.
In spite of the shortness of breath, I made a new cover for my computer chair, because the old one was beyond gross: the metallic dye on it, which was originally golden, has gone completely green in places that had regular contact with my sweaty body. The new cover also has metallic accents, but they're metallic thread (as opposed to painted on) and it's actually upholstery fabric, so let's hope it holds up better. Also, autumn has finally arrived, so I won't be sweating as much, or at least not until next summer. This new cover also deserves a special mention because I bought the fabric for it exactly a week ago. I BOUGHT FABRIC AND USED IT WITHIN A WEEK! Fabric that I had no specific plan for, even. Just, "Hey, this is pretty! I'll get a metre of it! :D"
I got some curtains mostly done (with fabric I bought within the last six months, GO ME!) in the hopes of actually redecorating. Or what passes for redecorating around these parts, anyway. I really need to make some sort of slip cover for my blankets, because at the moment, and as I keep piling them on as the weather gets colder, my futon's colour story is pretty much, "Hey, try to find a colour that is not represented here!"
Then there are all my quilt ideas, of course, which I continue to believe I will get around to translating into reality. At least I've got the scrap practice one on the go.
Hah, why had I never though to make Tabitha a cat bed?! What a perfect use for fabric I can't think of any other use for. Just need to find some good foam for it...
In the meantime, I'll go cut up some more old clothes. Let the rest of my ideas simmer a bit.
Things I meant to do today but didn't: go to ballet class, scan stuff that needs scanning, write my last China post, finish going through my Kagoshima pictures.
In the hour or so before bed, maybe I can knock at least one of those off the list? *stares intently at Kagoshima pictures*
