la_rainette | The pet conspiracy

Look at my brand new icon and bow to me *smiles smugly*

Thank you, dear

sir_gareth, this is so very kind of you *waves Queen-Elizabeth-style*

And because I am A Queen, thus subject to conspiracies, pets are conspiring against me. I swear.

This morning, right before it was time for me to go get the girls from their morning program, the cat jumped onto the keyboard and thus send to a group of poor, unsuspecting mods an application to join a community that I do not wish to belong to. I had to hastily send them an email to inform them that it was all a mistake.

Now, I still haven't determined whether this cat is prodigiously intelligent and devious like most of its kind or just abysmally stupid and clumsy. This is a cat who still hasn't quite forgiven me for acquiring Husband when I already had her -
and I am not mentioning the kids (she has made it abundantly clear in the past that the noisy, smelly buggers belonged in one place: Elsewhere). So she could be manipulating me by deliberately provoking accidents of that kind.

A few months ago, she jumped onto the desk via the answerphone, which turned it on the recording position, and thus she got me all by herself in the basement, as I listened in bafflement to half-and hour of recorded cat snores. (Only much later did I realize what had happenend, as she hopped onto the answerphone again right before my eyes. This cat has no shame). Now, could that be a mistake, I ask you?

And then, after I had sent off my apologies to the mods, and as I was rushing off to fetch the ~~girls~~ princesses, I was suddenly stopped in my royal endeavours by an animal crossing the street just in front of me. That isn't new, of course, and your average racoon or squirrel will clear your path as soon as it hears you honk, but then, said animal upon closer inspection turned out to be a turtle, and the more I honked, the more it ran, at full turtle speed, which, to be honest, didn't do much in the way of clearing the street.

I gave up, parked the car, and ran. A most undignified arrival for a queen *displeased frown*

I tell you, these animals are conspiring. Or maybe they are just trying to take advantage of the diversion caused by

copperbage's army of deflated croissants to start the revolution? GUARDS! GUARDS! Ahem.

PS: About croissants: I've rectified the proportion of water. Well, I told you I wasn't good with volumes. Should you have it copied somewhere, or printed (hope springs eternal ;o) ): remember to check the water quantity.

ETA: hum. Got nice email from the mod. Am wondering whether I shouldn't actually join. Would be good fun, but ah, do I have the time? I know I will make the time if I feel like it, I am not one to believe the "I would like to..., but I don't have enough time", as I feel that one does find the time if really motivated. Point is, if I find the time to do that, what else is going to suffer? *ponders*