MoonCat’s World

Who inspires you to be the person you are today?
Submitted by meuuy.

There a lot of people who inspire me.

Here are the three women who inspire me the most and to whom I most look up to.

My mother.

Yeah, it may be cliche`, but things become cliche` because they are true.

My mother became a single parent when her two oldest children were teenagers and her youngest somewhere between four and five.

With just a year of college, her values and empathy, she managed to finish raising her children into three fully functioning, productive adults with the same values and empathy she started out with.

My mother never went on wellfare, none of her children ended up on booze or drugs, in jail, and none of us ended up with an under age pregnancy on our hands. 

Yes, there was child suppport and yes, my father was part of  my life, but for me at least, Mom raised me. I had possitive adult influcnces from my father, my step-mother and both my sibligs, but Mom is the one who was always there.

Even when she wasn't.

I once had a concerned college "friend" say to another friend  "I'm worried that MoonCat will turn out like her mother."

My response when I heard that was outrage. " 'Like my mother?!' What's wrong with my mother!?" I wanted to know, "If I do half as well with what I have, as my mother did with what she had, I'll be doing pretty damned good!!!" 

Needless to say that "friend" is no longer in my life and my mother continues to be as much of an insparation to me today as she was when I was a child.

My Sister.

 Lisa is a Doer, a Starter and and a Finisher. She has never let anything stop or slow her down and she has never, ever listened to the words "You Can't"

Lisa has never, ever doubted me in anything. Even my wildest and most off the wall ideas she has listened roo calmy and instead of saying, "Well, what if this goes wrong?", or "What if this doesn't happen?", she has said '"How will you do that?" and "When you do that, what is the next step and  how can I help you get there?"  

Lisa is also the person who has become the glue for our family. She is the one who says "Hey, lets get together and do family things." Our familiy is preciouse to her and she never hesitates to say so or to motivated us when we need it! 

Jen.

Of all the people I know, Jen inspires me , I think, to the greatest degree.

She is one of the most accepting and optimistice people I know. She's also one of the strongest and bravest.

This is a young woman who has never shirked a responsiblility, has never failed to give entierly of herself for her family and friends  and when life gets hard and things fall apart she doesn't sit there and whine: "God hates me." Instead she stands up and snarls "Bring it on".

The last two years have been horrible for her and her family between illness, finances and a betrayal within  the familiy itself, she has stood strong and she has survived the trial  as herself. She came out on top, stronger and scarred, but with her spirit and will intact.  

She blows me away.

Jen, more than any other person is why I am going back to school. If she can do it AND do all the things she's done, then I can! 

I was in a hurry when I got ready for work tonight. I got dressed and slipped my shoes on just before I ran out the door. As I was walking in to work, it felt like one leg was longer than the other. I just put it down to the fact that my work shoes are  5 or 6 years old and that they are getting warn out. I thought that maybe the insole was finaly shot.

 When I got into the office  I  happened to look down:

Oops

I hope this isn't a sign of how things are going to be tonight.... and thank goodness all my shoes are black!!!!

Basket Case?

Believe it or not, he's never done this before. Cal-kitty has not been that much of  a laundry fiend so far, unless it's on the bed. I guess the bed is too hot in the sumer though so he went for the hamper.

Show us why you get up in the morning.
Submitted by David.

 

 

Pet Flop House

I get out of bed because my animals won't let me stay there!

If you could leave notes for the future, what message would you have left in the past for today?
Submitted by Nameless.

Dear Mooncat,

 The day your uncle offers to let you take his car to go pick up your husband. DO IT! He won't get to keep that car forever and you are not likely to get the chance again. Don't be a chicken.

 Drive. The. Mustang.

Sincerely, your future self.

As for a note I may have left  for myself  today specifically? Probably this:

Mooncat! Your keys are on the coffee table. Remember that. Or you'll be late.

Love, you.

What question do you hate being asked?

"Will you draw me a tattoo?"
I HATE being asked that. I do a lot of line and ink drawings and yes a LOT of my art has a very tattoo flash feel to it and YES people ( Okay, one person) have actually gotten my work tattooed on them. But NO I WON'T draw you a tattoo of whatever it is you want.  If you happen to find one of my drawings that you like well enough to get done as a tattoo,  that's fine. You can buy the drawing from me.
I hate that  random strangers and co-workers assume that just because I like to draw so much my brain and talent are like vending machienes and that all they have to do it say "Hey, draw me a faery (or a cupid or roses or puppy dogs or something that would make the newletter look pretty!) and that I will just do it or that I even want to do it. Do I look like a computer?!
I draw for myself and my loved ones and I don't want to draw anything but what I like to draw so go  to the tattoo parlor or get online to find the image you want and leave me alone,

In honor of Independence Day, show us something patriotic.

Patriotic Moo

Don't know if this really counts as "patriotic"or not. I'm just using this as an excuse to post another pic of my dog.

Happy 4th!

Show us something in your house from the 1970s.

Copyright, 1979.

(I totally ment to put this up two days ago but got distracted playing with my page ...)

What have you been putting off all weekend?

The dishes.

What is your personal motto?

Something like "A day without laughter is a day wasted."

But also: "If the sound man cues spooky music DON'T OPEN THE DOOR! (Or go into the dark house/celler/possessed car/questionanable space craft of an unhuman nature/church, whichever)."

See, we CAN learn from the movies.