Finally Some Pictures...

After all the long memes I posted lately I thought it is time for some pictures! Who wants to read a lot of stuff when you can say
"a thousand words with one picture"???

So I will show you today how I supervise Tintin when he is playing:


I allowed him to pick the pictures he wants to be posted.

And after we did the post we had a well earned meal together.

Karl is still on safari with the others. He emailed me that they will have an interesting post up this Friday! So don't forget to check Karl and Ruis blog!

For Sprout

Our hearts are heavy, and our purrs are with Monty Q. and his family. We are so very deeply sorry, sending you lots of big hugs.

The Needs Meme And Another Award

I saw the most interesting meme ever over at Luxor's place! As I am in "meme mode" I decided to do that one also! What a surprise it became!

The rules: All you have to do is Google your first name with the word "needs" behind it and post the results. Don't forget to tag (if you are the tagging sort)!

I googled "Mrs. OZ needs" - and guess what. I do not need a thing!!!!

The only entry that came up with Mrs. OZ ... was this:
Mrs. OZ managed to catch a nasty cold

BUT - and here it comes:
I found ANOTHER Mrs. OZ!
On MySpace! I sent her a message but haven't heard back yet.

Then I had Tintin do it too. Now that got us some results!

Tintin needs him
Karl, that is, I would assume... did you hear that Karl? Come back from safari - we miss you!
Tintin needs no introduction to Tokyo
WOW - barely 4 month old and he knows TOKYO already?
Tintin needs a car auction
don't we all, hohohohoho
Tintin needs to bring a skateboard next time
yes, I want to see that!
Tintin needs all his courage
living with me, of course he does!
Tintin needs to add some contacts and favorites first
I don't want to know what could be second...
Tintin needs to have #redraw on
???

Then we tried Karl's name -FUNNY!!!

Karl needs women in it
I don't think so!!!
Karl needs to take care of his baby
yes! He needs to come back and take care of Tintin! I could use the relief....
Karl Needs A Hobby
Like blogging, traveling, writing mysteries, partying and trashing parties, hunting, photoshopping, supervising the butler when doing artwork, training the maid and dressing up is not enough?
Karl needs a girl friend
Guess not! Happily married to Ruis.
Karl needs's public search listing
Does he? What do you think?
Karl needs to have his butt kicked
Hohohohohohohoho, good one! I volunteer, hohohohoho...
Karl needs the rest home and the basket weaving class
Resting home sounds about right. I have a feeling he wouldn't be thrilled about the class though....
Karl needs a matching scarf
That is always good advice. And the more scarfs one has the better.
I am sure Daisy would agree.
Karl needs to stop trying to dress like a Dior Homme model
What do you mean "trying"???

And last but not least, here are some VERY exciting news: I, Mrs. OZ, got my own personal "2008 Brillante Weblog Award"! Given to me by the wonderful Socks, Scylla and Charybdis, "...we have enjoyed getting to know her better."! Thank you soooo much!!!

The rules for the Brillante Weblog Award are as follows:
The award may be displayed on a winner’s blog.
Add a link to the person who you received the award from.
Nominate up to seven other blogs.
Then add their links to your blog.
Add a message to each person that you have passed the award on to in the comments section of their blog.

I will give this award to
Miss Peach - I admire her style
Bathsheba - as an early birthday present (August 12 is her birthday!)
Findus and Smilla - as a 'welcome to the blogosphere gift'
Luxor - because he is white, and stylish, and regal, kind of like me, hohohohoho...

Awards

The Two New England Schnauzers Hershey and Kacie have given us THREE awards!!!

We are very honored! Thank you so much Hershey and Kacie.


And we got this award from Daisy Mae and da Katie Katz for attending their party! Good thing we don't get one for every party we attend - that could be kind of embarrassing and would also fill up our free quota of Picasa Web Album space fast.... Thank you guys!


Karl emailed from Africa and told me he will be on safari UNTIL AUGUST 20!!!
Mrs. OZ

The Power Of Noms Day!

You might not have known - but our nomss friend Lucas has been missing from the blog world for quit a while. But for Noms Day he sent us a message:
"... I miss you all! It's just that the humans have been occupied with other stuff lately that blogging is just kinda not on a priority list right now. But please don't think that I've forgotten about you... I'm doing very ok and healthy. "
And he sent some pictures along, too!


Doesn't he look handsome? He did not keep the shirt on for long, though, because it is always hot where he lives. Just like were we live, hohohohohoho, so no shirts for us either, hohohohoho.
I forwarded the message to Karl on safari right away and he was very happy to hear from Lucas too!
Mrs. OZ

Brody Got Tagged!

Brody from Antarctica got tagged by Mike for the Unspectacular Quirky Meme.

Here are the rules: Link to the one who tagged you. List the rules on your blog. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours. Tag some blogger friends with links. Leave a comment on their blog to let them know they've been tagged.

I let Brody do his answers himself:

1. I never eat, drink or burp.
2. I am friends with a 50 year old teddy bear from Germany.
3. I don't talk. Or write poetry.
4. I was made in China (most probably my most unspectacular quirk...)
5. I never exercise.
6. I can move and I will demonstrate here:


(Music: "Ne me quitte pas" by Alison Moyet. Thank you Ruis...)

I tag Myrna. And any other fluffhead that happens to stop by!

Happy Noms Day

Today we are celebrating Noms Day ("Not Of My Species Day"), a holiday to remember that all beings are equal, to remind ourselves to be tolerant towards everybody, to reach out across species, cultures, nationalities, religions, languages, beliefs and appearances and to come together and embrace our differences.

We wish all of you a very happy Noms Day!

Karl and Ruis are celebrating Noms Day in Africa by making more and more and more and even more noms friends!

Important Announcement!

For the first anniversary of the nomss friend Dare coming up this Tuesday August 5, 2008 we will create an international public holiday and

declare August 5 to be Noms Day.

You celebrate Noms Day however way you want but here are some guidelines of what you could do:

Find a nomss (not-of-my-species-special) friend if you don't have one yet.

Find more noms (not-of-my-species) friends. One can never have too may noms friends!

Have a party with your noms friends. Tell us about them!

Make a post about Noms Day to spread the word and most importantly to promote tolerance towards each and everyone!

Tell your humans about it and urge them to observe Noms Day also. You know that species stands for:
species, race, religion, culture, nationality, language, profession, political party, and so forth - right?

Here is the official Noms Day button to take, we do hope you'll celebrate with us!!!

We are sorry about the late announcement - it's the maid's fault - she didn't tell us it was August 3 already!!!

Three Memes Day and Award

I am sorry this is such a long post - please do not give up - the pictures come at the end!

Karl is soooo bad! He totally forgot that we were tagged by Skeeter for a meme on JUNE 7!!! Yes, You read right: June 7. Almost two months ago. How rude is that to just forget about it and not do the meme?
So I, Mrs. OZ, will do it today! Thank you Skeeter, for tagging us!!!

Skeeter, LC, and Ayla made up the meme themselves! It was originally questions they asked of DaisyMae Maus. Here it goes:

Fill in the blanks… so I did in red:

1. “Any cat I do not know very well” makes me hiss!

2. “Being hold by a human” and “sharing the bed” are my least favorite things to do.

3. I would rather “play with the whirley bird” than get a treat.

4. Nip leafs are good but “wet food” is better.

5. Looking at the TV is “meaningless”. Unless I'm “in the 5th dimension” then its “spitting out treats”!

Pass it on…
As it is soooo long ago that we got tagged I assume everybody has played it by now? If you did not, PLEASE consider yourself tagged by me, Mrs. OZ, personally!


And wildcatsthree tagged us for the name game and as Karl is still gone I will grab the opportunity and do it myself too! This is how it goes:

What is your name?
Mrs. OZ for o to be precise: Mrs. Hissy OhneZahn

If you could change your name, what would it be?
Agatha

What is your pet's name?
Carrot (maybe I tell you about it later..)

If you could change your pet's name, what would it be?
Mao (maybe I tell you about that later too...)

What is your brother or sister's name?
Karl and Tintin. They are not blood brothers but household brothers.

If you could change their name, what would it be?
I do like their names and wouldn't change them.

Now I have to tag as many people (or critters) as the letters in my new name!
2? OZ
5? Mrs. OZ
7? Hissy OZ
10? Mrs. Hissy OZ
13? Hissy OhneZahn
16? Mrs. Hissy Ohnezahn

I will go with my everyday name, Mrs. OZ and tag 5 animals:
(and I don't know who played it before or not - so I will just go ahead)
Queen Snickers
Earl Grey
Bathsheba
Aloysius
Tigmut'hep


And Ariel and her mom came up with this Meme they call Makeover Meme that they hope we all play. Here are the rules....

Pick an identity of someone or something you like to be.Then photoshop yourself in the identity you picked and explain why you picked this identity.

This is any open meme to anyone who wants to play.
If you do play please let Ariel know so she can visit your page....

And this is who I, Mrs. OZ, picked, and I don't think it requires any further explanation...


I am also very proud and honored to announce that The Cat Realm received a most wonderful award, The First Ever "Skittles Pay It Forward Award"!
Thank you so much, Skittles, we very much appreciate it.

This Is What I Did.....

I felt really very lonely here with Karl being on safari...
So I went to the local pound which is just overflowing with cats and kittens (foreclosures, students leaving for the summer, etc.) and I rescued a kitten. The maid had gotten a "Help! Adopt a kitten" sheet some days ago with lots of pictures of cats in jail, and one of the pictures was this:

Yes, I got the guy who the arrow points to. Because he is a ginger cat like me! O.k. I may be a very diluted ginger cat but check out my tail and my ears... And yes, I hiss at him constantly. But he already knows that it is just all show and no teeth - no pun intended....
I hope Karl will not be mad...
Imagine something like this would happen, oh my, oh my, what did I do...

And the kitten does the Monty Q.! So I entered him in the contest and I will introduce him to you now with the "outtakes" from our photo session. I used Emil's camera but I am not as good as he was. Yet.
Here is Tintin, the new kitten at The Cat Realm:

(Don't worry, he only goes out fully supervised by a human right now until he is bigger!)




And to tell you how we pronounce all our names I had the maid do a Voki recording for you, she'll say:
Mrs. OZ, Karl, Tintin, Emil and Anastasia

Get a Voki now!

I Got Mail

As you might know, Karl and Ruis went to pay Sassy, Opus and Roscoe and Momo a surprise visit at their safari in South Africa.
And left me at home.
Didn't even ask if I would like to come.
So what if I did say that I don't like the outdoors, wild animals, jeep tours. That I think Africa is full of mosquitoes, snakes and dangerous predators...

They must have heard about my complaints because today I got a postcard from them:

And this is the front side:

So now I feel a little bad and I also wonder if I might have been a bit hasty with my actions here....
I wonder what Karl will say once he finds out what I did....

We Are Crashing The Safari!

Remember how our romantic Antarctica cruise for two ended up with LOTS of visitors?
Now we are going to crash the safari! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Ruis and I are off to Africa and you can read all about it at our blog!

Happy Hunting! Hahahahaha - Picture hunting that is of course!

Mancat Monday

This post is for the most awesome Mancat ever: my husband Ruis! Guess what he did?
He sent me a snuggle!!! He actually didn't send it himself but he bid on it and then had Diva Kitty send it to me directly.
First I hoped maybe he might come out of the package himself, hahahahahahahahaha!

Unfortunately he was not in there himself... But the wonderful snuggle was, and three squiggly things to play with and a beautiful card.

So I unfolded the snuggle and laid down on it and started dreaming about my Ruis right away.

And then I got up to do some stretching and guess what....

Maybe she tries to get back at me for this.....

Happy Birthday Dragonheart

Alles Liebe und Gute und herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag Dragonheart!

Another Award

Today we were making our rounds to personally extend our gratitude to all of you who participated in Emil's wake. And we realized that in our grieve and sorrow it slipped our minds to mention another award in our last post.
Miss Peach gave Emil this wonderful award:

And this is what she said:"...I would like the honor of giving this award to Emil for his talent that he amazed us with while he was a part of our world. Now in heaven, this will look very good on his resume!"

Thank you Miss Peach, we are sure Emil is very very proud!

Lots Of Thank Yous

Thank you everybody who came and participated in Emil's Wake. We very much appreciated it and were very touched. We will come by in the next few days to personally thank you all for being such wonderful friends.

We have some catching up to do. Already in May we got the 'Totally Hip Award' from wildcatsthree. This is what they said: "...we always enjoy our visits to the Cat Realm because of their creativity and ability to entertain...their world travel and cruises around the blogosphere are a must see." WOW. That is quiet a compliment! Thank you so much Abby, Rosie, Jackie, Gidget and Lola.


In July Castle wrote: "...I think that Storm would have passed this award on to every single cat, creature and human that came by to wish her well on her final journey, and I would like to pass this on to all who have since visited us to make sure me and my meowmies are OK...so we pass this on to all of you!" Thank you Castle, we humbly accept this in honor of the wonderful Furry Fighter Storm - we will never forget you and always love you!


And Samantha and Mr. Tigger gave us the Arte y Pico Award.

'The ‘Arte y Pico’ award" was created to be given to bloggers who inspire others with their creativity and their talents, also for contributing to the blogging world in whatever medium. When you receive this award it is considered a "special honor". Once you have received this award, you are to pass it on to 5 others.'
The rules for passing this honor on:
1) Pick 5 blogs that you would like to award this honor to.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.
We like to pass this award on to Opus and Roscoe, Rosetti and Kirara, Bendrix, all my In-Laws and last but not least to Omer who just lost his sweet little Forest. Please go over and give him some comforting purrs.

graphic by Zoolatry

A Wake For Emil

Our dear friend and bestest men Opus and Roscoe put together an Irish Wake for Emil.
We are just overwhelmed with gratitude, thank you so much dear friends.
We invite all of you who met Emil, maybe got to know him a bit, or maybe just heard about him, saw his "Behind The Scenes" pictures or never even met him until now to participate in his wake.

Post your favorite Emil story, anecdote, or memory or just give your condolences.
Login: awakeforemil at gmail dot com
Password: inourhearts

Opus and Roscoe also made a picture of Emil arriving at the bridge, being welcomed by Anastasia, Miral and Ralph.

Cold Box Meme

Mindy and Moe tagged us for this great meme:
"A fun and simple MEME for the hot summer. Show us a photo of the front of your Cold Box and tell us about at least one thing on it and one thing you keep inside of it! Tag your friends and remember to stay COOL!"
And here is our Cold Box:

One thing on it:
On the upper front part to the left of Skeezix 'no vishus deer' button there is a picture of Patsy and Edina that the maid took off the TV once. She absolutely LOVES AbFab....
One thing in it:
Now that is easy! In the upper part, the freezer, there is ALWAYS a bag of our main food!
We like to tag:
Ruis
Yao-Lin
Bunjie
Opus and Roscoe
Chica and Pumuckl

Traveling Tuesday

Our friend Dicky Duck, the traveling duck, finally has all the pictures of his last trip posted!
Some of you may know that he took the maid on a bus trip to Poland. There are a bit more than 400 pictures to watch: Wroclav, Krakow, and lots more!
We hope you enjoy!
Go here for his blog.

House Trashing at Mr. Hendrix

Emil would not want us to sit around and mope so we decided to go to Mr. Hendrix's house trashing party this Sunday, July 6! We will take Emil's camera with us - maybe someone volunteers to try and catch Bendrix and/or anybody else who misbehaves - which should be pretty much anybody who comes, hahahahahahaha - on film. See you there!