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It's SCIENCE. The Queen of Spades liked both her name and an even longer pet name.

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6 Words Your Cat Actually Understands (According to Science) 5:12 hours of sleep, not counting the falling asleep at the computer time. Reminder to self: chocolate and chocolate cookies at 10 pm...not such a great idea.     

A kitten named Tofu with some very big purrs

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This kittens purrs will heal your entire soul | British Shorthair Interesting factoid: cats purr both when they are happy, contented and when they are self-soothing. This kitten survived it's first grooming with big purrs 5:12 hours of sleep. I am glad I washed my hair yesterday. I wanted to cook more than I managed, but I am glad to have turned some ingredients into food. and watered plants. Now about trash and floor.

20 weird ways to prepare instant ramen

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3:40 hours of sleep I made it on time to 4th transpo event of the day. GLORIOUS weather but sports events near key bus stops. Surgery breast hurts in ways I don't know what to do about. Eat less salt. Sleep more. Get up and clean the floor even if I don't feel like it at first. At a certain point, no matter how many half-finished ideas in the Drafts folder, if all I can handle is humor and cat videos, go for it and give BIG thanks for many strands of aundance.

Elevated Cabbage, double charred and then steamed with butter

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3 Simple Tricks To Elevate Your Cabbage Let's face it. Some days charring cabbage and hot oil sound like just the thing. Flavor effects sound intriguing but not necessarily intriguing enough to mess with hot oil when hungry. I don't think this dish would hold well to be reheated in a microwave, but reheating with a conventional source, even an air fryer might preserve the intended textures And in other food-related meditations, on the way home I stopped at my FAVE new grocery store with next to the Capital Hill Link station. Now that I have things I was out of or close to, bananas, yams, potatoes, now I can suddenly remember all the otehr food I am not out of. Go figure. Can anyone tell I am trying to keep my head from exploding encountering NEWS 4:40 hours of sleep. Somehow another great day of activity is stimulating AND I will need to TRY to get to bed at a reasonable hour. Beautiful weather coming home. Welcome contrast to grey most of the day.

Something to bake and a timeline cleanse

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This Cheesy Garlic Bread MELTS in Your Mouth! You’ll Never Go Back! 4:40 hours of sleep. I am a grown up and I get to be responsible for drinking a big serving of black tea at 6 pm.

Culinary hyperbole about Korean food, Japchae

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The BEST Japchae Recipe! The Most ADDICTIVE Noodles You’ll Ever Eat! 🔥😋 Yam noodles sound like something to try on principle. 4.0 hours of sleep.  It will work. Last minute prep worked SO much better in the morning than late at night. Other than that hail and thunder passed through with only 1 short flicker. Happy Wednesday

Videos to do laundry with, horseradish included

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Awesome Blossom Onion Bites | Crispy Blooming Onion Fritters | Food Wishes I love this guy's delivery style and speech rhythms. 6:40 hours of blessed SLEEP. I am glad for the exercise of doing laundry and glad I made porridge before going to bed. I am lazy and I love just taking a container out of the freezer without thinking too much about it. Plus, I have half given up my quarrels with Amazon and just given in to convenience and time for more good trouble.

Interesting appropach to potato salad.

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The Easiest & Cheapest Korean Potato Side Dish That Will Change Your LIF... 4:45 hours of sleep.

In lieu of cat vids, the LION sleeps tonight earworm

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MBUBE (the lion sleeps tonight) BAHURU in Ala Moana 5:45 hours of sleep.

Earworm again. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Dover Steel Drum Band

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5:54 hours of sleep. A lot of floor grime and some trash still needs attention BUT social media.... Am I making any difference????

Not sure I'm ready for this but hey, it's a parody

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Chamomile - Gangnam Style Parody Song for us Older Ones! 4:44 hours of sleep.

See, See. BAGPIPES and The Lion Sleeps tonight.

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4:58 hours of sleep. I wish YouTubers would EDIT. This news junkie wants the nugget, not all the background and ranting. First world problems

CATS IN CHARGE: rodent patrol in Disneyland

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The Cats That Rule Disneyland After Dark! I LOVE the idea of cats being in charge at Disneyland, even in a limited way. 5:18 hours of sleep.

Cultural mashups are us: The Lion sleeps tonight

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Celtica Pipes Rock Scottish Raggae The Lion sleeps tonight Highland Game... 5:18 hours of sleep. Enough said!

Favorite earworm and a STORY: The lion sleeps tonight

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5:18 hours of sleep. Almost in the reasonableness zone

Joanna and Samantha on Elon et al.

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Who knew that I would find this level of chick chatter highly entertaining. Bonus: ad about ordering kits to knit characters from Lord of Rings 6:58 blessed hours of SLEEP

Because who doesn't need more firetrucks in the 'hood

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The lights are fire trucks from a few nights ago  3:58 hours of sleep. I went to bed early enough that I should have been able to sleep longer before an all-day in-person event. Did I go back to bed? Why no! Instead morning social media, washing hair and worse yet arriving 10 minutes late after bus and feet trip. Happy Satiurday

Tiny furry ninjas HILARIOUS Kitten Facts You Didn’t Know

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Cute cats. Not a lot of heavy narrative 2:58 hours of sleep. I am a grown up AND should be able to get to bed at a reasonable hour. Should.

Shamrock shakes!!!!

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  Meal to horrify vegans and other food purists 6:xx hours of sleep. Not enough to catch up with night before last and I goofed about scheduling not 1 but two meetings a tad too early. After getting sucked into WAY too much Twitter, I finally went out to fetch some blood pressure meds AND consume fast food. Look I got told to up my calcium and thanks to the McD's app I learned easily that the medium shake contains 410 mg of the recommended for me 1500 mg of calcium per day. I WILL tweak my dessert habits a couple more times before the promo goes away.

Hilarious Cat for a day of too little sleep

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VERY early morning medical appointment and transportation on BUS--MY CHOICE and late night before added up to 0:58 hours of sleep. Eek. Also good walk, fun of dailight savings time sunrise, a pedestrian and #FindItFixIt issue to grumble about. I knes the 7 hour string was too good to last.

More DNA and languages history The Roma

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4:18 hours of sleep. The first day of time change was just GREAT. Last night not so much. Anxieties crossword puzzle even though the new NYT design is IMPOSSIBLE. I wish there were a way to read the clu and then close it so one could see the board and the letters. First world problems. Luckily no morning deadlines.

Who names a cat "Nutella?"

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Introducing A New And RARE Cat Breed...the Angry Snaggletooth Tiger 😅 OMG SEVEN hours of sleep And figuring out how to put on new bras more smoothly! For anyone vaguely astrology minded, no, Mercury is not in retrograde for a FEW more days, March15-April 7. But the onset of Windows 11 and associated software updates someone how feel like I am getting an early start. Advice from Vogue. A Sign-by-Sign Guide to Surviving—and Thriving—During Mercury Retrograde | Vogue  

Shameless cat propaganda 10 - The Magical Secrets of Cats

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4:18 hours of sleep even after LAUNDRY. Yeah. Clap clap clap. Another basket to go but a big relief.

Very sweet British longhair cat

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6:18 hours of sleep, apparently badly needed.

THree Scottish Fold kitties grooming

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I am prepared to entertain the idea that watching cat grooming after cat grooming is in the zone of animal torture. I disagree because the groomer here is so careful both about understanding that not every second is enjoyable for the cat and for talking frankly about the features of different breeds: coat length, face shape straight or folded ears, and of course temperament. Also, cat vids are still WAY more calming than other late night viewing. 3:58 hours of sleep. Riding the exercise bike too late in the evening interferes with sleep and preferred evening eating patterns. No, laundry has not happened yet. STAY tuned.     

Another heartwarming cat vid because I can hardly stand to think about a lot of other things.

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A Tiny Feral Kitten Fought to Survive Now She Has a Family 4:58 hours of sleep plus some more after a snack and because laundry didn't happen. Stay tuned about the laundry.

Okay, Okay: sort of ouchy cat vid..

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Woman takes her adopted cat to vet. And finds the biggest surprise 4:02 hours of sleep plus falling asleep after Kyiv worship.

Cat propaganda 12 Incredible Discoveries

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5:02 hours of sleep. This after an unexpected hour auditioning new bras. No laundry yet. Stay tuned

Instant cat lady.

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5:38 hours of sleep! plus a couple more in my chair.  SO I SHOULD try harder just to GO TO BED. Tonight though, I HOPE laundry.

Another Ahhhh moment: No one would adopt this black shelter cat.....

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3:58 hours in bed and several other spells. I was on edge when I finally fell asleep but felt somehow much better this morning. Also antihistamine eyedrop ROCKS

Daily request from Disabled cat

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I can't remember but I think 5+ hours of sleep. It was sunny