My left hip has decided to take a break and LEFT for vacation while leaving the nerves exposed. Today I took a small tumble down the stairs after my shower but I guess my bum is padded enough so it just stung for a while. Much less than that tumble down a carpeted flight of stairs back in Toronto.

The kids' Dad was out having beer with Uncle Alan and friend, but luckily Tuxie was home (duh!) and he came by to sit with me till I struggled to get up again. The other kids came by to look at poor wet Mommy sitting on the floor. Even Kaku who meowed at me with a rather concerned look on her face.

It hurts whenever I walk now so luckily I'd set up my laptop and Internet connection in bed so I can work from bed! :D Now am testing out my new $12 Genius speakers. There is nothing like a new tech toy to cheer one up.

***Your Brain's Pattern***

You have a dreamy mind, full of fancy and fantasy.

You have the ability to stay forever entertained with your thoughts.

People may say you're hard to read, but that's because you're so internally focused.

But when you do share what you're thinking, people are impressed with your imagination.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

BB has decided he will be a footballer. Now that his head has turned toward the ground, he's been practicing playing for the English Premier League everyday, primarily at night and occasionally after meals. His Mom has adopted a perfect posture to avoid internal damages. Despite rumours that he might escape due to persistent kicking before his due date, no noticable holes have been found around his Mom's tummy.

Just boiled chicken for a bunch of hungry kitties. This time there was no hesitation. They ALL tucked in. :) There was some growling when Sam didn't get a piece of chicken he and Tux tussled over but later Tux allowed the naughty boy to pick off the remaining two pieces chicken he had in his bowl. Kaku finished hers off in record time as always and peered longingly at the rests' dishes. I gave them all a scoop of dry biscuits to top off the meal.

Boy looks grimly at a naughty kitty



Sam caught sleeping on the bed



Tux making a face



Tux is curious



Buffy is an alien

Tonight dinner was strips of beef, four prawns, and one baby carrot sliced into bits.

Boy grabbed a piece from his plate, jumped down (as usual) and ate it on the ground, then peered at me asking for more. I was busy peeling his prawns and didn't want to carry him back up to the counter. He'd smell of prawns otherwise! I brought his bowl to the ground and gave him a prawn. I gobbled it down.

Kaku finished her beef, two prawns, and carrots very quickly. Sam seems to have taken to my cooking too and ate all of his beef up (no carrots though) and the prawn too. Buffy ate a few strips of beef then stopped. Tux just sat against the wall waiting for the "real food" to be served.

By the time everyone was done, there were still quite a few strips of beef and carrots left. Kaku came round to eat up the rest. She worked systematically from bowl to bowl. I even saw her crunching up two carrots! :D

Finally, all was gone and for the finicky (ahem... you know who you are, kitty cat), I served the biscuits. Tux got up in a jiffy and ran to his dinner.

I've added much overdue profiles for my Five Cats. :)

Exciting news from Cassini today! :)

Ok while not quite classified as sea (the title sounded poetic in my head), Saturn's moon Enceladus may have liquid water just below the surface in small pockets. We won't get more 411 till 2008 though.

"If a wet domain exists at the bottom of Enceladus' icy crust, Cassini may help to confirm it," writes Jeffrey Kargel, a research scientist with the University of Arizona's Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, in a related article in Science.

But the spacecraft, Kargel wrote, will not be able to determine whether subsurface water pockets could offer a habitat suitable for living organisms.

Old news, but Europa, on the other hand, may have a vast ocean beneath its icy crust. I'm starting to imagine ice leviathans coasting beneath. Ah... what a blissful thought. :)

With his mom sick with flu and resting, BB tried to escape today through persistent kicks in one point of his mom's belly. Fortunately either he tired after 10 minutes of constant kicks or he decided it was fruitless and would wait it out. It is possible he watched Aliens through his mom's tummy with his infrared vision and got that idea but his mom reckons it is really genetic.

There have been tales of his mom's toddler years when she allegedly escaped from 2 cribs. The first, a blue wooden one, had its bars shaken persistently till they broke, and then the prisoner escaped. The second crib was made of a soft fabric mesh, which allowed the prisoner to climb out, using her toes and fingers, to freedom!

BB's mom has decided to reinforce his crib bars but will reward creative escapes with a secret proud mom smile. :)