jovia

Bonus post today from a very proud and happy ‘auntie az’. My brother Joe just sent me this photo. Remember this post ? The wee thing just gets more beautiful every day! OMG - those cheeks! I’m in love.

my best friend

My best friend in the whole world is Nog…

 

fuzz therapy

Kind of like snibbling in reverse . . .

shiver me timbers

Just felt like hearing this again … hope you like it too.

snibbling

a well-snibbled cat

And what is snibbling, you ask? Well okay, it was Johnny who asked, and as I’ve been asked before I thought I would post about snibbling here . . .

how we met. . .

This is in response to comment 6 on this post.

It was suggested by nursemyra that I could tell about how Nog & I met as part of NaBloPoMo , and then I thought that it would be fun if other people also shared their ‘how we met’ stories. So here is mine and I look forward to reading yours . . .

my niece jovia

Born August 24th

These are the first photos I’ve seen of her, looking all tiny and adorable. And with a very impressive head of hair! I hope it’s not too long before I get to see her in person.

Well done, Joe and Olivia!

our third anniversary…

. . . will be this weekend on the autumn equinox.

This is the day that Nog and I have chosen to renew our vows together, which I talked about in more detail last year on our second anniversary post. Basically it’s a time to take stock of our lives and our relationship, and also rewrite & renew our vows so that they fit with how things have changed for us as no two years have ever been alike so far.

And so, we’re going for another year! Yay! And we are both looking forward to what the next year will bring.

Tomorrow we’ll be having our little ceremony at home and then we’ll be going out for a lovely meal to celebrate.

[Saturday update : just back from a fabulous late lunch at our favourite Italian restaurant Porta Rossa . Warning: don't look at the photos if you are hungry...]

it’s sunny’s birthday!

Born August 5, 1993 at 10.30 am

Well, the approximate time. Lua’s four kittens were born between 10-11 am and there was no way of telling them apart. That pic is of Sunny just after we moved from Salamanca to Sevilla - he was 6 weeks old. I can’t believe he was ever that small.

And now as I write he is almost exactly 14 years old. Big lovable hunk o’ dude that he is.

Here are some BIRTHday photos…

summer holidays

It’s August 1st and I am officially ‘on holiday’.

No classes until September. Yay! Well okay, no income either, but I’ve been looking forward to this stretch of time ahead of me not having to be anywhere or do anything unless I feel like it. It will especially be nice not to be woken up by alarm clocks (well, other than the pointy-eared variety).

When I asked earlier about what summer stuff everyone was planning to do I still hadn’t made any major plans, and then I realised that what I wanted most was a month totally without plans. So there.

Well, there are a few things I want to do like go to the gym in the mornings and do some stuff around the apartment. But mostly I reckon I’ll be reading and hanging out online (hence that particular thumbnail), taking evening walks with Nog, going out for our *emergency cold beer and air-conditioning sessions* and the occasional tapa, and also watching films and playing with floppy cats who - I am very happy to report - appear to be friends again. They’ve even started playing fighting again, with no pee in sight, which to me is even more of a sign of them being pals again than falling asleep together.

For awhile it looked like a recent bad back incident (comment 19) had put the kibosh on my gym idea, but after a couple days of anti-inflammatories, gentle stretching and lots of walking I think I’ll be able to start back mañana.

Meanwhile, Sevilla has pretty much turned into a ghost town already, which is always a pleasant change of pace.

So all in all, August should be a nice month for carping the diem.

How’s your summer been so far?