Temper Tantrum Tuesday

Rocky: AAARRGHH, it's enough to drive you to drink!! These humans are interfering with my blogging and they're driving me crazy ...You would think their full-time job catering to my cat staff and serving as my blogging assistants would be enough for them, but no. The slackers keep finding other things to do ... such as this ...
Yes, they've moved a third human artist, their friend Jenny, into my corporate headquarters for me to manage. But I have to admit this could be a good thing. Jenny is a talented artist, videographer and musician, so I can think of all sorts of ways I can put her to work at Artsy Catsy.

And if that isn't enough, my mom has enrolled in classes at the local college, which means she's leaving me every Wednesday and Saturday! I definitely need a drink. She's studying web design and drawing. I mean, come on! She's a human artist, so why does she need to study design and drawing?? She says it's to brush up on her skills. I say the only thing around here that needs brushing up on is ME!

And besides that, she's spending time editing and illustrating a children's book written by her friend James. And one of the characters is a cat, Bungle the Glass Cat. But a good thing about this is we plan to offer pre-publication autographed copies of the book to our blogging friends sometime this year and donate a percentage of the proceeds to kitties who need help.

In the meantime, I'm trying to recover from all this change in my life and also get around to visit my blogging friends who probably don't even remember me by now. And I'm exhausted from herding cats & humans so I think I'll drown my sorrows in my own special bottle of wine ...

Day of the Cat?

In Italy, yesterday was Giornata del Gatto, The Day of the Cat. That's a national holiday, so FredBaby and Holly Golightly, Artsy Catsy's European Division, were off work and out celebrating. Not so here in America.

Yes, while Fred and Holly were out dancing in the streets of Rome, imbibing fine wines and huge platters of pasta, generally living la dolce vita, I was forced to spend the entire day working my paws to the bone, micromanaging the production of cat jewelry and bookmarks. To make matters worse, my American feline staff objected to having to work on an Italian holiday. Callie called in sick, Lucy had a hair appointment, and Fracas organized a mass mutiny, so the remaining staff spent the day picketing and chanting, "1-2-3-4, we don't want to work no more!" and "Growl, growl, hiss, hiss, Rocky's a filthy catpitalist!"

I tell you, being the CEO of Artsy Catsy is about as easy as herding cats!

P.S. You can learn more about Giornata Internazionale del Gatto at Cat-a-log. We thank them for their research and agree that since this is an international holiday, we need to promote it in America and elsewhere. Here's to International Day of the Cat (IDOC?) 2008!!