Tonight I am making Shrimp Scampi with rice and zucchini for dinner. Peeling and de-veining the shrimp took longer than I would have liked it to take, and it’s sort of a yucky job, isn’t it? I had to keep reminding myself how much I love shrimp once they are cooked in order to stay motivated. The kitties were keeping me on my toes too. Just a guess, but I think they’d have gladly eaten all the shrimp so I didn’t have to bother with the dinner prep work. Yes, very interested in what I was doing from the moment I opened the bag with the shrimp in it.

Speaking of the brats, they were slightly more cooperative this afternoon about me taking some photos of them. Oh, they didn’t want to sit still for it, but I followed them around snapping photo after photo until I knew I had at least one of each of them that was in focus and contained most of the cat in question. No matter what I did, I could not get either of them to actually look at the camera or sit still for long than two seconds at a time. Not the greatest photos ever, but here are my babies at 9 months:

I’m going to go lay down. I shouldn’t, because it’s really late in the day for a nap, but I am SO tired and sleepy. Maybe I can squeeze in just a teensy-weensy one before dinner. Otherwise, I am afraid I will have to go to bed right after dinner and miss the Daily Show and Colbert Report. Can’t have that! :D