I underestimated Mogwai's hunting abilities.

Yesterday, he came running through the cat door, like he always does, but I noticed he had something that looked about like one of his mice. I ran over to him to see he had dropped a very small, very dead mole on the floor and proceeded to play with it, just like one of his mice. I got him away from it and swept it up with the broom into a dust pan. He proceeded to freak out and meow like crazy, just like he does when you take away one of his mice. I walked outside and tossed it off the steps into the vines.

I yelled at him at first, but I realized, this is a complex situation to discipline a cat on. I don't mind him killing small rodents in the yard. It's natural for him, they're a nuisance (especially the moles) and it's not bad for him to polish his hunting skills while he's out there (plus, he finds it to be great fun, I can tell). But I certainly don't want him running back upstairs with anything he may have caught. If it hadn't been dead, I would have been really pissed. So how do you say, "no Mogwai!" without him thinking everything he just did is bad. *sigh* the problems of a species barrier.

I really don't think he realized he had killed anything though. I don't think he differentiates between that and one of his toy mice. He sure did have fun with a stag beetle later on, though. And even later, I found him just pouncing on random clumps of grass, that may or may not have any anything fun to chase in them (or he might have been chasing the hundreds of baby wolf spiders I've noticed in the yard).

Well, meetup.com BLOWS!

That's where I was organizing the beadwork group. I got an email today that, "guess what, organizer, you get to pay us $20/month for nothing!!" Yeah, I feel like I fucking won the lottery. I get to pay more than our monthly phone bill to show up at the location of my choice one night a month and sit around beading by myself. Whoohooo!

I'm not bitter that no one joined and we never got off the ground. I'm really not, that's not what this is about. They throw up a message board and give you a few contact pages and expect you to pay that much for this "service"? Please, yahoo groups is a much better alternative, and FREE!

So, I think I'm going to sort out my life, figure out what is most important to me (cause I'm spread so thin lately) and if this sort of thing is in that list of "must dos" then I'm going to set up a yahoo group, add a page or two to my currently untouched website, and start putting up fliers in businesses in 5 pts and downtown and at the local craft stores. Hell, there's no reason to limit it to jewelry and beadwork. How about, "United Artist of Huntsville, AL"? Any thoughts?

Until then, I've stepped down as organizer and removed myself from Meetup.com entirely.