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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps
@mittenbird.bsky.social
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MI→GA→VA. cat mama to Coal🖤, Steele🩶, and Lissy Lou💔🌈. auntie, historian, musician, genealogist. probably squinting. mad online (and offline too). lurking in the comment section. she/her or they/them. opinions mine. #FireUpChips
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3h
there’s one in Alexandria too
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3h
you got the Nobel Prize in our hearts, Gonzo 🧡
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 15h
it’s impossible to look at Jinx’s smile and not start smiling yourself! 😍
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 16h
he and his brother are both such sweet, funny guys, but Steele started showing us his personality right away and Coal really made us work for it 😅

they’ve been here a hair over 6 months and I can’t imagine life without them. they saved me.
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 17h
this morning, I got up at about 5:00 to use the bathroom and tried to go back to bed, and got some meows from Coal in his spot. “hey mom get back here!”

so he got his belly rubs, and will get them again when I actually get up for the day in an hour or when I give up on getting more sleep
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 17h
Coal and I have a morning routine I love: when I get up, he goes to a particular spot on the living room floor, flops down, and shows me his belly. I get on the floor and rub it while he rolls, purrs, and makes little air biscuits. then when he’s had enough, we go get breakfast.
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 1d
ha, I used to think that if I had a blanket over my head! clearly he gets this from his mama
mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 2d
October 7, 1948: my great-great-grandfather, a longtime baseball and softball umpire, in the newspaper with his local baseball team after they were league champions. he’s the guy in dark coveralls in the front row.

I did not inherit any of his hand-eye coordination, for the record.
picture of a group of men with the title “Champions of Top of Michigan League”
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 2d
my great-great-aunt won a spelling bee in 1947 and the newspaper spelled her name wrong 🙃 in their defense, her parents didn’t pick the most common spelling (she was Ilene, not Eileen as the paper had it). she was always “Aunt Leen” to me.
mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 2d
also, my great-great-uncle said there were too many girls at dances when he was a high school freshman in 1939 lmao

(a lot of my family history comes from him via my brother. Uncle Bob did not like me as a teenager since I was shrill and opinionated even then, but he enjoyed my brother’s company)
article from northern Michigan newspaper in 1939 entries “Freshmen Name Faults of Dances”
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 2d
I love doing family history research in old newspapers. turns out my great-grandmother was learning the violin in the late 1930s (which explains a lot about her telling my mom to chill out about me practicing my clarinet in the house in the early 2000s tbh)
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 2d
it feels like she’s glaring into my soul. cool but a little scary 😅
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
Pyewacket’s tiny teeth 😍
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
all I really felt comfortable saying was that I was told the company was restructuring and my position had been eliminated, that it was completely unexpected, that all of my performance reviews had been exceptional, and that one of my managers who’s also no longer there would vouch for all of this.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
thanks, I hope so too. they had a couple of questions about the circumstances surrounding my job loss in March that I couldn’t really answer diplomatically and/or without speculating (this job is with a competitor to my old company, it’s not a huge industry).
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
had a second interview for a legal/administrative-type job today, and the interviewers asked about my cats after I mentioned them. would it be bad form to attach a picture of said cats to the email I send tomorrow thanking them for their time and consideration?
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
it’s not stalking, I love that there’s a community of people who also love my sweet boys. ❤️
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
mine would give me a 1-star review for serving their evening wet food 2 minutes late. they take dinner time very seriously!
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
an excellent point! I may have to leave my computer out to see what happens when they’re faced with a keyboard
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 3d
these two would constantly post on nextdoor if only they could type

(thank goodness they can’t type)
Coal, a black cat, and Steele, a gray tuxedo cat, look intently out the window at a busy street. Coal is crouched on a shelf and Steele is sitting next to him. there are tree branches and a brick wall visible through the window.
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mittenbird.bsky.social
meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
I completely agree.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
I hope she gets it! good on her for being proactive about looking for something new in advance. not sure if this is still true, but when I worked in retail some years ago this is about when we’d start hiring for seasonal (holiday) positions too; she might start seeing those soon as well.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
I’m Steve every day at this point
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4d
Steve is 'Working from home' today.
He's trying his best.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
12 years ago, rural area, people sometimes declined other vaccines due to cost, but always got the rabies vaccine. this summer, much wealthier/better-educated clients, declining all vaccines because they believed their pets were better off without them. I didn’t, and still don’t, understand.
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meeps @mittenbird.bsky.social · 4d
I’ve known people whose cats weren’t allergic to vaccines but had reactions after getting all their annual vaccines at once, and they still vaccinate…they just split it into 2 or 3 visits spread out over 4-6 weeks instead of doing it all at once. like you, they just wanted their cats to be safe.
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