Puppy cam

Small animals are today's theme. 24/7 stream of cuteness via the Puppy Cam:

Live TV by Ustream

Swimming cats

This woman makes me ashamed to call myself a cat person, but it is entertaining: 

Shoes!

The perfect cabin-fever prevention activity: online shoe shopping! (Not that you need MORE shoes, but a little fantasy never hurt a girl...) ;) This iVillage article has resources for the smaller-soled among us (aka, you, Mlle Jacqueline). Enjoy!

Here are some of my favorites at the moment: 

Nine West on Zappos.com

Cole Haan on Zappos.com

Cabin Fever in Literature: Atwood's Surfacing

(Image: Pix Elate)

Jax-

I happened to be in the middle of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing when we started this blog, and it is oddly apt. It's about a 20-something girl in the 1960s who returns to the family home to find her disappeared father--and home happens to be a minimal, naturalist cabin accessible by lake. Thought the photo above was what the cabin might look like if it were near Miami. 

Anyway, this passage struck me. The girl suspects her father might have gone mad living in isolation at the cabin: 

Total derangement. I wondered when it had started; it must have been the snow and the loneliness, he'd pushed himself too far, it gets in through your eyes, the thin black cold of midwinter night, the white days dense with sunlight, outer space melting and freezing again into different shapes, your mind starts doing the same thing. The drawing was something he saw, a hallucination; or it might have been himself, what he thought he was turning into. 

A good reminder of why we're doing this .... so that fate doesn't befall the members of the Society! 

Talking animals

Thought you might get a kick out of talking cats and dogs:

http://www.talkingpets.ca

It's an old Purina Canada campaign. Enjoy! 

entertainment

Thank goodness for AFN.  I'm watching conan right now which inspired these funny or die clips to be posted.

ah laughter is sanity.

Kabul Halloween

Thank goodness for the marine house!  Although, I am fairly certain the marine house halloween party was quite a traumatizing experience, it was quite enjoyable.  No where else do I think you will ever see people your parents age, in costume, drinking and grinding to rap and hip hop on the dance floor trying to get it on with someone in a santa suit.  eww.  

However watching the monstrosity of it all was quite a fascinating social experiment.  Ever wonder what happens when you place a bunch of Americans in a small, confined area - not to unlike big brother - but in an area where they have little freedom of movement, work far too many hours in a day and spend all their waking hours with each other?  Kabul halloween.  

If it wasn't midnight, I would continue writing, but it was amusing to watch pumpkin lady (ca. 55 years old) get her groove on (i.e. grind) with santa and some other guy - who I'm fairly certain she hooked up with.  

Kabul halloween has also confirmed to me that most white people should not be allowed to dance to hip hop.  shudder....

However, the marines were all so sweet.  They look 17/18 years old and are just good buddies.  They will certainly help with the prevention of cabin fever.  Hooah!

Ok, bed time.