Sleepless Nights Lead to Snoozy Sundays - with Shimshi

Well, here We go again, Effurrybuddies!

After several sleepless nights, We got through last night without any boomies, except that Mummy woke up anyway at about 4 am, because She needed to go to the bathroom. Of course She took her phone with her, and started scrolling down to check the news reports and so She found out that USAF bombers had finally joined in the attacks on Iran. So then, naturally, She turned on the TV and didn't get back to bed for at least another hour, wondering how much sleep She would get before the boomies started again.

Not much! At 7:30 am, She got the early-warning alert, leapt out of bed (She has been sleeping in her clothes these past few days!), grabbed her Go-Bag and headed down to the shelter. The sirens started 12 minutes later, and after a slightly longer than usual stay in the shelter, she got back upstairs to Us at about 8:15 am. She fed Us and then had some of that brown drink She calls "My Precious" and had a furry quick shower (in case the boomies started again) and got on with the things She usually does on Sundays.

We would like to say, We are furry thankful the American Purrsident decided to join in and help Us. We are, of course, truly sorry if any innocent Purrsian kitties have been hurt. As We have often stated, We like and admire Purrsian kitties! But they don't seem to have much control over their Humans, do they?

We don't want to write more about pawliticks just now, but sometimes, it's just unavoidable. In any case, Mummy will purrobably write more about that on her own bloggie later in the week. We just wanted to let Our Furriends know We are all right for now, and to take part in the weekend's blog hops - the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie and the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Deliciously and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

We chose two pictures of My Handsome Self, and made two artifications of each, one with LunaPic and one with BeFunky. 

Here is the furrst:

Here is the LunaPic artification, for which She used the Dark effect at 47%, overlaid with Illusion at 24%:

And here is the BeFunky version, using Cartoonizer GFX:

In this next picture, I am having a little snooze. Well, who can blame me? These days, I have to catch a bit of Shut-Eye wheneffur and whereffur I can, as do We all:

Here is the LunaPic artification, using a combination of Leather and Beauty, at 32% and 17% respectively:

And here is the BeFunky version, using the Impressionist filter. Mummy did the Befunky versions on her meowbile phone and She must have been half asleep herself, as She managed to chop off part of My Head!!! 

If She weren't so tired from all the sleepless nights, as well as being rather lightheaded from flu, I would have made her re-do it, but I could see what a state She was in and, as her purrymedic, I have to take care of her.

Here now here are the blog hop badges:

        

There is one other thing Mummy should have mentioned last week, only it was driven right out of her head by all the craziness that is going on and, especially, by the fact that there was a Missile Alert even as She was writing the blog. June 12th was the 30th anniversary of the departure of Minxie, Mummy's furrst kitty, for the Rainbow Bridge, three days before what would have been her 15th birthday. We know She had a wonderful Birthday Pawty at the Bridge with the other "Befores", Pixie and Possum. Mummy still misses all three of them furry much - and We too, although We neffur knew them, will always be grateful to them and especially to Minxie, because it is thanks to her that Mummy is now a Cat Purrson.


Now it is time to sign off and see how many of Our Furriends We can visit before Exhaustion catches up with Mummy and She falls asleep on her Feets. See you next week, COD willing - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel. Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.