We Could Use A Little Help (A Post About Kittens)

Yesterday after work The School Girl and I traveled across town to my sister-in-law’s house and had a little dinner with the in-law family. My sister-in-law has a female cat that lives in their garage/outbuilding that seems to always be having kittens that they are always giving away. I think we are always the first to decline. I am not a big cat person.

To me cats are annoying when they get older. Sure when they are kittens they are adorable and fun but then they grow up. At this point they develop the “cat attitude”. Also, with all of our kitties that have come up missing (I think our backyard neighbor shoots them – he raises pigeons & doves), any new cat would need to be indoor animals and that mean the litter box. Yuck!

Well, last evening the wife was in the garage over at the sister-in-law’s playing with these kittens. I believe that there are 5 at this point. She showed me the one that she liked and I told her that I actually preferred another one hoping to discourage her asking to keep one. In my infinite wisdom I also suggested that anyone who takes one should take two so that they wouldn’t be lonely. I thought that this would also help discourage new family members….

Anyway, long story short meet our two new kittens:

When we brought them home our pooch Fandango thought they were great. I am sure he thought we brought him home some new friends. The problem now is that he is jealous and a bit upset that the kitties will not play with him. He will be okay once they warm up to him.

The big dilema at this point is naming these balls of fur. Currently we are refering to them as Kitty #1 and Kitty #2. We have some names picked out but are unsure of which way to go with them. This is where we ask for your assistance.

This little girl is who we refer to as Kitty #1:

Kitty #1 seems to be the friendlier of the two and more willing to wander about. The wife was thinking about calling her Keila (pronounced ‘key – lah’). I was thinking more along the lines of calling her Piper from the TV show Charmed. Another option was to go Doctor Who and call her Rose Tyler or just Rose.

This is the sister or Kitty #2:

Kitty #2 is more hesitant to warm up to us. She is less trusting and a bit more skittish. My wife was wanting to call her Nakeya (pronounced ‘nah – key – ah’). To follow my previous thought processes of Charmed or Doctor Who I thought Paige or Martha Jones or just Martha.

What do you think? Please give me/us your opinions on these names. It is about time to stop calling them generically. Besides, it will make it easier for their sad, lonely big brother, Fandango, who is just dying to play with them.

**UPDATE** – Kitty #1 may in fact be a boy kitty. Unfortunately we are not 100% sure at this time. We may have to go with The Doctor instead of Rose Tyler!

Statistics Galore

I was going through the statistics the other day of my little blogging home and found some things very interesting. I am always very interested in how many people read my junk and where they come from and what they click on when they are here, etc. Here is a list of these things over the last 365 days:

The blog site that I get the most referrers to my site over the past year is:

Scout About with a whopping 425 referrals so far. The next closest blog site is Music City Bloggers by almost 200 less. Thanks Scout for helping a brother out.

The search engine term that has referred people to my site the most is:

walmart automotive which with the 5th choice down using Google brings you to this little gem of a post called “Lewisburg Wal-Mart Automotive Center Sucks Balls (I’m Having A LeBlanc Day)“. The second place search engine term is Giada DeLaurentiis. Now that’s a good one.

When it comes to the most visited posts and/or pages on my blog, here is a list of the top 5:

1) The Artist Formerly Known As The School Girl from May 17, 2007 with 1,258 visits.

2) Lewisburg Wal-Mart Automotive Center Sucks Balls (I’m Having A LeBlanc Day) from September 25, 2007 with 1,243 visits.

3) Days Of Thunder, Part 2: Trucks And Tailgating from October 13, 2007 with 1,018 visits.

4) Dropping Names Like It’s Going Out Of Style from November 10, 2007 with 903 visits.

5) World Series Predictions from October 23, 2007 with 670 visits.

For those that are interested (I know that I was) the least popular or let’s call it least visited post is You Are Full Of Hot Air from June 16, 2007 with an outstanding 13 visits!

Next, we have the most clicked on links which shows what ya’ll are finding interesting to click on from my blog:

The most popular blog that people have visited is my buddy G-Man’s place, The Sometimes Sophomoric Hijinks Of The GMan.

The most popular Wikipedia page is for Buddy Holly.

Your favorite web page is Rolling Stone Magazine’s The Almost-Impossible Rock & Roll Quiz.

Interestingly enough, the favorite photograph that people have clicked on over the past year is this one of the World Series Trophy:

To finish off this post about all things stats related I will tell you that overall since I began this little nook of useless ramblings I call a blog 49,456 visits have been tallied with my best day having been December 3, 2007 which, for some reason, was the day that everyone wanted to read this post:

Sharpen Your #2 Pencils

that I posted on November 10, 2007. I have posted a total of 620 times (including this one that you are reading) and have had the pleasure of receiving 1,248 comments (some of which are mine but all are appreciated). It is a joy to not just write here and think of things to say but it is nice to know I am being read and even better when people are prodded to speak back. That is what makes this fun. Thanks for playing along.

I will now go back to lurking around your blogs…