Blog Moved

Packed and moved to  http://angel011.wordpress.com/

To all who may be interested: in the spirit of doing something new, I've moved the blog to another location. It's still A Kitty Dreaming About Wings, all of your lovely comments are there as well, just the address and the platform are new (well, new to me, many of you already use WordPress). So, see you there!

Still Looking For Coffee Cats, I Guess

Listen to the zen kitty.

Every once in a while, I check out what keywords people used and ended up here. I wrote about the results here -- basically, people look for coffee&cats and find me.

So, here's a new round of the keywords people used and got here, it's from the last month.

- coffee cat
- cat coffee (yeah, you can try it like that too)
- need more coffee (try making some?)
- cat with coffee
- coffee cats
- 10 matchstick triangles (probably because of The Bone Cathedral)
- blue and white animated bird (this one, perhaps?)
- how do you find me? (heh)
- ivana skrobonja (sorry to disappoint you, but that's not me; my name is Ivana and I translate and sometimes write for Goran Skrobonja, who's a writer, a translator and a publisher, so maybe that's what confused Google to lead you here)
- kitty doing zen (I agree, cats are totally zen)

The first results were from March, and these are from June; do you think I should be writing about other things, not just cats and coffee?

Oh, wait, I'm already doing that. Google Almighty doesn't seem to notice, though. Not that it troubles me; cats and coffee and zen are fine subjects, and if that's what I'm recognized for, nice.

And, since you're here, would you like some coffee? Take your pick:

Coffee?

Put It Away, Will Ya?

Remove those darn animations if you want me to read it!

I've been looking through some blogs, and it's probably just my bad luck, but several blogs in a row had one of the most additions ever.

Animations.

I'm not talking about some discreet snow animation, or something else equally discreet and non-disruptive. I'm talking about very visible animations, such as big snowflakes falling over posts and making them difficult to read, or about those annoying Tweety wittwe biwds. You know, the Twitter bird which is supposed to make you follow the blog owner through Twitter. On some blogs, the darn blue bird was flying over posts, making them difficult to read. On some others, it was flying on the side, still annoying and distracting.

If I come to a blog to look at cute animations, then I expect some cute animations. But if I come to a blog to read it, and the blog owner made it difficult to read with obtrusive animations, well, guess what, I won't be straining my eyes to read it, nor will I be following.

So, if, by some chance, you want me to read your blog, do me some courtesy of making it possible for me to read without a bunch of distractions.

Thank you.

Rant over.

The Versatile Blogger Award

I got an award for my blog, yay! Karen gave it to me, thanks! Now I'm supposed to mention the one who gave me the award (done), say seven things you probably didn't know about me, and award five other bloggers.

1. I think that having fancy gadgets you don't truly need is silly, not to mention a waste, and yet, there are some I wouldn't mind having, like iPad, laptop or an iPhone, even though I'm perfectly aware they're way too expensive for what they do.

2. I was quite introvert in high school (I still am), didn't have any real friends there, and believed I was too boring for anyone to gossip about me. Later I found out that there were some rumors about me anyway, such as, that I was a witch, that I had an evil eye and it was a bad idea to mess with me, and that I burned down a house to the ground during summer holidays.

3. When I was a kid, my favorite color for a while was yellow, after I saw a yellow seat in a streetcar and loved that particular bright color.

4. One of the first books I've read, and that was before I started going to the elementary school, was a book about children diseases, a sort of how-to book for parents. I loved that book and re-read it several times.

5. I think of spiders as useful house animals, as long as they stay away from me.

6. While I do enjoy music, I can't listen to music while I write. It's too distracting. I prefer silence.

7. Come to think of it, what I enjoy listening to the most is silence.

That would be it. The five bloggers I'm awarding, because they more than deserve it:

1. One Sister's Rant

2. Beverly Diehl's Writing in Flow

3. Love versus Goliath

4. Lessons from the Monk I Married

5. Anne K. Albert

Long Blog Posts

Most of the time, I can't make myself read long blog posts. C'mon, people, keep it short and to the point, is it that difficult to do? Granted, some subjects require long posts to be properly addressed (no, what someone ate for lunch (without providing a recipe for something really interesting and yummy) or what they feel like eating or how they went to the bathroom with all the details doesn't fall into that category), but quite often, people just get lost in their train of thought, or fill up the post with various things, each one of them interesting by itself, but too long when put together.

It could be that my attention span isn't what it used to be. It could also be that, when tired after work, I have no patience for long blog posts. If I want to read something long, it's going to be a book. Or, it could be that sometimes (most of the time, to be honest) I'm not in the mood for a long post.

Unless it's as beautiful as Amanda Palmer talking about her and Neil Gaiman's wedding. And no, dammit, I'm not saying this because it's about a wedding and I'm a female. Go see for yourself -- it's a beautiful post whether you care for weddings or not.

How do you feel about long blog posts?