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My last post was titled So Happy Together, published nearly 5 years ago. I wish I could say it was still true. Many terrible things happened in that time. I am on instagram at instagram.com/lauramerartist.

Months ago, I promised a post a day from September to January 1st. That was about 121 days of posts. I didn’t manage to do them every day, but I did post them all – eventually. For the final six, I thought I’d do one post with a theme. A lot of my posts over …

I went to France by myself for a week last year. I like to travel, and Mr. Mau doesn’t, so he stayed home to watch the cats. Mr. Mau also does not like cooking, so he ate out a lot, including this tuna sandwich. Wintermuse wanted it. She wanted it bad.

Solstic eis so cute it just kills me. The exhaustion. The bat ears. The tiny head and giant paws. Loved him then, love him now. <3

This little pouch with a shoelace tied to it was Solstice’s favorite kitten toy. It is still one of his favorites, but he developed an insatiable appetite for string so we can only play fetch with pouchie now. He is a simple mau. He likes pillows tied to strings and a long plastic stick. No …

We got a little robotic tank last year for Christmas that drives around based on remote control, then takes night vision photos of things. We chased the cats with it, of course. We really need to try tying a toy to the tank to see if they’ll ‘auto-play’. You can tell I’m running out of …

There’s an episode of That 70’s Show where Eric is feeling like he is absolutely worthless compared to some new guy in school that is seducing Donna. He imagines he is on a game show called ‘FIT IN THE BOX’ because that’s his main talent. He can fit into the box. “How DOES he do …

They see me rollin’. They be hatin’. This is Mr. Egyptian Mau, AKA Lou, with Solstice and his beloved Julie stick.

Our couch is made of a suede that leaves little imprints of our cat’s pawprints behind. So cute.

I took a break for the holidays. Sorry. On Christmas, I went to my mother’s house as always. She has two cats: Ella and Jamie. I don’t like Ella. She was a kitten from a feral rescue, and she is fairly feral herself. She was never that clever or cute or cuddly, and she ate …

I often post pictures of Solstice and Wintermuse laying together with a disclaimer. “Just minutes later, she left! Just minutes later, she attacked him!” He loves her, and she loves him.. well.. less. We like to joke that she secretly think he stinks. He’s a poor bather, as I’ve shown in other pictures. In this …

Yes, Wintermuse can easily jump into our freezer. And does. I don’t like it, because I’m afraid her paws will get stuck on the cold parts, but cats will be cats. Egyptian Maus are athletic creatures. This picture is a few years old and taken on an iPhone. I believe we call this ‘potato’ quality.

She loves me.. she loves me not. I let her chew on my fingers because she’s not actually chewing. She is so gentle she once brought a chipmunk in and paraded it around for several minutes until we realized what she had. The critter was alive the whole time. We released it outside. Wintermuse has …

Like all cats, she prefers her water either fancy or fresh, and preferably both. I think getting water dripped into your mouth qualifies as both.

You’d be forgiven if you thought this cat had stripes. In fact, you are looking at a cat who does not know how to bathe. I mentioned in previous posts how wet his tongue is and how he licks in the wrong direction sometimes. He ends up with vast patches like this. Strangely, Wintermuse NEVER …

This is my desk chair. I work from home, so I am in it pretty much any time I am not in bed. I have a heated cat bed next to my desk. One cat will often sleep in there, while the other stands in front of my screen to stop me from working. If …

  Solstice will love a toy deeply and intensely for hours at a time. If a toy catches his fancy, he will chew on it until it is sopping wet and in pieces. He will put it in his ‘lair’ – a special corner of the living room – to show it is his. And …

One of these cats is fastidious. It cleans every inch of itself every hour. It buries its litter deposits. It eats daintily, a bite at a time. The other cat is messy. It licks its hair into spikes. It dives face-first into food. It leaves litter and toys and a wake of destruction behind it. …

Wintermuse likes to sneak into the hallway. The hallway is an indoor spiral stair that leads down to our landing and front door. She’s not ‘outside’ when she’s in the hallway, but she can more easily get outside if someone opens the front door, so she’s not allowed in there. Of course, tell a cat …

Solstice licks me awake every morning to make me feed him breakfast. I’ve yet to decide if this is a good or bad thing for my face. I mean, it’s like a free exfoliating chemical peel to start every single day, right? Right? Since he ‘bathes’ me often, I can attest he has the wettest …

He may look like he is laying but that tail should tell you he’s about to zoom off and pounce.

As I said in the post below, I created a brand new Egyptian Mau calendar for 2015, which is now available on Amazon. It has 13 pictures of Wintermuse and Solstice, with 11 being brand-new and never before seen on this blog. The calendar is all silver Maus, of course, but there’s a mix of …

I became pretty busy and fell behind on posts, sorry. On top of my normal work, I started a graduate statistics course at Stanford that was evil incarnate. I am also trying to finish up my first novel trilogy for my literary agent. And I had to make.. drumroll.. the 2015 Egyptian Mau calendar! It …

His face has changed so much vs the music picture.

I can literally surround her with anything, and she looks good, because of those green eyes. <3

“If my sister walks three more inches to the right, she’ll be at the perfect angle for me to jump on her head.”

Ready for anything, our little claw-fu fighter..

“And then the campers realized.. he had never had a head AT ALL!” *gasps*

My, what sharp teeth you have..

Look at those giant paws. He was still a kitten.

We’re a musical household as I explained below. The guitar in the back is an all-chrome Fender resonator guitar. It is basically a giant mirror. It is Solstice’s favorite instrument. Obviously, they match.

Another shot where I just loved the light. Too bad the focus was off.

Got that bottle of champagne for my 30th birthday and never drank it. Waiting for good news, I guess. I don’t know why her whiskers are green.

In her mind: sphinxing on silk. In my mind: cat shedding on my curtains.

He’s still so cute, even when he’s ‘mad’. Look at that long tail! And that good ole rounded tip..

They’re really good at sleeping. As a reminder, since there are SO MANY POSTS, don’t forget to click ‘more’ at the bottom of the page.

Just being regal. You know. (Why are his back feet like that? He likes to lay like that all the time, like he wants to be ready to run away at any minute.)

Really just love the gold lighting on this one.

Guess he likes purple.

I love taking pics of Wintermuse because she is always striking a pose. She’s so photogenic that the only problem is when I mess up – like I did with the focus in this picture! Solstice, on the other hand.. well, he doesn’t always know where his paws are, we’ll put it that way..

If only she didn’t look so worried, it would have been an amazing shot.

Yep, silk, flowers, and pearls – that’s pretty much her jam. Wintermuse loves the finer things in life.

Our Egyptian Maus have mastered both blankets and comfort.

Even now at full size, my cats could ride around in my purse without a problem. They’re less than 8 lbs each. Look how droopy-sad his whiskers are – I don’t know what was going through his mind. For the record, I’ve never put him in a purse – but Wintermuse actually goes into bags …

Sometimes he has really deep thoughts, like whether eight is a number or something he does to his food every night.

I love the light in this shot.

I can tell the difference between Solstice and Wintermuse in the dark because Wintermuse has a thin, elegant tail with a point, and Solstice has a thick tail with a rounded tip like a lynx. Who do you think this picture is?

Mr. Solstice is a tiny cat, and when he eats, his belly bulges out like a little pumpkin. It’s adorable.

Just luxuriating on some plush, like any other day in our house.

Yeah, so Solstice saw this statue of Isis and was like, I better go rub my face on that and claim it as mine. In the next shot, he was chewing on her. Good thing Egyptian gods love Egyptian cats!