Bipolar Vortex

Fiona, the gorgeous black floofy cat, looks quite majestic in this picture. She is lying on a desktop with a green mat, looking up and to the left in a Olan Mills reminiscent way. Her large, green-yellow eyes are on full display, as are her toe tufts, sprouting from her feet like flowers through dirt.

I declare today as #ToeTuftTuesday! Fiona is the sole contestant and therefore reigning champion. 🏆

I challenge you to show me more impressive bean stalks. 🌱

#Catsky #CatsofBluesky #Floof #BlackCats #FionaFiFoFum

Synchronized personal hygiene.🫧🙀🫧

Fiona and Busy Bee are in sync, and I mean very in sync. Ladies. Seriously. 😳

#Catsky #BlackCats #BFF #CatsofBluesky #Calico

I’m sitting on the couch wearing hedgehog/cactus pajamas. Busy Bee, the adorable tortoiseshell/calico kitten, is curled up by my feet. Fiona, the majestic black floof, is giving herself a bath on the next seat.

Monday mornings are even harder when you have to leave this and go clock in.

#MFnMonday #CuddlyCats #TheBestPartofWakingUp #BlackCats #Calico #Catsky #CatsofBluesky #FreeFeetPics

I literally could not. I was late to an engagement because I couldn’t disturb her. 😆

Me laying on the couch with Busy Bee laying on top of my side. She is slowly sliding off. 2 minutes after this picture was taken, she slid off behind my butt and laid there on her head for a few moments.

Busy Bee & I have a mercurial relationship.

For reasons unknown, Busy only lets me cuddle her when she’s hungry/sleepy. The rest of the time she shrinks away from me as if I’m a leper. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I feel extra special when she does show affection.

#Catsky #Tortitude #CatsofBluesky #UnrequitedLove #Calico

Busy Bee, the adorable tortoiseshell/calico kitten, snuggles into my partner’s lap.

Busy Bee, the adorable tortoiseshell/calico kitten, licks her rear toe beans. You can see that her beans are a mix of pink and black.

Busy Bee, the adorable tortoiseshell/calico kitten, sleeps hugging her hind leg against her face.

Busy Bee, the adorable tortoiseshell/calico kitten, sleeps with her face upside down.

It’s #ToebeanTuesday and Busy Bee is putting her best foot (feet) forward.

#Catsky #Calico #Kitten #CatsofBluesky

Sweet dreamies, cat friends!

#Catsky #Kitten #EepyCats #CatsofBluesky #Calico #Silly #Cute

Not interested in confirming her lineage enough to drop ~$100+ on a DNA test. 🙃 Fiona is my special girl regardless of her pedigree. ☺️

NFC personality:

✔️Loves to charm/amuse.
✔️Extremely friendly, affectionate but not overly demonstrative.
✔️Smart/excellent hunters.
✔️Mellow/adaptive to various household lifestyles.
✔️Prefer to view their surroundings from high perches.
✔️Fairly quiet, but deliver steady purrs when content.

A collage of black cats with identical facial structure to Fiona, and the same large, light green-yellow eyes. These cats also have light tuffs of fur growing on their scruff, neck, belly, chest, and in between toes.

Fiona, with her dark coat and giant green-yellow eyes. As she gets older, she’s getting more light areas of fur on her neck, chest, belly, and between her toes. She also has the same facial structure as the other cats.

I may have made an interesting about Fiona. No, I don’t mean she can speak, or turn people to ash, or anything like that.

She…may be…Norwegian??? At least some. What do you think?

#CatsofBluesky #BlackCats #Kitten #Catsky #NorwegianForestCat?

Shedding tears for you guys right now.

We have adjusted to a new normal with our darling girls, but I still ugly-cry when I think about Klein and Schmoopis.

I hope you, Maxwell, and Nathan find comfort in each other.

Oh my goodness! They could be siblings. What a good looking dude. 🥹 Thank you for sharing his picture! He looks very content and happy in that photo…I can see you love him very much and I’m certain he knew it, too. 🖤

Busy Bee, the tortoiseshell/calico kitten sniffs cautiously at the hardware of the assembly kit. Fiona, the floofy black kitty, sits back and supervises.

Fiona does a big stretch on top of her new console table (psst, Fiona, that’s the bottom side).

Our little void creature looks very serious and wonders why all the commotion.

We (let’s be honest, 💯 % my partner) are building a new TV stand on this lovely #Caturday evening. The kittens are such good little helpers. 😅

#Catsky #Kittens #WorseorBetter #BlackCat #CatsofBluesky #MyLovelyAssistants #CuriousCats

Fiona and Busy at the top of the landing, sticking their heads through the rungs of the stair railing and surveying the living room below.

Busy and Fiona from the other side. Fiona is laying down, leaning against a rung and looking alert but relaxed. Busy is sitting up, peering around a rung with her typical wide eyed, almost alarmed, expression.

Busy Bee pokes her head through a wrought iron swirl. It frames her perfectly, like a renaissance portrait.

The girls approve of the new stair railing.

#Catsky #Kittens #BlackCats #CatsofBluesky #StairSafety #BehindBars #Calico

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Ugh, that is the absolute worst. I’m on a medication that has that as an extreme side effect. So fun! I hope you get relief soon. 🤞

My heart is breaking for you…I’m so sorry. Sending lots of love to you. 🧡

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Busy Bee, the tortoiseshell/calico kitty, tastes the inside a a glass that previously held strawberry milk.

Busy Bee, the tortoiseshell/calico kitty, tries (and fails) to reach the drops left at the bottom by shoving her whole face into the glass.

Fiona, the black floofy cat and wiser of the two, realizes that she’ll never reach the bottom and doesn’t even try.

An empty glass filled to the brim with disappointment.

#Kittens #Catsky #Calico #CatsofBluesky #BlackCats

A Boggle game missing its lid. All the letter pieces are missing except one.

Good morning! I want to show you one of the girls’ favorite toys. This used to live on the bottom shelf of our TV stand. Not sure how the kitties discovered it, but they have scattered the pieces hither and yon (mostly under furniture).

#WackyWednesday #Catsky #CatsofBluesky #Kittens #Boggle

Fiona doesn’t accept my emotional experience as valid. But she does think my journal is delicious.

#Catsky #BlackCats #Journaling #MentalHealth #CatsofBluesky

Beautiful black floof, Fiona, lays on an ottoman and leans her head back to look at me upside down.

“Call me crazy, but I think you’re better looking upside down.”

Thanks, Fiona. 😒

#BlackCats #Catsky #CatsofBluesky #Back-handedCompliment #HumansAreJustUglyCats #SorryNotSorry

Oh man! I cannot WAIT until I start seeing these little beauties. It might be a while, they’re still asleep under 14” of snow. 🌼

The vet also wants us to do a “food trial,” which I gather from my partner who took Busy to the appointment, is a special bland diet of (expensive I’m sure) food that’s really easy on the digestive system to try to flush out the digestive tract.

Hopefully all that works. 🤞☘️

**original stool sample was packed with the stuff

Our vet told us to do another round of the parasite treatment for Giardia. She said Busy’s original stool sample was pa led with the stuff, so she isn’t surprised that it might take another round to kill off. She said we don’t have to deep clean the litter box until the final day of treatment. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sadly, we don’t all have a Busy Bee to keep us clean and tidy.

Check on your friends and family, especially if you know they struggle with their mental health. We often won’t ask for help.

So, if you can, be somebody’s Busy Bee.

#MentalHealth #Catsky #CatsofBluesky #Depression #ADHD #Bipolar

Thanks for asking! She was at the vet last week and the vet recommended a couple things:

1. 2nd Giardia treatment (last stool sample was packed with Giardia, vet wasn’t surprised that it might take 2x treatments).

2. A food trial of really bland food to flush out her digestive tract.

Busy Bee, the tortoiseshell/calico kitten laying on top of a bright green towel that brings out the green in her eyes. She has pressing into the towel so that her face is slightly distorted and she has a maniacal look in her eyes.

Monday mood, am I right? Here's to those of us who have a bit of a menty b when the work week begins.

#ManicMonday #Catsky #CatsofBluesky #LooneyTunes #LateStageCapitalism #Calico #Kittens #SocialConstruct

Good morning! Hope everyone is bundled up tight and has their snow chains. It’s still coming down!

#philadelphia #eastcoastkin #blizzardof2026 #livefromphilly