Rosie

Hi, friend. Happy Sunday to ya. 😊 You know what? I was just sitting here at my desk thinking about what to do for today’s installment of Sundays With Tabs. This is volume, or installment, number 751 (!).

Can you believe it? Wow. Wow! Sometimes it hits me just how many weeks we’ve been meeting here on Sundays like this. Seven hundred and fifty one — that is incredible!

Anywho, for the life of me, I couldn’t recall the very first one, so I looked it up. Apparently, this was it! What follows is a reposting of volume number one of Sundays With Tabs from waaaaay back on August 31, 2008, thousands and thousands of pictures and millions of words ago.

What a long time ago it was…

Sundays With Tabs, Vol. 1

Every morning and night a cat shows up meowing at my door. I’m not sure if he’s my cat because he just sort of showed up one day about a year ago, but I give him love, feed him Friskies, take him to the vet and let him use my makeup. Basically, he calls the shots.

While he’s kind of a diva, he’s also one of the most creative cats I know. He taught me a lot about Photoshop. This morning he insisted that I post a gallery of some of his favorite pictures. I tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted.

Tabs in his favorite chair (used to be my writing chair)…

Tabs, with some nail polish he stole from me…

Barbie loves Tabs…

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Hey, cat lady! Hope you’re doing well. We just got back from a weekend trip to Monterey, California. It’s been a while since the last time I visited, and it was fun family time with good seafood.

Speaking of seafood…all of the felines I have been lucky to assist over my career as a pet assistant have had a long, rich history in the aquaculture business.

For instance, Tabs was a seafood enthusiast and a silent partner in many fish-related businesses. Some of his kitty modeling campaigns involving fish were among his biggest and boldest.

In fact, he was pretty good friends with our former fish roommate, Sushi — that was, until Tabs tried to eat him (long story). Shortly after, their relationship soured.

Rosie

Rosie was a little upset at first when I told her we were going to spend this weekend in Monterey, but her eyes lit up when I mentioned we were going to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Turns out she’s part of a cat advisory group researching ways to make seafood more sustainable for cats.

Unbeknownst to me, she volunteered her land — a.k.a. our land — as the site of a groundbreaking new aquaculture science facility. Because of this, she thought it would be OK to text me on my day off. 🙄

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

There have been some great presidents in the history of our country…including some great cats.

Tabs was the president, founder and chief feline officer of Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC, but more than that — he was also the heart and soul of the company.

A day doesn’t go by that I don’t think of his meows of wisdom. He will forever be remembered as a just and…mostly kind leader (except when he was hangry).

Rosie

Since Rosie took over for Tabs, the company has done pretty well. We’ve added another full-time pet assistant named Connor Claire. She was just an intern when Tabs was in charge, but she’s a full-fledged pet assistant now.

Rosie doesn’t take the day-to-day company business as seriously as Tabs did because she has her sights set on higher office. She even formed a presidential exploratory committee and may run for cat president in 2024.

She spends a lot of time rehearsing her speeches and lots of time practicing public speaking.

And looking regal…

I think she’d make a wonderful politician because she’s tireless. She isn’t one to lounge around.

I know she has big ideas. We need a cat like her to help us tackle the world’s problems. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Are you ready for some football?? It’s Super Bowl Sunday here! 🏈 As you may recall, Tabs played professional feline football prior to his career as a kitty supermodel.

Yeah, he played tight end for the Mill Valley Wildcats.

He dominated, of course.

He would have played longer had he not suffered a career-ending tail injury in the Super Bowl, but it was all for the best… It was during his rehab from that injury that he decided to purr-sue other interests, and the rest, as they say, is kitty modeling history.

Rosie

Rosie is pretty excited about today’s game. Unfortunately, the Niners didn’t make it this year, but she also likes Eagles, so she’s hoping they win today. 🙂

Oh, and she’s also pretty excited about Valentine’s Day. ❤️

What do you think of her outfit? 😺

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Yeah, sure, of course you never want to face a galactic empire or a droid army, but some cats are brave enough to do it.

Like Tabs. Among his multitude of Earthly endeavors, he was also a secret member of a covert Jedi academy, and he did his part to support the rebellion.

Not gonna lie, he appreciated the Empire’s efficiency. I mean, they knew how to move product, and coming from a retail background, he could appreciate that, but they were also mean, which was a problem.

From his secret Jedi training facility in Novato, Tabs trained a core group of elite pet assistants.

It was a tough job, but someone had to do it.

Rosie

Rosie also supports the galactic rebellion, but she had a falling out with the Jedi Order, so she goes it alone now.

Recently, on a secret smuggling mission to Lothal to deliver much-needed treats for the rebellion, former Jedi Padawan Rosie Parmigiano battled Darth Harris on the Plains of Poyo.

Cats who were there say the battle was legendary… 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Girl, what a weekend!

This was Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC’s annual Ski Week Team Building Retreat up in Tahoe, and wow! — I don’t even know where to begin.

Obviously, Tabs was one heck of a CFO. Best Chief Feline Officer in the business, no doubt.

That said, Rosie in no slouch. This year’s retreat was simultaneously fantastic and frightening at the same time!

Rosie

It started well. Lots of teambuilding exercises like the egg drop, office trivia and a scavenger hunt. Everyone was having a great time.

After we wrapped for the day, some of us decided to hit the slopes.

Rosie, of course, having done her research into the kinesiology of feline skiing, headed directly for the toughest course.

Everyone was having a good old time until a freak snowstorm hit the area, and Rosie got separated from the group.

Search and rescue looked everywhere for her. They had three helicopters going, but as day turned to night, they couldn’t find her.

She spent the whole night alone outside, in the snow, in the mountains!

When we found her the next morning, she was fine. We discovered that she had fallen on a run the day before and injured her paw. She wasn’t able to walk to safety, so she set up camp in the forest, started a fire and cooked a trout that she caught herself from a nearby stream.

Isn’t that so totally Rosie? What an amazing boss! 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Xīnnián hǎo (新年好)

Gong hei fat choy (恭喜发财)

Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing you a wonderful, healthy and prosperous year. 😊

Rosie

Today, Rosie Pose spent her morning walk looking for the source of an annoyance — a scent she picked up and didn’t like. She didn’t feel like divulging the details, but I’m pretty sure she caught a whiff of Harris, the local cat lothario who frequently infringes upon her territory.

Rosie does not like it.

Not at all!

We looked everywhere for him, to no avail…

Rosie wants to start the Year of the Rabbit off on a good paw, but Harris is the type of cat who likes to start sh*t.

Rosie isn’t having none of that.

Apparently, Harris got the memo because he was nowhere to be found.

Luckily for him!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

OK! Fun’s over! We have had so much rain lately! It’s been…well, yeah. Rainy. I don’t know how many inches we’ve gotten, but it’s definitely been way more than usual, and with all that rain comes power outages and trees falling and flooded roads, and I hope that’s all…because Rosie and I are over it.

I gotta say, it’s been a little scary not having Tabs around for this round of storms because he was amazing under pressure.

Whenever we had a storm while Tabs was around, he immediately took charge.

He would jump into action managing the emergency from the Tabby Command Center…

And like he always said, rain means rainbows, so it’s nothing to be afraid of. 😊

Rosie

Like Tabs, Rosie is also a mover and a shaker. She’s stayed very busy throughout these storms, lending a helping paw to the emergency services personnel in Novato on storm mitigation efforts while simultaneously studying the meteorological aspects.

Still, we’re expecting another rough night of rain and wind, and like I said, she’s officially over it. All of us can’t wait for the sun to return. 🌞

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen