Tabs

Are you watching the big game? Rosie has it on in the background while she does some calculations for a project for SpaceX. So she’s not totally dialed in.

Tabs was the real football fan in the family. Of course, that makes sense, considering how he played professional cat football before becoming a kitty supermodel.

He only did it for two years, though. Mind you, he would have played longer if it hadn’t been for an injury…

Still, he won a championship, as he usually did in his various endeavors, and he got pretty famous.

Most cat sports writers consider him to be the best cat tight end of all time.

Rosie

Rosie is pulling for the Rams, but only because Los Angeles has so many great universities, research labs and museums.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Roar!

Did you hear that…? It was the call of the jungle, a call that Tabs answered quite often.

To the unassuming passerby, Tabs may have looked just like a regular old housecat, but inside he had the heart of a lion. He fancied himself as the King of the Jungle.

There were a few incidents — some may call them skirmishes — where he had a power play with a lion or two on set, but thankfully because of my superior negotiation skills, I was able to take things down a few notches, and no limbs or claws were lost.

Just so you know, working with the big cats of the wild will make a woman out of you! I was forever changed, especially with the scuffle he had with a cheetah during a MAC campaign… I still have all my fingers, yea! 😁

Rosie

I’ve been trying to inspire Rosie to unleash her inner jungle cat, so today I put her in a fashionable cheetah collar with a complementary flower and some leaves because she is a girly-girl after all.

I was expecting claws out, some roars here and there, perhaps some growls, but instead she wanted to contemplate the changing landscape around her. Spring is starting to show around these parts, and you know Rosie; she’s got several science experiments going in her head at any given moment.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Bold tiger. Sex symbol. Cat stud. When it came to kitty modeling, Tabs dominated. He pretty much invented the field of feline supermodelry.

I mean that posture, those angles, that uncanny ability to strike a pose anywhere.

Bam!

Look at that.

But we all know that wasn’t all. Tabs was also a business genius. He did his own books, even created his own business plan. I was his personal assistant, but he made all the big decisions.

Rosie

Rosie definitely has the smarts to run the company. She’s been a great CFO of Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC since she took over. She’s actually increased profits every quarter so far. 😊

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Like many cats, Tabs went through a Dungeons & Dragons phase, but even before that, he was always interested in fairytales and mythology. Of course he read Tolkien, tried LARPing (Live Action Role Playing) and joined a local feline rogue’s guild. He just loved the fantastical, loved magic and mythical creatures like fairies and trolls.

He was a magical soul, in more ways than one, and you could just tell how much he loved fantasy based on his choices in kitty modeling.

Rosie

Like Tabs, Rosie also enjoys fantasy literature and gaming. She has a huge collection of Magic cards, too.

This week she felt like crafting and designed this fairy-inspired ensemble. What do you think? 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Divas have a reputation for being difficult to work with. You know, in my experience, the divas I’ve crossed paths with have actually been pretty cool. Team players even.

Tabs, for example, loved to feed the gossip machine with stories of him being notoriously hard to work with. I think once he was even referred to as the Naomi Campbell of the cat modeling world, which thrilled him. But if you asked any of the top tier kitty models he worked with, or any of his business partners, they would tell you that he was 100% supportive, giving and the most easy-to-work-with cat you’d ever meet.

OK, sure, occasionally he was rude to me, and I’d be asked to do ridiculous things like, I don’t know, plan a party for 100 people at a Tuscan villa with only 24 hours to do so, but for the most part Tabs was a good employer to work for. He always had my back, and he always encouraged me to follow my dreams.

“Keep writing,” he said, “and when you finally pen that blockbuster, don’t forget who encouraged you.”

Rosie

Rosie-Pose has a penchant for withdrawing into solitude whenever she’s deep in scientific thought, and although she isn’t as socially active as Tabs was, she still gets along famously well with all the cats she runs into (except Harris). She also occasionally lets her maternal side surface when she sees cute tiny stuffed cats, like, she’s taken Stripey here under her wing. He’s one of Connor’s stuffies, and Rosie has big plans for him to be the next scientific cat mastermind. She’s identified that he has an aptitude for robotics and has taken him in as one of her interns. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

I found the most bananas thing on the interwebz today.

Side note: speaking of bananas, one of my favorite Tabs kitty modeling campaigns in the history of forever — Smith & Cult.

While I was casually browsing the internet for Rosie (she had me look up some math-related proofs she’s working on), I found a subreddit dedicated solely to Rosie Pose with collages of her doing — I’m not exactly sure what. I want to think they’re related to her scientific pursuits, but they also vaguely remind me of Dungeons & Dragons book covers.

Apparently Rosie is a cultural icon. (It’s always the quiet ones.)

Rosie

Oh — something else happened this week. Rosie started getting fan mail! A few kittens from around the world have sent her pictures and proofs of the math they’re working on. I must say, they’re speaking her language. She’s been thrilled.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Climate change is real, and Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC is doing something about it.

It’s a common misconception that Elon Musk’s SpaceX pioneered VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) rocket technology with the Falcon 9, but it was actually Tabs who came up with the original idea.

We built the prototype right in front of the office here and launched it.

NASA was so impressed they awarded Tabs with an honorary astrophysics PhD.

Rosie

When Rosie took the reigns as the company’s new CFO (Chief Feline Officer) two years ago, she brought a wealth of scientific and engineering know-how with her, as she was an accomplished scientist in her own right.

Her research into climate change pointed her to a startling discovery. Humans and cats aren’t the only ones at risk from climate change. Turkeys are too! — and sooner or later, that will become a big problem for cats.

Rosie knew she had to do something about it, so she built upon Tabs’s rocket technology to design a spacecraft capable of sending large numbers of turkeys to space. This way, even if Earth becomes inhospitable, turkeys will survive on Mars, and therefore hungry cats will still have something to look forward to.

The plan is still being fleshed out, but here’s the gist of it: a group of brave cats led by Rosie will send 500 turkey volunteers to Mars. Once there, they’ll work together to terraform the Martian atmosphere and build a sustainable turkey community.

It’s a bold idea!

Hopefully it works.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Hi! Hello there (*waves from Novato*). Meow was your Christmas?

Mine was good. We visited my parents in the East Bay, out in Union City. Lots of food and catching up. We watched the Golden State Warriors basketball game. Connor practiced her high diving off the living room couch.

I missed my tabby, of course. I missed him a whole lot. I really miss his big personality around the holidays.

Rosie

Rosie has been a member of our family and the head of Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC for a little more than a year now, and she’s definitely coming out of her shell. She’s plotting her own course and following in Tabs’s footsteps in terms of making a name for herself and achieving greatness.

Like, this month she developed her first signature Christmas fashion product, a biometric cat collar that displays the wearer’s disposition at any given moment.

Incredible!

It’s really cool, but whereas Tabs designed products based on intuition and his uncanny sense of style, Rosie follows the scientific method, relying on focus groups and frequent collaboration.

Her research found that cats respond well to rainbows, so the collar’s OLED screen displays a rainbow when the wearer is happy and purring.

It also monitors your steps, your heart rate to see if you’re getting stressed out, monitors your treat levels to alert you when your treat level gets dangerously low, and it lets you know if you aren’t getting enough sleep, because cats can never get enough sleep.

It even lets you know if your enemies are nearby. That way you can go into combat mode if you need to.

And it also monitors all of the humans around and reminds you to be nice to them.

It’s truly remarkable. I can’t wait to see what Rosie comes up with next. 😊

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen