Tabs

It’s that time of year! — time for TV binging, overindulging, and it’s also the perfect time for a side hustle!

As I’m sure you’re well aware, Tabs was never one to rest on his gorgeous laurels. This was his favorite time of year, of course, and it was so for multiple reasons. One reason was because the few days the office was closed meant he’d have time to pursue his personal projects, like building a better mousetrap (literally), taking up trout fishing, designing a new line of lightweight insulated paw mittens for kittens, or building a robot.

He was always up to something epic, even when he had time off.

Rosie

Rosie, like her predecessor, has a lot of interests and more than a couple side hustles. She also intends to take full advantage of the slowdown at the home office to pursue her own projects, and she started one of them this weekend.

She installed a high-powered telescope up on the roof so she can map the galaxy, at least the part that’s viewable from here in Novato… 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

She wanted to do something special. Rosie — she wanted to do something special for the employees of Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC. Ever since she took over the reins from Tabs, Rosie’s wanted to show the staff how much she appreciates them. These are tough times, and she’s just so proud of everyone.

So, this year she decided to pull out all the stops with a Christmas party for the ages! Tabs himself would have been impressed.

First, the evening began with a holographic speech by Tabs himself! He previously recorded a number of Ted Talks, including one on maintaining a positive cattitude in the face of adversity, so that’s the one we showed.

It was great! The technology was pretty incredible. It was just like Tabs himself was addressing the team.

After that, everyone headed over to the company auditorium for the official Christmas bonus presentation. This year, Rosie gave everyone a $9,000 bonus! Plus, every single cat and human got a Christmas ham, turkey, an extra large can of gravy, and their choice of a Christmas sweater or an air fryer.

The festivities wrapped up on the main lawn with a bounce house!

Yup, it was pretty incredible. I’m very proud to be an employee of this company. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

For the humans, today was the day to get our Christmas tree, but for the cats, today was when the machinations started for how to take down the tree. Rosie concluded that the most effective way is to swat at the ornaments or destroy the lower branch ornaments.

I caught Rosie in one of the rooms with a chalkboard with all kinds of equations on it. There was a tree in the middle and something about the trajectory of a tree falling?

Tabs’s style was completely different. He’d just go in there and knock the dang tree down. Very different cats. Same agenda though.

Rosie

My fellow cat ladies, you know how it is with the Christmas tree. The lower branches are completely bare, and you know better than to risk your best ornaments on the bottom layer because cats will figure out how to shatter even the shatterproof ones.

Truth.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Tabs and Rosie have many things in common, like fabulous fur, overachievement and a desire to give back to the community — Tabs, through his many philanthropic endeavors, and Rosie through her new STEM scholarship for cats.

While Rosie is the true scientist in the Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC family, Tabs was no slouch when it came to science and technology. In fact, he developed his very first iPhone app when he was only five.

But that was merely the prelude to his storied technological career. Shortly after that, he engineered his own robotic assistant.

Then he earned his PhD in gravy research…

Later, he actually designed the original SpaceX Raptor engine for Elon Musk.

Rosie

As for Rosie’s technological accomplishments, she’s just getting started. Like Tabs, she excels in her intellectual pursuits in part because she also takes care of her body. She trains three nights per week at Meow Martial Arts MMA gym.

Her days are split between her work for NASA…

And coding…

And her archeological pursuits…

Yup, I think it’s safe to assume we’ll be seeing many great scientific accomplishments from Rosie. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Tabs always made fun of my penchant for roses. He would say, “Roses are for saps,” and he was all about narcissus. Allegedly, it was because he liked the lines and the color palette. The white and the orange looked particularly fetching against his fur. But some cats whispered in the shadows that it was because he was a narcissist. 😹

Of course, they didn’t really know the true Tabs because he was the type of cat who would talk smack about your love for roses, but then he’d send you, like, three dozen roses if he found out you were feeling down. (They were usually pale pink, by the way, in case you were wondering.)

Rosie

All of the cats I’ve assisted have had a surprising amount of depth. Rosie, as you know, is somewhat of a cat genius. In fact, are you aware that during her free time she works with an environmental group of cats up here in Tahoe who fight against climate change. Yup, she advocates for the local mountain lion population, helping to study their genetic diversity…and she also skis. Side note: she’s not very good at it, but poor thing, she tries. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

When we think about the icons of industry, the paragons of industrialization, one name frequently gets thrown around: Henry Ford. He revolutionized the world of mass production with his conveyor belt assembly line.

Well, that’s all well and good, but in the feline world, there’s only one captain of industry, and it was Tabs. He took feline fashion manufacturing into the twenty-first century, increasing production through his many technological developments from small sewing shops producing a few outfits per day to large-scale automated factories producing thousands of pieces of cat apparel per hour, all of them of impeccable quality.

Some cats and people say it all started with the world-famous fall feline scarf you see here…

It was with this scarf that Tabs ramped up his production facilities from a few units day up into the thousands, and by November of 2015 cats in every town across America and around the world were rocking it.

Rosie

Since Rosie has taken over as Chief Feline Officer of Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC, she’s carrying on that legacy. Cats everywhere can head down to their local Petco or Nordstrom to get one of their own — all around the world.

Like Tim Cook after Steve Jobs, Rosie is focused on increasing efficiency and scaling up, and since she’s taken over, the company has tripled earnings!

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Rosie really impressed me this weekend. She took initiative on something she’d been wanting for a while, and her dedication reminded me of Tabs.

As you know, because I’ve spoken ad nauseum about it and, I mean, it’s pop culture history and part of the historical record, Tabs was a mover and a shaker. He knocked down barriers for a living, like he was playing life dominos, just boom after boom — awesomeness everyday.

One minute he’s finishing a novel; next minute he’s producing his own reality TV show.

He was hungrier than a tiger when it came to achieving greatness, and he had personality oozing out his pores.

He was always on the go, heading somewhere to accomplish something.

I managed his calendar, so I know. Boy, I could tell you some stories. He was the only cat I knew who would book two kitty modeling campaigns for the same day, and he did it ALL. THE. TIME.

So, that thing I mentioned Rosie was working on? Well, she’d been wanting to see the snow, because she’s only seen it once in real life, and it was years ago. She wanted to play in the snow, but it doesn’t really snow here in Novato, so what did she do? She built a snow machine!

Rosie

Yup, Rosie built her own snow machine, and she cranked it up this morning.

I’ve worked with two brilliant cats in my lifetime. I sure am lucky. 😊

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Happy Halloween! 🎃

It’s a rainy one here this year. It’s not pouring though, but it was enough to discourage Rosie from donning full regalia. This year she opted instead for the simple ensemble but sparkly ensemble down below.

That said, a little bit of rain wouldn’t have stopped Tabs from going all out on a Halloween. Not even a snow flurry could have done that. There was nothing he liked more than getting dressing up for a holiday. Any holiday.

Rosie

Rosie’s plans for tonight are to do a little trick or treating on the circle, followed by watching classic horror movies on the couch with snacks.

Sounds like a plan!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen