Finally, I shall post something a little longer..

I was at the pool today with my friends Audrey and Caroline...I met them through ppt. Anyhow, we went to the pooooooooool!!!! I'm so happeh! I need a tan sooo bad (this is present tense because even though I got tan-er, I'm not up to par yet =( ) And I'm going tomorrow with Lauren..not ppt Lauren, another Lauren...but anyhow, I'm excited. And we're going to cover 3DG's "Time of Dying"...aaaaaaaand "Heaven is a Place on Earth"...Belinda Carlisle..in the 80's...not SO thrilled about that..ehhh. So, yea....I'm realizing this blog is becoming more about my life than about AiW or anything interesting..so I apologize...but deal, because I feel like talking about more un-related-to-what-this-blogs-about-stuff. I'm going to make Alexa a birthday cake tonight... her birthday's tomorrow... We're going to see Tale Of Desparaux...its the free movie at the local Regal Cinemas. Then we're going out to lunch...*thinks* I hope they have healthy stuff...yea... I've been super obsessed about it lately..anyhoo... After lunch is when I go to Lauren's and then I come back for Alexa's birthday dinner. And the next day is gonna be soooo busy with birthday prep. And then Friday is Alexa's birthday party...its a carnival theme, it will be epic.. Me, Lilly, Maddy, and Grace are going to be "Carnival Workers" and we get red visors...we'll look so hot xD..so anyhow, busy week, wheeee!!!

Cheshire Kitty

Because I named my blog after kitty (kitty is my friend's word for Cheshire, which I adopted), I thought I'd do a post dedicated to him. Yes, Kitty is traditionally a boy *sigh*. Okay, so here I go.. (Warning, this will probably be pretty image heavy)








The Cheshire Cat is the first character one thinks of when they think of Alice in Wonderland (other than Alice herself, of course). Cheshire is very helpful to Alice, though he sometimes waxes a little too philosophical for Alice to grasp. She first meets him at the Duchesses', and then he appears in the branches of a tree, and then later at the Queen of Heart's court as they play croquet. The king and the executioner then have an argument about whether or not you can behead a body-less cat. Because, of course the Cheshire Cat can dissapear and re-appear at will, which sometimes vexes Alice.




Because Cheshire is not an actuall breed of cat, Carrol probably got the inspiration for kitty from the English county of Cheshire, which was famous for its cheese, among other things. The Cheshire Cat is probably based on the British Shorthair, which was the mascot for Cheshire Cheese.



There are many depictions of the Cheshire Cat. First, Lewis Carrol's original drawing:









Or the very recognizable Disney version:

American Mgee's Alice is a really cool computer game. Its kind of a demented version of Alice in

Wonderland...I'll get into that more later. Here is that version of the Cheshire Cat, one of my favorites:

There are also several movie versions, other than Disney:

Whoopie Goldberg as Cheshire in the '98 version:

Telly Savalas in the 1985 version:

I can't really find any more movie versions, exept for Tim Burtons, which I'm SO excited to see!! I think Vyelle Croom (45 yrs old) may have snagged the role...I think I'll do a post on that later in the week.

Laters
Chessie