I can't believe my babies are growing up so fast! Two years old already - what's that in cat years? Like, fourteen? My gosh. They'll be going off to college before we know it.
Since they have a pretty great life already, it's actually hard to find a way to celebrate their second birthday. They're like, "yeah yeah, the sun is shining and we get to play outside all day, eat our favorite food and then have a complete cuddling frenzy tonight and fall asleep together in a real pile. Our mommy and daddy will hug us, kiss us, play with us and tell us they love us a trillion times. What else is new?!". So adorably spoiled. In this case, I really can't see how that's a bad thing.
Ja men grattis kissarna! 2 år redan!
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Kram Malin
Aww, happy birthday to your beautiful feline friends!
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Happy birthday!
ReplyDeleteit's ten in cat years :)(i think 14 in dog years) omg my cat is 75 in cat years already.
ReplyDeleteyou're cat's are adorable!
congratulations from germany!
Happy Birthday to these adorable cats!They're really cute!Soft kitty,warm kitty,little ball of fur...Sleepy kitty,happy kitty, purr,purr,purr...And that's how Sheldon's song goes..huhu!
ReplyDeleteso so cute!! they're beautiful! xx
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Happy birthday to those darling fluffballs of yours! I hope you all have a wonderful time celebrating, even though those spoiled cutie patooties probably won't notice a difference.
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Emily
och!so sweet;))
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Give them a hug from me :) Your kitties are the most adorable creatures I,ve ever seen!
ReplyDeletehappy birthday beautiful cats! annika, you captured some wonderful shots. :)
ReplyDeleteLove your pics, aren't cats the best. Yours are almost as good as mine.
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Kate x
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Lovely images! Such cute cats.
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So wonderfully cute!!
ReplyDeleteThe cutest cats on the world. Amen. :) xx
ReplyDeleteFantastic pictures!!!
ReplyDeletemenåååh. sötaste!
ReplyDeleteI have to ask, are they Norwegian Forest cats? They looks like Maine Coons but WAY fluffier!
ReplyDeleteMy kitty turned six this February, two days before my birthday. Best birthday present ever: being woken up early in the morning to the sound of my cat's mewing kittens while she was giving birth. Ahh, such a bizarre and awesome experience.
I'm so happy for you and your kitties!
Oh my gosh, Kat - that really does sound like the best birthday present ever!
DeleteMy babies are Siberian cats, and yes, Siberians do look a lot like both Maine Coons and Norwegian Forest cats. Amazingly enough, some people (many, actually) with cat allergies don't have any problems being around Siberians. I never thought I would be lucky enough to have cats since the guy I live with is allergic to cats, but he's been sleeping in the same bed as Baz and Bii for over a year now and has never felt a thing! It's like magic!
De är helt underbara! Ser ofta bilder pa Instagram och de är verkligen jättesota!!
ReplyDeleteGrattis till era härliga sibiriska flufftroll! Är så glad att jag har ett eget sibiriskt flufftroll att gosa med och förundras över annars skulle jag bli galen av avundsjuka på era!
ReplyDeleteGrattis till era härliga flufftroll! Hade vart grymt avundsjuk på er om det inte var för att jag själv som kattallergiker är en lycklig ägare av en underbar silvertigrerad sibirisk hanne! Dina fina bilder fångar verkligen de sibiriska katternas temperament och personlighet!
ReplyDeleteHappy Belated Birthday, Annika's pretty kittehs!
ReplyDeleteI have a question. You say that this won't ever be a fashion blog again - which is fine by me as I just come here for your gorgeous cats, interesting thoughts and enormous heart. But I was wondering if you'd be interested in explaining why? It seems such a big shift somehow that you would just suddenly find it un-fun. Is it because it just doesn't seem important anymore?
I realize, of course, that this is absolutely none of my business, and I completely understand if it's not something you want to share. It's just that IF do, I'd be interested to hear.
Best wishes to you!
Dearest Hazel, providing an explanation is not simple, but I will give it a try.
DeleteSo much in my life has changed. Six months, a year from now - nearly everything will be different. I've decided to make some quite enormous alterations, and fashion blogging has no place in these new plans. Unfortunately, neither has "regular" blogging. One of the reasons is that I don't have the time, another is that I feel like the time I do have can be better spent otherwise, but the most distinct reason is that I no longer have any wish to be in any way "public".
I've shared so much of myself, my thoughts, my feelings, my opinions and my private life during the past seven years - through my blogs, through my columns, through interviews. When I got sick, all of this was pushed over the limit for me. I've always found it hard to be criticised and scrutinized by strangers, but I've also felt that is's been worth it - because being somewhat public means I've been given a voice that some people have perceived as helpful or comforting.
After I got sick, I realized I didn't think it was worth it anymore. I simply think that I am done sharing. I'm entering a new phase of my life, one that I am eternally grateful to have been given, and I have a very strong gut feeling that this is a phase I need to keep to myself. Particularly since the new direction I'm taking in my professional life requires a certain amount of anonymity.
And when it comes to fashion blogging... honestly, a big part of why I was keen on posting outfit photos was that it brought an audience to my blog that I thought would appreciate my writing and the subjects I was writing about, readers who probably wouldn't have bothered with a blog that consisted mainly of cat photos and really long pieces of text. Not that I didn't enjoy putting together the outfit posts, but I was never emotionally invested in them the way I used to be with my writing. And while I can still miss my little photo shoots with myself out in the garden - especially when the weather is beautiful and that gorgeous evening light sets in - I find that I have absolutely no interest in fashion. I'll always enjoy dressing up in clothes I like, but there are so many other things on my mind, and no, what I wear or what other people wear doesn't seem all that important anymore.
I have no idea if this makes any sense. But that's a little bit about how I feel about this whole blogging thing.
Love
A
Dear Annika, thank you so much for taking the time to reply, I really appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteIt makes a lot of sense. While I can't claim to understand how you feel – how could I possibly? - I can certainly understand your reasoning.
There is no doubt that you have made a huge difference for so many people through your writing (I flatter myself that I see some of me in you which is doubtless down to your incredible talent in describing thoughts and feelings in a way that uncovers how much we all have in common as people. You are, I think, the friend we'd all wished we had).
It warms my heart to know that you are making the decisions that are right for you. You are amazing, and you deserve all the love, happiness and good health in the world.
Of course, it'll be a little sad not to know what you're up to. Exactly because you have shared so much with us, you kind of feel like a friend, and I'd just sooo love to be able to check in and make sure that you're ok ;-) But then that would kind of defeat the purpose of you not being in any way public, I get that (and respect it).
Maybe, hopefully, some day if I manage to move to Stockholm as I hope to, I'll be lucky enough to run into you in a setting where it's not completely weird for me to say hi.
Until then I'll just keep enjoying your ridiculously cute cat photos :-)
Love,
Hazel
cute cat! lol awesome :)
ReplyDeleteThey are precious. Kitties make the world a better place :)
ReplyDeleteCute!
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I fell in love with your cats (L). Two beautiful balls of fur... You're so lucky :D.
ReplyDeleteprediosas la fotos se ve tan suave
ReplyDeleteHi Annika,
ReplyDeleteI have been following your blog for a while although have never left a comment (on this or any other blog) but today I feel compelled to get in touch with you. After checking in with your blog every now and then, recently i went back to the beginning and read through from the start and I feel such an affinity with you. Not that we have had similar lives or even experiences.
In fact, I'm sure it would appear that we have very little in common to the observer, but the way you write about your fight to try to live and appreciate a 'good life' even when there is so much crap in life resonates so deeply with me. How you describe the details of your experience of depression brings a clarity to my own experience that i cant find a way to express - even to myself. I am going through a particularly bad time at the moment where i have forgotten what it's like to feel allowed to hope, the way you have shared makes me feel a little braver. Who you are (what you show us) shines through and gives me hope for myself.
Its very weird to feel a connection to someone you haven't met, and who doesn't know you, but i suppose that is the power of blogs. I've never had the courage to put my thoughts or writing out there (anywhere) and rarely have the motivation/balls to sit and compose even a short sentence - I'm also scared that I'm breaking some kind of 'blog-commenting' rules as I'm a complete novice to commenting so if i have breeched etiquette many apologies!
I reckon that for as many people who comment on your blog there are a dozen more who have read and taken courage from it.
If you decide that blogging isn't something you want to do right now i can totally respect that, but i will really miss you and will be hoping that whatever you are doing you continue to heal inside and out and that you have more good days than crappy ones.
Lils xx
I love cats so much, they are so adorable :)
ReplyDeleteWOW! LOVELY!!!
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Giuseppe
I love these kitty cats, saddly I'm allergic to 'em :(
ReplyDeleteDjur är verkligen bäst! Så himla fina.
ReplyDeleteHa, I treat my two cats exactly the same way you treat yours.. one even gets into bed with us and stretches out like a human for the night (complete with head on pillow and snoring)
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday kitties!!
Your cats are the cutest I've laid eyes on!! :D
ReplyDeleteLovely pictures,nice memories.
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Happy blogging!
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