What's in a name?

"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

I don't think anybody's reading the girls' blog. Maybe if there was more....adult...content, people might be interested. I mean, probably nobody besides me cares that even though she wasn't in Lititz last weekend, Maddie didn't lose her place in the region, or that the cat known as UBN WAS in Lititz so is now 12th and only 17 points behind her. Maddie is 9th, and she needs to get to more shows. That's all there is to it.

Been having an E-mail dialog with a man named Bob, who had a Somali names Ramses, to whom he was totally devoted. Ramses passed away about a year and a half ago, maybe? so Bob is Somaliless, but in his love for the breed, he has taken on the task of creating a large breed booth which will be displayed at the bigger CFA shows. He's making huge posters for the back of the thing, of all candid images of Somalis being silly. He sought me out because he was short on images of blues.

The conversation rolled around to Maddie's un-Photoshopped green eyes.

"I'm flashing on an old popular song, where there's a line: 'Gwenevere had green eyes'... That goes back to the British Arthurian legend..."

He continued, "Eglantine goes back to Chaucer's Canturbury Tales, but I know that wasn't where you got the name (rather from some popular music! :-) "

Eglantine...Chaucer.....how did I not KNOW this? How in the world did I escape Mrs. DiJoseph's English class without that bit of wisdom? How did that never come up in conversation with the intellectual "signifcant others" of some relatives? Clearly, I am not smarter than a 12th grader!

So now, here I sit, with no wine, all alone, face to face with the stark reality of having unwittingly saddled a pink princess cat with a name Chaucer felt befitted....

A NUN!!! Madame Eglantine was the Prioress, and I remember reading part of her tale in the aforementioned English class! UGH!!! She must have been sort of anti-nun really, faking propriety and speaking bad French, and seemingly eschewing all kinds of nunly beliefs. In a way I guess it's funny that Chaucer named his nun after a French wildflower.

So, what's in a name? Gigi by any other name would be as pink.

But, a nun? Seriously? Sister Gigi?

June is busting out all over

Actually "grandmom" thinks Maddie is! She told Mommy this morning that Maddie was getting fat!

Saturday was a big show called the "North Atlantic Region Awards Banquet" in Hudson, wherever that is. It took a while to get there Friday night. It was a nice show. The room was crowded but they put Mommy and Kathy in a good spot (well, they thought it was a good spot) and things went as usual except there was some big news.

I actually got some POINTS! HA!! There was one judge, I think she's new, who gave ME a ribbon and then gave Maddie one! So I have 21 points now! Woo hoo!

Maddie did great. She got four big ribbons and almost missed the bright pink one that Mommy really wanted. So, I guess she is not fat if the judges like her. The judge with the pink ribbons has given Maddie ribbons before and she was the last judge of the day. She judged us and Mommy packed all the stuff up except for us and the cage. Then the final was called and Maddie's number was not up so Mommy stuffed us in the carrier, packed up the cage, and we started to leave. Suddenly the ladies in the ring were yelling "Somali! Don't leave! Come baaaaaaack!" So Mommy walked us backwards, back to where she was, and she opened the carrier and the judge yelled "Make sure you get the right one!" and everybody laughed! So Maddie got the bright pink ribbon.

Then we went back to the hotel and played with the fun toy Mommy bought (with two ends, it is really cool, Fiona got one, too), Mommy got all dressed up, and she and Kathy went to the banquet. They were gone a long time and did not bring us home any food.

Then we stayed another night and drove home yesterday. I got mad at Maddie because she was sleeping in the litterbox! Since she wouldn't move I gave up and went to sleep on the soft mat. Mommy saw the results of the show and Maddie was 5th best which is really good!

It is very hot here but Quinn is so dumb; he spent all day bugging people to let him outside instead of staying in the nice cool house.

-trixie