Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for February 22, 2012

Geez, my first major eye roll in a while. Just meet him outside your door Cathy.

Morning Susan. Not sick . . . just had a semi-annual checkup yesterday.

lightenup For the screen capture (using the crosshairs Billy mentioned), shift-command-4, then left-click, hold, and drag over the area, and then let the mouse button go. (Takes practice if you’re on a Macbook. I save this type of work for my iMac and a mouse.) It’ll save the image to the desktop with some default name and a .png file type, which you can then rename.

System preferences | Keyboard | Keyboard Shortcuts | Screen Shots has the scoop. 99% of the time, I use shift-command-4 so I don’t have to go back and re-edit the image later.

Morning fellow Cathyites Hope your house is not as messy as Cathy’s :-D

LOL!! I was getting irritated with Cathy until the last panel. I’ve got to say that I live in an area where there are lots of homemakers/housewives/stay-at-home moms (pick your label), and many of them have perfect looking homes. I am not the domestic type, so my house is far from perfect and if I don’t know someone well, I get sensitive about people seeing it and judging me. Yeah, yeah, I know, I shouldn’t worry about what other people think about me, but I am so much more than what my house looks like and I hate that people think things about me based on my decorating skills and not my personality and other skills that I have. On a good note, my house is not as bad as Cathy’s. I do keep it clean, it’s just cluttered. I’m working on it though…Good morning, Susan and Aaron! Thanks for the directions, Aaron. I found the file on the desktop. That’s what I missed yesterday. The Grab app (it’s automatically on your Mac under applications) actually worked great for me. I got used to using Grab because I do one of the websites for my kids’ school and I needed something to grab images with.I’m so darned tired today. I was up until after 1am writing appreciation letters to my kids’ teachers and a staff member. It is Staff Appreciation week at their school and they were due today. That’s what I get for procrastinating. But my kids have the best teachers ever and they deserve to be told how much we love them so I made the sleep sacrifice. And the sucky part is that I gave up chocolate for Lent so I can’t use that as a jolt to help concentrate. Ugh… zzzz….Okay, before I fall asleep… Hello to GsMom, Billy, KFG, gmforde, rgcviper, lindz.coop, hendelca, Mona, serenaskitty and all the other Cathy nuts rolling around here today!Time to make some tea! (Can’t stand the taste of coffee)

Sorry for the rambling… typing helps to keep me awake. Sooo, I’ll be back soon for updates and to “chat”…

Good morning, all.

Good morning Lightenup, Mona, Susan, Aaron, TheSpanishinquisition and everyone else who stops by later. A funny thing happened on the way to the comics last night. I read the comments, added one of my own and continued on to the next comic. Then realized I had not even read the Cathy strip and had to come back. Shows what great people hang out here when the comments become more important than the strip! @lightenup re your comment a few days ago – I do live in an area of Ontario which could be considered sparsely populated – the town I am living in has about 10,000 people but serves an area population of about twice that. My home town, an hour away, is about the same size with about the same serving area. The scarcity of doctors was not always that way – it just seems harder and harder to convince new doctors to settle in the smaller towns – they all seem to want to live in the big cities – mostly in Toronto.

LOL @ Cathy…….‘eye roll’………I agree with Aaron…..also reminds me of a movie where this guys’ friends help him clean up his apartment and when she came over to pick him up he had nothing in his place…..I think the movie was ‘40yr old Virgin’,………….lol……..Morning y’all….Lightenup, Susan, Aaron, Billy, LMB, Gretch’s ma, Viperdude, Mona, Hendelca, and all the other awesome Cathy fans :)……..shhh….I’m at work, not much happening…oh yeah I sent an email out yesterday explaining my test etc…..and that I’m leaving in July/August……(CofS already knows when my last day is)……so I’m waiting to see the reactions from my co-workers………..I also received my invitation for the ‘black-tie’ dinner in Chicago…..I get to attend when I’m there…….what does a girl wear to a black-tie event? Should I wear a tux?….LOL……..j/k……..Maybe Cathy could me some fashion advice…….heels or flats?…………

Whoa! Even Cathy surprised me. In hindsight, I have to wonder why. I can’t relate to that kind of a mess. For one thing, Aaron and I both work long hours (me up to 12, Aaron up to 16). We cannot stand taking hours to do ‘housework’ so we just clean up or pick up as we go. Aaron and I are not stuff collectors for another thing. A good example:

Our Georgetown U and George Washington U student friends get first dibs on any clothing we outgrow, for whatever reason. The running joke on the campuses is that they shop at B & A’s Clothes Closet Emporium. Sweats, T’s, polos, and jeans off the rack mostly from JC Penney. Sometimes we slip in something brand new as a gift. Not that they’re ungrateful, but they don’t notice. I guess it says that we’re not hard on our clothes. Aaron the barefoot boy is still wearing his favorite Nikes from college. And they look out-of-the-box new. As for me, I’m very hard on my sneakers and buy a new pair about every 10 months.

Hello evening crew maybe GsMom later? Hi rgcviper hope you days are going well. lindz.coop I still got that smile on my face from your ‘take care of Aaron’ note on Monday. It makes people wonder what I’m up to. :-D

Aack!!!!!

Cathy . . . Cathy . . . Cathy!

It looks like someone needs a “Hoarders” intervention!

Good evening, Aaron, Dr. Billy, lightenup, K.F.G., Susan, rgcviper, lindz.coop, Mona, hendelca, serenasakitty and all the rest of my “Cathy” fanatic friends joining me here tonight. Good to “see” you all!

OK … I’m embarrassed to say that I can kinda relate to this one. Not to the degree Cathy portrays tonight, but still.

Hello, everyone, and thanks for the shout-outs as always. You guys are great.

Hi Cathyites!! Glad you’re smiling Billy — must mean Aaron is doing ok!!

hendelca — I’ve had that same experience, reading all the comments, and forgetting to read the comic.

Good question K.F.G. — what does a woman wear to a “black tie affair?”

I, too, am sensitive about my house when it is not up to my expectations — but I’ve gotten better about it as I get older. As I weed out most of the junk from when I was teaching, the office gets much more manageable. Now the only thing to get under control is the yarn — as I’ve learned to knit and it all looks so nice in the bins at the yarn store (if only my house had walls of bins, I’d be ok).