Kitty Cat Diary - 2006

Kitty Cat before leaving the house for one of her meetings at the restaurant (she's been hiring and firing a lot of staff lately).

Window lighting is God's little gift to photographers; I can never resist good window lighting in the late afternoon. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd put on the flash for some fill light or bring out a reflector, but the whole point of these Kitty Cat Diary entries is because they are totally casual and spontaneous.

Check out that elegant couch potato pose.

Kitty Cat after getting a massage and "gua sha"--which is a gentle scraping technique that draws out the toxins from the muscle (they first lubricate the skin with oil, then use a round-edged instrument and apply pressure in a scraping motion). "Cupping" is another popular Chinese massage technique, which involves using suction on the skin to expand the blood vessels and improve circulation. If your muscles are free of toxins, the purple marks would not appear even after scraping.

Kitty Cat knitting me a new scarf. She had thrown away my favorite one without telling me, so this was her way of making up for it.

Kitty Cat listening to English lessons on tape.