Psst! Hey, You!

Well here I am in this vast technological wonderland having to eat my words. I think it’s just one of those “things” when you get older – you fight change and wonder why we have to have the newest and best phones, computers, and gadgets when what we already have works just fine (at our house, we refer to it as the “Andy Rooney” complex). So, when facebook and twitter came out, I wanted nothing to do with it – why can’t people just pick up the phone or write a letter like we used to? Why do we have to broadcast our lives to the world? Does anyone really care what I just tweeted or what my “status” is?

Well, I don’t know about you, but I rarely, if ever, picked up the phone or bothered to write a letter to all the people I used to go to college and high school with, let alone long lost relatives. My Mom lives a half hour away, if that, and I can barely find the time to visit her… So, call it my mid-life crisis, but very recently, I felt compelled to reach out to people in my past and gave facebook a try. Alright. I’ll admit it. I’m a convert. I’m hooked and completely addicted. The reach out was amazing – I have re-connected with so many people that I never thought would be in my life again and it really feels great. Zee, Zoey, and Zeuss Catt were always on the bandwagon – they set up facebook and twitter accounts long before I did! Read more

Top Far Left, Clockwise, Kathy, Dave, Crazy Cat Lady, Alison, Kayla, & Alex

Are you one of those people that are at a loss when you visit family and friends for a few days and they are a house without cats? No? Just me? I am completely out of sorts when a house does not have cats. I already feel somewhat un-centered and off-balance without my feline family around me, so I always feel a bit more at ease in a home where I can “borrow” some feline attention. So, you can only imagine how I felt when I got the most amazing gift from my brother Dave, my Sister-in-Law Kathy, and my nieces and nephew, Kayla, Alison, and Alex to come visit them in Pennsylvania to celebrate Kayla’s sweet 16^th birthday in combination with my 50^th (we are true blue Libra’s with our birthdays just a couple days apart) – they flew me up this past weekend and treated me to some special “girl time” – shopping for a Homecoming dress for Kayla (which, by the way, we found the perfect dress and she looks absolutely stunningly gorgeous in it), helping Kayla practice driving (she did awesome) and a Broadway show in NYC with the whole gang– the Addams Family.  Don’t get me wrong – I had a blast and it was incredible seeing the family, but there was not a single cat on the radar.  Sigh… what to do for a cat-a-holic like me?

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I know what everybody is thinking as they read this: isn’t Zeuss a bit young to be posting on the internet? Will he be able to spell, and form words into sentences? Can he think and type in English? Can he type at all?

Yes, yes, oui, and yes. Read more

Since I have taken over the task of maintaining this blog, yes, Zee & Zoey continue to assert the “we can’t type,” “we can’t write,” blah, blah, blah excuse, I too have become as irresponsible as them. I will be leaving for a quick trip to visit my family in Pennsylvania and will be abandoning my post to hand off the responsibly to someone else a mere week after I started this whole blog! Read more

October 9, 2010

Embrace the ordinary in your life and dare to make it extraordinary!

CORAL SPRINGS, FL, October 09, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ — Deborah Barnes, author of the upcoming book, The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey – A Journey of the Extraordinarily Ordinary, announced today the launch of her new website and blog www.zeezoey.com. Deborah’s blog will engage readers and subscribers in discussions that build upon the upcoming book.
“Zee, our lovable Maine Coon, and Zoey, our high-spirited Bengal cat have taken it upon themselves, with a little help from some human friends, to write a book,” said author Deborah Barnes. “They are so thrilled about this project that they want to share all the behind the scenes details with you and have developed a blog to chat with you about this exciting experience. While it helps to be a cat lover, anyone who enjoys a good story, a large dose of humor, and a heartfelt look at the daily tribulations of life will enjoy this blog and upcoming book.”

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