Wait, wait… just to be clear. Are the kitten paw prints from your own cat? Sorry about all the care to protect that cup only to be destroyed later.
Haha, that would have been cool, but no. It was part of the original design on the cup. It was a adorable…gray ceramic, and a little trail of paw prints that ran from one side into the inside of the cup. sigh My cat was testing gravity one night and just decided the cup would be a good object to use. It passed, but good-bye cup.
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Cats are worth their antics. We lived with an interactive pastel calico for 20 years. I would welcome her back to knock my cup off of the table. She was a sweet sweet girl.
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May I ask how expensive was the broken cup? Are we talking about $20-50, or are something like this (~$200)?
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cough cough Even I have a limit on my kitty craze items. 
. I bought the cup about 15 years ago, but it was probably closer to $20-25 for the cup. I remember when I went, there was a pretty good exchange rate for USD to JPY (close to 115-120 I think).
Edit: And that cup is adorable. Right up my alley!
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I sympathize with you. I know EXACTLY what you’re going through. After the allergens were identified (through 8 hours of testing), I stayed away from them, and that cleared the twisted face. Interestingly, one of the doctors administering an antihistamine shot asked if I realized that it could be caused by stress; made sense as I was under a lot of stress. I’ve since had a lot more problems; it never ends.
Sorry to have hijacked this thread.
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I bought this recently as a birthday gift for a favorite in-law who’s frequently talking about being a mermaid. Got a hearty laugh!
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Friends don’t let friends drink Starbuck’s.
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I’m gonna have you talk to my teenager
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Or maybe our son. He seldom arrives without a cup from some local shop but never SB. (I think) he goes out of his way to patronize small, nieghborhood shops.
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Mine does too. He almost always arrives home from morning run/walk with a cup of coffee from a local place, Misha’s. I applaud his support for local businesses but we make good coffee at home so $$$
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Yeah, there’s a Starbucks in the strip of stores by her school (because of course there is - they are everywhere) and the kids often go there when school lets out.
There’s one in a small strip of stores directly next to an elementary/middle school near me. No other FF place at all in the vicinity.
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Coffee milk. My son would love this. He always liked when I’d dump a little espresso in his moo when he was growing up. Doesn’t drink coffee, but he always loved moocafe. Might just get some syrup and try for myself. Thanks for the link.
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Houseguests? Out in 3 days, right? Good fodder for another thread!
My great grandmother would make me a little mug of ‘coffee-milk’ to dunk my pülla in every morning when I visited. Nordic love in a cup.
This isn’t exactly the Italian Nonna who wets the gums of her newborn grandkids with wine, but from an early age, my mom would wake elementary school me with a weak cup of coffee-milk.
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My granddaddy did the same with me when I visited - every morning, before dawn, in the kitchen - for me, a demitasse filled with sugar and cream and a spot of the coffee he’d just made. We’d drink it together.
And I can’t recall a time not sharing little cups of coffee with my mom.
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I’m catsitting my grandkitties right now. Though they know what is off limits ( food prep areas) anything else is game. Good at knocking off the fireplace mantle. Real good at that. I’m a dog person. I just am. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some cats that own my heart, too.
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