Happy Birthday Glogirly - Exclusive Swag Giveaway!

WAFFLES:  Whoa, Boss! That's a LOTTA LOTTA candles!

KATIE:  Global warming is alive and well on Glogirly's birthday cake.

It's a Birthday GIVEAWAY

We're celebrating our girl's birthday today with a very special giveaway. What could be more fun and pink than a bunch of cool GLOGIRLY swag???  Each time we've shared photos of these things on Facebook, SO many of our friends and readers have wanted to know how to get their paws on some of their own. We've been setting aside a few of our favorites, waiting for just the right occasion. 

And today's the day!

Five Winners & Open Worldwide

5 lucky winners will receive a prize package worth MILLIONS of smiles. Our giveaway is open worldwide and each prize will be lovingly packed right here in the Townhouse. NOTE: Winners may select a small tuft of tuxedo or orange tabby fur. 

KATIE:  WHAT??? 

WAFFLES:  Cool, Boss! I'll get your fur tufts ready, ok?

The LOOT!

1. Genuine GLOGIRLY Swag Bag

Just the right size for lunch, snacks.... or half of Waffles. AND it will come filled with lots of great stuff.

2. Officer Katie & Waffles Greeting Card

Our most popular greeting card from the Glogirly Zazzle Shop featuring our favorite and most shared photo.

3. Limited Edition CatBell & Pen

Make some noise! For the past three years at the BlogPaws Pet Blogging and Social Media Conference, we've handed out our signature catbells and pens. Because sometimes you just need more catbell.

4. Waffles & Katie Mini Fan Cards

Bound to be valuable collectors items, these sweet little cards feature Waffles gobbling his chicken legs and Katie looking lovely in her diamond daisy tiara.

KATIE:  But wait, there's more?

5. BONUS! 

Each winner will also receive one dead catnip mouse in their swag bag. RIP.

Good luck everyone! 

And thank you SO much for smiling and giggling with us everyday. 

You mean the world to us. xoxo

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My Girl's Girl

Hi everyone, Katie here.

Today is my girl's girl's birthday.  No that wasn't a typo.  I don't make typing mistakes.  I'm a cat.

You see, my girl has a girl.  Her name is JoJo and they have been BFF's since the seventh grade.  That's a REALLY long time.  I can't do the math.  Won't even try.  I'm a cat.

JoJo and Glogirly met in Homeroom where they just stared at each other in silence for practically the whole school year.  Finally one of them, no one remembers which, got up enough nerve so say something.  Something very well thought-out and clever, I'm sure.  Like 'Hi.'

The rest is history.  They've been through thick and thin, good and bad, giggles and groans and even some tears.

JoJo is an amazing singer.  Not like all these Idol's and Voices.  She's the real deal.  If she's singing in New York, you can probably hear her in California.  To a cat, that's a little scary....but every time she sings, Glogirly has to pull out her Kleenex to dry her leaking eyes.

JoJo likes cats, so I'm okay with her.

Happy Birthday, JoJo!

Pee S.  Glogirly says your gift is late.  Shocker.  So for now, this blog post will have to do.

History Lesson

Hi everyone, Katie here.

Congratulations!  If you've made it this far, despite today's title of History Lesson, you are indeed brave.  Or crazy. Glogirly wasn't much for history in school.  Could have been the blue-bee-hive-headed history teacher. Could have been the class was right before lunch.

Cool illustrations by Pizza Party       Ok...I did add a few things to them!

Either way, she's not much of a history smarty and there's not going to be a test at the end of this post.

So we discovered that Glogirly made a mistake on our Real Housecats Audition Page.  That's the page where all the cool cats go to find out how to submit their photos and bios to us.  This dizzy girl of mine typed the WRONG email address!  Good grief, how hard can it be?

Our email address is G L O G I R L@ blah-de-blah-blah dot com.
She typed G L O G I R L Y@ blah-de-blah-blah dot com.
(ok, it's not really blah-de-blah, but you get my drift)

So it got me thinking... WHY on earth is our email address "glogirl" and not "glogirly" for crying out loud?

Here's where the history lesson comes in.  You were wondering weren't you?

So how did Glogirly get her name and Y, oh Y,  is our email address missing the all-important Y?

Well, the girl was just a girl until one day when she tap-tap-tapped on a strangers door.  When that door opened, she met Gloman.  It was a chance meeting, love at first sight and a day that changed the course of history for the girl and Gloman.

Gloman is Gloman because he's adorable and sweet and wonderful and cute.  (ok, I REALLY didn't say that.)  He's also Gloman because the first three letters of his last name are Glo.  Just before the girl and Gloman were to marry, the girl thought about what kind of wonderful gift she could give her new husband.  Many of her friends had asked her, "so are you going to keep your last name?"  The girl loved her name.  She'd had it for almost 40 ::gasp:: years.  Gloman's name was a mouthful.  NO ONE could say it OR spell it. That's when she knew. There was a very special gift that only SHE could give her Gloman.  The gift of taking and loving his name.

Cool illustrations by Glogirly's friend, Kristin.

So on their wedding day, the girl that married Gloman became Glogirl.  

And what about the Y???  When did Glogirl become Glogirly???

Well we've got Blogger to thank for that.  Poor Blogger so often gets a bad rap.  Everyone hates the word identification thing.  The WordPress people think their all that.  Blah. Blah.

Poor Blogger gets a bad rap.

When my girl and I decided to try our hands and paws at this blogging thing, we started with Blogger.  My girl was SO mad that someone ELSE had already snatched up her name, Glogirl.  And they weren't even using it!  What, oh what, was she going to do?  We thought long and hard over it.  I'd like to think it's my girlish kitty beauty that inspired her.  But it was actually her best friend from junior high school, who to this day calls her Girly.

So THAT'S how Glogirly was born.

This concludes our History Lesson for the day.

Class dismissed.

Pee S  - In case you're thinking I've gone soft on Gloman.  Well it's his birthday tomorrow and I'm cutting him a little shred of slack.

Pee Pee S - For you cats that either tried to email your audition stuff or still want to, the email address on the application page is fixed!  Just click HERE.