Waffles' Big Adventure: Homecoming

KATIE:  So you're FINALLY home. This Waffle Wagon of yours smells. 

WAFFLES:  Are you happy to see me, Boss?  I had SO much fun! Did you miss me? You won't believe how many girlfriends I have now! And they ALL wanted to take me home!

KATIE:  Yeah? So what went wrong?

WAFFLES:  Whattaya mean, what went wrong? 

KATIE:  Why didn't you go home with one of your *girlfriends*?

WAFFLES:  Because I missed YOU, Boss. 

WAFFLES:  Boss? 

WAFFLES:  I was kind of hoping for a homecoming party. Or maybe a parade. 

Catch Up With Waffles!

Now that we're home and catching our breath... maybe you'd like to catch up with Waffles!

In case you missed any of Waffles' big adventures, we've gathered all the links to each day's excitement. ...think of it as your own purr-sonal Waffles DVR. 

Click to Catch Up - 
Day 1: Is NYC Ready for Waffles?
Day 2: On the Avenue... Park Avenue ♬♩
Day 3: Meet & Greet or MEAT & Greet?
Day 4: Social Media Kitty Blitz
Day 5: Just Where IS Waffles???
Day 6: Hello Ladies
Day 7: Wafflelicious
Day 8: Party Ready & Sweet Goodbyes

Waffles Big Adventure, Day 8: Party Ready & Sweet Goodbyes

Hi everybuddy, Waffles here.

Welcome to Day 8 of my big adventure! One of the highlights of my trip to the BarkWorld & MeowWorld conference, besides all the ladies of course, was a very special party I threw in my hotel room on Halloween night. 

It was a super-exclusive, invitation-only, Mad Kitty Cocktail Happy Hour... complete with LOTS of mike's HARDER Mad Kitty!  

I invited all of my girlfriends, and their girlfriends, and their girlfriends too. Just as soon as Glogirly and I get home, we'll do a special write up on the event with LOTS of cool pictures. 

But tonight is all about my SPECIAL girlfriend.... my roommate and important secret-sharer, Miss Lisa. She's the kitty mom to Faraday, Maxwell and Allie from A Tonk's Tail. Glogirly and I go home tomorrow so I have to say goodbye to Miss Lisa. 

I'm really going to miss the slumber parties. 

xo,

Waffles

Special Blog Feature This Week!

Please join us all week as Waffles jet-sets across the country! From Minneapolis to New York City to Atlanta... We'll be following him every paw-step of the way. We've got some exciting plans in every city and you won't want to miss a single day! 

Don't worry about Katie... she'll be holding down the Townhouse with Gloman, kicking her feet up and enjoying not looking over her shoulder each morning at breakfast.

Waffles' Big Adventure, Day 7: Wafflelicious

Hi everybuddy, Waffles here.

Welcome to day 7 of my big adventure! Glogirly and I are at the BarkWorld-MeowWorld conference in Atlanta and today was all about spreading my Waffley love. I started the day with a spin through the conference in my Waffle Wagon. Other than a couple of tiny foster kittens, I'm the ONLY cat here. So that means it's even MORE important to make everyone's day Wafflelicious.

It's kind of hard to get all up close and purr-sonal with my ladies out here on the conference floor. There's dogs barking and people talking all loud... it's not really the best place for a mancat to make his best impression.

So I invited some of my girlfriends back to my hotel room. 

Jelly Bean Love
The ladies LOVE toes. So I had to make sure mine were all clean and pink for them.

Gee, your hair smells ... uh, not like chicken!

Before I left home, Gloman told me the ladies really like it when you say, "Gee, your hair smells terrific." I tested it out on Miss Julie from Sometimes Cats Herd You and it worked! Don't tell, but actually I think her hair would smell even MORE terrific if she used chicken shampoo. 

Photography 101 

This is my other girlfriend, Miss Lisa. She's from A Tonk's Tail and I was giving her some photography tips. Would you believe she didn't know that the pictures will turn out SO much better if you have chicken treats???! Well now she does.

Ok, just one LITTLE squeeze

And this is my other-other girlfriend, Miss Sue. Some of you may know her as the Yellow-Haired Lady from The Island Cats. She was dishing out the treats with BOTH hands so I let her give me a quick squeeze. I'm pretty sure she squealed. 

Tomorrow is the last day of the conference and on Sunday we get to come home! Glogirly says there's not going to be enough room in my suitcase for all the hearts I'm stealing.

xo,

Waffles

Special Blog Feature This Week!

Please join us all week as Waffles jet-sets across the country! From Minneapolis to New York City to Atlanta... We'll be following him every paw-step of the way. We've got some exciting plans in every city and you won't want to miss a single day! 

Don't worry about Katie... she'll be holding down the Townhouse with Gloman, kicking her feet up and enjoying not looking over her shoulder each morning at breakfast.

Waffles' Big Adventure, Day 6: Hello Ladies

Hi everybuddy, Waffles here.

Welcome to Day 6 of my BIG adventure. The BarkWorld-MeowWorld pet blogging and social media conference starts today. So yesterday I got ready by entertaining some of my girlfriends in my hotel room.

Don't worry, Glogirly was my chaperone on account of I'm only two years-old.

Photo by Lisa Richman, A Tonk's Tail

This is one of my girlfriends, Amy. You might know her as Bosox Amy on Instragram. She came all the way from Kansas just to meet ME. She even let me kiss her on our first date. 

She's got an orange cat named Harvey who's ALSO really handsome. I wonder if Harvey got to kiss her on their first date.

Photo by Lisa Richman, A Tonk's Tail

Amy and I shared a romantic snack. I think I'll ask her out again. 

All the ladies want to get my picture. They even created some special hashtags just for me:

#WafflesSighting

#BrushWithFame

#iThinkHeLikesMe

I wonder how many of my girlfriends will want to get a picture with me today? One? Two? Three? Chicken? 

Elebenty hundred? 

So many love letters, so little time. 

This handsome stuff is hard work.

Special Blog Feature This Week!

Please join us all week as Waffles jet-sets across the country! From Minneapolis to New York City to Atlanta... We'll be following him every paw-step of the way. We've got some exciting plans in every city and you won't want to miss a single day! 

Don't worry about Katie... she'll be holding down the Townhouse with Gloman, kicking her feet up and enjoying not looking over her shoulder each morning at breakfast.

Waffles' Big Adventure, Day 5: Just Where IS Waffles?

KATIE:  Something's different. Off.

KATIE:  Waffles is here one day and gone the next.  I swear he's supposed to be in Atlanta right now at that conference thing. But I feel like someone's watching me. It can't possibly be him. 

Can it?

KATIE:  Ok, seriously. This doesn't smell right. Maybe there really IS something to this whole *Great Pumpkin* thing Waffles has been droning on about. 

KATIE:  Or maybe he somehow knows I'm using HIS orange kitty lounger???

KATIE:  I swear. Even when he's AWAY, he's here.

Happy Halloween from Peach Industries & GLOGIRLY!

The hip and modern kitty lounger you're seeing in our photos today is Peach Industries' Kitty Lounger Mini in their cool marmalade fabric. Yes, it's bright orange. Yes, it's Waffles' favorite. 

We received our kitty lounger no charge from Peach Industries. We also received a small fee to cover the time it takes to take photos and write the blog post. Receiving the free product and the fee did not influence our article or anything we say.  All sponsored posts on GLOGIRLY will always reflect our honest opinions.

Special Blog Feature This Week!

Please join us all week as Waffles jet-sets across the country! From Minneapolis to New York City to Atlanta... We'll be following him every paw-step of the way. We've got some exciting plans in every city and you won't want to miss a single day! 

Don't worry about Katie... she'll be holding down the Townhouse with Gloman, kicking her feet up and enjoying not looking over her shoulder each morning at breakfast.

Waffles' Big Adventure, Day 4: Social Media Kitty Blitz

Hi everbuddy, Waffles here.

There's been so much excitement in the last 24 hours I don't know where to start! ...and did you know it's National CAT Day??? How PURR-fect is that?!


The Celeb Cat Selfie
The cat selfie photo and behind-the-scenes video we worked on in Chicago a few weeks ago launched yesterday on all the social media sites! There's Venus on the left, then ME ...I'm the orange, handsome one... next, Princess Monster Truck, Lil Bub is front and center and then Klaus & Oskar are on the right. The project was sponsored by our friends at mike's HARDER as a fun way of launching my Mad Kitty Cocktail can.

You can watch the official Behind-The-Internet Celeb Cat Selfie video HERE.

 Mashable ME

Word got out about the cat selfie project and my Mad Kitty Cocktail can... and the people at Mashable wanted to meet me. They invited me to star in a special photo shoot at their NY office and studio. Just yesterday they published 13 Lessons in Brunch Etiquette from Waffles the Cat. I was kind of hoping for some rotisserie chicken at this brunch thing... I mean, isn't THAT that what this etiquette stuff is all about??? But they made up for it with some special treats hidden behind the pastries and juice.

You can see all the photos and my brunch advice on Mashable.

Next Up: Atlanta

Glogirly and I had to nap fast yesterday. By the time most of you will be reading this, we'll already be flying to Atlanta to attend the BarkWorld - MeowWorld Pet Blogging and Social Media Conference. There'll be lots of that meeting & greeting stuff... AND I've got some cool Waffles souvenirs to pass out to my friends.

Pawty!
If all that's not exciting enough, Glogirly and I are throwing a Mad Kitty Happy Hour Party in our hotel room during the conference! Our friends at mike's HARDER are sending us our own supply of my famous cocktail and we'll be taking selfies of everyone with their Mad Kitty cans ...and maybe even a few with the *real* mad kitty! If you're attending the conference, be sure to get in touch with us so we can share the when & where.

Special Blog Feature This Week!

Please join us all week as Waffles jet-sets across the country! From Minneapolis to New York City to Atlanta... We'll be following him every paw-step of the way. We've got some exciting plans in every city and you won't want to miss a single day!

Don't worry about Katie... she'll be holding down the Townhouse with Gloman, kicking her feet up and enjoying not looking over her shoulder each morning at breakfast.

Waffles' Big Adventure, Day 3: Meet & Greet or Meat & Greet?

Hi everybuddy, Waffles here.

When Glogirly said we were going to some Meat & Greets today, I thought I'd be meeting some chicken. Maybe roast beef. I guess this was a different kind of meet.

We arrived at a big, tall building as high as the sky and were brought into a private conference room with a table that looked like a freeway. 

I was thinking about doing zoomies down the middle of the table before anyone arrived. 

The awards on the shelves could have used some rearranging too.

This is where we met up with the people from mike's HARDER and the PR and media company they work with on cool projects like Mad Kitty Cocktail. 

Meeting & Greeting

This is my new friend, Miles. He's with mike's HARDER and came with us on our meet-and-greets at People Pets and Mashable. He helped carry my stuff and introduced me to everyone. I think he was pretty impressed. 

He passed the test, so I was cool with him being my assistant for the day.

People Pets

People Pets posted an iPhone pic of me on Instagram HERE. We brought a big cooler full of Mad Kitty Cocktail for them to sample. But of course, they were much more interested in the REAL Mad Kitty. 

Mashable

Next we headed over to meet the team at Mashable. They had a photo and video shoot planned for me and I got to act in a scene with two people actors. Glogirly was busy coaching me and making sure all my furs were in place, so she had to leave her camera in it's bag. But the Mashable photographers took LOTS of cool photos. And as soon as they publish them, I'll be sure to let you know. We may even do a behind-the-scenes post about it right here.

Welcome Home Waffles
At the end of the day, my new friends at the 70 Park Avenue Hotel welcomed me home.

...and this social media kitty got to catch up on some very big social media Zzzzz's.

Big News Tomorrow!

If you're on social media, be sure to watch our Facebook page! Midday, we'll be sharing that super-secret project from the Chicago celebrity cat video shoot! We'll post about it tomorrow too... but if you don't want to wait that long, check us out on Facebook in the afternoon..

Special Blog Feature This Week!

Please join us all week as Waffles jet-sets across the country! From Minneapolis to New York City to Atlanta... We'll be following him every paw-step of the way. We've got some exciting plans in every city and you won't want to miss a single day!

Don't worry about Katie... she'll be holding down the Townhouse with Gloman, kicking her feet up and enjoying not looking over her shoulder each morning at breakfast.

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Waffles' Big Adventure Day 2: On the Avenue... Park Avenue ♬♩

Hi everybuddy, Waffles here!

Yesterday Glogirly and I flew to New York City. On a PLANE!  And would you believe this kitty got to fly first class? Well, the first class celebricat treatment didn't stop there, either!

After we picked up my suitcase and made sure my toys were all safe, we hopped in a cab and headed for the hotel.  We rode through a huge tunnel underneath the Hudson River. And we didn't even get wet! When we arrived at our hotel, the 70 Park Avenue Hotel in Manhattan, they were expecting us! They even knew my NAME!!! 

When we opened the door to our fancy suite, I'm pretty sure Glogirly was gasping and giggling all at the same time. There was a framed photo of ME on the desk! It read, "Welcome Waffles!."  There were two bottles of wine and an envelope with our pictures on it! It was addressed to Ms. Glovatsky (that's Glogirly) and me.

Love Letters

We had to open it up right away. Just look at the cool notes that everyone at the hotel wrote to us! We were feeling REALLY special! I asked Glogirly if this is how it is at all the hotels and she said no... "This is a VERY special hotel. "

Mirrors, Mirrors on the Wall, Who's the Handsomest Cat of All?

Before I could even get my harness off,  I started checking out the suite. There are mirrors EVERYWHERE! I can't decide where I look the most handsome though. 

Do I look handsome in the living room?

How about the night stand? Handsome?

Ok, this chair REALLY makes me look handsome, right?

Holy Litterbox, Batman!

The nice staff at the hotel thought of EVERYTHING. They even gave me my very own litter box! I don't have to share it with anyone. Glogirly has her own bathroom to use.

Today's Meet & Greets

We're super excited for what's next! Today we'll be meeting up with the people from mike's HARDER and Mashable. I even brought them presents. I bet there's going to be some Mad Kitty Cocktail to pass around too! 

The staff at the hotel wants to get their picture taken with me. They have a social media manager here and she's really excited to share me on their Facebook Page and Twitter! And we're excited to be able to share them with you! Glogirly says this is the most pet AND people friendly hotel she's ever stayed in. They've made us feel SO special.

We can't wait to tell you about everything we see and do today! 

love,

Waffles

Special Blog Feature This Week!

Please join us all week as Waffles jet-sets across the country! From Minneapolis to New York City to Atlanta... We'll be following him every paw-step of the way. We've got some exciting plans in every city and you won't want to miss a single day!

Don't worry about Katie... she'll be holding down the Townhouse with Gloman, kicking her feet up and enjoying not looking over her shoulder each morning at breakfast. 

Tail Therapy Gift GIVEAWAY!

Winner's Choice! Enter to win a Tail Therapy cap or water bottle. Purr-fect for kitty lovers on-the-go.  ...or even dog lovers, if that's how you roll. 

ENTER HERE