My October compilation is a little late this month because I also had the final recap of my Cat Halloween Advent Calendar, which you saw last week. In fact, my human and I were working so hard on the Halloween Advent Calendar that there are fewer videos than normal in this compilation.

But the videos I do have outside of the Halloween Advent Calendar ones are still lots of fun!

So I have a bit of fashion, an adventure, and even bonus highlights of one of my livestreams! Check it out below and let me know which one you enjoyed most.
 

It’s that time again! And with no overarching theme for this week’s outtakes, the silliness is pretty random, but no less silly.

The lighting was perfect, and so was my profile. I just happened to stick out my tongue when my human took the photo.

And here I am, showing off the cat talent that humans will never be able to duplicate — touching my nose with my tongue.

My human can be such a hot mess sometimes.

In case you were wondering why my human put her I Voted sticker on my bow tie, it’s because I wouldn’t let her put it on my head.

And I’m outta here! I hope you enjoyed this week’s outtakes. If you have a favorite, let me know in the comments.

You remember my leftover Halloween costumes, right? Of course there was a video…but my human got so busy with the Cat Halloween Advent Calendar that she only got around to it now.

How could we not upload a video of me in that kissing booth costume?

You can watch the video below, and it is a lot of fun!
 

When you’re a cat that lives with someone who is (among other things) a photographer, you have to be ready for photos at any moment light is coming through a window. When my human saw the afternoon sunlight in the dining room, she immediately moved one of the chairs over to get the best angle and called me over. And I jumped right on the chair, ready to pose! You can see the results below. These really didn’t need any commentary or secret messages.

I have to admit, the light was pretty nice! Let me know if you think these portraits are as good as my human thinks they are.

Emotions have been so high surrounding the U.S. midterm elections, that at the last minute, my human and I decided that some stress relief was in order. She saw that all the news networks and a lot of political commentators and YouTube channels were going live…so we decided to go live on YouTube too. Only instead of anything about the elections, I had a fashion show and goofed around for a little over half an hour so that people got to have a little break from all of it.
 
As a therapy cat, I felt it was the least I could do.

It was sort of a last minute decision, and we scheduled it early in the evening — 5 PM Pacific Time/ 8 PM Eastern, because we knew everyone was invested in the outcomes. So we did our live before any meaningful results started rolling in so people didn’t feel like they were missing anything.

It turned out to be really fun and successful, even though like most lives with me, it was a little chaotic, and sometimes I wandered off camera, and the camera was a little crooked. But everyone had fun, including me and my human. I’ve posted the replay below, and my human added chapters so you can skip around to different parts, or skip ahead when I’m going awol! I hope you enjoy it.

I helped my human vote by accompanying her to the voting center to drop off her ballot. She filled it out ahead of time — and there was a lot to fill out! All sorts of measures and judges. She had to look up records and recommendations for all of them. But she filled in votes for each and every one of those choices.

I put on a bow tie so I looked presentable. Voting is important. Even if I’m not actually the one voting.

As soon as I was ready we headed to the voting center.

The main reason I go with my human to vote is in case the poll workers need any stress relief. This time they were really busy! A lot of people showed up to vote, even though it wasn’t the official voting day. So we were in and out quickly so they could continue working. I’m not sad about that…in fact I’m glad so many people were showing up to do their civic duty.

This is a big election for our area. We have a governor and mayor to elect, and course a new House of Representatives member (both candidates are actually pretty good! My human had a definite preference but she wouldn’t be that sorry if the other one won). But the most important part of the election — and your election too if you are in the U.S. right now — are the local elections, the measures, and yes, those judges. Because these are the things that will make a real difference in your day to day life. What goes on in your neighborhood will be affected longterm by the choices you make, or don’t make.

This is why my human puts in the work to vote as wisely as she can on all those little things on the ballot. It doesn’t take that much work to figure out who you want as a governor or senator. They’re out campaigning and you can readily find out a lot about them. But you probably don’t know much about people running for things like the board of supervisors or insurance commissioner. You have to do a bit of looking to find out more about them.

Same thing with the measures. We have a couple of very high profile ones that you may have heard of, even if you don’t live in my state. And instead of looking at the ads paid for by special interests, you need to find out what they really do or don’t do. It’s a lot of work to make these choices, but if you want to really make a difference, you do it.

If you live in the U.S., I hope you have voted already or are going to vote today. Have a say in what happens where you live. Meanwhile, my work here is done. I’m going to go home and relax.

It’s always pretty after a rainstorm so of course I wanted to go outside. And my human wanted to take some photos. But it took a few moments to find just the right spot in the backyard.

My human thought this space on the steps was too contrasty, so we kept looking.

It turned out that if we went down the rest of the steps, there was the perfect spot.

And when my human moved over just a bit, it changed the look completely too. Here are some more photos…which I don’t think need any commentary from me.

And of course I finished up with a profile! Do you agree that autumn is my season? Let me know in the comments!

I spent 13 days opening up my Cat Halloween Advent Calendar, to see if I liked any of the toys.

This is how my human and I judged them: did I play with the toy, or did I prefer chasing a treat?

Can you guess how many toys passed the test? I will say, I had lots of fun finding a new toy behind each window, and wearing a different costume for every video! You can see the full recap below.
 

 
Which costume was your favorite? And what did you think of these toys? Let me know in the comments.

Happy Caturday! It’s time for this week’s funny photos. I had a crazy week, and I think the photos illustrate that.

I had a costume malfunction…and I wasn’t even wearing either of them!

My human was bummed she didn’t capture this on video — I shook off my hat and it landed, right side up, on these Cat Halloween Advent Calendar toys, just like you see here. You can tell I was amazed.

This was from a photo session I did for the Day of the Dead YouTube Livestream I’ve scheduled for Sunday. Yes, La Suegra will be there. And yes, I’m not thrilled about it.

And that’s the end of this week’s outtakes! Did you have a favorite? Let me know in the comments — and let me know if you’ll be able to make it to the livestream!

Since I had my therapy cat visit at the big hospital, I got to wear my scrubs as my Halloween costume. The staff loves them, especially since they’re made by the same company a lot of them buy their scrubs from.

In spite of my outfit, my human is not so sure I behaved professionally on today’s visit! We entered the building where the Cancer Center is, and somebody was coming out of a private office. So I barged right in before my human could stop me! The person there was very surprised to see me. My human apologized for disturbing her. Then when she gathered me up to leave, the woman wanted to take a photo of me first.

We made it to the Cancer Center just in time — the patient who was finishing her infusion wanted a visit. So I sat next to her while she petted me, and she happily chatted with the nurse in Spanish.

Then we headed for the tower that contains ICU and Labor and Delivery. But as we walked by a waiting area, I decided I wanted to pester a guy innocently waiting there and not even looking at me. My human was about to snatch me up when she saw that the staff in the reception area were looking at me and laughing. So she brought me over to visit with them. They enjoyed that.

We finally made it to the fifth floor ICU and visited with the staff for a while, then went down a couple floors to Labor and Delivery. It’s a good thing I made it there because the nurses really needed me. They’d just been through something stressful. Some Labor and Delivery patients are going through high risk pregnancies. So when something happens there, it can get very serious. My visit gave them a chance to breathe and destress.

We finished up with our usual visit to Behavioral Medicine. Four patients came to see me, all women, and they were all very different. One young woman asked my human endless questions, which she was happy to answer. Another woman was quieter, and she had written some poetry about her struggles, which my human got to see when we were done. The woman at the end of the table seemed a little nervous but liked petting me. And the middle aged woman seemed to be falling asleep. It was a nice visit.
 
In spite of my going a bit rogue in the beginning, my human said I did a good job.