Kittens n Cams

For the seven or so of you that were up overnight and had my cam on, you may have seen me fooling around with some very small critters.  These were 2-3 week kittens we found under a bush at our shop's new location.  Mama is either feral or very skittish, and would not let us near her.  She was also very protective of her babies, so while one of us lured her away with a dish of food, the other grabbed the babies and got them into a crate.  We've named her Salem, after one of the roads our shop is at the corner of.  Unfortunately, yesterday we were not able to catch her as well, so I was stuck with bottle duty last night every three hours. Bleh.

I love little fat kittens, and these babies are little butterballs.  They were not interested in the kitten formula I mixed up and were not shy in telling me so.  I am not mama, the milk is not mama's milk, and we want mama!!!  lol

I left a trap loaded with more food overnight, and this morning one of my husbands went back by on his way home from work and sure enough, mama sat docile in the trap, food all eaten.  Now mama and babies are reunited in the basement, where I had to evict another cat to have a cage to put this little family in.  We are so full.  Donations have been non-existent for months now, and we've all shouldered the burden on our own. That's one of the reason my cam is on 24-7 and I have so many cams sometimes - each time I get 1000 points that gives me enough money to but a 20# bag of cat food at the feed n seed.  (They give me a special price as a rescuer).  Unfortunately, the owner informed me that because of the drought this summer, corn prices are way up, which means pet and farm feeds are going up, so he's not going to be able to let me have the food that cheap anymore.  I understand, he's gotta feed his family too.  But my wages did not go up, and won't for some time unless this business move means we get way more business.  I hope so!

I don't complain about points - or I try not to - because I look at them as a gift from those watching, and you don't complain about or demand gifts.  I do give gentle reminders towards the end of the month if I'm close in hopes of generating a little more.  When I first started camming last year, I was routinely getting enough votes to get two awards per cam each month.  Now,  sometimes I don't even get one award on some cams.  I figure that's my fault though - lately between the business move and other stuff, sometimes a cam goes off the air and I don't notice it for hours or even days.  If you're going to be a lifecaster, then the cams gotta be on.

Speaking of cams, I've started doing something to make a little extra money, since things are so tight.  There's a website called www.imlive.com.  ImLive uses home webcammers (called hosts or models) who are willing to do various things on camera and allows them to make money doing it.  Some cammers are sex workers - and to be honest, I don't have a problem with that.  If a woman decides that her best option is to work in the sex industry, on cam is a hell of a lot safer in so many ways.  You can stay at home or work in a studio set up for such, set your own hours, keep your location confidential, it's clean, sanitary....a much better option than either exotic dancing or working as a street girl.  It's gotta smell better. ;)

I'm not going that option, though.  In my opinion, my body is not for public viewing - little too much wear on the tires. <lol>  But that isn't the only video work that ImLive offers.  They also have "Friends and Romance", which I have signed up for and worked a couple of shifts already.  My computer is a little slow so I have to turn off CW while I'm working in order to avoid lag in my camera.  I'm fully clothed and my job is to be the woman some man wants to talk to for $1.00/minute.  What he wants to talk about (or show me, as the case may be), is his thing.  And so far it's been easy.

So if you see me sitting here putting on makeup or fixing my hair some evening, that's what I'm getting ready for.  And I think it says something about how I feel about my CW family that after my first shift, I immediately turned CW back on and "got comfortable". CW is "home", ImLive is "work".  And that says it all. :)