Couple of questions and some ramblings

1) This morning, on my local radio station, during "Intern Adam's 57 seconds of sleaze", Adam was talking about Nicole Kidman at the CMA awards last night. He commented on how Keith & Nicole were sitting up front, and during the breaks, record company people and others would come over to say hi to Keith, as they had not seen him prior to rehab. Keith would stand up to hug the people, and would turn to introduce them to Nicole. Intern Adam's big beef was that Nicole did not stand up to greet these people; instead she just shook hands with them while she was sitting down. IA says maybe Nicole should learn some manners and stand up to greet people so they won't think she's some stuck up actress who hasn't had a hit movie in a couple of years.

My question: I thought proper etiquette did not require a female to stand when being introduced to someone. Does anyone think it was rude of Nicole to not stand up every time when being introduced to someone who came over to talk with her husband? I know *I* don't always stand up to shake hands with someone I'm being introduced to.

2) This is rather random, but does anyone know if Batman actually had any super powers? Or was he just good in a fight and had lots of gadgets?

3) Stinkerbelle came through her surgery to be spayed just fine. She took her stitch out that first night. I don't know why they didn't put in another. They told me to just watch her incision and make sure it doesn't open up. So far, so good. They also told me to keep her from jumping if I could. OK, sure. First, there is not one room in this house I could put her in, that there's not something she could/would jump on. Second, she is now going out of her way to jump on things. For example, when she wants to go from the living room into the kitchen (which requires passing through the dining room, where the computer is), instead of going under my chair or behind my chair while I'm at the computer, she jumps on my lap, hops up on my chest to walk across, hops down on the desk, and then on to the floor.

4) I finally bought her a scratching post. I don't know why I hadn't done this sooner. This one has a little tube (the diameter is roughly the size of a straw) that has a string with two toys tied on each end passing through. She LOVES this thing. I had bought her a new teaser toy, but it freaked her out. Every time I would get it out for her, she would hiss, and run off. I also bought her a bed to sleep in. I think she may have slept in it for about 5 minutes one morning. Maybe she lays in it during the day when I'm not home.

5) I've had lots of things I want to blog about, but by the time I get home (assuming I can even pry DS off the computer then), I've forgotten what my ideas were.