Holidays & Cats

With less than a week still remaining on her quarantine time, Carly is getting increasingly annoyed with being shut up alone all day. Cats are generally pretty low-key animals. They sleep, eat, poo, play. But being left alone in a room for a week would make anyone go nuts. She’s taken to lying in front of the door. The other cats sit on the other side of the door and they meow at each other. And scratch on the door. Not so happy about that second thing. She tries to escape when we open the door just as much as the other cats try to get in. For the past few nights we've let her run around the house for a little while when the other cats are eating. As long as they don’t use the same litter boxes or get all up in each others’ butts it should be ok. But then we have to put her back in her room and she's not happy. She seemed to be on somewhat of a hunger strike, although that might have been because we put a new kind of food in her bowl. Maybe she didn’t like it. We switched her back to the Iams and she started eating again. We're done with the pills and we'll be finished with the orange liquid on Tuesday. We’ll be so happy when we can let her back out and let everyone get reacquainted. We’re hoping for some kind of “absence makes the heart grow fonder” thing whereby everyone will magically get along. We’ll see.

I think I forgot to mention it in the slew of “catching up with life” posts, but we put our Christmas lights up a few weekends ago. Last year we never got around to getting lights or putting them up. This year we got them at low, low post-Christmas prices last December and decided to be pro-active. It was a little chilly but they went up pretty easily after we figured out which kind of clips we needed to use. We plugged them in on Friday. We’re still kicking around the location of the Christmas tree, and whether we’ll put it up any significant amount of time before the party. We have a new tree this year - this one’s pre-lit – and we also bought a ton of new (shatterproof) ornaments. But I suspect if we put the tree up, we’ll have cats climbing into it and knocking ornaments off in about five minutes. I did bring all the other Christmas stuff up so we've got some holiday cheer spread around already. Cat-proof holiday cheer.

The Thanksgiving holiday was low-key for us this year. The turkey I get from work was dropped at Adam's parent's house earlier this month. We went over there for an early dinner. It was a big crowd - Adam's parents, sisters, Chris & Terry, Mike, Donna, and Paula, both his grandmothers and Dave. Lots of good food, especially since I didn't have to make any of it! We picked names for Christmas and, while we got some new people, I ended up getting who Adam always got. *sigh* Oh well.

Friday we did go out, but not for any Black Friday sales. We did our normal grocery shopping etc. There were some good meat sales that we took advantage of as well. That was about it. We discovered that we're getting all the movie channels for some reason so we ended up staying home and watching some newer movies that we hadn't seen (for free!)

Yesterday we went to see Four Christmases in the theater. Not a terrible movie, but not great either. So many talented people in the cast, it could have been so much more than it was.

Our plans today are minimal. It started snowing around 9:30 and there are winter weather warnings out for tonight and tomorrow morning. Ugh. It just figures that on inventory day I'll probably have to fight through stupid people on the highway. Grr. Adam's watching the game right now and I've got a movie (Priceless) to watch. It's in French, so he was not interested of course. Other than that, some cleaning up and perhaps addressing of Christmas cards. It's amazing - my list includes 18. Add Adam's side and it balloons to 54. Crazy.

Hopefully I'll have a picture of the new glasses to post soon. It's been a challenge to get Adam to do it when I'm looking halfway decent.