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You are here: Home / Diary / Diary – December 2008

Diary – December 2008

January 3, 2009 By: Sparkle Cat2 Comments

The Gift of Getting

The dramatic pose!

It's a Cat RuleDecember is supposed to be some sort of holiday month, but you wouldn’t know that if you lived here. I was working overtime, approving documents in my human’s office. Nothing leaves this room until I sit on it.

I also had to sit on the DSL modem. Not because it was going anywhere — it was just the warmest perch on the desk.

A cat's rear end gets COLD, you know!

I vote for global warming my rear endThen, as if I didn’t have enough to do, my human enlisted my help for some cause of hers. I just hope that stopping global warming doesn’t affect the DSL modem in December.

Ants are NOT cat food!It was cold here, and then it rained and we had unwelcome visitors — ants! Ick. They are nasty, not tasty like crickets at all. My human had to take my food away and feed it to the dog, who ate it, ants and all.

We had another unwelcome visitor too. I couldn’t believe my eyes when it showed up.

Even worse, the leaded glass makes you see double

My human’s boyfriend brought it home from work, “just for the night.” Fortunately, he meant it. But I kept my eyes on it, just to make sure it didn’t even think of invading my turf.

No, NOT cute!! I did not give my permission to let this on the premises

Then we had Christmas. I have mixed feelings about Christmas. Sure, you get gifts, but there’s a price to be paid.

And a terrible price at that

This had better be good Fortunately my humiliation only lasted for a few minutes. Then the gifts came out. Since the economy (whatever that is) is “bad,” they were mostly cheap trinkets. But at least my human used some imagination when she was buying them.

Binga (the catnip junkie) was fascinated by the catnip-scented discs. Boodie and I were more interested in the sparkly glitter balls.

Itching to get her paws on them Cheap but a classic toy!

Even better my human got some of my favorite cat treats from Trader Joe’s. Seriously, these treats are the best ever!

I wish I got these in place of my morning kibble.

Plus the wrapping paper was really cool. I was so busy checking it out that I almost missed the Cat Dancer, which is a really fantastic toy. It reminds me of the moths I like to catch.

Right in front of her face, too It's a bird! It's a moth! It's a flying piece of cardboard!

The one bust was, naturally, the most expensive toy — something called “Thing in a Bag.” My human presented it to us, and it turned out that it needed assembly and batteries and she was totally unprepared.

You would think that... width= my human would read the instructions before wrapping it

Then I looked at the label and it all made sense. Who in their right mind would get something for a cat from a company called “Happy Dog Toys”?

Said it right on the box

Then finally we got around to the big box, wrapped in the fancy gold paper. Boodie wanted to eat the bow, but my human assured us that there was something special inside.

Boodie thinks everything is food

And she was right! It was an empty box! I couldn’t believe my eyes. What a great gift!

Best holiday gift next to a cat tree And it's exactly MY size

Then my human had to spoil our holidays by leaving town just before New Year’s. Binga thought that maybe she could sneak along, but no such luck. Too bad. I wouldn’t have missed her.

My human could have worn her as a scarf

»January 2009

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