A very moggie Christmas

Thankfully, the time of the Christmas tree is nearly over

Mojo and Rosie would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas! If you have cats, I hope you have got plenty of tinsel on the tree for them to pull off and chew to bits. It may make a huge mess but at least it distracts them from the food cooking in the kitchen.

And so this is Christmas…

And what have you done?

Well personally I’ve managed to:

• Wrap the few presents I’m getting people that require wrapping (thank Yoda for gift cards and third party gift services);
• Achieve my “miracle a week” at work in a record 3 day working week;
• Not gone completely mental at the supermarket while doing my grocery shopping, despite the pushing and shoving over the last 10 punnets of strawberries (all of which I decided were too inferior for a $6.95 per punnet price tag);
• Done a mad dash to the supermarket after work today to get enough meat for the cats over Christmas (they threatened to kill me in my sleep if they had to subsist on dry food alone);
• Vowed to never again agree to host Christmas at my house;
• Decided that it really does not matter if you don’t have matching table cloths, napkins and plastic plates and cutlery, only to find that virtually everyone else I know disagrees with this;
• Resolved that it’s my house and my rules so other people’s opinions on whether blue, purple and red plates are appropriately Christmassy really do not matter;
• Counselled my bestie who was having a pre-Christmas crisis of whether or not people should be allowed to socialise around her brand new lounge suite when food and beverages are close at hand;
• Prepared the fruit platter, peeled, chopped and washed vegies in preparation for burning murdering roasting tomorrow;
• Decided that 2kg of roast beef, a whole leg of ham, a stuffed turkey breast roll and several kilos of prawns is probably enough meat for 8 people and I do not need to cook a corned beef “just in case”.

Cats....they hate karaoke too!

Honestly, it’s a wonder anyone gets out of the Christmas season with their sanity still intact. The big day is tomorrow and no doubt you will be surrounded by family and/or friends (whether you like it or not) to mark its passing. No doubt you will get at least one gift that makes you scratch your head and wonder what on earth you’re going to do with it. And I strongly suspect, you’ll feel like going into the toilet or some other room where you pray no one can find you and quietly scream to yourself and wonder whether anyone will notice if you stay in there for the next 8hrs or however long it is until they all go home (or you can go home to yours).

Whatever Christmas holds for you tomorrow, have a fantastic day, enjoy it and be thankful that it comes but once a year. Merry Christmas folks!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

After last year’s success with the big Christmas tree, I decided that I would tempt fate and put it up in the lounge room this year where it is a little more visible. After all, last year both the cats pretty much ignored the big tree and were content with decimating the decorations on the tiny 2ft version I had near the front door. Occasionally I still find stray decorations from it floating around the place. The only thing is, I forgot to bring the 2ft one back out from storage.

Maybe Rosie thought that we had given her an upgrade this year but she started showing a lot of interest in it this time. Initially, she only pulled off part of the tinsel and a few baubles but shortly after I took this photo, I looked back to find her completely up the tree to about the third row of branches. I’ve since put out the 2ft tree and she’s content to knock it over and give it bunny kicks. Let’s just hope it sees the month out….it and our big tree!