Oh, look! Here's Mabes playing with her favorite xmas toy! Her Auntie Lance sent it all the way from Hollywood, California, and boy, did it taste good. Mabel is a really amazing cat, but she has a very limited attention span. She was hellbent on murdering this catnip mouse for about three minutes and then she realized she was being deeply uncool and moved on. I didn't have much luck later, with the bright green, microchipped meeping insect that Peter Caine recommended I purchase at PS 9. I think Mabes is more of a thinky kind of kiddy; unless it's challenging her on a cerebral level, she's not really interested.
Here's our Christmas tree.
Every year I get a big-ass tree, so when the weird tree-seller by the Turkey's Nest told us we'd probably need a larger stand, I scoffed. The BF and I smugly lugged it home and attempted to stuff it into my trusty old stand. But this tree was a tad too thick, so we were left to wander the 'hood, the night before the night before christmas eve, in search of a stand man enough to take every inch of our tree. We finally found one and man, does it look purty.
I'm a nostalgic gal, so for the past several decades I've been using the same lights we used when I was a kid. This year, one of the strings sort of exploded and almost burnt the man's hand off. Oops. I guess you really shouldn't use lights that are old enough to smoke, vote and be elected president.
Note the lack of tinsel. The Large Greek and I fought long and hard over the tinsel issue (I'm for, he's against), and in the end I let him win. (After all, my elderly lighting equipment nearly cost him a hand.) Next year, the tinsel returns.
Was watching A Christmas Story of course...spotted the tinsel. Ah, nostalgia.
Haven't used tinsel in years.
Posted by: Maria | December 27, 2006 at 10:30 AM
Cats are really plotting to somehow grow to 290lbs and use you as a chew-toy. They're mostly bummed that they're so small, mostly.
Posted by: osisbs | December 27, 2006 at 01:21 PM
Maybe Mabel needs a book.
Posted by: jules | December 27, 2006 at 10:11 PM
that kitty is delish! delish!
Posted by: felicia Sullivan | December 27, 2006 at 10:53 PM
Actually, Mabes prefers Sudoku.
Posted by: Judy McCatLady | December 28, 2006 at 01:03 PM
A funny aside -
The guy that sells those trees sold his very last tree to some Turkey's Nest regulars - In a drunken stupor these folks then supposedly lugged that tree upstairs to the apartment of one bartenders from the TN that is away on vaccation. They somehow got in to his crib and put said tree in his bed and then covered it with a blanky. Merry Pine Needles Up Yer Ass for a Month!
Posted by: Rev McMerryopulos | December 30, 2006 at 05:21 AM