Today however, I blame the cats for a whole other reason. In one of their energy bursts they knocked over the trash under my desk, where I also had like 10 pairs of shoes hiding. No longer! Nope, today I had a domino effect blow over me and I can only say it’s the cats fault! They knocked over the trash, which meant I had to clean it up. That lead to me having to get Starburst wrappers out of my shoes. Umm, to prevent this happening again, I put the shoes where they belonged…ah, not under my desk.

And because I was picking up the trash and thought it best to go ahead and take it out,  I figured I’d clean off my desk and get all the trash off of there too. So now my desk is all pretty, clean and *cough* organized. It feels so empty! But this didn’t end the surge of energy.  When you take the trash out you must replace the old bag, unless your my husband and then you wait for someone else to do it. Off to the kitchen for a new trash sack. Look, dirty dishes. Why not go ahead and clean them while I’m grabbing a bag…hmmm. Ok dishes are DONE! I don’t normally toss them into the dishwasher until around 3, but hey, a bit early never hurts.

I then walk back into the office, of course forgetting my trash sack. Retreaving it, I also grabbed a tea from the fridge and sat down. The offending cat jumped on to my now clean desk and meowed at me! It was as if he was telling me that all my movement was putting him off! Perhaps disrupting his nap time or some such thing. The nerve of the fuzzy brat!

So in my defense of todays unexpected cleaning splurge, I blame the cats! And now, I’m exhausted. Blasted critters!

I’ve no doubt that it shall recover, but now that it has been removed, I wonder what Sabbath and Phoebe will take over next. They’ve already decided that my office chair is theirs for the taking as soon as I stand up and step away. They insist on typing in cat, which equals random numbers in strange patterns and sometimes locking the F7 button. And despite my constant protest, they’ve decided that my glasses make for a great toy to bat around the house while I’m sleeping.

Now you might ask why these fuzzy hellions of mine still breathing, but I must admit, they are oh so darn cute! But let me say, I do have a line.  If crossed, it will result in severe punishment. Perhaps even banishment from the office kingdom.

My books! They haven’t noticed my huge collection of books that sit in what is better known as the library (aka an open closet with tons of shelves). Maybe it’s only a matter of time, or maybe they know if they step over this one boundary that they’re paws are mine!

For now, I shall keep taking their latest treasures and putting them in safer places.

What do you hide from your slaves or other fuzzy masters? Fuzzy masters could possibly include the spouse, but I wouldn’t tell them that if I were you.

2. Go to wardrobe and collect bag in which present is contained, and close door.

3. Open door and remove cat from wardrobe.

4. Go to cupboard and retrieve rolls of wrapping paper.

5. Go back and remove cat from cupboard.

6. Go to drawer and collect transparent sticky tape, ribbons, scissors, labels, etc.

7. Lay out present and wrapping materials on table, to enable wrapping strategy to be formed.

8. Go back to drawer to get string, remove cat that has been in the drawer since last visit, and collect string.

9. Remove present from bag.

10. Remove cat from bag.

11. Open box to check present, remove cat from box, replace present.

12. Lay out paper to enable cutting to size.

13. Cut the paper to size, trying to keep the cutting line straight.

14. Throw away first sheet because cat tried to chase the scissors and tore paper.

15. Cut second sheet of paper to size by putting cat in the bag the present came out of.

16. Place present on cut-to-size paper.

17. Lift up edges of paper to seal in present, wonder why edges now don’t reach, and find cat between present and paper. Remove cat and retry.

18. Place object on paper, to hold in place, while cutting transparent sticky tape.

19. Spend next 20 minutes carefully trying to remove transparent sticky tape from cat with pair of nail scissors.

20. Seal paper down with transparent sticky tape, making corners as neat as possible.

21. Look for roll of ribbon; chase cat down hall and retrieve ribbon.

22. Try to wrap present with ribbon in a two-directional turn.

23. Re-roll up ribbon and remove paper that is now torn, due to cat’s enthusiasm in chasing ribbon end.

24. Repeat steps 12-22 until down to last sheet of paper.

25. Decide to skip steps 12-16 in order to save time and reduce risk of losing last sheet of paper. Retrieve old cardboard box that you know is right size for sheet of paper.

26. Put present in box, and tie down with string.

27. Remove string, open box and remove cat.

28. Put all packing materials in bag with present and head for lockable room.

29. Once inside room, lock door and start to re-lay out packing materials.

30. Remove cat from box, unlock door, put cat outside door, close door and re-lock.

31. Lay out last sheet of paper. (Admittedly this is difficult in the small area of the toilet, but try your best!)

32. Seal box, wrap with paper and start repairs by very carefully sealing down tears with transparent sticky tape. Now tie up with ribbon and decorate with bows to hide worst affected areas.

33. Label, then sit back and admire your handiwork, congratulating yourself on making good of a bad job.

34. Unlock door, and go to kitchen to make drink and feed cat.

35. Spend next 15 minutes looking for cat, before coming to obvious conclusion.

36. Unwrap present, untie box and remove cat.

37. Retrieve all discarded sheets of wrapping paper, feed cat and retire to lockable room for last attempt, making certain you are alone and the door is locked.

38. At time of handing over present, smile sweetly at receiver’s face, as they try and hide their contempt at being handed such a badly wrapped present.

39. Vow to yourself that next year, you will get the store to wrap the thing for you.

Please note these are not my cats, but with 7 of them, I have been through all these steps…DOZENS of times!

1. Kittens are VERY hyper!
2. They think they are great typist.
3. They are fearless.
4. They do that cute crab walk.
5. Kittens are often more lovable.
6. They can take a room from clean to disaster area in less than 6 seconds.
7. Anything and everything can be amusing to them.
8. Most people go “Awww” when seeing them.
9. They remind you of children in their terrible twos.
10. They often haven’t learned that not everything requires nails.
11. Kittens have the cutest, saddest little meows.
12. You still think their attacking your feet is cute.
13. They will have you wrapped tightly around their paw and thus their slave for ever.

Now tell me, if you’d see that little cute, sad looking face would you have been able to say no? I didn’t think so!Her story: I had been asked to take my uncle and drop him off somewhere. Not use to my mom’s big truck, I told him to drive up there and I’d drive home. Well we pull into the parking lot as normal and he got out so I could hope into the drivers seat. Well, just as I fastened my seat belt my uncle knocked on the passenger side window and held up a kitten.My heart flipped. It hasn’t been that long ago that we lost Demon Child and I inwardly debated on if it was too soon to get a new kitten. Of course there was no way I was going to leave this itty-bitty kitten in the middle of the parking lot to get ran over. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!! So I took the little fuzz-ball home and called my husband. He being a big cat lover like I am, he said I could bring Paige home. Yay! New baby in the family! And so that is her story.

To see a video of Paige playing and attacking that evil blue thing, please visit my YouTube page.

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