This Thanksgiving was ok. My wife and myself spent it together at home. No one in my family is here, and the only family my wife has here she doesn’t really talk to anymore. That’s unfortunate, but that’s how life can be sometimes. The people that are forced upon you as “your family” are not really people you gel with or care for. Perhaps some things were done in the past that weren’t appreciated and as human beings we are prone to holding grudges, or writing people off. My wife’s daughter and grandson are all the way in Connecticut, and they were spending time together traveling during Thanksgiving. Maybe one day we’ll be closer to them and we can hang out together for the holiday.
I helped my wife cook on Thanksgiving day and the food was pretty darn good. My wife is an excellent cook and she doesn’t give herself enough credit for it. She’s getting older, so I want her to teach me how to cook some things so maybe at some point I can take over the cooking for us. She taught me how to make deviled eggs on Thanksgiving and they came out pretty good. I’ll try my hand at making some myself in the near future to see if I remember the steps correctly. It’s pretty simple, but like anything else you make practice makes perfect.
I’ve enjoyed being off these 4 days, but its Sunday night and it’s time to get ready to go back to work next week. The next holiday is Christmas, and I’m looking forward to getting a week off from work at the end of the year. My wife and I are thinking of visiting San Diego for a few days around Christmas, just to get away from the house and see beautiful San Diego. Wherever we go, they have to allow pets, because we want to bring the cat with us. She’s getting older, and I don’t want to leave her in the house by herself for any period of time like that. We’ll see what happens with that trip, maybe we’ll just stay home and enjoy being off work for the week.
I have to reach out to some people and find out what they’d like for Christmas. I want to buy some people some gifts so they have something to open on Christmas AM. I know Christmas gifts are mainly for kids, but we are all big kids at the end of the day and its nice to get a present you can open and find something cool inside. It’s the reason we wait for Amazon packages to arrive with such anticipation. We look forward to opening the box and getting our goodies inside.
I ordered my cat a “Speedy Tail 2.0” cat toy, and just like I thought, she couldn’t be less interested hah! That cat is like a jaded cop waiting to get her pension. Nothing excites her and she couldn’t be less interested for the most part. Unless she wants me to pet her or feed her, she wants to do her own thing. I hope she just wasn’t in the mood to play at the moment, as she’d just woken up from a nap. Sometimes she’s like that with a cat toy I know for a fact she likes. It came in a pack of two for $14, so I set one of them on the floor in the living room so she can get used to seeing it, and maybe when she’s feeling feisty I’ll turn it on and let her chase it around. I’ve gotten the impression she’s bored, so I wanted to get her something to entertain herself with.
I also bought two new cat litter boxes for her. Her old two were plastic and stank to high heaven, so I bought two metal ones off Amazon on the cheap and vacuumed around the area where they sit. It looks and smells a lot better over there, so I’m hoping they’ll be easier to maintain and keep clean. I’m burning some strawberry oil I got from the smoke shop over in that corner, and it smells a lot better in the apartment already. The cat has already used it a couple of times, so she seems to be cool with the change. I need to get a metal cat litter scoop, because the plastic one bends with the clumps as I’m trying to pull them up onto the scoop. I got that one from Dollar Tree and it sucks. A metal scoop will be much better and rigid enough to dig through the litter and pull the waste out and let it sift the litter through the slits/holes.
Here’s to a chill week up ahead! Hopefully the time at work will go by quickly, and before we know it, it will be Christmas and we’ll be off work. I’m looking forward to it for sure. Have a great start to the work week tomorrow, stay cool and don’t let stress kill ya! L8r!