My two babies, Angel the dog and Mittens the kitty, playing together. Yes, they sleep together…sometimes. I think Angel bides her time to wait until I am not looking…

And AM, I am not the crazy cat lady. So what if she rides on my shoulder walking around the house and out to the van….and while driving to the vet…and home again. Not Polly wants a cracker…  Oh yeah, make the pussy jokes….

No wait, in Lady Sheba, Set calls Kat a nickname….Pussy Girl! My ex-fiance had a good laugh about that one saying something like, “Now that is a superheroine I want to see!” I had let him read the book as I wrote it. No, we weren’t together at the time. We found each other online a few years ago, and we still chat. I see him mostly on FB. He’s a big doof.

He is funny…and better off married to someone else. I like him better as a friend now than a lover then, even though there was something about him that just got to me. Can’t explain what it was. One of those smacked in the gut reactions. He was not handsome by any means (sorry John) but he had magnetism. That sense of I-have-to-touch-him-somehow type reactions. I loved holding his hand and just being held.   1–2–3  Awww.

I had a few boyfriends in the past, but I was never the one-night-stand type. I don’t see how sex can mean anything without love. Probably why I like romance so much. Had 3 serious relationships in my life, and they were one right after another. I broke up with my HS sweetheart (The Jerk), and took me a year to sample the dating pool again. First date: John. Then a few years of ups and downs, I broke up with him. (We broke up several times over the years, but the final time was me.) Two months later I met Mark…a frat brother of a friend’s bf…in a bar…playing darts…  Got engaged two weeks later. No, really. Shocker was I said yes.

So going back to the pussy joke. Er…Pussy Girl, probably not a good name. (Right up there with Pussy Galore.)

Meow. LOL

The kids have watched this about 100 times already. LOL

And I am officially DONE shopping. Yay!!!

To help get everyone in the mood. Grab your egg nog and listen to a classic by Bing.

(Holiday Inn, a great movie BTW.)

After being woken up at about 4:30 am this morning, it is no surprise that after dropping off the kids at school today, I went back to bed to catch up. (Little Lizzie had a bad dream and I couldn’t get back to sleep after that.) I just now got up, and only because Annmarie called. I think I heard the phone vibrate before that twice (or more), but I’m not sure. LOL  I was just so nice and comfy and warm.

I’m still working on my WIP, so it is coming along slowly. I’m at home writing today and probably all week. I have some holiday housework to do as my brother is coming on Monday night for the holiday. It isn’t too bad here, I moved my laptop out into the living room. I was beginning to feel like a hermit in my office. Besides, I can enjoy the tree out here. My kids have a little set up under the tree. Yesterday I had to put the ornaments they took off back on. (You know, the Hallmark ornaments like Scarlett O’Hara, Barbie, etc. I’m surprised they didn’t take off the Captain Jack ornament.)

Anyway I’m about to make a half of pot of Chocolate Truffle coffee and get down to today’s writing business. I think Mittens is happy I am up, she gets to play by the computer and tease the dogs. She’s going to town on a bell necklace the kids got at that jingle bell run. Let me tell you, I love this cat and she is soooooo spoiled. I totally needed her. And she needs and loves me too.

Okay, coffee time…and writing time…

Oh and a final note to one reader: Check your PO box.

Oh yeah, that is NOT a picture of my tree. I have an artificial one, and presents get delivered on Christmas, not before. I don’t think the kids could resist a pile like the one in the picture. LOL