We have a couple of very clingy cats. Which is better than having aloof ones, I suppose…but it gets to be a bit much sometimes. If five minutes pass after sitting down without Laverne or Shirley (often both) jumping onto our laps, curling up, and catching some zzzs, it’s a miracle.
This isn’t an issue when we’re lounging on the recliner or couch, but middle of the day, at our desks when working from home? That gets to be tricky.
Unless you’re Tara. She doesn’t seem to mind. In fact, I totally blame her for their stubborn insistence on being up close and personal.
Geez Louise, I never even spoiled my kids this much! Clearly, my wife is much better at multitasking than me. It would be a lot easier to just shoo them away if they weren’t so damn cute. And sweet (most of the time).
God forbid we should enter a room and close a door. You’d think we were abandoning them forever based on their plaintive cries to let us in or come out, we misssssss you!!
Who knew Feline Separation Anxiety was a thing?!
Probably the best thing about working from home this time of year – besides not having to drive 45 minutes through 50-mph wind gusts, falling snow, and temperatures in the teens (Wednesday’s drive home was fun!) – is my basement office. Sure beats the drab grey CheeseGov cubicle I’m stuck in two days a week.
Not pictured: the festive holiday balls hanging from the ceiling and the Vince Guaraldi record (A Charlie Brown Christmas) all queued up.
I decorated the basement much more than last year. Figured I might as well, since I spend so much time down there. Our Denver Broncos Christmas tree even made an appearance for the first time in years.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Denver Broncos are having a good season for the first time in years. They’ve made a Bo-liever out of me again.
Upstairs ain’t too shabby either (though, believe it or not, it’s less over-the-top than Halloween).
Come to think of it, the front yard’s pretty kickin’, too…
You knew there’d be a flamingo, right?
But you probably wouldn’t expect to find these dill-icious holiday treats. Man, what I’d give to see Rivergirl’s face right about now.
Do we know how to celebrate the holidays or what?!
Have I mentioned that Tara is headed to Mexico in a little over a week? If not, Hey, guess what? Tara is headed to Mexico in a little over a week! Her dad’s got a house in a small town on the western coastline of Jalisco (thanks, Wikipedia!) and wanted to spend a week with his daughters. Likewise, she doesn’t get to see much of her sisters, so it’ll be a nice bonding experience for them all. This will be the longest we’ve been apart since 2020, when she drove to Nevada to pick up our boat and bring it back.
The boat that we used one time in two years before selling, but that’s neither here nor there.
I could have gone – I wasn’t not invited – but we have clingy cats (see above), and also, I’m weird in that I prefer 25 degrees to 85 degrees. So, I’m staying put, but also taking some PTO time that week, hopefully to rustle up an adventure or two on my own. I tend to have spectacular fails whenever I’m left to my own devices, so we’ll see how I do. I figure the odds are 50/50 that something will go awry, knock on wood.
Finally, if you want to see/hear me yammer on about blog themes and URLs and other tech-y stuff, check out my latest podcast appearance on Sharing the Heart of the Matter. Wynne and Vicki keep having me back – this is my sixth time – so I must be doing something right! In fact, while we were recording this episode, all three of us were drinking Spindrift.
Now I know what it feels like to be an influencer.
Mark My Words 
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