Hello, I’m Dr. Karyn! Read my introduction to be taught extra about me and meet my 5 hilarious cats: Clutch, Cyril, Alex, Zelda, and Zazzles.
I’m not likely into Christmas. That’s proper, I mentioned it. I don’t like Christmas.
Regardless of 12 years of Catholic schooling, Sunday morning sleep-ins ruined by enforced church attendance, and plenty of a Christmas Eve spent yawning by way of Midnight Mass, I’ve emerged as a reasonably well-rounded atheist. After all, I’ve no objection to different peoples’ option to subscribe to whichever faith speaks to them, offered I get to click on ‘unsubscribe.’ Thoughts you, nowadays, probably the most acknowledged and celebrated Christmas traditions, like Santa Claus, overpriced presents, tacky Hallmark motion pictures, and Mariah-bloody-Carey, have little or no to do with faith! So it’s not that side that turns me right into a Grinch.
For me, it’s simply numerous problem and stress with a giant mess to wash up on the finish. However earlier than you begin hurling ‘Bah humbug’ in my course, there are two Christmas traditions I do get pleasure from: watching Die Exhausting and my annual try and efficiently wrap a cat.
Wrapping My Cats
Ever since a rather entertaining video emerged a number of years in the past of a really affected person kitty being rigorously measured, wrapped in paper, and topped with a ribbon, it has been my Christmas want to recreate this marvel in my residence. You’d suppose that, with 5 potential candidates, I’d have succeeded in my mission by now, however alas, my efforts have solely ever resulted in torn wrapping paper and a mildly irritated feline.
The difficulty with my mission is that I’m not going to power cooperation from any of my cats, which realistically whittles my record of possible contributors from 5 to 2: Clutch or Cyril.
Alex is way too intent on playing with the paper, Zelda too feisty, and Zazzles will both cover till the whole lot is packed away or trollop around on top of it. Both means, she is unattainable to wrap. Clutch tends to tolerate most issues you may throw at him…so long as you don’t really throw issues, after all, whereas Cyril is a large fan of any exercise that includes inactivity. This was going to be my yr. I felt it. The query was, did they?
Success! Kind of…
Slightly surprisingly, Cyril was decidedly terrified of sitting on paper, so he was out of the operating instantly. Alex seemed like a contender for a couple of minutes, however as predicted, most popular enjoying with the paper greater than being wrapped in it.
Clutch took one for the staff and was probably the most cooperative of the bunch. Initially, he made issues a bit of difficult by mendacity on his facet, then unexpectedly, he rolled again so he was mendacity on all fours, virtually as if he understood the task. He was not, nevertheless, fairly as tolerant because the cat from the video who impressed my dream; that one even allowed his tail to be wrapped individually!
Though my wrapping job was not notably fairly, I did handle to get most of Clutch wrapped up for Christmas, together with a festive bow on his head!
That’s A Wrap
Did I succeed? Kind of. Did I’ve enjoyable? Not likely! I’ve lastly bought the cat-wrapping problem out of my system, but it surely wasn’t as enjoyable or satisfying as I had hoped. However the cats completely loved enjoying with the wrapping paper on the finish!
Whether or not you’re celebrating Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukkah, or simply plain previous celebrating, you should definitely deal with one another, deal with your self, and most significantly, deal with the cat!
And sure, Die Exhausting IS a Christmas film!
This text is part of Dr. Karyn’s sequence along with her 5 hilarious cats.
