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Dear Diary

It's me. I know. The memory may be a little fuzzy because I am about as consistent as. oh, say "Thing-In-A-Bag".1

"Thing-in-a-Bag" is a cat toy. Or, depending on the cat, a pet antagonist. Someone sent us one for a Christmas present to our cats once. Yes people sometimes send Christmas presents to cats. Sometimes the cats even like it. This particular Christmas present left them less than thrilled and maybe even just a touch paranoid.2

It is a small, normal looking brown paper bag. It has a little box in it that when activated randomly buzzes. The vibration makes a little buzz sound and makes the bag move around in a little vibratey circle. You would think a cat might like such a thing, but since it was so random, it simply freaked ours out. They would creap around it and about the time they would start to sniff it--everything must be sniffed in the cat world--it would buzz. This resulted in cats jumping sky high and hysterical human laughter.3

Laughing so hard left me feeling a little guilty though since my entertainment was coming from a terrorized cat so I turned it off and left it in the middle of the floor. I thought that maybe if they got use to it, it would be more fun for them. They creaped around it warily for 3 days before I gave up on the waning terror factor and put it in a drawer never to threaten them again.4

Ok, so that has nothing to do with what is going on today. But it was pretty entertaining at the time. Too bad I didn't think to put it in one of those yellowing empty journals I was mentioning yesterday.5

Today, I got out of bed. I took a shower, cleaned the cat box, wrote some poetry, fixed lunch and thats about it. Booooooring. But then again, boring can be good when viewed in context with catastrophe. So Yay.

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