Yankee Swap, Kitty Funiture

Last week, my workplace held it's annual Yankee Swap where niceness is thrown out the window and rudeness is king. People get annoyed when you don't try to steal someone else's gifts. There are always some sure fire winners that get stolen repeatedly and are the most coveted. Your gift will be passed around if 1. It's in anyway inappropriate 2. It is alcohol or alcohol accoutrements 3. There is a possibility of getting rich aka. lotto tickets.

This year I regifted what I got last year, I thought this might get a laugh from the person who gave it last year but no one spoke up. To make sure it was a coveted item, I threw in a bottle of vodka. People liked it.

The pickings were kind of slim this year as far as something that I would actually want, I was even considering taking my own gift back because I had one of the higher numbers and was fairly confident that I wouldn't get it stolen away from me. In the end, I decided to steal from someone a gift that my colleague brought, an assortment of goodies from Trader Joe's.

In feline related news, M decided to get his carpentry on and make Boigie a new perch from abandoned wood at his parents house. I viewed this idea with some skepticism for a variety of reasons...he sometimes gets these grand ideas but the projects go unfinished (i.e. touching up the paint in the bedroom). I have also seen his previous forays into carpentry and it's not something that comes naturally to him, unless he was trying for a more esoteric and abstract take on a printer table. It's usually best, however, if any type of shelving unit does not slant 60 degrees. But alas, I was proven wrong! The perch is sturdy, wide enough for Boigie's massive berth and at the right height for him to look out of our bedroom window. He even went to lengths to put sisel on the posts so that Boigie can scratch there instead of our box spring. Boigie has given it 2 paws up after also regarding it with some skepticism initially. Perhaps he's heard tales of the printer table.