Christmas without cats

Less than a couple of weeks before Christmas I was home alone for the first time. Before, cats were there to protect me from ghosts. Now the cats are ghosts themselves. Both nights my heart was pounding so hard I couldn't sleep, I had to take hawthorn.

 

 

The food order was already a week before Christmas, and I wondered if the hams and especially the rosolli would last long enough, and they were surprisingly good. Just to be on the safe side, I bought all the different rosollis, so that at least one would last over Christmas. I don't need much at Christmas. Ham, rosolli and mayonnaise are enough. And The Snowman, the Christmas peace declaration and From All of Us to All of You. Amazingly, I managed to watch Home Alone 2 in its entirety this time, I left it unfinished last time.

 

Since there are no more cats, we could put up a Christmas tree, real or plastic one. We couldn't have a plastic table tree because Tabitha wanted to eat it. We only had a real big tree once, and the cats really were into it. At least Olivia wanted to mess with a paper table tree, I don't remember if the others wanted to too. But these pictures are of a real table tree from ten years ago. And I should probably mention that all the photos in this post are old.

 

 

 

I could take a poisonous Christmas flower, and not worry about the strings on gift boxes that are deadly to cats.

 

 

This Christmas, there will be no board games, just Friday, on its last Christmas. We'll see if there are enough players, or if everyone is on some kind of "Christmas party". But the goal is to shake Chad's red speedo ass.

My advent calendars 2023

These days there are a surprisingly large number of tea advent calendars available. I tried to order a Moomin tea advent calendar with the food order from Prisma, but it was out of stock.

In Citymarket, on the other hand, there was an abundance of options, and my choices ended up with three different advent tea calendars. It was difficult to choose the number one, the remaining two ended up as replacement options. Well, in the end I didn't get the first option, but it was replaced by Forsman's tea Christmas calendar. Exciting to see a if I'll like any of them.

 

 

For the cats, I ordered probably the cheapest possible option from Zooplus, the Cosma advent calendar. Of course, it is also grain-free.

 

 

 

But a good week before the beginning of December, I noticed that Karppaamo would have a advent calendar with sugar-free chocolate... How many years have I dreamed of such a thing? I think I once had one when my spouse managed to buy one in Manchester. Now I would have gotten a 10% discount from Karppaamo because of Black Friday. But I decided that in my current income situation, it makes more sense to leave the vanities unordered.

 

 

 

Veikkaus scratch card advent calendar, which has become a tradition, I do not have now and probably never will again. How much will the sales of scratch cards drop when you can no longer buy them as a gifts?