#christmasing

Could not get the cat into a cat carrier. Put her into a box instead. A cardboard Blue Apron box that I stabbed a bunch of holes into. They’re regularly-spaced and perfectly-triangular but I very clearly used a kitchen knife to do it in some haste. 

Got her to the boarding place. They’re located in a building that used to house an SPCA, so they saw the cardboard box and thought we were bringing them wildlife of some kind. 

As there was a barking dog behind the counter, the cardboard box was uncharacteristically silent. Chita is goddamn terrified of dogs. I was not pleased. The place clearly mostly caters to dogs. The main entryway is filled with glass-walled cubicles in bright colors, clearly set up for large dogs. 

But down a quiet dim hallway, concrete-block and grim, there’s a series of little rooms, and they have smaller cubicles, and there’s the little cubicles with cat trees in them. I set the box down and Chita sat there hunched in it and wouldn’t come out. (Because the fucking dog wouldn’t stop fucking barking. It wasn’t a customer’s dog, it was an employee’s.)

“Sorry, buddy,” I told her, and have come home to try and figure out how to cram my entire life into a reasonable amount of space so my sister can stay in my house overnight while I’m gone, and also so I can get to Maryland with all the items I’m supposed to bring with me.

Meanwhile, the Maryland kinfolks have all succumbed to strep throat. They’ve just started antibiotics today, so they’re still contagious, but Lysol is being liberally deployed.

I guess we’ll find out in two weeks if we all get it too.

It’s  Christmas – a time when we get to meet people who we may not have met or seen in a long time. While plying the walkways of KLCC Shopping Centre and picking up little kickbacks along the way (I managed to get a mini mechanical pencil from Kinokuniya, the Japanese bookstore). More on that in the next upcoming article. So, yeah…this time round, I  bumped I into Rachel Arnold, one of the…