Well, I found outs why Mom came home so late yesterday. She wasn’t running errands or something. Oh no, Mom is now working Full-Time instead of Part-Time. Apparently when that Full-Time spot opened up Mom applied for it after all and got it to boot. Sneaky Mom never mentioned that to us! Grandma knew though.

One of Mom’s friends has been sending her wet seal coupons, and adverts for Xpress and Kohls and stuff lately, jokingly saying Mom could spend some of her new paycheck there. Didn’t understand what that meant when I saw it at first in Mom’s emails (ummm not that I read her emails or anything…) but now it makes sense. Mom is getting more hours so bigger paycheck.

Not that Mom would shop there anyway. Well, maybe Kohls, but not the other two. They don’t seem like her kind of place.

Mom may be putting in more hours durring the week… but now she has weekends off, she’s got benefits like dental and medical, she gets paid vacation time, more money for stuff for me, and weekends off! Why didn’t she do this sooner?

Congratulations Mom!

I haven’t been able to blog much lately on account of the fact that I’ve been in teh dog house a lot lately. Ichigo and I just don’t get along. Well, I don’t like him and he can’t accept that and leaves me alone. This results in fighting which in ends up with a Mad Mommy who is mad at both of us. She used to just get onto me for not getting along with my “little brother” (why did I ever think having a younger sibling would be fun?) now she’s mad at both of us.

Ichigo has torn up the oven mits in the kitchen the other day. They were really nice thick ones, which The Old Man jokingly called wannabe-tillman gloves ’cause they were nice and thick and long. Ooh, was Mom pissed.

Then he broke three coffee mugs of Moms when he knocked down the drying rack. And that was just the stuff he’s done on Sunday. Oh yeah, he’s in teh dog house too.

I think Ichigo has chased Mom off too, ’cause today, she didn’t come home until late in the evening. I wonder what’s up with that.

But yeah, long story short, kitties are in trouble in this house. But, I think Mom is starting to cool down again. Plus, holidays were hectic too. That didn’t help Mom none neither.

Mom has been at her current job for over a year now. She got a raise recently and it will be reflected in her upcoming paycheck. Then, last week, they had a Christmas party-meeting thing and they handed out Christmas Bonuses and Mom had a very nice one. These are all good things, yes? So when I make my desire for new toys known I should be indulged,yes? I mean, am the oldest kitty. Ichigo stole my old toys I don’t play with no more (but that don’t give him the right to take ‘em) and Mom has some extra money. It seems logical to give her pretty fluffy new toys that she desires, right?

But no, I was denied. She just stocked up on kitty food and got some more treats for us. In fact, the last time she went to the store I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Nothing new, no real “treat”, no splurge. Is my Mom silly or what?

Mom, it’s not like I was asking you to buy Golden Eagle gold bars or one of those really expensive cat houses that take up the whole backyard and have tons of rooms and tunnels for kitties to play in and doggies cannot get to ‘em what so ever. Although that would be nice. Hint, hint, hint.

But why didn’t she buy anything special for me or even herself? She even won a giftcard for Wal-Mart from the place she donates plasma to. Still hasn’t used it either. Is my Mom sick or all humans like this?

Not that, that was a bad thing though! We got lots of snow yesterday, but ‘Cruces and El Paso got it worst, and as a result, there were a lot of road closures. Most of the roads leading to Mom’s work were closed so Mom’s boss told her to go ahead and take the day off because the chance was too high that those roads might get closed down too, and then Mom would be trapped in ‘Cruces. Which would be bad.

So Mom had an unexpected day off, which was nice. Especially since she’s got a cold. SHe spent the day resting mostly, read the paper in bed too and watched movies from Blockbuster. I was quick to cover up the newspaper when I saw ads in the classifieds for veterinary assistant jobs. Not that Mom would have been interested or anything, but anything that reminds her of the Vet has the chance to persuade her to take me to the vet for something. Mom has been worried about me since I lost a little weight and my furcoat is thinner. I chalk it up to Ichigo-induced-stress. Mom thinks I might be sick. So I was very quick to lay on the newspapper and distract her. It worked too! We then watched X-Men: First Class. I’m a smart and sly kitty.