Critter Resolutions

A Crazy Cat Lady action figure! Except for the fact that my hair is still mostly dark, and I'm not skinny, and I have only two cats -- that could be me. And since I am getting an iPod Nano for Christmas (!!!), of course I want this totally frivolous and useless [useless since I plan to wear mine around my neck] item:

Yep, that's an iPod case. Clearly, one of my resolutions should be to be less covetous -- but, later for that. In the meantime, since they are disinclined to make their own New Year's resolutions, I have decided to make them for the critters who share my space. We begin with:

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  Henry

• I will quit eating catshit
• I will try to be less cute, so that the other critters get equal attention
• I won't try to climb on Sharon's head

Lucy

• I will be less neurotic, so that I don't have to be so brave
• I will remember that I am not the boss of the cats
• I will keep playing tug-a-war, which I just discovered, with Henry

Boo

• I will risk coming downstairs when we have company
• I will stop playing with cat turds on the staircase
• I will spend more time on the lap, and less on the shoulder

Spike

• I will, for another year, not bite anyone
• I will be less of a bully
• I will be kinder to my teddy bear

Squirrel(s)

• I will share more with my siblings and cousins
• I will not chew the ottoman
• I will stop teasing the neighborhood dogs

Weekend critter entertainment:

Friday Ark
I and the Bird
Carnival of the Cats
Carnival of the Dogs
Circus of the Spineless