Mon. Dec 24, 2007
Hunky: This is one hectic period of time around here. It has to do with the humans penchant for celebrating things according to dates on a calendar. Unlike cats, who celebrate life every day, humans set aside certain days for celebrations and chart them according to the position of the planet in its orbital path around the sun. Or something.
Dorie: This particular celebration is tomorrow. It involves giving us cats colorful paper and empty boxes to play with. But it's very involved - they spend a whole month preparing for this. I think it's the biggest thing humans celebrate all year.
Hunky: On a smaller scale they also celebrate the aging process of individual humans. As each celebrant marks off another year of life, they have a party. Does that make sense? But that's no more than a day or two of preparation. So what happens when one of these smaller aging celebrations falls around this time of year? It's kinda takes second place to all the decoration and preparations for Box and Paper Day.
Dorie: Which is exactly what's happened to two of the Husband's nieces. One of 'em turns 24 today. The other's is next week. Not that their families don't go all-out to celebrate them as much as they would any other time of the year, but these celebrations are brief and quickly forgotten as the bigger holidays command more attention. I feel kinda bad for them, since humans need their celebrations.
Hunky: And a week after the Box and Paper Day, there's another big celebration of the calendar. It's the point when the old year ends and the new one begins. It's called New Year's Day.
Dorie: Unless you're a cat. Then it's called Tuesday.