Foster Cats and Santa Hats

We have been keeping them in one of our guest rooms, which is currently doubling as a storeroom for all the boxes we have yet to unpack from when we moved, oh, half a century ago.

One of the boxes that got put in there had some stuff from Christmas, which included Bandit's Santa hat. The cats apparently took a liking to it, because I kept finding it on the floor. I'd always pick it up and put it down somewhere, but it would always find its way back to the floor.

Finally, I decided that it probably wasn't the best thing for them to be playing with (amazingly, they haven't damaged it at all), so I took it and this time, stuffed it into a box. Well, the very next day, I found the hat on the floor again.

I stuffed it into what I thought was a more secure box. It wasn't visible, so I figured they'd never even find it. But nope, Santa hat on the floor the very next day.

I stuffed it between boxes, really squeezed it in there thinking they wouldn't be able to get to it. Same thing.

The funny thing is, they've managed to leave the boxes pretty much undisturbed in their efforts to retrieve the Santa hat. Tonight I'll probably stop being lazy and just shove the hat into a box and pile another box on top of it. If they still manage to get to it then, then they deserve to have the damn hat. Of course, I could always just remove the hat from the room entirely, but that would be far less amusing.

Other Stuff

Yesterday I was going to move the new clam, because it kept falling off of where I had put it. When we came home, it was surprisingly still on its perch. I decided to move it anyways, because I figured it inevitable that it would fall. Well, when I went to pick it up, I found that it had attached itself to the rock. I tried to move it a bit, but it wouldn't let go. Fine, I said, it obviously wanted to stay there now.

This morning, of course, it had fallen off its perch.

Is anyone else tired of this Anna Nicole saga? Seriously, BURY HER ALREADY. I don't mean that in a mean way, just that this poor woman's body is rotting away while petty people fight over it. I just read that the judge finally issued a decision to have her buried next to her son, which makes sense to me, anyways. But now her mom is appealing the decision! Ugh.

And Britney Spears. I really don't know what to say, except that I think most people figured out early on that she shouldn't have been allowed to breed/procreate.

Red Alert! (For Geekiness!)

I TiVo'd this show off the History Channel (like, the only time I have ever watched that channel) that was about the history of the "Star Trek" franchise. It turned out to be a sort of history, but it mostly focused on last year's "Star Trek" auction that was held at Christie's.

Apparently, Paramount decided to release a large amount of memorabilia for auction, which I think is the first time it's ever been done. They had tons of stuff, anything from costumes to the large-scale "hero" models they used in all the tracking shots of the ships.

So the show covered the actual auction, and that was the interesting part, because Christie's had estimated values under each item, and it looked like they WAY underestimated how much people would pay for the stuff. The large model of the Enterprise-D from "The Next Generation?" I think they had the estimate at like $25,000-$30,000. It sold for $576,000!

A small model of the Borg ship was estimated to be worth $1,500, but sold for $96,000. It was like that for everything. Crazy!

I think they sold 1,000 lots for a total haul of $7.1 million.

If I had money like that, I probably would've bid on Dr. Crusher's lab coat, hahaha.

God, I'm geeky.