Cats and Christmas don't mix. Yesterday, I decided to put up my Christmas decorations. I have two long strands of green garland that I hang up. They are pretty hard to do because the tacks don't want to go into the wall and I have to stand on the top of a bar stool (getting down from is just as hard and I ripped out the crotch of my jeans). Having a five pound cat hanging from the garland makes it even harder. I normally also decorate my fake tree with some ornaments and lights in addition to my Christmas tree but I didn't because Roosevelt likes to climb it. He however likes to knock the ornaments off of the Christmas tree and the tree off of the table. He likes to wrestle with it. At least this morning, he didn't claw my head as much as he normally does.
We had an open house meeting today. Supposedly everyone has to be on a committee but I refuse to join one. They tell me if I don't sign up that they will assign me to one. Go ahead. Do it. I dare you. It doesn't mean I'll work it. Last year, I didn't do anything because no one was organized enough to tell me what to do. AND I figure by the time I bring minis to the petting zoo, a Shetland for the horse show and work for both bovine club and mule club, I will have done enough. I was one of the first people there last year and one of the last to leave. I'll help clean up again. I'm fine with that. These are the things that make me mad. They try to get people involved, try to get them excited but they use the terms of 'you have to' and 'we'll assign you if you don't do something on your own free will but you don't have any free will because we're making you'. School makes me mad.
So Toys For Tots is finally over! Here's the deal. Before Thanksgiving, I heard on the radio that Y107 was having their Toys For Tots parade. To be in the parade, all you had to do was collect some toys. Wouldn't it be a great thing for the college to be in this parade with the mules? We could fill the wagon. The idea went over really, really well with everyone except for the Mule Club president. But he got outvoted and we were going to be in this parade. I spent alot of time collecting toys and running around. At one point there were six to eight trash bags of toys in the back of my car. Last Friday, we counte the toys and deterimed the winners of the competition that we were having. We collected nearly 200 toys. Unfortunatly, the parade that was with the radio station was canceled because of the bad weather. So then I had to find a way to get the toys to the radio station but Dr.Dodam wanted some pictures so I had to organize that and no one would tell me what they wanted to do. So yesterday we took pictures with the full wagon but we didn't take as many as Dr.Dodam had orginally planned and had talked about. Because of that we had to wait before taking the toys to the radio station. The morning DJ was supposed to meet us at a certain time but he wasn't there. We met a different DJ instead. I'm so glad its done!
[EDIT-Originally published to Blogger on 12/7/11]
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