Tag: Christmas Day

• Hosting Christmas Eve and Remote Controlled Gift Frenzies – Thoughts from December 30, 2025

  

  Patti and I hosted Christmas Eve, but we couldn’t do it at our house because our kitchen and the rest of the house are not usable. I planned to work on the kitchen on my four days off from work, but rain prevented it. We had our hosting night at Patti’s sister’s house. It’s much…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 16, 2026

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  2025, Archie, asleep on the floor, battery powered tools, blindfold with eyelashes, blindfolded, cats, cats freaking out, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas games, cotton balls as snowballs, dietary restrictions, enourmous kitchen, exchanged gifts, gift exchange frenzy, gifts for a child, growling bear, hosting Christmas Eve, kitchen island, kitchen remodel, leftovers, meowing, new carpet, no shoes rule, our cluttered house, outside noises, overflowing cotton balls, packing the car in the rain, Patti, Patti’s nephew, presents, rain, remote controlled Disney characters, Scout, Scout’s kids, shoes off, snoring, stuffed mushrooms, thoughts, younger relatives

• Christmas, Cats, and a New Cat Tree – Thoughts from December 25, 2024

  

  Just as Christmas Eve was mainly about our niece and nephew’s new baby, Christmas Day was about Scout and her three kittens. Actually, it’s about Scout and her only slightly younger than her adult cats. Until next July, Scout is four and Beatrix, Luna, and Willow are three. Beatrix is about the same size as…

  Brian Kirwan

  November 25, 2025

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  2024, Beatrix, big cats, Blaze, boxes, building cat tree, can’t handle their own weight, cat dad, cats, cats had destroyed it, Christmas Day, covered in sweat, custom Funko Pop!, disassembly, followed instructions step by step, four cats in one house, Funko, Funko characters, House of Cat, Luna, new cat tree, old cat tree, other pets, Patti, piles of stuff, pink cat tree, pink house, presents, Quest, regulate cats food, Scout, Scout’s boys, season for cat trees, Slash, sturdiness, supervising cats, thoughts, time to get used to, toys, Willow, wish list, wrapping paper

• Rum Coffee for Breakfast – Thoughts from December 28, 2022

  

  Continuing my last Thoughts paper, I will talk about the joy that was Christmas Day. I got up about 11:30 am and Patti got up just before me. The coffee machine was still making coffee. I wanted to mention one of Patti’s presents at that point (a new coffee machine), but I’m glad I didn’t…

  Brian Kirwan

  February 29, 2024

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  2022, 52-year-old child, Amazon, Beatrix, breakfast, building Lego, cat tongue, cats, cats instead of kids, Christmas Day, coffee filders, coffee machine, fancy pillow, gift card, gifts, hash browns, It tasted really good, Jamaican rum cream, Lego, Lego penguin, lick my hair, love fest, Luna, mimosa, my inner child, nephew, normal breakfast, opinion about food, Patti, pink hamster, Scout, sliced tomatoes, stretching, therapy light, thoughts, Thoughts paper, vegan eggs and sausage, Willow, wonder product