Speaking of tolerant cats: [link]

I turned out to be Khadijah.

Aw, that seems very sweet to me.

We have a tradition in my family that when you buy someone a book as a present you are expected to read it before you give it to them. Sometimes I don't and my mom (they are usually for her for some reason) is so surprised when I say I'll need to borrow them when she's done.

That's a great dream, Zen! You probably remember it because it's just that good.

Our Xmas gift from the Sr Director this year is a 6-piece baking set. Nice.

That is a very tolerant cat ... my mother once had a cat that had to be bathed for a while (flea infestation ... ick), but she would just extend her legs, make it difficult to get her in the basin, and then look pitiful and make sad sounds when she was wet.

I am obsessed with this 'cat dancing' video

The cat almost looks like he's enjoying it some of the time. And then other times he definitely gets a "I will drink all y'all's blood and set this whole place on fire" look.

Speaking of tolerant cats:

I love that his comment is "looks like I survived" because my first thought was that that's a lot of skin to expose to flailing claws.

That's what my dog does when getting bathed, just stands very still looking miserable. The cats, on the occasions when I had to try to bathe them for whatever reason, managed to levitate and run down my back leaving trails of blood.

I should do stuff around the house, but perhaps I will lounge and finish reading The Obelisk Gate first.

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH.

I got all mentally prepared, put on my earphones, and fired up the database to make some updates (because the person who usually does this for me left!), and.... I only had a half-hour in me. Ah well, better than nothing.

Sigh. The orders that we started prepping for before Thanksgiving, that I told the customer we were ready to receive two weeks ago, came in today with a note that they know there is a 5 business day lead time between receiving the POs and shipping the goods but can we please expedite as a promotion is ongoing. And we will, but come on.

Mmm, Obelisk Gate. I just started the Dreamblood Duology.

I just started the Dreamblood Duology.

I really liked those, but I think Jemisin's abilities have really improved between them & the Broken Earth books. So. good.

Can't argue with that. I started reading her with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and fell in love, and she just gets better with each book. I guess Dreamblood just came out in one volume? When I was reading all the short stories and novellas of hers I could find I decide to pre-order this rather than getting them separately, which put me in that enjoyable drop-everything-and-read-my-new-book space when I got the notice it was available.