I was so excited.

How can one item so satisfy several facets of my personality to an absolute tee?

 We covered, in no particular order; gaudy decorative sense (kinda like Willy Wonka meets whorehouse), impulse buying, feline related, Griswold -esque holiday tackiness and affordability. It’s like the creators of such goods are speaking to me. Law of attraction indeed! It was a had to have moment, the stars were aligned.

I discovered this item while on a shopping trip at Sprawlmart with Coyote yesterday. I have begun my Christinamas shopping, in hopes that unlike last year I will lessen the severity of holiday shopping on my bank account. I had the grand idea of one trip last year, at the last minute, a very costly day to say the least. So…dragging Coyote through many a store in search of the best Cabbage Patch Kid an auntie can buy for her niece I came across the greatest item in history…

I know right?!?

It’s amazing! It’s a Christinamas kitty if ever one was thought up, and at the low low price of $52.00! It’s mine!

And so yesterday while staying at Coyotes I held back, I would not install this gem at his home, he is after all a man in his thirties in his own apartment and the neighbours would think it quite odd for him having a lighted giant holiday cat on his front lawn. I would wait for tonight to assemble and bask in the glory of such epic decoration. The cats and I would marvel at it’s holiday joy and maybe sing some carols. Oh why not?!

But then…

quiet disappointment.

We’re missing an eyebrow. Well, I can just make one up out of a black piece of paper, no biggie.

But then…there is holes all over this thing. It’s a mess of sparkles, most of which were in the bottom of the box and the whole Meow is covered with some sort of high velocity projected bits of fabric and sparkles mixed with glue. So much so that the little holes that are to accept the wires to assemble this beast are clouded over with the substance, making assembly impossible. Where is that receipt? Hmmmm….

I tried. I tried for a good half hour but finally had to give up the fight. I had to kick Chili the cat out of the box and try to fit the sad deco back in. Next to impossible. So sadly this little gem won’t be donning my front lawn. Oh sure I still have the five foot tall bobbleheaded light-up Frosty the snowman but still…a disappointment.

But lesson learned darlings, more of my shopping this year will be done on Etsy. More handmade, less mass produced, better quality with less shattered dreams. (Slightly melodramatic no?) 

I’m getting excited for the holidays…and my 30th birthday coming up as well. I am going to launch the new site on my birthday, Anja did an incredible job as always and I am excited to share some new stuff with you. I have some ambitions to join Ashley in her photo-a-day project in 2012 as well as bring three new weekly serial posts to keep you entertained. I have a new leash on blogging, a new interest and avenues to explore.

I know it’s just another day, a changing of the calendars even, however New Years is my most favourite of holidays. So excited about spending the first couple days of 2012 with my bestest bestie in New York. 2012 is just going to rock the tits off of everything so let’s get all hot and bothered about that okay darlings?

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