Friday Funny video -- Black Friday & Cats

I hope everyone had a grand Thanksgiving! Our neighbor told us yesterday that she and her daughter, who's visiting from Atlanta, were going to get up at 3 A.M. (!!!) this morning for their traditional Black Friday shopping adventure. I've NEVER understood Black Friday shopping, but cannot, for the life of me, fathom getting up that early for anything. (Well, in full disclosure, I did once. But only to go to the hospital to have our son, Patrick.)

Thinking back on it, there was a time when we went to the mall on the Friday after Thanksgiving, but not to shop. We'd spend about an hour while the turkey was cooking going through the newspaper, searching for the mall with the very best Santa. Since we were living in Phoenix, that usually involved waiting with crowds in the parking lot as Santa arrived in a sleigh drawn by reindeer, by helicopter, various decorated floats like the ones in the Macy's Parade, and once on a Harley. ( Which, while cool in its own way, wasn't exactly a traditional Jolly Old Elf. )

I spent a little time yesterday doing researching on-line for the still untitled second book in my Shelter Bay series. My hero, Gabriel St. James, is a Marine, and the heroine, Charity Tiernan, is a veterinarian who runs an animal shelter. While reading various vet blogs, I found this LOL video on cats which proves they're not always as cool and collected as they pretend to be.

Enjoy!