A few days after matching, my Secret Santa got in contact with me and informed me that my gift would be coming in 2 parts. The first part is a gift for my kitty, Annarchy, and arrived a couple of days ago. The second part will be arriving in January and I will update then.

Annarchy's gift arrived a couple of days ago at my work, but unfortunately for kitty, I've been pretty busy the past couple of days. This morning, however, I presented Annarchy with her gift - a collection of cat toys from a company called Fashion's Talk. She was very uninterested while the toys were in the package. I could almost hear the grumble of "why do you disturb me from my slumber, hooman?" going through her mind.

That all changed when I opened up the package for Annarchy and dumped the toys onto the bed in a clamor of jangling bells, clunking plastic, and fluttering feathers. She immediately began sniffing at all the various goodies, albeit with great caution. There was certainly some reluctance at first, but as soon as she discovered one of the feathered toys, her interest was officially piqued. After she settled in and laid claim to her new horde of toys, I threw around some of the rolly toys for her to chase. She seems to really love (or at least want to murder) the ones with feathers and the ones with tails. She seems quite uncertain about the ones that have bells in them. She absolutely goes bonkers for the ones attached to strings.

One of the toys is a little bag stuffed with something (didn't smell like it had catnip in it) with "I love cats" written across it. It has an elastic string that (I assume) allows it to be hung from a door knob so that Annarchy can bat at it at her leasure - well, that's what I did with it anyway. As I left home to go to work, she was attempting to rip it free from the doorknob and disembowel it with great vigor.

I fully expect to go home tonight and find these toys scattered all throughout the house.

From Annarchy and myself, thank you very much Secret Santa! We are very grateful for the gift of toys and I can't wait to see what you have in store for Part 2 in January!

Happy Holidays!

EDIT: Oh my god. I totally forgot to update this! I'm so sorry Secret Santa! The second part of my gift turned out to be an amazing pair of My Neighbor Totoro slippers! I've been using these pretty much every day ever since I got them. They are super comfortable and super cute! Thank you so much Santa!