Why All The Christmas Stuff This Week?

 Panzer here.

Some of you humans have been asking Mom why we/re doing all the Christmas music, audio books, movies, jokes and stuff this week.

It's because Mom's Grandpa was born on Christmas day. Because of that, he never got to celebrate his birthday when he was growing up. No party. No cake. No games. No music. Nothing at all, because it would interfere with the family Christmas celebration.

When he became an adult, he still didn't want to celebrate his birthday on Christmas. He would just pick a day in the week before Christmas and celebrate his birthday with cake, music, games, and/or a movie. Each year he would pick a different date and it would be a surprise to his family.

Mom's Grandpa is gone now, but she thought it would be fun to celebrate every day this week.

So... 

 

Happy Birthday All Week, Grandpa.

Image by Nisha Gill from Pixabay

"Harry Potter" is back - and so is the bookstore hoopla we haven't seen since 2007 - The Washington Post

Panzer's evening nap was interrupted by clapping and cheering coming from the Catosphere. Jumping into the Panzermobile and following all the racket took our kitty boy to The Washington Post site. With no digging at all he found a post about Harry Potter.

I'm already asleep by midnight.

According to a post by Susan Halzack, tomorrow (Saturday) night bookstores around the U.S. will be partying like it's 2007. That's the last time there was a Harry Potter party here in bookstores. There will be midnight Harry Potter parties with costume contests, games ... and ... the launch of the Harry Potter and the Cursed Child book. The post explains it's not really a book, but a copy of the script for the new Harry Potter play put into a book format.

Panzer says, "I can't go. Mom doesn't let me go out that late at night."

Note: This is a long post. Bring a thermos of tea and three muffins for your reading.

To read the post, tootle over to Harry Potter