Annoying cat behavior

More "teaser" snow overnight, but it's warming up and a bit of rain coming or at a minimum it will melt off again today.

I got an email from my health insurance company yesterday about don't forget to claim your rewards. I vaguely knew something about this program, but thought I'd better check. I had $25 to claim for an Amazon gift card, from having my annual exam and screenings this year. Oh nice! Then I decided to explore what else they offer rewards for. I earned another $30 answering a questionnaire and putting an app on my phone. Glad I looked - that was an easy $55 found/earned. I will have to remember this for next year, where I can at least get another $25 for my annual check up.

DH also really likes the "Christmas crack" toffee treat I made with Ritz crackers, chocolate, peanut butter and toffee and the top sprinkled with mini m&m's. He said it tastes like a really good Reese's. I agree. 

I made myself a to-do list for work, so that I (hopefully) don't forget to take care of before I'm off for 2 weeks. Worse comes to worse and I wake up one morning, in the next 2 weeks, suddenly remembering I forgot to do something, I can always log into work and do it, haha. 

DH is going to have to get up early tomorrow so he can try to catch the garbage man and give him his (giant LOL) box of chocolates. I think they usually come around 7am but it's not super consistent. Even if they don't come until after I am up, I don't typically even hear them out there. He did manage to fit the box in our mailbox for the mail carrier yesterday, so she got hers. We also still have the box for our FedEx gal. We don't get FedEx here as often as UPS or USPS. I told dh a week or so ago, as far as I know, we don't have any packages coming via FedEx before Christmas and offered to order something from Walmart (who usually ships FedEx) so that she has to stop here, but he just said oh, let's just wait and see. Oh well. Maybe we'll get something by New Year's.

My cat is being very annoying lately. He's just acting very agitated a lot of the time. Maybe it's because he wants his normal outside time off and on during the day but he's not liking the cold, so he comes back in. Mostly he sleeps most of the day now but when he is up he just seems restless. Then as soon as I go to bed he wants to meow and up on the bed, down, up in the window ledge, down, out to the living room, then repeat. After I went to bed last night dh shut his den doors (french doors with windows) because he was talking to a friend on his phone and didn't want to wake me up. I guess Amos was meowing he wanted in, so dh let him in the den and reshut the door. He immediately started meowing he wanted back out. Repeat. From about 5am he was annoying. I let him out when I got up at 7 and left him out there for about 40 minutes. He followed me up to my office (where his food and litter cabinet is). I fed him, gave him his treats. He starts meowing. I played with him and his mouse on a stick for awhile. Then he went downstairs and I didn't hear him meowing again, and he woke dh up (again). He's back outside now. Dh was not happy. I guess I'll just have to put him up in my office for the night. It seems like, in the past, when I have done this for a few nights, the then seems to mellow out and doesn't act like this for awhile. Hopefully he gets over whatever is going on.