The three weeks between Thanksgiving break and Christmas break are possibly the hardest three weeks of the school year, with the weeks leading up to summer vacation being the only contender. I just spent a little over a week doing absolutely nothing and now that I am back at school I am finding myself slammed with assignments and presentations and I have absolutely no aspiration to do any of them. This happens every year of college, however, with it being senior year it’s even harder than ever this year to find motivation before Christmas break. If I did not care about my grades, I would highly consider not doing the rest of my school work and just kicking it for the rest of the semester.
I am not really sure what I am going to do to find motivation for the rest of this semester, but I am really not too worried about it because I always find a way to get everything done when it’s all said and done. For example, I am writing this blog that is due later today during another class I am in because I put off writing it all week long. Whether it is pulling a couple all-nighters and just grinding my way through all of my assignments or doing a little bit every day and slowly chipping away at the mountain of homework, I will find a way to get everything done and hopefully get a decent grade in the process.
When I first got my kitten I really didn’t know what to expect in terms of how fast the kitten would grow and what tricks I could teach the kitten to do. Each day that I have the kitten, the more amazed I have become with how fast he is growing up and how much he has already been able to learn. He is currently only about four and a half months old and he already weighs nearly eight pounds and he has already learned more tricks than I ever would have expected a cat to be able to learn over their entire life. The first trick I was able to teach my kitten is to come to me when I shake a bag of treats. He learned this fairly quickly and I was soon able to teach him to come running when I call his name. 
The next trick my kitten was able to learn was to play fetch. This was the last trick I was ever expecting a cat to learn, and the first time I threw a toy and he brought it back to me it really caught me off guard. Ever since I learned that he likes to play fetch I have played fetch with him for almost an hour every day, or as long as he is willing to keep bringing the toy back to me. The only distractions that consistently bring an end to his involvement in the game are when he loses the toy or decides he would rather play with another cat living in our house. Nothing brings me more joy in life than teaching my cat all of these different tricks and I hope to teach him many more over the course of his life.
