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When your friends have had hard times lately a cheese, meat, fruit, and bread spread followed by the production of white chocolate macadamia nut rum balls and milk chocolate pecan bourbon balls and accompanied by finger monsters can be an excellent strategy.

With the greatest of ease

Her, on the couch: Can I have a some strawberries? Like three?

Me, in the kitchen with the strawberries but doing something that I didn’t want to walk away from right then: I don’t know, can you catch three?

Her: Let’s find out.

Me: [throws one]

Cat, on the couch between her and the kitchen: [startles, looks up, looks at her, looks at me, looks up]

Me: [throws another]

Cat: [startles, stares intently at the spot above her that the strawberry just passed through]

Her: Great. Now she thinks strawberries can fly.

Me: [throws the last one] We should throw strawberries from now on. That should be their principal method of relocation.

Cat: [continues to stare intently at the spot above her that the strawberries passed through for another five minutes]