Oct 04 2010
Three Cat Night
Anything fun under there?
I had to get up early this morning for work, and you know what that means.
I set the alarm and went to bed around 11:00. As usual, when I know I have to get up early, I had a hard time getting to sleep.
As soon as I turned off the light, the boys decided it was play time. Play time is more fun when it takes place all over the bed with a person in it. Extra credit for bouncing off her face!
I pushed them off me over and over, but they were like furry boomerangs, coming back again and again. Eventually, they got bored of me, and started to play under the bed, banging into the box spring as often as possible, racing around the room, and repeatedly knocking over my birthday lamp, which may be the nicest thing in the room. Given the amount of clawing at the carpet, it’s a good thing it’s being replaced soon.
Audrey looked at them in disgust from her throne and then went to sleep.
At 2:00, Audrey took over, waking me up by howling and clawing at the balcony door. I yelled at her to knock it off, and she simply moved her base of operations downstairs, where she clawed and howled at the front door instead.
This woke up the kittens, who decided to annoy Audrey for a change, chasing her all over the house to a chorus of growls and howls. Needless to say, Audrey renewed her assault on the doors, but there was no way I was letting her out at prime predator time.
I tried pretending to be asleep so she’d give up. I also tried yelling at her. Nothing worked.
Clyde thought this was a good time for his patented smother snuggle, and Roscoe helped by biting my nose and hands. Then they started chasing each other all over me again, clawing any exposed body part in the process.
Oh, it was fun.
I finally fell asleep in the midst of the mayhem. When I woke up, Audrey was sleeping peacefully on her throne and the kittens were doing the same on the bed.
No-one got up with me at 6:00 am.