Still Up

It’s 6:21AM

I’m still up. I’ve done nothing today. I haven’t opened my email box or sent an email or done anything but therapy and PC art. the messages on my phone are still blinking. I haven’t even listened to them. I intended to call my friend in Maryland to see if she was flooded out but somehow I spaced that. Goodness, great friend I am.

Everybody in the house was asleep but me. I was sitting here playing Bejeweled2 waiting for the sun to come up. It’s up. I still didn’t want to go to sleep. I call this voluntary insomnia. I was feeling quite low and doing poorly on my game I might add when Gracie (the older cat at age 1) came on my lap and insisted that she was going to love on me. I should blame her for the loss of that last game cause nobody can play a game with a cat in their face, licking their chin, purring in their ear just in case you didn’t hear them at your chin. I’d move her out of the way, she’d jump back up unfazed that I moved her. She crawled on the back of the chair then to my lap, purring and rubbing against my face with that long hair of hers. I was trying to keep her away while I played this game (poorly) but Gracie insisted that she was going to be petted and that she was going to lick my chin and my eye. I have to laugh because at one point she was holding my hand back so she could lick my face and rub up against it. It was like, hold still, i’m going to love you whether you want me to or not. See, Captain will sit at my side and let me mess around for hours and say nothing, not Gracie. She’ll come over like, okay, you’ve been screwing around long enough. It’s my time now, get off the PC. So, again today she forced me to come back from my depths of depression, the downward slope i was on got a brief interruption by the kitty that refused to

I’m about to lay down with the fur family and Sg. Sg is in the other room. She has to be up at noon. I hope I’m asleep by then but I don’t know. I plan to lay down and relax and keep Gracie from licking my eye but so far i’ve been unsuccessful. She will lick the lid right off if I don’t fight her. My goodness, Sg has a red spot where the skin is missing from where her cat Tor-ti licked her in her sleep. This is my thought, if you didn’t feel the first layer of your skin being removed then your sleep medication is wayyyy tooo strong. I’m just sayin maybe Ambien is not for you!!! She has this nickle size skinned area on her forehead. Thank goodness I don’t sleep much or I’d be One Eye’d Aussie cause man does Gracie go after that eye with fury. When she cleans the kitten she holds her down and when the kitten starts screaming for mercy I tell Gracie to let her up. Sometimes I think they’re playing Uncle. See who can hurt the other and make them beg them to stop. But I have to break in when little Bella is yelling Uncle cause, well, she’s tiny and Gracie isn’t. It’s not a fair fight. But it is funny when Bella stalks her then Gracie pounces on her first. Bella starts screaming like, why did you do that to me I was minding my own business and here you come and hurt me. The girl has mental issues. I worry about her. she is such the talker….meow, meow, meow! Anyway, I have to hit the sheets. Cap is dead to the world and in my bed, Gracie is barely being held back and Bella is at the foot of the bed a safe distance from Captain. He kinda….no kinda nothing..he kicks a lot in his sleep. She learned very quickly that she will go airborne if she is behind Cappy when he’s sleeping.

Okay, so I’m now giving in, crying Uncle and going to bed. the sun is up, Gracie is purring, Sg is snoring, Cappy is kicking and Bella, well Bella is sleeping peacefully until Gracie decides its time to give her a bath. I’ve already had mine.

Austin, on the wrong side of the sheets.