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I have not had a decent night's sleep all week. Remi just doesn't sleep at night. She sleeps all day, and then comes out around midnight to explore the house. So i've been staying up late to explore with her. (Chita usually is asleep, and wakes up and objects strenuously after a while. I got bit!!) Then once i've gone to bed, she comes into the room where I am and climbs on things, knocks things off surfaces, then bats things around on the floor. Then she goes and digs obsessively in her litter box (we're talking five full minutes of digging here), then she buries her food, which includes a lot of scraping the ground, then going several feet away to find objects to drag over and dump in her water bowl, which usually spills everywhere.
I just haven't had a good night's sleep.
Then around 5 Chita wakes up from wherever she's slept that night, as is her usual way, and she comes in to where I am. We have discovered that it does not matter where I sleep. Both cats gravitate to me. I had thought it was the bed, but no. They do not care about Z. Why? Because he does not wake up, or if he does, he does not pay them any attention. I am the lighter sleeper, more likely to yell at them or pet them. Which is, apparently, what they both want. Z got up both times there was a yelling fight this morning, but other than that it was just me yelling at Remi or Chita.
Because when Chita comes in, Remi is there, and they both must object.
Ack.
I am not angry, I'm just annoyed. Today I decided I would take a nap, perhaps an hour long. I lay down just after lunch, and worked on the computer for a while. Then, around one, I lay my head down, deciding I would try to just close my eyes for a little bit. At one-thirty I realized I had been drifting, and debated getting up and taking care of my next chore, but decided no, I would lie a little longer. At two o'clock the phone rang, startling me badly. "I should get up," I thought, fuzzily. I rolled over and the next thing I knew, it was 4:00 and the school kids outside were yelling and I was disoriented.
Whoops. I've stayed awake. Now I think I'm ungroggified enough to get out of bed. What a waste of the day. But I have things I can get done this evening. It's probably better-- I can stay up and try futilely to wear Remi out so she sleeps. I dragged her out today and tried to get her to be active at mid-day, but she didn't really do it. Bleah! I hate nocturnal cats; we've been working on Chita so she won't be... Now we've got to start over.
I just haven't had a good night's sleep.
Then around 5 Chita wakes up from wherever she's slept that night, as is her usual way, and she comes in to where I am. We have discovered that it does not matter where I sleep. Both cats gravitate to me. I had thought it was the bed, but no. They do not care about Z. Why? Because he does not wake up, or if he does, he does not pay them any attention. I am the lighter sleeper, more likely to yell at them or pet them. Which is, apparently, what they both want. Z got up both times there was a yelling fight this morning, but other than that it was just me yelling at Remi or Chita.
Because when Chita comes in, Remi is there, and they both must object.
Ack.
I am not angry, I'm just annoyed. Today I decided I would take a nap, perhaps an hour long. I lay down just after lunch, and worked on the computer for a while. Then, around one, I lay my head down, deciding I would try to just close my eyes for a little bit. At one-thirty I realized I had been drifting, and debated getting up and taking care of my next chore, but decided no, I would lie a little longer. At two o'clock the phone rang, startling me badly. "I should get up," I thought, fuzzily. I rolled over and the next thing I knew, it was 4:00 and the school kids outside were yelling and I was disoriented.
Whoops. I've stayed awake. Now I think I'm ungroggified enough to get out of bed. What a waste of the day. But I have things I can get done this evening. It's probably better-- I can stay up and try futilely to wear Remi out so she sleeps. I dragged her out today and tried to get her to be active at mid-day, but she didn't really do it. Bleah! I hate nocturnal cats; we've been working on Chita so she won't be... Now we've got to start over.
