This was my one and only day to sleep in during this week while I'm off from work.
Granted, I'd only have been able to sleep until 7, as we having people coming in
to tend to both the A/C and the roof, but still, that's 3 hours later than
yesterday.
The males in my house put a stop to the right quick. First
it was that damned cat whining at 3AM. My latest theory is that he's under the
delusion that he still has balls and that this is his version of the classic cat
singing on the back fence. However, his latest trick casts doubt on that theory.
This morning, Rudder told me, he decided to climb on top of the previously sleepig
Rudder, stick his nose in Rudder's ear, and THEN start mrowwwllling. I don't know,
maybe he's so confused that he wants to mate with Rudder's ear? (If it had been
me, I'd have begun playing kitty football at that point - when he was a kitten and
used to curl up and knead my neck while I was trying to sleep, I'd sort of fling
him to the foot of the bed. I think I may have gotten a spiral on him a couple of
those times. I suppose this might be part of why he's so
neurotic.)
Then Rudder's alarm went off at 4 and he went to the gym.
Then the cats decided that if he were gone, obviously I shouldn't be sleeping.
Then the older cat decided he wanted to snuggle up. He's long haired, so this
involves itchy fur in my face. I finally got to sleep at 5:30 or so, just in time
for Rudder to wake me up coming back from the gym at 6, when he decided that he
didn't have to be at work that early and so could nap a half hour before
showering. (He has his reasons for doing that instead of setting the alarm later
in the first place, but I'm not convinced.) And of course that involved the usual
discussion about whether we were going to nap or "nap". I elected to try for
actual sleep, but of course that still didn't work.
I could sleep
late, really, if only my co-residents weren't on such peculiar schedules.
Unfortunately, I can't nap inthe afternoon unless I'm either absolutely exhausted
or sick, neither of which applies at the moment. So much for luxurious late
mornings.