Can cats have nightmares?
Last night I was having trouble sleeping (SHOCKING, I know), and the last time I looked at the clock before finally falling asleep was 12:45. Around 2:20 I awoke to Ricky-cat headbutting me in the face. Now, I have three cats; I am used to a certain amount of middle-of-the-night-
shenanigans. But Ricky-cat is the least crazy of our cats and is generally the one giving the stink-eye to whatever cat is tearing around the room (Maddy-cat), meow/whining (Maddy-cat), or knocking things off tables/shelves (MADDY-CAT) in the middle of the night. My first thought was that he just wanted a little petting, but he was just not willing to settle for half-ass, half-asleep petting and kept up with the mewing and the head-butting. Next I thought maybe the cats were out of food or water, so I went out to their bowls and he stayed within 2 inches of me, choosing to wrap himself around my legs and continue mewing at me instead of going to the bowls (which had plenty of food and water anyway). Finally I just picked him up and snuggled him tights and made soft shushing noises at him as I rocked in the dark. At least I have not yet started dressing him up in outfits and rolling him around in a stroller.
In other middle-of-the-night news I had a hell of a sleepless weekend cleaning closets. We have a very closet-filled apartment for Chicago (five closets), and my cleaning strategy is generally "if it is in a closet and out of view, it doesn't count as messy". As such, our closets were quite terrifying prior to my weekend cleaning-binge. Now they are all Target-storage-solutions organized and pretty and man that was satisfying. I even took all the shelves out of the fridge and washed them, once I ran out of closets to organize.
I am thinking of starting an overnight cleaning service for nights when I can't sleep. I might as well use that time to my advantage, right?
And now I'm off to enjoy my last free night before I start my next grad school class. Because a full time job just Isn't Enough Work. Alas.
