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Before I talk about Two Cats and A Storm (And A Person Trying to Sleep) I should explain how things usually go when I catsit. Dad gets up around dawn and feeds the cats. I do not. So around 7 or 7:30 in the morning, they start trying to get me up. They start out by walking on me. Then Squeaker starts nosebumping me while Patches tries to eat my hair. Or bathe me. I’m not entirely sure which. Then there’s grumbling and pulling the covers up and I emerge an hour or so later and feed them. After a few days, they realize it doesn’t hurt them to get food a bit later, and instead they sit at the end of the bed and stare at me until I get up. Well, Patches does. Squeaker lacks the patience to sit and stare for an hour, so she alternates between that and wandering around and getting into things.
Which brings us to Tuesday night, when there was a very, very loud storm with lightning directly overhead. I was alerted to this by the thunder waking me up, almost immediately followed by two objects landing on me, then scrambling off. For the next hour (until the storm died off a bit) the cats were crouched in the doorway with their tails straight up in the air. I’m not sure if they were trying to guard me from the sound monster, preparing to be attacked by a dire enemy, or what. But the reason I was awake for the next hour is that every third or so thunderclap, they’d whirl around, pounce on the bed (and me) and then poke until they were assured of signs of life. And then they went back to the bedroom doorway.
In the morning (err, later in the morning) of course, the cats were rest to "OMG it is morning! Feed us! Restore our security!
It stormed (and woke me up) again last night, but not nearly as loud, and the parents being back in the house (they let me know they’d be home after I left for work, and since I had my grandmother’s laundry in the car and most of my clothes were at their place, it seemed silly to drive all the way out there and not just stay another night) calmed the cats down a bit. And the worst was a few miles off instead of directly overhead.
So...yay for day 2 of moderate sleep deprivation?
In other news:
Rightstuf.com has Tokyopop books 33% off until August 10. I’m a bit confused, though, as I’ve been prepared for their CMX and Viz sales, which usually come shortly before the Tokyopop sales. (Yes, I anticipate these sales in order.)
I also went to Wal-Mart after I left the parents’ this morning as I, you know, had no food in the apartment. I saw (and grabbed) the new book in Marjorie M. Liu’s Dirk & Steele series. Skimming the blurb, I initially thought that this time, the heroine would be a shapeshifter. Alas, it’s the hero, and the heroine has psychic communications powers. However, the first book of Liu’s that I read had the heroine using healing powers to be kinda vicious and badass, so I’m not annoyed at her having a more stereotypically passive “girl” power like I would be elsewhere. But I still want a shapeshifter heroine.
I alo browsed the DVDs while I was there, and for $25 (and tax) came away with the first 2 seasons of X-Files and 4 SciFi movies I know nothing about: The Black Hole, Final Days of Planet Earth, The Last Sentinel, and Supernova. I think The Last Sentinel is the only one I’ve really heard of, and that’s because of the Katee Sackhoff fans I know.
Which brings us to Tuesday night, when there was a very, very loud storm with lightning directly overhead. I was alerted to this by the thunder waking me up, almost immediately followed by two objects landing on me, then scrambling off. For the next hour (until the storm died off a bit) the cats were crouched in the doorway with their tails straight up in the air. I’m not sure if they were trying to guard me from the sound monster, preparing to be attacked by a dire enemy, or what. But the reason I was awake for the next hour is that every third or so thunderclap, they’d whirl around, pounce on the bed (and me) and then poke until they were assured of signs of life. And then they went back to the bedroom doorway.
In the morning (err, later in the morning) of course, the cats were rest to "OMG it is morning! Feed us! Restore our security!
It stormed (and woke me up) again last night, but not nearly as loud, and the parents being back in the house (they let me know they’d be home after I left for work, and since I had my grandmother’s laundry in the car and most of my clothes were at their place, it seemed silly to drive all the way out there and not just stay another night) calmed the cats down a bit. And the worst was a few miles off instead of directly overhead.
So...yay for day 2 of moderate sleep deprivation?
In other news:
Rightstuf.com has Tokyopop books 33% off until August 10. I’m a bit confused, though, as I’ve been prepared for their CMX and Viz sales, which usually come shortly before the Tokyopop sales. (Yes, I anticipate these sales in order.)
I also went to Wal-Mart after I left the parents’ this morning as I, you know, had no food in the apartment. I saw (and grabbed) the new book in Marjorie M. Liu’s Dirk & Steele series. Skimming the blurb, I initially thought that this time, the heroine would be a shapeshifter. Alas, it’s the hero, and the heroine has psychic communications powers. However, the first book of Liu’s that I read had the heroine using healing powers to be kinda vicious and badass, so I’m not annoyed at her having a more stereotypically passive “girl” power like I would be elsewhere. But I still want a shapeshifter heroine.
I alo browsed the DVDs while I was there, and for $25 (and tax) came away with the first 2 seasons of X-Files and 4 SciFi movies I know nothing about: The Black Hole, Final Days of Planet Earth, The Last Sentinel, and Supernova. I think The Last Sentinel is the only one I’ve really heard of, and that’s because of the Katee Sackhoff fans I know.
