Cat:
Welp, we slept late this morning. Woke up at ten a.m. That is late for us, normally we wake up around seven or eight a.m. on the mornings we don't have to work. The cat woke me up at six, seven, eight and 9 a.m, complaining that his breakfast was being delayed. I'd roll over and pull the sheet over my face to get away from him, but couldn't escape his claws, which would slide under the covers and dig into my skin and then begin a deep kneading process, which he felt was necessary to use with as much force as possible to wake me up.
There was his incessant meowing, which meant he was starving to death and hadn't been fed since two a.m., the first time he woke me up! And would I get out of bed NOW? Because he couldn't feed himself??
I made him wait. He had plenty of dried food in the kitchen. I was in a deep sleep zone and even his claws wouldn't bring me out of it.
At one point, he walked over my face and onto Rick's shoulders and into his neck, where he made the mistake of meowing in his face, to no avail.
Somehow, we slept on.
Kitchen:
I had plans for this morning but slept right through them. Rick is out in the garage at the moment. We ordered two (just two!) kitchen cabinet doors a few weeks ago to see how they looked before ordering the entire set, and they finally arrived yesterday.
We ordered them unfinished so we could match them up to the rest of the solid panels in the kitchen. They're an unfinished, solid hardwood, raised panel, premium grade cherry and will have a clear coat of finish over them. He's going to give them a light sanding and sealer this afternoon to see how they'll look in their finished state. I'll take those doors with me when we shop for the tile and counter-tops, so it will all flow together, color wise. I'll get a picture of them when they're done. I cannot wait to get his damm kitchen project OVER with.
While typing this, I just realized what I'm going to do today! Blog fodder! I'll be back tonight with updates! Stay tuned!
I can SO relate to the neglected, starving, ready-to-go-on-strike cats! Mine really gets my attention in the morning...rubs against the night table lamp, JUST enough to ALMOST knock it over and really get me awake to feed him. And at 17 pounds, he could easily knock the lamp over...but he knows it's annoying enough to just keep rubbing against it and that'll get mom outta bed pretty fast. Who ever said cats were dumb?
Looking forward to the upcoming kitchen photos. And I can only imagine HOW happy you'll be to have this project completed. I only had tile put throughout the house and it drove me crazy! Hang in there.
Posted by: Terri | June 24, 2006 at 12:50 PM
Our cats have taken to coming into our room and watching "cat TV" - that is, sitting in the window, watching what goes on outside the screen, and providing colour commentary. It is immensely annoying, particularly at 6AM. They were apparently peeved that nobody would change the channel.
First coat of varnish on the floors last night ... woke up this morning ... and it's amazing how many pet hairs you can miss, even on your hands and knees with a hand vac and damp rag. So, many of these hairs will live trhough eternity as part of a hardwood floor, and some time in the future an archaeologist will look through the remnants of our house and say "Ahhh .. and they were slobs, too."
Posted by: Nils | June 24, 2006 at 01:12 PM
I am tuned. Also hungry. When's dinner?
Posted by: Old Horsetail Snake | June 24, 2006 at 05:12 PM
"his" kitchen project?
Our Lhasa wakes Jack up sniffing in his ear. He never wakes me up. Our Beagle used to wake me up pulling on the quilt. She left plenty of holes in it. The cat just curls up next to my stomach and goes to sleep. But when I get up he nips my ankle, rubs it, walks in front of me so I can trip, brushes his face on the can so I spill some when trying to put it in his dish.. That is when I wonder why I have a cat.
Posted by: mom | June 24, 2006 at 08:49 PM