Friday, January 6, 2012
Perchance to sleep
Last night at 10:30 PM, I decided I had had enough of mindless TV and games on Facebook. It was time for bed. So I took my night time meds, turned down the thermostat, turned up the electric blanket and crawled into bed with Betty (the cat) sprawled right in the middle of the bed. Unfortunately, I was having cramps in both feet, something that has not happened in several weeks. I was also shivering for unknown reasons. Eventually, I decided I was going to have to get out of bed in an attempt to get rid of the foot cramps. Betty, disgusted by my tossing and turning, had already abandoned the bed. So I got up at 12:30 AM, walked to the kitchen, ate a couple of chocolate chip cookies that I baked yesterday, turned up the thermostat and turned up the electric blanket and crawled back into bed. A few hours later, I was awake, burning up, afraid of spontaneously combusting. Off went the covers and off went the electric blanket. A cat (unknown name) came back in the bedroom and got on the bed. I tried to drift off to sleep again only to be disturbed by hissing and growling from the cat on the bed. Soon that cat jumped off the bed and the hissing turned to howling. I got up again, pillow in hand, ready to throw it at fighting cats. I only saw Maybelle heading off somewhere so I got my pillow and went back to bed. Then I fell asleep and had a dream that I was able to swaddle Maybelle up so she couldn't fight and got her close to Betty. Betty started licking Maybelle, treating her like she was her kitten. Before you know it, Betty was cradling Maybelle in her "arms" and all was well in kitty land. This dream was shattered by more cat fighting and the night was over.
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