{"id":198,"date":"2005-11-12T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=198"},"modified":"2005-11-12T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T14:15:00","slug":"ach-spooky-shutup-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2005\/11\/12\/ach-spooky-shutup-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Ach Spooky shutup already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cat is driving me nuts. It seems I&#8217;m not allowed to sleep beyond 4:30am because of her. I can&#8217;t figure out why she insists on clamoring outside my bedroom door, yowling and scratching at it until I wake up pissed off and frustrated. Not a pleasant way to start the day.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve had Spooky for around 6 years and it&#8217;s only rare when either Shannon or I  allow her into our rooms during the night because she&#8217;s restless. She has to explore the rooms she should know by heart. She likes to do laps around our bodies, making sure to step on our hair when we&#8217;re asleep so that we can bolt upright yelling, &#8220;Owwwww!&#8221; She enjoys wastebasket tipping, 2am rips around the place at top speed &#8211; things like that. So we decided she was never going to be one of those kitties who curl up at their owners&#8217; feet for a long night&#8217;s sleep. <\/p>\n<p>She has a comfy area in the living room all to herself. But no. She&#8217;d rather wander over to my door at around 4:30am every frikkin&#8217; morning and meow as if she&#8217;s never going to see me again.<\/p>\n<p>*sigh* It&#8217;s very frustrating and all this week I&#8217;ve been a right cranky bitch because I can&#8217;t seem to get a decent, cat-free sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love Spooky. When she&#8217;s not yelling loud enough to wake the dead (or the dead asleep anyway) she&#8217;s very cute. She likes to climb up on my chest and put her paws on either side of my face and umm&#8230; how to explain&#8230; roll her paws? You know how cats do that kneading thing on blankets or something? She does a lighter version of that on my face and it&#8217;s really cute. She&#8217;s hilarious when she&#8217;s playful, and when she&#8217;s stalking some speck of dust and fully concentrating on it, we like to make a loud noise which causes her to jump straight up in the air about three feet. It&#8217;s very amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway tonight Shannon&#8217;s got a notion to camp out in the living room and I&#8217;m very much looking forward to it because it means Spooky will have someone else to bother at 4:30am \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cat is driving me nuts. It seems I&#8217;m not allowed to sleep beyond 4:30am because of her. I can&#8217;t figure out why she insists on clamoring outside my bedroom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}