Goodnight Moon....

I didn't get as much sleep as I wanted last night and that bums me out.  It started off well enough, I got everything ready for the morning, I curled up in bed, cat lying strewn along my leg (I'm amazed at his balance) and read a book until I was tired.  I should explain that I have developed the bad habit of tossing and turning throughout the night and tend to wake up a couple of times for no apparent reason.  Also, the cat has seen fit to scream at the windows as of late.  So with him sleeping peacefully right beside me I thought that I might just get some actual sleep last night.

No.  Didn't happen.  I was sleeping just fine, not tossing about, not waking up.  The cat was calm and well behaved, until the smoke detector started acting stupid.  Being woken awake at 2:30 am by a shrill, sharp beep in not something I would recommend.  The cat jumped out of bed and ran to the living room while I searched the dark in vain to find the offending device.  Finally I turned on the light (give me a break it was the middle of the night) and found the blasted thing, which I promptly ripped off the wall and forcefully yanked the battery out of it.  

But alas, I'm afraid it was too late.  I was too much awake to simply lay back down and sleep.  Sadly, the cat was awake as well.  I should tell you that the cat acts as a snooze alarm for myself.  He takes it upon himself to make sure I am awake once my alarm goes off.  I think this has to do with our old tradition of me getting up and reading the paper while he curled up in my lap.  Now, whenever my alarm goes off, if I don't immediately get up he will scream in my ear to make sure I am awake.  I'm willing to guess that a smoke detector alarm is close enough to an alarm clock in the ears of a bengal cat.  

So I spent the next few hours, tossing and turning and trying to get my cat to stop screaming.  I eventually just tossed the cat in the bathroom like I always do and eventually made it back to sleep, just in time for the alarm clock to go off.  

Maybe tonight will be better.