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Because we have to keep Spike, the new kitty, sequestered from Riley, the old kitty, most of the time, we've had to shut him up in the red room. So the sleeping arrangements at Mint Manor are a little shaken up. I've been sleeping in the red room with Spike. (Because I'll be there when everyone else is gone, so he should get used to me. Also, I can't smell his litterbox so I don't mind sleeping in the same room.) Sleeping, that is, as much as he'll allow me. He's a tricky beast. He gets all cuddly and cozy when I first bed down, and then I finally fall asleep, and then around 4:00 am-- this has happened twice already-- he gets all wild and starts the Pouncing Game. That's the game where he hides in a dark corner and then comes barrelling toward me and POUNCES with teeth and claw (not hard), waking me from my slumber. The game continues as I try to calm him down for 20 minutes, and he march-march-marches all over me, pouncing every now and then, until I give up and crawl downstairs and make Kit move over and share the futon with me.

Linn and her cute Oscar are sleeping in my room (formerly Linn's room, anyway), and Ade is on her air mattress in the den. Notably, Riley has not been sleeping with Gina. He still feels betrayed, I think. He'll get over it.

Why are you in Tavie's head? 9:09 AM | shower me with attention