Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Pretty Sleeper

Cat dozes thoughtlessly on my coffee table. The grayish sky makes me drowsy and I click off the television set and pull up a chenille throw and curl up to the sound of nothing. Wrong, Cat is snoring. Ahhh, how cute.

When Cat sleeps he surrenders to it and goes limp, leg hanging off the table, whiskers twitching, paws twitching. So sweet , but when he snores, he's even more adorable. So why is it then when I snore I'm not a pretty sleeper also?
I am envious of the pretty sleeper. They can sleep anywhere and never disturb a soul, airplanes, car trips, camping trips, beach chairs and so on. The pretty sleeper even gets the occasion memorialized with a snap shot when they are just too cute for words. The pretty sleeper never has anyone shaking them awake and telling them to roll over because they are snoring. The pretty sleeper never has to listen to complaints about how someone else didn't get any sleep due to your snoring. And then theres the drooling, scary hair, puffy-eyed creature in the morning. Nope, not a pretty waker-upper either.

Cat hears me clicking on the keyboard and stretches his famous yoga stretch and sits up and looks at me. He's also a pretty waker-upper, looking pretty much the same as before he sprawled out on my coffee table for a cat nap. For a split second I think I should take a picture and reach for my phone/camera, then I remember how unfair it is he so dang cute already and go to put it down, missing the desk, the phone falls on the floor. I turn my chair around to retrieve the phone and catch the cord of the desk lamp and down goes the lamp to the floor. CRASH! Cat is now standing up on the table, eyes wide, back slightly arched, and fur puffed up. I have the camera now and click a shot of his less than adorable state.
Broken lamp- 20$
Banged up phone- I'll just live with it- 0$
Snap shot of cat all puffed up and freaked out- $Priceless
Take that pretty sleeper~