So lately my cats have started being total dicks in the early hours, scratching on my paintings, throwing heavy objects off of high places...this is not new, but they'd been so good for so long that this is really pissing me off again.
The other morning I totally slapped my cat, Bacchus, full on in the face, and it was hard enough that he totally flew off the bed. It was pretty awesome.
This morning, though, he had no reason to be a jerk. He was scratching this painting of my brother-in-law's, and I'd shoot my head up off my pillow every couple seconds to hiss at him and scare him off the nightstand. Over and over and fucking over we did this til finally I got out of bed to chase him. He ran into my closet and I totally blocked the doors shut with my chair.
I found this hilarious this early in the morning, so I watched as he tried to push his way out. First just a little bit of paw, back and forth, in and out, over and over...he didn't understand what was happening. Then my other cat, Dharma, jumped on the chair, further weighing it down, and I was in fits of laughter. Like, seriously, the lack of sleep is making really stupid things hilarious lately.
Dharma eventually bores of trying to snag his paw, and for a minute Bacchus just kept hardly pushing against the chair, paw out, paw in, paw and nose out, back in, two paws out at once, both back...over and over, til finally he kept only getting out as far as his shoulders just to give up and retreat.
Meanwhile, I put on some weird John Hammond voice, you know, the character from Jurassic Park, the guy who started the whole thing...you remember that scene where the baby velociraptor is hatching and Hammond is talking like a fool saying, "Push, come on, come on, that's it, push!"? Yes, well, that's what I was doing, outloud, in my room.
"Push, come on, you little asshole. Push, get out of there, you little fuck. Come on, little asshole."
I don't care if I was verbally abusing Bacchus, I was evening the score. So yes, finally the little moron made it out and jumped back on the bed all purrs and nuzzles and we fell asleep for twenty minutes. IT WAS GOLDEN.
This is my life.