My cat is spoiled.

The Queen herself!

So the other night when I fell asleep on the couch I was wearing a sweater my Mom had made for me. It’s a big fluffy sweater that’s very warm and cozy. It’s actually too big, but I love curling up in it because it’s so big…it’s like wrapping up in a big fluffy blanket. It’s very warm. I mentioned that, right? VERY warm? I must have gotten hot during my nap, because the sweater ended up on the floor next to the couch. And the cat ended up on the sweater.

She has always loved this particular sweater. Any time she finds it somewhere that she can steal it to lay on, she claims it for herself. It usually lives on the back of my computer chair, and she’ll often climb up there and sleep as I’m working or playing. She is not an overly cuddly cat, so it says something about how much she likes this sweater that she’ll actually curl up on my chest under my chin occasionally if I’m wearing it (Yes, I’m slightly offended that she has no interest in cuddling with me, only my sweater!).

I left the sweater on the floor for a couple days (have I ever mentioned housecleaning is not my forte?) and she happily spent all her napping time on it…and her sleeping time…and her dozing time…and her just plain lazy time (she is a cat, after all). Finally last night I decided I wanted my sweater back, it was cold out and I was headed out on the back porch for a smoke.

After I detached her from it, picked it up and put it on, she sat there looking up at me with the most pitiful, mournful expression on her little kitty face. Then the look turned to the most pissed off, irritated, “I-want-to-claw-your-eyes-out” look that I’ve ever seen on a cat’s face.

So what did I do? I went and asked my Mom if she had any yarn left over from making the sweater. She did – almost two skeins. So I started crocheting the yarn into a square, only to find out that my largest hook wasn’t quite large enough for the bulky weight yarn. So I ran out to WalMart at 7:30 at night to buy a jumbo crochet hook so I can make my spoiled damned cat her very own blanket out of the same yarn!

I’m currently halfway through, and actually having a lot of fun – I’ve never crocheted with bulky yarn before, and it works up incredibly fast and is very easy to work with. I’m just hoping Her Highness approves of her new bedding…I’m half expecting her to turn her nose up at it and go find my sweater.

Cats.

So its 11pm, and I’m just now getting around to writing today. I don’t really have much to say today, so I’ve been putting it off. I got a lot accomplished today, and it was a good day…but it was just a day. I got some errands done, got some cleaning done. Had a nap, had a few laughs with my family. All in all, it was a great day. Just…nothing to write about.

Right now I’m watching TV and listening to Bob snore. Tonight’s choice of boringness to fall asleep to – Animal Planet’s Dogs 101. If it were cats, it would keep me awake – I’d have to watch every second of it. But, it’s dogs, so it’ll keep my interest long enough to get comfortable and relax, and then I’ll be off to dreamland.

Last night I dreamed I’d found a little orange tabby kitten. My dream went through finding the little guy, bringing him home, getting him used to being here, getting KitKat used to having another furball around, and finally just loving the kitten and it loving me. I dreamt of it curling up on my chest  and sleeping while I was watching television. It was just a tiny little bit of a thing, and sweet as could be. I guess I really do want to have another cat, I seem to be obsessed about it lately. I just can’t be sure it’d be the best thing for KitKat. I love her to death, and the only thing I’d change about her would be for her to be more of a lap cat and enjoy being held. She’s a good girl and gives us all lots of love, and I’d never trade her for the world. But I still want another fuzzball around the house!

The kitten of my dreams.