Hallowe'en. It's not just for stupid babies anymore.

Miklos and I are hitting up the town as depression-era newsies. I can't wait to get pictures. Since my gums are far too sensitive for (too much) candy these days, pictures are the sweetest part of Hallowe'en for me.

I'm having a cat dilemma. That dilemma is that Rico's craving attention at 1-, 3-, and 5AM are driving me bat-shit bananas. I have never met a more annoying cat OR person than Rico. Yet I am obligated to love him. I would defend that cat's stupidity to the death, even though the amount of proper sleep I've had in weeks is insufficient at best and akin to waking up 200+ times per night at worst. I'm not going to be publicly and specifically cruel here, but imagine a situation that only serves as a burden on your life yet you still have some strong emotional connection that prevents you from some kind of bathtub drowning incident.

I was already going to Hell, if there is one. All I'm saying is that one day before I have kids and subsequently live in a day-to-day haze due to 2-hour nightly naps between work and housework, I want to be able to enjoy SLEEP again. Please?

Here are things that do not work in this situation:

• Locking cat out of room. (He only then begins to scratch under the door and the floor beneath the door.)
• Placing higher threshold under the door to prevent gap that allows cat to scratch under it. (No idea WHAT he is scratching now, but I assure you he has found something and it is just as loud.)
• Being extra adamant about clipping his nails so that he has less to scratch loudly at the door with. (Any nail is plenty nail.)
• Leaving the door open. (This leads to a game of Ring Around the Rose-y, whereby he hops onto the bed at my feet, walks between us and then around my head and meows at the wall beside my face. Cool!)
• Shooting the cat. (I love him. How could you even suggest that? You're a disappointment of a friend.)
• [This bullet left 'empty' for effect.]
• Squirting with water bottle mixed with 1/10 vinegar or just plain water. (He's stupid. He still comes back.)
• Attempts at sedation by catnip. (It just doesn't work.)
• Feeding him earlier.
• Feeding him later.
• Not feeding him definitely will NOT work, so don't even think about it.
• Playing with him extra throughout the day so he sleeps better at night. (He doesn't care about the amount of affection he gets, he just wants to be awake all night and not alone.)

I am just plum out of ideas.

Apocolypse Eventually!

Well! Let me tell you. It's my sister's 23rd birthday today. Hope she's both having a blast and over the flu today.

Setting the clocks back has ruined us all. I think I've heard every single person I've talked to this week complain that they are tired, and right now I'd have to agree with them. Napping my 4 hour break between shifts away sounds pretty good right now. Except that there's only 2 hours left by now. At any rate... sleep!

I don't play baby games.

An empty Tim Hortons cup sits on my desk, to the left of my computer and to the Southeast of my phone. This is a cue for me to make a tea. I enjoy a good Earl Grey tea these days. I also enjoy 'paying back' my sleep debt.

One day Miklos is going to pay back his sleep debt too, but his case will be much more Van Winkle than mine (minus all the tragedy). When he awakes, there will be mugs and mugs of coffee all around him because I was prepared for him to wake up one day. The room will also be fully renovated to adapt to the era we then find ourselves in. I'd wake up to that! Sleep for 20 years, then new decor and a shitload of old undrinkable coffee to greet him as he rubs the sleep-grit out of his eyes. Hell, I'll even make some muffins, if the eggs in the fridge aren't then as expired as the ones that currently sit in it.

Electric Feel

Why do I not like sleep at night, but I love it so come morning? I'm tired as all shit, but I just won't go down. Why don't I think this much during the daytime? It certainly would help a lot of things.

This is a good'un (I didn't pay attention to the video, I'll be honest). It was track #11 on 'Economics is a Drag' Mix '08 as compiled by Ellie. That girl was fun.

We hardly knew thee

I am so tired. Bunny bums are funny. Dan, you have to agree with that. Sleepy-nights.

What's wrong with the way it used to be! Get to the bank, it was closed!

I like to stay out of socio-political discussions because most often I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, but the people who govern Myanmar are absolutely fucking sick. I'll be glad to be away from the news for a couple days, but sad because I know it's still going on. I can't believe how different things are from one place to another; how is this kind of shit even allowed to happen?

Woke up at 5:30 this morning. Went to bed about four (4) hours before. It doesn't hurt yet.

Going up north today, 'til Sunday. Algonquin tomorrow. Goal: Take one million pictures. Enjoy everything enjoyable. Ignore everything/everyone else. I hope I see a moose.