We got a surprise storm last night with more thunder than rain. It didn’t scare Simone. She’s not a shy cat that scares easily. If she was then she wouldn’t be such a pest. She was a little more civilized yesterday (for a cat). 

We might have found the perfect thing to keep her out of my hair when I want to do things without her in the way to distract me, and that’s one of those chaser toys. Tom got her Smarty Kat’s Hot Pursuit and she’s totally addicted to it. She played with it for hours this morning and is now taking a nap. 

I was surprised to learn cats sleep about 85% of the time because it seems this one’s not even at 20%. She still meows Tom awake and bites his ankles or feet. 

We also got a laser light to shine around the floors and walls for her to chase. I used to have one on a keychain a long time ago. 

We ordered another air cleaner to put in the laundry room, a beautiful new wind chime with colorful fairies, and some other things. 

They have these really cool cat exercise wheels, but I don’t want to spend $250 for something I don’t know that she’ll use. We have a big house. She gets enough exercise running up and down the place. 

Last night I dreamed I got a rather happy message from Nane telling me all about fun things she planned to do with her friends and family, and she jokingly ended with, “Want to come along?” 

In another dream, I was having surgery, though I don’t know what for. I was lying on a gurney when a nurse gave me a shot that made me very drowsy. 

Then Tom got angry with a woman he was talking to on the phone that had to do with helping us get into a summer place or something like that, and she was apparently not doing her job very well. 

In the last few dreams, I was riding a bike in some place that didn’t look like this park, telling somebody that I got a haircut, then I went walking through some kind of apartment building or hotel and stopped to talk to some woman in her doorway. Suddenly, I realized I was naked and I crossed my arms in front of my boobs, hoping she wouldn’t notice, LOL. Then her husband or boyfriend came up behind her and said something like, “Well, isn’t that a nice way to go walking around?”