I still love our Simone, but I am really getting sick of this cat not letting me wake up and always getting underfoot and interfering with things I do. I often have to do things when she’s napping or put her in the other room. I'm also not only sick of having to tell her the same shit over and over (like to get off the counter and stop playing with my hair while I’m trying to work my abs), but now she's into things she was never into before like the fake trees and going on my dresser. As dumb as cats are, she should still know I don’t want her there. Or Maybe she does know better but is doing it to get attention. Whatever the reason, it’s getting old fast. 

And then there’s the whining. She will often sit and whine while I’m trying to watch a movie or something, and she is starting to make me feel like we have a little kid and not a little cat. 

Oh, and she MUST sit right smack dab in the middle of doorways. Not toward the wall and out of the way. 

Have I listed all her offenses? Well, I guess you can count having to yell at her while I’ve got the dictation running, and then having to delete everything it printed. 

I think a big factor in causing her to go from wild to even wilder is that she’s eating more and this is giving her more energy. I didn’t think she would grow anymore and that she would just end up being a small cat, but she has definitely grown. 

I tried moving the air cleaner from the living room to the laundry room to see if that helped the litter box smell. Of course, this may enable me to smell the rats more instead, so I will just have to pick the worst smell and put the air cleaner there. 

Last night I pulled my desk chair out in the middle of the room. Then holding her wand with the string dangling from it, I spun round and round while she chased it. She loved it. She just doesn’t get, though, that when I first wake up I am simply not ready to take my chair for a spin. 

Really hope she doesn’t end up staying up later and later as I sleep in later. She usually naps from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. yet she still has energy in her. 

She just jumped up on my desk. Okay, it’s laundry room/bedroom time. 

*sits back down in her chair* That was easy enough. If there’s one good thing about cats being so dumb it’s that you can trick them over and over again. If she were like a rat she would never have followed me into the laundry room after I just yelled at her because she would be smart enough to know that I was going to trap her in there. 

Did a fitness vid yesterday. Yup, I’ve gotten weaker. I could not only tell when I was doing the exercises but also by how sore I woke up today. I have been slacking off, not so much by skipping out of exercising, but by not exercising as long as I should.  As always, it won’t do me any good for weight loss, but I don't like being out of shape, fat or not. Time to get back to it. I'm not sick anymore so there's no excuse for laziness. Gonna do half-hour vids almost every day, and ride the bike when Tom’s doesn't have a problem, LOL, since I feel more comfortable riding with him and it’s more fun that way. The new air pump arrived yesterday and Tom blew his tires up. 

I don’t understand some women at times. Many claim they wish to be thin, yet then they turn around and complain that their boobs aren’t big enough or their hips aren’t wide enough or their butt doesn’t stick out far enough. So which is it then? Do they want to be thin or fat? 

My new UV nail light came yesterday and it works great. It cured my gel nails in two minutes. 

I crashed at 11 PM and woke up with a racy heart at 5:30. I was having a rather suspenseful dream at the time (something about people with guns being in the hotel we were staying at) and so I blame it on the “dream people” and not my thyroid, medication, or the menopause that just can’t set in fast enough. It stopped as soon as I got up to potty, and then I dozed on and off until 7 o’clock. 

I also got my set of six colored mascaras yesterday. I like the turquoise the best.