Me-to-the-Ow

Last night was a rough one.  You couldn't have paid my brain to sleep.  So, I'm just chilling, watching the hours tick by, and I hear a little sound.  It's not loud, and it doesn't happen again for a while, so I forget it.  And then I hear it again...it's this really quiet rustling sound...and then it's gone.  This goes on for a while, and I'm seriously beginning to think that I'm finally losing it, when I realize where the sound is coming from.  So, I get up, turn on my light, and peer into a large box on my desk(why is there a large box on my desk? It's a long story, and I'm so not getting into it right now!).  And staring back at me are these huge yellow eyes, and that's about it! I start laughing, because I realize that my sisters cat, Max, has basically turned this box into his secret hide out, and then I turn off the lights, crawl back into bed, and try to sleep. 

But, of course, now my brain has something new to play with, so BOOM! We're off and running.  I start to realize that Max looked super content and safe in his little fort, and I decide I want a fort too.  So it's on...but of course, I can't just imagine what it would be like to have my own grown up fort, no! My brain decides that I need to contemplate what it would be like if I were also a cat, and had my own box fort. Seriously...what is wrong with me?? I mean, can you say crazy cat lady??  It's just not right! So, here's what I came up with...

• I'd want to be a black or grey kitty(so I could disappear in the shadows), with big ol' yellow or vivid green eyes
• I'd want my fort to be small, and snug, so other cats couldn't get in it with me
• I'd want to be able to see what the humans were doing, so I could plot against them, like you know all cats do
• I'd hide in the fort like Max did, and be super quiet, so at any time I could jump out and give other cats and people, for that matter, a mild heart attack
• If any other cat tried to encroach upon my territory, I'd whap them in the face with my paw!
• I'd make sure I had a secret pawshake all figured out, for when I wasn't in my fort, and I needed to call in backups to protect my territory
• There would most definitely be a theme song involved
• I would sleep in it every night, and hide there during thunderstorms
• I'd probably want to decorate it at some point
• I would pretend I was the Cheshire cat from "Alice in Wonderland" and only make my eyes visible, because I know that would freak people out

And that, my friends, is what keeps me up at nightt...