manic midnight

i made the (not so) smart decision to take a three hour nap today. now it is 12:00 AM and dan is snoring and i am like ZING. ready to jog ten km's, solve world hunger and reorganize the sock drawer. this is what i like to call a manic midnight. anyways, today i bought an emery cat board for the furry kids. you've all seen them on tv. i am pretty sure in the infomercials they claim they are 'infused' with catnip. i guess infused now means providing you with a ziploc bag of catnip to sprinkle onto the surface of the board. the cats were wary, but benny got into it, which made me happy. i really hate footing the $20 nail trim bill at the vet's. so maybe this will cut down on cat manicure costs. bagheera wanted to stand on it and look at the stupid feather dangly thing, but didn't scratch her claws. dan forced bug to stand on it and now he is terrified of it and gives it cut eye from across the room. you can't make that cat do anything without scarring him for life. he used to be terrified of the litter box because i would put him into it when he didn't want to go in. now i have a new litter box which he loves hopping into because it doesn't have the negative vibes of the old one that i forced on him. if i was a cat i would be a lot like bug i think. all brain damaged and adorable. he has manic midnights too. so the conclusion is that 1-3 of my cats like the emery board. i would say that's a success, considering there was a good chance none of them would go for it.

we also bought some of that billy may's mighty putty stuff. is that the type of people we have become? suckers for crap like the slapchop and the snuggie? uggh, i can't think about this too much.

alright, that's all for now. time to turn off the light and lay here with my eyes wide open in the dark while my cats smother me.