Till I have recovered my limbs ....

[whatho]

My parents are away, and the cats seem to have been trained to wake the household for food and ablutions at 6am. I don't think it's fair to train cats to go off at six and then leave them in the care of people who aren't accustomed to getting up until some time that really isn't six. Every time they're left in our care, my brother and I painstakingly reset their body clocks so they don't bother us till seven at the earliest, and sometimes not until eightish. We might try that again. The alternative is my resetting my own body clock so I go to bed around 11pm and get up at 6am rather than sleeping from 12.30am till 7.30am and sneakily beyond as is my current wont. But what do you do if you get up at 6am anyway? It's dark and freezing and nothing's open. I suppose I could write, but I'd feel all cold and hollow and half asleep, surely, even if I had gone to bed ninety minutes early. I suppose this attitude is why I shall never really be much in the way of a writer.

Also I'm discovering that the house is quite inhospitable of a morning when my mother hasn't been inhabiting it wakefully for an hour or so before I rise. My brother was up before me, but he hadn't turned the fire on, which is why the cats came to wake me a second time in order to complain about the service. And the heating hasn't come on. I don't know what time it's supposed to come on, but it hasn't. The dial suggests it's meant to kick in at six, rather like the cats, but also that it currently thinks it's about 5.30am. Which it isn't. So I don't know what to do about that. My father 'fixed' the heating some time ago. It's never been the same since.

I'm going to eat crumpets, and possibly find a duvet to wear. Or I'll go outside and come back in again. Then things will seem practically toasty.

Comments

[saltlemonnlime.livejournal.com]

Sam, pintshas put up (http://pints.livejournal.com/652659.html) the some of the sweeny todd soundtrack if you'd like to listen. That is if you don't want to go and see it.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thank you, yes. I think it quite unlikely that I'm going to go and see it, to be honest, but there are plenty of bits of it I do want to see, or at least hear.

[saltlemonnlime.livejournal.com]

I was quite disappointed with some of the singing, I really like those bits in musicals where it takes off and they sing REALLY LOUDLY. Loud is better. Lots of people being loud on different notes is the best. And this singing sounded quite weak. Cohen sounded quite good I thought.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

That's a shame. I did just listen to Pretty Women, which melodically seemed to be a bit of a confusing mess but it had Alan Rickman making noises and really that's all I ask of a thing. I find it quite surreal hearing Alan Rickman singing. I don't know why. Also Johnny Depp was better than I thought he would be.

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

I have succesfully trained my cats (By the tried and trusted method of ignoring them) to understand that that they will not get fed until I want to get up, no matter if that is 6am or noon.
Also, on rare occassions I get up at 6am (ie if cat medication is required) then I very hastily return to my bed as soon as the task is completed.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, if you don't get up when they start bellowing, they wee inside the house. It's quite an incentive. But we have managed to get them back to civilised hours before by ignoring them until they sound properly desperate.

[lolabobs.livejournal.com]

Ah.. that is quite a powerful incentive. I have a catflap *and* a litter tray. I would not like indoor weeage.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

The catflap's locked at night and they seem to consider it beneath their dignity to use the litter tray. Though seemingly not to use the bathroom mat. I don't entirely understand that, but they seem to think they're right.