Bob looks just like my now-in-heaven kitty, Toni, even though she was a girl. (duh) No more kitties at our house (lots of allergies) so thanks for giving me a kitty fix on a regular basis!

I have weird Manx cats so enjoy reading about yours.
As for naps, they're great!

I don't care what anyone says, it should NOT take me 45 minutes to get from Pico & La Brea to Century City (about 2 miles).

I *HATE* time-change time!!!

You should my cat when there is a whiff of Vick's Vapo-Rub or Icy Hot in the air. It's like 20 times more potent to her than catnip. I went to bed with an Icy Hot patch on my back the other night and woke up at 5:30 to a not-so-very-playful cat biting at my back and doing somersaults. Weirdo kitty.

I swear, I am doing the Time Warp. I am just so damn confused.

Also, BEWARE THE NAP. It soon will become the sleep-all-day-Saturday-and-never-expect-me-up-before-4pm-for-ANY-reason!!!

(ask me how I know...)

I swear, I am doing the Time Warp. I am just so damn confused.

Monkey -- since I couldn't sleep at all last night thanks in part to the napping, I'm not sure it will be a regular thing. Maybe once every five years LOL.

LOVE the nap! Although I find it's best if you nap for only 15-20 minutes. Any more than that and you get all logey and disoriented and spend the rest of the day wondering why some fool put a carpet on the wall.*

*sneaky Monty Python reference

I love naps. I give into them often and wish there was a siesta custom in this country.

My cat loves to take naps with me and will crawl out from under the bed, behind the chair, wherever she is napping and join me.

I'll have to try the lint roller on her. Interesting idea.

Yes, Sunday afternoon naps kill any hope of going to sleep at a reasonable time on Sunday night and should only be employed in extreme cases of sleep deprivation, such as staying out all night. It used to take me half the week to get back on a somewhat normal sleep schedule. and then I'd start the cycle all over again.

i'm a gangsta napper!

my hubby has a crush on you. he thinks your voice is sexy too, in a totally non-stalker sort of way. maybe it is a good thing we didnt make it to nashville ;) kitties are too precious. Happy November!

Laurie! Does Comfort Zone keep the kitties from scratching the furniture? I need a miracle cure for that - without having to get her declawed!!

I was reading this thinking "Oh, if I took a nap I would never get to sleep that night!" ... maybe I jinxed you. Sorry!

And I ALWAYS thought you were kidding about lint-rollering the cats!! Man, my cat would destroy the lint-roller AND the arm holding it!

Looks like a time-saver, though ....

Finished my Halloween Beanie - fun pattern - thanks.

My kitty likes to be vaccuumed. He will actually rub against the vaccuum when it's out... crazy cat!

As for Daylight Savings time in LA, I feel your pain up here in SF, though traffic was pretty nice coming into SF, I'm a bit worried about going home...

Many thanks for the Soba pic (what a majestic derrier) and the vid of Frankie and pic of Bob! Sooo cute! Wish I could have a multiple kitty household!

What is it with cats and laundry? I dry mine outside, so there's no warm-from-the-dryer factor, and still they like to camp on it.

A nap is indeed a marvelous thing. Yesterday I was suffering from not enough sleep, but instead of napping I hauled my butt into the city to sew squares (I contributed some squares too) into blankets for a homeless shelter. When I came home I was ready for an early bedtime, and I got to feel like I was sleeping way in this morning.

I have a really hard time between Halloween and Groundhog Day. Not nearly enough light.

I love seeing your cats and reading about their cuteness. Just over a week ago, we adopted a 9-year-old male cat named Zeus. (Our almost 18-year-old Misty died in August, and we were down to one cat, 12-year-old Muffin.) Speaking of cat hair, I foolishly bought burgundy flannel sheets on sale a few weeks ago for our Cal King bed. Bad idea. They became covered with white and orange cat hair within a day. And now Muffin insists on sleeping on my pillow with me. Let's just say if I was allergic, I would be dead by now. But I hear you on that "spoilt rotten" thing...we are softies when it comes to the kitties. They rule the household and we are only their servants.

When I was grownig up, our beagle loved to crawl under the pile of dirty laundry. I guess because it smelled like us. My cats, being classier, have always preferred the clean laundry. I just put up with the furry sheets.

Hmmm....naps! One of my favorite things in the world. I was sooo sad when both my girls grew out of naps. No more excuses. I had to fess up. Okay, now it is Momma needs a nap, you girls keep out of trouble.

Laurie, do enjoy a nap once in a while. It is like a tonic.

Naps are wonderful!! When I was pregnant with my first child, I used to go into the breakroom at work for my lunch hour and sleep sitting up for exactly one hour. I always woke up right on time even though I have no idea why!! My coworkers were sweet enough to keep noisy people out of the room for my well-needed nap every day!!

Your kitties are adorable, just like you!!

How's the contest going?? How many entries for the sweater photos did you get??

Nobody can resist the power of the kitty toe! I love it when they reach out a paw just so they can touch you a little tiny bit, even if they aren't looking at you when they do it.

I was just checking what authors were going to at the book fair in Miami and I saw that Kristin Gore is going to be there for her new book! Maybe Daddy Gore will be there as well!! It's your chance!! I'm so jealous!!!!

Do you think he'll be wearing his Nobel Prize around his neck??

My cats have suddenly decided that a nap in my underwear is not only appropriate, but necessary. Kinda freaky when you go to grab a new pair pre-shower and find them warm and a little fuzzy.

I used to laugh at your stories of Bob Fear, but I started a job requiring me to be gone four days a week and my Rommmates cat forgets who I am in Four Days. By Sunday, he knows who I am again (strange lady who brings canned cat food). Next Friday, we start all over again. Oi.

My cat gets pretty excited about warm laundry and lint rollers too. At least the lint roller is somewhat productive. The laudry warming, not so much.

Naps = impending middle age. Beware!!!

(I did the same thing, both last Sunday and this Sunday. I *used* to nap just during halftime, but now when I wake up, the game is practically over.)

Kathy, my beagle loves to bury herself under the dirty laundry too. Must be a beagle thing. The cats prefer the clean laundry, they're much classier.

Thanks for showing off those kitties today Laurie. Are you ever going to come up to the Sacramento area?

Dogs have owners. Cats have STAFF!

Ah, naps. Not just for kids and cats. Sometimes the thing we forget to add to the "stuff to do before I start that" list is rest. Surrounded by warm furry bodies is the best kind of nap too.

Frankie is awesome. She reminds me of my kitty who also can't meow. She growls, purrs and sometimes squeaks.

Naps! I used to love naps! Until, like you Laurie, I somehow started having so much to do that lying down and relaxing became a tough task. (I have to multi-task even when I'm doing something fun. Like knitting, catching up on recorded episodes, and letting my toenail polish dry, all at once. While the laundry is in the dryer.) Now, it's so nice to get a little nap in, but it's so hard to let myself take a nap without feeling guilty.

So kudos to you for enjoying a cat cuddling filled nap!

Heh, I have a kitty who loves the lint roller too. Not only does she like to be lint rolled, she'll *lick* the darn thing if you let her. Weirdo.

Liza {who's not so fond of the whole Daylight Saving thing and neither are the cats}

I used to be a major 'gangster napper', kids and sleep depravation does that to you.

I guess it is true that as you get older you don't need as much sleep.

I just love it when Perry P puts her little head on my hand when we drop off to sleep at night. Yep, she gets called to bed every night when I get settled in - runs over the stairs and hops up to cuddle :-)

Thanks for the great kitty photos and video! Laurie - I just love your voice! Your little combo accent is so cute!

p.s. who won the cat sweater contest??

Oh, I'm sorry it messed up your sleep, but isn't napping with the furries the best? I don't usually nap either, but when I was sick the last time, the cats followed me from bed to couch and back to bed. It was very comforting.

love the late-night-Bob...especially those cute little pink paw pads. Love them!

If I nap I don't sleep at night either--so I try very hard to avoid daytime sleeping. I had to dash home at lunch time--so just stopping in to say "hello". Did you ever get to have any home fried okra in your travels?? Have a great rest of the day!!!

maybe the lint roller is like having a realy big cat tongue groom her?

Awwww to the part about Bob stretching out his paws, touch is so good for all creatures.

I absolutely love Dinah's in Culver City. I used to go there anytime I was in the L.A. area with my mom.

My cats are laundry crazy as well. My cat Persephone looks just like your cat Soba, so it was a familiar looking picture! Cute post.

I am a champion napper. Give me a warm space and relative quiet. Nap. Passenger in a car. Nap. Waiting for an appointment. Nap. 20 minutes before I have to leave for somewhere. Nap.

Love me some nappage.

I lived in Mexico for 2+ years and siestas became a habit. My weekend naps now are very important to me, especially when I can talk My Beloved into lying down beside me. Naps are delicious!

I can sleep best of all in a moving car -- not while I am driving of course, but if I am a passenger, watch out.

I'm not much of a napper either. My boyfriend, total napper. He works four ten-hour days, and the other three lays down for a half hour nap. It always makes it hard for me to sleep Sunday night, if I give in to the nap in the afternoon. It is relaxing, though!

i dread the 405 today.

i have a couple of specially designated cat-fur attractant decoy towels, which i put over my laundry basket, my pillows, and my tablecloth. and still, somehow, cat hair sneaks in. :P

Hello? AL GORE was on the Today Show TODAY and you make no mention of it? I know it cannot have aired off your radar. In case you missed it, NBC has put video clips on their website. Go. Now.

god how i love your blog! thanks, this post was especially yummy. also, we have a theory here at my house (i can't take credit for it, it actually came from some old friends of ours) called the "thing on a thing" theory. especially true on our bed, but true on any surface, if there's another thing on top of it, it becomes much much much more attractive to cats. like, the magnetic power of laundry or any article of clothing or magazine on the bed...that is where our cats must nap. weird, but proven true on a daily basis.

Soba from behind looks like Slobodan Milosevic from the front. I guess those dictators all go to the same hairdresser.

You are so lucky! Pets often react when their human comes back from a leave. Some people get poo in their shoes but your fabulous cats give you a nap. Awesome!

I have to use a lint roller all the time (and usually I just end up giving up with the furniture and once a week hitting the chairs with the Dyson). One day I was particularly tired of lint rolling everything so I took the lint roller to my own special kitty, Katrinka. She LOVED it. Thought it was the best thing since her kitty crack sack (cat nip). Her sister, Katrina, did NOT appreciate me attacking her with the sticky moving thing. Oh well.

The girls also make me nap sometimes. I'll lay down for just a second and then I have cats on me and I can't move 'cause they're so cute curled up asleep and then next thing I know it's 2 hours later. I blame the cats. :)

Taking naps is definitely an important part of an overall slow-down-and-enjoy-today life improvement plan. And every nap you take with a kitty curled up nearby has the effect of rubbing out some of those little black spots in your soul with a Mr Clean magic eraser. I really believe this.

Do you have a dryer on the premises, or do you have to go out to do your laundry? If you have a dryer, you could take all the furry stuff and just run it all through the dryer again. Just the thought of having to lint-roller every top layer of every load of laundry makes me cringe.

Love your kitty pics.

My tuxedo cat loves to be lint rollered, too!

And brushed, and bathed, and generally pampered. He's really lost his edge, you know?

Talk about spoiled!

Great video! It was like watching (and listening) to me talk about my cats. :)

That lint rolling is brilliant! Gets the fur before the fur gets you. I might have to take that up. Right now, my kitty CJ is very much into the blowdrying. I do not know why. She is over 17 years old and suddenly getting blowdried is Da Bomb!

I watched your video and I swear to you, you sound just like my sister-in-law. If I didn't know any better, I would have said she was taping you lint rolling your cat.

Which, I've done to my cat and she hates it. Looks at me like I've just grown a second head.

Normally I don't post, but the Comfort Zone thing brought me out of lurk mode. :) I haven't used it on my cats *yet*, but used it on my scaredy dog at our last show and it was a complete miracle. She really calmed down and did a great job. Weird! I found a great online deal for it, too, but don't know if I'm s'posed to post about that sort of thing...you know, advertising and all.

My cats think the laundry bins are better without the clothes in them. We've got these round bucket things with rope handles on either side. One of our cats, Gomez, likes to get in and then have us pick the bin up by both handles and swing it back and forth. He also likes it when he gets in and we spin it round and round on the floor. He's an odd one...did I mention that? :)

With five cats, two of them neurotic urinators, the Comfort Zone diffuser is a MUST! Since we plugged one in each room there is no - more - inappropriate - pizzing.

If you've been inappropriately pizzed, you can understand how important it is.

Love that Sobakawa butt, BTW.

Naps are great! My cats love it when I take a nap, even though I don't do it very often, and they always join me.

Laundry and cats must be a universal thing. I've never used a lint roller on the cats, but I carry an extra one in my briefcase (lint roller, not cat!). I've been at work before, looked down, and realized I brushed up against too many cats before I left the house!

Thanks for the video...it was great to see Frankie winding back/forth for her treat. My dog likes the back massager, he trots over and waits his turn with happy face & wig-wag body. I'm not a good napper, wake up feeling groggy and then I get a second wind and can't sleep. Bob has the cutest footies...kiss them little footies!!

One of our cats is like that about the lint roller. You can't use it on yourself without him begging ... BEGGING ... to be lint rollered. I'm glad he's not the only crazy lint-roller-loving kitty.

Ok I have a dog raised by cats that likes to be lint rollered! The cats for the most part like to be brushed. Not the dog. My Teemu looks just like Soba from the back and she can always be found in the clean sheet pile...sometimes the lag between pile and folded can be awhile :(

Ahhhhh, catnap in the sunny spot. I was sucked onto the bed yesterday with my kits, Bob and Carl. We slept for 2 hours also. I curled up with the dustcloth still in my hand.

bob toes.

Naps are the best thing ever. How did you get to be thirtysomething and not learn to appreciate the nap? Especially with felines (that don't snore, prefurrably).
I have a cat that used to like to be vaccumed. Not so much anymore, but for years we amused friends and family with this trick.

I think if you see a cat laying on a bed, you have this urge to lay down beside them, maybe just to pet their warmness and then they use the mind-meld on you and before you know it, you've been out for at least 15-20 minutes. And if you have more than one cat, when you wake up, they are at different angles around you. THEE best comforter known to man.

Love the nap...........hate waking up discomBOBulated and wondering "what time is it? am I late for something? why is it light outside at 3 in the morning OH WAIT! it's 3 in the afternoon!"

catnaps..........not just for kitties anymore.

My husband and I speak of "Nap" as something of a benevolent household spirit. For example, if it's Sunday afternoon and I'm starting to feel sleepy I'll say that I think Nap is coming to get me pretty soon. Nap can be forceful too--she came for me yesterday and the dog got in her way so she took us both down. We both conked out for a good hour and a half.
Nap always knows when you need her. She is very wise.

Naps are indeed gifts from above. AND your cats are adorable. AND I loved hearing your accent on the video, yea!

Ah! Sleeping outside of bedtime. Gotta love that!
Me? I like a nap before bedtime and can sometimes have an hour or two of sleep before going upstairs and managing the full eight hours. Oh sorry! Is that a bad thing to mention that?! :-)

Awwww! hee hee! Love the kitty pics and captions! I love my Teddy's pink toes, too. :)

I never used to take naps and if I did, I was groggy and felt yucky after. The older I get, though, the more I take them and the better I feel when I wake up but I have to take them before 4 pm and not for more than an hour.

I was recently thinking that I was going to try and find your post on that bath/shower cream soap that you like so I could order it myself and here you posted the link for the comfort thingy which led to your list! Thank you!

What kind of inspiration did you get up for? And did it work?

Your cats seem to be therapeutic.

Hi Laurie, I have sent a couple e-mails, but you probably never get down to the bottom. I swear people must have their fingers on the button ready to go as soon as you stop typing, in order to get their comments in first. ANYWAY, I was wondering if you are coming to Orange County at all? I have a Barnes & Noble by me and I would love to see you there. I live in Tustin. Let me know if you get a minute. Thanks! Mary Jo

One of my favorite things is when I'm sitting on the couch watching TV, and my Blue cat (Sam) lies behind me and falls asleep. Last night, he rested his head on top of mine. I almost cry, it's so sweet. I love listening to him breathing while he sleeps. So I get the toe thing. Totally get it.

One of our cats crawled up on top of a 2 foot high pile of polar fleece material that was hardly wider than she was and had a good nap there. We don't know how she managed it cos it was on Mum's old wobbly bed.... One of our current cats goes ballistic for the slicker brush. She *loves* it like Frankie likes being lint-rollered. She does that funny trilling purry meow and practically starts drooling.
Good on you for letting go of all those things that don't matter!

Eee! Kitty butt. Kitty butt is why we put a blanket (which is probably completely covered with fur) over the clean laundry. To keep all the work clothes looking like they are for work.

I think our cats were maybe separated at birth, Laurie. Laundry is like a siren's song around here (clean AND dirty). Also, we have been using Feliway for a little over a month now and for the first time in years our two sister cats can stand to be in the same room with each other! It is amazing... and, so far, no icky spraying lately.

Will have to try the lint roller now... or do you maybe think cat hairs are like carma and cats are supposed to "send it out to the universe?"

Yummmmm...Dinah's. Their chicken and waffles are better than Roscoe's, but not quite as good as Pann's Coffee Shop on La Tijera and La Cienega. Dinah's is famous for their huge, puffed up Apple Danish Pancake. Did you have that?

Do any of the kitties still have their claws? Wonder if the diffuser really helps with scratching like it claims.

Oh, and BTW, I think you have a twin. I had to do a double take on Saturday when we were returning our rental car to Alamo in Phoenix. I knew you were on tour but wasn't sure where and I would have sworn that was you. After looking at the schedule I see it was impossible. That is, unless, you've figured out how to be in two places at once...and if so...must share now!

Naps require practice to get it right. When I was younger (in college) an afternoon nap before band rehearsal meant I could refresh AND stay up into the wee hours "doing homework."

Nowadays, a nap is sometimes required to just make it to the late news.

My two dalmations get very excited when I get the vacuum out as they love to be vacuumed. They used to run from the thing, but now I have to vacuum them before I even start doing the floor so that they will leave me alone.

I heart Bob.

Both my cats liked being lint rollered too! Yay, I'm not the only one with weird-o cats!

That video of Frankie is SO CUTE! My boy cat gets like that for the brush, but we haven't tried a lint roller yet. Hmmmm. I really was hoping, though, to hear Frankie's whining on there- very intriguing! I always take my laundry from the dryer to the bed, and it's pretty much guaranteed that at least one of my sweeties will hop into the pile. If you'd like to 'meet' my warm-laundry-seeking missiles, please click below- I just posted their photo the other day.

I can't believe how much Soba looks like Harley, at least from the back. Look! http://www.flickr.com/photos/96531942@N00/709855071/
(although Harley hasn't discovered the joy of of laundry yet).

Living paraelle lives. I swear it. Except I've never successfully lint rollered my cats. That's not for lack of trying though. Katie also doesn't meow, she sort of does these little squeaks and hisses. She only meows when she's sad.

I always end up napping when my kittons hold my hands with their little feet. It's the sweetest thing.

OMG! I can't spell parallel. damnit.

Oh my cat looooovveessss to be lint rollered! It makes her purr and I wonder if it's like getting one of those handheld roller massage tools run up and down your back?

I've never tried the Kitty Prozac before but I think maybe it's time. The balcony that runs the length of the front of my apartment will have to be re-built this year and I figure she will either be entertained by the noise and people or completely terrified. In the absence of red wine, a little Prozac could certainly help me cope with construction noise so it might help her!

I just had to comment and say I loved your video.
My kitties are weirdos, too. But then...so am I. So, I suppose it makes sense.

Also, I have picked up the habit of covering the clean laundry with a towel so that it stays (mostly) clean, and the cats are still happy.

If I dare lay an article of clothing on the bed, the cat will find that the most attractive spot in the house...she prefers clean warm laundry and will follow us up from the laundry room to the bedroom (where one of us will dump out the laundry for a shared folding session) and make a bee-line for the freshly laundered clothing. She's not wild about the lint remover, but hold up her kitty brush and she's instant fur socks, rubbing around the ankles. They're odd little furballs, but entertaining, no?

Ok, the lint-roller thing is not as unusual as one might think. This time when I cat-sat for my sister, she didn't bother leaving a brush; she left me a lint roller. Mia would get annoyed with the brush after a bit and bite it, but never will she bite the roller!

My cat--don't go near her with either the brush or the lint-roller or anything else. She is convinced nothing works better than her tongue, or herself or me.

Gotta love the kitties and their personalities!

Ok, the lint-roller thing is not as unusual as one might think. This time when I cat-sat for my sister, she didn't bother leaving a brush; she left me a lint roller. Mia would get annoyed with the brush after a bit and bite it, but never will she bite the roller!

My cat--don't go near her with either the brush or the lint-roller or anything else. She is convinced nothing works better than her tongue, for herself or me.

Gotta love the kitties and their personalities!

Naps are divine, but I'm a Taurus and have no difficulty whatsoever in being self-indulgent and indolent! :)

I have a magnet at my desk at work that says, "I used to run with the wolves -- Now I nap with the cats." Too true...

Oh, and I needed that lint roller video. I'm having a pain/insomnia night and that brought me a smile. That and Bob looking stunned. I heart Bob.

My black cat, Boobs, loves the lint roller. AND the dustbuster. AND the vibrator. AND being beaten with the bamboo back scratcher. And he loves it when I brush him. If I had a video camera people would not believe it.

If he was human I bet he'd be into S&M.

Naps. Gawd, I love naps. And if a cat comes along... ah... sweet dreams from the purrs...
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I felt all sleepy reading this post... Not good at 10am!

I love naps. That feeling when you know you are actually drifting off, and you don't care! But yes, there is always that problem of then being awake til 3am. I can never do just 20 minute naps. Two hours or nothing.

Your cats make me miss having cats! I used to have two ... one would sleep next to my pillow and the other on my feet.

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Love the video! and I agree about napping - I'm not good at it, so it's SUCH a nice treat when it happens!

Of COURSE your cat loves to be lint rollered: it feels like a cat tongue, don't cha know. VBG!
Good Meowmy!

1. My X is like LA -- predictably crazy.
2. My cat loves getting his nails cut.
3. LOOOOOVE a nap --- of any length. Loooove.

Hehehe...lint-rollering a cat.

I oughta try that sometime. I have an Angora/Calico mix and well, she sheds...a LOT.

Thanks for the idea.

I'm a grrrl that loves a nap. This time of year, I nap almost every day. I have bouts of insomnia from time to time but I can always fall asleep on the sofa. I'm half Italian, I figure a siesta is in my blood.

I know you get a bazilliontrallion emails but I am hoping you have time to dash me off an answer.
Miami Book fair......what day and what time will you grace us with your presence? Also.....any LYS while in South Florida?
CANNOTWAITTOSEEYOU!!!!!
(side note, I am totally not a stalker, just love the catshit out of you and your writing, ok now I sound like a stalker)

Bob is adorable--and naps with cats are the best thing ever. (At least until they curl up on your feet and you realize 2 cats = 25 lbs of dead weight and you can't feel your toes.)

My kitty, who's gone now, :( used to wait at the front door when I got home from work, follow me around until I sat down on the floor to pet her and then crawl up on me, nudging toward my face until I lay down and she could sit on my chest. I would lay there for about 1 minute before I would be sound asleep. I would sleep that way for an hour, with her purring on my chest.

It was so nice that even the floor felt comfy.

I follow the Universal Laws of Naps, and they have never let me down

1. Never nap longer than an hour
2. Never nap after 3:00 pm
3. Don't shower and get your hair all nice and then nap
4. Do not nap with Great Dane on twin bed (Great Dane = small deer)

I thought Denver was the only place where people forgot how to drive the Monday after Daylight Savings Time ends. It's universal, stupidity is.

So I bet after lint rolling, that darn cat still has tons of hair to shed all over the house!

I love naps. Hubby doesn't understand why, but I take them regularly on weekends. I especially love to nap with the puppy curled up at my feet!

Isn't comfort zone the greatest??!! I'd love if it was less expensive, but my cats are soo much better when we've got it in the house. One of my cats tends to get quite depressed if there's no comfort zone. It just brings peace to the household. What a great invention.

I heard that a wet surgical glove will remove cat hair from clothes. It worked so well, I tried it on the cats as they were going through their springtime shedding. Wow! They loved it and the hair moved from them to the gloves almost like magic. Lint rollers, gloves, it must feel good to shed so efficiently!

The lint-roller-ing video is awesome, and adorable, and funny.

Ditto the Daylight Savings Time = not knowing how to drive out here near D.C.

And naps are indeed wonderful things. I've fought the naps before, but perhaps because I'm trying to give up my Free-Floating Guilt Cpmplex, now I just wallow in my Napitude. It is FABULOUS!

Laurie,
Keep some old towels nearby and when you take out the newly-washed & dried laundry just pop a clean "old" towel on top. Then both of you will be happy. Just be sure to wash all the old towels together and use a dryer sheet to help them get rid of hair.

Marilyn (or call me Heloise)

In my house we call them "kitty comas." As in, I'm sorry that I'm late but I was caught in a kitty coma. You can't resist. When my ex- and I were together, we had 5 cats. When all five cats were on the bed, purring and content, well it's better than valium.

Commenting first, READING comments later. I have a Feliway diffuser too, and when it starts getting low I can always tell: Lilliane ramps up her paschkudnik behavior and Evangeline's vocabulary drops below the level of a Halifax sailor. I buy the durn refills in FOUR-packs now. Ain't it great? Also - LOVE the kitty pictures too! If my laptop ever explodes it'll be because it's stuffed with kitty pictures, wotthehell. And - I had a snotnosed infant punk of 30 inform me she'd never heard of PETE SEEGER! Now c'mon, he's not even dead. Kids today! Can't trust a soul under 30, I'm tellin' ya.

Naps... mmmm.... Good idea.

Okay the other ruth, I'll bite.

How do you know the kitty likes the vibrator? Please post videos to youtube. lol.

Cats certainly have perfected the art of a well-timed nap with the after breakfast nap, the before lunch nap, the mid afternoon nap, etc. ~

One of our cat Sebastian's funnier nap situations occurred one evening when I was putting my son down for the night. Looking past me, my young son said matter of factly, "There's a cat in my armoire." I turned and sure enough, through the slightly opened doors, I could see Sebastian curled up on the middle shelf upon my son's supposedly clean clothes.