Midnight

January 9, 2012

This is Midnight.  She is 14 years old and looks quite serious in this picture.  Some days she is a very lethargic kitty who sleeps for hours on end.  Other times she is very playful.  Recently, some of her old toys that were lost (under furniture) were unearthed and she went crazy - she was running, leaping, throwing the toys in the air and chasing them - it was hysterical.  After playing for a few minutes, she would look around as if to say, "Did anyone see that?  Good, I'll just pretend it never happened and they'll never know!" and wander off to take a nap.  A couple of hours later, she repeated the whole process.
Midi has never really been a crawl-into-your-lap kind of cat.  Instead, she likes to sit on the top of the couch behind our heads and swish her tail so it hits whoever is sitting there or under the table in front of the couch.  Her favorite places, though, have to do with her routine.  In the morning when we get up, Midi follows Wayne to the kitchen, waits impatiently for him to turn the coffee pot on, and then starts fussing at him (it's a cross between a bark and a "mmmyat") until he follows her in to the laundry room to inspect her food and water.  She wants to make sure she gets more food put in her bowl because she only likes the big pieces and not the broken ones and crumbs.  If he tells her she has enough food she grumbles.  She then sits under the table while he reads the paper, hitting him with her tail so he knows she's there.  When Wayne gets home in the evening, Midnight greets him at the door (with me, she just raises up her head to look at me from wherever she's napping!) and waits rather impatiently while we cook and eat dinner so we can settle in for the evening.  She then jumps up on the arm of the recliner to sit with Wayne for the evening!  If he puts a magazine or paper on the arm, she complains until  he moves it!  When it's time for bed, she waits until the lights have been out for 15 minutes or so and then jumps up on the bed and curls up next to me.  She never sits next to me on the couch, and never gets up next to Wayne on the bed.  Funny cat.  She is most definitely a creature of habit and gets rattled when the routine is changed.   She's a sweetheart.