Half Asleep

Awoke just after 4:00 a.m., my hand atop the soft fur of a sleeping kitty.  Took a minute or so to register that the slumbering cat was not the wee small short-hair I expected, but a medium long-hair with a semi-fox-like bushy tail.  Rennie was sleeping sweetly by my side, not kneading my chest at some ludicrously early morning hour or softly nipping me to drag me awake.  Other than the soft rise & fall of his breath under my hand, he wasn't moving a single lanquid muscle.

But I was just awake as if he had.

For about ten minutes, we lay there, side by side, 2-leg trying to fall back to sleep, feline effortlessly slumbering.  

Did I start massaging his fur or making some small movements?  Rennie slowly came awake, streeeetched his long beautiful body, gathered himself together & jumped to the floor. 

Leaving me there, awake, Sky sleeping on my upper legs.

As part of my brain tried to go back to sleep, another was off & running with any number of interesting wee small hour thoughts.  ~  How the opposite of democracy isn’t socialism or communism or facism or any ism, but is hierarchy. ~ Trying to remember if it’s tonight or tomorrow night that I’m slated to make gluten-free goodies for college exams (chocolate dipped & slathered strawberries, cups of naked strawberries with whipped cream, sectioned & deveined clementines).  ~ Pondering on the fact  both of my nieces live southeastern Australia & both of my nephews live in southeastern USA.

Decided to get up & share my weird awakeness with the internet, as it helps calm such thoughts to write them out – and will get me closer to a sane time for the cats’ breakfast feeding.

Might as well take this time for something practical, so here is a list of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People:

·         Habit 1: Be Proactive

·         Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

·         Habit 3: Put First Things First

·         Habit 4: Think Win-Win

·         Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood

·         Habit 6: Synergize

·         Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Pretty simple & straightforward, which I guess is their strength. 

But more on them when I’m actually fully awake, not checking to see if it’s close enough to 6:00 a.m. to justify dishing out breakfast.   (At 5:15 a.m., it’s not.)