h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was offline for 17 hours!!!
Went to bed at 4pm yesterday and got up at 9am today
It has taken me 3 hours to read my posts.

I only have a cold but because of my meds which affect my immunity, i have been absolutley floored by it.

The poor cats were starving this morning! They had some food to last a while when i went to bed but i didnt expect to sleep so long. Spiggy was trying to dig my eyes open to wake me up. I wasnt pleased but i cant blame him really!

awww... you need alarm clock

Unfortunately alarm clocks have a habbit of flying through the air the minute they start to go off - it has become an automatic response by me

I used to have a slightly different problem - I turned mine off without realising I was doing it - therefore remaining asleep. I found the easiest solution was to move the alarm clock to the other side of the room. It seemed to work for me.

Of course it always assumes you have a working one to place on the other side of the room.

Hope it was a good sleep anyway.

Hath
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then you must learn cat to tell time so he can pull a rope where bucket of water will wake you!

I have actually been known to throw the cat (well push really) halfway across the room in a semi awake state if he tries to wak me up too early. I think he might like the idea of cold water as a revenge!

Thanks Hath, it was a bit of stop and start sleep as my back is bad again and everytime i roll over i have to sit up and manouvre myself rather than just roll, although i can do that in my sleep usually too!

My body is falling apart!

All i wanted really when i woke up was a cup of tea and i had no-one to make it for me All i got was the cat dribbling on me I think this is his newest ploy to get me up

Cat training does sound a viable option

may be time on pot with very nice smelling


sees Sir Mort floating like Casper, the friendly ghost to her

Poor you! It sounds like a horible cold.
If you managed to sleep for that long you must have really needed to. Whenever I get ill I sleep for ridiculous lengths of time, I suppose it helps your body get better, or rather prevents you from doing too much and interfearing with the getting better. So probably a good thing, though I'm sure the cats wouldn't agree.

Can't you get alarm clocks that are supposed to fly across the room, they're shaped like footballs I think... mind you, you'd probably just go back to sleep after hitting them I suppose.
Oberon2001

I always put my alarm clock across the room from my bed, then I HAVE to get up to stop the infernal noise.

Then again, my engineer friend Barry made an alarm clock that walks away while ringing (or yelling, as his evil genius mind decided)... but his roommate stomped it. Poor little guy.

I sympathize with you, Mort! Do try and get better!

leaves lemsip and tissues and a oedipus goes frantic if we don't get up..I sometimes get up,feed them,open the window so they can go out and in and out again(you know what i mean) and then go back to bed with a ...they then come and join me and have a fight with the bedclothes..sigh...

I know exactly what you mean!

Spiggy is now curled up sleeping next to me, oh the temptation to wake him up...

I have the opposite problem with Pud. She's fine about us not getting up (mostly) but if we don't go to bed when she thinks its bed time she gets decidedly huffy.

ooh! more stories. I them.

Spiggy does tend to get a bit annoyed if i stay up all night. Every so often he will wake up and look at me as if to say 'turn that light off, i am trying to sleep'

Of course he could go in the other room, but then he thinks he may miss out on something!!

Cats are such funny creatures.

mmmm....

the up stairs moved
...I missed that fight he had with neighbour . the up stairs always won and made the fly by my window.


the always landed on his feet!

I can't wait to see my kitty again... if you don't say hello to him when he sez it to you, he gets all indignant.

speaking of alarm clocks,didn`t Monty Python have alarm clocks w/wings? That would be wickedly effective.Supposedly light wakes one up,so a self-timered light alarm would just turn itself on & get progressively brighter-not louder! N