Why I'm so sleepy today.

4:09 AM: Something wakes me up. What is it? Ahh. My cat gives a whole new meaning to "foot-in-mouth" as he sits on my sternum. As in, his foot in my mouth. ARGH!

4:15 AM: I'm drifting off to sleep again - until Jesper sticks his wet nose into my ear with all the force his little fuzzy body can muster (quite a lot) and snurfles a couple times. I'm now very awake, and very annoyed. He leaves his nose in there, and my poor sleep-deprived cerebral cortex rattles around in my skull to Jesper's needy purring, which sounds kind of like an Apache helicopter launching at close range. Then the digging starts. He digs and noses and squirms so that his head is underneath my neck, and hugs around it with both paws (claws extended, of course). I experience a slight gray-out until I alleviate the pressure on my carotid artery. He falls asleep, and I sort of do too.

4:35 AM: ga-lump ga-lump GA-LUMP GA-LUMP, SWISH! Thud. Hoo! All of the air is expelled from my lungs as Jesper rampages through my bedroom and lands on my stomach.

4:35 - 5:35 AM: Repeat.