Sleepless in Scotland

It is a bad habit of mine that I rarely hit the sack before the small hours and one that I am sure can't be good for me but none the less I seem to persist in it!

My excuse is that I am a 'night person', that would be just fine if unfortunately I wasn't also a 'morning person' and up with the birds on most occasions. Certainly the idea of sleeping is an appealing one at times but from morning until morning I just always seem to have far too much I want to do and sleeping then, in my peculiar mind, appears to be a waste of my lifetime!

Twas thus that yesterday evening I made an avowed promise to myself that I would entertain a state of narcosis by midnight..... Yeah right!

We had dinner at a reasonable hour or at least Ditto did. It was a lazy meal of pizza and a green salad, eaten off trays on our lap, infront of the moving wallpaper. I made a wrong move. Madam, is not generally given to the act of begging for human food off plates, unlike Poppy who has made a lifetimes study of the effect of pleading eyes and the 'silent meow' on humans, when requiring an unallowed titbit.

So, with this in mind you will understand, I took no notice as Ditto casually wandered along the arm of the sofa, still I was not completely aware as she advanced on me further, of her intent, that is until as I lifted a large portion of pizza toward my mouth only for her, in an instant, to extend a claw clad paw, pizza-ward and snatch it from out of my grip. Having attained her goal she just a rapidly ensnared it in her jaw and fled the scene of the crime, pizza dragging on the floor!!! Stern words were spoken in her direction, believe me, but she was unrepentant as she began the 'killing' process and somehow I couldn't quite keep a straight face.

And so, pizza thieving incident over I settled here to fiddle and still promising myself a reasonably early night logged off at midnight, it was not to be. I logged back on to sort 'just one more thing' and subsequently got involved (how did that happen?) in an IM conversation. At 1am I tried again and off I logged. ok, so 1am may not be an early night but it's pretty good for me. Suffice to say, I decided a few pages of my current book would settle me. I duly put my book down half an hour later to find I had become victim of that God-awful situation where one finds that to get up and crawl to bed is more effort than to stay put, at which point I became engrossed in something less than pleasant on the TV!

Ok...........I failed, my head finally hit the pillow at 4am! Ugh. Please don't ask me how I feel this morning....... I must find myself a little more self discipline!