I call redo on this whole fucking week!

[deoridhe]

Finally, several hours later, warm, fed, and no longer smelling of cat urine, I can finally look at this morning's events with a certain amount of humor.

About a half hour before I usually get up - which you might say isn't too early, but when you attempt to wrest as much rest out of the hours as I do even ten minutes can last a year - my roommates an I were awoken by a noise of devestating power and the ability to completely short-circuit the cortex in favor of the limbic system.

The fire alarm went off.

I spent a while trying to turn it off by hitting my alarm, realized what it was, and levitated from my bed. The sound was deafening; I still have a slight headache from it. Quickly, I threw on the first warm clothes my hands landed on. "Get the cats!" shingan yelled.

We ended up upturning my bed (sending the craft cart next to it tumbling over face first) and scare two of the three furry things downstairs. I dragged the cat carriers out of the closet and dumped them on the floor. We cornered Rhu first, though at the time I thought he was my Tadeus, and I threw him in my cat carrier - threw being all but literal; he was thoroughly manhandled and sealed in. Tai, hiding under the table, was next.

"Where's Rhu?" shingan frantically searched the apartment; I checked under my bed again (lifting it up, of course, no time for subtlety) then, as I was coming down from my loft, I saw eyes in the cathouse (yes, we have a cathouse; it's a nice one, too).

"It's Tadeus!" I dragged him out by the scruff (he may never forgive me) and cradled him against my chest. Warm liquid shot out against my abdomen and dribbled down my body and the inside of the jeans (this would be when I was "scented" so pleasantly). Lacking a third cat carrier, I grabbed my coat to wrap over him, shingan threw me her car keys, and we stumbled out in the snow. I was wearing thin brown shoes, black jeans, and the red hoodie I bought in Arizona. I stumbled down three flights of stairs, unlocked Shingan's car, and fell into the drivers seat with a silent cat clutched to my chest. Roomie2 set the cat carriers, containing a crying Rhu and a silent Tai, in the other door.

I turned on the heat. Tadeus shivered against my chest for a while, then, realizing he was safe, relaxed a little and lay his head against my arm. Rhu complained, loudly, of the indignity of his position. Finally, maybe five or ten minutes later, shingan said it was safe to go back in; someone had pulled the fire alarm.

Whoever they are, you owe me a new set of jeans.