Insomnia For Dummies

I’m being haunted by my cat.  She died just before Christmas and now I hear her distinctive meow and feel her get on my bed late at night.  I see her out of the corner of my eye every now and again.  I swear that I saw her follow me around Barnes and Noble the other day.

Gizzmo was the coolest cat ever.  She was a long hair calico with a orange lightning bolt on her forehead.  She never really meowed like other cats, she kinda had a breathy “meh”.  I could do anything to her, we used to dance and at one time she enjoyed travelling on my head.

The haunting started with a dream about three weeks after she died.  In a very vivid dream, I slept in my bed and she walked up my leg and stood on my shoulder as I lay on my side.  She bent her head down and meowed in my ear.  As soon as I heard that meow, I startled awake.  I didn’t go back to sleep that night.  I stayed up and watched the snow fall slowly outside my window.

So Gizzmo haunts me, its not malicious, she’s just checking up on me.  She’s always there, just a few feet away watching on and every now and again she’ll pop up and make herself known.