Dear Diary, the men in the family were gone for several days, but they're back now. So glad! My human was getting cranky with me. Maybe she'll settle down now. I don't know what her problem has been. She actually snapped at me the other day when I braced my claws on her leg and stretched. I don't even get that cranky when Lovey Bud head butts me when I'm trying to get to sleep at night. Speaking of that, Lovey Bud's behavior at night is one of my pet peeves. She simply can't lay down when we go to bed. Morgan usually hides out somewhere and doesn't share my human's bed, but Osiris, Mellow and I have our spots and we settle down readily when Carol finally calls it a day. Not Lovey Bud. She kneads and kneads and paces and head butts whichever one of us happens to be in her line of site, flops down on her side, gets back up and starts all over again. Osiris leaves if Lovey starts up with him. I try to tolerate it, but if she continues to annoy me, I find a more suitable place to sleep, which means anywhere Lovey Bud isn't.