But she is the most daring, or should I say stupid? It was around 7 this morning and there I was, happily sleeping in my nice warm bed when I was rudely awoken by the sound of a huge crash and things raining down onto the floor.

I was wide awake in an instant, and just in time to see Denali jumping down from my tv and hightailing it out of my room. Isis, who are curled up with me, was wide-eyed and terrified before she ducked under the covers and refused to come out. Considering my reaction when I realized what Denali had done, I can’t say I blame her.

On a shelf above my tv I have my collection of books by L.J. Smith, it includes all of the Night World series, as well as the Dark Visions Trilogy, serving as book ends are two Dragonware cups with lids on them. Well apparently Denali thought it would be a fun way to wake me up by sending everything on the shelf to the floor. More than likely this was a combined result of her inability to go outside, she loves the outdoors, and my mother’s unwillingness to feed her since she’s on medications and my mother didn’t want to mess up the dosages.

Thankfully the Dragonware didn’t break, didn’t even crack, but two out of three figurines I had on the tv stand were not so lucky. The lids from the dragonware managed to decapitate one of my geisha figurines and smash the arm off another one. To say I was livid and ready to commit murder would be an understatement. My mother wisely got Denali out of my sight, and after cleaning up the mess and crawling back into bed I hoped I’d feel a little better.

Nope, still bitter. Denali seemed to think what she had done was cute, despite getting swatted and told she was bad, up until I gave her her meal and meds. Normally I give her a big serving of canned cat food and hide the meds inside so sh never has to taste them. This time she got a very tiny amount of canned cat food, just enough to make the meds easier to swallow, and it was followed by some dry cat food. Isis on the other hand, got a whole can of cat food to herself. Judging by Denali’s very sad and put-upon expression she finally understood that what she had done was bad. Little late for the revelation though.

I guess the bright side of this is that I found some old advertising pens on the shelf that were starting to leak. I wouldn’t have wanted that inky mess all over my books. Still though, that’s a small consolation in the grand scheme of things.