Egad! Drama!

All day today, I'm looking forward to an early night.  Asleep by 10:30, that's my plan.  Early to bed, early to rise, all that good stuff and whatnot.

Start watching some 30 Rock, and then I realize it's 11:00.  Then, I get a call from an employee with some drama (can't really go into that).  Then, I notice that I haven't seen one of my cats since I've been home today.  After an exhaustive search of the house, I conclude she is not in the house.  I go outside with a flashlight, and call her name.  No luck.  Then, she's on my back porch.  She runs past me and into the woods.  Took a good hour to coax her close enough.  After 2 aborted attempts to grab her, and getting my hands scratched to hell, I finally get her back inside.  Once back inside, her two kittens (well, they're 3.5 now, so I guess they're just her children) are all puffing their tails and hissing at her.  I'd like to think it's because they know she made me worry, but I think there's far more intricate cat language going on.  Maybe they smell the outside on her and it's creeping them out.  If anyone knows, please tell me.

All's well that ends well I suppose.  4 hours and 10 minutes until the alarm goes off.