random thoughts – Day 1,763 – (Monday) – somebody’s watching

Kiki admiring the art.

Kiki spends more time out of hiding recently. She hasn’t hunkered down behind the couch in several weeks, and I can’t remember the last time I saw her hidden in her hidey bed. 

Kiki being out in the open gives me ample time to observe her and her elegant beauty and shiny coat.

Her current adorable behavior is when she quietly climbs up onto her chair, then onto the arm of the chair and faces the corner of the room. Sometimes she sits tall, sometimes curls up like a fluffy lump. 

When she isn’t napping on the narrow chair arm, she often faces the corner like she’s being punished in the naughty corner. Then she will turn her head to the wall next to the window and it looks like she is admiring the artwork on the wall. 

Micromanager at work.

When not looking at the artwork or staring at the corner of the living room wall, Kiki has other interests. She can sometimes be spotted halfway up the staircase, peering between the handrail, surveying the dining room region of her kingdom. 

It is from her elevated post on the stairs that Kiki silently monitors the scooping of the litterbox and prepping the trash on Sunday nights. The Rockwell song “Somebody’s Watching Me” runs through my head as Kiki observes me during her training program for a micromanagement position. It can be a little unnerving.