YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!

OK, first off, I just saw a couple posts this morning saying that Guitar Hero II is coming out for the Wii and possibly the DS.  That is awesome.  If they get it out before Christmas that will be something I will HAVE to get!

Now on the main thought of the message...

Forewarning!  If you're squeamish, you might want to just skip this one as I certainly did NOT enjoy dealing with it!

So...  This is why I hate cats.  OK, that's not true.  I love cats.  But sometimes I QUITE dislike some of the things they do.
Picture this: I'm staying over at my parents sleeping rather soundly I think I was having a good dream.  I don't remember it, but it seemed like it was going well, not a bad dream.  then at about 12:47AM I am awoken to hacking, gurgling sounds and who knows what other nasty odd sounds.  I've got a really good idea of roughly what's goingon and my immedate reaction is to say aloud "no, no guys, don't do that in here...", but at the same time I'm starting to realize that there's not much I can do because whatever is coming out is just going to make a bigger mess if I either try to get the cat to move, or move the cat myself, so I decide to just wait it out.  I SOOOOO did not want to wake up and deal with this...
Well, from the sounds I thought I was dealing with hairballs or barf.  Well about a minute after the sounds stop I start to smell it.  And well, sometimes barf has nastier smells than I'm used to from cats, but I'm pretty sure this is out of the other end.  "Oh, man, why do I have to deal with this now????"  So I'm trying to decide on my options...  About that time the cat finally leaves and I know the culprit.  I'm still too tired and I'm thinking something about how I left My Name Is Earl playing on TV when I went to sleep(I've never actually watched it, but I've switched it on as something to go to sleep to a few times) which was interesting because Earl was the offending cat.  And yes Earl is an appropriate name for this cat.  Big, fluffy, lovable, but not altogether the brightest cat in the bunch sometimes.  (:
ANYWAY...  I'm still in the "Please just let me sleep!" mode, but trying to think about:
-Should I just go back to sleep?
-Should I get up and look and assess the situation?
-Should I see if it's in/on or next to blankets/comforters or otherwise at the bottom of the bed where I might further disturb it during my last few hours of sleep?
-What instruments/cleaning solutions am I going to need to try to clean this up?
-Are said instruments/cleaning solutions present upstairs?
-Is whatever mess is down there going to be easier/better to clean up now or in a few hours?
-Am I going to get more/better sleep if I leave it, look, or clean it now?

So...  After a bit of slow sleepy thinking I decide I had better at least have a look to be sure of not creating a worse mess somehow.  (This is where it's going to get really nasty cause it was just a horror for me, so I'm going to detail my horror.  If you can't handle it, look away.)  Well, it was in fact poop.  Well more or less.  From the sounds I was hearing, it must have been quite gassy and possibly painful when it came out.  There were a few poops and then some loose piles of whatever and I'm assuming worms.  It looked like pasta noodles of both a flat and a small round variety.  OH, YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!!  I SOOOOOOOOO Do NOT want to deal with this!!!!  Oh, I'm almost puking just thinking of it!!!  Oh well...  So I'm reassessing the situation and it appears to be on the floor and a bit on the comforter.  I finally decide that I guess I will just leave it for now and try not to kick my comforters or blankets down any lower and deal with it in a few hours.  Well, of course it rather bothered me enough that I couldn't get to sleepvery quickly and the sleep I got for a while was rather lousy dreaming of wormy cat poop.  But I think I did get some better sleep a bit later.  Oh yeah, I was also thinking of writing in OD about how nasty this experience was before/during sleep again.  I guess this has infiltrated my life.  (:
Oh well, the alarm went off at 4AM and didn't quite feel like getting up, snoozed it once and then made it up after a bit and went to see what tools I had.  As expected I had to go downstairs in search of paper towels, carpet cleaner and a litter scooper.  Amazingly enough all of these items were in plain view where I expected.  It wasn't quite as bad as I might have thought but oh SO much do not like dealing with poop and I SO SO SO SO SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO do not like dealing with worms, oh YUCK YUCK SUPER-DUPER YUCK!  But I did a pretty good job and took the comforters downstairs for a wash.

Hopefully the rest of today is a bit smoother!!!  (: