Happy New Year's Day! Happy 2019!

I'm doing really well this morning since I decided to stay home and hang out with my cats instead of going out and drinking my weight in alcohol last night.

All was going well until the fireworks started blasting around 7:00pm. Jenny, who is usually the biggest scaredy cat over the smallest thing did surprisingly well. She was shocked at first, hid under the bed for a while, but was pretty much ignoring the noise an hour later. Jake, on the other hand, was scared out of his furry little mind. I was able to lure him out from under the bed with treats, but he was on edge the whole night and would be terrified whenever more fireworks would start banging.

Rather than be afraid alone, he decided to try and squeeze in next to Jenny on the coffee table cat bed where she had set up camp...

   
Jenny wouldn't budge, so Jake finally just shoved her out of the way...

   
Jenny was not at all happy about this. So she tried smacking him on the head to get him to leave...

   
When that didn't work, she decided biting him on the ear might be the answer...

   
Finally she decided to just squeeze in next to Jake like he had tried to do to her...

   
It kinda(?) worked...

   
I thought maybe she had succeeded in forcing him out just like he had forced her out...

   
But he was just getting re-situated and wasn't planning on going anywhere...

   
And so... they ended up sharing...

   
Which Jenny was not happy about because she couldn't get comfortable...

   
Finally she flipped around, which was just the ticket. Jake was happy to have something to hang onto since the fireworks were still going on...

   
But eventually Jenny was tired of being crowded and decided to find someplace else to ride out the firework noise. Jake looked a little depressed after she left...

   
If only cats could just do a couple shots of Jägermeister to make everything better.

Fortunately belly rubs work just as well...

But more on that tomorrow...