Home Alone My person is going away for a few days, and that suspicious character known as The Tenant is also away. I’m brainstorming some ways to keep myself occupied.→[More:]

Here's what I've come up with so far:

- getting into the garbage
- mowing down on the big bowl of dry food the person left for me
- sleeping on the air vents
- howling to express loneliness and/or existential angst
- grooming
- sleeping on the person’s bed
- chasing my toys into the stairwell under the back kitchen door, making a futile effort to get them out again
- sleeping in my cat bed
- making attempts to get into the living room, and if successful playing the piano, and simultaneously shedding and napping on the upholstered furniture
- making attempts to get into the attic, and if successful knocking everything off the sewing table and chasing spools of thread down through the house.
- sleeping on the kitchen chairs
- grooming
- completely random howling
- planning my future career as an international spy
- using the litter box
- more grooming
- walking around on the kitchen cupboards (I never get to do this when the person is around)
- sleeping on the kitchen table
- sitting in the bedroom window and keeping tabs on passersby
- keeping a weather eye out for possible mice or insects
- investigating suspicious smells, air currents, or dust motes.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for me, or have I covered everything? Although maybe I should just work with this list, as is. It is a lot, and I don't want to overextend myself.