first ever wwc! and a stupid cat

i've been telling moo at moo's moo for AGES that i would start participating in the weekly words photo challenge... and now that i have my house / life / camera / internet back, i finally did! this week's words were smooth and rough:

first we have my cat's corrugated cardboard scratching thingy:

..and then this gorgeous vase that my parkour girlfriend & her husband brought back from their honeymoon in japan. it looks rough and textured, but it's been glazed so thoroughly that it's completely smooth to the touch:

yay wwc! info on participating here, if you're interested.

so i was in the shower this morning getting ready for work, right? and my cat is inexplicably drawn to running water of any kind, so he usually hangs out in the windowsill of my bathroom when i'm showering. (if i'm running water in the sink, he hangs out IN THE SINK.) here's a crappy phonepic of my bathroom layout:

over to the left is a huge awesome soaking tub; above that is the window he likes to sit in and watch the metro traffic; and then obviously my shower. so while i'm in there this morning, he kept reaching out from his perch on the window sill and putting his little paws up on top of the shower wall. i was like, hee! how cute! cat paws above my head!

and then, like the stupid moron cat he is, he jumped. onto that teeeeeeeny tiiiny ledge that makes up the top of the shower wall.

he almost immediately realized his mistake, and sort of started to freak out. so now he's there, hanging halfway into my shower, scrabbling his back feet around in vain, and getting the Crazy Eye. his options were now:

a) somehow get back down the way he came, which involved a 6-foot drop backwards into a porcelain tub;

b) figure out a way to turn around on a 1-inch wide ledge that he can't get his back feet up onto;

c) continue forward, which involved a 6-foot drop into a running shower;

d) use my naked body as a stepladder down.

i decided preemptively that option d) was NOT a very good option, especially for me, so i turned the shower off and tried to pry him off the ledge and put him down while incurring the least bodily harm possible. i don't know how many of you have tried to wrangle freaked out cats from high places before? but it's not the easiest of tasks, especially when the cat has all. its. claws.

the worst part is this cat has never once learned from his past experiences, so this could very likely become part of our morning routine.