My cat. Every morning at 530 playing with the Christmas tree... or playing with plastic bags... or snuggling up next to me and accidently scratching me in the most random places.... the list goes on.

surprise buttseckz will wake anyone up. Not that i'd know 1sthand or anything

I'm a pretty deep sleeper, so it takes quite a bit to wake me up. But let me tell you, a cat clawing the hell out of your toes (which were sticking out of the blanket) will wake ANYONE up.

Also, the wife has her own special ways of waking me up.

I've had a few instances where I'm awakened by someone calling my name softly.
When I check, no one's around.

It's pretty creepy sometimes.

I tend to sleep better when James is next to me. Although I don't think he sees it that way. I'm home for the break between semesters at school and one thing I recall is my cat shifting around at night and me kicking her which lands her claws into my leg which wakes me up pretty fast.

Another thing is light. I have to be in complete darkness usually to go to sleep for the night. I just can't stand there being much more glow than from the clock.

I'm with you on the stray cats too. Several times our cats have flung themselves at the windows and set off the Brinks alarm. I don't know if you folks have heard a Brinks alarm...but the alarm is upstairs where I sleep. My parents who sleep downstairs sleep through it all the time. I tend to get up and grab the knife and baseball bat and wait till they wake up to make sure someone hasn't been murdered. Those are always fun times.

One time the Roomba went off at night and gave me a heart attack when it entered my room without invitation.:eek:

Between 2 and 4 AM: That all-to-familiar tapping on my ass that us women fall victim to while sleeping with our backs to our SO......