All I want for Christmas is for my girlfriend to learn how to keep the cat out of the bedroom when she wakes up for work in the morning, which is usually a solid 1.5 hours before I do.

Girl needs to play some defense, the cat is very predictably waiting at the door every single morning. She just flings the door wide open and lets him run past her so I either get to hear her cursing as she tries to chase him out or he will be walking on my head or jingling a toy around in two minutes. She chose the former today and here I am awake at 6am on a Sunday morning.

On days that I'm working and she's not, I basically open the door just enough for me to squeeze through and immediately start kicking the air in the direction of the cat, which causes him to flop over on the ground and not even try anything. I think he's made it past me once. Also important to move as quickly as possible and not just meander through the door, I think part of her issue is that she is the kind of person who is half-asleep for the first couple of minutes she is out of the bed.