Attention seeker or just mad?

 
Sometimes I feel like my kitty Potter is severly neglected.  And then she starts to demonstrate it in very obvious ways...and I feel awful.
 
I love her and I play with her...when I'm home...but it's the amount of time that I'm home I think that upsets her.  On an average day I am at home for approximately 4 waking hours...the rest of the time I am at work, at the gym or asleep.
 
Last night I woke up to a scratching noise, it didn't worry me because it was obviously just Potter using her box.  I rolled over and tried to fall back asleep...just as I was dozing off I realized the scratching was still going on...'hmmm...an usually long time for Potter to be in her box,' I thought.  But as it was the middle of the night I was too tired to give it any more thought and fell back asleep. 
 
I woke up this morning to almost the entire contents of her litter box on the bathroom floor!  Sand and poop and clumps of pee everywhere!!
 
Potter!!! 
 
I fed her her breakfast and she followed me around as I got dressed - as she does every morning meowing and meowing and getting right under my feet and almost tripping me more than once.  That's our normal rountine, she bothers me until I go to the kitchen at which time she goes straight for her food bowl...that's all she really wants...for me to watch her eat.  Seriously. 
 
However today - she ate a few mouthfuls of food an promptly started gagging loudly...and threw up her breakfast (or last night's dinner - I couldn't tell) all over the kitchen floor.
 
Potter!!
 
Besides that she's taken to sleeping on my lap (or my chest depending on if I'm sitting or lying on the couch) exclusively.  If I am on the couch.  She is there too.  Jamming her furry little head right up under my neck often blocking the tv and begging to be pet.
 
I suspect these are all cries for attention. And I try to give her all I can.  But seriously - how many mornings can I spend cleaning up cat poop and vomit before work??
 
Cat mommies out there - how do you balance your human life with the needs of your little furry ones?
 
me.

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