What a crabby little twit!

Well it's been a few days since I've posted anything so I thought I would blog an update. Nert is getting weirder and weirder every day. Last night, Scott came over for awhile, and he & John were playing around with the Wii, and she was hiding under the dresser. (See pic on Facebook :) )... Well Scott was kinda grabbing her tail, and I asked him to stop, because I'm starting to pick up on her tolerance levels, and she's not tolerating a whole lot these days. Well she started swatting at him a few times, and he stopped finally, she calmed down for a brief period. Then after the guys left, she plopped herself right in the middle of the bed, and was glaring at me for awhile. I prolonged getting into bed because for one, she HATES it when I try to pick her up, I never manage to succeed in doing so, she arches and freezes, but John has no problem. I did manage to get into bed after awhile and try to squiggle around her which was a chore for about an hour or so. Sometime later she clung to my back and overheated it the rest of the night. This morning, she was not purring at me much, by the time I actually got up, she was already on the windowsill staring out at the sunshine. (YES! A DRUY, seemingly CLOUDLESS DAY!) Well I was in the bathroom getting dressed, had music on, and I heard a loud thump, almost sounded like a crash. I opened the door to hear Nert howling and crying. I approached her slowly, did not want to touch her, if I barely even attempt it when she's in a mood, I get swiped at or nipped on, I have a few holes, but fortunately no blood has been drawn as of yet. So later John came by for a few, before running off to a meeting. She was very good with John, and we were both petting and talking to her. She turned around, tried to swipe and bite me, so I figured I had enough... I managed to kick her out of the bedroom, and tried giving her a stern lecture. I have been very good about not using the squirt bottle as of yet, I don't want her to retaliate, if that would be possible, but I think it's time. I think the reason that things were so much easier with Remi, the previous cat, was because he was sick pretty much the 2 of the 4 weeks that we had him before we had to put him to sleep. He tolerated a lot, was very lethargic, easy to pet, not very active. I think Scott and John are right, Inertia may be picking up on my tentativeness. I have to admit, as of tomorrow, we will have had her for a month, and I'm still skittish around her, only because I do not take too well to being swiped or nipped at. I just am trying to do the right thing. I think another thing to is that she misses the dog she was living with when Kim had her, and they played together, sorry, but no doggie here. It just irks me that I can't easily pick up on body language of the cat. I've skimmed the book a little, and with my vision, I honestly can't tell which "look" she is trying to portray at times. There is a segment in the book on body language with illustrations that I'm not picking up on. I think she's just frustrated because she's in a new environment, is doing a lot of window sill hopping.. (Kin lived in an apartment with not many windowsills, but rather, screen doors. When she was looking out the window earlier, she definitely left a few clawmarks. I've been meaning to get a head start on cleaning the windows when I knew for sure the rain would be over for awhile, might wait for awhile yet. I try to play with her with a laser light, that only lasts so long. She has her toys here and there, she loses interest easily. She really likes playing tug o war with the fishing rod teaser toy, but half the time she is able to yank it out of my hands, at that point I giv eup cuz she already seems mad. I'm going to see if it would be possible to wean her off of sleeping with me and on her tree which she hasn't touched much in the last few days. Sometimes she bites me when I'm trying to get into bed, and out of bed and I really don't like it. Any suggestions would be very helpful, remember this is my second cat ever, and I didn't have enough experience with the first one. I have to admit, we bought the Cats for dummies when we had Remi, but since she was sick and not doing much I didn't do a lot of reading or worrying. But I think Nert is turning into a mini monster towards me. :(