Dear Dear Diary
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
I'm not sleeping any more. I just nap.
If I fall asleep before midnight, it's a good night. At 1:30ish, Kenya needs a potty run. Then she wants another potty run at 3 AM. And if I'm lucky, the basset will keep sleeping. If I'm not, the basset will also get up. Either way, in order to prevent the dogs from treating our bedroom door like it revolves, I have to sleep on the couch until 5 or 6 when Jazz gets up. Otherwise, as soon as I get snuggled into bed, one of the dogs will come and wake me to go Out. As it is, they sometimes do when I get snuggled into the couch. I have listen for the basset to make sure he doesn't knock over the trash or start thumping up the stairs. If he heads upstairs, he'll bark outside the bedroom door. It's his little way of asking for his breakfast early, because when Jazz gets up, everyone gets breakfast. So cleverly, the basset thinks if he wakes Jazz, he gets breakfast. The best sleep I get is after Jazz gets up- I head back to bed and actually get three straight hours.
Fortunately this isn't forever. And I'll hate for it to end. But I'm just still very tired.
If I fall asleep before midnight, it's a good night. At 1:30ish, Kenya needs a potty run. Then she wants another potty run at 3 AM. And if I'm lucky, the basset will keep sleeping. If I'm not, the basset will also get up. Either way, in order to prevent the dogs from treating our bedroom door like it revolves, I have to sleep on the couch until 5 or 6 when Jazz gets up. Otherwise, as soon as I get snuggled into bed, one of the dogs will come and wake me to go Out. As it is, they sometimes do when I get snuggled into the couch. I have listen for the basset to make sure he doesn't knock over the trash or start thumping up the stairs. If he heads upstairs, he'll bark outside the bedroom door. It's his little way of asking for his breakfast early, because when Jazz gets up, everyone gets breakfast. So cleverly, the basset thinks if he wakes Jazz, he gets breakfast. The best sleep I get is after Jazz gets up- I head back to bed and actually get three straight hours.
Fortunately this isn't forever. And I'll hate for it to end. But I'm just still very tired.
Comments:
This is how I sleep now too. Only my nights are constant dozes in peppered spots of fighting cats, cats knocking over stuff, cats meowing at the door to be let in, cats meowing at the door to be let out, stepson asking for a glass of water, stepson asking if he can go to the bathroom (which we've told him a million times he doesn't have to ask permission for)...lather,rinse,repeat.
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