Recently there's been a recurring crime committed in our house, and it might be the worst one yet:
The crime of waking me up in the middle of the night.
Now, you have to understand, I am not a 8 hrs or people get smacked kind of person. It's more of a 6-7 hrs and don't talk to me right away and everything will be fine. This is usually pretty straightforward- I wake up at 6, so asleep by 11- totally do-able.
The pattern gets broken by something happening at 3am...Like, for example, a dog barking and freaking out at a noise I can't hear. Or, maybe a dog having a bad dream and barking in her sleep. Or a dog trying to get comfortable and scratching and moving a ton of stuff and huffing and grunting.....
You know, just as an example.
So there have been several instances of this recently.
The first one was actually comedic- mainly 'cause it was the first one.
At approx 3:15 am Odie starts barking - no growl warning, nothing, just a full tilt barking frenzy while staring at the wall that divides our bedroom from the front room of the house. This is pretty unusual for our little dude who loves to sleep. Enough so that we both shot out of bed- and the Hubs went to explore the front of the house thinking someone was trying to break in.
Turns out, nothing of the sort had happened- it was a massive cat fight happening on our front stoop (fur evidence was found all over the front yard the next day). Odie's terrier blood got riled when he heard it and he wanted IN the fight.
After finally calming down, and laughing at bit at the ridiculousness of it all, we all tried to fall back asleep. And tried and tried and tried. Almost 45 min later, I think I finally fell asleep. So there's an hour lost. Lovely. Felt that at 2pm the next day for sure.
Then, a couple of days later, it was Piper's turn. For some reason around 3am, she started walking around the room, and trying to get my attention by standing up on my side of the bed. There's really nothing quite as lovely as getting a paw in the face when you're dead asleep. No, really, it's great....
After I yelled at her and she walked around some more, pacing and grunting every once in a while, with no rhythm to it so that I couldn't adjust to it and fall back asleep. Time passed, we all went back to sleep.
Then 45 minutes later, as she slept on the floor next to me, Piper started to dream. When she dreams, occasionally she does this weird thing with her mouth that sounds a bit like she's smacking her lips. It's a strange jaw popping thing and you can't ignore it. So, I got to wake up again. This time, I felt the Hubs stir and knew he heard it to.
"You hear her? This is killing me"
"Yeah, bitch. *mumble*"
So, another 20-ish minutes of being awake for that one before I was able to fall back asleep.
Last night, yet again, 4 am rolls around and suddenly I'm awake. It's Piper again, trying very hard to get my attention. She stands up on the side of the bed and paws at my arm. She paces and huffs. She scratches at the floor mat that is her bed on my side of the room. She knocks the curtains around (a metallic sound of the rings of the curtain knocking on the curtain rod) and knocks things off the night table. Then stands up on the bed again. This went on for a good 45 minutes, ending almost in time for the Hubs alarm to go off for work. Thankfully he'd slept thru all Piper's noise, so he should be ok today. I had the joy of waking up and going for a run despite all the shenanigans that went on overnight. Right now it's 5:30pm and I am still able to spell my name and type, but I'm not sure how. I also am thankful to whoever invented spell check 'cause I'm giving it a workout right now.
These dogs have GOT to stop it with these middle of the night mayhem. I don't drink coffee..... Many more days of this and I will totally lose it and fall asleep at my desk.
ok, again.
If we're being honest here.
I love them both, I truly do, thats why I don't mind bitching and moaning about them here- 'cause I know I love them under all of it. But this waking me up business is getting very risky for everyone involved.
Consider this a warning, kiddos, a "fix it ticket" as it were. Fix it, or you're gonna be in a heap of trouble.
