Fliponya

Why? Well, last night I slept with four lovely individuals. My parent’s dogs insist on sleeping on the bed and I had no intention of trying to convince them to do otherwise. So I decided to avoid the problem altogether by sleeping in the guest bed. It’s a queen sized bed and very comfortable and roomy and this was important as I knew one of the dogs, Merlot, would want to sleep in the bed with me. He’s an older dog and doesn’t like to be alone, and gets all strange when my parents leave town. And I was right, last night I climbed into bed and shortly after Merlot jumped onto the bed and proceeded to take up half the bed. He’s a big dog. All the other dogs were sleeping on my parent’s bed where they had plenty of room. But then, slowly, they began to migrate to the guest bed. It started off with Shilo, luckily she sleeps on the floor, and I rolled over and came nose to nose with her at the edge of the bed. She laid down and promptly began to snore. I began to drift off to sleep when Franco jumped on to the bed and decided that the most comfortable place to sleep was between my legs. You know its ok when my cats sleep there as they are small and jump out of the way when I move. That is not the case with a german short hair, when he gets comfortable he is unmovable. I had to pull myself out of his way and then find a spot between the two of them and drifted off to sleep. That is of course until Tyler decided to join the fun and wedged himself between Merlot and Franco which happened to be where my legs were. So I moved yet again and ended up sleeping in an odd twisted position that led to me having restless sleep. But I did get to sleep and got a good couple of hours until Buster decided he was lonely on my parent’s bed and came to join the rest of us, luckily he chose to sleep at the head of the bed and not try to wedge himself where my legs were. I put my pillow on him and prayed for sleep to come quickly, though with five snoring dogs it didn’t happen. Unfortunately my mother is a teacher and the dogs have her schedule ingrained in their memories for how mornings are, five thirty is when she gets up and lets them out to use the restroom. Five thirty is when they made it clear to me that it was time to let them out, and when you have large breed hunting dogs jumping up and down on you while pawing at you… You do not ignore them. I let them out and was ready to crawl back into bed but Merlot and Tyler, the pampered bastards that they are, didn’t go out with the rest. No, they stayed in bed while I got up and then stretched themselves out taking up most of the bed. I wedged myself in and went to sleep. At seven thirty my cell phone began playing VNV Nations Chrome and I damn near threw it against the wall. I realized the dogs were still out and I got up to let them in an so began the race of the morning. Ah, such a sight to behold, me and three dogs running towards the bed to stake out a claim. After some pushing and barking everyone got back into their place and got back to sleep, until the Evil One called. At this point I gave up on getting any more sleep and got up to take my shower. The boys didn’t waste any time taking over the spot I vacated, they didn’t get up until I put their breakfast out. Did I forget to mention I’m slightly allergic to dogs? I don’t itch as much but my nose has only begun to become unclogged. True, when I got out of the mental health facility in February I lived at my parents place for a month while attending the outpatient group therapy, I still need to write about that, and I developed a bit of resistance to said allergy. But that was five months ago and they didn’t sleep in the bed with me. I have to do this all again tonight and tomorrow night… But it’s ok, they’re good dogs and nothing beats being in a house on a lake in the country for a relaxing atmosphere. I found one of my parent’s cameras and the battery should be charged when I get back there so I’ll take some photos of them so all of you can see what I’m dealing with. Luckily in my office we only work half days on Friday so come noon or one I’ll get some rest at my apartment with my cats. First though I’m gonna get me some more coffee and then hit Phoenicia Market and get me a kefta kabob and then sit and play me some Shining in the Darkness on the Wii’s virtual console.