My Kingdom for A Good Nights Sleep
As part of the rules of living in my fathers house, the dog must accompany me to bed at night and be shut in the bedroom with me. This is to allow the poor injured (and evil) cat of his free run of the house at night. Since she has been deprived of 24 hour run of the house, she must have the nights!
Up to this point, its only been a mild inconvenience. Blossom is also used to having free run of the house at night so the first 10 minutes after closing the bedroom door have consisted of her whining, crawling under the bed, and jumping on and off the bed. Then she settles down on her half of the bed, shivers for a few minutes and then goes to sleep.
Now that Chickie is here, things are different. Chickie goes to bed later than I do since there is no school yet. I cant bring Blossom to bed with me because she KNOWS Chickie is still out there and will NOT calm down. So it is up to Chickie to bring Blossom to bed when she comes in. This normally happens long after Im asleep and is quite an interesting interlude in the middle of my nightly rest.
Snore snore mumble
Crrreeeeaaak ..the door swings open. The hall light smacks me in the face, Blossoms collar jingles and I wake up.
Come on Blossom. Thats Chickie. She climbs into bed and snuggles up to me.
Whine, whine, pitiful whine.
SSSSHHHHHH
Whine, whine sneeze unh-unh-unh Thats Blossom stuffing her boxy little body under the bed.
Scritch, scritch, jangle, scrabble, scrabble, jingle unh-unh-unh .sneeze. Thats Blossom belly-crawling from one side of the bed to the other after having stuffed her boxy little body underneath it.
Whine, whine, whine ..cold muzzle nuzzle lick, lick hopeful whine.
BLOSSOM! GO LIE DOWN!!! Guess whos snippy voice that is?
Lick, lick, jangle, jingle, jangle. Click-click-click of puppy nails as Blossom makes her way around the bottom of the bed on the wooden floor. The bed shakes as Blossom heaves her boxy little short-legged body up onto the bed.
MAAAAAAAA!
Push her back down on the floor. Her beds there.
Shes licking me. Awwwww. Poor baby. Does she want to sleep wiff her mummie?
Make the dog lay down and be quiet or youre both dead.
But shes standing on my stomach and it hurts! She wants to come see you.
No, she really doesnt. She just thinks she does. Push her off onto the floor.
Whine, whine, whine, whine. Jingle, jingle, jingle. Sniff, sniff, sneeze.
Yuck! Your damn dog just snotted all over me. PUT HER BACK ON THE FLOOR! There is not enough room on this bed for all 3 of us!
Whine, whine nudge, nudge, lick, lick ,lick ..thud!
The bed shakes as the dog hits the floor and Chickie tries to suppress her laughter at my annoyance with this whole process.
Scritch, scritch, jangle, scrabble, scrabble, jingle unh-unh-unh .sneeze. Thats Blossom stuffing herself under the bed and belly-crawling from one side of the bed to the other AGAIN.
Whats that? A moment of quiet? Oh NO! Is Blossom stuck under the bed? Did she make it out? Shit. I cant go to sleep unless I find her.
Blossom!
Click-click-click of puppy nails as Blossom makes her way to my side of the bed. Lick, lick, jangle, jingle, jangle. Hot puppy breath. Whine, whine, whine.
Go LAY DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Click-click-click of puppy nails. Root, root, snuffle, snuffle. Whine, whine, plaintive whine. SIGH. Blossom is fixing her bed.
Finally! I begin to drift back to sleep then the whole bed shakes as Blossom gives it one more college try .. and we repeat the process yet again.
Now its been quiet (aside from an occasional lone whine punctuating the silence) for 5 minutes. It must be safe to go back to sleep ..
I am never quite sure whether Blossom finally gives up and sleeps on HER bed or if sleepus-interruptus makes its claim on me. All I know is that when the alarm goes off . There she is eyeball to eyeball with me .and whining.
The title of this entry is brilliant!! I might have to steal that phrase… peace
Warning Comment
I’m sorry to laugh at your sleepus-interruptus-induced misery, but this whole entry was hilarious 🙂 aren’t dogs wonderful?
Warning Comment
Your diary and entries shine with rainbow light and LOVE 🙂 LOVE, Moon
Warning Comment
😉
Warning Comment
RYN: the more the merrier … I just talked to mom-Hob, and am about to contact sister-Hob. Toad and Froglette are talking, too.
Warning Comment
Hehehehe… this is hilarious! I know that feeling sometimes too. I have 2 dogs. One wants in and out of bed on the average of 3 times before we can “settle” in. 🙂 Btw… I take their collars off before bed. Jingle jangle disappearus.
Warning Comment
wait, i thought you bought a house called Snazzy Sunshine Wolf Hollow, and that you were hosting a Halloween luncheon! 🙂 ALthought UG says we have to go to gnome hollow first, which is on turkey day. Remember Plan to attend the Mardi Gras march 4th OD spring frling!
Warning Comment
Sounds like fun. This is why my cats are NOT allowed in my room at night. RYN: I’m alive and reasonably well. I’m not desperately ill, but a little under the weather and wondering if it’s not just a bit of stress. Don’t know. With a shrug…Torin the Unsigned Watcher
Warning Comment
Neither cats nor dogs are allowed past our bedroom threshhold…in fact not even upstairs. So there ! Bet ya didn’t know I don’t have pussy in the bedroom! RYN: Define “kinky”? LOL Hugz Harley….also nsi (hey, if it’s good enough for Torin…)
Warning Comment
lol…funny. i’ve had dogs almost all of my children’s lives. the last dog, a golden, died a few years ago and i never replaced her. she was the only one who was so well behaved she had free run of the house at all times. altho with her hair it was sometimes difficult to see what color the carpet really was. lol.. nah, it wasn’t that bad. really 🙂 Mns Nsi
Warning Comment
perhaps make Chickie sleep on the floor?
Warning Comment
*chuckles* You have such a way with words. You outta there soon or what?
Warning Comment
Egad! You are a better woman than I. ~:P ArtImp, nsi
Warning Comment
heh….I think my wooly evil monster is more manageable than Cheery and Blossom. =)
Warning Comment
LOL!! I have a dog who would happily sleep with me if I let her. But no way. She may sleep on my bed during the day when I’m in the room, but at night, she’s outa there. The way you describe it sounds so funny. But it’s true. Pets are such babies.
Warning Comment
ryn: *chuckles* You crack me up. Believe me! I am practically too “hippy” myself.
Warning Comment
Kindness to animals shines thru the lines. Tis a pity the Romans were not so kind. Some few expressed sadness at the death of animals in the arena but to my knowledge not one condemned the death of fellow humans. But inhumanity lives on in bullfighting were we are coming close to the brutal arena spectacles of the past. Alex
Warning Comment
LMAO Oh, this is hilarious! LMFAO I’m sorry, it’s just too funny! LMFAO and PMSL I have an eerie familiarity with this entry…. I was hoping for the No Honest Emotions In Any Song Anywhere, Damnit! rant. 🙁 LOL! This is just too funny. Reminds me of every night at my house! LOL!!!!!
Warning Comment
Hilarious! Also, total nightmare! I personally CANNOT sleep with an animal in the room. Even if the poor critter is sound asleep and not moving a muscle, I IMAGINE that the bed is jiggling just the least little bit… That’s the sort of hypersensitive nutcase I am when trying to get to sleep.
Warning Comment
If I were in your situation, the only solution would be to leave the room and go sleep on the couch when Chickie and puppy come to bed. But I guess then you’d be vulnerable to whatever subtle tortures the evil cat might choose to inflict! 😀
Warning Comment
giggle……..snicker……..muffled giggle….LMAO I know SW I know….When I moved back home to try and get the money thing set my dad’s cat Gideon has adopted me….and abandoned dad lol….well that is when I’m home lol…I go through that every night also….the worst is when the cat decides to sleep on top of the covers between my feet and I try to roll over and get attacked and meowed at
Warning Comment
oh yeah, I can empathize… Saturday afternoon I collapsed into bed like a redwood chopped down because i had ran out of gas… hope you found your time to rest.
Warning Comment
Ty for your fun and great message dear one. Lots of hugs and happy week to U
Warning Comment
RYN: umm otay but what do you do if he won’t come out with a straight answer???? arrrrggggggggggggg men….. Ps one full week NO SMOKING yayyayayayyaya Happy Beats and Safe Journeys
Warning Comment
What can I say except many thanks for reading as times I think to be a voice in the wilderness of Fod. I liked it before it all got split into the 2 sections…still do but it seems not the same? More tests today…Alexias
Warning Comment
*chuckle* aye aye captain! 🙂
Warning Comment
RYN. goes looking for a pea shooter hehehehe either that or an old fashion rubberband gun….. that just might get his attention snickers…..giggles…..evil laugh…..
Warning Comment
Oh Sunshine these last 3 entries are wonderful.I loved your descriptions of the copier store peopleI completely agree with you about the way we see our lives if we just look at it from a diff angle and this entry has completely made me laugh. Poor Blossom but more to the point – poor you – LOL 🙂 (DrmDrgn)
Warning Comment
LOL! Poor baby.
Warning Comment
I’ve always thought it would be great if there was a take out place where you could get eight hours of sleep to go! ROFLMAO at this entry…and you’re getting your own place when? Is your friend still “helping” you figure out “how” you like your tea? **Fits of laughter again** ((((Gives ya a big hug)))) Hope you get a decent night’s sleep soon cutie! hey, hey…..*grinning* Love,
Warning Comment
Poor thing, that is the 3 of you haha {:o)
Warning Comment
I’m just thankful that Mustard fits under the bed and can’t climb on it. of course she hasn’t figured out how to get out of the cage even when I leave the door open so I don’t think she’s the brightest hamster in the area, but I am kept awake by a constant squeak of the wheel and squeal of the hamster as she realises once more she doesn’t have a whole pile of food since the vet put her on a diet!
Warning Comment
just checkin’ in hoping all’s going well~
Warning Comment
Wishing all is well! See ya! LOVE / HUG
Warning Comment
Warning Comment