Finally, after two weeks of enduring Piri's impact on our sleep patterns, I crashed yesterday - twice. (I know, I haven't written yet about Piri, the new addition to the S & S Fettig family. It's coming.) I got up around 4:30 am (again) to let her out. She starts whining when she needs to go outside, which is a good thing. At least she has decided that it's not worth peeing (& tc.) in the cage - that would be a mess - so, we do our best to make sure we get up in a relatively short amount of time after she starts whining.
I went through the routine:
...open the cage, pick her up...
...trip over the stool used for Pete to get in bed...
...almost lose grip of Piri...
...move towards the bedroom foyer door...
...shuffle downstairs wondering whether I should feed her to the Coyotes...
...she licks my face and whimpers a few times...
...I remember why the Coyotes haven't gotten Rottie pup...
...turn on the outside lights, hope it isn't too cold (still in shorts and a t-shirt) and go outside...
...let her do her thing...
...(remember to) praise her...
...bring her in and fumble my way back upstairs to the kitchen...
...feed her...
...(remember to) praise her again...
...eat myself...
...put her back in the cage...
...get ready for work...
Except this time, I finished in the bathroom and decided to lay back in bed for a few minutes. Nothingness... I wake up suddenly, Steph's not there, the dogs aren't there and it is very light out. What the hell happened???
I look over to the clock. 8:15
Nice... You just slept from 5:45 until 8:15. That's almost three hours more than you've gotten on any day in two weeks. Nice...
Work ended up being a slow day. I had a lot of running around to do and because I didn't load up on my normal coffee concoctions, I was a bit slow. I had enough and was able to scoot out of the office at 4 pm and head home. I figured, great... it's warm out, I'll sit outside with Steph and her mom and can enjoy the rest of the evening.
I got home and felt the call of sleep all of a sudden. Even after having a huge bottle of Coke, I couldn't keep anything straight while I worked on my laptop. So, I decided to lay down. Nothingness...
Anyway, you get the idea. In a matter of one day, I was almost able to play catch-up on the sleep I've lost due to Piri in the past two weeks (I know, catching up on sleep doesn't work, but trust me, sleeping more than normal on any given day helps).
She's turning out to be an amazing pup (very intelligent, very quick to learn, but very dominant - she'll definitely be a handful), but she has gotten the better of me and my much needed sleep. It's been two weeks since I was able to concentrate on Aristotle and I think with yesterday's game of checking my eyelids for leaks, I'm ready to read and write again.
