I have had a cold for about a week, and I am at the stage where I am coughing almost constantly. Since my coughing wakes up Hubby, I am trying to stay up for several hours after he falls asleep so he can get good sleep for at least the first half of the night. He sleeps the hardest between 2 and 4 in the morning, so that is when I finally stumble into bed. He can usually sleep for about an hour after I fall asleep before my coughing wakes him and drives him out to the living room to fall asleep while watching TV.
I have been trying to sleep in a bit on these past few days, to try to make up for the time I don't sleep on the first half of the night. It works most of the time. If, however, the bedroom door is left open there is an alarm clock that never fails to wake me. That is the cold, wet Indigo nose that usually finds the back of my neck and sends me shooting up out of bed.
Get this. Hubby can be in the front room, close to the dog dishes, food, fresh water and the door to let her go out. She will nap on the couch, 3 feet from Hubby until she decides she wants any of the above mentioned items. When she wants it, she will get up off the couch, stretch, then walk to the other end of the house to ask me for whatever she wants (she has different indication methods for each item). Rather than asking Hubby, who was only 3 feet from her, she walks across the room, down the hall, into the bedroom, over to my side of the bed, and cold noses me.
What is wrong with this dog that she will not ask Hubby for these things when HE IS SITTING RIGHT THERE!?!?!?!? Hubby of course gets a kick out of this, calling her a Mommy's Girl and laughing.
I do NOT laugh.
On the mornings the door is closed and she cannot come into the room, she will wait for me to get up then ask. There are some days Hubby will offer her any one of her morning requirements and necessities. Sometimes she takes him up on his offer to go outside, eat breakfast or have a drink of water. Most of the time she waits for me.
I am still NOT laughing.