Waking Up

When I'm working waking up is a fairly innocuous event. The alarm goes off and four pairs of eyes open up and call bullshit while I get ready and then I throw them out when I leave. Right now since I'm not working there are a couple of ways I wake up.

1. Earl looks at Sarah. This is where I hear some low grumblings, then three sharp barks from Sarah and I yell, "Earl! Stop looking at her!" Then Earl moseys back over to where I am on the bed and lays back down, like "What? I didn't do anything." Sometimes this happens as early as 4:00 am. I don't know why he insists at looking at her while she is sleeping and then pissing her off, but he does.

2. Sarah just starts barking. It's a different bark, than the Earl and Randi are looking at me bark. This is how I woke up this morning. She'll decide she wants out and will start barking for no good reason other than to bark. Then I get up and throw her out, and then three minutes later she barks to be let back in.

Either way, if I want to sleep in it pisses me off. Since I don't have children and according to this Daily Beast article have a .0005% chance of ever having them, I feel like I should be able to sleep in on the very rare occasions when I want. (If I sleep til 7:00, I feel like I've slept in, so it is very rare that I sleep past that anyways.) This morning I was just annoyed because I did want to sleep in and Randi and Earl just wanted to look at Sarah or lick every part of my body that was exposed. Eventually, I just opened the front door so they could all move freely about, hoping that if an intruder came that they would protect me.