Thursday Aug 30

Finally! Glorious sleep!!!!!! I slept a good 7 hours, almost completely straight through, Shawn too. I felt good! Good thing too because I had a 9 hour day ahead of me at work. In the mornings I had been making up a cooler filled with soda, water and ice packs. I made sure Shawn had the phone, a bag of snacks, and remote controls handy when he woke up.

The animals are pretty restless by now. I put a baby gate up in the bedroom door so they wouldn't be jumping on Shawn's knee.

The dogs were beginning to act strange at this point. Prissy, the 10 pounder began to sleep in the hallway to the bedroom. Lucy, the 4 pounder, had begun to bark at anything from a leaf blowing in the wind to our neighbors pulling into their drive.

Shawn's bird, LuLu had become less irritable towards me, which I found odd. Dang bird normally hates me even though I am the one who cleans the cage, changes out food and water. Typical. But I had noticed that LuLu spit at me a little less than usual. And she wasn't trying to peck my hands.

Lucy sits by the gate for an hour or two at a time, whining like a puppy now and then. Prissy sits in front of the gate and barks that old familiar "You've locked me in the bathroom" bark. Poor little guys. They miss their Shawn.