Our Current Normal

Today SOME things got back to normal. For one thing, the painter is done and only has to come back and do some touch up. For another, my Cousin C, the youngest of the household, started school today so she is not downstairs snacking and watching streaming tv on her computer. She will be gone until late afternoon now. So it will be just Mommy #2 and us.

As you can tell, though, we still have our house guest Ms Lulu with us. She is like one of the gang and just does what we do. Today we watched The Today Show for a while as the rest of the household got up, dressed and out the door. We like the show a lot for it's variety of topics and its personable hosts. This photo shows us listening to Savannah Guthrie interviewing Bodie Miller and his wife re their new projects.

Then Mommy got going with laundry and kitchen clean-up. AND NOW she is settled into her office to do some work. She works from home, you know, and that means we get a lot of together time even during the week. She doesn't like it (the working from home) - but I DO.

This is a view of us "HELPING" Mommy do her account reconciliations. She says a lot of HBO words when she does them.

It is supposed to be HOT today as well so we have to plan our potty breaks accordingly. It is too hot on the NON-GRASS (it was a victim of the drought and Mommy, Aunt B and Aunt T have not figured out what is the best solution) to do our bidness later in the day.

So that is about it for the Monday version of excitement here.

I'll let you know if that changes. YAWN!!! Time for my mid-morning nap.

Me and my Calorie-Free Cake from Princess Leah

Sabotage - Pug Style

Yes. I HAVE used this photo a number of times

I am the MISTRESS of sabotage. I have spent eight years honing my craft and today I can honestly say that I have totally ROCKED IT!

See. . . Mommy gets up very early every morning. Yes, she does so at MY prodding so I can get in on an early morning brekkie (breakfast). I make it virtually impossible for her to stay in bed past 6:30 am no matter what time she went to bed. Once I am done eating (like in .002 seconds after I start), I return to BED. Lucky for me I have beds in virtually every corner of the house (usually filled by Sunshine the Cat or Molly the Bed Hog - but they are not up this early). Mommy, on the other hand, is up and running with little to no chance of returning to the warm confines of her bed. 

Am I remorseful? Not a chance.

This was my latest SABOTAGE mission

Note the positioning - right on her LAP. Molly helped by snuggling really really close and restricting Mommy's movement. The trick to this move is to start SNORING as soon as possible. This makes Mommy feel guilty should she need to get up and "Disturb" us. We are not really asleep as is evidenced in our dashing into the kitchen should anyone enter in there. BUT until that happens, Mommy is my captive. 

This morning (when the photo happened) we managed to delay Mommy's getting ready and going to work by a FULL TWO HOURS! In the meantime, we were aided by the appearance of Zac Efron and Ed Sheeran on the Today show. If I could read, you would swear I planned it.

Do any of you sabotage your humans into doing YOUR bidding rather than their own?