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I have an old La-Z-Boy chair in my den. I sit in it all the time….the so-called leather covering of the chair, over the years, has worn and all these years later continues to flake off…. so I cover it with an old comforter.

Today I decided to wash the comforter, pulled it off the chair, put it in the washing machine and then put an old sheet over the chair to keep my clothes from getting covered in small bits of pretend leather.

Rhu is super resistant to change. Yesterday, when I took her out for her morning ablutions, she went out, did her business and came back in. We weren’t messing around because I couldn’t find her raincoat. So she got rained on and was highly unimpressed.

This morning, I tried one of the dog jacket/covers that my friend sent me …. In spite of the fact that I know it’s too big for her and it’s going to require some alteration, but it made me laugh because again she went outside did her business and as I was bending over to bag it, she started to drag me back to the house… and walked right out of the jacket thing that she was wearing.

So after I started a load of laundry, I came back to sit in the den, and she was sitting in the doorway to the den glaring at the chair balefully … It took some coaxing, but I finally got her back into the chair. She’s not impressed though she sniffed it high and low and has settled in beside me, but she’s retaining the right to escape should the chair make any untoward movements.

I swear the only being more resistant to change than I am is my dog lol

I simply cannot get warm today…

I fully understand with the change of season that it is substantially cooler first thing in the morning than it was… So not being able to just get dressed and wander out the door to take the dog out requires me actually being awake and thinking before I take her out.

Something is setting her off in the mornings and she barks like an idiot nonstop for about an hour unless I get up, out of my warm little nest and move to the chair in the den at which point she gets up sits beside me or on me and goes back to sleep… The whole thing defeats all of these lovely relaxed habits I’ve had since I retired… The ability to sleep in is gone. 

On payday I’m going to order myself a water pistol…that should get her attention but it’s still going to require I get outta bed.

I understand that it’s likely lack of sleep that is making me so cold, but I’m wearing heavy socks, a shirt and a sweater and a sweatpants and I’m sitting under a blanket in the den… I’ve had a cup of coffee and even it didn’t warm me up.

I’ve even tried going to bed earlier to allow for more sleep time… but just because I go to bed, doesn’t mean I get to sleep… Two or three or even four hours sleep is simply not enough.  I’ve never, in the 14 years I’ve lived here, closed the bedroom door at night…but I can see it coming. I have this comical visual of Rhu launching herself out of bed and stubbing her nose on the closed door lol

Wish me luck lol