Title: WARNING: @ 5:06a my internal spell check works lousy and my TYPO finger works GREAT

Our 10+y/o dog, Chocolate has been getting me up around 5a for like the past week and a half and now by body is re-trained to getting tired around 9p instead of 1a and waking around 5a instead of 7a.

GGGGRRRR please dog, I want my sleep back cause there is NO way I can get to bed much before midnight or 12:30a as hard as I might try!

Today she woke me at 3:55a YUP....and hour early! I let her out, then back in cause at minus 15 degrees F wind chill, I don't tear go back to bed til she is let back in as she would freeze to death if I fell back to sleep with her outside yet.

So I hit the covers after letting her in and then @ 4:45a she awakes me again and leads me to Celine's bedroom to show me she is sleeping on the floor with tons of blankets on...ummmmmmm, I say, "yes Chocolate" (who is now curled up on the floor at my youngest daughter's head), I say to the dog, "know she is on the floor!" At which point in this human/dog conversation my sleepy daughter lifts her head and mumbles, "What?" Go back to sleep, sweetie", I quietly whisper.

What an amazing guard dog huh? She knows my daughter does not belong on the floor. I am quite certain that she was too tired from watching tv to crawl back into bed so just gathered the blankets she had been cacooned in while watcing Disney Channel and just passed out there.

LOL

I know I won't be able to go back to bed....so here I sit typing this blog post and getting ready to start on my "depression in the elderly" batch of articles for my main client...have a great weekend my dear (probably NOT sleep deprived) readers!

Laura

My first post of 2008

So much has happened since my last post in December. The holidays were great. Christmas eve found my small family gathered at the little congregation across the street as we listened to the traditional story of Christ's birth and sang Christmas carols. The service was candlelight and so peaceful. The new year holiday is always such a time of reflection and remembrance of all the hopes and challenges of the year just ended. The year had been filled with many trials and triumphs for both my writing career and for my personal life.

My Website Joyfulwraps.com is really becoming quite the ebook treasure place and I am hoping to load up all of my ebooks that I have written very soon.

Doug, my youngest brother and I went into business together at the end of 2007. We now run AMWdiningdirectory.com for the Ashland, Mansfield, Wooster area restaurants. I am really looking forward to watching our business grow over the years. It should be a nice monthly income to supplement my writing career.

I would like to send out warm wishes for a healthy and happy 2008 for all of my blog readers.

Take care everyone!