this is what i have to put up with

Every morning when I'm preparing to go to work, slaving away to bring home the bacon, this is what I leave behind in the bedroom at home:


As soon as I get out of bed, the dog climbs up and takes my pillow. He wanders down for five minutes to pee in his little corner in the back yard and then beg for breakfast, and take his veggie-sausage wrapped glucosamine pill, but after that he plods back upstairs and goes back to bed--again, on my pillow. Is life fair? I think not.

I forgot to update the dog news: we saw a new vet last week (who I liked a lot more than the one we'd been seeing), and she prescribed some antibiotics in case there's an inner ear infection. We haven't had a repeat episode of the scary spinning sickness, but she agreed that it probably was a vestibular (inner ear) problem. She said his outer ear looked fine, but that we couldn't tell if there was an inner ear problem without doing an MRI or something.

She also said that the lenses in his eyes were starting to harden, which means that he'll have trouble seeing in the dark but will be OK if there's light. I've noticed this myself--that he's become reluctant to jump down off the bed if it's dark in the bedroom. And both times he's had the scary spinning problem, he'd just jumped down off the bed in the dark. So when I get out of bed in the morning, I open the curtains just a little so there'll be some light in the room now, so he can get up into and down from the bed more easily. No problems so far. Fingers are crossed.