Emily, Uma, and Me

The girls ate late tonight. Their usual dinnertime was delayed by a few hours. Do they mind? I think not.
When I roll in shortly after seven, Uma goes into her normal "rabbit dance" and Emily does her normal "chew the shit out of the Nylabone" routine.

I should probably explain the "rabbit dance." When Uma gets excited (in a good way) she does this thing where she runs around in a tight little figure eight, then stops with her butt sticking up in the air and her face kind of pushed down onto her stretched out front legs. (It's the classic play pose for any behaviorists out there.) Anyway, she does this figure eight REALLY fast. And she does it over and over and over again, as long as I encourage her. Emily.....well, she just chews. She's a chewing machine. But then......she's an English Bulldog. 

So the girls ate late, I changed into pjs, made myself a big steamy mug of my signature SugarCookieCocoaTea, climbed onto the futon, and relaxed with my laptop and Hulu.
Emily retired early tonight, around 8:30. She's funny how she hangs out in the living room with Uma and me, sometimes for several hours. She basically kicks Uma off the futon (because, did I mention, she's an English Bulldog?) and sleeps next to me. At some point, she decides she's had enough of the futon, or me, or the sound of the laptop, or something, and she gets up and goes into my bedroom, jumps up on the bed (which she's NOT supposed to be able to do because, did I mention, she's an English Bulldog?) and goes to sleep. Personally, I think it's the noise. Here's why....

I used to go to bed and sit up for a while with my laptop writing in bed. Initially, Emily would come up on the bed and lie down next to me (she sleeps with me at night......we spoon). But as soon as I open up the laptop and start tapping away on the keyboard, she lifts up her head, stares at the laptop for about ten seconds, then gets up and leaves. And she doesn't come back until I close the laptop up. Seriously. Like she knows when the laptop is closed up. For a while, she would wait before jumping up on the bed. Instead, she'd just stand at the foot of the bed and watch me, waiting to see if I was going to climb into bed and open up the laptop, or just climb into bed. If I open up the laptop, she immediately turns around and walks out. Kinda like, "I'm outta here." And again, she doesn't come back until I close up the laptop.

So it's just Uma and me on the futon right now. She's asleep but I've discovered a new program while searching through Hulu+ for interesting shows to watch. Chocolate Television. Who knew.

Had a fun time at callbacks tonight, then dinner with friends. Now topped off with Chocolate Television. Good evening.