Thursday, January 29, 2009

My dog is channelling my mother

For the last week, my dog Madison has been waking me up ten minutes before my alarm goes off. It doesn't matter when the alarm is set for -- same time each day or different time -- Madison magically knows to wake me just before it goes off. Waking up before your alarm ruins the entire night of sleep. It negates any rest you got all night because the last few minutes of sleep is the sweetest.

My mother used to do this with irritating frequency. I don't know how she knew, but she always did. However, my grandmother still does it every time I go to visit her, so I know Mom came by it honestly.

If Madison starts bringing out the vacuum in the last fifteen minutes of my favourite TV show, I'm going to have her put down.

9 comments:

  1. Twice mom made me pause the movie I was watching ten minutes away from the end to vacuum the basement. The one time, the movie was "Dead Man Walking," so I was bawling the whole time I vacuumed.

    She was a mean woman, our mother.

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  2. That's the EXACT moment I was thinking of!!!

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  3. Dude, is that what happened to mom?

    This comment makes more sense if you read the last sentence of your blog and then read my comment. Go...

    Funny, right? Oh, dead mom jokes. Never get old.

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  4. Oh man... my parents have impeccable timing, too, only theirs is more related to the bad parts in a movie. They're pretty conservative, and I am not kidding... A movie could be 8 hours long and have one cuss word or sexual innuendo and they would walk through the TV room on the way to the garage at that exact moment. If there were two bad things? You guessed it. They'd happen to walk through BOTH TIMES. We'd be like, "There is absolutely nothing else bad in this, we swears!" and they'd be like, "...I think you should maybe turn that off. It seems full of bad things."

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  5. You guys are too funny. By the way my password to post this is MOMAS

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  6. LOL - she's a dog on a mission!

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  7. Oh man, your Mom made Ky and me pause Sense and Sensibility to vacuum when we were watching it for the first time, just at the point where it looks like Kate Winslet's dying, and Emma Thompson's losing it. We were weeping as we vacuumed.

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  8. She made Grae and I vacuum during the last SCENE of Easy Rider. Serious there was three minutes left and we had to stop it. Ugh.

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  9. Enough! What they are NOT telling you, dear readers, is that their mother had been after them all day to vacumm and nothing had happened. So... They are slow learners, my children.

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