What Pelos Does All Day Long

Actually, it's all day and all night, because I'm mostly nocturnal. But starting around sunrise, I have to:

• Walk through the house to make sure nothing changed while I slept.
• Look out the window to see what's going on outside. Watch the birds.
• Wait for Ed and Connie's alarm radio to go off. Wake them up.
• Push them out of bed, or at least scream at them until they get up.
• Remind them where my food is and how to prepare it.
• Eat breakfast.
• Remind Ed and Connie to eat breakfast.
• Take a nap, now that I can have the bed to myself.
• Get Connie off to school, if she has to be there.
• Get Ed to start working.
• Examine the back yard in minute detail from my window. This could take several hours.
• Remind Ed to take a break. Ask for dinner just to see if his brain is working.
• Nap some more.
• Check out the entire house again.
• Make Ed take a break again. Try to get him to move out of the chair this time.
• Look out the front window for a while.
• Look out the back window for a while longer.
• Nap again (watching can be tiring).
• Get Ed to feed me, because it really is time for dinner.
• Back to bed for a well-deserved nap.
• Connie comes home! Ask her to feed me (you never know).
• Connie usually knows that she should eat, so I go and remind Ed.
• Wait patiently on the couch for them to make their dinner.
• While they eat, I remind them how hard I watched and napped all day, so meybe they'll give me some of their food too. Sushi is the best!!!
• Sleep some more while they putter around.
• Make the rounds of the house again.
• Remind them when it's time for them to sleep.
• Remind them again an hour later.
• Drag them bodily into bed. Sheesh! Will they never learn?
• Lie in bed with them until they are asleep.
• Walk through each room of the house one last time.
• Take another nap.
• Start the next day.

And they think I have it easy! Maybe after they read this, they'll realize just how hard I work around here.