Omaha

I've written that I work from home and Belle and Willow keep me company.  We talk back and forth and have some awesome conversations.  It's a great life! 

Well, okay, I talk back and forth for all of us.  It is kind of like doing a ventriloquism act without having to pretend I'm not doing all the talking. 

When it is time to go to work each morning I say, "Time to work! Work, work, work!" and I head back to the office.  On very rare occasions they are already in the office waiting for me, occasionally they follow me and start work "on time," but more often than not they just stay rooted to the sectional, open their heavy eyes just long enough to look at me as if to say, "Oh Mom, thank you for inviting us, but we are really comfy here, so you go on and do what you have to do and we ...........zzzzzzzz." 

Then an hour or so later, when they wake up, they slowly wander back. 

It is truly a dog's life. 

Once at work, they pretty much do the same thing they do in the living room.....sleep, but when they do it in the office we call it "work."    

Sleeping....(on the living room sectional)....

Working (in the office.)  


See the difference? 


Neither do I.



I wish my work looked like that.  

About 10:00 I take a break.  In order to let them know it was break time (really meaning time for them to go outside) I used to say "Breaker breaker 1-9!"  (If you are younger than me, that was CB talk in the "old days.")  

Then I got to where I added to my break blurb  and started saying "Breaker, breaker 1-9, 85-64, hut! hut!"  You know, like a football player.  

I have no clue where it came from, so don't ask.  Just read along like this is totally normal and go with the flow.  

Well a week ago, if you watch any football at all, you heard Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos say "Omaha" when  calling plays.  Usually I don't catch much of what the quarterback is saying, but on that day I was walking through the living room and heard him call one play and said to Michael, "Did he just say Omaha?"   I believe the NFL announcing crew actually counted the number of times he said Omaha during that game.  So of course last week I had to expand my break routine to "Breaker, breaker 1-9, 85-64, hut! hut! - Omaha!"  

The dogs understand it and anxiously get up, after all they have worked hard and are ready to stretch their short little legs.  

I hope I don't add anymore to this break routine, or it will take me my whole break just to announce it is break time.