my dog Lacey saved the day. . .

so we have two dogs. Lacey who sleeps on the floor on a dog bed with blankets and Bella who sleeps in bed with us. Lacey has a "spinkter" problem. Her spinkter doesn't work right and when she is sleeping it relaxes and she pees. She's had this problem since being about 1 year old and we've just came to be used to it. She sleeps on a waterproof bed and I was the cover once a week. We came to manage it very well. When she was younger she would lay anywhere in the house to take a nap and then when she got up and walked away we didn't understand why our carpet was wet. She's a great dog who I rescued from the pound and something as little as her having a bladder problem isn't going to stop me from giving her a great home. Anyways shes a very smart dog and always makes sure I'm not forgetting something or doing something wrong. When I cook dinner (i'm getting better..but at first when we moved on our own I had no idea what i was doing) she sits by the back door so that If the place was to catch on fire she was able to escape and I'm sure she'd take me with her. I am extremely terrible about putting a pot of water & tea bags on the stove to make tea and then get busy doing something and totally forget. So when she starts to smell the tea she comes into the living room and makes noises so that I remember to turn it off.

At 7 am this morning she was on my side of the bed making her usual noises. They aren't barks or crys....I can't really explain what they are but anyways she was next to the bed making her noises which usually means she needs to go outside or she wants covered up. So I got up out of bed and walked towards the bedroom door and she jumped in her bed and looked up at me telling me she was cold and wanted covered up. As I was covering her up I realized the house seemed really cold. We usually keep the thermostat set at 68 to save energy and money but it seemed much colder than 68. I woke Justin up and told him that it felt cold and he got up and checked...it was 55 degrees in our house and our furnance wasn't working...GREAT. So as I'm laying in bed and can hear him twiddle around with the furnance trying to figure out what is wrong I'm laying in bed thinking...okay..let me get this straight.. I get laid off....JC then gets laid off, its 4 days before christmas...and now our effin' furnace quit working?? what the hell? who did I piss off? haha

We called around and finally got someone to come out about 8 am. Twenty minutes, a new part, & probably $100 and some dollars later...our furnace is back to warming up our house. He said he'd just bill us so I don't know how much that 20 minutes on a sunday cost us but I guess it was worth it to have a warm home.