I nearly forgot to update again

I got sidetracked by having a fight with the new  "place board" I got for Peggy, aka an elevated bed. Maybe it's because I was tired after a pretty long day at work, but it was surprisingly fiddly to put together for something with so few parts, and I am 99% sure that's where I acquired a mystery paper cut on the pad of my left middle finger. It stings and is super annoying.

I did get it assembled, though, and she seems to feel fairly neutral about it. She has at least worked out that she gets treats if she sits or lies on it, and I put down a blanket she likes in order to encourage her to use it as a bed. The goal isn't to make her use it exclusively, but I want to start working on a "place" command with her, and she has eaten all the regular dog beds I got her. I think she honestly can't tell the difference between a bed that is full of stuffing and a dog toy that is full of stuffing. They're both fabric with stuffing, right? Surely that means the bed is just a really big toy meant for her to eviscerate! *sigh*

I mentioned that I signed up for more training with her, and that will start in a month from now (the trainer is all booked up until then). In the interim I am getting us both back into the habit of "practicing" training commands that she already knows, and we'll start working on extending the sessions a bit and also taking them outside where there are more distractions so that she learns to mind me better when it's not just the two of us in a quiet house.

Work for the past few days had something crop up RIGHT before it was time for me to leave, so I've had to stay late two days in a row (well, today was a bit more of a choice than yesterday, but still), and I am not super pleased with that. The hope is that tomorrow I will be able to leave on time, and I may even try to sneak out a tiny bit early, just because. I have only ever managed that twice since I started this job, so we shall see, I guess.

I didn't honour my resolution to get myself and Peggy out for exercise for the past two days, either. Yesterday I ended up not going because I'd slept so badly during the night, and today I kept hitting "snooze" on my alarm even though I slept just fine. It just felt as though I hadn't slept, which is really weird. I know I slept okay because I didn't toss or turn or wake up or do any of the usual things that signal a bad night of sleep. I just woke up feeling bone tired, and it was not an enjoyable experience at all, let me tell you.

I'm always a little torn about these situations, because while I almost always opt for more sleep, I wonder if I shouldn't just try to push through the feeling of being tired and just get things done anyway. Or would the sleep deprivation just end up hindering me anyway? It's difficult to say, because I haven't had consistent results. Sometimes pushing through works out well, and sometimes I'm so addled because of the lack of sleep that I actively make things worse or even make myself sick (usually in the form of a migraine) that puts me out of commission for a day or two, thus totally defeating the purpose of pushing through that extra hour or two. 

Well, tomorrow is another day, as the quote says. I shall try again!