Sooooo I told the dogs,  "Guess what girls? Brian and Jeanne will be here back in Madison in 2 hours." *no responses* "Which means I'll have to go pick them up.  And you can't come with because there won't be room in my car for 3 humans,  2 dogs, and their luggage."  *Sophie yawns and rolls on her back,  Audrey winks at me* "Right.  So I'm going to finish steeping this cuppa tea then drink it then take care of you girls before I quick go to work-" *both dogs leap up excitedly,  run to the door and sit waiting expectantly* "No. We're not all going to work.  Just me.  You girls will be left alone while I go pick them up. Wouldn't you rather stay here than be alone with Billy Joel babysitter at work?" *Audrey shakes her head vehemently,  Sophie looks at Audrey then looks at me then sneezes* "Alright then. I give in. If you'd rather come to work and wait there,  that's fine.  Lemme just finish this cuppa once it won't scald my tongue then we will all go together." 

And now I've had the dogs taking turns physically blocking the door or sitting on me to make sure I keep my promise don't sneak out on them.  😂  And that's even with full bowls of kibble in the kitchen from their breakfast they never ate yet today.  😂 I mean,  I know Audrey prefers to be left there with Billy Joel music and Sophie wants to play fetch,  but this last half hour of their obsessive observation staring me down constant attached to me and leaping up every time I shift position has been a lot of attention. 😂 

Welp.  I mean.  At least I have no doubts that the doggos love me. Time to take my bitches to work and hang out with them for an hour or so before heading to the airport for some cell phone lot reading time while waiting on my parents' on time arrival. 

O mes bons dieux!!  I leaned forward to pick up my mug from the coffee table and there was an explosion of canine kinetics!  😂

 

P.S. 6:06pm addendum:

I picked up my parents at the airport, dropped them off at their house and stole peonies from behind the garage and received all the gifts my maman had for me then went to work to see the dogs and for them to come pick up miss Sophie B. Dogkins (my parents just named her Sophie, I added on the rest. because I feel like dogs should have punny full names of famous people/characters that I admire and like.  Which is why our family sheltie was named Samson by my da but everyone always called him Sam which I morphed into Samwise Doggee, and my little bear is Audrey Pupburn. And why I have renamed Sophie to be Sophie B. Dogkins. It's just a thing I do with dogs.) And then I took back outside the plants that had been brought in for the frost advisory and gave everything in outdoor planters a nice drink. Aaaaaand now I've been stuck for the last hour and a half in my personal time sucking loop of listening to Billy Joel music where I don't want to leave before a song ends BUT I have to catch right at the end of the song to shut it off or close the door because I know all his songs so well that if I hear the opening bar, my brain ids it immediately and other than a handful of exceptions that are my not so favorite Billy Joel songs (*cough* Zanzibar *cough*) I then decide "Just one more song, we'll leave when this song ends." And then this cycle repeats for hours sometimes...  And like, Audrey would really REALLY like to go home FINALLY. Wait hold up, 21 seconds to end! HA! YAS!!!! CAUGHT IT AND PAUSED RIGHT AT THE END OF FOR THE LONGEST TIME!! At the -0:00 mark right before the next randomized Billy Joel song started! Set it on repeat 1 for a pleasant surprise next time I return to my iTunes at my desk.  And now, we go home!