no sleep.....

so i'm sitting here at almost 2 in the morning, wishing for nothing more than to go to bed and go to sleep... my husband has been there for 3 hours, and its not fair...... so i'm getting ready to shut down the computer, take my shower, smoke a cigarette, and go to bed... and i hear my dog gnawing at his tail..... which i have wrapped up with gauze pads and medical tape because he has like 6 or 7 stitches on the underside of his tail right on his hind end (he had a tumor removed and already ripped his stitches out once and had to be re-stitched...).... i had him bandaged the same way last night and he managed to somehow pull his bandaging off... and i wrapped the medical tape AROUND his tail as though i were mummifying his tail!!! but yea, not only did he pull it off, but it was all still IN ONE PIECE!!!!! so now it looks like i'm going to have to stay up all night to make sure that the stupid dog doesn't pull off his stupid bandages and rip open his stupid stitches again..... needless to say, i'm not to happy right now.. yea, my dog looks retarded right now, but if he wasn't so stupid he wouldn't have to look so dumb... he has on an elizabethan collar (aka-- lampshade), and the medical tape i used is like BRIGHT green (and the dog is a blonde/white mix)... but i don't care how stupid he looks, i need to figure out a way to get him to quit gnawing at his stitches so that i don't have to go to the vet's office 2 to 3 times a week.. i mean, don't get me wrong, i like my vet, but i don't want to make visits to his office a regular thing!!! so how to you teach a 10 or 11 year old dog not to itch when he has the urge to??? idk, but i have a feeling this dog is going to drive me insane... and it's not like when i get to go to bed that i sleep all that well anyways... i mean, last night, i was sleeping okay, and then i had an extremely odd dream... i dreamt that i was in a co-ed prison, because i killed someone that i used to be related to because he did something i didn't like... yea.. idk.. and i swear this dream went on for like 3 hours!!! well, i'm going to try to get something constructive done since i can't go to bed...