On Thursday Rogue (our black lab) went off to be spayed. For a regular dog, this can be a traumatic experience. That seems predictable and normal. But for Rogue… We got Rogue when she was 8 weeks old. Since that time, she has been ingrained so much with the family that that animal can NOT be by herself for one minute without whining. It used to drive me crazy but I have gotten used to it in the last year. We used to be able to let out Bandit (our first black lab) and he’d go lay outside for awhile and enjoy the sun/shade and just being outside – without barking and causing a scene. NOT ROGUE. Rogue goes out and does her business and then immediately makes a beeline right back to the door. And there she sits and begins her whining campaign to come in the house. If we are outside she is fine. But God forbid she is outside by herself for any period of time and the whining and crying begins. I will say that because I had a hard time dealing with this quirk of hers initially (read that as a lot of yelling out … Read more
[ Continue ]Fridays are highly anticipated in this house but not because of the normal TGIF crap that everyone usually feels on the way towards the weekend. In this house, Fridays are treated as a national holiday because Friday is GARBAGE DAY! The progression of the week is marked by its relation to garbage day. Is it garbage day today? When is it going to be garbage day? It’s going to be garbage day soon. It’s only Monday. It’s going to be garbage day on Friday. It’s going to be garbage day tomorrow. It’s garbage day TODAY! It was garbage day yesterday… Dan has been enthralled with garbage days since he was 2 1/2. He can hear the garbage truck coming down the street from the back of the house. He will then fly into action and stop whatever he’s doing and proudly announce that a garbage truck is here. He then makes his way to the front window where he gawks and talks about the garbage truck at length. He’ll even sing songs about the garbage truck (or the dog as she never leaves his side) while he watches them take our trash away. And boy are we are in for … Read more
[ Continue ]Thursday mornings are my grocery shopping time. HATE IT!
[ Continue ]Brain Dump… I came across that term sometime this week in regards to thinking your business plans out. I think it was mentioned on one of the linkedin groups I subscribe to. I don’t recall. The idea is to just write everything down that you could think of regarding getting your business started, back on track, or whatever… a brain dump. So I thought I’d do a little Friday Brain Dumping. ENABLING – I saw a twitter this morning that directed you to a great site whose focus is on finding free commercial use fonts. So I spent a good chunk of this morning downloading. lol! If you are in need of some fonts, check out Font Squirrel. Great stuff! After I grabbed a good amount of fonts, I didn’t want to unzip them all individually… I am lazy (just ask Jeanine)… So I came across BitZipper (free trial) that will unzip files in a batch. I checked WinZip but didn’t see that option. BitZipper worked like a charm. I might just have to buy it now for all my batch unzipping. lol! Last Friday, I spent three hours (yes 3!) weeding the front yard. I ended up with an … Read more
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