week

it's been a great week. not having to work was definitly a plus. i go back tonight. we spent my last day off yesterday visiting my parents. they were pretty excited to see colby. he was pretty excited to see some snow. we had a nice time and dad made us dinner. colby even got some chicken. i was able to do more this week with my days off. i took my car to be inspected. all it needed was new windshield wipers. sweet. i also went out to the farm. it's a big mudhole now with all the snow that's melting. but it was nice to get the horses in and get the mud off them. we watched michael moore's newest movie last night. capitalism. very informative. and scary. his films always do that. gareth might go see the crazies this weekend. i've just got a few more things to get done for colby this weekend. we need to get him a city license from the spca. and i'm going to sign us up for puppy training classes at petco. it's not that we're really having problems with him. but i'd like us to really have control over him at this age so when he gets bigger we don't have huge problems. he's been really good so far though. we're really happy.

home

he's home now. things have gone really well so far. he's doing great with the housebreaking. hasn't had an accident at all. we put him in the crate last night and after whining for a few minutes he was quite calm and went to sleep. he's let out a few barks but we've been able to stop him pretty quickly. kitt's been spending a lot of time under our bed but they've seen eachother and neither has been too upset. he's half asleep at my feet right now and we're watching dogs 101. i'm happy. he took right to gareth too. he's been really good with his training. he's had some trouble getting up and down the steps but we've been patient and positive and he's getting the hang of it. he's so good on walks. we thought that would take a lot of training to get him walking on a leash but he's doing great. so we're quite happy with how things are going and happy that he's finally home.

ready

we get to pick up colby on tuesday. we've decided to keep the name. i went to see him again yesterday. got a video of him outside this time. too cute. we finished his shopping last night. got things all set up and kitt started exploring it.

we both got some extra days off next week to spend with the new guy. gareth really enjoyed shutter island. i thought the informant was quite amusing. not too much else is going on. we just can't wait for tuesday.

puppy

something seemingly random happened this weekend. we decided to get a dog. i've actually been wanting, looking, researching and convincing for months now. then i found this guy. his name for now is colby. i like the name but we may find something else that suits him. he's the sweetest guy. i went to meet him yesterday and took some videos. i took this video within five minutes of meeting him. i was there for about two hours. took him outside twice. he loved the snow. i didn't get a video of that. i took this video at the end of our meeting. he's four months old now. he's listed as a chow chow mix. but i really don't think he has much if any chow in him. as you can see his tongue is pure pink. he really looks like a shiba inu except his ears bend at the top and his tail is straight. he's adorable whatever hs is. gareth's excited about getting him too. one of our main concerns is the fact that we live in an apartment. but i've started puppy proofing the room he'll start out in and we plan to crate train him and give him a lot of excercise. the other concern is the cat but we're going to separate them at first. they showed me how good he is with the shelter cat though and we had a dog over the other day to see how kitt was. she didn't necessarily like the dog but she didn't freak out either. and most importantly she hasn't peed at all. i brought a towel to the shelter and rubbed the dog down with it and put it in her bed too so she starts getting used to the dog's smell. i think if we take things slow and are careful that we can make this work well for everyone involved. we're just waiting for the shelter to call the vets to see if kitt's up to date on her shots. which she is. and call the landlord to see if we have his approval. which we do. then they'll let us know when he can get in to be neutered and when we can pick him up. i'm so excited. other exciting things have happened this week i should write about. on valentine's day i walked into the living room to find a giant box of ghirardelli chocolates. my favorite. i finally went to the doctors this week to get put on some cholesterol meds. not too exciting but a good thing to do. gareth's woflman review just got posted. i hope they get on the ball with things and put up his review of shutter island this week. the informant doesn't come out until next week so i should be able to see it now. it's going to be a long week waiting to get the new puppy home. but we get to go shopping for him so that'll keep me busy.

riches

another pretty busy week here. i ended up closing the store early last weekend on the day i'd switched shifts. this next paycheck will pay for those two snow days getting cut short. but i just checked my bank account and saw i got my taxes back today. i haven't seen that much money in there in a long time. probably since last year's taxes. puts a smile on my face. i was pretty happy on my day off monday when i got gareth to go to the park with me at sunset. we met some nice birds and saw some pretty scenes. we went to the byrd after and saw the fantastic mr fox. gareth had already seen it but he said it was even better the second time. it looked really neat and made me smile. i've been waiting to get the informant at our store all week but it hasn't come. hopefully we'll get it this weekend and i'll get to see it before it comes out next week. gareth went to see wolfman last night. he starts the prescreenings next week. i'm excited for him. we had another snow storm here. this time it was mid-week. i'd barely been aware of it since it was only supposed to be a few inches. but i opened the morning it hit and was faced with the worst road conditions i've had to drive in so far. i got on the interstate since it had been the most cleared on other days and watced a truck spin out in front of me. scary stuff. i made it there safe though and got a call from my manager who sounded surprised. she was told we could open the store late because of the horrible weather. but i opened on time. the thing that made this storm so bad was the wind. it was like a blizzard when it was snowing then still looked like it was snowing with the wind whipping what was fallen all around. it's supposed to snow a little again tonight into tomorrow morning. i'm opening so i hope it's not another crazy little storm. we're all pretty tired of this now. i haven't made it out to the barn in the past two weeks. partly due to the snow and partly due to my new schedule. i hope i can get back on board with that. i'm working on valentine's day sunday and we don't usually do much anyways but we're going to go out to dinner tonight to celebrate. i'll take any excuse for that.

productive

i'm getting my weekends confused. it seems like they've all been snowy ones lately. this is another weekend of snow. i took some pictures last weekend. they actually closed the store early on saturday and i was supposed to close so i didn't have to go in at all. it was the first snow day i've had off in a long time. i'm also off today. but not because of the snow. i just got a call from my manager asking if i wanted to switch shifts tomorrow and close instead of opening and i gladly accepted. she said she has a truck so she can make it out easily. i'm really liking this manager so far. she seems to have her act together and run a smooth store. even though the drive is twice as far and i have to take the interstate. it's worth it not to complain about someone who makes more money than me. poor gareth had to go in this morning to help out his manager who was working alone. he said it was the busiest day he's ever worked. he's passed out on the couch right now. i went out to the grocery store earlier and it was a madhouse. the roads were getting pretty bad when i left. i don't know why people risk their safety like that for entertainment. i went to the dentist for the first time in like four years this week. i hadn't had insurance and i just signed up for it this year. they actually said things looked pretty good. no cavities. but they did do quite a job scraping all the tartar buildup. they made me bleed. that was a first for me at a cleaning. i went to my parents' house after my appointment for the first time since christmas. my dad's been sick for a month. he finally went to the doctors and found out he has bronchitis. poor dad. hopefully he's on his way to getting better now. my mom should be coming home next week. i haven't talked to her this week but i think things are going well now. i stopped by petsmart this week. they said they were hiring and that i should hear back from them soon. i filed my taxes today. i'm getting twelve hundred back this year. woohoo. i can finally start saving again after emptying my savings payng off my car. we watched a serious man on dvd this week. it's really good. pretty subtle. but keeps your interest. we're going to watch couples retreat tonight. not expecting so much from that. gareth got a message from rva magazine about doing pre screenings with the radio station y101. that's a great step for them and for him. i hope it all works out. this is a long post. guess it's been a pretty productive week for us.