Rats!

So every time I go to Austin, I feel technologically inspired. Everyone there blogs regularly and is on myspace, etc. Here in DC none of my friends even answer their cell phones......

I was visiting a friend and former co-worker last week in Austin and my neighbor "puppysat". It is a big job having two big dumb Labs to care for. but I think her time was fairly uneventful even if it was lacking sleep. Hard to slumber when 70lbs times 2 is jumping on the bed and off the bed in tandem!! As is my mantra "what comes around goes around" so when my neighbor announced she was going to the beach I happily volunteered to watch Jeb (yes, Jedediah is his full and proper name). Well, shortly before his mommy let for the beach he discovered the way to open the lazy Susan cupboard in her kitchen and ate a whole bag of Reese's pieces, Nestle semi sweet morsels and yes a whole box of the deadly bakers chocolate (I think he was PMSing!!!) So off to the emergency Vet they went when my neighbor arrived home from work and found his "handiwork". $700 later Jeb is fine and just crapping out the remnants of the treatments. And now after living together for a few days, Lexi has the "Sympathy Shits". So we have been making the late night/early morning trips outside-ugh! I thought I was done with puppydom.......

today, i took them to the back yard behind my neighbors house so they could run free for a while in a, what I'm sure will be a feeble attempt to wear them out so they will sleep tonight. As we were running and playing and generally having a doggie blast............I spotted a rat. Do I live in "the hood" you ask......................not even close! Rather an historic neighborhood that has homes with crawl spaces-they Ritz of the rat world. Dark and damp-mmmmm four stars for a rat! He was very well fed and knowing my neighbors it was all fresh and organic from Whole Foods! Jeb spotted him too..........time to leave pups!

Whose yer Daddy?

For the past month my friend Dennis has been staying with me. We finally got him to come back to DC for good! He has been back and forth to San Fran a bunch of times; once for 13 years!! This time he came back and had no where to live so he stayed with me. It is official...my neighbors hate me! All we did for 30 days straight was laugh and giggle and talk in stupid voices and call the dog Pretty Kitty! I'm normally a very quiet erson, Tv is always on and I carry on complete oconverstations with the dog, but for the most part quiet. Dennis on the other hand....very LOUD!

Because he is so animated, Lexi loves him! Everytime we cam into the house they both act like they haven't seen each other in a year! She get's excited and he eggs her on. She loves it! She barks and growls and jumps around, futher reason for my neighbors to hate me. Did I mention they have a new baby and another on the way?

Well now Dennis has found his own place in DC and is happily a city dweller. For days he has been gone and every morning when we come back into the house after our morning walk, she bee lines for the bedroom and sniffs around and looks for him. She lays on the bed with a pout on her face, missing her "Daddy"!

Wonder if he'll send alimony?

Puppy Orphan?

So I almost killed a pedestrian today.

What is it with the older, very conservative, very uptight, way too self absorbed Washington businessmen? The answer? Apparently they own the world!

Why so bitter you ask? While I love my new job, I have been so overwhelmed lately that by the time 6:30 rolls around I am so ready to go home to my pup!!! I slink in to my car, deaprt the garage in our building and round the corner on to 13th street. At the next intersection I turn right onto H street. Now... keep in mind; it's dusk. My light is green. I slow and glance to the pedestrian sign above. What do I see? A SOLID RED HAND! So I begin to round the corner. Then what do I see? Some jackass who doesn't even break his stride at the curb, walks right out in front of me. I jack on the break missing him by inches. Then........ this jackass.......has the never to shoot me the finger and scream at me!!! This guy has got to be in his 50s, wearing a dark suit and a dark shirt-like I can even see him walking on the solid red hand!

So on the ride home I started to think. What if I had hit him? What if I had really injured him? This guy probably has some high powered job, hence his extreme importance and obvious exemption from the LAW. He probably would have sued me or had me convicted with mandatory jail time. This then made me think, who would parent my furry daughter?

Obviously, my commute is way too long!

I'm calm now. But jeeeze!

This is what I have learned.

I can't yet come when my name is called and I still run out in front of moving cars, but when she gets the suitcase out of the closet, I am on my best behavior..........

How do they know? How do dogs know that when you pull this little black box out of the closet and start putting clothes in it that "it is B-A-D". I'm getting ready to travel tomrrow...just for a few days, might I add. Heck, I pulled out the small suitcase-not the big honkin' one that my car would fit in. As soon as I unzipped the bag the slinking began. She is currently sitting next to me on the couch with her head in my lap....all sweet and shit. That is how I know something is up! Perhaps she knows she is going to Aunt Kelley and Uncle Tim's Puppy Boot Camp and is in fear!!!

Nonetheless if they learned the important stuff...like not running out in front of cars, as easily as they learned the meaning of a SUITCASE......Yikes, life might be alittle calmer.

But how do you resist that face!!!!!

I'm back and I'm one!

We'll .......I have been remiss in posting but now I'm back. It is much harder ten years later to have a puppy! She is so full of engery and I am not! Becuase I am now a city dweller and live in a hoity toity neighborhood where fencing in your yard "extinguishes the community feel" so there for it is not permitted........So I ahve to haul my happy ass to the dog park if I want a peacful evening of TV viewing. But I'm not bitter. If I succumb to the exaustion that I normally feel at night and forgo the trip to the dog park for expendiature of pent up puppy energy.....this is what I get. (see photo). I thnk she is mocking me!!

So forgive me for the break in blogg-but i jsut couldn't keep up.

Walking on water

So I come down the stairs last night and there she is................................. standing right in the middel of the glass coffee table . Now I have no doubt that she is smart and agile enough to get up there but how she didn't break right through the thin little piece of glass with all her 4 months of girth is beyond me. When I yelled at her she turned and looked at me as if to say, "Look Ma, I'm walking on water". As I came closer she immediately turned and jumped off the table and ran........as if to say" OK, perhaps you aren't amuszed."

Doggie Insurance?

We're almost at the 4 month mark! Today we got our last round of shots and so Doggie Parks here we come! Of course I am still concerend about the giant dogs whose owners allow them to maul my puppy and boddy slam her a la "Wrestlemania". All I see is a good shot to the kidneys with a giant paw and a giant vet bill will ensue! Ahhhh, paranoid Mama speaks!

So today she weighs 33.2 lbs and due to her exponential growth and endless excitement on the leash, she has caused my chronic tendonitis to flare up like and inferno. But I am fighting it like a champ-she is just too damn cute to let anything get me down. Look how tall she is!

So after a $200 vet bill inclusive of the last round of shots, a rabies vaccine and a diagnosis of what I think is some sort of doggie Pink Eye, (oh,did I mention she has a Wart ON her eyeball?) Well it's not really a wart but some sort of "extra Tissue" as the vet calls it. Yeah, I have extra tissue on my ASS! I swear when they don't know what it is-they call it "extra tissue, or an extra nipple -Like Cahndler! But none the less, we are free to grow for another few months until the day she looses her "womanhood" forever! Because of her little Pink Eye issue and the "extra tissue" there may be a need, when she is out haveing her reproductive organs ripped form her loins, she will be getting an Eye lift! Thank God for Canine Helth Insurance. Yes, we have it! You know, everytime I go to the Vet it is at least $150 so for less than $300 per year, I'll reccomend the insurance!

PS. I have no front teeth! Mommy Loves it!

Ahh........... Springtime!

This flowering bush right outside my living room window. When I come down stairs early in the morning-this is what I see first! The sun shines right on that side of the house and seem sto illuminate the flowers. What a way to start the day.