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.