Is anyone out there?????

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What a week. That's all I can say. Jim has been working a ton and having to study. We just pass in the night time. Hopefully work will slow down for him and he'll be able to get into a good schedule for school and make some us time. Darn those restatements. Speaking of...I've been terribly busy with work as well and quite overwhelmed. Hate when that happens! Long hours are back and the stress level is really intense. So here I am procrastinating on what I have to do for work tonight...drinking a glass of wine and listening to Miles Davis to take the edge off. Gordy is sacked out under my chair now. We played in the sprinkler this evening. My lovely neighbors have commented several times on the fact that we have not watered our front plants. So I attempted today to figure out the sprinkler.....attempted is a kind word. Gordy and I got really soaked is really what happened but she loved the water and it was really cute to just have that moment.

Can't believe it's only monday...boy do I wish it was thursday and the hell of this week will be over.

Best to all of you.....and may you have a truly wonderful week.

Just one of those days

Okay folks...if I was tech savy at this point this posting would include that song by Limp Bizquit (or how ever the hell you spell his name) Just one of those days. If your not familiar with the song.....it's very good to blare in your car when you're so pissed off. To quote "It's all about the he said she said bull S**t". That's how it feels. And no I am not referring to my loving husband....it's been about work. But being from seeing it happen on other blogs, I will refrain from naming the company I work for or my co-workers I work with on this blog. We'll just leave it with Limp's great words.

So now that I've set up the tone of this blog here we go. I'm swamped at work. I'm going to put it out there that I took this job to enjoy a quality of life....and just after a year well it's become very demanding and now I have to work hard for something that I'm not being compensated it at for market rates. Okay enough on that rant.

So I rush home to hang out with puppy girl, since she has been such a trooper in her crate. We go "empty" and play some. But she is soooo not interested in walking today. So we hang out and play in the living room with her toys. I start doing work while sitting on the ground. Girlfriend is happily playing....with me having to give a few Alpha dog "No's". Anyway she comes up to me and decides I'm a chew toy. So the Alpha dog "No's" are flying and then she attempts to pierce my nose. Now don't get me wrong....in my "sk8tr girl" days I wanted an eyebrow ring so bad....and a nose ring....but Sara would have crucified my ass so quickly that it didn't happen....but now that I'm a wise and older 30.....a nose ring might not be top on the priority list right now. So girlfriend Gordy sinks her teeth into the interior of my nose. And pulls down. Oh my friends, let's just say that tears were a flowing, along with cuss words that my sista taught me, as well as Alpha Dog! Blood a gushing, dog a whimpering and following me to that bathroom I assess the situation. Blood coming out of the nose, while painful, seems to be "merely a flesh wound" (my Monty Pthyon friends!). So we walk into the kitchen. Kleenex stuffed up the left nostral with tears pouring out of my eyes, and bleep bleeep you bleep bleep coming out of my mouth. I decide to still be a loving "mom" and fill up her water bowl. As I'm in the act of kindness she squats and pisses all over the floor. So I grab her.....let out the Alpha Dog "NOOOOOOOOO" and run outside with mascara running, bloody kleenex in my nose, bare foot, with puppy in hand to see my cool neighbors from down the street. I think I was quite the site.

Needless to say it was another adventurous day with Gordy. Never boring...and here I am taking a break from working as Gordy chews on her Khong. Oh and friends she just pissed on my carpet.

I'll leave it at that.

Welcome Home Gordy, Welcome Home

So we got our puppy. I'm sure you are all sighing in relief as she is all I have been talking about lately....but retract that sigh...because I have alot more to say about her! She is so freakin' cute!!! And funny and a puppy! Friday afternoon we drove up to PA to get her at Hillcountry Farm. She was excited to see us and rode home in my lap the whole way home. She was alittle scared at first and we had to stand outside in the rain for two hours to try to get her to go to the bathroom, but she has quickly adapted to the Flach family. She loves her crate and her toys, which has been a huge help! She sleeps through the night and really hasn't had accidents in the house...until last night. Jim and I bought a really cheap carpet for the living room, with thoughts that we weren't going to spend money on it until she was potty trained. Well low and behold, we hadn't even finished rolling out the carpet before she quickly christened it. One hour later she did it again!!!! Not to fret, we quickly disciplined her and cleaned it up and used simple solution....so hopefully she will have learned her lesson.

Saturday I took her to the vet. She did really well (of course!!!). However a small man brought in a HUGE german shepard that tried to kill her. I guess I have some Mommy instinct in me as I jumped in between the german shepard and Gordy (probably not the smartest human thing to do....but I did it anyway). Gordy flipped on her back and started screeching. The man pulled the dog back and the vet yelled at him for not being able to control his dog. The dog so over powers him and was dragging him around. He shouldn't be a pet owner. It's a shame.

Anyway she has tons of character and is such a love bug. We're so happy to have her and are really looking forward to watching her grow up. Hopefully we'll get that walking thing down soon ;)

We're going to be Parents

Today is Gordy Day! We're getting our first member of our family....a dog (Family members please calm down we're not prego). Whew HOO!!! I have to admit I'm slightly nervous about the arrival of our bundle of joy. Will she like us? Will she be a good dog? Or will she poop and pee all over the place? Unforunately I think the reality is the latter. But I'm sure she'll still love us. Last night I made a feeble attempt to doggie proof the house.....very feeble. We assembled the crate, well scratch that...I assembled the crate. It's so freakin' huge! I can fit in it! And I know that for a fact because I actually did crawl in it. But don't let Jim onto this fact so he doesn't have some type of option of locking me up so I don't get in trouble ;)

Our Gordy bag is packed and soon we will off to PA to pick her up. First thing on the agenda for when she arrives is a bath. She's been an outdoor dog for the first 11 weeks of her life. Now she gets to live in the lap of luxury at the Casa de Flach. Lots of great tips from Friends and Family on how to make the transition comfortable for all parties...although I'm hoping that I really won't have to sleep by the crate tonight.

Will post pictures as soon as I can. Yes I am offically becoming "one of those" pet owners and she hasn't even arrived yet.

The count down begins for Puppy Love

Okay folks three days in counting before our pride and joy Gordy enters our family. We're picking her up on Friday. Let the fun begin. Can anyone hear that whimpering sound??? That's going to be my weekend.

On the house front, we had my designer friend come over last week. She was so full of great ideas and is coming over this weekend to measure out the place and give us a floor plan to work off of. I think she added a few grand to what we thought we might need to spend, but it's worth it and we can certainly chip away at it step by step. Patio furniture is coming this weekend so watch out for cookout invites! We're loving the new grill and the patio.

Attended Robbie and Michelle's wedding last weekend in C'ville. It was great! They are such a great couple and did a lovely job on planning the wedding. I beleive there was also some streaking done by a few wedding guest...but we won't mention names...and no my drunk ass didn't do it...although I talked a good game. Just went to bed too early!!! I'll try to have some of their wedding pics up this weekend...time permitting.