8/27/03

*baby stepping down the hall*

*baby stepping onto the elevator*

*grin*

We just finished watching “What About Bob”. It all started because hubby and I were talking and he said something about “Taking a vacation from his problems”. That was that, we had to watch the movie that reference was from, we had nothing better to do anyway. 🙂

I paid bills tonight. *frown* We’re 50 dollars over budget from that. That would be my fault though. I apparently misplaced my bill for my spiegel card but thought I had paid it. So I had to pay that plus a fee. In the 3 years that I’ve had credit cards this is the FIRST time I’ve missed a payment. *sigh* At least one late payment doesn’t look too horrible. Most people are tolerant of a couple. We WILL be trying to get a home equity loan come October though so no more losing bills!! 🙂

We’re going to play laser tag tommorrow night. *cringes* Here’s the thing, I told hubby I MIGHT go, MIGHT. Wellll, he kinda sorta forgot due to being busy to double check with me and respond to the girl keeping track and making the arrangements so it’s kinda sorta already been paid for. Now it’s pretty much either go or waste the 14 dollars for my ticket. *sigh* To be honest I don’t realllly want to go. I don’t, I have a hard time being myself around people, especially work people, opening up and laughing and having fun, possibly even making a fool of myself is very difficult for me. A lot of it has to do with being teased in the past I think. I know these people won’t laugh at me though, in my head I know this, they like me alright. But it’s really hard to get past the self-consciousness. I’m going to go though. I’m just not going to think about it and I’m just going to go and I’m going to shoot people from the IS department in the dark with a laser gun. And I’m going to try to have fun in the process.

Does anyone want a golden retreiver? She’s adorable! Seriously, I’m starting to understand and see some of my mom’s stories about their golden in Sara. Sara’s motto is “I do what I want”. She’s very smart, she acts dumb sometimes and pretends to not know what you want or what you’re saying but dammit, she knows. She knows when I want her to sit, and lay down, does she do it? When there’s food involved, the rest of the time, bah, she pretends not to even hear you. She quietly picks up things that she knows we won’t let her have and runs, she’ll do her best to hide it. Tonight when hubby told her to crate up she took her bone and laid down in the very back of her crate, just out of reach. She is a complete pain in the ass, not in a bad way really, it’s just terribly amusing. She’s smart, she knows what she can and can’t get away with. Sara just wants to do what Sara wants to do. Just like my moms dog Tisha who will back my mom into a corner by the dog treats.

I cannot WAIT until we get to go to Oklahoma in October. My step-dad is excited too, about Sara getting to meet Tisha and stuff. I just know they’re going to love her. It means a lot to me to be able to take my own golden back home with me to show off. I’m as proud as if she were my child. My step-father spent a few years showing a golden, he appreciates them and Sara really is a beautiful specimen. Not to toot my own horn or anything but looking at her and looking at the AKC Standard, she’s perfect right down to having that gentle bird-dog bite. She’s from champion bloodlines and it shows. My step-dad is going to love her and I’m very proud. She still has a lot of growing up to do but she’s going to be awesome. What I was looking for in a golden was, I wanted a dog similar to the one I spent my childhood with. Not a replacement, but a reminder. Sara has turned out to be the perfect reminder. If I believed in reincarnation, well…

Anyway.

Sophie is sitting in front of me eating. We bought her kitten food, but will she eat it? Nah, she’s eating Vicki’s adult food. Cats need kitten food when they’re pregnant, they should be fed kitten food during the pregnancy and up until the kittens start weaning at around 3 weeks. To be honest, I wish Sophie would stop eating, not eating is a sign of being close to ready to give birth, but then again some cats will eat right up to delivery and some even during, between kittens and stuff so you really never know. I’m going insane over here waiting. Do you have any idea how excited I am about these kittens?????? I haven’t been this excited since, well, since we bought the house!!!

Ah well, nearly 9pm, nearly time for one of those TV shows hubby likes to watch. I think it’s History’s Mysteries or something. Time to go wash the makeup off, take the contacts out, and sit back, relax and probably get bored and fall asleep. 😉

G’night.