Patience

In just two days from now I’ll be heading out for my "interview." I can’t wait. It feels like a month ago my old boss wrote asking me if I wanted to work for him again. Its only been two weeks.

I spoke with him on Friday and he said that it will be completely informal, so not to be nervous. I said, "if they don’t like me, I’m assuming the executives have a say in the decision." He said it was 10% their decision and 90% his and his boss’ decision. And of course my decision too. His boss also used to work at my old company. She just left about a year after I started there, so she doesn’t know me as well, but I think she trusts him enough to take his word about me.

I’m starting to chicken out about asking for $10K more than I was making before. I will probably ask for $7K so we can negotiate… I will be happy with close to that. The drive is what is really motivating me to ask for more money, but honestly, its only 3 days a week for the first couple of months, so I can’t use that as a huge reason. My other reasons are my car insurance going up and some accommodations that have to be made for my family. But, I’m really going to sell it as a positive. They don’t really have to train someone new, he knows that I’m a good worker and I’m fast and reliable. He knows we make a good team and I can be trusted. That should be enough.

Meanwhile, at home, Rosie is adjusting nicely. Although she is still afraid of the stairs in the house, she has been doing really really well with everything else. I think she is officially becoming desensitized to the TV and her and Amos have been getting along better. She’s a bit afraid of Shanti because she got to close to her one day and Shanti whacked her on her nose. So she gives her a lot of room. LOL

We tried to bring her out to the car this weekend to give her a very short car ride, but she flattened out right outside the gate and belly crawled back to the yard. It was too soon. Its so weird to have a dog who doesn’t think car rides are the best thing in the world. Amos literally would not get out of the car. Mich had to drive him around the block. LOL

I’m still practicing morning time with the kids. It has helped that I’ve been teaching a morning class every day since last Tuesday.
But, this Wednesday it will be a VERY early morning and its supposed to be super cold this week. I might need to get them out of the habit of their morning walks.

Rosie is also slowly figuring out what toys are and seems to want to play with them more and more. She’s been picking toys out of the basket and carrying them into the house. Sometimes she still cries when carrying them, but sometimes not.

and here’s one of them both getting belly rubs at the same time.

The people on the breeder dog support group said that patience is the key… some have said that it took their dog a year to finally come upstairs, others said 3 months. We just want her to be happy and not so lonely at night. She is still letting out the terribly lonely howls at night.