It has been horribly busy at work lately. Tomorrow I have another Auction. First one I've prepped by myself. Should be interesting! Luckily there are about 40 less cars this time. Makes it a little easier!

Put the sprinkler out in the yard the other day and Lexi had a blast playing in it. Skye wasn't too sure about it and eventually just laid down in the shade. I hadn't taken pictures of Lexi playing in the sprinkler since last fall right after we got her. She didn't forget how fun it was, that's for sure! She was pouncing on it, snapping at the water, barking...had the best time.

I found out that I got admitted to OU this weekend. I'm very excited about getting started on their classes.

Update

It's been pretty crazy since the last time I updated. I'll do the best I can with trying to cover what all has gone on...!

Last Monday I got the devastating news that my second "dad", Tim Forte, had passed away. That was hard to take. Think I cried all day Monday and most of the day Tuesday. The viewing was Friday...lost it again. Funeral Saturday. It is impossible to imagine Tim not here anymore. I keep expecting to open my email and have one from him, or see him around. I got an email last week from Pam (Brasswinds ECS) as well telling me that whenever I'm ready to let her know and she'd tell me what she has available. Wrote her back and said it'd be a while. Tim was thinking of co-owning the pup with me, and he was going to help me brush up on my grooming.

Robby and I decided to try and work things out. Can't let 13 years go down the drain without at least a big effort. We both want to try and get back together if it's the right thing to do. We'll see how it goes. Going to take it slow and make sure that's what we want. So far so good, though.

Work is staying fairly busy. I will be coming off the DMV desk Monday and moving to the Auction desk. It'll keep me better occupied and is a lot more challenging, which is really cool. I'm looking forward to it. Plus, I will be able to finish all of my certifications within about a month. After that, I begin training for the Lead position, which requires some travel to Phoenix, AZ a few times.

Three weeks later...

I finally get around to another update!

Once again -- staying busy. Work is going well, I passed two certifications last week. School is moving along...not as smoothly as I like sometimes, but there'll be bumps in the road. I got a B in Meterology, was pretty happy about that.

The dogs are doing well -- Lexi is beginning to stay out of her crate during the day and at night. She is making the adjustment perfectly.

Nothing else going on -- weather is supposed to be a little goofy tonight, we'll see how that goes! I updated everything in the tornado box last night, so we're set for whatever this season throws at us.

Update

Guess it's been about a week since I blogged last.

We've been incredibly busy with school and work...seems like there's just no free time right now! The dogs are keeping us busy; Skye & Drew have been going with us to class lately. We decided to give Lexi a break and let her mature mentally for a while. Skye is doing excellent in her training and moving along quite nicely. Her stays are getting a lot better. Robby had to show off last week. I worked with Skye while he worked with Drew...well, after a botched out-of-sight stay with Skye...he's shoved me Drew's leash and said, "haha, watch ME!" Yea...Skye did the out-of-sight stay perfectly, lol. Go figure. She's daddy's girl that's for sure. We started working on targeting last week and she was having trouble catching on (Drew did AWESOME, though). I finally think it clicked her her tonight, though...yay!

Sonny had a good birthday -- he liked his cake, as did everyone else who ate it. He's been sleeping in bed a lot lately, we decided it's probably because the floor is getting to be too cold and hard for him.

I have a seminar Thursday night that I'll be putting on for a local 4-H group on dog shows. I had forgotten all about it until I got an email this evening. Guess I'd better get Sonny groomed up; he's going to hate riding in the truck...but he'll get over it. I may decide to take Drew instead. We'll see how he does at class Tuesday, first.

Next Tuesday is our second anniversary. We haven't decided what we're going to do, but we may drive somewhere for the day.

Sonny Turns 10!

Tomorrow.

I made his birthday cake tonight. All I can say, is at least dogs don't judge, and at least I'm not a cake decorator! The cake was made with peanut butter and carrots - and the "icing" is cottage cheese. Hope they like it tomorrow night!

I can't believe he's 10 years old. Seems only yesterday we were on the road learning about each other and developing our bond. He's turning grey, and slowing down, but he's still my "Sonny-Bunny." Still aggravates the heck out of me sometimes...still gives me those "looks"...and then turns around and cuddles on the bed or couch. We still know how to push each other's buttons, too -- lol.

Happy Birthday Son-Son! Take a bow!

CarMax

Here I come!!!! Got the job offer last night and went to fill out some paperwork this morning. I'll go in tomorrow night at 5pm for a training class...Thursday at 9am for some more paperwork and orientation...then sometime Friday to begin my training in the Business Office.

I haven't called Kohl's yet. Probably do that tomorrow morning.

Weather is nice and exciting over here. Tornado warnings...power is flashing...so I guess I'll get off!!

Catch up post

Didn't realize it had been so long since I posted!

Friday I had a second/third interview with CarMax. I think it went well and I should hear something this week.

Saturday I hung out all morning and went over to mom & dad's for dinner and to play some Wii.

Yesterday Robby and I ran a couple errands in the morning, then mom and dad brought over their glass-top desk they weren't using anymore. We went to Best Buy and bought a new TV -- love, love, love it! It's a 32" LG -- LCD screen. It's so nice to watch tv without any of the fuzzy channels that our old TV had! We spent the rest of the day cleaning house. Vacuuming, dusting, re-arranging furniture in the living room (mainly just along the wall the tv is on)...I got everything done except for shampooing the carpets. That may get done tomorrow.

I slept in today -- didn't sleep well last night (and probably kept Robby up, too.) Skye decided to lay completely across me at one point and so I moved over and was almost crossways in bed with my head on my side and my feet up against Robby so I had room to stretch out! He finally shoved me back over around 5am and we moved Skye. Sonny then jumped up in her spot, so we had to move him, too. Sheesh. Everyone finally settled down and I was able to go back to sleep normally, lol.

Have to be at Kohls at 6pm tonight to start my training. I'm scheduled from 6pm-10pm...fun. Also scheduled tomorrow from 8am-3:30pm, but I was told I could probably change that. I'll move it and also put my availabilty to not include Tuesdays. Since it's always Robby's day off, we get a lot done on that day. We leave it for Doctor's appointments, errands, dog class, etc.

That's all for now!