Three day weekend!

So I am in the middle of my three day weekend. It's been productive and fun thus far. Yesterday Robby and I went out to the fair and walked around. I booked a Glamour Shots photo shoot for next Sunday. They had a special with no sitting fee and a free 10x13 portrait. Figured why not -- I had always wanted to give it a try. We'll see how it goes. We also stopped by Home Depot and picked up a gallon of red paint. It's been fun painting the front bedroom and I put the second coat on this morning. We're down to just needing to paint the ceiling and possibly the trim - we're still undecided on it.

Busy...Busy...Bu...you get the idea.

(Cloud)
So - going into my third week of school. There's an insane amount of work, though. I'm keeping caught up in my leadership class fairly well, but humanities...I have fallen behind on already! Not too bad, I just haven't done my essays. I already told the prof I would be turning them in late, so hopefully it doesn't affect my grade too bad. They're just so dang hard. A minimum of five pages long...with a minimum of five resources...yikes! And two of those...every two weeks.

I picked up Sonny's ashes today. They came in a lovely wooden box. I was very surprised.

(Lexi, Rainy, Cloud, and Skye)
On a lighter note...the other dogs are all doing well. We took the loveseat from mom & dad's house and put it in our bedroom. Rainy has claimed it as "her's" and stretches out on it before anyone else can climb up there. Everyone got baths over the weekend so they're all nice and clean smelling...and the pyrs are nice and white!

(Rainy!)
Work is staying busy -- I'm on four 10 hour days every other week so I can have more time to do school work. The opposite week has a weird schedule, but it puts me at having 2 1/2 days off, instead of just two, so I won't argue with that. There is a possibility I may be transferring to the MA (management assistant) position within the next few weeks. I'm going to discuss the position more with the current person, plus my two bosses (my manager, and the LGM) tomorrow and see if I can get the go-ahead to put in my transfer request. The hours would be better, and likely the pay too.
(Scenty's September Warmer of the Month)
Scentsy is awesome - absolutely love the company and the products. Still trying to get some promo stuff out there right now, but orders are slowly starting to develop. The hardest part is getting started!

'Til we meet again...

Champion Con-Te Patent Pending, CGC
February 23, 1999 - August 27, 2009
"SONNY"

We said goodbye to Sonny just four days short days after his ten and a half month birthday...and directly on my birthday. His legs and his spirit finally gave out on him after a short fight with who knows what. A trip to the emergency clinic that Sunday had shown that he had all of sudden lost all reflexes below his spine. Despite medication after medication in that short period of time, we only had a few days left together. I hand fed him the night before - he ate all he could before finally giving up and turning his head away. A mere cup of food. Thirty minutes to eat. The next morning he collapsed in the yard while trying to stand up (after we carried him outside) and he never even tried to lift his head. He raised it just enough to grab a piece of cheese we had taken out to try and encourage him, but that was it.

Took him in to see Doc at 9am before any of the other clients would begin arriving. Robby had carried him out to the truck and then carried him inside to Doc's...Sonny acted like a bag of potatoes. We layed him on the table and talked to him. Didn't take long for that evil hot-pink solution to take effect. I think I layed on top of him for thirty minutes afterwards just holding him and crying into his fur.

Tell Tim hello and I'll see you over the bridge in the future.

Take a bow...

Uppppdate!

I didn't realize it has been so long since I posted!

Not much has gone on except staying busy at work and getting ready for school to start Monday. Beginning this coming week, I'll be working four-10 hour days at work so I'll get three days off to rest and do school work.

The latest, greatest news though is that I am now an Independent Consultant for Scentsy! I'm super excited. Finally a product I have no problems promoting. It's super-great for homes with kids and pets...or for anyone who hates matches (me!!) My website is www.scentsy.com/nomatches - you can order straight from there!

Sunday = Fun Day!

We slept in this morning and then decided to go ahead and run to the grocery store before the afternoon and evening crowds hit.

Bad idea walking down the toy aisles at Wally-World...we each got a 50 cent kite, lol.

Fast forward to this evening and we played frisbee in the backyard for a bit before heading out to the front to fly our kites. I had one that was "Clubhouse Disney" - with Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy in a hot air balloon....and Robby's was the Blue Angels. We had almost every little kid on this block standing at the edge of their driveways watching the kites and begging their parents to go fly one, lol. Poor kiddos.

A couple times ours would go up over the house enough for Skye to see them and start barking - it was kinda cute.

Off again tomorrow, yippee!

Ex-Pen Full of Dogs

Robby let everyone in last night while I was at work and decided to let them all corral in the ex-pen for a bit. He took some pics, so here they are...!

Everyone trying to find a spot to lay down...(and Lexi giving Sonny kisses, awww)
Well, everyone but Cloud!

The "Princess" (Skye) gets let out and Cloud finally settles into a spot.

Almost the weekend...

I close tonight with Lindsey -- those nights are always fun. We have productive conversations. Hopefully we can discuss some issues I'm having with a co-worker, though. We'll see how it all pans out.

Dogs are doing awesome -- we've been letting Cloud stay out at night and aside from him nudging us at first, he finally lays down at the foot of the bed to go to sleep. Lexi and Rainy are still in the ex-pen together - they're always laying the same way, it's so funny. I woke up this morning to them wrestling around and playing with the kong...they moved the ex-pen around a little bit, lol.

I got one textbook in the mail yesterday. I've been finding them on Ebay - sooo much cheaper! Just ready for classes to start up.

Sitting here listening to the rain...left the dogs out in it. haha. Sonny loves it, but the others...not so much -- they stay huddled under the trees usually. But, our trees are so thick right now, there's hardly a drop of water underneath them.