take your dog to work day...part 2

this is pretty funny...so why not share...

Top 10 Things to Say to Convince Your Boss to Take Part in TYDTWDay
10. The squirrels in the neighborhood deserve a break.
9. Wagging tails work great when the a/c is on the fritz.
8. With a dog as your passenger, you’ll be able to use the car pool lane.
7. It’s a great way to lick the work day blahs!
6. My dog thinks you’re grrrrrrreat!
5. Meetings end as soon as Rover starts staring at the conference room door.
4. You can blame those missing reports on one of your employees’ dogs.
3. It’s the leash you can do.
2. Finally, someone at your office will actually be working like a dog.

AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON TO TAKE YOUR DOG TO WORK…

1. Friday, June 26, is Take Your Dog To Work Day®!

take your dog to work day...

thats right...today is national take your dog to work day...or possibly dogs for those of us so inclined to chance fate with two puppies under the age of 4 months...can someone please tell me how to spell challenge!!

of course i did not know that june 26 was in fact this special holiday...i thought it was nothing more than a very welcomed friday and the end of a very long week if only because i doubt that there has been a week in which more has happened...strike that...the past two months!

so og and zoe sit at home in their crates...catching up on some much needed sleep as zoe woke up around 2:30 and spent the next 45 minutes whining and whimpering...it was heart breaking but i would have everyone know that i ignored it because mike told me i had to - it was the only way she was going to learn even though my motherly instincts were driving me to take her out of her crate and snuggle her in my arms (which i did around 5:00 ending in her peeing on the bed...thank god for the waterproof mattress cover - good call austin)

as much as i enjoy my job...i am ready for this week to be over - i want to go home, continue to unpack round one of stuff scattered in no real order around our house, paint a little (maybe) and spend time with my two favorite little four legged furry friends...

i would take a picture but my phone does not have a camera and of course my camera battery is dead and the charger is kicking it in a box in storage and will not arrive until tuesday along with the rest of our stuff (cant wait)

randomness...but i digress...

happy take your dog to work day...i hope you puppy pal actually gets to see the inside of your office...

walls...

our house is coming along...

i cant wait until everything is put away and set up and in place and not just laying around...

no more paint buckets laying around, no more brushes drying on the sink, paint drops cleaned up off the floor...

they say that owning a house is a lot of work...buying a house that someone else has lived in is even harder...

everything needs to be cleaned, changed, repainted...everything has to become "ours"

so much work...but oh so worth it!!

i can't wait to host dinners and parties and bbq's and baby showers and girls nights and guys nights and holidays and all the fun things that come along with being the proud owners of a house...

i can't wait to grocery shop and clean and sit on the couch and watch tv with mike on a saturday during the fall...

sunday football...college game day...ufc fights...all the things i can't wait to share with our friends in our living space...

the one thing that makes me sad is that i can't share it with the people who matter the most to me because they are a million miles away and can't just stop over for drinks one night...

so much work, so much time, so little sleep...but so worth it in the end!!!

one major step towards adulthood...

no more rent...
no more landlords...
no more apartment number...

we move into our first house today...

what a novel concept...owning a house...debt for 30 years...

but it is the best feeling in the world!!

leaps and bounds

so much has changed since the last time i sat down to write one of these bad boys...

move to new mexico - check
new puppy - check
new house - check
engaged - check
new job at a kick ass agency - check
wedding date set - check

i am sitting at my new desk in my new office looking out the door wondering if there really is something so wonderful as fate - the novel ideal that things really do happen for a reason. aside from the fact that my first day has been spent looking at websites (i have to learn the market somehow) and playing of facebook (our email is down and we all know i need to stay connected) i am for the first time in a very long time - really enjoying my life.

maybe its the fact that i get to spend the rest of my life with my best friend - or that after such a rocky ride - i finally get to enjoy what it means to be happy. maybe its that i feel like my life is finally moving the direction it should be - house, fiance, dogs, great job, etc...

or maybe its because any little doubt that i had in my mind about whether this was the right choice - the right move, the right guy, the right life...have faded away. as if everything were meant to be - right move, right house, right job, right guy...right fit all the way around.

i am not going to pretend that life will be all sunshine and roses from here on out - i am not naive. i have seen the struggles that befall married people. as bev says, you have to work at it everyday - its not easy...

but i know that in my heart and in my mind that with him, in this town, in this place and in this life - is where i want to be!