My dog Iris

My dog Iris still lives in Chicago of course, with my parents, so technically she's my parents dog, but we got her when I was 16 (nearly 17) so I consider her my dog.

About January when I was 16 y/o we put the family dog 'Jumper' down. He was a 12 or 13 y/o German Shephard mix. Great dog, really wonderful, I still get teary eyed when I think of him :( About six months or so after saying goodbye to Jumper we all decided to go on down to the City Pound and pick out a new family member. Let me tell you, the City Pound is a great/depressing place. There's lots of cute puppies and dogs there, which makes it great, but there's also lots of sad looking dogs that you just know are not going to be around much longer, which of course makes it depressing.

Anyway, after looking around in a bunch of different rooms at all the pups and dogs I stumbled upon this shy looking girl pup. She was giving me that characteristic puppy dog look, just sitting in her cage all sad and lonely looking. She was super cute, the info card on her cage said she was 6 months old "mixed breed", which means MUTT. And she looks like a mutt too, she's got a kind of rotweiller thing going with brown and black face and body, but she's kinda small and her body is shaped almost like a whippet or something. She's got brown legs with black leopard like spots all over them. Those spots are why my dad calls her ugly. But anyway, I saw her and immediately fell in love with her. I went to get my mom and brother to show her off to them. Although my mother had her eye on this goofy looking white dog, he had longish hair and skinny legs. I thought he/she was pretty ugly and not nearly as sweet looking as Iris.

So after about 20 minutes of begging, I finally convinced my mom that Iris was the dog for us. We weren't allowed to take her home right away for some strange reason we had to wait until the next day. Well, I wasn't home when they brought her home, I was probably out with friends or something like that. But that sweet shy dog completely changed her attitude once she found out she was HOME. She was jumping all over everybody and everything, wagging her tail something feirce and licking and it was adorable.

Anyway, Iris is 10 years old now and not nearly as wild and crazy as she once was. She sleeps in my parents bed with them and my father says that in the mornings he's got to drag her by her collar to get her up and down the stairs for her morning pee break and breakfast time, and when she's done with that she's right back in bed with my mom. I love that dog.

When I move into my own house I'm gonna get a dog and I hope it's just like Iris. Although Jumper was a great dog too, and if I could some sort of strange combination of the two, that would be great, thanks.

Sorry, I can't find a picture of her anywhere. She's awesome though.

I hate Xmas Carols

I don't understand why they have to be played for a whole freakin month! Tans-Siberian Orchestra is CRAP! That's right, I said it.

Aaron's mom has been playing Xmas music since BEFORE Thanksgiving even - Dolly Parton Christmas, CRAP - Trans Siberian Orchestra, CRAP - other generic Xmas music, CRAP.

Don't get me wrong, I'm no grinch. I like the holidays just as much as anyone, the lights, the shopping, the food, the spending time with friends and family, the presents, all of it. If Xmas music was only playing for like one week before the actual holiday, I might actually enjoy it. But no, someone got the bright idea that it should be played for the whole month between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and whoever that was, I DON'T wish them a Merry Christmas. For real.

The only radio station that I can actually receive inside the steel coffin called my office building is 95.9 fm, which is the oldies station (which is somewhat annoying all on it's own) and that particular station is playing nothing but Christmas music between now and Christmas. So now I have to decide what to do - sit in silence all day (which sucks) or play Christmas music all day. Both options have a very high probability of driving me to the looney bin.

Copied

Copied from Roxanna who copied from Erin who copied from Katherine who copied from Adrienne:

1. To whom did you last give the finger? My coworker Donnie for saying "Pizza Pizza" while I was talking to my other coworker Jon, it's an inside joke.

2. If you had 1,000 dollars what would you buy? I would also pay a bill.

3.What was the last beverage you spilled on yourself? Probably coffee

4. Are you different now than you were 6 months ago? Sure, if you want to talk on a cellular sense I'm probably a whole new person.

5. Have you been anywhere exciting in the last three days? Nope

6. What was the last photograph you took? Phalanx, it's a gun.

7. Where were you last night around 9:30? Home, watching the end of Live Free or Die Hard (lame!)

8. What do you think of guys that wear eyeliner? LAME

9. How many hours did you last sleep? 7ish

10. Who was the last person to whom you spoke on the phone? I actually just got off the phone with Jenn M.

11. 50 Cent shows up at your door, what do you do? Tell him he's got the wrong house.

12. How was the last egg you ate prepared? Over-easy, with toast.

13. Where did you last wear sunglasses? Driving home

14. Ever worn your underwear backwards? yes, but not on purpose

15. Who was the last person to smoke a cigarette in your presence? Myself

16. Does it bother you when people put && before every sentence and after? If I ever saw someone do that, then, yes, it would.

17. What animal did you last pet or hold? Mr. Q

18. What was the last law you broke? Gravity

19. What are you wearing? Black hoodie, jeans, sneakers.

20. What did you think of your last kiss? Pretty normal

21. What was the last newspaper you read or skimmed? Fredericksburg.com

22. What was the last word written on your hand? Don't remember the last time I wrote on my hand

23. What was the last hair product you used? shampoo and conditioner

24. What was the last text message you received? "Did u get any emails or 3 haha" from Jenn

26. Who was the last person to make you really laugh? Aaron

27. To what song did you last sing along? I always sing along to the radio, even if I don't know the words.

28. What was the last musical instrument played in your presence? Aaron plays the trumpet for me all the time.

29. What was the last superstitious thing you did? Knock on wood

Night time snacks

It's incredible, I'm SURE I'm not the only person sabotaging myself this way, but it's still annoying. I can eat well all day long, then when night time rolls around, all I can think about is snacking! I try my best to control myself, but lately (perhaps because of hormones, depression, lack of sunlight, coldness, whatevs) I really can't. I had a good weigh in this past Saturday at Weight Watchers (-3.7 lbs. for a total of 33.1 lbs. lost) but I'm sure I'm just right back up again because of all my bingeing :(

And if you don't know, now you know

On my way home tonight I was listening to the radio, playing Notorious B.I.G, and it kept fuzzing out between that and some weird country song. So frustrating!

Weekend

I was so lazy all weekend, all I did was lie around all day and watch TV and eat. I suck.

Ok, this is getting ridiculous

I just had to post this though:


Aaron is under that mass of fur there somewhere.

Another dorky cat post

This is totally Little Asshole in the morning.

Furries!

This is Javier:

Aka: Javier Gomez, Javi-Bear, Fattington McFluffers, Fliffington McFatters, Stinky
Stats: 4 yrs. old, 14.5 lbs, gay, lazy, super sweet, stinky breath, fluffy
Interests: food, sleep, purring, catnip

This is Q-Tip:

Aka: Quentin Tipinstein, Q-Bear, Bastard, Little Asshole
Stats: 5 yrs. old, 16 lbs., gay, insane, short haired
Interests: food, sleep, waking Cindy up early in the morning with insane howling and pawing at the blinds, catnip

My mom is funny

My mom slept on my couch last night (I don't want to sound like a bad daughter here, but we don't have a guest room, so it's the couch or the floor). Anyway, I set my alarm for 4:30, which would allow me to hit the snooze button a couple times before I needed to get up and make coffee. I got out of bed around 4:50, made some coffee and then lied back down on the love seat. At about 5 my mother got up and said "Do you want some coffee?", to which I mumbled "mmm". Then she said "Just lay there, I'll get it. Or 'lie' rather"

Lol, at 5:00 a.m., who cares about grammar? My mother apparently.

So, I guess it's official

I feel super depressed today, I binged when I got home from work - not totally crazy - 2 100 cal. packs, some leftover lasagna, bread, and a small cup of ice cream. As long as I don't eat anything else later tonight, and I get some exercise I should be fine. I just feel like shit. I think it's about time I do something about it, I can't go another season feeling depressed and shitty. I feel like I can't do my job, like I don't deserve it and I'm a total fraud. I can't focus, I'm forgetting everything and I'm completely disorganized and I can't get anything done. I've been researching this drug called strattera, it's for ADHD, but it doesn't have any stimulants in it and it also supposedly helps with depression. I don't normally like the idea of relying on drugs to solve my problems but I can't live like this. :(

To top everything all off, my mother is here again tonight. She's just staying the night so she can hang out with my grandpa since he's running for supervisor in King George and she wants to be with him when the election is over. I just don't feel like dealing with my mom tonight, I just want to be alone right now, but I can't be. No fair.

Yay Mommy!

My mom is coming to DC this weekend for a conference and I'm going up there to meet up with her and do the tourist thing tomorrow and then I think we're gonna go get Etheopian food. Don't laugh, it's good.

Today is also Friday, which, after about 5:00 p.m. tonight is the best day of the whole week. Hooray for Friday!!!