3. I want it to keep snowing overnight so I won’t have to go into the office tomorrow. Lazy? Me? No!
4. I got some video of the dog running around like a wingding this afternoon. This is a tame version. When she really gets going, this is about 1/2 or 1/3 speed, and she tends to slide into walls and furniture as she rounds corners.
Also, only about half the times she drops her toy here are on purpose. Sometimes it just falls out of her mouth and she has to go back to pick it up. Oh, and this can go on for 10 or 20 minutes at a stretch. We just sort of get out of the way. But she has a great time. Enjoy.
We got caught in extra traffic on the way to work today (crazy how that can happen when we pull out of our apartment complex, drive 3 miles up that road, and turn into my office building’s parking lot) so I called ahead from the car to tell them I was on my way and ask if someone could unlock the front doors for me on time and watch the lobby for 5 minutes. The message that picked up was different than usual, so I listened for a few minutes instead of immediately punching in the extension I wanted to reach - turns out the office is closed today and nobody told the receptionist (me). HA! I mean, yeah, I knew there was a company retreat happening for some departments, and I knew tons of people weren’t going to be in the building off and on throughout the week, but somehow it never quite got passed around to me that the building was officially closed for the day.
So Matt dropped me off at Starbucks instead of at work and I read while he ran some errands, which he’d been planning to take care of after he took me to work. And now I’m back home getting ready for an extra day of writing.
I got just under 1,400 words written yesterday afternoon, which is the most I’ve put down in one day since the end of October. That’s a very good thing, and I’m feeling good about moving forward. I forgot that we had plans to go to dinner at our neighbors’ place, though, so I had to stop earlier than I planned to get a shower and look presentable after several days of sweatshirts, yoga pants, and a sloppy ponytail. On the up side, we had a great time and I think we have new friends in the building, which is fantastic.
I’ve got a few emails to respond to, and then it’s back to writing. Woohoo!
Shiloh is following me from room to room like a spaz today, which is really unlike her most of the time. I found the bone she’d been missing for a few days, so it’s her current favorite and she’s carrying it around and flopping down in the dead middle of the room to chew on it for a few seconds before she gets back up to follow me to the next destination. She seems pretty happy now that I’ve settled in the office, and I almost just got a good picture of her lying on her back and chewing the bone–one of her favorite tactics–but she’s a camera ham and anytime she hears it turn on she snaps to attention and sits there looking straight at you until you put it away. Like this:
I’ll have to be sneakier next time.
And for those of you who have been around since she was this big…
…here’s a picture from last week. Sometimes she looks much older than 5 and a half months to me…
We’re more and more convinced that she’s got a fair amount of German Shepherd in her in addition to our original rottweiler guess. Luckily, she’ll never be as big as either of those breeds. I’m going to start calling her a mini shepweiler. Hey, if other people can come up with designer mutt breeds, so can I!
Whatever she is, she’s beautiful. And such a sweetheart.
