It's quiet, keep working.

It's really quiet at my new desk assignment. And it's quiet here at work in general after letting go half the building, ugh. At my new desk assignment I sit around ladies who make lunch plans and work 9-5, so not radio programmers! I think they work in finance. When I take a bite of my carrots, I feel like the crunching sound is so loud, like it will jar them at their calculators and they'll accidentally add another zero. This is probably just in my head though. I wish I had better time management skills so I could ask someone to go to lunch. Then again, I hate eating out. I really do. I loath it. There's too many times I've been fooled. You think it's going to be this wonderful meal...then, it's a total east coast letdown. The only place this doesn't happen is Akasaka. Worth every penny. Any other resturant, I'd rather bring my own peanut butter sandwich and call it a night.

Lunch was good today: Peanut Butt-her Sandweeeech, care -otts, celloooorrrie, YO yo mtv-gurt, and some fancy Lucky Charm cereal....with too few mallows....although have you seen the new "hourglass" marshmallow shape? It's pretty neat.

I'm saving some grapes for a 4 o'clock snack.

Lunch is over, back to work.

Happy Birthday, Love Cake.

It's offically my birthday week...my bday was on Monday...and up to this point, none of my "get home early from work" wishes have come true. But other wishes did, like cake. Jason made it me a three layer devil's food cake with white frosting and it was delicious. I dream about eating that cake when I'm at work. Jason also got me some fun gifts! Thanks Jason! Aside from my birthday, it's been a cosmic week. And for every strange occurrance (my car getting stuck on a cement parking block) there's been an eye opening surprise to level it out (like, I may actually have a chance to take real vacations in the future without killing myself by working ahead to get the time off.) I guess you never know what the wind will blow in.


And it snowed! Finally, we're in the club. That hasn't happened in so long!

One WHOLE Year!

Rejoice! Rejoice! Today is Leia's one year anniversary at the Carlock home. And what a year it has been. From a crate in Florida to the comfort of our condo - I think it was meant to be.

Leia has turned out to be my absolute favorite dog in the whole world. I'm biased, of course...but it's true!

Here's to many more years of fun car rides, cheese, squeeky toys, cool coats and races down the hall!

Happy Anniversary Leia.

Note: Today's morning walk was the coldest yet this year. 17 degrees. (I know, I know - it'd be a heat wave if we lived in the midwest.)

Feature Preeesentaaa-shon: Bailey the Unknown Reindeer!

For those of you who aren't getting enough snow already!

Merry Christmas & enjoy!

Two Big Labs

There are these two big Labradors that live in our neighborhood. One is black and one is brown. Their owners seem nice, maybe a few years older than Jason and I and they live in a townhouse about a block away from our condo building. Back in the spring of 2008, just a few months into our adoption with Leia, there was a random Sunday afternoon Labrador conference that occured in the back of our building. There must have been 8 Labs and 10 owners standing there...everyone exchanging doggy knowledge and whatnot. I forget really.

The funny thing is, the large gathering began with Leia and I running into a new neighbor who has a german sheperd named Ravi. Ravi and Leia are BFF's and get along so well, they actaully acknowledge each other initially then ignore each other the rest of the time. So, imagine Ravi and Leia standing statue as I talked to my neighbor H, and then not less than 30 seconds later, total chaos. Pet owners and dogs kept turning the corner and suddenly there were 3,4,5 dogs plus owners chatting...it's never happened since.

So, from across the street, here come the two big labs, one brown one black and the married couple who own them...they went to cross the street toward us to say hi to some other neighbors I didn't know. (I didn't know any of them really...I was just "in" becuase I had a dog too.) So, this is the part where Ravi goes nuts. The nicest dog on the planet (aside from Leia) starts barking at the two big labs...and in Leia's effort to support her BFF, she chimed in with growls and barks too! At that point, I don't think I had ever heard Leia bark, so I was pretty shook up.

So here we are, almost 1 year with Leia, and this morning we see the two big labs...but they are waaaaaaaay across the street, not even close to us as we round the corner to the back of the building and Leia goes nuts. She growls and gets so angry. I turned us around so she didn't have to even look at them, although, even though she's a sight hound, I'm pretty sure it's their scent. She won't give it up! She gets so flustered when she sees those dogs. Any other dogs, she could care less!...she truly is the most laid back dog I've ever met.

So that's the story of the two big labs. And it's just those two. The other labs, any color, fine and dandy.

After our walk this morning, we went up the elevator with Bear (and his owner)...and I mentioned the two labs outside - apparently Bear (third in line to the sweetest dog evar) hates them too. What is it about these two dogs? So, now I don't feel so bad.