I recieved this email today from a bootcamper of mine that went home yesterday. I always tell people during our first class, when they pick their dog up, to expect them to be tired.
Rain's people insisted that Rain would not be tired, because she was used to a 5 mile run everyday. That she would probably be excited to get home and get to run again. Oooookaaay.

So then I get this email:

Andi - you weren't kidding

On a normal night Rayne would have shredded her new toy (that we brought all the way from Canada) and pestered to go out twice.

Tonight she's virtually comatose.

You may not have been running her, but you've certainly worn her out.


See you Tuesday.

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Makes me laugh.

Anyway, tonight I have Anaki with me. She's being a pretty good girl. Not a whole helluva lot to report.

Oh, one thing about yesterday. Since I did have indoor classes all day long yesterday I decided to take advantage of it and dress nicely. I wore just a blue white button up and a pair of jeans. Nothing too spectacular, just out of the norm for work. At one point I walked up front and asked Sandy about something and she was pulling drawers in and out at the desk. I stopped and asked what she was doing and she said "I don't know, I can't function with you Looking that Hot." I just looked at her for a moment before it actually sank in then I started laughing my ass off. It was awesome.

Sharon did say later on that I carry myself differently when I think/know I look good. Confidence is a fickle sorta thing for me I guess.

Fame is a fan of my playing!





Also, the pups are now walking, eating machines!

Ok may not have mentioned but I DID go see Harry Potter. I DID enjoy it.. I wanted to hug Emma Watson the whole damn movie though.
Francis DID join us as the movie was about to begin, I introduced her to the gang, she sat beside me, leaning away from me the whole movie.
After the movie she walked in front of us to her car and I had to call out "bye!" after her. It was more than a little ridiculous.

Sharon said that maybe she acts the way she does when she's with me because she's nervous but I honestly don't buy it. True I can be more ballsy thru text than I am in real life. I DO take that into consideration. But this is more than just nervous. When I'm nervous and I'm with a group of people I don't know, I tend to stay close to the person I'm closest to, not stay as far away from everyone as possible.. I haven't heard from her since, so that's fun.
Tish was suppose to go out with her last night so I'm sure she'll know what's up with all that now.


I just took phil outside and trimmed his belly fur and gave him a bath and in doing so got eaten alive by fucking mosquitos.. damn it's not even NIGHT time yet..

Well I've finally installed AIM on my mac. Finally.

So if you would like to chat on AIM hit me up.

Tefindeno


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On a side note, true to my 'I don't want to put clothes on til Monday' feeling I went to get a cup of coffee this morning in my boxers and sports bra and Mom was out there. She started talking nonsense then when I blocked her out and started doing something else she stopped and decided to go another route. "You look so good!" confused by the sudden change I asked what and she started to go on and on about how it isn't fair that I look good and she looks like crap, how much do I weigh (150) and why do I look better when she weighs 140 and why is that. I told her it was because she was old. She told me I need to get a belly button ring (hell no) or nipple rings and I told her to fuck off. Gross man. gross. (not necessarily the rings but my mom telling me to get them). She told me I look better than I have since elementary school, because in middle school I became huge. well... thanks mom! Great first thing in the morning pep talk I suppose..

I'm so damn tired.. I'm about to go to sleep..

This morning I was fucking whipped when I woke up.. dragging ass like no tomorrow but I had to wake up earlier to pick Sharon up for work cause her truck was still in the shop. I stopped at a gas station, for gas, as well as to grab a cup of coffee, while in there I decided on a donut because I'm worth it, and because it was infront of me, and I was exhausted already and thought 'what harm could it do expect make my heart explode?' I got one of those 5 hour energy drinks. I did have a lot to do today.. 2 classes, and 8 final videos as well as all our normal saturday junk and getting Sharon to the airport for her flight to Texas for a delivery.

I do have to say that despite that I almost threw up because it tasted so bad, and that I drank the damn thing with coffee and a glazed donut.. my heart did not explode. Sharon did ask what was wrong with me then thought it was fucking hilarious when I told her. during my first class, which was just a 30 minute housebreaking class which somehow lasted an hour, she said that in the other room she kept cracking up laughing listening to me because I'd be talking normal then just explode into loud excited chatter then calm back down again. It did make me shake but I'm normally pretty shaking anyway. I never did crash which was nice. I almost wish I had had a bad experience though because now I'm like "ehh I'll just get an energy drink.' at least it tasted like ass..

I'm in my boxers and I don't currently plan on putting any more clothing on until Monday. Which could be uncomfortable since I do need to go to a store to get a spark plug gauge so I can change the plugs in my car. I did the air filter today and jesus was in there! in case you were wondering about all the crap lately.. but he's back home now.
Anyway.
Sharon's out of town and Tish is by herself at the apartment. Earlier in the week she asked me to go to the beach with her the kids because she couldn't watch them all by herself. (3). Then Sharon told me that it was cancelled because her brothers 'Celebration of Life' was this weekend. Today she was texting the SHIT out of me.. which actually made Sharon jealous because tish wasn't texting her.Turns out THAT was canceled, unfortunately I have things here at home I had planned on taking care of this weekend already. Which apparently made her think I was upset with her.. I heard this thru Sharon. Sharon sent me a text saying that Tish thought I was mad at her. wtf. Seriously? I replied that I wasn't and that between Tish and Francis they're wearing me out. I'm not used to this kind of damn attention.. it's all so ridiculous.. is ANYONE a grown up? It's just overnight.. Sharon will be back tomorrow evening.. wtf?
Not that I don't like hanging out but if the plans keep switching around I don't know what's going on. I had originally planned to go hang out with her then she changed the plans. whatever. really.. just whatever, it's over.

I did want to go to Canaveral Beach this weekend though because last time we were there I noticed that all the bushes near the boardwalk were Sea Grape bushes and that they had green sea grapes which means they'd be turning ripe soon. MAN that's what I want! Right damn now! Maybe I'll go to the beach by myself tomorrow just to get the seagrapes!!

Going to see Harry Potter tonight! We're seeing the 9:50 showing which is ungodly.. especially since I have to be at work at 8am tomorrow and we're about an hour away from the theater we're going to see the movie at. bleh. Oh well I'm pretty jazzed to see it though!

I invited Francis to come along and after some hemming and hawwing she agreed to come. I told her to prepurchase the ticket because we all have and if she shows up and can't get one I'm not going to stick around outside with her. She got a ticket.
Have I mentioned how I'm not trying to play games?

My new, used phone came in the mail today and is charging right now. It feels SO ridiculously light it's unreal.. But what I'm pretty pleased about is that apparently I can sync the phone with the scheduling software at work so I can keep track of which classes I have on which days so I know what to wear and how to plan the day out. Which is key.

Here is a new picture of me with the puppies. They're getting so damn big, and Look! They have opened their eyes!









And this is Dusty! The Maine Coon Cat I'm considering taking home...

okok.. so I have to shower to go to Roxy and Jon's house tonight.. tomorrow we're going to see Harry Potter (yay!). However I HAVE to tell you guys when I get home tonight about the absurdities that happened yesterday (I never ended up coming home last night which is why I didn't update then.).

But I would like to say that to anyone on the outside looking in would think I have awesome game. It appears I have 3 girls all 'chasing' me currently.

What a long ridiculous drive.. I just got home from dropping Bentley off in Miami.. blah. Can't wait to sleep in.

Here is that photo I mentioned of me in my boxers and Sharon's cowboy boots..

.. what a horrible photo.. It looks like I have cankles like a motherwhoa in the picture.. and you can see how my tan fades away up my legs. awesome.





better updating tomorrow.. new pictures of the puppies with their eyes open and such. Did I mention that they all gained a pound in the past week? it's cool.

JESUS what a long damn week..
Sharon is back, things were crazy.. but fine. I don't know. I'm a little tired and it's hard to go back over everything.. however...

1) I went to a movie with Harvest all by myself. How awesome am I yeah? So I saw the movie with her then we went to grab some dinner and sat in the car laughing out asses off about things.
I can totally see her as a friend, but I'm not sure I could date her. But she is pretty awesome.

2) Saturday night we went to the bar with the intentions of seeing this lady sing, Mellisa Crispo. However she didn't end up coming. So Tish and Sabrina were sitting in the truck because they were being girls and didn't want to get their hair wet. Sharon and I went inside and started shooting some pool and Sharon got us some drinks. I got a shirley temple, but it had vodka in it.. which thru me off a tad. Anyway, as we finished our first game we found out that the lady wasn't singing and that Tish and Sabrina (still in the car) didn't want to stay, they wanted to go get Coffee. It was some kind of happy hour though so sharon and i both had another drink coming. At this point Sharon starts rushing me to finish the drinks while we finish our next game. So I ended up downing these two drinks in 15 minutes and I dont' know if it was drinking them so fast, or that I hadn't eaten anything most of the day but they hit me a little harder than I was used to. I was wearing Sharon's cowboy boots and I wasn't used to walking in shoes with heels on them. Turns out I was fucking hilarious in the car. There is also a picture of me wearing boxers and cowboy boots apparently.. I'm sure you'll eventually see it.

3) Terry thinks I did a good job while Sharon was gone.. so.. go me.

4) Tomorrow I have to go to Miami (bleeeeeh) to drop off a dog.. it's going ot be a LONG night.

5) The puppies have opened their eyes! They are 2 weeks old now. Soo damn cute. Again.. pictures later.

6) I set Starbuck free, did I mention that? I did.

7) I messed something up in my back.. it hurts.. it sucks. I don't know how to explain it other than it feels like a bit knot or something pressing against my spine everytime I move.

Also I neglected to mention that at some point on Friday I noticed that my left ankle hurt. Later when I had a chance to look at it, I noticed there was a little red spot. When I showed Sharon she said it looked like I got into a patch of "Stinging Nettle" which I'm not sure what that is.. Then later she said it looked like maybe I had rope burn.

Anytime it's touched, either by the tongue of my shoe, my sock, shoelace, grass, liquid.. it STINGS something awful. When we went to the beach it was pretty damn painful but with everything going on I was able to ignore it. But when it gets wet, especially at the beach the top of it turns white.. almost looks like it's full of puss but it isn't. Oh.. and now it's about as big as my thumb nail, but it's still swollen and raised and I'm getting a pretty big bruise around it. I don't have the faintest idea what it is.. I was concerned I may have been bitten by a spider or something but I don't see any marks.. and with the benadryl I took yesterday I'd expect it to go down a bit today but it hasn't. Actually after my bath just now I noticed that the skin looks like it's peeling off the top of it.. which is equally disturbing..

So it appears i am also allergic to shrimp now..

Last night Tish and I spent about 2 hours in the car, moving about 2 miles. We dropped Ian off earlier in the afternoon at the Mall, so that he could walk over to Red Hot and Boom, the local fireworks display thing around here. We went back around 9 to see the fireworks and pick him up.. except for whatever reason we didn't plan on the mass amount of fucking bodies that would be in the road and pretty much everywhere.

Sharon got out to go find Ian, so it was me driving with Tish in Tish's truck. Had about 2 gallons of gas and we were obviously not going anywhere fast.. so we couldn't run the ac, there were no gas stations nearby, not that we could have driven to it anyway with all the people there. About an hour into it, unable to handle the heat, car exhaust choking us out, we both ended up taking our shirts off trying to cool off. It was ridiculous. We sat at one stop light for an hour, there was a cop manually changing the light, but it only changed once every 10-15 minutes, and it only let about 5 cars through. Actually, once the light went immediatly from green to yellow to red, with no one having enough time to take their foots off the brake little less move through the light. Everyone's reaction was "WHHHAAAAAATT????!" it was a pretty awesome chorus that errupted from the crowd. I got into a bit of a conversation with this really cute lady in the car next to us for some time. It was neat. She waved as she drove off. So we ended up getting back home around 12.. somehow we did NOT run out of gas in the middle of the street but I did have to do some bully driving and wedge myself places.. which I typically really hate doing. But by that point I was so hot and tired I just wanted to get home.

I invited Harvest out, but she was working, she is working tonight as well so I think Sharon and I are going out to her club to meet her. .. She said she'd give me a lap dance but I'm pretty sure I'd explode with embarassment if it really did happen. I'm much more the slow, learn somebody, be friends and then climb into a relationship person, vs. Oh hey, you're pretty naked, lets do this! kind of person.

Tomorrow we may go to the beach, Harvest wants to go so maybe she'll come along as well.. that would be fun and embarassing! You know.. she's never seen me outside of my car so I hope she isn't expecting something awesome.. I mean.. I was slightly more confident before I found out she was a stripper.. now I feel incredibly inadequte.. And from what I've learned, the club she works at is very upscale.. apparently winning nicest strip place or whatever it's called, the last 16 years. We asked Crystal if she knew the club that Harvest said she worked at and her first response was "Ohh she must be really hot if she works there!" so... now I'm much more nervous. Fuck.

But on my side I would like to say that I gave her my Myspace account so she has been able to go on there and look at all my retarded pictures so she kinda knows what she's getting into..

Here are more pictures of the pups, I got the picture of Momma and her pup with their heads together today.






I've also got more pictures of the pups and some of me and Geneza out today.. and a few of Stuart and I lookin' SWEEEEET!

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So I've re-rearranged my room, put my computer back in the room with me. My mom's nearly naked ass came too close to me, too many times.. I need this wall as a buffer. At least while sitting in my chair it's harder to sit in my god damn lap.. (Thank god for arm rests).

I may have ditched harvest last night.. *winces* She told me she was going to Parliment House (a gay club around) last night, but I was tired as hell and ended up going to sleep. I never said I was going but didnt' say I wasn't either I suppose. I got a phone call at some point during the night, and found the voice message this morning on my way out the door that was just a lot of music and club noise. I didn't hear any talking but I'm pretty sure it was her. I sent a message this afternoon apologizing for not meeting up with her and asked if she had a good time. I got "yea" as a response so..

I was also pretty sure Sharon was upset with me today.. I sent a text on my way home from work asking if she was ok. She didn't respond. I sent another text about an hour later asking again. No response. She called to ask me something about a dog I'm training and to have me talk to the owner, from the work phone, never said anything else. Then sent a text later asking what the depart date for that dog was. I texted her back the day then asked if I had done something to upset her today. She finally got back .. I must have sounded desperate at that point.. saying no, she was just moody from pmsing. It seems to be that kinda day though.

Sharon did WHIP me today at work though.. fucking hurt. We were doing aggression, I was wearing shorts and the dog would rush out at her then turn around, show it's ass and just look up at me. Sharon tapped his butt a few times with the prod but he'd just look back at her then look back at me so she snapped the whip but it somehow came around and wrapped around my calf and snapped the shit out of me. The whip, in case you're wondering is suppose to simulate the sound of gunfire.

We worked Baloo today, he did pretty good. I forgot how heavy that guy is and the first time he lunged forward he yoinked me about 2 feet forward. He's a thick boy! He's about a 90lbs lug. I want to get the video to save. I dont' know why he's so special to me but he definatly is. We also worked Geneza and she did very well, which is to be expected. She's a brilliant girl.

The puppies are doing great. chubby little pups. Onya (the momma) seems to have a favorite because everytime I walk past she has one pup between her two front legs and they have their heads together. It's probably the cutest damn thing I've ever seen. It's hard to get a picture though because I have to open the slidding glass door to take a picture and when I do she tends to stand up. I do have a picture of the puppy wrapped around her front paw, and looking like he's holding her paw. So damn cute..

Here is a photo that didn't make the cut for the Website. But since I have to bring the camera from work to Wendy and Terry tomorrow morning, I happen to have the camera overnight.. and I decided to load them onto my computer.

This one is Sharon and myself working some dogs.

Today Ben went to his new home, yay for him!
Luis picked up Katie and Sinclair.
Crystal came and picked up Gundi on Saturday, and may be back for Troy.
Sharon is taking Ranger to Washington next week.. which blows.. cause she'll be gone a full fucking week.. which means I get to be in charge again .. I hate being in charge at work. So much can get fucked up. And on top of all the normal crazy, we've got puppies..

So the number of K9's we have just hanging around are going down, which is freaking fantastic for the dogs.


Today it rained like a mother on us at work, luckily I was able to get my Boot Campers trained before it all came down.
Tomorrow I get to temperment test Goodness and Mercy.
AKA the dogs that attacked me during our OB glass with the owner. I have a scar. So I'm pretty jazzed over training them to protect. The only thing that makes it ok is that the owner really needs it.. She's going to Africa, she's a missionary and they warned her to 'bring her own protection' ... and since she doesn't 'believe' in guns, she decided on dual dogs. However, once on leash, and away from their owner they are good dogs. Extremely obedient and intelligent, just overly protective, which is what we need to work on. Mostly just Civil Control.

I'm SOOOO hungry.. There is nothing to eat here ..

This one here is a bunch of random people standing around with dogs.. 2 of the people in this picture are not trainers.. they weren't even really employed with us. They were interns. The others are Wendy and myself. I'm on the left with, who else?? My Baloo! Echo is up front, teaching class in this one. The solid white Shepherd is my girl, Geneza.

Well after X Rays, urinalysis, several tubes up his wang they decided that it may be a UTI. Not sure.. but they don't see any stones, or Crystals, or Casts which could all be worse options. He's got some antibiotics, if he gets worse I've got to take him back but we're hoping this is what it is.

After taking Phil to the vet, we went over to Sharon's so we could all go see Transformers. However the movie would run longer than expected and Sharon would be unable to go teach Jasper's class so she stayed home and I took Stuart and Ian to the movie. I enjoyed it! And to add to it, Harvest texted me during the movie so that's cool!

Got a message after the movie that because it was storming so bad Sharon couldn't do Jasper's class so she was just waiting at home and was sad she didn't get to go see the movie. We picked up pizzas and headed back to her Apartment and we all chilled out and watched WipeOut! and ate pizza. Was a good time.

But fuck what a waste of a day... I had pretty much the whole day off but didn't get anything accomplished.. no laundry or anything.. I don't know.. it seems ridiculous.

One thing I would like to say about the other night at the bar.. I posted pictures of it in my last post but didn't mention this. So Sharon had had a few drinks and was feeling buzzed. She was out on the floor dancing with some friends, I was playing pool and that Jason Mraz song "I'm Yours" comes on, and it's no secret that i'm a fan of that song. So when it comes on Tish, Sabrina, Christy, and Sharon all saying "Grasshopper!" and they usher me towards the floor so I put down my pool cue and meet Sharon who pulls me out on the floor. So I go onto the floor and start dancing with Sharon a bit, Sabrina and Tish are dancing, Nancy and Sherry (two of Sharon's other friends she hasn't seen for awhile) are dancing and Becca and Christy so we're all paired up then right before the second verse starts Sharon dances away and starts dancing with Sherry. So now everyone is dancing together and all of a sudden I'm dancing by myself. For the rest of the song then I quickly go back to the pool table. That really hurt my feelings. I know I shouldn't be too bothered by it, but I was called out there then just sorta ditched. I didn't say anything to anyone about it except for this here but.. eh..

I got a call last night from Mom saying that Phil had pee'd in the house. Phil Never goes to the bathroom in the house. Then it wasn't just pee, it was bloody pee.. This morning I got home and there were half dollar sized puddles of pee around the front door some with a little clotted bit of blood. Extremely not good. He'll go outside and try and try and try to pee.. he'll walk 5 feet then try to pee, nothing. Then we'll walk 5 feet and try to pee then just continue doing that. I sent a text to Sharon and Tish. Both said to take him to the vet. Sharon said it could be a Bladder Infection or, at his age Kidney Failure. Tish asked Dr. Mocklin and the text said to have Phil at the vet a 2 for xrays. Fuck.


.. In other news, the reason I was home this morning was because Sharon and I were at the kennels until a little after 3 am Helping Onya have her puppies. She had 6, 3 girls and 3 boys. They're pretty much adorable. It all went smoothly, one was a little gargly but we were able to clear him out and this morning they were all ok. Sharon and I both had to be back at the kennels at 8am to open up but my class cancelled and Wendy said we could both go home. Yay.. but now I can't sleep cause of phil..

Also, I heard back from Harvest, she sent me a picture of her new tattoo ( that pretty much made me want to fall out) and she wanted a picture of me.. so I took one.. You know how I look in my photos.. like a crazy. So I sent the best I could do and well, since then haven't heard back, but what can ya do? That's me. Sharon, Tish, Sabrina and myself went to R Bar the other night, the first time Harvest asked for a picture from me and I did take a few but none of them were coming out right.. But at least everyone got in on it and tried to make me not as stressed out. So I got a picture of Sharon looking like she's smacking my crotch, me and Sabrina, Sabrina lookin like she's licking my cheek, and Sharon mid kissing my cheek.
I also won every game of pool I played, which was awesome. I even beat tish like.. 3 times. She said she'd dance to any song I wanted her to if she lost the last game, HA. Keeping that one in my back pocket.

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So I haven't mentioned it but we're about to have puppies (hopefully) again. The girl, Onya is pregnant, everything is ready for her to have the puppies, we're all set and monitoring. The bus will be arriving at the office tomorrow I believe so we'll start our watch parties. Hopefully everything will work out, we got Onya from the same person we got Ledi from so I'm nervous but everything appears to be good. Onya has been to the vet and has been checked out and all seems good, she seems to have 6 or 7 puppies waiting.

Also, Baloo is back!!! Baloo is named Blue now but it's still so hard to remember to call him that. He's my Baloo! He's back now to finish up his protection training. Man I love my Baloo...

In closing, here is my Baloo back when he was my Little Boy Baloo.



And this is Baloo right before he left to go to his new home.






EDIT: I just saw the Veronica's perform on "So You Think You Can Dance" huh? and .. ok they're kinda odd looking in a dirty kinda way but their drummer is kinda damn cute..

Yeeha. A few clips from the CBR I took the other night. Had to put the song in the background because all you could hear otherwise was me saying "OHH!!!! OH OH! Look! AHhh haha! Run run runrurn run!"

Feelin oddly opptamistic about the day...