11 posts tagged “boone”
i should be getting ready to leave my doctor's appointment/hair appointment/the library/class, but i wanted to share a few pictures from my weekend first.
the love of my life...
i've realized that i really only update my vox when chuck is gone. i think it's because it's the only time i really have to myself. a lot of times, i'll start a post, but before i can finish it, chuck will ask me what i'm doing, and then he'll come over and cuddle and kiss me so i can't do anything. then we'll get distracted (not necessarily by sex, gutter brains), and i'll leave my computer behind, forgotten... by the time i remember i was composing a post, it'll be the next day and it's no longer relevant.
so chuck left for toronto this morning. he's only gone for a few days this time, he'll be home wednesday night. this is nothing compared to him being in germany, but i'm already putting off going to bed because i know i'm going to have trouble falling asleep. annoying. i have to be up early tomorrow to get into work and take care of business, and i just know i'm going to have a rough time waking up. i need my beauty rest!
my dog has been sick. i think he's got it all worked out of him now, but he had some SERIOUS belly problems, and we were cleaning up messes all over the house for a day and a half. luckily he hasn't had any 'accidents' since chuck left, because i tried to help chuck clean some up yesterday and hello, gag reflex. i'm a sympathetic puker, but this wasn't puke and as helpful as i was trying to be, i couldn't take it, and had to run out of the room with my hand over my mouth.
i had a complete binge day today. i had ice cream for breakfast, leftover macaroni and cheese for lunch and another bowl of ice cream for dinner. i guess that wasn't all that bad. i really don't pay attention to what i eat when chuck isn't here. he often yells at me because i don't take care of myself. at least i'm eating! it's not as though i'm allowing myself to starve. just because when he leaves i suddenly become a lazy lump that doesn't want to cook anything for myself, doesn't mean that i'm not taking care of myself.
speaking of lazy lump, i spent the ENTIRE day today watching ANTM on MTV. and then turned it off halfway through the very last episode. i had already looked up online who was going to win and i was getting bored with it, anyway. it was a rainy, gloomy day, so my original plan to do yardwork just didn't work out. i wasn't completely unproductive though. i did spackle and sand down all the holes/defects in the bathroom walls. i'm going to re-spackle some of the spots in the morning, sand after work, and then hopefully start putting up the primer tomorrow night.
so here it is, and update from me. i'm actually feeling a little bit tired right now so i'm going to put away the laptop and see if i can't fall asleep. oh, crap, i remembered i haven't brushed my teeth yet. i'm going to go do that, but i bet it's going to wake me up, and then i'll be laying here all night trying to fall asleep... chucky, come home!
its now gone from being a diary of my daily life to being a publicly displayed list of things my dog has destroyed.
please add:
- a baseball hat
- a pack of tapestry needles
- an empty birth control box, which i was holding on to for the literature inside of it
- a handful of paint samples
- some thing that chuck uses for archery, i think its to hold his arrow tips
he did all of this this morning while i was still sleeping. my mom thinks its him acting out because chuck is gone this weekend, but he did all of the other destroying BEFORE chuck left. i think its because chuck and i have become more and more busy and because its getting colder out we're doing less outside. i took him for a long walk yesterday to relieve him of some of his boredom, but i guess that was just a temporary fix.
but when i found a piece of the package of tapestry needles, and saw that they were missing from the table, i flipped. i was so worried. i called my mom crying because i couldn't find the needles anywhere, and i let our dog eat needles and i didn't know what to do. my mom said to just watch him and see if he was acting weird.
so i called my baby to me, and he snuggled me and rolled on his tummy and i was crying and petting and hugging him and he would snuggle me more and i was talking to him and asking him how he felt (like he could answer me) and then i glanced to the floor... and there were the damn needles, still in their holders, just missing the packaging.
I WAS SO HAPPY. my puppy isn't going to die because i left tapestry needles on the coffee table!
but anyway, must go, must clean... ryan, my brother, is coming over for lunch to watch football and see the house and meet the dog. and chuck will be home sometime this afternoon. hopefully it will be a nice day, i'd like to get some things done outside this afternoon.
to anyone who was concerned about the well being of my dog, i didn't hurt him. i love him too much to actually hurt him. in fact, i've forgiven him, and now we're learning to catch popcorn in our mouths after its been thrown in the air. well, he is. i'm throwing the popcorn.
i'm watching 30 rock and waiting for ugly betty and grey's anatomy to come on.
aww the popcorn made boone thirsty.
so we've been leaving him out of his cage during the day. we started leaving him out for an hour here and there when we'd leave to run errands, and it worked out well, so we'd leave him out for longer and longer periods of time until it seemed like he was well-behaved enough to be left out the entire day while we were at work.
so i left him out this morning, thinking the most of my adorable puppy, thinking he was grown-up enough to handle this.
but now i am regretting it.
i came home to 3 mangled hangers and a half ruined ball of yarn.
he had gotten into the boxes of stuff i have stored down in the basement and just went nuts.
here's a picture of what's left of everything...
i rolled what was salvageable from the yarn into a ball, and that messy part at the bottom is what has been wasted. $5 ball of yarn.
oh and i tried to piece together the hangers to see how much of it he had chewed up, and how much of them he had actually ingested, because you see, my dog doesn't just destroy, he devours. i'm missing a whole half of a blue hanger.
hopefully the pain caused by pooping all that out will be punishment enough for him to never do it again, but just incase, i scolded him and now whenever he slinks over to me like 'are you still mad at me?' with his ears down and his tail between his legs i say 'get out, i'm still mad at you!' and he goes and lays in his bed.
bad puppy!
uh oh, daddy's home from work, and now he's getting yelled at again. apparently he got a sock, too.
oh boone, what are we going to do with you?
... that make the biggest impact.
so as i stated in an earlier post, i did in fact travel to my mother's house today to pick up said VCR. when i got it back to the house and chuck got everything set up, we realized something i had realized before but since forgotten... there was no remote for the VCR. the remote, in this case, was critical to setting up the machine, due to the fact that i'm using it to tape television shows, and needed to set the timer.
oh what a conundrum!
so in the face of extreme disappointment, with the beginning of one of the shows i wanted to tape looming near, i turn things around with a simple statement: 'i'm going to go buy one of those universal remote thingys.'
la di da, i travel to the nearest k-mart (2 minutes up the road, wahoo!) pick up a remote, deny the sales clerk the opportunity to sell me a service plan, and spend a grand total of $20 picking up the remote and an 8 pack of AAA batteries.
come home, spend 20 minutes setting up not only the VCR, but the television, the DVD player, and our sound system to all work on this one wonderous piece of electronics.
i handed it to chuck, who had a skeptical look on his face throughout this whole thing. as always, he asks me a million questions... 'but does it turn on the TV?' 'and can you tape shows on the VCR while you're watching another one on TV?' and then he gets a smug look on his face like, i got her now, little miss know-it-all! and he said 'but can it turn down the volume on the sound system?' and i happily replied YES!
so he tries it, sees i was right, and exclaims 'WOW! i haven't been able to do that since i bought the thing, because i got it for half price as a floor model and it didn't come with a remote!'
and he just sat and smiled at me. he was SO HAPPY! all because i went out and got that stupid little remote. i made my boyfriends WEEK with that.
yes, i know, i'm wonderful. at least for the day, anyway...
so here's our little entertainment center, all set up and beautiful. it brings a tear to my eye... mostly because that entertainment center is hideous and its going as soon as i find a nice corner unit that i can stand.
and i'm really glad that this whole remote situation put chuck in such a good mood, because, although he may be unaware of it, he's about to embark on a journey of no return... because something else came home with me on my trip to my mother's house... something wonderful, yet dark and incredibly addicting...
if you can't tell what that is, that's all 7 seasons of buffy the vampire slayer, my friend. chuck has no idea what he's in for. mwuahahahahaha!
one last note, i taught my puppy to play hide and seek today. if i hide a treat in one of my hands, and say 'which hand, boone?', he'll sniff both hands carefully, and then put his paw on top of the hand that he thinks the treat is in. and he's always right! even when i rub the treat on both hands to confuse him! what a smart smart puppy!
okay, time for bed! goodnight!
and its so freaking adorable.
i'm dreading going into work today.
our retail manager for the entire company is going to be visiting our region today. i spent most of yesterday cleaning and organizing so that my regional manager doesn't have a heart attack when he sees that i had 7 boxes of supplies and random paperwork shoved underneath my desk out of the view of customers. yeah, yeah, i may look super organized most of the time, but its all a facade. i'm a big, box stuffing, paper hiding mess.
anyway, the only saving grace i may have is that i go in late enough that there's a chance that i will miss the visit. oh, shucks, that's too bad. i'm really heartbroken. i'm practicing my speech for later.
i would also like to state, for the record, that i found out last night that my beloved manager, whom i've trusted to guide me and help direct me in my career within the company, is inevitably a shit talker, and has gone behind my back to make comments about me, multiple times. quite the eye-opener, i tell ya. and here i basically looked up to this woman as a mentor. its really disappointing, but i'm trying not to let it upset me. thank god i was already considering moving to another branch, it'll definately make things easier, and hopefully my new manager will appreciate my hard work and dedication. and i'll finally be away from my branch full of shit-talkers.
its jealousy. okay, maybe not, but hey, if that gets me through the day...
anyway, i think i'm going to go make chuck some chocolate pudding before i start to get ready for work.
J-E-L-L-O.
our puppy is officially one year old and i think my boyfriend has dubbed me officially insane. i just spent more money on dog toys and treats than i ever have, ever. i also got him a doggy backpack for when we go hiking and camping! oh, and we're having a birthday party for him tonight, although chuck refuses to acknowledge it. i know he'll come around when he sees how happy boone is tearing the paper off all of his gifts. yeah, that's right, i wrapped the dog gifts. my mom got boone a present, too.
oh and for a cake, we're going to let him have a wendy's hamburger. mmm greasy meaty goodness for my baby! just hope it doesn't give him gas, or he's not sleeping in our room tonight!
so chuck and i are kinda going over things like me moving in, and how we're going to spend our money, and where we want to move to eventually, etc.
so today, on my day off, i decided to practice being a housewife. i had such good intentions. dusting, vaccuuming, toilet scrubbing. i got the bedroom clean and did a bit of laundry.
and then i sat back down on the couch and here i've been ever since. i think cleaning would be more fun if i had a swiffer product to play with. the people on the commercials seem to have such a blast with them. plus it would rock for picking up all of boone's doggy hair, yuckkkk!
i still have 3 hours until he gets home from work, so hopefully i'll get a bit more done than i already have.
so i went to borders the other day and purchased a bunch of books with the intentions of once again becoming a bookworm. i was always a book worm growing up, and i love love love reading, but lately it seems that i haven't gotten much of it done. i guess i read a lot on the internet, but that's not the same as reading a book.
anyway, bought four, just finished the first one. Me Vs. Me by Sarah Mlynowski. i'm beginning to love her. i read a book by her called Milkrun sometime last year, loved that, and that's why i bought this book. i was equally as impressed. looking forward to buying a new one to enjoy. i'm quite the chick lit fan, it seems.
next on my reading list? the last anniversary by liane moriarty. anyone read this? give me some input. i plan to start it before bed tonight.
anyways, off to fold some laundry, and then maybe i'll take a stab at cleaning the bathroom. i bought thick yellow gloves yesterday just for this purpose, so i might as well get some use out of them.
we're having TACOS!
its my birthday, yet i'm the one cooking. my boyfriend is so terribly spoiled.
speaking of spoiled SO IS MY PUPPY! he has a new big tasty bone and a brand spanking new DOG LICENSE now. freaking finally. he's a real puppy! i just spent the past 30 minutes on the floor with him going 'who's a real puppy? huh? you're so spoiled. i love you! gimme kisses!' i'm covered with dog drool now, but i love my boone. who woulda guessed that i would have become a sucker for a big drooly black lab? not i, yet this dog has got me in his paw.
so anyway, finally updated those birthday pics... but i'm going to start a new entry to post them all.
stay tuned! :) :)
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