The Week Ahead

This weekend my parents were out of town and my sister and her boyfriend came to Raleigh for the weekend with their new puppy Raley. She is a doll and is huge! Compared to Pogo :-) She's three months old and 19lbs already! The picture is from last weekend when it snowed in NC, we didn't get much in Raleigh, but they got a couple inches in Winston Salem. Below is Pogo in the 1/4'' we got in Raleigh.

Friday night I celebrated my birthday with friends downtown. We had a great time but I think I had a little too much fun....I took this picture at 2am right before we went home for the night.

What you can't see is that the shoes have 4 inch heels.

 This was 5pm on Saturday afternoon, soon after my sister and I talked to my parents and they thought it was time to go to the ER. So we put all three dogs (Pumpkin included) in their respective crates and Britt drove me over to WakeMed Cary. I had X-rays taken and they didn't see any fractures, but decided I had sprained the three ligaments that go across the ankle. They gave me a cast and crutches and told me to stay off it until next Friday!!

 So, I'm currently sitting with my foot propped way up with ice on it. Apparently I need to keep it even further up.

I doubt I'll be able to stay off it the whole week though, I have class, of course, all week, along with many homework assignments, projects, tests, etc. Most of my classes are in Weaver, but I have one class in the middle of campus (behind the gates) and another on Centennial campus where I park at least a half mile from the building. Why couldn't this have happened next weekend during Spring Break?

Success!

Check out our first Rally-O experience, so proud of the little guy!

Long week...fun weekend!

This has been a long week...so far this semester school is crazy and it seems like it is so much busier than last semester. I think it's the combination of classes, almost all of which assign mass amounts of homework.

Anyway, this week is over (although I have a ton of homework to do this weekend....) and I'm really looking forward to our Show and Go this weekend!
Tomorrow we're going to the Winston Salem Dog Training Club to our first real practice trial :-)
I think we'll do okay. We've been practicing at the dog park; which has been really good to keep Pogo's attention while lots of other things are going on and with lots of other smells around.

In other news, the ball has been found! Oh happy day and one happy dog!

This grimy mini tennis ball has been missing since before Christmas. Making it very difficult to play fetch because no other tennis ball will do, even if it's identical to the lost one! I was at home last weekend and Pogo was digging around under the bed near the headboard. It was clear he thought something was there but I didn't see anything. He kept coming back to me and whining and clearly trying to tell me that something was there. Finally I poked around and realized that there is a gap between the wall and the headboard because the bed is pushed all the way up to the baseboard at the floor. Somehow his ball had ended up wedged between the wall and the headboard....well, he found it!

Wish us luck tomorrow, hopefully all will go well and I won't be too nervous!!

Make a difference Monday

So I didn't actually watch the entirety of the super bowl. I saw kickoff, some commercials, and I know who won; so I think it still counts.
I was listening to the radio today and I heard about Tiquan Underwood. A player for the Patriots who was cut from the team literally just hours before kick off. He was so positive about it!
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“Im Fine, This Will Only Make Me Stronger…Tough Times Never Last But Tough Ppl Do,” tweeted former New England Patriots player, Tiquan Underwood after being cut on the eve of the Super Bowl.
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I love that. Tough times never last, but tough people do.
One of my favorite quotes to end the day:

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle, I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
-Mother Theresa