Crazy Days!

When aren't we busy? I always am, I think I prefer it that way.
I celebrated my birthday on February 24th with some friends....I may have gone a little overboard because I ended up in the ER the next night with two sprained ligaments in my ankle (hmmm, good birthday present, right?).

Clearly I had my priorities in order as I took this photo while at the club immediately after I hurt myself. I didn't fall, luckily, just kind of fell off my shoe, well my heel, four inch heel that is.
As of today (Friday) I'm two weeks into a 4-6 week recovery process. I sure know how to have a good time.

The next weekend was my actual birthday. So after a horrible, exhausting, stressful week at school I headed off to Winston Salem. Friday, March 2nd was our (Pogo and I=our) first Rally trial!

 This was after the first day...we're both looking a little rough in this picture. It was almost 10pm and I had had an engineering test that morning at 8:30, gone to class, packed and drove 2 hours to Winston, not to mention the actual Rally part. So, we're both a little tired....excited though! First leg (a rally title=3 legs) with a score of 93/100 and third place, not bad at all!

This is the second day, we finished second place with a 94/100. I'm looking a little more rested, although we had a very active day (Saturday). Brittney and Bryan showed me all over downtown Winston (where they live) along with Raley and Pogo. After the tour we drove over to Reynolda Village and walked around the gardens for a while. We found a stream pretty close to the path and Raley LOVED it! However, the bank was solid mud so she got a bath when we got home :-)

The next day we went out to Yadkinville where Britt rides a horse for a woman who can no longer ride him. Apparently Bryan and I were supposed to be taking pictures of her riding, but instead we took dog pictures.

Britt's trainer (shes in the back of the third pic) has the two german shepherds. The smaller one (black & tan) loved playing with Raley and the bigger one (black) LOVED playing with Bryan!

This past week has been spring break...but it hasn't really been a break. Only from school. I've spent the week catching up on my internship responsibilities as well as developing activities for the outreach program in the College of Engineering at NCSU.

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!!