Puppy Woahs

Wow. Two entries in a row!? I can’t believe it! [I am even about to post a third one right after this!] There is just too much going on an instead of boring you with a really long entry, I’m going to post a few.

Many of you are probably wondering how our little bundle of joy is doing. Well, we are still trying to break his puppy habits (which is exhausting), but he is doing pretty great! Still as adorable as ever.

1. He knows his name. Well. Kind of. Sometimes I feel like he thinks his name is “NoMurphy” because we get on to him all of the time for chewing on this and playing with that and jumping up on something else. But it’s a victory when you call him and he comes.

2. We have new tricks! We can now shake, fetch just about everything including shoes, and we’re currently working on sit. He has so much energy!

3. House training is progressing with slight regressions here and there. We go days without having accidents in the house, and then we have two nights in a row of crate accidents. It’s a never-ending battle. We have to keep reminding ourselves that he is still a puppy and our victories are outweighing the relapses. The biggest issue we have is cleaning up constantly and giving him a million baths. But at least we have yet to have a #2 accident in the house! (I am currently knocking on wood. And yes, I just went there with that overshare.)

4. Puppy day care is starting in a couple of weeks. Yep everyone, we are spoiling him with this! Judge us all you want, but when living in an apartment and having both of us with full-time responsibilities (again, more to come in the next entry about this one), he needs a place to go during the day. And we need to have him without pent-up energy when we get home at night. We found a place that will do it for really inexpensive!

5. He swims. We have gone to the pool a few times and he loves it. He won’t jump in on his own yet, but he will swim with little assistance and sit on the first step on his own. Hopefully he will be a great water dog!

I think that’s all the updates in the puppy world for now. He requires so much of our attention but we love him more and more each day. And when we have kids one day, they will love him too.

Overtime? Over it.

So sorry bloggers! I feel like every entry I write these days starts with an apology about not posting in a while. I am thinking hopefully this time will truly be the last hiatus from writing.

This week I put in nearly ten hours of overtime at work. That doesn’t seem like a lot, considering my goal was 15 hours, but it was still an exhausting week! I did nothing else but work for hours on end. So glad it’s over.

Why was I working so much, you may ask? Well, for two reasons. One is that work had a deadline and my boss asked for any overtime we could give. Given the awesome employee I am, I took her up on her offer – and it looks like we’ll meet the deadline with lots to spare! The other reason was for spending money for our trip to Austin/New Braunfels next weekend.

That’s right, guys, we’re going to the river!! Friday we will drive down to Austin once I get off work and spend the night there at Heather’s. Then we’ll be driving to New Braunfels the next morning to float the river with Samantha and possible Ryan. We’ll spend the night there, and go shopping at the outlet mall down there on Sunday. So naturally, we need tons of spending money!

Oh and Phillip got an iPad this week! How fancy! More about that in one of my next entries.

So glad next week returns to a normal schedule with a vacation to follow and labor day weekend coming up. A much needed reward for this tough week.

“Friends”

Warning: Vent Session

Lately I have realized that I have less and less in common with my current friends. I don’t know if it’s because I’m married now, have a full time job, or what. But things are starting to become really apparent.

I love friends that want to spend time with me. I am tired of these every-once-in-a-while hangouts where we talk for a couple of hours and then part ways for months on end. I need more than that out of my friendships.

Call me high maintenance, but I would love to have friendships that have weekly hangouts and/or phone calls. Lately I have realized how little my friends care about my every day life. I mean, if I really needed them, they would all be there. But, if I didn’t really need them, they wouldn’t come.

It has really put things into perspective and I have decided that I will be trying to find new friends. I will still keep the old ones, but I need people who actually want to do things besides sit around the house or going out late on week nights. I need some grown-up friends.

2 Months

Tomorrow is our 2 month wedding anniversary.

For those of you old married couples, this seems like a small victory to take lightly. But for us, every day is a celebration! It has been a mere 2 months since the best day of our lives. I still get chills thinking about that day and about the life that we have now.

So much has happened in 2 months and I’m so glad that things are the way they are. I love being married. I love living together. I love getting to make our home into our home and I love raising our puppy. I love getting to see Phillip every single day and getting to sleep in on the weekends together.

I love him and I love being married. Happy 2 months!

Winding Down

Finally, after a couple of weeks of craziness (thanks to a new puppy and having two weekends out of town in a row) things are settling down.

I am so excited to see where this life is heading. I’m already so pleased with where it has already gone. Things are really looking great.

Phillip is closing in on the end of his summer semester – and about to begin his last semester in college! We finally found all of the wedding presents a home and are about to have everything hung on the walls. Murphy is starting to develop quite a nice routine with us. And we are finding time to crack open the cook books and experiment with our new kitchen gadgets.

I am still on the hunt for a job I can be passionate about. This week I will be looking harder than ever. It’s time for me to find something that makes me feel like I haven’t wasted all of my money on an education that leaves me without a related job. Here’s hoping…