Another Monday

Fat Amy says F*ck you snow! It's spring!

It's Monday again and wow, another shitty one. I haven't posted but mostly because I don't have anything to say lately. I've been searching for some inspiration and some motivation and haven't found it yet. I think this snow is bringing me down.

Anywho, I did get some more walking in because I don't plan on running the 5K but I do need to at LEAST be able to walk the damn thing! So I went back to the Metro park from last week and found a few more areas that I hadn't been to yet. The trail was easy to walk so it was Tessa-proof. That earned a big ole thumbs up from me!

And a thumbs up from Chuck. He's kind of a big deal...

I also read about another trail that runs behind a bunch of huge fancy rich people houses in my town so I went and investigated. I brought Sophie and she did alright. She was so excited she was whining and barking at the same time (which I did not realize was possible) all while doing her happy dance. We didn't go too far since she was about to stroke out from all the excitement. I went back later and walked the whole distance with Chris and it goes back a lot further than you would think and it looped around. We ended up spotting 10 deer about 20 feet away. I tried to lure them closer but my high pitched baby voices and waving did nothing to convince them I was safe and without a shotgun apparently so they took off into the woods.

NOTE: This scares deer away.

Actually thinking back, they took off into some even richer peoples backyards, not more woods. Speaking of those backyards one of them had a huge tennis court which was expected, what was not expected? The above ground K-Mart pool set up on it. I wish I had my camera to take a picture. They seriously erected a pool on their no longer used tennis court. It was kind of refreshing. Money can't buy class people.

Yes I've skipped two weeks of weigh-ins. I will be back on target this week, pinkie promise.

Peace & Love Homes,

T

Monday is a Biiiitch

Assbag. HAH. Monday is the worst day ever. On the bright side, I wouldn't enjoy Fridays if it wasn't for that bitch Monday.

Lay off the caffeine pills you speed freak!

This weekend I took my little pupperface Sophie to some parks and enjoyed some fresh air! We had a semi-decent walk. She is not a very good walking partner. She is what you would call reactive. Well you would probably call her a pain in the ass, but our puppy trainers previously told us she is reactive. Basically that is a fancy word for she is a ball of excitement and she just can't hide it. Just call her Jesse Spano. She barks and spins and her hair stands on end and she has no interest in listening to us, her pet parents. This makes walking difficult, as you can imagine! My dream when we finally got a dog after years of begging the hubs was that I would get a little pup to go on long walks with me and we'd just stroll down the street, just puppy and me! *cue corny 50's music*

Ideal Situation

What really happens:

There are no pictures to fully describe her craziness

This summer there will be more clicker training and counter conditioning and someday maybe she'll be my dream walking partner. In the meantime, I'm enjoying the treadmill in the basement watching Pretty Little Liars. Today I went farther than I have before at 1.5 miles! Believe me, I understand if this is unimpressive to you. I was super stoked at my distance and then my husband who has never used the treadmill before in his life jumped on up and did 1 mile on speed 8 in 10 minutes. Really dude? Reallllllly?

Today I did make myself proud for getting back up on that treadmill. Also for dinner I made some grilled chicken and veggies and it was really good. I think I did good today overall! Not good enough as I sit here and watch The Biggest Loser finale. Go newly skinny minnies! Damn these people barely resemble their old selves! *applause*

Well that pain in that ass pupperface is ringing her bells, that's my signal to jet.

Peace,
T

Edited to add a cute picture of Sophie and my hubs today at a park:

My Dog is a Murderer.

This sweet face:

Sweet Sophie

Just 8 months old and already a killer. It happened so fast! I let her outside to do her business and knew something was up. When I called her to come back inside she didn't come, even for her panic word. We trained her with a panic word so when we say "Quick" she comes no matter what because she was trained on baby food and thinks she will be treated with the best thing ever. When she didn't come I figured she had dug a hole under the fence and bolted to timbucktwo. I came out through our sunroom to get a better look and I saw her head! What the hell?! My first thought was that our magic word has lost its power. Second thought was SHIT, because that magic word is HANDY and I have no idea how to retrain her.

I walked out onto the deck to retrieve her and saw it...gross. Blood. That's honestly all that I saw because I immediately started crying. My little pup had lost her innocence. It was so disturbing. The hubs went out and cleaned up the mess and I put Sophie in her bed for practically the rest of the night.

I don't feel quite as traumatized after letting it sink in mainly because dogs will be dogs. Besides that stupid rabbit had it coming. The dumbass lived under our porch the whole 6 months we've had Sophie, who is part beagle and they are known rabbit killing machines hunters.

She's practiced this on many giraffes & porcupines

My husband suspects it was actually already dead. I suspect another sort of rabbit killer living in our midst since that is actually the second rabbit to die near our porch. The other we had found dead and it was before we got the monster.

Circle of life yo. Rabbits beware: Avoid the Grahams, do yourself a favor.

Peace,
T