We got a new dog

Short version: we got a mini long haired dachshund named Sadie.

She’s from a rescue foster home, about 3½ years old, 8½ pounds and maybe 6 inches tall. I originally designated her a new resident of the household. She’s welcome to be a full-fledge member – she has to get used to 4 cats and I’ll leave that up to her (well, with some help). They need to get used to her, too. I am assuming that the best will happen and things are going well so far.

Of course, I have to get used to a dog in the house again, which is more of an issue than you might imagine for a variety of reasons. And I have never been around let alone had a dog as small as this. She really is a micro-mini long-haired dachshund. Of course, the only word to describe her is adorable.

For the most part she is well-behaved and very smart. A major problem is that she has been abused by possibly more than one person who bear a superficial resemblance to me. Fortunately she adores my wife and has from the first day. Once we get past the fear – and she is already learning that while I may look like the other men I don’t act like them – things will get better.

She is also territorial about my wife’s lap – which has already been claimed by one of our cats, so there are some issues there. That about sums it up: she has issues.

There’s also the fact that she has a condition apparently not uncommon in dachshunds called dry-eye. The people who had her before the rescue pretty much ignored it. Sadie needs eye drops 3 times a day and they never bothered. So she was untreated and in pain with eye infections and couldn’t see half the time – I wonder why she was a bit snappish?

Oh well, I suppose we’ll all live. At times like this I like to quote Ensign Pavel Chekov: “I’ll live, but I won’t enjoy it.” Which is just a joke because eventually everything will be just fine.

You know, I see her, but it is hard to believe that there is a dog this small in the house.

Mondays

I have a problem with Mondays. Even though I am not working, I am bound by the work schedules of the people that I deal with – mostly doctors, but others as well. That means that I see weekends pretty much the way that everyone else does. There is also a very strongly ingrained pattern of behavior after decades of living a typical workweek schedule.

That means that Mondays are still that first day of the week when I need to get into gear.

This first week of January has been a Monday.

Blech. At least I feel as if this cold is finally lifting.

Onward! Or, the self-motivational post, sort of.

OK, I admit that I am slacking off. That’s what happens when there’s a weekend after a holiday. Everything seems to be waiting for Monday to begin. I did a few chores, but mostly I just slept this weekend. Hence the wee hour of the morning posting.

I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. Not for any philosophical reasons, I just never get around to it, so there’s no waiting to start in on them. I just make plans. I need to keeping working on my recovery – which means moving on to the new things I was about to get to when I got sick for most of December; I need to read; I need to write; I need to learn; I need to create.

There, that’s a sketch of a plan/resolutions for the new year onward – with additions and edits and course corrections along the way.

I wish for everyone a good start to the first week of 2010 and a good year to follow.

Just a post for the 2nd

OK, so the cold knocked both me and my wife down so we stayed in on the 1st. This is the cold that will not leave. Also slept most of today, so we’re starting the year off very quietly. Which is not such a bad thing. I wish I had a clear enough head to read, but this cold is leaving me exhausted and my mind is muddled.

For example, I wrote yesterday’s post and then the editor lost it. I rewrote it – obviously – but I liked the first version better because it was clearer. Why can't I write the same thing twice? Oh well.

I always want to start a new year off right, but I’m not going to kick myself around. I’ll up the pace as soon as I can.

Congratulations to everyone who is starting off on new adventures this year! Good luck to you all!

Happy New Year!

There is a lot that can be said about the past year, and I started to write about it several times, but I've decided to put all of that behind me. I've had enough of repeating things about the past. There was a good thing that happened in 2009 - the favorable decision - and I will use that to let me stop thinking about this.

It has been an ever-present thing on my mind, but it is - and has been - time to move forward.

Here's to moving forward and to moving ahead.

I wish everyone a new year filled with happiness, health, peace, success and fulfillment.

Happy New Year to Everyone!

Wow, that was a long day!

I know, I said that I would post more tomorrow - which would have been a month ago.

Well, what with doctors and NaNo and doctors and NaNo and Thanksgiving, the month sort of got away from me.

However, I survived, and I finished NaNo. OK, everything I wrote is complete drek, but ya gotta start somewhere. Now I have something to fix up.

Maybe I can manage to post more in Decemeber. What could possibly interfere with posting in December?

And they're off!

Or maybe it's just me. No, there are definitely other people involved.

So, here I am, back again after nearly a month away. I was waiting for things to resolve a bit in my head. They didn't, but I'm back anyway.

The title refers to NaNoWriMo, which has now begun and I am again participating in my own inimitable - and really, who would want to copy it - way. I have chosen what I hope will be a fun idea to work on. This is all about cranking out the drek and having fun doing it. I'll worry about something that anyone could tolerate reading some other time.

For now it's just stringing words together in some semi-comprehensible way. I can't wait to see whay my brain comes up with and how my fingers interpret it.

More tomorrow.