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Category: LilyDawg

Lily stayed home alone today while I was at work. I usually take her to doggy daycare, so I didn't know how she would do. She did great! And she was so happy to see me when I got home. I got lots of lovins.

When I pick her up from daycare, I'm sure she's happy to see me, but she's also dreading getting in the car, so I don't get much in the way of lovins. Yay! LilyDawg!

LilyDawg slept in the new bed last night! Yay!

I can sum up work today with one word. Bleh. Wait... that's not even a word.

Okay... so American Idol... I never get to vote because I never finish watching it until after the voting closes. I agreed with the general sentiments of the judges... the first and last singers were best. Diana and Fantasia. Man... they were working it! I liked that guy Matt, too, but when they did the review at the end, I agreed with Randy... his voice wasn't strong enough to beat out the girls. So when do we find out the results???

Lily didn't sleep in the new bed with me again last night. She's not afraid to come in there and wake me up if she wants something, but she won't lay down and go to sleep. At least not while I'm in the bed. She napped there while I was getting ready for work. ha!

I moved my cheap little stereo unit from the old bedroom to the new bedroom last night. It has a remote, so I can load it up with 5 CDs and control it from the bed. Tonight, I figured out how to connect my iPod to it, too. That new bedroom is getting to be awesome!

When I got home from work tonight, I let Lily out in the backyard. She promptly found something really stinky to roll around in. Harrumph! So I had to give her a bath. She's so funny after a bath, though. She shakes and shakes and then runs around like a mad dawg!

After we had dinner (chicken salad for me, dog food for Lily), I surfed over to Ampcast.com and listened to the radio show and chatted with some of the regulars. I'll probably do that more often. Tonight I heard songs from my friends Antnee and boogaboo. I even heard one of the songs I did with Jon Solo, Best Without You.

Now I think I'll head back to my new bedroom and watch TV or listen to music or read a book in my comfy new bed. Yay!

This morning, I got a lemon bar at Starbucks. Tart yummy goodness!

I was feeling really down again today. It's the first time I've had to stuggle to hold back tears at work. I wish this icky stuff that's going on could get resolved. For the good or for the bad... I just want some resolution. But, of course, I hope it's good.

I walked to the Capitol for eggplant parmesan at lunch. As I was walking down some stairs into the catacombs of the old building, a guy looked up the stairs at me, smiled and said, "Hi" or "How's it going?" I smiled back and returned a friendly greeting. It pulled me out of my slump for a little while and that was nice.

This afternoon, the asst. division manager asked me to see how many responses we've received on a questionnaire we have out on the web right now. So I was counting and when I got to 100, instead of continuing in my head "101, 102, 103," I noted that I'd already gotten to 100 and started over with "1, 2, 3." But by the time I got to 86, I forgot about the first 100. So I told him 86 people responded. D'oh!! Luckily, there was another statistic I gave him that didn't make any sense coming from 86 people, so he noticed and asked me what was up. I figured out what I did, and corrected the figure to 186. I didn't tell him *why* I had the wrong figure the first time. I guess he could always read it here if he's checkin' out my blog, though.

Lately, I've been working with LilyDawg on her "sit and stay" skills. It's like a game. I tell her "sit." She sits. I tell her "down." She gets down on her belly. Then I say "Good Girl," and give her a treat. Then I walk around the house, and she's supposed to stay there until I say in a high pitched voice, "OKAY!" Then she runs as fast as she can to do it all over again.

Tonight, instead of handing her the treat, I started teaching her to catch it. My MandyDawg before her could catch her treats even if I threw them high in the air. I'd like to teach LilyDawg to do that, too. Usually, if I toss a treat to her, it bounces off her nose. Tonight, I'd hold it over her snout, when she'd start to raise up to grab it, I'd drop it. I'd hold it higher and higher, and she started catching it! I can't throw it and have her catch it, yet, but I can drop it in there. That's the first step! Yay!

feli was looking for pictures of LilyDawg. Here's another one. And another one. And another one.

Ain't she sweet?

LilyDawg has had a couple adventures this week. On Tuesday, my landlord came by to pick up the rent check, and he found LilyDawg out in the front yard! She wanted back in the house (thank goodness!).

You see... there's a big black dog next door named Sir. He's made a few holes in the fence between his yard and ours. He's also made a hole in the fence between my neighbor's yard and ours. He goes through those holes and then gets out through a hole in my neighbor's gate. Dogs like to roam, you know.

There's also another little stray dog who uses the holes to go visit Sir. I call him/her Little Ridgeback. I don't know if he's a girl or she's a boy. I know how to tell... ahem. I just haven't looked.

Anyway... I put a brick in front of the "gettin' out" hole, but I wasn't vigilant and let LilyDawg go in the backyard when the brick had been moved by Sir. She got out! It was a good test even by accident, though. Whenever I let her out front, she takes off running, and I have to chase her down. It's good to know when she gets out on the sly, that she wants to come back home.

The other adventure was when she went through the hole in the fence between Sir's yard and ours. Sir is a BIG black dog, and I didn't know how he would react. Luckily, he could have cared less. haha I had to go retrieve LilyDawg and bring her back home.

Sir and Little Ridgeback like to come look in my dining room window sometimes, too. They did today, and I snapped some pictures (click on each picture to see it bigger):



I get worried when Sir goes roaming. And I worry about Little Ridgeback because I'm not sure he/she has a home. I sure love those pooches, though.