sometimes we find lost dogs & other stories
It was a short work week this week due to Thanksgiving weekend last weekend. Of course my week was made even shorter with the addition of a wonderful gastro flu thing. I was at work for all of 2 days out of four. Go me. Ugh.Tuesday morning as I was getting ready to leave for work there was a dog party in the street. Cars and people and dogs. We thought it was just people walking their dogs until I was leaving the house and saw that one of the dogs was still around when all humans and cars had vanished. She was a tall, gangly Husky and she came right up and gave me kisses before galloping away from me.
I asked Shawn to see if he could help catch her as I was on my way to the bus, but she ran off. He was going to go look for her but suddenly she found her way to the street I was on while waiting for the bus and after almost getting hit by a car, she ran up to me SO HAPPY to see me again! OMG! BEST FRIENDS! I was first in line for my bus with three other people behind me. I was trying to hold onto this dog, dropped my lunch bag, trying to open my phone and call Shawn to come meet me with a leash - and do you think ONE person offered to help me? No. Instead, what happened as I fell down into the WET grass while holding on to the dog, they all just MOVED UP ONE STEP to TAKE MY PLACE IN LINE.
Idiots.
None of them answered me when I asked them if the dog looked familiar. Not a one. One girl said "Guess you have to make a choice - play with your dog or go to work." She wasn't my dog, idiot girl! I was telling you she was LOST and we didn't want her running around. Ugh. So Shawn met me with the leash, I missed my bus but who cares (I got the next one and it was less crowded. So there.) and another woman pulled up saying she was also looking for the dog to take her to a vet since she'd been running loose for a while. Shawn ended up taking her home - she loved people but was terrified of dogs. And as he was trying to coax her into our house so he could watch her and call the police to let them know about the lost dog, a woman called out to her. Apparently she gets loose all the time. I wonder why? Couldn't possibly be because the woman walked away WITHOUT A LEASH FOR THE DOG and just let her bound around freely. OH MY GOD. What is wrong with people.
Regardless, the day started out exciting and wasn't such a horrible day after that. We find a lot of lost dogs in our neighbourhood. People don't seem to care for them very well.
(Turns out, we find lost dogs every second year, in odd-numbered years. First there was Hassenpfeffer in 2009, then Smooches in 2011 and now this lovely Husky girl whom we did not have long enough to find a name for. ;) And because I find this now happens way too frequently, I'm making a tag for these posts so I can refer to them easier when I find a new dog. Jeez.)
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It was my father-in-law's birthday over Thanksgiving weekend and I made him a card.
I'm quite happy with this card. I am still amused by the party hats I put on the animal stickers. Even a week later and it still makes me giggle. Heh. I now need to replenish my animal and party hat stickers. I didn't have any hunter stickers so I had to make my father-in-law by hand. (and I cut out all those trees from fancy paper.) I need to get back to work on my Christmas card making. They will not be this detailed though. ;)
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As I mentioned I was sick towards the end of this week. I started feeling bad on the bus ride into work on Thursday and was so sick once I got to the office. So sick that Shawn drove into town to come pick me up and I left 45 minutes after getting in. Spent the rest of the day in bed or the bathroom. Felt slightly better Friday but still had an upset stomach and nothing panicks me more than having stomach issues at work. Ugh. My super wonderful boss said I could work from home if I wanted to and I was actually quite productive. Imagine that. Without annoying coworkers coming to ask me to do things that they don't want to do themselves. I should work from home more often. =P
I also spent part of last weekend and some nights this week making book covers front, back and spine for a class project. I'm no graphic artist and I was doing the best I could with images borrowed from the internet and photoshop but I had a fun time making them. This assignment is now submitted and it was a fun group project. We've got 3 more to work on before the semester is done, but I'm enjoying this class immensely. It's all about sales & marketing for book publishers and has pretty much solidified my desire to move into this field when I am done. (Or maybe I'll make book covers!)
Anyhow, I'm still sick today, only it seems to have morphed into a head cold (with occasional cough). Boo. I am sick enough that I skipped my outdoor fitness class this morning. I really don't want to be doing intense cardio when my stomach is still iffy. That just won't end well for anyone. Yeesh. I will be posting about my fitness classes though! I have a post in my head and I still need to finish that post about the label I am giving this year! I have had it in drafts since the summer. Bad me!
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That's it really. Nothing much else exciting. Oh! We did get some awesome tacky bed sheets at Target yesterday. (I'm surprised we bought anything since Target has not impressed us one bit since it opened in our province. But we were desperate for sheets that weren't ripped! And it's easier to get to (less of a traffic headache) than the Wal-Mart. I really, really miss Zellers. Sigh)
These sheets remind me of sleeping at my grandparents' place. They remind Shawn of sleeping in the country. Either way, we both seemed to have slept wonderfully last night and I am attributing that to these sheets. ;)