Dogs - Off Topic

Now I do love them. We have an old lab Ace whom I love dearly. However, I know this will offend people, but.....dogs are not people.

I love a cute dog story occasionally but have friends and acquaintances who talk way too much about their pets.

I have a friend with two shit-zoos. She just got a new one last week. They are really like children to her and her husband, but I came back from a vacation and I have a daughter and all she wants to do is yack at me about how cute the puppy is and it's pooping activities. It is all I can do to say get a life to her. I even brought up our own Acie's pooping activity on my nice wool rug, which she wasn't at all interested in. I am so glad I have more of a life than that though honestly.

Like I said I do love animals, but they are animals. She treats them like children and doesn't discipline them and you go over and they just yap and jump on you. They aren't pleasant to be around. My sister's dog was like that too. She would take him with her in the car everywhere and she would pick you up and the car was full of dog hair and when you started talking the dog would start barking and she thought it was cute.

It wasn't.

Anyway I seem to be running into a lot of this lately. And am tired of hearing everyone's dog and cat poop, eating, and sleeping activities. This friend had two of her dogs die last year. They were ancient. Really. Their time was long past. Then she said she and her hubby missed them and all the memories they had of them. Which always seem to be pooping memories. At least kids get potty trained eventually.

Df and I decided when old Acie dies, which won't be long away if he keeps pooping on my rug, their will be no more animals. My kid has moved out and his oldest is moving this year and then all we will have is his 15 year old, which will leave one day and our half dead dog.

I think people who are the best caretakers discipline their dogs and raise them to not be spoiled or annoying to guests. Just like kids. I don't like whiney kids or dogs humping my leg. You aren't doing dogs, or kids, any favors by spoiling them and letting them run your life.

Like I said, I love dogs. I like a good dog story. But enough is enough.

Still Here

I just got back a few days ago from a week's vacation in Vegas. My 50th birthday present. We had some great experiences but I got sick from the barf-et we ate at one night and am just getting over it. We saw a couple of Circque de Soleil shows and I bought a new Tiffany necklace and some Channel sunglasses so all is well. The weather was great considering it was 19 below when we left and the high was about 70 there. I am back in mid February hell here in Wisconsin.

Still feeling the effects of the food poisoning though. I am certain it was not flu. I think. I am very tired and can't wait for the weekend to chill out and rest a little. Vegas was definitely not my kind of place. Once was enough. I need some relaxation on a vacation besides laying in bed and barfing and having diarrhea from the food. Next year we are getting married and going back to Couples in Jamaica for a vacation. Now that is MY kind of vacation. The food was great, I could buy pot there, and could relax and do yoga every day.

I am sure I lost weight with this plague. I bought Alwyn Cosgrove's Afterburn program and was going to start that Monday but am not up to the exercise yet. I did yoga yesterday but it was rough. This has been the first day I could eat normal food so am working my way into the nutrition plan and hope to be exercising tomorrow or the day after. I will probably keep the blog up better hereafter. I have stayed the same on the scale pretty much since I hit maintenance and really have not improved physically. Except my yoga practice really has improved a lot. But I have this flabby belly and some other areas so I need this now. I hope it doesn't make me gain like P90X did. It is supposed to be a fat loss, but I think this is a totally different program and you don't hit the weights as hard right away as you do in Tony Horton's program. I would like some physique improvement by summer.

Anyway back to the grind at work and diet and exercise. Hopefully I will be teaching yoga by this summer. I am putting my goal of getting a certification in personal training on hold. I have had a lot of daughter issues lately and need to get in some sort of groove again and be able to not have her stress in my life. We are getting there.

Just so tired from that vacation.