Crazy Hank

I believe I have mentioned several times about how crazy our dog, Hank is. I'm not sure if people really understand the level of craziness. He's not angry crazy. He's a very happy crazy. He just has a lot of energy. His favorite thing to do is tear around the apartment and launch himself onto our bed as fast as he can. When he wants to go outside, he slams himself against any available door. If someone leaves the room, he also feels the need to slam himself against whatever door they exited and await their return. One time, when traveling with him, Chris and I pulled up to a very busy gas station so that we could get some coffee. I stayed in the car with Hank while Chris graciously ran inside. People kept coming and going and poor Hank ran back and forth in the back seat trying to see where everyone was going. He pretty much has a heart of gold. I've never seen him angry or chew things like furniture. He will pick up a shoe and play keep away with you, but that's it. Most of the time, he just wants to snuggle with and lick your face.

However, Chris came home on Friday to find Hank's plastic tray in pieces. Shredded, chewed, bitten, destroyed. We are not sure what triggered it. There was really nothing out of the norm. My dad was visiting, but like I said, Hank loves everyone. Usually, I'm the one who comes home to feed him, but Hank wouldn't have known at that point who was coming home. So when I get paid on Thursday, I'm headed to the pet store to invest in a metal tray.

Smarty had a Party

Woot! It's Friday! I thought my day was going to start off bad, but its turning out pretty good. Once again, I had a drink fiasco. I made my pot of coffee like I do every morning, but my dad was talking to me before I left. I never put the coffee in my cup. Ugh. This is bad for two reasons. One I'm going to be sluggish all day which is annoying. Two, I usually get really bad headaches when I don't have my coffee. Some people suggested that I just drink the office coffee. I would except that I'm pretty sure they just filter hot water through the funnel and serve that as coffee. Gross.

But I have a fabulous job with fabulous people and they always some how cheer me up. My co-worker Ally sent out an e-mail letting us know they were giving out free ice cream on the circle today. Go no further! I'm in! Free ice cream, long lunch, quesadilla from Qdoba, perfect!

Even better, tonight after work, we are celebrating two co-workers birthdays and we're going out. I love when everyone gets together. Its such a fun group of people. I just had to promise Chris that I would eat before I started drinking. I even planned ahead and had one our techs pick me up today so my car won't be downtown. Just cab it home. :-)

Two in one day? What what???

Two blogs in one day? I know, you guys are shocked! I wanted to share some pictures. For those of you who read Dana's blog saw the mustache toy for dogs. When Dana shared the link with me that fateful day, I immediately went online and spent the ridiculous amount for this toy. Hank did not understand the concept of it. He kept wanting to chew the ends of the mustache instead of the big ball. Hahaha, so you can see that we had to force him into the pose for the picture and its not even a good one.

So Hank is a very picky guy and he will only go to the bathroom in certain areas. They are kind of in the woods behind our apartment. Its great, but its gets really muddy since he tramples over the area about 7 millions times a day. When we have bad weather, this is what he looks like about every three hours.

This picture is from the Final Four weekend. I love when the Final Four is here. Its like Christmas! No, the fans are always great, there are free concerts and the possibility of seeing famous people! Here's who we saw! Chris was ecstatic and even said that he inspired Chris to get completely wasted that night. :-)

People don't listen to me

So my dad is in town visiting us for a couple days. We are very excited to have him. My mom has been busy cleaning out the basement in preparation for more renovations. She sent with my dad my old dollhouse that my grandma made for me. It is wallpapered and tiled with extra pieces of wallpaper and tiles from my parents house when they first moved in. Of course, all of that stuff has been replaced over the years and it is really neat to see it again. She also sent my international doll collection. I wanted to keep all of these things in case I decide to have a kid and I have a girl. I think it would be neat to pass those things along.

Anyway, last night I opened the back porch door. It was really nice out and there was a fabulous storm. I love listening to the rain especially in the springtime. I only had the door open about 8 inches. Hank is a crazy puppy and he likes to slam himself against the sliding glass door especially when he has to go potty outside. I figured that he doesn't know that a screen door isn't very stable. Well, towards the end of the night, Chris opens the door all the way to let in more air. I said, I don't think that's a good idea. He said, well Hank has to learn what a screen door is eventually. 10 minutes later a white blur flew out of the apartment and around the corner. Yes, it was Hank. I started to say I told you so when Chris told me that I never said anything about the door. My dad and I both said, uh yes i/she did. I think Chris was pretty pissed off at himself. Don't worry. We found him pretty quickly. He was hanging out by my car and so we caught him. But he was covered head to toe in mud. It makes me wonder about all the other times where Chris has told me that i never told him something when I could have sworn I did....

I will admit that we had a few drinks last night. Nothing big, but we were up later than usual. I woke up this morning feeling a little groggy and a little dehydrated. But I got up and got ready. On my way to work, I thought oh man an iced tea sounds amazing right now. The more I thought about it, the more I had to have it. As I drove by McDonald's, I glanced at the drive thru line and it was pretty thin so I drove in. I ordered my extra large iced tea. At this point, I'm salivating. I'm so excited about this tea, its not even funny. The lady hands me that glorious cup that has beads of sweat dripping off of it. I rip open the straw and put it in the drink. I go to take one big gulp....it's diet coke. I HATE diet coke. I know people love that stuff but I think it tastes like barf. I would rather eat mushrooms than drink diet coke. So not only do I hate diet coke, but iced tea and diet coke don't taste anything alike. When I took that swig with my brain thinking it was going to be iced tea, it was even more shocking. Luckily, one of my favorite co-workers, Cheryl, had bought two iced teas this morning without ice so she could drink them all day. She gave me one of hers. I'm going to go out at lunch today and buy her one to replace the one she gave me. What a sweetheart!

I know, I know

I'm terrible at this blog thing. It seems ridiculous to me because my friend Dana posts all the time and its not that she really posts anything crazy. If anything, she posts about very everyday things, but she makes them so interesting and funny! I feel like nothing that interesting happens in my life yet I twitter and facebook all the time!

I guess my big news is that Chris and I will probably be ending our 3 1/2 year relationship tomorrow. Both Marquette and Georgetown somehow made it to the Big East Semi-finals and are playing each other at 7pm. So there you go. College basketball will be the demise of us. We surprisingly have made it through me getting an iPhone. But we had pretty much planned on everything ending when Mythbusters starts back up again on March 24th. So no big loss. Sorry for those who planned on getting drinks at the open bar at our wedding. :-)

Just joking! Things are good in Indy. Chris and I have been very focused on remodeling our living room. I'll post pictures when it's all done, but we are getting new everything. Chris and I put together our new coffee table and end table tonight. We plan on buying the TV this weekend and hopefully soon a new couch. Thus we finally got renter's insurance. Ha ha. That's what we get for living in the ghetto.

I'm looking forward to this spring for all the race activities. We are really hoping to do some good camping this season. We got a lot of camping gear now so Dana and Howard...be ready!! The guest bedroom is always available so let us know if you want to come visit!

Dana's Contest

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Halloween 09

For Halloween this year, Dana and Howard drove up from Kentucky to go to the 49ers/Colts game. They were fortunate enough to find seats in the same section as us, only three rows away. They arrived on Saturday evening just in time for dinner and pumpkin carving. Chris made his mom's delicious sloppy joe recipe. We had a couple more friends stop by to join us. Here are the pumpkins everyone carved. Pretty good!!

On Sunday we got up early and had bagels from Einstein. Dana has been complaining for months about how there are no bagel shops in Paducah. Her mom even froze bagels and mailed them to her! So I spent one day asking tons of questions about her frozen bagel experience so that I could find out her's and Howard's favorite bagels. I can't believe she really thought I was that interested in her bagel experiences!! HAHA!

We got to the parking lot and tailgated for a little bit. We wanted to get over to the stadium so that I could show them my brick and show them around the stadium. Alas, we didn't get there with enough time so we saw the brick and quickly went to our seats. I wanted to make sure I was there for the pageantry!

It was a real nail biter. The Colts were not looking like the Colts. I have to admit that I was kind of nervous and probably avoided looking over in Dana and Howard's area for the majority of the first half. During halftime, Howard informed me that he had taken all my Colts stuff in the guest bedroom and turned it upside down or backwards. This was, of course, after the conversation he and I had about how superstitious we are when it comes to football. Unfortunately, his plan was foiled and the Colts won! Yea me! Sorry to Howard who drove 6 hours to watch his team lose. I hope he had fun anyway.

We drove home, exhausted and hungry. We were ready to eat and just relax while watching more football. I opened the door to the apartment and got attacked by a dog! I was in shock! Where did this dog come from?? Well, apparently, Hank got out of his crate and had been enjoying himself for who knows how long. We looked around surveyed the damage. He had destroyed an aluminum can, but didn't look like he ate of it. A deck of cards was definitely ruined. He pooped on the carpet. And the worst....

Fortunately, it is very easy to get tickets replaced when you're a season ticket holder. I spent the whole night thinking that I didn't latch his crate properly. Until Monday....he did the same thing. Now we know that our Hankdini can open his crate. I have now attached a 3lb padlock to the door. We'll see if he can get that open! I knew I shouldn't have read Marley and Me!!!! Ha ha!