5 posts tagged “lexi”
Ugh. And the damn dog, as much as I love her, wont leave me alone for more than two seconds so I can't really get any work done. She's so adorable though, which makes it okay. I mean, look at her face.
I'm just ready to get out of here again, is all. Home always drives me crazy, though it's not really home anymore. I've been a drifter for the past five years, this is just another stop in the journey. Moving to Brooklyn will give me my first space to call my own in so long. It's rather silly, I'm so excited to buy tea towels, and a bureau. Some new store opened on 8th Street dedicated solely to kitchen items and every time I pass by, I think about baking cookies in an oven that is mine, in a kitchen that is mine, using sheets that are mine.
I've been a busy busy girl. Between searching for a job, class, and tending to The Boyfriend and The Friends, I've had no time left over. I'm tired all the time but I wouldn't change that for the world.
I've been drinking a lot of coffee lately, more than usual. And I took the redeye to Chicago this morning. My mother wants me to look after the dog over the long weekend. I suppose this is better. Instead of spending the weekend working on getting smashed like a large portion of my friends will, I will be working on writing.
My goal is to have 40-50 pages of my screenplay written by Monday. I think I can do it.
The dog is lovely, and I am tired.
My Canon PowerShot Pro S3 came today. The UPS guy was a dick and left my $500 camera that was supposed to be signed for, that UPS called us to tell us that someone had to be here to sign for it, yea, the UPS guy left it in the pouring rain without so much as ringing to doorbell.
Thank god the camera itself didn't get wet. I would personally track down that evil UPS guy and kill him myself had it. I mean serious, wtf?
And here's my puppy again. -------------------->
She's getting pretty big. Compared to a few weeks ago when we got her, she's ginormous. She's still just as cute though.
As for the camera side of things, I'm still working on figuring all the features out/how to get them to work together to behave well. The camera is just so damn good.
As I mentioned earlier, Fermilab is essentially my back yard. And while there may be a particle accellerator worth hundreds of millions of dollars on that land, there is also a nature preserve. I grew up riding busses to the property to study natural prairie land.
But a part of that means there are coyotes. Six dens at last count. That's a lot of coyotes. During the day they are too frightened of the cars to cross Kirk Road into the subdivisions. At night, however, they roam everywhere.
I encountered my first coyote when I was six. I was chasing lightning bugs with my cousins when down in my coul-de-sac, right below the street light, I came face to face with one. I had somehow managed to get about 6 yards from one. It just stood in the light and stared at me before bounding away. Four years later, we would find one on our deck during the daylight--a very unusual occurance. Our golden retriever didn't stop barking for hours.
They get braver every year, and this year, they've taken to stalking my neighborhood nearly every night, leaping through backyards and knocking over trashcans. When I take Lexi out at night, there is always one nearby.
As a dogowner, this is very worrisome. Coyotes are notorious for attacking dogs, killing them half the time. My dog weighs six pounds today, and while she is growing up fast, she is still small enough to easily be taken away. During the day, Lexi loves to lay in the grass and bound about in the weeds, but at night, the coyotes scare her. She never wanders far, and often times their scent chases her back to my feet. Sometimes, she crashes into our porch stairs.
So this would be my brand spankin' new puppy, Lexi. She came home on Friday and has been learning so much since. She's semi-potty trained already and has learned the game of tug. I'd say she's a pretty smart cookie considering today is the 9 weeks mark.
Lexi is very playful and loves attention (what puppy doesn't?). She's not too sure about the whole collar and leash thing yet, but she's slowly getting used to it. She just needs to learn that the big scary monster that makes that clanging sound against her food bowl isn't going to eat her. She's still taking the food and running away to eat it. Which is fine for now, but my mother won't be okay with it for mush longer.
She did very well at her first check up yesturday. She was so good with the vet and all her technicians/assistants. She even met a rescued old grayhound named Bill. Bill kind of scared her a little, especially when he stepped on her crate.
Oh! I guess I should mention: Lexi is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
