stephanie is: 
gloomy…
it makes me sad when the only contact i have with my husband is if i crawl into bed for a nap before i eat dinner. maybe we can eat dinner together tomorrow or something. i could treat us to pizza at bertucci’s… then we’d be spending time together (awake), we’d be eating dinner, and i’d have leftovers for lunch the next day. multi-tasking!
work is still going well. still loads to learn… there are a lot of routines, a lot of dogs, just a lot of everything. my time is pretty much split evenly between the big and small playrooms now. i’ve yet to work the front desk or floater (brings the dogs back when they are dropped off and fills in places) and i haven’t fully had lunch duty on my own. india has come with me twice, but not since being put on medicine and special food for her doggie flu. she has big problems being separated from me while she is there so i hesitate to bring her too often. when i do it will be on slower days for sure.
today we had a birthday party for one of the regular doggies, shadow the golden. his daddy brought in a doggie cake (smelled like peanut butter and jelly) and a people cake… even little clifford the dog plates, hehe. there are a lot of loved doggies that come to daycare. we took pictures of him enjoying his cake with his birthday hat on and some of the employee dogs there to share, then we cut the rest of the big doggie cake up and went around to all the dogs while they were still in kennels or tie-down from nap-time (the only time we can give food or threats during the day to avoid fights) and gave anydog who wanted and could have it a piece. long sentence.
today was the first day of my period. i was dreading it because standing during the first two days makes me have cramps and a back ache. i made sure to take one advil every hour and somehow made it through. i laid down right after i got home though because i was taking a beating. i am hoping tomorrow won’t be so bad because i am going to start gagging on pills if i have to swallow them much more. i have a mental limit for the amount of medicine i can get down my throat.
saturday is our friends’ halloween ‘festivus’ party that they have been planning for a while. (they were the couple we went pumpkin and apple picking with on sunday.). i have to work the next day so i can’t stay too late but it starts at a reasonable time. it is a costume party. since it is really hard to motivate danny to wear a costume i am doing a 50’s theme for us so he can just wear jeans and a leather jacket. i got some fabric for a new poodle skirt in red. i need to sew it some night this week… should be simple, though i didn’t waste $10 buying a pattern.
i just realized that tony’s get together at a club for his birthday is that same day… sorry i can’t come tony! it is too far past my bedtime since i have to be up at 6:30am on sunday for work.
i need to make myself something for dinner. i had some of danny’s yummy homemade chili for lunch today. our work microwave is broken so i brought it in a thermos. unfortunately, it was still room temperature when i ate it at 12:30pm (since i packed it at 6am). i ate it all anyway.
if i have time after i eat and before i go to bed, i will go back and add some pictures to this entry.