Friday night, Jillian's parents are already worried because Jillian and I are bringing our dog Kasey to their house for the first time. Kasey is a shelter dog with a history of getting into some pretty intense quarrels with other animals that've come into her path. From the moment we arrive, after a long, night-time, rain-filled, five-hour, drive to Macungie we are not exactly a welcome sight.
"Kasey" At first Sadie, Jillian's parents' dog and Kasey are getting along. They sniff each other and they circle around just to get to know one another. Jillian's step father is already pissed because a water pipe has burst in the house. Once we've taken a moment to put our things away and everybody starts to settle down, KASEY (?) STRIKES!! Out of nowhere the two animals are going at it- Michael Vick style. I question it though because nobody truly saw how it started so maybe it could've been Sadie that instigated the whole event.
Jillian jumped in and seperated the two beasts---a black and blue slash in her leg to show for it. Sadie's ear was dripping blood spots onto the carpet below.
We pause here because I want you to keep in mind that the reason we went to Pennsylvania this weekend was because Jillian's mother was hosting a baby shower for her sister, Brie. So this woman is already flipped out because she's got 30 people coming to her house in less than 48 hours and so far a water pipe has burst, there's been an illegal dog fight and now there's blood stains in her carpet.
But it didn't end there.
Moments later after seperating the two animals, and putting Sadie outside. Kasey decides that she hasn't been bad enough by peeing all over the carpet.
Oh yes...that was the perfect start to this weekend. After all of that, the weekend was pretty normal. Jillian's step father wasn't exactly pleased that we were home, making her mother even more flipped out than she already was, but everything else went smoother. We kept Kasey in a barrowed crate for most of our time there, letting her out to walk and go to the bathroom. She was a big baby the entire time. But she was generally good in all other situations, including (thankfully) meeting the younger children.
On Monday Jillian and I spent the day moving her into the new apartment. From 10 in the morning to 11 at night, we moved furniture and boxes into the place that for now is hers, and eventually will be ours. I will be moving things in here and there for us to use together, but all of my wordly goods and clothes will remain at my dad's house until after our wedding in May. For those of you wondering---yes---my entire body hurts.
Now I'm back at work as I type this- don't worry it's the end of the day and I'm all caught up. So don't lose any sleep wondering if I "get anything done" at work. I thought it would be interesting to jot down some notes on all the songs that get stuck in my head on a given day. I have a very spatial personality so songs come and go throughout my day whenever I get bored enough to let one in. Here's a list of the chart-toppers that found their way into my head, and their words into my mouth today:
Kelly Clarkson "Because of You"
Bad Company "All Right Now"
Katy Perry "I Kissed a Girl"
Dean Martin “Ain’t Love a Kick in the Head”
Anita Ward “You Can Ring My Bell”
Pink Floyd “Us and Them”
Incredible String Band “Painting Box” Of course all of these songs should be available to preview and download on itunes....but I don't work for apple so you don't have to nothing!
Takes a damn long time to import pictures into these blogs....
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