Luna Tail

Ugh.. I’m beat. I was at a DOCNA agility trial last weekend and the days were long, and the stairs were many, and now my knees hurt a lot. I am going to go take some Advil PM tonight and hope that my knees feel better tomorrow.

I need some auto performance parts for my body, so I can be younger and even be a cyborg. LOL. Dang my body is falling apart. Not fun at all.

I have never had knee pain before so this is a new and exciting (not) feeling in my body. Bleh. My ankle is okay, was sprained but it’s doing fine.  And my neck still hurts. Going to be trying to do more about that in the near future, too.

Good night!

My husband is off on a trip this weekend. I can’t say to where, but I hope he’ll be okay. The weather is always iffy this time of year, and so I’ll worry. I gave him my cell phone so he can call me if he needs to, and he can check in every few hours.  He is a very safe driver and so I’m sure he’ll be safe, and he’s in the Outback which is a good safe car.

Of course I worry about him rolling… only because I’ve been in two rollovers in my life, both in the winter in the snow.  But the weather is supposed to be clear this weekend and hopefully he’ll be home by Monday. Monday is a holiday so I get to be home too, and have a nice day off!

I’m relaxing today.  As are the dogs.  It’s quiet in the house again which is really nice, all the foster dogs are gone. They are fun to have for a while, but they are even more fun to have gone.    I wish dog rescue wasn’t necessary. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t have the six dogs we do. And we do love them all, for sure.

Utah Collie Rescue has been having an influx of dogs that need medical care. Sasha, a rough sable girl, who was left at the Utah Humane Society. Her nose was covered in scabs and we were unsure what her situation was.

We had blood work and a biopsy on her nose, plus her teeth cleaned. Found out she has Pemphigus. It is a serious autoimmune condition that will need lifetime care.

We also recently rescued Lily, a girl who was abandoned on the street. She is apparently in renal failure (her kidneys are failing) and she is being treated. We don’t know if she has much hope or not, but her medical bills are getting high.

If you cannot donate, perhaps you can spread the word! Utah Collie Rescue, Inc., is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization so all donations are tax deductible!

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Thank you!

I actually woke up this morning and felt like I wanted to get up! For about the last week, and maybe longer than that, I have woken up in the morning feeling like I really need more sleep.  I wonder if I just don’t get enough sleep, or enough rest. For the last two days… both Sunday and Monday, I sat on my but all day long and felt pretty crappy.  Not really sick, but not like getting up and doing anything.

Fortunately Monday I worked from home and so I was able to sit on my but all day and do something, though nothing physical. I went to bed at about 10pm last night, and I actually woke up on my own this morning without feeling like I need five more hours of sleep. I got up at 7:50 am but I could have gotten up earlier, it was just so nice to snuggle in bed with the dogs all sleeping peacefully.

Maybe I’m still recovering from the cruise.  I’m not sure.  Maybe I just push myself too hard and I don’t get enough idle time.  Sunday I revamped Tip Tail, my dog blog.. and I’m sooo happy with the new theme! Every theme should have a sidebar option in the header!

Right now, 8:22am, I am sitting with Lucy after having fed her in her Bailey’s Chair. She has to sit for 20 minutes for her food to go down into her tummy. And I feel the need to clean, organize, train the dogs, and actually do stuff!  I like this better than feeling ucky!

Oh and the rose…? My husband picked it from one of our rosebushes in the yard. Isnt’ it pretty!  It’s kinda late in the year for roses, but it’s opening up beautifully in the house in a glass of water.

Do you have enough idle time in your life? I am 150% positive that I do not. There is a book out there, I think, about being Idle. I heard about it on NPR a while back but I haven’t looked into it much.

I think Idle time is very important. Not that you’d know it, since I’m so freakin’ busy so much that I hardly have idle time at all. However, this weekend I have been very successful at being idle and I’m quite pleased with it, and I think I’m more relaxed now. Even though my neck is hurting this evening. Bleh.

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so I am working on giving myself more idle time. What do you consider being idle as? Sitting on the couch and not moving all day… or going for a hike in the mountains? I consider it sitting on the couch doing nothing, maybe watching TV. Usually playing on the computer, reading blogs, blogging, etc. I don’t consider going to las vegas nevada as being idle. MAN that is a busy city! Though I do love to go there.

I love to be home. I just want to be home lately. I travel so much for dog sports. In the summer, I hardly have a weekend off. I have got to reassess that next summer. I really love my weekends at home. They are invaluable to me. And I like working with the dogs for five minutes here and there. And they like it too. It’s the best way to teach them something new.

Man.. what is the deal with me dreaming about a new house so much? I am really not sure but it does happen a lot.

This dream happened on the night of October 10th – October 11th, 2008.

I dreamed that I was going to get on an airplane (I have a lot of airplane dreams too, I think) and when I was standing in line to get on the plane, there was this gorgeous guy in front of me in line. And I noticed that he had really nice legs. But I didn’t want to be a pest so I kinda ignored him and we got on the plane. I ended up sitting near him. I’m not sure if we were on the same row or not. But my girlfriend was there too, Danielle.

Then suddenly Danielle and I were in our new house that we bought together. I was kinda freaked out, wondering why I had bought this house with a girlfriend. It was way out west, but it was a nice house (I live on the east side of Salt Lake City). The house had a four car garage and I was thinking how I could put my husbands car in there, my van, my Outback, and my pop-up trailer. It had a nice fenced in yard. But the fence was chain link and we were worried that the dogs would bark and bark at the neighbors. The yard had four trees in it, too, spaced evenly in the yard. And the yard was kinda weedy so we weren’t able to do dog sports out there but we planned on it.

The whole front yard was gray gravel. And I didn’t like it at all, even though it was xeriscaped. So I got a shovel and started to dig out a portion of the gravel so I could plant a couple bushes or some grass or something. Something more homey.

The guy from the airport was there too, and he still had super nice legs. He was sitting on the couch and I was massaging his legs. And I told him I didn’t want to be too forward, but I really was attracted to him and wanted to get closer. He said he felt the same way and didn’t want to be a pest to me. He had dark hair and dark eyes and was quite gorgeous.

I think there was more… but now I’m not sure. It was an interesting dream, as most of them seem to be!

I took the dogs to the dog park a week or so ago.. and I love this shot of Tatum. The Dog Park is a great place for pictures!

I have to apologize for not updating… my host had a hard drive failure and I’ve been recovering. I am still recovering and it’s been over a month.

Hrm… I had my nails done last night, in real life… and the lady who did them sells clothing too. Very nice clothes though I forgot the brand. I hope I can buy some from her.

So last night I had a shopping dream. I dreamed I went to the mall and went shopping… though I think maybe it started from dog camp again? Not sure… it kinda was a dorm like room with clothes around. And I loved this little red outfit that was kinda a nighty, but kinda something I could wear out too? It was a short red skirt, a red blouse, and a white undertop. It looked really cute. I kept wondering if it was age appropriate for me, though. I’m 41 and it really seemed like it should have been worn by a 20 year old.

But I bought it anyway.. and I had a ton of stuff littered around the table I was using. I had to get my dolly out of the van and pack the stuff in boxes and it kept falling all over the place and crumbling. And then I found a used pad (yeah for like periods) and I wondered if the girl who was helping me had changed my underwear for me and I didn’t know? Ewww that was really weird.

The lady helping me was super nice, even though she wasn’t supposed to help me, her job was something else. I thought she was cute too, maybe she was a South Carolina injury lawyer instead of a saleswoman. But she convinced me that the red outfit was fine with someone my age and I could go out and wear it!

Toward the end I had my junk boxed up and on the dolly and I had the clothes packages in a little plastic container, and I didn’t think I could afford it but I’d try anyway… and everyone had left the store except me, being a clutz, but I woke up before I actually bought the clothes.

As I was loading the dish washer the other day.. my husband there with me, kinda helping, kinda overseeing, I just had to laugh and think. I wasn’t doing it quite the way he thought it should be done. And granted, I’m not the best dishwasher loader in the world. I stack stuff together too much and sometimes it doesn’t get as clean as maybe it could.

But he was getting a little upset and I had to stand back and think that getting upset about the dishwasher being loaded is a little pointless. So I joked with him about it… and I think this is one of the reasons we get along so well. Both of us hate confrontation, we hate to fight, and we don’t like feeling angry. And so we usually let the little stuff, like how we load the dishwasher, just blow on by and we don’t worry about it.

When I’m out and about with friends and their spouses, I am sometimes surprised at the things they fight about. Really… maybe it’s time to just stop, look at what you are fighting about, let go of your ego and your desire to be ‘right’ or to get in the last word, laugh about it, appreciate your significant other, and be happy.

I heard, once, someone say.. what do you want to be, right, or married? Well, I’d rather be happy and so what if the dish washer isn’t loaded just so… or there is dog pee on the floor, or Tatum wants to ‘help’ prep the spare bedroom for painting and in doing so likes to chew up the sand paper? (Dang her toenails are too long.) I’d rather not worry about it. I want my dogs, my husband, and myself, to be happy. So as they say, don’t worry, be happy!

Ooo weird. I had a few dreams last night, I only really remember the most recent one. I was going on a cruise (I am in real life in October). And my and the man I was with (I don’t know him in real life) had three dogs with us and a lot of luggage. We were staying in a hotel for the first night before we went on the cruise, and the next day we had to be at the ship in time with all our luggage packed up and ready to go.

The dogs we had were with were two of mine, Chase and Levi, and one of his, a Dachshund, I think it was Keno, my flyball captain’s Dachshund. And I kept carrying her.. and she liked to swim, she swam through a pool… at one point in the dream.

So when it was time to get on the ship we were looking for the boat and the dock, and suddenly we realized we were really late. We found the dock and realized we had to run back to our room to get all our luggage. But then we couldn’t find our room! It was room 219 and we couldn’t find it. We asked a hotel guy and he couldn’t find it either, he had to call the desk and ask what had happened to our room. lol. And there were these weird elevators that practically threw people around. I’ve had dreams of strange scary elevators in the past, too.

Eventually the hotel guy found our room and we just saw our luggage and clothes in the hotel hallway waiting for us. But the hotel guy said we still might be too late. So then this evil vampire guy that we knew from home walked by… we were surprised to see him, he was all in black and his face was black, like Darth Mal but black, and I asked him if he would help us get our room on the ship. As they were going to assign it to someone else since we were so late.

He agreed, but only if he could sleep with me… but not really me, an asian woman who would take on the persona of me. And I said yes, and it was creepy watching him, in my dream, as he convinced this woman to take on my features and sleep with him a couple of times while he was on the ship, too.

I woke up before I knew if we made it onto the ship or not, or if there was an air purifier in the room like I’d requested. But it was a long detailed dream for sure.

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Another dream I had earlier I only remember bits and pieces of. I was at dog camp again, and my ex wanted to meet me and make up with me, and begged my forgiveness. I’ve been reading the Twilight series of books and I think this is where this, and the vampire, came from. I wanted to see what he had to say so I met a woman and she offered to drive me to the university campus, where he was. But we got lost and didn’t know where the building was, and so I had to call him but he didn’t really know where we were either.

I think there was more to that dream but now I don’t remember much. It happened earlier in the night.