A Little Bundle of Joy

Ok, so I'm going to try this again... Last night I wrote a whole blog and it didn't go through, so I lost the entire thing...It better not happen again!

Anyway, we have a new member of our household... A 10 week old male puppy named Jay Lee. It was somewhat of an impulse buy, but Matt and I were visiting my parents house and Erica, my mom, and us decided to go to the pet store the one day. Well, we went to get a fish for Erica's salt water tank, but when we got there, they had these adorable little puppies called boggles - half beagle and half boxer. Well, ever since Matt and I moved into the apartment, we've talked about getting a dog, but we just couldn't afford it. Not only did you have to pay for the dog and all it's needs, but there is also a 250 dollar non-refundable deposit at the apartment complex and an extra 50 bucks a month. But yippee for Erica! She decided to go half on everything so that we could keep him at the apartment and everything. So, now we have a puppy! Like I said, his name is Jay Lee, but Lee is just his middle name, and it's in remembrance of Matt's mom because that was her middle name. He is just absolutely adorable with a brown and black coat with white patches. He's only 5 pounds now, but he'll get to be about 20 or 25.

I'm surprised that he's already doing as well as he is with the whole house training thing. He knows that outside means potty and even goes to the door a lot of times when he has to go. The only time he has an accident is when he gets over excited or when it's cold or rainy outside. I'm sure the cold and rainy thing will just be with time, though. He'll obviously need to get over that. he's also getting better about staying in his cage when we leave. He hated it at first and even tried to bite his way out of it, but he seems to have gotten over that and is now just calm about it. He still whines for the first few minutes, but he's usually fine after that. We can't get him to sleep by himself, though, so he sleeps with me in bed. Yeah, I know - I'm spoiling him, but I just hate to hear him cry at night, and if he's going to be more comfortable sleeping with me, then I'll just let him.

So, other than Jay, I haven't really been doing much for the past week. My internship got done last Monday and I stopped working at Walmart a few weeks ago, so now I'm just getting ready for school to start. I can't believe there is only a week left. The summer flew by so fast. I can't believe I only have one year left in college. It's so scary to think about. Erica moves into her dorm on Friday, which is also scary to think about. I'm worried about how my mom is going to be when we are both out of the house for the school year. It's going to be weird for her. I hope that I can go home on weekends to visit a lot. I hope everything goes ok this year with being full time producer. Thankfully I don't have a whole lot of classes because then I can concentrate most of my time on TV and whatnot.

Well, Erica is here but is probably going to be leaving soon, so I think I'm going to hang out with her for a while. She's been here for the past four nights, so now it's going to be weird her not being here. Jay is going to miss her because now it's just going to be me and Matt to hang out with. Poor little guy...It's good she'll be back on Friday, though!

Broncitus and Blahhh

So, I've been sick since Friday, and it really sucks. I haven't had broncitus since I was in high school and I forgot how long it took to get over it and how many different stages you have to go through. Well, let's see - it all started Friday night when my throat started hurting. By 3 am, it was so swollen that I was having trouble breating and swallowing, so Matt took me to the emergency room. They told me it was just a virus and that I would be better in a few days. Well, I sat around feeling miserable all Saturday and then when I woke up Sunday, I felt even worse than before. Eventually, I figured out with the help of my mom that I probably didn't just have a virus, so Matt took me to the urgent care clinic. After 30 minutes of waiting, I found out that I have broncitus and an upper respiratory infection that's affecting my ears and sinuses. So, now it's Monday night, and although I'm feeling a little better and at least I'm not coughing every 2 minutes, my nose is still incredibly stuffed up and my head feels like it weighs about 10 pounds more than usual. Oh, and with all my sinus pressure and whatnot, my lymphnods on the back of my neck have swollen and so my neck and head have been hurting all today.

The only good news about being sick is that I haven't had to work at Walmart for five straight days. And since I gave them my two weeks notice two weeks ago tomorrow, I don't think I'm going to go back to work at all. I was technically supposed to work Tuesday and Wednesday, but I don't think I want to, and honestly I don't think I'd be able to with the way I still feel. Maybe I'll just go to Toledo on Wednesday and Thursday instead, if I'm feeling up to it since I missed today.

I can't believe school starts in three weeks. The summer has just flown by so fast. At least Matt and I got to go to the zoo a few weeks ago. It was something that I really wanted to do this summer and I was afraid I wouldn't get to with how much I was working and everything. But yeah, it was really great. Matt bought me this little meerkat stuffed animal and I just love it! Ok, well, I think that's about all I have to talk about for now. I'll try not to make it as long between my blogs from now on!