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This year is just starting off great! Looks like we'll have another goal crossed off the list soon! Abby's going to have her first agility trial/fun match next month eek earlier than I expected, but one of our instructors will be there and it'll just be a good setting since I'll have some fimilar faces around and to help me out. So nervous though and I still need to register her. It won't be AKC like I was planning instead it'll be USDAA which rules!

My visa bill = $0.00 xd

next up, school, and then dad. Tried to pay my school vet bill today, no one was around, so next week. Dad will be probably in installments over the next 2-4 weeks.

To celebrate, I transfered $20. into my tax free savings account at ING, where I use to keep my savings back before I had a car, back when I actually had like $8000 saved up to move out. I like ING cause I don't have a debit card for it. If I want money from that account, I have to transfer, and that takes a couple days to go through. So it stops me from using that money unless I ABSOLUTELY need it.

So my credit card is paid off, and I officially started saving again (gotta start somewhere). Pretty exciting. Once I am 100% debt free I actually can start thinking about how I want to spend my money. Do I mostly ski, do I join a gym, or do I spend all of it on Cowboy. confused

aww really? That sux, I woulda thought it'd be a great job as it can't be more than 2hrs a couple days a week. Another job might require more hours from you.

Anyway, I am so close to being debt free, but now Cowboy is going back to rehab, I dunno what that's gona cost. The next two weeks I'll be low on cash and then I get my big pay. I really wana ski but it's been a shitty season. Hopefully I'll do Killington this Wednesday. I'll make the exception to put it on my visa since I know my next pay will cover it and more. But the gym membership is on hold.

So far, visa=paid off, school=paid off, Dad=50% paid off, another $320 to go!
Cowboy's endurance is starting back at zero. I'm gona be taking him for underwater treadmill to get him back in shape while he gets over this arthritis flare up. And hopefully he'll be fine for the next skijoring meetup, we haven't been in over a month crying

So had to update. I got my DL!!!!! I'm officially legal on the roads! Whooo...

My parents at possibly getting me a car within the next few weeks and the new puppy is coming home in about 2 1/2 weeks! That's three hints off my goal list! Also got something else crossed off but I'll explain later cus my phone it beig difficult

And every time you ask him for another vanishing act,
he half smiles as if to say...

Personal:

~ Get back on track with my classes for school, including taking several credits over the summer. I've already started the process for that.

~ Save up several thousand dollars for the school year from my summer job. This will be very tough with my commute to work (40 minutes) and not really being able to stay at my grandparents' house this summer. Hoping to get a second job and possibly see about converting my car to take biofuel.

~ Actually start exercising so I can have better than spaghetti arms. And maybe actually see my abs.

Pet:

~ Find a new home for my Chinese algae eater, Sylvie, who's gotten a bit too big for the tank I have. She's gotten way bigger than she should have in a short amount of time and I don't have the resources or space to get a bigger tank.

~ Get Max (our Morkie puppy) paper trained and crate trained so I don't have to sleep next to the crate at night.

~ Train Max to come, sit, stay, and any miscellaneous tricks we might think of. The first are most important to us, though.

~ Adopt a Yorkie possibly? Max could use a friend, and we've already had the adoption process started through a group, just no one wants to come do a home visit of us to get approved.

..."Whatever you want,
whatever you want,
whatever you want is fine by me."

HEY CONGRATS! Puppy time aallrreeaadddyyy????

Ok guys and for my best accomplishment of this year....

So for those that don't know my nearly 4 (turns 4 march 28th) year old boxer boy is fear aggressive towards other dogs. Well when Bo was a puppy he had been attacked by a dog while on a walk and due to lack of proper socialization he became dog aggressive though it was more fear aggression and he had it in his head the best defense is a good offense. Well guess what seems like my hard work with him has paid off!

Basically we found this girlie running around outside our house.


Anywho we put her in our backyard, but she was an escape artist so since we obviously couldn't leave her unsupervised we decided to introduce everybody...

Abby was first and as always she was an angel. Then we brought Bo out. First I had them separated so we were in the screen porch and she was on the other side. I did a bit of focus work and simple commands and he did great! So then I bucked up and took him out to meet her.

I was really shocked by how well he did. The other dog basically ignored him and he was like woah. Keep in mind Bo doesn’t have very many dog skills either. After a while I let him drag the leash and there were a few times where I had to pull him back because like I said he has no real doggie skills and doesn’t understand warning signs. So when he got to in her face I had to step in. But we had absolutely no growling from him!

Then we brought all three dogs out and with Abby he was a bit more alert I guess, but still no issues so we brought them all inside out of the heat and with the exception of Abby being a butt about “her stuff” they did great! Bo was still in her face a bit so I had to step in every now and then, but nothing to bad. And in the end this is what we had….

(was taken right before her owners called)


I'm sooo proud of my boy. He's come such a long way and hopefully he only continues to improve. This whole situation had me feeling better about brining the new puppy into the house and hopefully with proper introductions and shizz they will be BFFL.