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Thursday, August 19, 2010

The Story of Miles

I've been trying to write about Miles for a while now, but every time I sit down at the computer he is in my lap.  He is a very active dog and he is currently chewing on a bone so I figure I have a few minutes.  Miles was a very unexpected gift.  On my way home from work two Thursdays ago (I can't believe we have had him for two weeks!) my mom called to talk to me about a dog our good friend Laura had found.  I had seen his pictures on Facebook but really did not paid any attention to him.  Well, as it turns out Laura and her husband were looking for a home for this sweet boy and my mom told me he would be the perfect dog for us.

We had friends from Mississippi coming to stay with us and were due to arrive any minute, but I called Ryan anyway and told him, "I don't know what I will do if you say no."  Ryan and I have wanted to get a dog for a while, but just assumed we would wait until we had a house.  Ryan was initially a little hesitant about getting a dog, but I convinced him to at least go meet him, so we had our friends come with us up to my parents house to bring our puppy home.  

Miles was found at a MARTA train station somewhere in Decatur.  He had obviously been there a while because he was severely matted and obviously hungry and thirsty.  He was covered in ticks and flees, which is the reason he is completely shaved.  We found out a few days later that he had hookworms, but those are easily treated and he is back to normal.   We believe Miles is some sort of poodle mix.  At first we believed he was a Wheaten Terrier/Poodle mix but lately everyone we have talked to seems to think he is a Bichon/Poodle mix.  I think we will know more when his hair starts to grow out a little more. 

 
Miles was a little timid at first, he wasn't eating or drinking much, he didn't even want treats, what dog does not like a treat!?  I think that just comes with being on the street for so long.  It only took him a few days to get into a routine of eating on a regular schedule.  The best part about Miles, he was already potty trained.  He (knock on wood) has not had an accident in the house!  He was so well behaved that we decided to give him free reign of the living room (everything he could get into was removed, or so we thought).  His reign was quickly taken away though.  He did great on Monday while we were at work, however Tuesday was another story.  

 We came home to quite the mess.  
 
Which prompted us to purchase a new home for him during the day.  

He has been much better (even if I do feel guilty for keeping him in there all day).  Our only issue right now is he keeps waking me up in the middle of the night.  We have tried keeping him in the kennel but he wakes up at 5am and starts whining.  We tried letting him sleep with us, which the first night worked beautiful, he slept through the night right in between us.  However, the second night I woke up to him chewing on Ryan’s xbox controller at 2:30am and then around 4am he was wondering through the bed and wanted to play as soon as he saw I was awake.  I don’t know how parents do it with kids.  This dog is making me sleep deprived.  

We have truly loved having him in our home.  It's hard to think of him on the streets, I'm just glad he won't have that life anymore!  He is just one of the family now!


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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

My sister's wedding

So I have been meaning to post some pictures of my sister's wedding but have been busy/lazy and haven't done it.  But here they are!  Blogger is being weird so they are all out of alignment and it's frustrating me, so I'm giving up, without any comments.  Not to mention my husband is a ten year old child trying to distract me saying "Is this annoying?" So I'm done for the night!  Enjoy!












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Friday, July 9, 2010

Best Kept Secret (or something like that)

So I may be a little behind but I got the idea last week to go to the public library.  I saw that my list of books I wanted to read was quickly growing.  And since we are on a budget and the library is free, so why not.  I was so excited to get my new books especially going into the holiday weekend where I would be spending much of the time by myself.  Ryan had to work and most of our friends had gone out of town for the weekend (I’m not a complete dork).  Well I walk in, get my card and set out to find my books.  Nothing!  Every book that was on my list was checked out, on hold or just not there.  I was so let down.  So I put my name on the waiting list for the books I wanted and left empty handed.  And it’s not like there were a few people on the waiting list, on one of the books I was number 356!  There were 355 people in front of me, what a huge let down!  Well, as luck would have it the very next day one of my books came in!  So I ran over there after work and ended up picking up two books that were not on my list.  Well, good new folks, I have three books waiting on me at the library as of this morning.  I am now so overwhelmed with books I don’t know what to do!  I’m not complaining though, I’m so excited!  The only let down is that I don’t have a whole lot of time to read because this weekend we are helping my sister move and next weekend is her wedding!  It’s amazing how time flies!
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Restless Nights

When I was in high school I had no problem staying up late, although I was known to fall asleep on top of my bed studying or something of the sort in the middle of the night. Once I reached college I continued to stay up late (usually talking on AIM to Ryan), but still managed to get up for my early morning classes with no problem. I’m not really sure when I started having difficulty staying awake but I believe it was sometime during my second semester at school. I noticed that I was really tired all the time and Ryan still teases me because I would fall asleep on the phone or computer while talking to him. At one point it got to be really embarrassing. I was sitting at a friend’s dorm hanging out with a bunch of people and proceeded to fall asleep on the couch in the middle of the “party”. My sophomore year I moved into an apartment with three girlfriends and we remained in that apartment until we graduated. There are numerous pictures of me falling asleep on the couch, on one of their beds while talking, driving in the car on road trips. You name a place, I have probably fallen asleep there. It was so easily noticeable that even my friends in Italy picked up on it right away because they liked to laugh at me falling asleep on our bus tours. All of this is in good humor which didn’t seem to be a problem because I could still stay out and live the college life. Once I graduated college things went downhill quickly. I no longer had a reason to stay up late but that still did not help my falling asleep on the couch any chance I sat down. I have seemed to snap out of that a little bit but now I am encountering another problem. I can’t stay asleep. I have been known to fall asleep on the couch around 9:30pm and then my husband so kindly wakes me up so I can get in bed. Again, I have no problem falling back asleep. The problem comes between 2:30-4:30am. I wake up EVERY night during this time. I usually have to go to the bathroom, sometimes twice a night. Then I cannot fall back asleep, so I lay there thinking of every possible idea that pops in my head. That is usually when everything that is going on in our life decides to pop into my head and I have to contemplate every possible outcome. I have tried just counting myself back to sleep, if I count then I won’t think of everything else. I then end up counting to ten over and over and over again. I have tried to stop drinking anything after 8pm, because I don’t want to wake up in the middle of the night and I still do. I cannot figure it out, I’ve always been one to wake up in the middle of the night usually around 5am, but easily fall back asleep, not this. Ryan likes to tell me you were asleep when I woke up, haha. He can sleep through anything. The likelihood of him actually waking up in the middle of the night is very slim. He did however comment the other day that I was up every time he was up. He did happen to wake up twice and both times I was wide awake, the difference is he fell back asleep in two seconds.  See, I was up, I'm not lying!  So at this point I don't know what to do!  I can't keep having such restless nights!
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