All Growed Up

This morning I helped Bethany move into her dorm at the U of U! Woot! She's all growed up and going to college. :D I'll put up pics if she ever takes any. . . ;)

We were super fortunate, it seems--we got her all moved in and even helped her new roommate with the last load of her stuff about ten minutes before . . . . Boom! Major rainstorm. It only lasted a couple hours or so, but it poured. And it was cold. Like, come on, it's August already. :P On our way out of Salt Lake Michael and I drove through some puddles that seriously came up to the car doors.

And to think, there were people at that very hour still walking around Davis County Fairgrounds, ordering funnel cakes. Which I know because I went to work there this evening, and they told me about it. :P Hardcore, my friends. Of course, I'm perfectly happy that by the time I got to the fairgrounds the sun was back in its customary place in the sky, and the temperature was back to sweltering summer heat. Crazy Utah.

Also fortunately, tomorrow's forecast is sunny and clear. Yay, wedding! :D Which brings us back around to this post's title: Aw, Natalia and Clark are all growed up and getting married!

Huzzah! :D

Okay, now I'm off to shower and get old nail polish off and other such things to make myself all presentable, then go to bed early enough that I can wake up plenty early tomorrow to get places. Yep yep yep. :)

Found: One Female Boxer Puppy

So I went on my usual walk today, and as I was halfway along it I saw this dog running along with its retractable leash skittering along behind her. There were some people nearby, so I didn't think much of it. Then on my way back, this puppy (a boxer like my brother's) was still running back and forth, and all signs of human life were gone. (It was around 10:00pm.) So I called to it, thinking I'd catch it for whoever lost it. The puppy was extremely skittish. I cajoled and sweet-talked and made happy puppy-calling sounds, and it would come near . . . then bolt if I so much as reached for it. So, of course, I got more determined to catch the little sucker. ;D

Well, it took me twenty minutes or so to get enough on her good side (I eventually discovered she was a girl), and a bit of trickery to get her close enough that I could step on her leash and get hold of her. She calmed down after that, and let me pet her. She never tried to bite or even growl at me, so I wasn't worried. I was just sad/concerned that she was so jumpy. But maybe it was just the fact that her rather noisy leash had been hounding her all day. ;) So, a collar and leash, but no tags, and no people left around the park that I could see, except for a group of laughing teenagers who didn't seem to be missing their dog. So, yeah. I brought her home with me. So sue me. ;)

I'm keeping her in my room for tonight, so she doesn't get all mixed up in our posse of boy dogs. Wouldn't want them to fight over her or knock her up, or anything like that. :) Tomorrow I plan to call Animal Control and maybe take her on another jaunt up by that park and see if anyone's looking for her around there. So, no, I'm not gonna try and keep her . . . I just didn't want to leave her all by her lonesome out there. :(

;)

Road Trip

This weekend I went up to Idaho with Heather to see her sister's brand-new baby. Heather wanted a driving buddy, and I didn't have much else going on. :)

It was quite fun. I got to pester the tiny little 4-day-old baby girl just as much as I wanted. She's only about 5lb 8oz, so she sleeps more than she eats, and we got to tickle and bug her to wake her up for the next meal. :) We also got to pose her all sorts of cute for Heather to take newborn pics, which turned out way too adorable for words. :D Plus also, I hung out with the other daughter, who, at not quite two years old, was a little starved for attention with a new sister in the house. She was a cutie, too, and warmed up to me (and got over a bit of flu) by the third day, just in time to get a few smiles out of her for the family pics. :)

In addition to all that fun, I managed to convert Heather to one of my favorite audio dramas while we drove to and from her home: Decoder Ring Theatre's Black Jack Justice. Which is an awesome film noir, Dick Tracy style affair featuring a hard-boiled private eye named Jack Justice, and his sassy partner, Trixie Dixon, girl detective. Good stuff. decoderringtheatre.com. Check it out. ;)