MINIATURE PINSCHER PUPPY!
Journal Entry: Mon May 12, 2008, 9:21 PM
Tatum is boring, but at least one thing is certain...
In a small town, news travels FAST. The other day we went to see a lady that was selling Pug and Yorkshire Terrier puppies, just to ease the boredom, and also for the fact that I haven't seen a Yorkie since my first dog, Sweetie. I still wonder how long that dog ended up living... we gave her away when she was about two and I was four...
Anyway, we mentioned to the lady who owns the Pugs and Yorkies that we were looking to breed Cardea... just in case you don't know, Cardea is my Miniature Pinscher. It was just a brief mention, and we didn't talk about it much more than that. After we left her place, we went to Hobbs to go shopping, and when we came home, we had a note in our door by some guy that was selling Min Pin puppies in a bit. They're only four weeks old at the moment.
The next morning we called him, but we couldn't manage to get a hold of him. Seems I confused his 7 for a 2 on his cell phone number. Still, he left his home phone too, so I left a message, and later in the day went to see Mary (the Pug & Yorkie lady). Mary informed me that the man lived right across the street from her, and that if we went about 7 PM we'd find him at home.
So, we waited 'til 7, and knocked on the door. His wife answered it. He wasn't home, but she let us in and let us see the puppies. Three looked like Cardea, black and rust, all of which were females... and one was different, a male with chocolate and tan colours. A beautiful male at that. Such a unique looking puppy, and we soon fell in love with him, and decided we'd buy him. They'll be selling him to us when the pups are all eight weeks old.
In other words, WE'RE GETTING A PUPPY! *Screams excitedly.* It took us a while, but we picked out a name... Dobry, which is a Polish name meaning "good". When he gets old enough, we'll breed Cardea and Dobry and they'll have puppies. I'm interested to see how they'll get along. I'm pretty sure that Dobry is going to be bigger than Cardea when he's grown anyway.
I couldn't really keep away, it took every ounce of my self-control to keep from going back and seeing the puppies the next day. We went today instead, and we took pictures of him. I picked out twenty-two of the best pictures and put them on my site... so go look now! My favourite has got to be the one titled "Hangin' With My Home Boy". Yup. [link]
ANOTHER FRICKIN' OLD POST:
Well, here I am... Tatum, New Mexico, in an apartment that would barely be enough space for one person, much less two people and a small dog. It's raining outside and there's lightning too... maybe it'll set down the constant cloud of dust over the flat horizon. If it keeps raining for a few days, I might be able to find out if there are any mountains past that cloud of dust, or if it really IS flat as far as the eye can see.
I've been here for... what, five days now? I think so. The first day we travelled a good nine hours. Cardea was so exhausted by all the packing and moving that she didn't even whine in the car. It was obvious she was restless though, especially toward the end of the trip when we reached that one little town in the mountains (something like Cloudcroft). I think my ears have finally stopped popping, but then again I could be wrong. When we got to the apartment, we left Cardea there and took a trip to Hobbs. I got to see the lot that we're going to have our house put on and then we went to the Walmart to buy some locks for our storage units and went to eat.
The next day the moving van got our stuff there, bright and early. The gate wouldn't open with our code, so me, Gary, and the two movers went to eat. I'll tell ya what, one of the only good things about this area so far is that most of the women here are drop dead SEXY. Seriously. The worst thing is probably the smell of oil, but I'll get used to it... Anyway, finally the people who run the storage place got the gates fixed so the movers put our stuff into storage.
What's more, I got a sunburn... a bad one, probably worst burn I've ever gotten, considering that it involved blisters on my shoulders, and we forgot to have them leave our our clothes and a TV and my Wii like I wanted. So, I have like... three shirts, my sweater, and two pairs of pants for the rest of this time in Tatum... Then we went back to Walmart... I have no idea what for, I was in such a bad mood that I didn't even pay attention. And then after that we went to Hobby Lobby. I'm so in love with that store...
Day after that we went to Lubbock, Texas to see the home we're going to have put on the land. It's really nice, though a bit smaller than the floor plan made it look. Oh well, it's still plenty for us. Then I went to Hooters for the first time and we explored the Lubbock mall. There's even a Guitar Center, a HUGE Hobby Lobby, and a TGIF nearby. Other than that damned loop around the city, that place is heavenly. Well, and the distance. Two hours, but then again, it's about the same distance as it was to Tucson from Sierra Vista, so eh... no biggie. Lubbock is my new Tucson.
The next day we lazed around and did generally nothing. Well, I think we DID go to Lovington, oh, and I saw that park finally. I'm DEFINITELY gonna be running away over there when I'm mad at Gary. There's a small lake/pond with an island and trees... I'll probably go there to draw and think. It'll be fun. Otherwise, I tried to find stuff to do on my computer, played crappy computer games, anything to keep me from going insane without internet.
After that we lazed around again, and called around to try to find a place to get internet over here. It'd be $29.99 for 768KB/s, $39.99 for 1.5MB/s, and $59.99 for 3MB/s, plus a $99 installation fee. We almost got the 1.5MB/s one but after telling me that the installation people could take up to a week and a half to even get here, and then hanging up on me, we decided against it. So... I'll be internet free for two or three months... *Twitch...*
Yesterday I played Solitaire for eight hours straight. Yeah, you heard me right. Eight hours. I've played 98 games total, won, I believe, 59 or so of them, which puts me at 60% winning rate or some bunk. Yeah, I was THAT bored. Gonna start letting it time me and score me to see how good I'm getting...
But yeah, I'm here, I'm alive... so far. I can see how people around here seem to have an obsession with drinking though. I may become an alcoholic if this boredom keeps up. Hell, maybe I'll drag Gary to a bar tonight... *Purrs lightly.* After all, I DID have a dream about drinking the other night, and it's still just... I dunno, making me crave it... it'd be better than another eight hours of Solitaire...
The only really cool thing that's happened since our arrival is that I got two new pairs of shoes... one of them is a really sexy pair of black suede and pink plaid Zoo York tennis shoes (mind you, I never wear tennies, only flip flops, so this is a welcome change) and a new pair of Reef flip flops to replace my old ones. My old ones were plain black though, and these are brown with decorations on the cloth strap. They're sexy. Gary still owes me another pair of shoes, though... which I think I'll be buying a nice pair of flats, maybe Punkrose or Converse or Vans. *Droolz.*
Oh, and I got plenty of new artsy shit at Hobby Lobby. Got some stretchy thread and a suede strap (looks like leather, so it's pretty awesome) and some feathers, so I plan to make Brooke's necklace when I find an arrowhead and some beads that will fit around that thick strap... Brought my bead stuff and hemp too, so I might get to weaving shitloads of ugly necklaces soon.
Other than that, just been working on my dream in bits and pieces. However, it's a little hard to do without the internet to test it. x.x;
Well, I'm done. Move complete, just need internet now so I can stop being so damn bored. BUT. I AM UNLIKELY TO HAVE INTERNET UNTIL WE GET TO HOBBS. THAT WILL BE TWO MONTHS, SO JUST SIT TIGHT.
MORE OLD POSTS:
Ok, so it's about time I gave ya'll an update. Our moving date is the 30th of April and I'm TERRIFIED, ok... because, you know... it's the fifteenth now, and we still don't have a place to live or have the movers take our stuff to. Gary found a manufactured home that he really loves, but the soonest they can have that done is in three months. At this point, it seems like we're gonna be stuck living in our cars or something. *Sighs.*
I'm really freaked out, cuz I have no way of helping him while I'm here in Sierra Vista, and we can't afford to have me go up there. What's worse is that I'm probably going to miss Veritas' birthday... and I had really wanted to spend one last good weekend or so with her. But oh well, I WILL be seeing her during the summer, and before summer is over we should have our new home, so I'ma drag her up to Lovington to hang out with us for like... a week. x3
Otherwise, not much has been happening. I haven't really been drawing all that much, so almost all the crap I submitted today was stuff that I'd already done. The Brooke images are the only things that are actually recent since this whole move thing started going on. Just been watching Star Wars, hanging around Second Life, and being generally useless.
Also, ants have invaded our apartment and have been crawling all over me, and I can't get rid of them no matter what I do... so I've given up. Another fifteen days before I never see these GOD DAMN ANTS AGAIN! WHOOO!
So yeah. That's what's going on. Boring, isn't it?
YET ANOTHER OLD POST:
Ok guys, here's the deal! *Nocturia needs your help to earn a laptop to do her art on. Her parents have each agreed to pay a third, but she needs YOUR help to get the other third paid for. If you would, PLEASE commission her! She's well worth the money. I would if I had the funds, but I won't 'til the move is well over with. T-T
Speaking of the move. My in-laws gave me the option to go up to Lovington and see the place with them. Which is amazing for them, considering that niceness seems to be evil or something. But! I hate my father-in-law SO much that... I don't think I could bear a nine hour car trip there and back and two days in a hotel room with them. x.x; I'm having trouble deciding if it's worth dealing with them to see where I'm gonna be moving ANYWAY, without a choice...
Also, I rescued a brown Min Pin the other day. It was great. Me and my friend went the long way to her house (we wouldn't have seen it otherwise) and picked up this sweet little girl, who bit me, but I managed to get a hold of her collar. All she had was her rabies tag, but the vet left my number with the owners. We took care of her the rest of the day, trying to get her to drink and eat. She met Cardea when I brought her home for the night, kinda giving up that they'd call... and they called right when I got the doggy door our so she couldn't escape. x.x; But yeah, she's safe and sound at home again. I just hope she doesn't get out again and get hit by a car or something... there are kids in that house after all... it wouldn't be a happy day...
OTHER OLD POST:
So, I've been putting off remaking this journal. But it's about time for an update on what's going on, since I've gotten more information. Maybe this will help soothe the incredible sickness in the pit of my stomach, but I doubt it.
Gary leaves for Lovington on Sunday, March 23rd. That's Easter Sunday, yes. So we're having Easter a day early. SEE HOW AWESOME WE ARE?! Anyway... He'll be gone for like... five weeks. I say that because even five weeks sounds shorter than a month and a week... somehow.
I'm mostly over the fear and more into the nervousness. I won't get to see Lovington before we move there. It makes me want to cry. Yo, Kontonno... when I get down there I'm gonna have to drive an extra four hours to Albuquerque, and hit ya up for an adventure sneaking into the airport to have those Italian Cream Sodas... Of course, the headlines will be "FURRIES INVADING ALBUQUERQUE AIRPORT" but oh well... ALL WE WANTED WAS AN ITALIAN CREAM SODA, OK! x.x; Mine would be raspberry flavoured! 
I feel like I want to vomit, though. Cuz... I'm freaking out. All this... STUFF... has to be done before we leave. And I'm like god damn no. But I read on a site that living in Lovington is actually -really- cheap. So... I'll have to find out. xD Or rather, Gary will have to find out.
Oh and...
I'm going to miss my fish SO BAD! I didn't think I could get so attached to the little things... but there's no way they'd make the nine hour trip to Lovington... they'd all die. So I'm gonna give 'em a better chance at living by putting them in my best friend's tank. We're gonna see how long it takes her mom to figure it out. x3 "Heyyy, where'd these fish come from?" I'll miss the little catfish most of all. T-T
I'm wondering how Cardea will take the move. Especially with me freaking the hell out. "OMFG, WHAT'RE WE GONNA DO WITH THIS?! AND THIS?! Oops, sorry Cardea, didn't mean to drop the TV on you..." Yeah...
Another thirty minutes 'til Fry's opens up (that's our grocery store... ghetto name, right? It's also our main thoroughfare here) so that I can get some milk. I need milk. And meat. And Hamburger Helper. To survive. Some brown sugar would be good too... for... baking, yeah.
So yeah. More updates as they come. All I know right now is that Gary'll be gone soon and for a long time, I won't get to go 'til we're actually moving, Schwan's is paying for his moving package, his hotel stay over there, and his breakfasts (he had me fooled that they were paying for his -meals-... assholes). And... I have NO idea when we're going to move. Our lease is up in May, so we'll either go in late April or early May. Just... dunno when.
Now... I'm gonna wait for Fry's to open and go to bed. Night.
OLD POST:
Cuz emo stuff is the only thing people will read as of journals these days...
Oh come on, I had to get your attention SOMEHOW! But I really am leaving. Yep. I'm totally gone. Because I'm going to...
LOVINGTON, NEW MEXICO!
No, that's not all that glorious. Less'n 10,000 people in a little ol' podunk town, but Gary actually finally got that job. He'll be making $34,000 a year instead of the useless $22,000 he's making right now. I may get a job too, if I find something that suits me.
I don't know when we're leaving though. It'll probably be a few weeks before Gary goes up there, and then he'll be staying in a hotel without me. I'll be here. All alone. With Cardea. It'll be great, VACATION TIME! xD I may force my sister to take me with her when she goes to Orlando. ACTUALLY... I think I'ma call her RIGHT NOW. xD
But anyway, I'm excited and a little scared. I'll be 8 hours further from my best friend, and from my parents, and my sister. But it's kind of interesting. I'm really looking forward to the coming weeks, and I'll have more news for ya'll soon.
WOOO! xD - Mood:
Longing - Listening to: Liz Phair - Extraordinary
- Reading: What I Just Wrote In My Journal
- Watching: Pictures of Dobry
- Playing: Furcadia
- Eating: Trail Mix
- Drinking: Water
Brooke Rael Portrait
Lighting Up
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