Gosh there's been way way way too much stuff to tell you all about Derby. Let me do my best... and I'm going to cheat and do it in list form since that's the fastest and easiest:
-he got neutered
-he's losing most of his grey and is now mostly white/beige-ish
-he got A LOT bigger (maybe around 15lbs now? guessing)
-he still has a bad "i'm going to bite you so you'll play with me" complex
-we take him to dog parks often
-we take him to visit our friends' dogs often
-he's pretty much potty trained completely now
-he comes to work everyday for at least part of the day
-he loves loves loves to stick his whole upper body out of the window during car rides
-we get frustrated with his stubborness and his bad habits on a daily basis
-but we love him to death!
If I were to write a short blurb about Derby for a Personals page I'd probably say:
Super energetic dog looking for playmates at all times of the day. If you're not into leashed walks but enjoy long trips to the dog park I'm your pup! Easy to train if you have treats, don't bother me if you don't. I'll eat just about anything and I love just about everybody... just be careful, I bite if you ignore me! I'm a sweet dog with a loooot of energy just looking for fun fun FUN!
Friday, August 1, 2008
7 Weeks Later...
I refuse to let this blog die. Some days I've wanted to write about Derby and I've loaded up the page and the first thing on top was the post about my Dad. It would just bring back the flood of emotions from that first day that it happened... so fresh, so raw still... and I couldn't do anything but close the window and leave the writing for another day.
So 7 weeks have passed since my Dad passed away. I can't believe it... 7 weeks. It feels like it just happened a few days ago. Hell it feels like it didn't even happen and that I'll walk into work one morning and he'll be sitting there, sipping his coffee, reading his newspaper as he would so often be doing by the time I got there. But what more can be said? I miss him, my mom misses him... everybody misses him. I think about him every few minutes. Sometimes coming in to work in the morning is agonizing because I expect to see him there. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason because something so small will remind me of him. Like the time I cried in Circuit City because they were showing Top Gun (one of his faves!). I have pictures of him that I got from my mom, but I can't even bring myself to put them up anywhere in my house yet.
There's a lot more that I can and want to say about it, and maybe as time passes I'll write more... if for no other reason than for me to get it off my chest, out of my head, and written down somewhere so that someday I can go back and read it all again... and remember. Remember how I felt, what I thought, what I went through. So I guess that's a warning to all of you... this blog is now 50% serious posts about my feelings and 50% posts about Derby (he's doing well! thanks for asking!).
So just know that I'll be updating the blog again... in fact I'm gonna write a separate blog entry right now to update you all on Derby. To anybody reading this... I hope you're doing well, I know I've been pretty MIA lately.
So 7 weeks have passed since my Dad passed away. I can't believe it... 7 weeks. It feels like it just happened a few days ago. Hell it feels like it didn't even happen and that I'll walk into work one morning and he'll be sitting there, sipping his coffee, reading his newspaper as he would so often be doing by the time I got there. But what more can be said? I miss him, my mom misses him... everybody misses him. I think about him every few minutes. Sometimes coming in to work in the morning is agonizing because I expect to see him there. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason because something so small will remind me of him. Like the time I cried in Circuit City because they were showing Top Gun (one of his faves!). I have pictures of him that I got from my mom, but I can't even bring myself to put them up anywhere in my house yet.
There's a lot more that I can and want to say about it, and maybe as time passes I'll write more... if for no other reason than for me to get it off my chest, out of my head, and written down somewhere so that someday I can go back and read it all again... and remember. Remember how I felt, what I thought, what I went through. So I guess that's a warning to all of you... this blog is now 50% serious posts about my feelings and 50% posts about Derby (he's doing well! thanks for asking!).
So just know that I'll be updating the blog again... in fact I'm gonna write a separate blog entry right now to update you all on Derby. To anybody reading this... I hope you're doing well, I know I've been pretty MIA lately.
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