procrastination just took up so much of my time today!

today i have been procrastinating. but i had a good reason. (no i didn't) (YES I DID!) (no, i guess i really didn't)....i cannot...CANNOT be trusted to go into barnes and noble to get just one item. it's true, i am the one-item-failure.

so i decided to try it at petco and once again, BIG FAT FAIL. although i did find some really cool toys and chaco hasn't ruined his yet! it's been all of an hour since i brought it home. give it time. as i was at the checkout, petco has their little snack bar for dogs, but it smelled good enough for humans...look at these! i was tempted until i saw the fly.

i mean...chocolate chip cookies? i'm IN!!!

upon checking out, the cashier girl was a chatty, and she asked what kind of dogs i have.
me: yorkies
chatty: oh, i want to get a schnauzer or schnauzer mix, they do adoptions through a rescue here. i think they're the coolest! especially the mixes because they have the coolest names, like schnitzu, schnorkie,  i could even name it whatever the mix name is if it's cool, like schnack russell...i would be like, this is schnack. and people would say, "snack?" and i'd say no! SCHNACK! 

yes, that conversation really happened. i'm sure she practiced it in the mirror at home and uses it as her go-to conversation line. thank goodness there was someone behind me and i was able to leave without incident.

before i hit up either of these stores, i had to stop at radio shack to see if they could help me with my phone. for some reason my 4g was not working (remember when i had a pager...and no clue what 4g was because it wasn't in existence...wow, i'm older than i would like to admit!) so when i walked in, i wanted to take it over to the young black guy who was stocking things, because i figured he'd be able to help me better than the elderly white gentleman at the counter, but i went up to the counter because i wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt since he does work at a technology store...the A/C was perhaps too cold because his nose was at the dripping point, and i kept worrying that it was going to fall onto my phone, but just in the nick of time, he raised his hand to wipe it off and continued to swipe across my screen. in my head i was racking my brain trying to think if there was anywhere that i had sanitizer. unfortunately i switched bags, and left the bigger little one in the other bag. and i had used the last of the vial-sized two days ago, when i was down for jury duty.

he ended up having to take it back to someone in the back and they were able to get it re-installed-apparently it was a really easy fix- i just had to pay my bill. i didn't realize that i had it connected to the card that i had to cancel, so i immediately got that taken care of-no worries, i will not have to pull the pager back out.

part of the procrastination period included some letter-writing, which is nothing out of the ordinary, i tried to make it a marathon; pulled out a bunch of addresses and got started, but i have SO many more to go! i have so many little things to do, and 3 weeks within which to do it, so i really probably ought to pull out a whiteboard and start making a list and crossing these items off! (i learned that one from Dr. Hughes; and it works!) 

tomorrow after our first day of summer school, we have our kick-off for personalized learning, so i am guessing we will have a little better idea of what we will be looking at over the next few months of exploration. feeling a little like jean luc picard going boldly where no man has gone before-star date 2020...i know, i could've use cptn kirk, but his uniform was ugly.

alrighty then, time to get back to planning..tomorrow comes too early.
jules

are those schnauzers? >do you want to keep those fingers?

long drive! bruno did great, but i definitely had to chain chaco to his chair. i know, it sounds like a csi case. but no, he won't stay in his car seat otherwise. i admit, the seat was a bit small, so i decided to get him a new one on the way to visit mom and dad! so, we had to find a petco. when we finally found one, they had just what we needed. granted it added more time to our trip because we had to go all the way into fort smith and my nav ap on my phone decided to play funny with me and took me all over the place and fort smith seems to have some dead zones because we had to redirect several times. boo.

but while we were at the petco, an older couple stopped at the car and she was looking in the window and tapping at chaco, so i rolled the window down and she called her husband over and then she asked, "are those schnauzers?" and i know chaco wanted to bite her face off, but he forced a smile and i told her they were yorkies.

then i had to completely turn around to get this pic.

remember i am in arkansas. apparently rod did not do nearly as well as sam walton

then while we were traveling north on 540, we encountered the tunnel. i love the tunnel, but it was new for chaco.

every time i go through here, i think of the fugitive, and various other movies that include tunnels.

as we entered, chaco said, "hey! we're going through a time warp!!" and i said,"no, we're just going through arkansas."

i kept stopping for the boys to go potty, but they wouldn't.

the boys are now getting used to the lodge. and in just a few minutes, we're going up to the lobby for some freshly baked chocolate chip and sugar cookies. yummy!

good thing this place has internet access!
julie

mind games are for three year olds, not smart dogs

"BRUNO, NO! do NOT run across my chest!"  
"but why not mama?"
"because you are a LAP dog, not a RUN-ACROSS-THE-CHEST dog."

ouch. small dog, but 7 lbs is 7 lbs! 

last night time warner was having difficulties, so in the middle of the program i was watching, i decided to pop in a documentary i still hadn't watched..indian wars. i'm fascinated by history and the way they lived was simply spectacular. oh to dress like the indians next week when we hit 100 again! loin cloth. that's all.

this afternoon, i was trying to take a short nap with the boys, and they kept barking. finally i heard it there was someone in the parking lot talking (with excessive volume), i got up to look out the window and two teenagers were down below playing catch by the garages and one kept boasting about the amazing things he was able to do with his computer or something, and it kept interrupting our sleep. i'm pretty sure that i "had an evil evil look in one of my eyes."  so finally i gave up and decided to go for a quick drive to check out UTILA(remember why i called her that?)...i will miss the v6 engine of the pontiac. i went to petco to see if they had one of those dog toys... 

it didn't take bruno long to figure out how the games worked. he's brilliant...so perhaps it's not so much mind games for the dog, but rather for the three year old...

good colors, but it's cheap plastic, so i'm just hoping they don't play too roughly.

like i said, bruno is the bright one. chaco, on the other hand, chewed on the toy, the board, etc.he wasn't as interested in the treats.

when i went to check out, the lady asked if i had my petco card, and i couldn't find it. so she went through the process of looking it up, but it didn't populate by my phone #, so she found it by last name and it had a julie robinson with no phone #, no address and i said it was probably me. so hopefully that one was mine...

bruno just looked at me after finding the treat in less than a minute and said, "hey! i thought this was supposed to be stimulating." so i put the toy up for later and got out the old toys and they've been busy for the last 45 minutes.

oh...and walmart is right by petco...i may have stopped in there too. i LOVE halloween candy corn! mixed with peanuts it is the sweet and salty mixture that my mouth appreciates.

my favorite candy bar is the payday, and this comes pretty close!

 i don't remember which one of my aunts put this mixture together, but for some reason i think it might've been kim. anyhoo, the first time i ever had it was when i was in sioux city visiting the fam (it must've been either a family reunion or thanksgiving)...i love going up and visiting family-it's never as often as i'd like, but that's just how it goes when you live in a country this big, i guess.


i'm pretty sure the dogs like the mind games, whereas i'm almost positive that if my parents had made me get my food by figuring out puzzles, i might've turned into a violent child or starved.


good weekend,
julie