10 posts tagged “dogs”
Monday thru Thursday of last week, I was at a management excellence training where all the attendees will sleep, eat and train in a hotel (I live only 12 miles away) and we are learning from 7am thru 10pm every day. They call this type of training "Immersion" training. I really got to learn about my strengths, weaknesses, and what I need to do to become a better leader. It's a very awesome training and I am impressed the amount of time and $$ that GSC is willing to invest into its people.
4-5 of my friends are now on P90X. I've sick a lot the last two months and have not worked out since right before Thanksgiving. I am mustering up motivation to start working out again as a part of my daily nutrious requirement. I want to incorporate 2 nights of my own dance practice into my weekly workout so I am at least having fun and getting better at pole dancing.
My dogs have been little destructors. I now need to add an extra minute of preparing before I leave the house. Putting away all items that can be chewed up or remove them from the reach of small dogs. [As I was typing this, Chewie just humped Solo's head. Haha] Oh, Chewie is going in Thursday to get spayed. Hopefully the humping will go away too.
I got you this for early Xmas since you both hate to get your nails trimmed and hate me for it.Oh yah, I did research on this and got the best consumer rated one - made by Dremel!
I've been really trying to spend less time mindlessly wondering around and get more focused as I realized that it has become such a huge distraction for me.
I am still online but at least I'm doing productive things (like paying bills, emailing, researching).
On the nation front:
Here's a shout out to everyone that is over 18 and voted. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. Regardless who you voted for, it is absolutely awesome that you took the time and exercised your right to vote.
In Seattle, everyone is super stoked about our newly elected President Obama. We cannot wait to see the positive changes that are coming. Yay!
On the work front:
I feel like I'm on track to get back to where I was at 100% 3 years ago. I'm happy with my team, and especially happy with my new manager. For the first time in my life, I feel like I really have a great mentor/manager that does care about my growth. Today, he said that from the last month of observation, he sees that I have the most potential, but also have lots "whirlwind" happening around me. He said that is unusual and we talked about some stuff and he made suggestions on how we can start tackling those whirlwinds and really help me grow. He even suggested 3 books for me to read. I am so thankful that I finally have a manager that is an excellent leader and really cares about his people.
On the life front:
Me and @sabrigley decided to have a FB marriage after attending our friend's wedding last weekend in LA (in which I was the ordained minister). We had our first "staff meating" yesterday evening - our code word for eat some beef and pole dance! Hahaha! I am very iron deficient so my doctor told me that I have to eat more red meat. @sabrigley started taking pole dance class after I invited her to an open house. In support of both endeavors, we came up with the idea of weekly "Staff Meating". :) @sabrigley is such an awesome person.
On the dog front:
Solo is no longer allowed to sleep on the bed with me. She is disobedient even after the expensive bootcamp because she thinks she is the alpha. Well, no more. :) Chewie at this point still sleeps on the bed with me because surprisingly (and probalby due to breed), she wants to please me and always come to me when I call her. She is now learning to sit and down.
That's all for now. I'm gonna drive my ass home so I can do my new workout - the Ten Minute Trainer (which kicked my ass yesterday). It's made by the same trainer that did p90x - the system that I used to get very fit in the first place.
In the last month, I noticed how sore I was getting everyday from doing... nothing. I was in much great pain like I used to be with all my muscles shouting at me. I self medicated one weekend and zoned out and it did help temporarily. Then I remember how it's been like almost 2 months since I worked out to my DVDs (basically right before I went to Kauai and then got really sick for like a month after I got back). Don't get me wrong, pole dancing is a good workout but I really only go to class once a week and practice on my own here and there. The DVDs made me fit when I stuck to the routine and made me able to do more pushups than most boys combined. Bwahaha.
So last night, I did my workout - Kenpo! My body felt awesome! My goal is to workout to my P90X DVDs at least 3 times a week in addition to walking the pups and pole dance classes. Workout = Body feels no pain. Besides, I am going back to Kauai in late November so I wanna make sure that I'm tip top shape for bikini time (and all the other times, but especially bikini times).
Another thing that I am doing now is to sleep by 10 or 1030. OK, I broke that rule last night, but the 4 work nights prior I did well and got myself 8 hours of sleep per night. Yaye! Well OK, except for Solo and Chewie kept waking me up every 2-3 hours to battle for the 2nd in command spot for like 30 - 45 minutes. Yah, puppies :) That 2.4 lb dog is fierce I tell ya! She leaps at the 30 lb Solo's head! LEAP! Haha.
She is about 1 - 2 lbs and will grow up to 7lbs max. She is all snuggled up to me right now :) I luvz her!
Had a Mac 'n Jack and huge chicken quesedillas. Now playing with dogs (or watching them play). Karaoke later. Life is good. ;)
Oh, and it's weirdly snowing here in Seattle. Yah, seriously.
Took a 3 hour crappy ass nap because the dogs were attention starved and kept trying to wake me up the whole time. Got up at 3am to continue with my wireframing endeavors. Finally got done but I'm sure we'll make more edits after I get into the office at 10am. I'm pretty damn proud of the work though :)
So tired. Lack of sleep + overworking = no workout + not eating healthy + new zits soon + unhappy pets
For all this work, I'm gonna treat myself to one of them space foam beds (I used to have one) for the new place.
I swear, that dog is probably one of the most intelligent dogs I know. Without even teaching her specific words, she just picks up on vocabs on her own. Today while I was trying to get ready for work, I said to her, "go play with Solo!" She smiled and immediately went and jumped around Solo and started playing. I told her "good play Juno" and she looked at me with her big happy face and continued to play.
One time when she was sleeping at one end of the house by my feet, I saw the fat cats were eating out of Juno's dish at the other end of the house. So I quietly said to Juno "hey girl, kitty is eating your food!" She immediate got up and ran to her dish to scatter the cats away.
So far, Solo hasn't demonstrated the ability to pick up words or learn as fast as Juno but she is cute as heck and still a pretty smart dog (I think she is just really stubborn). I think Juno is human in a dog suit. I love both girls. They played so much this morning that by the time I was leaving to go to work, they were both tuckered out.
No more doggie doo for me! They even train the dogs to go in only certain areas in your yard and get rid of the yellow pee spots in your grass! Yaye! I will see if I can afford this in my budget!
http://www.petbutler.com
