Puppies

Ok, one of the few things that actually makes me go and squee like a little girl .....are puppies. I adore dogs, and puppies, well they're just 100x more squee-able.
At my job, pretty much everyone has found a lifestyle that they can live in, and have settled down to owning pets. Most often, plural. Something of which I'm totally jealous.
Today, one of my co-workers brought in an adorable baby Rottweiler puppy named Kona. And i promptly turned into a puddle of goo under the puppy dog eyes.

I would love to have a dog. Right now. raised from a puppy under my lessons, commands, and training techniques. My dog.
Unfortunately, that dream is a long way off. Staying out till 2am on weekends, and not coming straight home after work....kind of dont' work so well with a puppy bladder.

In other news:
I now have an Xbox360 and have joined the modern era of gaming. I'm extremely happy with my purchase as now i can play my netflix and video games.

Also, I have a trip planned. One that actually entails me LEAVING the state. Amazing boyfriend and I are going to California!!!!
No this doesn't mean anything serious, other than a seriously fun trip planned. Can't wait. Countdown to March begins.

Updates

A little while back, i posted about getting a ticket for my tabs, and the resulting mitigation hearing.

Well, i was probably about the dozenth person the judge called forward. The people before me had delt with issues like failure to yield, speeding and a single other tabs problem. And immediatly following a gentleman who was there to Contest, not Mitigate his ticket which nearly caused a shouting match, he called my name. He was in a fairly incredulous mood. I believed this would only prove bad for me. The previous person with a ticket for their tab only got 50$ knocked off their sentence. And they had taken care of it within three days.

Turns out the Judge liked that i took care of the issue the very same day. My 216$ fine, was dropped to just 50$. :)

Other news. I have taken back up one of my hobbies; Knitting. Being mostly self taught, i had gone as far as i could go mostly in the form of scarves. So i enlisted the help of Nano Annie and her mom. The project?.....a beanie hat. But not just a simple basic hat. I wanted something with a little more dimension to it. To learn some more stitches and to for the first time, follow a pattern.
So far.... this is nuts. I still can't see a pattern so far, but i'm hoping another set of 10 rows, and i'll have something mostly resembling the pattern and eventually...a hat.

I'll keep you posted for the outcome.

The new year.

So, it's 2010. My fingers don't even like typing it yet. No idea yet what this year might hold. So far it has been hailed in with massive amounts of poppers, good friends, a little bit of alochol and video games. then subsequent cleaning. and then more video games.
I know.....wild way to start the new year. (sarcasm)

In truth, i have no idea what i want to do with my life this year. It's going to be hard to top last year, that's for sure.
Let's see...roommate drops moving out bomb, actually moves out....have to deal with 8 months of hell, find new roommate, get life back together, win Nano again...in the process of life falling apart again i find someone who makes me exceedingly happy.

The new year is usually a time for resolutions.

Last year, i outright refused to make any resolutions and ended up with one of the best weight losses and worst weight gains ever. What happened? I moved apartments and lost my momentum. That and chocolate is a godsend.

This year, I keep asking myself what I want to do. It keeps coming back to weight loss again. I have never in my life weighed as much as i do now. It's flat out not acceptable. So since i know what i did last year that worked so well for me.

So this year, i resolve for it to stick at least until i reach a certain weight, which is for me to know. And then to not gain back more than 10 lbs of it by the next new year.

So you win, new decade. You have a resolution. But i'm the one that wants it more.