Call Me Crazy

November 2, 2009 | Filed in: Uncategorized

Crazy Dog Lady that is…

For not having any evening plans all weekend – I felt like it was jam packed – and FLEW by!!

Sunday I didn’t wake up until 9 or so – because I’d been up all night with the sick pup. We all finally fell asleep around 5am – so we slept in until 9 – and there was no more puking! Wooohooo!

Getting up so much later than normal – I was ravenous! Let’s see how breakfast stacked up – from top to bottom:

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Honeycrisp, Pumpkin Butter, AND Peanut Butter?!?! I can’t imagine a more fall-appropriate breakfast!

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Since we’d had such a busy day Saturday – between running errands, cleaning, etc – both Lando and I were pooped. I had every intention of going to the gym Sunday morning – but I was too nervous/afraid to leave my sick pup home alone (*yes – you can call me “Crazy Dog Lady” – I’m okay with it). So instead – I curled up with my little munchkin:

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and tried to get a jump start on my workload for the week. Wanna see how nerdly super cool I am? Check it out:

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Yeah – dual laptop set up, Always Sunny (LOVE!) playing on one, TPS report (LOVE!!) rocking on the other. You didn’t know I was THAT cool – huh?

Eventually I got up, ran errands, and walked the dog. While running errands – I caved and picked up a bag of Reduced Fat Kettle Chips and Fat Free French Onion Dip. I’m not even exaggreating – I was SO excited to eat them when I got home – the idea of taking an extra 5 seconds to take a picture actually hurt my stomach (okay – that’s dramatic, but you get the drift). I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I have a chip addiction!

[If there were a picture - the MISSING CHIPS AND DIP PICTURE WOULD GO HERE]

For dinner – I was very excited to create something delicious with all the produce I’d purchased over the weekend! As a side – I made baked garlic fries:

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and for the meal – Velveeta Shells & Cheese (the 1/2 fat/skim box) – with a TON of veggies I heated up in a skillet on the stovetop:

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There really is a little of everything there! Sweet onion, sweet potato, 3 kinds of peppers, and broccoli! Perfect comfort food dinner, with a healthy twist!

So just went you thought I couldn’t sound like any more of a dog-obsessed-weirdo…

I’ll start with this:

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When Lando needs to go out to use the bathroom, she bumps the blinds on the back door so they make a sound, and I open up the door and hook her up to her 30 foot tie/leash thing. That way – she can run all around the yard, and the leash reaches the door, so in the winter (or middle of the night) – I don’t have to go outside with her.

Well last night – I let her out, and about 5 minutes later went to let her in – only for it to sound VERY STRANGELY quiet. Eerily quiet. So I said “Lando, you wanna TREAT?!” which always gets her to come running. NOTHING.

Then I stuck my head out the door further to see a frayed/broken cable laying on the ground – no doggie attached! I freaked – ran back inside (we live on the middle block between 2 BUSY streets) grabbed my shoes and told Mike what happened. We bolted back outside, box of treats in hand, and started yelling “Lando”, and “TREAT“. Well not even 15 seconds later, I hear a whole bunch of rustling in the leaves – and she gallops on through the neighbors yard because her fat booty wants a treat! There’s a fence separating our yards so I just kept feeding her treats while Mike ran around the house to grab her. I am SO glad she was okay – but proceeded to shake for about 20 minutes after because we were so lucky something terrible didn’t happened!

Here’s the little rug-rat right after – she just ran right in, and went back to eating her dinner:

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She’s got a rough life…

After all that stress – I’d worked up an appetite, so I broke into the POM pomegranate I bought Friday, and made a yogurt parfait/thingy (Lando wanted in on the action):

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I forgot how much I love pomegranates – it’s been pretty much a whole year since I had one (I don’t enjoy fruit when it’s out of season – it always tastes “off” to me!) I see a lot more pomegranates in my future!

Okay – sorry for 2 dog heavy posts this weekend! I’ll be back to my “normal”-only mentioning Lando once per post- self tomorrow!

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Aww, I love the dog heavy posts because it helps me not miss my dog while at college. So thankful Lando was alright after getting out. We used to have scary situations like that with Montana, but now he’s an old fart who’d rather lie down than run around so we don’t have to worry so much

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