Doggie!

So I was just sitting here trying to decide what I could write my next blog entry about, then a little creature started sniffing at my feet, which gave me my inspiration. I have a dog now! That's right, for the first time in about seven years my family has a dog. He is awesome, and here is his story...


Last Friday night, Mark was dropping me off at my house and we were sitting in his car talking. I opened the door, and as I sat there with my arm holding it open, something furry rubbed up against my arm scaring me out of my mind. When I looked over and saw a cute little doggie, I was relieved. I figured he was just a neighborhood dog, so I started shooing him away, and he started crying and backing away really slowly. My heart broke. Mark and I both got out of the car and started petting him and checking him out. It was pretty obvious that he was just lost, not a stray, and he had been an inside dog who was frightened in the jungles of Plain City, so I took him up to my house after Mark left so he wouldn't be sad. My family was going away for the weekend, so I tried to figure out what to do with him until we got back. I called my cousin Kelci (who lives next door) and told her of my predicament, and she informed me that she was on her way home and they would take care of him.


My cousins and aunt spent the weekend looking for the dog's owners, but did not have any luck. So, my family decided to keep him, since my dad has been talking about getting another dog for a while now. Happiness, we had a dog! He bonded to my dad and I instantly, following us around the house and whatnot. He is the friendliest little dog I've ever seen, and is very cute with other dogs and children.

Tuesday rolls around, and my dad heads to the store to get some supplies for the dog, which he has named Biff. I was home sick that day, so I was asleep on and off the whole day. About an hour after my dad got home, my mom called and we both answered. My dad proceeds to tell my mom "I just went and spent $50 on that stupid dog and now the owners just called Denise (my aunt)." I just laughed. I probably should have been sad, but it was just too funny that as soon as my rough-around-the-edges dad let himself bond with the dog and bought it a bunch of stuff, the owners show up.



My cousin Kelci came over to pick up the dog so they could take him back to his owners' house, and we hung out for a while just chit-chattin'. Kelci leaves, but about 2 minutes later I hear her laughing and yelling "Kellyn, guesss what!!" She and her sister Bree come into my room carrying the dog and both laughing, telling me that the owners called their mom again and told her that if we wanted to keep the dog he was all ours, since she and her fiancee work all day and don't have as much time to spend with him. Once again I just laughed because I knew that my dad would get all irritated again when he found out we were keeping the dog (which was very true).

We found out some things about the dog, such as he is about a year old and his name is actually Harley. I still call him Biff sometimes, because I just like that name.

So there you go, I have a dog. He's a cute little stinker. My dad took him to get a haircut today, since in the first two days we had him everything in our house had gotten covered with white dog hair. He's still very cute, but I kinda miss the scruffy look. It was very endearing...

Well, here I am!

So I decided to start a blog, because I apparently don't have enough things in my life with which to waste time. I figure it's a nice way to let people know what's going on in my life and such. The only question is...where to start?


My life's been pretty same 'ol lately. I'm going to Weber State, just about finished up with my generals (Yes, it took me this long. I'm a slacker, what can I say?). I'll hopefully be getting my Associates pretty soon and then I'll start getting into my Major. What is my Major, you ask? Well I haven't exactly settled on one yet. I've got it narrowed down to Secondary Education, but I'm still not sure what exactly I want to teach. I would really love to teach theatre, but the theatre program at Weber State is pretty time-consuming, and I'm not sure if I would be able to pull it off and keep the job that I currently have. However, I would like to look into it more to see if I could manage it, because I would love to do that. If I don't go with theatre, I will probably settle on English teaching. I may even do both, because, let's be honest. How many high school drama teachers out there don't teach English too? Anyway, that's where I stand in the education part of my life.


I'm still working at the bookstore at WSU. However, I managed to move up from receptionist to Marketing Assistant, which is nice. It's so pleasant to NOT have to spend my day sitting at a desk and answering angry customers' questions. Now I actually have things to do, and if I run out of things to do I have the freedom to go find something to do rather than being chained to a desk. It's so different working there now than it used to be. Just about everyone that I worked with my first two years there is gone now, and now my closest friend at work is moving back to Arizona at the end of the semester...dump. Anywho, that's work. All in all pretty good.


I am still dating Mark, oh how I love him. Things are going really well with that except that he is leaving in about a month to do the Air Force Reserve. He'll be doing boot camp for 2 months, and then he'll have six weeks of training. It will really suck having him gone for 3 and a half months, but I am trying to focus on the positive as much as I can. This will really give him a good set-up for a job, they'll pay for his college, and he'll get some really good money doing it. That's what I'm...trying to focus on. Unfortunately, it usually doesn't work out and I just start getting very depressed and bitter and contemplating how unfair life is. Oh well. Like I said, aside from that things are going really well. It's crazy that we have been dating for over a year now. The time has gone by so fast and so much has happened in that short time. I have grown so much as a person and learned a lot about myself and what I want out of life.


What else can I prattle on about? Today is my 21st birthday! A lot of people have been asking me what I'm doing for my birthday and they all acted sort of disappointed and...disgusted, that I wasn't planning on doing much besides cake and ice cream with the fam, ha ha. What can I say? I'm not exactly going to like, throw myself a party ("Happy birthday to ME! Bring me presents!"), and I don't have many friends that are 21 so who am I going to go party with? Ha ha. Oh well, I've had fun today and I'm sure I'll have fun with my family tomorrow so that's all that really matters, right?


All right, I think that's about enough for today. Hopefully I'll be able to actually keep up on this thing and post on it more than once every six months, ha ha.


LOVES!!! *MWAH*