Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Nov 11 - Happy Veteran's Day

Day number 3 with Dutch. He is doing really well on the house-training... as long as we pay attention and jump when he whines. He will tell us he has to go out but he doesn't give much time in getting him out the door before he piddles, usually on the rug, next to the puppy piddle pad. GGGRRRRRRRR

We had to move his 'sleep box' from the master bathroom to next to our bed because he would NOT shut up the second night, he had himself so stressed out... pathetic. Just moving it next to the bed quieted him down and he is good about waking me up when he has to go potty at night - last night he made it about 5 hours before having to go. Yea!!! I'm trying to get him used to a leash but that's harder than it sounds, at least he tolerates his collar now.

He is also getting to the point where we don't have to be in the same room with him all the time (although then you run the risk of 'accidents'). Before he followed us EVERYWHERE. We are going to leave him alone and go to dinner tonight... we'll see how that goes.

On to other things - we are in job-hunting mode now. However, its kinda bleak here. I guess, really, there are a lot of jobs, but we are either under-qualified (Bryan's - they all want Masters or PhD's) or over-qualified (mostly admin or call-center positions). We have managed to find a few - about 5/6 each - but so far, no call backs. Bryan just got a call from a recruiter in Wisconsin but... we aren't moving to Wisconsin. At least not yet. HAHA

The holidays are fast approaching. Bryan's Mom, Irene, is coming out for Thanksgiving and if I can't get my parents here for Christmas I guess we'll go to their place. We are really excited to be here for Christmas, I've heard Santa Fe is just beautiful during Christmas.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, when you look at that face you have to be able to forgive the accidents. PURE PUPPY LOVE!

WasSoggyInSeattle said...

Right, until you come home from a short dinner out and find that the bathroom looks like someone tipped over a portapotty and the cute little face howling at the top of its lungs! Who knew a puppy could poop so much?!?!?! I mean really, he has pooped like 7 times today.

Towanda said...

He might be bad, but he sure is cute.