Snow Day 2008 in Baton Rouge

I awoke this morning to snow falling. Still, I got dressed and headed downtown for work. It was a ghost-town to say the least. At about 9a.m., we got an announcement that work was cancelled! I was happy to be off, but it would have been nice if the powers that be made the announcement before I drove the treacherous path to work this morning. Kids had no school, so it was a day of fun! Our dogs weren't too sure of the snow, but Zoe explored out to take a leak. Chewee, who has been house-trained for over a year now, reverted to pee-ing on the floor inside... he did not like the cold snow at all.

Christmas Tree & a Zoe Update

I finally put the final touches on my tree today. The traditional ornaments of the past stayed in the boxes for use another year. My favorite ornaments are the huge, white snowflakes which I found in a Christmas speciality store a couple of years ago. I kept the tree decor very simple and clean this year (that's my way of excusing my laziness ;-)

Zoe, the Davis puppy, has been with us a week today! This morning WD & I took her to the vet... she was having some problems with her poop which freaked me out. The vet looked her over, gave us a prescription which should fix her right up, and offered reassuring expertise on her health. The cutest little thing she has learned to do is climb the stairs in the house... the only problem right now is that she doesn't know how to climb down. When we hear her little whine, we know she's stuck at the top of the stairs waiting for one of us to carry her little butt down. Hopefully she'll learn how to get downstairs with Chewee's help and demonstrations.

Zoe

We headed to Houston, TX, the Friday after Thanksgiving to pick up our new family addition... 8 week old smooth fox terrier pup, Zoe! We contacted the same breeder where we got our beloved Chewee. Now we have two dogs. I never would have thought I'd enjoy animals, but these little pups are just precious. They make us laugh, give us love, & sometimes make us frustrated... especially with housetraining a puppy and yard training a dog. Chewee now has a special underground fence in the backyard that allows him to run and play, but not run off into the neighbors' yards anymore. Erin is like a little "momma" with them so having the dogs isn't a huge burden on me & WD.

Christmas Furniture

You know you've crossed over from girl to all-grown-up when getting furniture for Christmas is absolutely thrilling. WD has always been very creative and surprising with Christmas and birthday gifts; this year is no different except the "surprise" part. He priced out a set of diamond earrings for me and nixed that idea after thinking about how I would feel if he spent that kind of money... his thinking was, "If I got these earrings for Paula and she found out I spent over $2000 on them, she would have a fit. To think that she could have a brand new Apple computer for the money I spent on these earrings!" He was dead on! So no earrings, and no new computer yet, but he is getting me furniture for our office/scrapbook room! We can't afford to do it all at once, but because the furniture is modular and from Pottery Barn (where I can order pieces offline if I need to) we are doing it a piece or two at a time. Here is what some of it will look like.... I'm going with the white finish since my walls in the office are red... I can't wait!!!

New Music

WD ran by the store before coming home from work the other day. He picked up a couple of newly released CDs that he knew I was buzzing about... David Cook's & Nickelback's! I was so excited to have the CDs, especially since it was the first day of their release. David Cook's CD has his American Idol hit, "The Time of My Life" which is still one of my favorites, but I think my favorite off his self-titled CD is "Lie". Listen to all of them on David Cook's website. I wanted the new Nickelback CD for one song, "Gotta Be Somebody". When I started listening to the other tracks, I was surprised that some of the lyrics were "adult-themed". I really like the rock-out feel of the CD as a whole, but I have to skip over a couple of songs if the kids are in the car with me.