I was planning on trying yoga next, but dog training kinda jumped out at me today. Not in the way you think! We were at Petco getting the dogs' nails trimmed and I saw a sign saying that I could save $40 off the regular price of a training class. So I did! Starting this Sunday, December 22 at 2:30, Buckley and I have a date with a dog trainer, along with several other dogs and owners. Woo hoo!!! Finally, I'll get the training I need to stop barking at the dog.
Today was my 4th guitar lesson. It was not pretty. Danny, my instructor, was very kind. Seriously, it looked like I hadn't practiced once in the last week. Nothing worked and it was a terribly lesson on my part. I rarely get insecure, but every time I touched the guitar during my lesson I got worse! The especially bad part is that I had an awesome practice session this morning around 5:30 and I was stoked to show him what I could do. Yeah, that didn't go well at all. There is always next week, I guess. In the meanwhile, my fingers just need to toughen up. More practice!
Let's see... what else is going on? Water aerobics was fun this morning. There is some weird current in the pool and my friends and I were sent all the way around the edge of the deep end (even venturing some into the shallow end) during the ab workout session. There were three of us who were caught in the current and we were cracking ourselves up. You try laughing while doing crunches. Yowza! Oh, and the music was horrible! Think: Debbie Gibson sings Freddie Mercury. Oh my.
Our hike today was super fun, too. We ran into Stephanie and Ozzie, dog walking service again. Stephanie is human and Ozzie is the tiny mohawked dog. They had 5 other dogs, including a GIANT Bernese Mountain dog, a bull dog, a lab mix, a poodle and a miniature Doberman. Steph's hands were very full. Brian and I moved quickly around her without causing a riot with her dogs or ours. Well done, us!
Brian and I walked for about three miles today in some pretty dense fog. The closer we got to the parking area, the denser it got, until we realized that the pin pricks of light we saw were actually headlights... not too far away. We drove home going no faster than 30 mph on those windy roads, worried about all of the invisi-bikers who ride on those streets in this kind of weather. No joke... we saw several bicyclists wearing black, navy and grey in the fog. What are they thinking? I wanted to give them a red light to put on their noses like Rudolph. Then we could have said it glowed.... or at least we could have seen them.
After the walk, when their paws were nice and muddy, we took the dogs to Petco to have their nails trimmed. Buckley screams in abject terror when we try to cut his nails (and no, we never hurt him while doing it), but for some reason, is quite OK with us spending $10 - 15 to have someone else trim his nails. Fine with me. And now we've come full circle to dog training. So that was the big day.
Be happy and healthy!
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