A Recap of the Weekend

This weekend was quite uneventful which is always nice. Montgomery stayed for the weekend and we went to Home Depot on Saturday to pay for the doors. He almost had to use his credit card though since the machine took about 10 minutes to clear an Ohio check. And we had originally gone Friday after Schoop’s, but after driving all the way there and the lady bringing up my quote, I realized that I forgot my checkbook so I had to go back on Saturday, which was my original plan. We then went to Van Til’s for some grocery shopping. We’re such losers because we were so excited about buying fried chicken and a new type of soup – chicken corn chowder – that is delicious!

I finished the book I bought earlier this week Everything Changes by Jonathan Tropper on Saturday and honestly, it’s one of the best books I’ve read in a long time and I went onto the Barnes and Noble website and bought his two other books, The Book of Joe and Plan B, which should be arriving tomorrow unless the UPS tracking package website is lying to me. Everything Changes follows a couple weeks in the life of Zack King, a thirty-something who seems to be living life on the lucky side. But an earthquake, a health scare, and his father, who abandoned him as a child suddenly reappearing again, make him stop and reevaluate his life. It’s a surprisingly easy read with funny and heartbreaking scenes. Definitely at the top of my list. I can’t wait to read his other books.

Saturday night, I finally gave in. I decided that since I didn’t have work the next day, I would let Baxter sleep with me for the night instead of putting him in his crate. This won’t be happening again soon. He’s still quite not ready for this yet but nonetheless, it was an experience. After taking him out, I locked the front door, his clear signal that he’s about to be put into the crate. But I walked past him, turning off lights on my way to my room. He was so excited; leaping onto the bed, as if he knew exactly what was going on. We fell asleep around midnight and I didn’t wake up to about 2:30 because I heard and felt him walking all over the bed, his chains rattling. I got up and noticed he peed in the hallway so after I cleaned that up, I took him outside anyway but he had already done his business on the carpet. We came back inside and fell asleep again, this time sleeping until about 6:10 when he woke me up. I recognized his anxious behavior. He had to go out. I took him out, he pooed, he got a treat and I tried to go back to sleep. That morning, his stomach was gurgling, a side affect of the baby aspirin I had been giving him to help with his sprained knee, and he threw up 3 times. Needless to say, he’s still a puppy and he’ll have to endure the crate at night a little while longer. I cherish nightly sleep too much to not get it.

Sunday night, I watched the series premiere of Brothers and Sisters on ABC, which was actually surprisingly good. It stars Sally Field, Calista Flockhart, Rachel Griffiths, Balthazar Getty, Dave Annable, and Tom Skerritt as members of the Walker family and follows their lives with Skerritt and Field as the parents and the others as their adult children. It’s refreshing to see a somewhat realistic family portrayed on television, especially one that isn’t involving prepubescent teenagers and the angst of high school. I didn’t really care for all of the political talk but since Flockhart plays a conservative radio talk show host and Annable has just returned from serving in Afghanistan, I suppose it’s to be expected. Man, television certainly isn’t all that bad this year.

Yesterday was like any other Monday. Got up, got ready, work, lunch, work, came home, yelled at Baxter for chewing on electrical cords and wrote a little and watched television. Such is life.