Damn Dog!

I think Bella realizes that I’m going to be leaving soon. I don’t know if it’s because I was chasing her out of my suitcases or if it’s because I keep cuddling up with her when I’m feeling bad about leaving…but she definitely knows what’s going on.

For the past couple of days she’s been a little terror. Normally she’s really good when it comes to going outside to do all of her business. She hasn’t really had an ‘accident’ in the house for quite some time. The one time that she did was because she was sick so she was only mildly scolded for it, so there’s no big deal there. Her new thing is she’s been going on the carpets which has me pulling out the stain remover every few hours. She’s also gone as far as doing some of her business on the couch, which has me more than pissed off.

I realize that this is a temperament issue but she doesn’t ever act like this so I believe my recent absence from the house has quite a bit to do with this. For the past few weeks I’ve been in and out and even for me it’s growing to be a hassle. At this point I’ve basically been gone a week, home two weeks, gone one week, home two weeks, gone one week (leaving tomorrow) and then on the 13th of December I’m going to be gone for three days. I’m not normally like this, I have my comfort zone in the house and never really go away. I hang out with Alicia from time to time and do some shopping here and there to keep myself sane but I’m not usually going from place to place for vacations…you know?

I guess before I leave tomorrow I should throw some stain remover on the carpet for one final cleaning and then let my sister deal with it over the week. Maybe she’ll actually grow out of it because I won’t be around for her to grab my attention in such a cruel way…I don’t know. I’m sure it’ll fix itself.

I believe I landed a big account that I was bidding on. It’s a quick $1600, so that’s something to look forward to. That should solve quite a few of my money issues right now. I told the client there’s a 5 day max work period so once I settle in I’ll be able to get myself setup computer-wise and get cracking. :crosses fingers:

Thanksgiving was ok. I went to my grandmothers house and kept my mouth shut for the bulk of the time because the baby, as usual, had all of the attention. It’s strange though…I’ve seen her go from a 3 day old baby to a now 5 year old chatter box. She’s a very tall kid who’s into like…everything. She’s a pisser though, that’s for sure. My grandmother pulled out a bag of candy for after dinner and my aunt (her mother) was like “What, are you crazy?” my grandmother is looking at her like “Why?” and the baby then said “What are you crazy? I’ll eat the whole bag!” So that turned into the running theme of the night (annoying as usual) but she’s quick with zingers so it’s obvious that she’s a member of this family…no question about that. Either way dinner was good, my other aunt doesn’t really know the concept of “little bit of gravy” because she emptied like two cups worth onto my food I could barely eat it. So I didn’t really get to enjoy it the way I usually would…but whatever.

For now, I’m going to head off. I’m waiting on my laundry to finish drying and the boyfriend is behind me on his laptop working on his own shit. I guess it’s safe to say I’m done with the ‘net for the night considering I have nothing to really do right now…heh.