Not been to blog in awhile...

...but that's just because I've been busy/tired/bored/working/fill in excuse here.

Anyway, not a whole lot going on these days. Been trying to hang out with folks, maybe making some plans to go visit a friend of mine in LA. That, and taking care of the dog.

This afternoon I was walking the dog and I had an SUV pop up beside me with a couple (and a little girl) inside. Turns out it was the family that had hung onto Aurora for the couple days before she wandered over to my yard. They've stopped to say hi before when Brian has walked her, but this was my first encounter. Of course, I was on the phone at the time and couldn't really chit-chat, so it was probably a little bit awkward.

I wish I had some kind of insight about what her background/first year of life was like. Obviously somebody potty trained her (mostly), someone taught her to sit and to shake, and she has a vague idea of what "stay" means. But even after 7 weeks and lots of treats (and training classes), she's still standoffish and won't willingly park herself close to Brian or I unless we're sharing a couch or bed. Except for the fact that when she is put anywhere alone for more than 5-15 minutes she starts howling and crying (literally it sounds like a baby sometimes and it's creepy). It's confounding.

Work is crazyness, but that's probably the story of the world right now. People are stressed, the volume of people treating the ER as a clinic (idiots) is up a hundredfold, and workers down in the ER are starting to get sloppy. Folks in the lab are getting overtasked and unhappy, nobody understands anybody elses plights, and there are a lot of things that are going wrong because the management didn't adequately prepare.

I've got to be thankful that I'm in a position that is incredibly difficult to get fired/laid off from and that pays the bills. My BME has been telling me these kind of shocking stories about the way they're cutting costs (and closing down whole buildings in one day) to compensate for the fall in sales. He seems to be pretty secure in his job right now, so that's definitely another thing to be glad of.

I've realized that the amount of concerting that I will be doing in the future is pretty much in an astronomical plummet. It makes me sad. There are a couple things that I get to hang onto (ACL) but for the most part it's gone. So much for my music therapy.

Yeah, that's about it. Oh, and I already got my tax return turned in and finished. Thank you paranoia about missing bills (like the thousands in property taxes due) and obsessive-compulsiveness!