fortunately, i've been busy.

it's 9:36 on Sunday morning - the beginning of day 4 with Seamus. I've been disoriented, nervous, scared, happy, elated, tired and nauseous for the past 72+ hours. being a new puppy-mama is scary stuff! or maybe i'm just neurotic and paranoid. i definitely find myself being over-protective and doting, but i can't really help it. this is one of the biggest things i've ever wanted and i'm supah cautious cause i want to do everything right.
i will make a seamus-erin log.
thursday - day 1:
i picked seamus up around 12:30. the breeder, Jane Streett ( i would reccomend her!) talked to me about seamus and all the new-puppy info i needed. according to her son, seamus was "the tank" of the litter... which is hard to beleive when you see him because he is just so small! he was licking my chin just about the whole time we were talking and most of the ride home. he took to me during this traumatic car ride, i guess just cause i was the one holding him, so now he looks to me for comfort ( and i want to melt. ) tommy came over around 2 and spent the rest of the day at my house, with me, staring at the dog. tommy took tons of great pictures. he slept most of the day and when he did wake up he was peeing and/or spazzing out. but usually only for a total of about 5 - 10 minutes at the most. he took to his crate almost immediately and he loves sleeping and playing in it. tom and i went out during one of his naps... we had to take advantage of some of seamus' sleeping spurts. i was apprehensive about the rest of the night when tom left - i was like "oh no, i'm all alone now. no one to hang out and deal with puppy spazziness with me!" lucky i had off on friday cause i got zero sleep thursday night.

friday - day 2 :
pretty steady sleep - pee - eat - sleep - pee - play schedule. he won't stop chewing on my sweatshirt, the carpet, the mat in his crate, towels and any other fabric-y surface he can get his little jaws around. so i went and got him a rope toy and a "chew-man" which is basically this fuzzy stuffed toy in the shape of a very stumpy littly man. so now he has 4,273,945 toys to chew on... and still wants my sweatshirt strings. :) jacky is down from mass. so she came over to see pup-master. she went NUTTY! i didn't think she could be that excited, but she was! (thanks jacky!) she loves him like she loves her right hand. which i guess should be alot. so as she was leaving she was standing at the door kissing his head saying good bye fr a good 5 minutes. :)
i had prior plans to go out with angela, amy, alex and adam from work because it was adams last day before he left for the spoleto music festival. so my parents kept an eye on seamus for a few hours when i went out. but the whole time i was thinking "i wonder what seamus is doing. i hope not pooping on the rug!"
cute point: my mom had him out on the front lawn ( which he virtually disappears into) and she was talking to our neighbors when a school bus driver stops her bus to say "is that a PUPPY! what kind is he! he is so cute!" seamus is officially stopping traffic. friday night sleeping wasn't so bad, he woe up twice and then for the morning, but i had to be at work at 9am. and not just regular work, but i was working at the somerset location. i've said it before and i'll say it again - i would rather have a bad case of mono than work at the somerset store. but i'll go into that later - you can count on it. and that's about it.

saturday -day 3:
seamus woke me up around 7:10 which is actually good. it was easier getting ready for work than usual. alarm clocks do nothing for me. but this guy - there's no avoiding the crying and whimpering. seamus, you're hired!
work at somerset just chomped at the "KILL ME" bit all day long. i worked with lindsey - who just might be the most patronizing, condesending piece of shit i've ever had the displeasure of working alog side of. actually, with the exception of one girl, linh, that works there, i'd say just about the whole lot of them are the biggest group of insolent jack-asses and it would be too soon if i never came in contact with them again! so that may be a tad harsh but i loathe them - and working yesterday made my spine CRAWL. especially when i was asked in the most sugary - sweet artificial tone to "be their best friend" and "go to mcdonalds to get their lunch?" and on the tip of my tounge was SKIP THE GOLDEN ARCHES AND TRY A SALAD, COW! this reqest was followed by "i can give you really easy directions how to get there" NOW. let's bring to the surface the tickling fact that this mcdonalds was about 2 miles down the road after making a left onto rt 27 (basically right out of our parking lot) and DRIVING STRAIGHT. so tell me, snotface - just what DIRECTIONS were you going to give me? but in actuality i replied "i think i can find it. being that i can drive straight down the road, thanks." and to ice the cake, the acrylic-tip nail whore asked me if the order she wrote down was easy enough to UNDERSTAND. who here thinks your narrator is not bright enough to read and say aloud - "number 2, large coke and fries. number 4 large coke and fries. medium milkshake and medium fries." ?????? anyone? so i said "oh sure i can understand it - i can READ you know." that girl was lucky i didn't whip a pair of clippers at her head during the grueling 8 hours i was there, doing nothing, pretending to work, since it was absolutely UN necessary for me to have covered that shift for them. never again. i'll lock myself in a closet before i go there again. they can kiss my bikini un-worthy ass!
so.
all that was just wiped away when i came home to see puppy-face. and soon after - tommy face! pup was sleeping and my parents were staying in so tommy and i took a quick trip to the mall to try and find something for me to wear to Jasmine's brother Rich's wedding that's on sunday. needless to say i found nothing after looking like a herb in everything i tried on. bah. we got some bubble tea and came home. of course seamus woke up when we were gone and we missed puppy play time.
oksana came over around 10:30 to see him but he was sleeping :( and oksana is too sweet - she brought over a bag of puppy goodies! two fabricy chew toys and a picture frame to frame his amazing little face in! and a mini hand sanitizer because Shhh - i am not 100% non-allergic to dogs. and i have to be really careful to wash my hands constantly.
so the night was like the past few - play and pee time in the wee hours of the morning. ( no pun intended )

so that brings be to today. sunday. day 4.

not much so far. so this is where i wrap it up. but not before making the most important point of all.
i baggered, begged and whined for a dog since i was about 6 or 7. non stop, and without giving up - especially around christmas and birthdays. and whats almost more important that having one is my parents allowing me to have one in the house. i couldn't be more grateful to them for making me the happiest 23yr old child on the east coast!

so. time to check up on the pup.

this is the longest post ever.