Today is the first day of Spring quarter for Levi, and that means that I have the day off from work. Levi is taking a class at TCC’s Gig Harbor campus, and won’t be able to get there in time after work unless he has the car. Seeing as how I don’t really need to work 5 days a week, we figured the best solution would be for me to take Mondays off and give him the car on those days. So far, I am liking this arrangement!

Today, I got to sleep in and enjoy a stress free morning with no work. After breakfast, I did laundry and finished up the dishes. I then proceeded to remove the disgusting scrap of carpet from our back patio that the previous occupants of our apartment used as a welcome mat. While a great idea in theory, the carpet turned into a disgusting moldy mess in practice. As soon as the patio dries out a bit, I will be going out there with a broom to get it cleaned off some more. I’d love to be able to use the patio in the summer time, and me getting it cleaned is going to be a big part of that. I may need to have the maintenance staff send somebody down the have it pressure washed…it’s pretty filthy.

To say the least, I have really missed having Mondays off.

While dealing with the carpet on the back patio this morning, I managed to get locked out of the apartment. Bella knocked the stick on our back door into the track after I had shut the door, and I couldn’t get back in. Of course I decided that it was a great idea to leave my cell phone and keys inside the apartment while I was outside, and as a result couldn’t get back in the front door either. I walked up to the management office to get a key, and they didn’t even have the right copy of our key so I had to call Levi at work. We are going tonight to get a copy made. Maybe two, so that my mom can have one as well.

We received an update on Megatron this morning. She is doing great and has gained 4 oz. since the start of the weaning process about a week and a half ago. She will have a veterinarian appointment in three days and then will fly into Seattle on the 7th assuming she is healthy enough the fly. (Currently, there are no known issues that would prevent her from flying.) We have an appointment at our local Banfield Pet Hospital on Sunday to have her looked at after the flight. We chose to go with Banfield because of recommendations of our friends, we will be signing Megatron up for one of their wellness plans as well to help supplement the cost of her first year of veterinarian services as well.

We are very excited about Megatron’s arrival next week, and she already has a ton of toys at home awaiting her arrival as well. She is very spoiled.

Over the past few days I have worked diligently to get my closets and other spaces of the apartment organized. Levi and I bought a new dresser from IKEA on Saturday morning for our closet, and the apartment has been a mess because of it. You see, I had to destroy my current “closet organization system” in order to get the new dresser into our closet. This also resulted with me, once again, having too many things. In between Levi’s army gear and my junk, I had a bedroom full of stuff with no place for it to go. To solve this problem, I placed the stuff Levi uses in a drawer in the dresser and we went through all of his old uniforms and determined what we can get rid of. The result? One large stack of old uniforms to go and two large tubs of gear to keep. Now we have an organized closet, and a clean house! 

Work has been over staffed the past few days, but they keep over scheduling us because we are expecting a surprise visit from our supervisor any day now to inspect how we are performing. The result is an over staffed store that is super clean, and when they don’t show up they start sending people home. It’s gotten to the point, over the last few days, where I will go in and not expect to stay my entire shift at all. I don’t have a problem with this because I don’t really like to work more than part time anyway.In fact, next week I will no longer be working on Mondays to accommodate Levi’s school schedule and I couldn’t be happier! (Levi will be taking a class at another campus and will need the car immediately after work to get there on time.)

Not working Mondays is going to allow me a little more time with our new puppy when she arrives. Hopefully I will be able to really focus on potty training her for the first few weeks. I am expecting accidents, but I am hoping that my lax work schedule will really allow me to minimize the amount. I’ve already prepared myself for the possibility, I have a fresh bottle of Resolve and an enzyme based deodorizer. Speaking of our puppy Megatron, she weighs 2 lb 1 oz this week. She has lost a bit of weight since her last weigh in, which is normal for a puppy that is being weaned from its mother’s milk. Here is a photo of Megatron, as of yesterday:

She is looking as cute as ever, and I can not wait until the 7th when she arrives! Her ears are really starting to perk up more, and her nose is starting to get a bit darker. 

That’s all for today.

I figure I should preface this post with a photo of what may possibly be the cutest puppy on the face of planet earth. Sure, I’m biased, but it’s my blog and I’m allowed to be. It’s not like I’m a journalist…I can make up whatever facts I want to and nobody will care. Megatron, the aforementioned and pictured puppy, is around 6 weeks of age as of this entry and weighs 2lb 2oz. 

Tonight I am making brownies for some of Levi’s coworkers, and the brownie mix is ridiculously complicated. It is calling for softened butter, and eggs and the topping requires me to melt chocolate chips. When brownie mixes start requiring me to soften butter, and melt chocolate, they stop being convenient mixes and start becoming pre measured flour and sugar. I feel like it shouldn’t be called a mix if it requires more than water and oil…maybe an egg. (Furthermore, world, placing a stick of butter in between two sheets of wax paper and flattening it with a rolling pin does not soften butter, it flattens hard butter – the flattened butter is no softer than is was before, it is just inconveniently hard and flat.)

Speaking of brownies, did I mention that I don’t even get to taste these brownies? All of this work, and all I get is a potential “thank you” and the torture of smelling them in my apartment. Did I also mention that I am doing all of this only after my date with my vacuum cleaner and bottle of resolve this evening after a ridiculous day of work?

Speaking of work, I’m trying to transfer to a restaurant that is closer to my apartment. If that plan fails, I am just going to walk down the street handing out résumés to the local businesses. I’m tired of paying for gas in my car, I feel like 75% of my income goes to paying for gas. There is a restaurant down the street that I could easily ride my bike to in under 10 minutes, and I should be able to transfer without much work – I’ve just got to convince my boss to let it happen.

Last night I had a dream that I was getting into bed, and as I was getting into bed I was thinking to myself that I should blog about how lazy I am. The worst part about it all, was that dream Stephen though this was a fantastic idea and that people would love to read it. Well, I have two words for dream Stephen: Bite me. (Softly, please… – OK, so that’s four and not three..) Seriously though, I called myself lazy in my sleep, who does that?! Right now I am sitting on the couch in my living room listening to Pandora and blogging in an attempt to prove dream Stephen wrong. (So essentially, I’m sitting on my ass doing almost nothing.)

Sometime between last night and early this morning it snowed. It isn’t a lot of snow, and the trees outside my backdoor make it look like it is even less snow than it actually is, but it is still snow. Fortunately for me, I don’t need to call in “snow” to work because it will be melted by the time I have to leave. It’s a gorgeous day outside, sunny and beautiful and I suspect it might even get slightly warm outside today. (It was sort of warm yesterday when the sun came out.) I don’t need or want hot weather, I am just tired of cold and wet – I’m ready for a little bit of warmth.

I’m having some difficulty blogging this morning, I keep getting distracted. Pandora keeps playing weird music while simultaneously trying to slip “Glee” covers into my playlist. I went into a rage when an A Capella version of Ben Folds’ “You Don’t Know Me” came on, I thought for sure it was the “Glee” cast ruining another good song. They have a tendency to do that at times – the first time they covered Adele I about had a fit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for being creative…but sometimes they just need to stop neutering music.

Speaking of music, this morning I’ve decided to try out Spotify. The service looks promising, but their mobile app doesn’t support CDMA BlackBerries. My BlackBerry is a CDMA BlackBerry, so I am out of luck there. This issue will prevent me from upgrading to the premium version, because I can’t use the mobile app. (For those of you who don’t know, CDMA is the network technology that Verizon uses.) Supposedly there is an app in the works that supports the Bold 9930 (my phone) but I am not holding my breath for it.

Now that I have babbled for a little bit this morning, I think it is probably for the best that I stop. This post was both uninformative, and terrible and probably shouldn’t be published. I’m going to be awesome and do it anyway..but only because I’ve got a photo of the “snow” and the first paragraph might be slightly amusing to somebody.

P.S. I’m finishing this post while the A-Trak Dub Mix version of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Heads Will Roll” is playing. It’s fantastic.