The weekend before last my husband brought home a cold. My son and I caught it last week and it packed a little more of a punch than colds I’ve had as of late. Saturday I got worse then was feeling better the next day but the poor little buddy, who barely seemed affected before then, got hit Sunday. He perked up the two days after, though was crankier than normal, then the day after I was basically confined to the couch holding him while he slept off and on. Children are pretty vivacious and tend to bounce back from colds quickly, usually hardly slowing down at all. But when they do have a cold that gets them down, it’s almost like having double the cold because I’m not just caring for myself but him as well. And baby colds aren’t confined to babies, as any other parent would know. No, their cold gets all over the bed, your shirt, yourself and anywhere else they are. While gross, it’s washable at least.
Bandit, my smaller black and white dog, may have a home before this week is over. My feelings are so mixed. I don’t want to let either dog go. They’re both well-trained, and that’s something that takes lots of time and patience, they never run away (they do chase deer but always come back and Bandit never strays as far as Raven), and they’re both so sweet. They’re even good on a bike ride. I always have a training collar on them just in case but the one time I took them both and had one dog off leash and they behaved perfectly I was so proud, even more so when a lady we passed commented on how well they were doing. And they certainly love bike rides; they get so excited when they see the bike. Keep in mind we live in the country otherwise I don’t think I’d risk off leash without absolute trust that dog wouldn’t stray from my side. Once they’re gone I won’t have another dog. I’ll have spent the majority of my life taking care of someone or some animal, I’d like some years to truly feel free to be myself. You can’t go on a trip on a whim or stay out all day and late into the night when something is depending on you to be home to feed and exercise it. That does mean I’d be stuck with whatever dog(s) my husband ends up getting and that idea is not appealing. He’s never owned or trained a dog, so I don’t know how well it’ll be trained and I don’t want to get stuck looking after it if it ends up being more work than he realized. He also wants much larger breed dogs than I would own. Every dog I’ve had I could control if a dog fight came up or something worse–thankfully something worse never happened. Just like with people, no matter how long you’ve had an animal/known the person, you never truly know what’s going on in their mind and they could snap. I’m not worried about myself but until our children are older, I’d always worry at the back of my mind about their safety when around the dogs. Bigger dogs can cause more harm.
With only thirteen days left in this year and only on page 88 of 176 with I don’t know how much story filling left to do, it doesn’t seem possible to finish before the new year. Especially having been hit with this cold. Maybe I can make up for it over Xmas since my husband will be home longer and since we don’t celebrate Xmas, I might have time to pack in some writing.
Some quick tv show/ movie notes. I recently finished Dawson’s Creek. It’s an older show and the last couple seasons were a little bit of a slog to get through but the show itself was good. It was a nice change from most teenage shows that I’ve seen, though still about sex it wasn’t filled with sex scenes. For those like me who like something running while doing dishes or other chores that don’t require full brain capacity, this show made that list for me. I also watched the first season of Doc and unexpectedly enjoyed it! It may be because of my age, but I’m starting to enjoy more shows where the main character is an older, level-headed woman. I wish it was an older show so that there were twenty plus episodes instead of just ten. I don’t know who or how this trend of short seasons got started but I certainly don’t like it. I wonder if the actors mind. It’s a shorter commitment I bet but I’m sure less money.
Mikaela Nicole 