Letting Go

Today I became a characature of every silly mom on her child's first day of school. I didn't cry, but damned if I didn't cling and fuss and list every possible contact number the folks at doggie day care might need.

Yes, Bucket went to day care today. I'm looking forward to an exhausted and happy pup by the end of the day. Delilah didn't go for two reasons...One, she hasn't been in for her personality evaluation yet and two, I don't know if I can get both of them into the cab of my truck (safely) at the same time!

I'm a little concerned about taking Delilah in--she is a very dominant and willful little girl, and there is a dog or two there who might challenge her. I'm not so sure she won't back down. We'll see. I think I will try to take her by tomorrow evening after work. At any rate, I can take her to the dog park tonight and not feel guilty about leaving Bucket at home. She can run around and play in the water and wear herself out, and then I'll have two tired and happy pups. Whoohoo. They will be so much happier to get to get that play time--and the socialisation will be great.

In other news...oh, well, I guess there is no other news really. I smashed the bejeezus out of my finger last night (slammed in the door), but you don't really want to hear about that. This has been the longest week in the history of work, but you probably already know about that. And while I'm sympathetic, I'm pretty darned sick of hearing about Nick Berg. His poor family! Having to relive that time and time again as the media continuously recounts the story. Enough already.

And while we're on the topic of over-done news stories, I would like to say for the record that the entire Abu Grahib fiasco demonstrates to a PERFECT T my beef with the military... It trains a bunch of young hormone driven kids into mindless machines of war. So many of the people involved with the perpetration of these horrible mistreatments have used the excuse "I was only doing what I was told". It's very sad and extremely scary to me that there are people representing our country that are so ignorant--or brainwashed--as to think that behaviour like that is acceptable by any stretch of the imagination merely if someone tells them to do it.

Anyway. Didn't mean to jump up on that soapbox. Here, you can have it back...