So far so good; but I am SORE!  The trainer's personality and style are a good match for mine.  Good communication, etc.  I go at lunch in a couple of hours.  Wish me luck!

It sounds so neat!   

I've had a nice 2 week visit from my family and today was the final day.  It'll be hard to go back to just me and DD.  We had such a great time and it was a nice break from work too (I didn't take the whole 2 weeks off - but some vaca)

Anyway, I just feel like now I'm getting back to normal life

I hope everyone had a great T-day!

a work colleague whose office was next to our old space brought me the boxes I used last year to make a Xmas tree on our wall (we had tiny offices, so I bought shimmery green boxes and a shimmery gold one and pasted them on the wall forming a tree)... I cut some of the old boxes to make smaller ones of different sizes and used them as building blocks to create a tree (think cubist!) I also made a 3-D star for the top! which I affixed with pins (probably the most difficult part of it all!)... It looks really cool (whish I could take a picture, but we cannot take pictures here!- not allowed!)
People can see it when they come along the hall, and at least 3 people have come in to see it! 

I would be VERY upset.... and I would report them...if not for the dognapping, at least for the bad smell... who knows, they may have something in their house that is a health hazard for the whole neighborhood!
I'm glad you found your doggie! 

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I would keep my kids far away too!

Sad!!! What in the world? Do you guys have a fenced in yard or a way to keep your doggie in your yard so he can't visit? That would make me so angry! I would report it too! Just my 2 cents.

There is a strange family, an older couple and their adult daughter, who lives in our neighborhood, they have a dog that our dog is obsessed with. We have a corner lot, so it started out with the adult daughter  walking their dog past our house several times a day. At some point our dog somehow followed them to their house, and they started "letting him in to play." I gave them our #'s and told them to please call us right away if he ever "came to visit" again...

Over the last 6 months he has "vanished' several times, every time he comes back smelling absolutely putrid. He is almost completely blind in one eye, and normally never leaves our yard, for more than 5 minutes... Last night, around 11:00, DH let him out while he was taking the garbage out - suddenly he was gone!

DH drove all over the neighborhood looking for him, he was nowhere in sight. I told DH to go to bed, and I would wait up for the dog. Around 2:00 AM I started to panic because he was not home.

I called the police, they had not seen him. I got on the county property listing website trying to find a name and phone # for the people who had "dog-napped" him before. I mistook the house next door to theirs, and called and woke up their neighbor!

I apologized profusely, and the man was very kind. He told me he HAD seen our dog over there before he went to bed, then he said: " Just between us, something is not right over there. A lot of animals go missing... The daughter works for the humane society... There was a cat just last week..."

I woke up DH and explained the bizarre conversation, and made him get out of bed and drive over there again looking for our dog. He parked in front of their house, the tv was on, but he didn't want to ring the bell at that hour. He drove around the block. When he went back, the tv was off, and our dog was in the middle of the street!

He had that same disgusting odor he has every time he goes over there, he was not cold, so he could not have been outside in 30 degree weather for 3 hours, and he had been fed... What kind of people lock someone else's dog up in their house like that?!?!!?

I am really mad. We were up most of the night, I had to call the police to report a missing dog, and then again to report a found dog!

Should I go over there and say something to them - like "if you ever try and steal my dog again I will call the police!" I don't know what to do. Our dog is a part of our family and not for rent!

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