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Kaylee’s home

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Kaylee’s flight went very well and we were all home together by 11:00, which is pretty good time considering the traffic.

She and Chance are rapidly working out their differences. He’s easily the more dominant at the moment, being twice Kaylee’s size, but she doesn’t take a significant amount of crap from him either, so we’ll see who stays on top.

Chance is the one having a rough day. First Kaylee came home and invaded his turf, then he threw up on the lawn a few times. Then we tried to introduce him to one of the yorkies that our neighbor owns and Puddin bit Chance almost as soon as they went nose to nose.

Chance is fine physically. Emotionally I think he’s exhausted. Right now I have him draped across my lap and Kaylee sleeping on the arm of the sofa a few inches away.

I’ll post some better pics of the pack later, but right now I think I’ll just stay here and be mom.

Tomorrow, we become four.

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Kaylee will be on a plane to Philadelphia tomorrow morning, and we pick her up at Cargo City around 9:00 am. With any luck, the next post (of any valuable length, anyway) will be replete with puppy pictures.

I’m nervous about this one, much more than with Chance. I’ve never flown a dog anywhere, nor driven one home such a long distance. Kaylee’s breeder doesn’t provide nearly as much communication as Chance’s, so I don’t even really know what my baby looks like. But she’ll be home soon…..

Oh good, it’s not my imagination – my brain really is getting tired.

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Turns out that making decisions, no matter how small, is brain-taxing. This explaind why when I have a really rough cognitive day at work I physically burn out about 15 minutes into my martial arts. (I’ve learned to grab a snickers bar at 4pm on those days.) I’ve run into this same problem when I tried to play a game like Brain Age right after work, too. I can actually feel my brain avoiding simple addition because it’s too hard.

I think it also explains why when little kids (or puppies) are tired, asking them to choose things is also asking for big trouble. When you’re little, everything’s a decision – is this edible? should I follow Mom? Should I stay here? Do I want that? No wonder Chance sleeps so much.

Ironically, I came across this (removed) link while cleaning out my email after a week’s vacation. Every single message is a tiny decision on whether I have to act on it and when. It’s no wonder I’m grouchy and hungry and it’s not even 12:00 even though I had a huge breakfast. They mention lemonade in the article and I’m salivating at the thought of lemony sugar. Email is just too many decisions. Of course, the problem is how to get rid of them!

How we’re gonna do this thing

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So obviously I missed last Tuesday’s comic, and with Saturday’s comic being due up in a matter of hours, it doesn’t make any sense to post it now.

Instead, I’ll post one next Thursday and that should get us back on track.

Granted, there’s no guarantee of quality — in fact, the first one up is quite sketchy, but at least we’ll be closer to a schedule.