i have been insanely busy lately and have not, regrettably, had time to blog. not that i don’t want to do it…everything is just so hectic right now. work is going really well – my boss seems to think very highly of me and i am doing pretty well on all my assignments. but the problem with doing things well is that then you get asked to do a lot of things… it sounds like i may also be added to a special list of people who are targeted for leadership positions. too bad i don’t actually care about being a leader there long-term. but oh well. while i am there, i can pretend. 
dogs are doing well too. i have been really busy showing harley. i have had some big breakthroughs in my thoughts of how i can train her to help her do better in the ring. unfortuantely i am so busy showing that i don’t have enough time to really train her much, outside of the shows. but, in time, hopefully my new insights will help. teego is also doing really well, and i think i am starting to really earn the respect of the really great competitors and judges around here. now when we don’t do really well – people are surprised – as opposed to them not being surprised or not even noticing that we were there. they are also starting to take notice of teego and say that he’s a nice dog…things are progressing well on this “career front” as well.
that is all for now. i still love you all, just WAY too busy trying to do well at two “careers”.
the show this past weekend went pretty well. harley had a great run on saturday, but then disqualified herself during the “long sit” portion. the dogs all have to stay sitting in a line for 3 minutes while their owners go in a different room, so the dogs can’t see them. usually harley does this just fine, but on saturday she decided she had to LICK HERSELF and then lay down. so, because she didn’t remain sitting, she was disqualified. otherwise we would have tied for 1st place. dogs will be dogs.
after every show, i analyze our performance in my mind and think about what could have gone better. i do this even after “good” performances – because there is always something that could have gone better, right? i think both my mom and chris get kind of fed up with this. but my response is — analyzing things that could have gone better doesn’t mean that i’m not happy with how things went. i just want to determine what to work on for next time, so it will go even better than this time. after one such analysis that followed a “good” performance, my mom said “you know, that’s like when dad used to ask you why your A- wasn’t an A…” it used to really make me angry when he’d ask me that – like an A- wasn’t good enough for him. but maybe all he was doing was trying to help me figure out what i needed to improve on for next time…i must admit that i am my father’s daughter in some respects…
work = BUSY BUSY BUSY
dog stuff = BUSY BUSY BUSY
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mei = BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY
