Back to blogging...

Well, it's been ages since I've updated the ol' blog. (and by ages I mean 21 days). So here's the latest update: We had to give Cayo back to the SPCA. She was very aggressive to other dogs, and then we discovered she was also scary aggressive to little kids. So that wasn't cool. I was so upset when I went to take her back. She was only with me for 3.5 weeks, but I was pretty attached. She was so sweet when it was just the two of us, but she definitely had issues. We're still going to look for another dog, we just need to take our time and find the right one for us.

John is in Africa now, they're somewhere near Richard's Bay, South Africa. They should be leaving for Mozambique any day now. The place where they're staying now has fairly reliable internet access, so we can talk on Skype every day. It works out pretty well for the most part, except that because of the time difference, I'm usually at CCOM when he calls so I have to lug my laptop and some headphones somewhere out of cubeland. So I go to the lunchroom, and sit on the blue 'comfy' chairs. (I put quotation marks around comfy because they are not actually comfy, but they have blue cushions on them so you think they're going to be comfy, but then you sit down and they're hard as a rock. so they're faux comfy)

I've had one email from my little sister, Andrea, who's allegedly in Ecuador, bestowing the healing powers of a first year med school student on the innocent injured in Quito. I am sure she's doing great. Dad says that she has been putting stitches in people and everything. Yikes!

Crazy Two Weeks!

Wow, it's been a while since I updated the blog. A lot has happened in the last two weeks. Dad came to visit a couple of weeks ago. He arrived the day after Father's Day. It was super fun, we went to Strawberry Bank in Portsmouth, which is the historic part of the town, something like King's Landing. Or Colonial Williamsburg. We also went to the Flume near Franconia in the White Mountains.


We drove up to Fredericton and I was there for a couple of days. Then I drove back with Stephanie. She stayed with us for 3 days. She painted and hung out and saw a bit of Durham, and then she took the bus back home.

On Sunday we started moving our stuff downstairs to Mike and Kim's old apartment in the basement. We cleaned it all up and started decorating, and I must say, it looks really spiffy now. It's a quirky little apartment and it's definitely the basement (no forgetting that) but it's looking really nice and homey. The kitchen is currently my favorite room, I'll put a picture up soon. But the living room and bedroom are well on their way to being very nice and cozy rooms too.

And somewhere in all of the craziness, we adopted a dog. Cayo is the newest member of our little family. She's definitely a handful, and has a lot of energy. She's a two year old shar-pei mix. Whatever the mix is, it's something smaller than her, because she's full grown, and smaller than a full grown shar-pei.