#1. My dog died. Is there a more depressing way to start off a blog post? I don’t think so. My parents had to take her to the emergency vet in the middle of the night on Saturday to have her put to sleep. She hurt her back the day before and then started having seizures on Saturday night. She was 17, so she was ancient for a dog. But it is still the saddest thing ever and I cried buckets. She was the first dog we ever had! She’s now buried in the backyard with her favorite toy, next to my Aunt’s dog.

#2. I’m enjoying my transcriptioning a lot! It’s mostly workers’ compensation court things from California, but I have gotten a few really weird things to listen to. I like the really weird things the best. Because I’m new at it, I get proofread so I feel like I’m back in school when I get their grades. Instead of A,B,C,D,F they use 5,4,3,2,1.

#3. Erin is coming to visit me this weekend! I’m so excited! She already has a list of places where she wants to go shopping.

#4. I am wearing a very happy yellow dress right now.

#5. 115 days until summer is over.

#6. I really loved the episode of Dr. Who with Van Gogh in it. I loved that guy that played Van Gogh, I can’t think of his name but I’ve seen him in things. It’s my favorite so far with the new doctor. And really the first episode with doctor giant head where I actually felt like he was the doctor and I liked him. It takes me a while to get used to people.

#7. Tried to watch the movie The Road last night. We watched an hour of it, and it was the longest hour ever.

#8. Darwin v. Squirrel

#1. I have an imac! I got it yesterday. It is the prettiest and I’m sitting here wondering how I lived without an apple computer for so long. Right now I am playing with the photobooth thing! So fun. Here are a few things I have done so far:

Me sepia colored! Woo!

Me looking like I’m on Ghost Hunters. lol.

Me on the moon! (and yes, of course I’m going to try to get a picture of Darwin on the moon.)

#2. I have a part-time job doing legal transcription starting within the next week or so. Woo! It’s working from home, so I don’t even have to get out in the hot sun. And it pays what I was making in Shreveport at the lawyer’s office. Woo!! I have quite a bit of studying to do. Legal formatting stuff and legal terms and other grammary things that I need to know.

#3. I do have to go buy a new desk chair though, because this morning I tipped the chair over and fell flat on my face. And I also feel like I’m sitting on the floor in a hole in this thing. I need to be up higher. So Sunday is a early morning trip to Ikea to buy a cheap office chair.

#4. LOST. I liked it a lot and thought the ending was super sad, but I still feel like they tried to make me sad to distract me from the fact that they didn’t explain much of anything at all. I’m glad it’s over though. I don’t have to think about it ever again.

#5. I also can play LOTR-Online again! YAY! WOO! On a big pretty screen! YAY! WOO!

This weekend was fun! I think Chris and I did more shopping and running around to different places this weekend than I typically do in an entire year. But we needed to explore and see new things and wander around a bit. I got to go in an Anthropologie store! Yay! I wanted to buy everything in there. All of it. I wanted every dress and every quilt and every single cute little kitchen dish. Instead I bought a cookie jar on sale that is going to be mailed to my house from another store because the one they had was broken, and a girly drawer pull for my desk. Then we went to gun stores! And bike shops! And we got a lost a little and yelled at the gps a lot.

This morning was a trip to Ikea for a bookshelf. From things I had heard about the store from others (OMG IT IS HUGE, OMG SO MANY PEOPLE, OMG SUCH LONG LINES TO CHECK OUT)…we got there before it opened. I had a list of exactly which bookshelf I wanted and where it was. So when it opened, we skipped the whole store and went straight to the warehousey aisles and grabbed the bookshelf boxes and left. In and out of Ikea in 7 minutes! HOORAY! One lady who saw us said, “They look like they’re on a mission!” lol. Then we went other places! Bookstores and bike shop, and grocery shopping, and to the toy store….and then we came home and put together the bookshelf and now I am tired and need a nap.

Next week I have an appointment with an employment agency on Tuesday and I sent off several resumes for jobs last week. I hope it doesn’t take me long to find a job.

Things I don’t like: Traffic. I don’t even like riding in the car with Chris when he’s the one driving in the billion lanes of traffic with so many cars coming at me from all sides. IT SCARES ME SO MUCH and I make weird little squeaking noises. *facepalms*

I also had an adventure going to the DMV last week. But it was more like a stupid adventure with me being stupid and not getting my driver’s license because it was hot inside and the line was long and claustrophobic.