New Baby

I am not really a spontaneous person. I think I used to be... in high school. College too perhaps. However, once I got to grad school apparently all my fun, youthful, crazy, spontaneity went away. Sometimes I look back on those days fondly and remember how fun it used to be to just get up and do something without excessive planning. I would often wake up and just feel compelled to do things. Picnics. Day trips. Redoing my bedroom. Parties. Fun times. These days I tend to plan things in advance... way in advance and in painstaking detail. It's kind of boring. Chris often tells me that I need to stop planning so much and start being more spontaneous. I know I need to find a better balance.

This week I made a step in that direction. (Sort of). As you know Chris and I have been talking for awhile about getting another dog. We wanted a companion for Reaghan. We had planned to get one most likely in the month of June, so that I'd have time to socialize them before I started working full time. We had just recently decided to move away from a blood hound (which in the end we decided would be too big for our apartment) to a basset hound a la The Pioneer Woman. I had been looking into some puppies in the area, even going so far to contact woman from a local ad in the paper for some more information. She had let me know that her litter was already sold out and that they just had a "show" puppy left which was double the price. I kindly let her know that we could not afford such a puppy, but 'thanks anyway.'

This Tuesday said woman e-mailed me to let me know that she was willing to sell the "show" girl for the regular price. She also said that this puppy would be available "right now" and then sent me a picture. In the matter of 5 minutes I called Chris, had a brief decision making conversation, called a friend to see if she'd come with me to pick up the puppy (I was scared to go alone) and then e-mailed them back- YES! She e-mailed back to meet her in about 45 minutes in a town that's 30 minutes away. Within an hour of getting that initial e-mail I had a new puppy in my apartment. To me that felt pretty spontaneous. (I may or may not have had an anxiety attack in the car about my "lack of responsibility" in being so spontaneous. Luckily, I had my friend who talked me down.)

So without further ado. Please meet our new baby girl.

Chris has not yet determined a name. I said he could pick it, since he isn't here for our first 3 weeks together. He is taking this responsibility VERY seriously. Hence, having to run around yelling "Puppy!" when she's eating my shoes. Although she's quite the handful, Rae and I (and Chris through Skype) are quite smitten. She's a sweetie pie.