another week has passed, already???

I should have blogged on Tuesday, but I was too tired to even form complete sentences by the time the night was over. And then I could have posted on Wednesday, but I was recovering from Tuesday. On Thursday life was busy as normal, Friday was dinner with my family, and that leads me to today.

I have no idea where time has gone, and I'm extremely serious. It seems like I was graduating from college not long ago (it's been almost 9 years). I began working at my company nearly 5 years ago. Holy cow. I met Jason nearly two years ago and THAT really feels like yesterday. He began his deployments overseas and time dragged on a little bit. Now he's about to embark on his third trip and I'm torn because it seems like he just came home -- 3 months ago. Today we have been married for 2 months -- the best two months ever!!!!

On Tuesday my inspired interest in helping shelter animals lead us on an adventure to Rome, Georgia. That's about 90 minutes from where we live. I had seen a posting of a huge fluffy puppy and I wanted to go meet him. Jason always had dogs, and he was eager to go and check out this little fella. After a busy and hectic day, I left a little bit early from work and away we went!! The puppy was cute. Really cute. And it was caged with an annoying other dog that bit the puppy in the face (poor little guy)! I couldn't bring myself to NOT look at the other dogs in the row of cages that lined the walls. At the end of one row I was drawn into a pair of sad amber eyes. A sweet face, curled up into himself, and those sweet and sad beautiful eyes...

The first image to run through my head was a flashback to the day I discovered Duchess -- huddled in the back of the cage, sad and piercing blue eyes, and was the only cat not to bring attention to herself. And I wanted her.

I now wanted the dog with the sad amber eyes. Jason and I debated and visited with both dogs, and while we wanted to take both of them we couldn't. Not yet at least. The amber eyed dog won out. The trip home was fun, my car smelled like a stinky dog (rightly so), a long visit to PetsMart, an hour long bath in our master bath that resulted in a clogged drain that still isn't clear, and one seriously worn out puppy dog. Midnight sneaked up on me and my alarm the next day was ringing all too soon.

Chandler is a laughable dog, sweet and affectionate, appreciative and understanding now of what love is. He and Coco are wonderful playmates and we are lucky to have found him. Coco is a handful and hyper and loves to be loved, and oh so sweet. Now I have Chandler to keep me company, along with Coco, and our menagerie of felines while Jason is away.

I have volunteered with Angels Among Us Pet Rescue and between pets, volunteering, work, and catching a nap now and then I think the time that Jason is away will pass quickly; it always does.

Tomorrow I'll post about my experience for my first rescue -- another dog that I felt a strong need to save but couldn't take her myself. It should be an interesting day and I can only hope that it' the first of many.