I'm So Tired ... In A Good Way

I started my new job on Monday.  Bandit's and my routines are completely different from what we'd been used to.  I had worked from home since 1998, so getting up at 5am to catch a 6:40am bus to get into Seattle and start my job at 7:15am is something I'm going to have to get used to.  Ordinarily, Bandit and I would have a lengthy morning or mid-morning walk at the local park.

Bandit is such a sweetheart in the morning.  I try to give him five minutes of playtime in the bed before I actually start getting ready for work.  The first two mornings he wouldn't eat his breakfast.  He's been used to eating anywhere between 7:30 and 8am.  However, yesterday morning and this morning he ate his breakfast like a trooper at 5:30am.  K gets home before I do and he has taken Bandit for some afternoon walks in the neighborhood.  And K works from home on Fridays, so Bandit's essentially home alone (with Simba, of course) for four days a week.

On Monday I was asked to start at 8:30am so I was able to get up and take Bandit for a 50-20 minute neighborhood walk before work.  But now that I get up at 5am, a morning walk just isn't in the cards.  I have taken him to the park after work and given us both a good pm workout. 

My one new co-worker with a thick Russian accent came to my desk yesterday and asked me, "N, are you a dog person?"  What a great icebreaker for two people who don't know each other!  "L" told me that she lost her dog exactly two years ago on August 4.  She had a poodle who lived to be 17!!  She's still not ready to get another dog. 

Bandit has been such a good boy.  No destruction of any kind or potty accidents.  I knew there wouldn't be a problem with potty accidents, but I'm still going to keep an eye out for bad behavior such as chewing or getting into things he shouldn't.  K and I are going to meet up with some friends at a dog park this coming Saturday, so Bandit will get to play with our friends' three dogs, and hopefully they'll entice him to try a little swimming.  The temperature is supposed to reach the nineties here this weekend!

I'm sorry I haven't been able to check out blogs lately like I'm used to.  Once I settle into a routine and I'm not so tired, I'm sure things will get back to normal, or a new semblance of normal.

I actually kind of enjoying riding the bus in the morning as it's a perfect time to read.  And now that I'm done with school I'm enjoying reading books for fun again!  K and I both read Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" during our vacation, and now we're both reading (separate sticky bookmarks) his current book that's a bestseller.  I'm almost done with it, and then I want to read that book that's been made into a movie that's coming out - the one starring Julia Roberts.  I think it's called Eat, Pray, Love.  I hope Costco has it for dirt-cheap.  The movie's supposed to be a huge, huge hit.