I tried to enclose the actual journal in block quotes, because from time to time, I have to make remarks on what happened, notes from now to my past self, if you will. So off we go. Here I am. Holy shit. I stayed up all night last night because I’m a big dope and …
Category Archives: training journals
The Long-Lost Babs Journals
Believe it or not, we’re coming up on a year of Trixie goodness. I left last March 18 and took that big plane-ride to California and had no idea about my dog. All I knew was they’d founda match. This got me thinking about all things dog, and I thought about doing something weird. Back …
Hello? Is This Thing On?
Writing this, I wonder if anyone’s still reading. We both screwed off for a good long time. 15 days? eek. Have we ever done that before? I’m too lazy to scroll through the archive and check. But I think it’s pretty rare. So rare that Ann Adams, the sweet lady that she is, wondered if …
Carin’s Guide Dog Diary: Day 29
Oh my god. I’m on the plane. My beautiful beast is at my feet. I’m…done! She’s mine and I made it! This morning I couldn’t sleep past 3. I ran around my room and tried to make sure everything was packed. I pray I’m not heading for an adrenal crash. My body is trying to …
Carin’s Guide Dog Diary: Day 26
Notes from Steve: Here’s day 26. Turns out Carin messed up my email address when she sent it out. Guess I know how important I am now, hahaha. I mean of all the people to not remember…Gees. Ridiculous. Also, Carin made it home without incident yesterday and her and Trixie are both settling in nicely. …
Carin’s Guide Dog Diary: Day 28
Flop. Graduation over. Tired. Ok, let’s run down the day quickly because I want to go to the computers, clean off all my emails, talk to Amy and then fall down so I can get up at 3 or so so we can leave at 4:45. Yee ha. Oh I want to practice one more …
Carin’s Guide Dog Diary: Day 27
Note from Steve: Yes, I realize that we’re jumping from day 25 to 27. I’m not sure what happened to 26, but I don’t have it. that means that it’s either lost in email land somewhere or that one of us made a mistake in the numbering at some point. Since I’m not entirely certain …
Carin’s Guide Dog Diary: Day 25
Yea! Things are looking up! Yea! First, the brace is staying on longer. They figured out the metal parts bend. Now that they’ve bent, it’ll stay on longer. It will eventually slide down, but it’ll stay on longer. I got up this morning after oversleeping and went to feed Trixie. Then I tried to get …
Carin’s Guide Dog Diary: Day 24
So I woke up this morning filled with this sadness and anger. I was sad because I don’t look forward to guide work right now because frankly it hurts. It hurts and I never know when it’s going to kill. And I’m mad that this had to happen right at the end, cheating me out …
Carin’s Guide Dog Diary: Day 23
Ug. Last week of the program. Gotta make it gotta make it gotta make it! Breakfast this morning is egg muffins, lunch is egg salad sandwiches or manderin chicken salad…going for the salad. Supper is pork chops or some kind of tuna salad. Dessert is..mmm…cheesecake. Today’s schedule still isn’t up yet. I know we’re going …