I just have to say, life is good right now. I'm feeling incredibly blessed. I have an awesome husband, a great house that I can decorate to my heart's content, a well-behaved dog, and a fairly well-behaved cat. Boo is a 50 lbs tornado of energy now, at 7 months old, and Zuggy is..... actually kind of getting fat at 11 months old. He comes when called now and is learning to sit on command. He also responds surprisingly well to "No", especially for a cat. I'm going to teach him to shake- it'll be awesome! Boo has thousands of tricks at her disposal, it seems sometimes. She's getting incredibly good at all of them, which means I need to come up with new ones soon. Actually, yesterday she went and brought my shoe to me when I asked her to. It was a fluke, but a funny, funny one.

Work is great. Sure, I come home and complain to Sean about customers or coworkers or whatnot sometimes (just ask him), but really it's quite nice. I'm doing a job that I love, and I'm doing something that matters (at least I think it does). It's not glamorous, but it has intrinsic rewards. For instance, after a couple weeks of sitting in a kennel with two horribly neglected terriers from Iowa City, they are now up for adoption and actually come out to see people! They're still really afraid of the general public, but that will get better with time. When they were reunited after a week of separation (one went up for adoption before the other), they were clearly overjoyed to see each other and pressed up against each other through the fence separating them. They missed each other! It was great seeing how happy they were to be near each other again. They seem to be doing well with their new kennel-mates, too. Each is in with a more confident, outgoing dog, so hopefully that will rub off on them and help complete the process.

Yesterday I helped with a training class, which was excellent. When I decided I'd rather work in a shelter-type environment rather than be a vet, it was because I wanted to work with behavior more than anatomy. Well I got my job in a shelter, and I already wrote about all the awesome things that have happened to me since. Now, I realized that I really am going to live my dream. I'm being groomed, it seems, to take over training when the current trainer goes off to an official training school for a couple months or so. I'm helping him teach his class, and he told me on the 4th class day, I'll be teaching instead of him. That was how the former trainer (before him) became a trainer- she was just told to take over class one day. I'm psyched. I get to learn a lot from the current trainer, and then who knows what will happen? It's incredibly exciting for me.

Sometimes I wonder if all this will suddenly collapse, since it's like I'm living a dream-life. Things haven't always happened like (and when) I wanted them to, but it's better this way, I think. I guess there's nothing for it but to just appreciate it while it lasts, however long that is, and try never to take it for granted. I've a lot to be thankful for, and that's what really matters.

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