Hi! How are you? I’m either super GREAT or super BAD today. Okay not really, I’m just the usual. But today was full of ups and a slight down so I’m sharing the highs and lows…
First let’s talk about last night. I was watching RHOC and tweeting (and eating a snack and checking email). The OC Housewives were in Ireland and Tamra is doing a fitness competition so she asked where the hotel gym was right away. Shannon said, “She wants to know where the gym is, I want to know where the bar is…”
And I had to let her know she was my spirit animal so I tweeted at her and she replied!!! GREAT!!
Last night Ben showed up with a lot of Chinese food. He has no idea how much to order but that means more for me!! GREAT!!
This morning I hit the road for my first run since the Long Beach Marathon. I took Monday off and don’t feel sore so I did 6 miles to shake it out and see how I’m recovering. It felt good! GREAT!!
The weather is perfection for running in the morning! God bless SoCal.
Then I headed home to get ready for my day. I used my hot rollers to do my hair super fast, threw on some make-up and some comfy clothes. I am super happy with how the rollers curl my hair with zero effort – now I just gotta figure out how to make it stay. GREAT!!
The one not-so-great part of my day was my follow up doctor appointment.
The hypochondriac in me usually loves to go to the doctor and ask her 22 questions about anything and everything I think might be the slightest bit ‘off’ with me. But gyno appointments aren’t exactly on my list of top 50 fun things to do when you’re bored. (I won’t know anything for about a week or two.)
I’m taking Vitamin C and folic acid to help fight off any bad cells hanging around. I am all about using doctors / conventional medicine AND natural options like supplements and food to get healthy.
But the day turned out pretty GREAT because a little after I sat down in the doctor’s waiting room a couple walked in with a guide dog, Fremont. He and I became bffs immediately. I spent the entire rest of the time waiting falling in love with him and asking the couple 101 questions about him.
Seriously, now that I think about it – I am weird.
I asked about how he was as a puppy, who named him, why he was named that, if they have other pets at home, his age, his training like the one offered on this website, how kids like him, what people ask, if he’s ever been on a plane… and more!
(For those that don’t know Fremont is a city in California near San Francisco so I wondered if they were from there.)
I did ask if I could take a picture of him, but at least I stopped before full on getting on the ground and taking a selfie with him. I considered it though.
I have always always alllllways loved labs. And I have thought about fostering a guide dog in the past. It would be hard to let them go when it’s time to find a forever home for them, but it’s such a good thing and they’re such good dogs. Anyway. Fremont was the best.
Question: If you could have ANYONE in the world tweet you – who would you want?
Me: Fremont.
Ducky from Pretty in Pink (aka Jon Cryer) liked one of my tweets so my inner 15 year old was pretty psyched!
If I was fabulously wealthy, I would raise service dogs. I’m hoping that having a list of people that were waiting for dogs would help say goodbye when the time came….or I’d end up with 20 dogs. This is why I can’t volunteer at the local pet shelter. I’d have all the pets.
You should totally foster. I foster for Love of Labs here in indiana. I think labs are the best dogs EVER. Anyway it is hard to let them go but it’s a bittersweet thing because they’re going to a great home & YOU helped that happen.
Thank you for chiming in! I am really considering it.
Barack Obama. (Not his surrogate, but the REAL POTUS).
Our students at the U i work at foster for The Seeing Eye! They “raise” the dogs to 18 months on campus (going to class and living in dorms with them!) and then return them to The Seeing Eye. It is amazing – and they get to come into my office when the kids come in for advising and I get to take selfies and pet/play with them since they are not “working” yet, just socializing to all the sounds and learning things like commands. It is so freaking cool!!
I would have Leonardo DiCaprio tweeting me. I think I would die. I would get a heart attack and then survive just to tweet him back.
So glad that you’re bouncing back from Long Beach so fast!
Hi Monica,
I am currently raising a guide dog pup for Guide dogs of the desert.
He is a black lab named Lucky and is 11 months old.
GDD is always looking for puppy raisers to help raise their pups.
We get the pups when they are about 3 months old and keep them
until the school calls them back between 18-24 months. Lucky is my 5th pup I have raised and it has been one of the most rewarding things I have ever done!
If you ever are serious about raising a guide dog pup you can check on line guidedogsofthe desert.org for more information. Thanks, Patty
After running the 2015 Boston Marathon in the pouring rain, I tweeted Lululemon about the jacket I wore that kept me completely dry and they retweeted me! I think I was more elated by that than by BQ-ing.
Jon Bon Jovi, Meb K. or Adele…