serenelysmiles's Journal

And today is a new beginning
Nov 20 2008 17:27

Well, I finally was able to sleep through the night.  My shoulder was in agony from not moving all night and getting stiff when I got up this morning, courtesy of Taddy, my seven month old Anatolian Shepherd.  I, generally, get up around 4am because that's when my arm starts throbbing.  Usually John gets up at 5am if he has to work so I stay up and have breakfast with him, and if he's not home I have breakfast, read the news online, and then take the dog for a walk.   Well, this morning I slept in until 9am, and when the dog woke me up at 4am I let her out the back to use the restroom (we have a walled in backyard) then climbed back into bed when she came back inside.  Again at 7am she jumped on the bed, and let me tell you when an 85 pound puppy jumps on you you know it, but I was still tired so I let her in and out again before once again falling into bed.  At 9am when she jumped on me and started chewing on my fingers for attention I finally got up.    She had happily eaten an unused paint roller, throwing foam from one end of the living room to another, shredded a paper snack all over the family, and had accomplished this between 7 and 9 am.  Knowing that at this point she would have no idea why she was being told no, I just shook my head, picked up the bits and pieces, made my tea, and took some aleve.  Off we went for our walk.  Now my significant other spent some time this week teaching her to shake, and while we can generally keep up a good fitness pace of 3.5 miles an hour now we can keep it up with stops at every person she meets with her lifting her paw to shake with everyone.  She loves people and doesn't understand that her size may frighten some people.  So it went.  She ended up shaking with 4 people this morning plus the neighbor when she came over to visit with us.  I had to laugh because it was one of those days that I kind of felt like skipping my walk this morning, but she didn't allow that so I suppose I have someone else holding me accountable now.  I did eat some M&M's tonight, but did much better with totalk calories, and am getting ready to take her for her evening walk.  I was 82 calories over on my daily goal of 1200.  Compared to yesterday that is so much better.  Every day is the first day of the rest of your life, and it can, also, be the first day of the rest of the diet if you make an error in judgement and eat like I did yesterday.  Isn't life grand.