Pointless Ramblings

It's been a very stressful past few weeks. Work has been extremely busy, I've been helping a friend through a crisis, I have NO Christmas shopping done, NO Christmas cards bought or written or mailed and we've had to make the decision of what to do with Nyah.

Nyah has always pretty much irritated me, but two weekends ago while visiting my parents we left her in the laundry room, where their dogs stay. When we returned we found that she had ripped apart their dog bed and chewed up a dog bowl, had eaten an entire tube of dog laxative, another tube of dog anitbiotic ointment, and massive amounts of dog food. She topped it off by peeing on the wreckage. That pushed me over my limit and I made up my mind that we were getting rid of her. That stuck for a few days, but then she was behaving really well and those sad puppy eyes made me feel guilty for getting mad. Fast forward to last week when she chewed up the cord to our $90 electric blanket and ate a support beam off one of our dining room chairs. I immediately posted an ad for her online and got a few responses. There's one lady in St. Peters who wanted her and we had planned to go to her house to meet her today, but that didn't happen. We sat down and actually made a list with a column of things we like about her and a list of things we don't. The "don't" column took up most of the page, while the "do" column consisted of "She's nice sometimes" and "She has sad puppy eyes." Even still, we decided not to go to the lady's house and to keep her. Uggghhh. Labs. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

So, while we're all still on good terms, we decided to decorate them for Christmas.