October 2, 2004
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I will try to balance the puppy on my lap and type. I was so excited to see my first eprop and comment but when I replied, my comment was posted to my site. One of the movers said something about a “prop.” It’s sad to be old and out of touch. Maybe it’s computer talk. If anyone can enlighten me, feel free.
So, I got my puppy and spent the first sleepless night with her. Well, it wasn’t entirely sleepless. In fact she did pretty well. She cried herself to sleep and went four hours until she woke up to go pee. Then she slept another three and-a-half. So we went through the Starbucks drive-through at 6:00. She started to shake this morning, which she hadn’t done yesterday. I thought she was cold but now I think she was nervous about where the hell was she and why weren’t her brothers and sisters around? Or maybe it was mostly about not being able to nurse, because she was really going at my neck. She’ll be fine, it’s me I’m worried about. My youngest daughter shows up today, though. And maybe then I can sneak in a nap. It’s just like having a new baby at home except there’s all this stuff on the floor, from the move, that she wants to get into. So it’s more like when the baby starts to crawl and you spend every waking minute following them around making sure they don’t put something in their mouth. My oldest daughter went out with me, to the breeder, and she drove while I held her. I had thought the puppy might be jumping all around, making it difficult to drive. But she held very still. Then I had to go back and clean the old house so she took the puppy for about four hours because then I had a birthday party to go to. When I went to retrieve her, I could see it was going to be hard for her to hand the puppy over. I’ve got to decide on a name, so if anyone happens to see this, “I’m taking names.”
