For the brave people sticking around TK

angelstar975

I'll do my best

I just realized I don't have to wake up early tomorrow. For some reason, I was thinking I had to be up at 9. I'm pretty psyched.

musicalsunlight

I love that feeling Angel, realizing that you can stay up later than you thought. I have my night class again tomorrow but it sucks because I still don't have the textbook until I get my financial aid into my bank acct. So I'm gonna be like 3 chapters behind in the reading. Which REALLY sucks. But I can't do anything about it. 

ski2play

Nice on the sleeping past 9 am.  I can't remember the last time I did that.  I have 5:30 am wakeup call, ugh, FI is working a double shift that started at 11 pm tonight so I laid down with him after dinner and slept with him for 3 hours.

Loopyseven

Even when I don't have anything going on I still go to bed early these days.  I'm old and lame .  The dog wakes me up by 7 (or 6:30 more often) every damn day.  

angelstar975

Being behind in class sucks, MuSu. I hope you can get the book soon! FI got behind a few times though and he always managed to catch up. I'm interested in seeing what his grades were this semester. He's had a really rough 2 years in his personal life... his first year grades were awesome, second year was mediocre at best but then he did well last fall, so I hope he did well again this time. At least he graduated!

Beachy730

Yeah I'm lucky if the dogs let me sleep til 8:30.  Which I know is late, but when H doesn't even get up and on email until at least 11pm my time I'm automatically up until at least midnight every night.  I so can't wait til we are in the same freaking time zone again.  Or at least not complete opposites.

angelstar975

I went through a period where I couldn't really sleep past 9:30 or 10... but now I'm back to being able to sleep until 11 or 12, which I probably will.

musicalsunlight

I can easily sleep until 11 or 12 if I stay up past midnight. Tory will sleep until we want to wake up, which is awesome. Willow whines around 9 if no one has gotten up yet (this will obviously change next week when I start work) so I take her to go to the bathroom and then put her back to bed til I wanna get up. She is learning quickly that we operate on our time, not the dog's time, lol. 

musicalsunlight

yeah Angel, it will be a shitton of reading to do plus all the homework I won't have done yet either. Ugh. Oh well, at least I can learn the material in class too.

Loopyseven

I can usually feed Autumn and take her out and go back to bed, but sometimes by the time I feed her and take her out I'm awake again.

Beachy730

Since the dogs have been on set amounts of food at morning and night they are like their own personal alarm clocks.  The younger one tries waking me up as early as like 6 some days, and I just throw her under the covers to go back to sleep.  They are both going to be in for a rude awakening when H gets home because they have completely taken over his side of the bed.

texasgurly13

FI usually wakes me up when he gets up to go to work, but I go back to sleep soon after that.  And then I wake up when my dog starts whining to go out.  It varies depending on what time I got home from work the night before.  

ski2play

I love to sleep, while I do not tend to sleep late in the morning I am an excellent napper.  Nothing quite like a good nap. 

angelstar975

We actually don't walk our dogs. We have a little pen built off the deck that they do their business in and then it gets cleaned everyday. Not by me, of course, but it does get done. My dad didn't want dog crap all over the yard and dog pee kills the grass.

I dread having to walk Tucker when FI and I move in together.

Beachy730

Ok ladies I'm off to go lay in bed and email with H for a bit til I pass out.  Have a good night!

Loopyseven

Why doesn't your FI take the dog out before he leaves?

angelstar975

Ski, I absolutely love naps. I especially love naps when I've had really bad anxiety and I take my medicine, because I sleep like a rock. Anxiety in itself is exhausting and my medicine makes me sleepy. I pretty much just love sleep though, it doesn't matter what time of day.

musicalsunlight

I can't wait to have a backyard that is big enough and not facing a busy road for our pups. We are considering doing an underground invisible fence soon for Willow since Tory is already trained to not run out so she doesn't need it. However I've heard mixed things about them and their effectiveness anyway. 

angelstar975

We have an invisible fence and it works like a charm. We actually have a transmitter in the house too. so the dogs can't leave the kitchen unless their collars are taken off. FI's family has an invisible fence too and Tucker won't leave the property.

texasgurly13

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_for-the-brave-people-sticking-around-tk?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:ab7a320b-b8ea-4b48-996b-ed3e4d93fc97Post:a65b691c-4509-4ec5-a538-7652c4985c7a">Re: For the brave people sticking around TK</a>:
[QUOTE]Why doesn't your FI take the dog out before he leaves?
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<div>Usually, he wakes up with just enough time to throw on his work uniform and get out the door.  (He showers the night before).  He works at a waterpark and his uniform is khaki shorts and a work polo.   </div><div>
</div><div>But I do need him to get used to taking Paisley out before work.  After we get married, and get back from the HM, I'm going to Air Force Basic Training and will be gone for 8 1/2 weeks.  FI will be the primary caretaker for my dog and my cats, and he won't really have a choice.  I'm gonna talk to him about getting into that routine this summer so it won't be such a shock when I am gone.  </div><div>
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ski2play

Night Beachy, enjoy your H time. 

musicalsunlight

I know that for most dogs the invisible fences work great. But I've heard with dogs that have a stubborn or tough disposition (as the chessie bread in Willow does), sometimes the dogs will just learn to tolerate the momentary shock when they go through the fence and just do it anyway since they figure out that it doesn't last long. I dunno. It makes me nervous haha. 

Loopyseven

MuSu - we had an electric fence in Ohio and it worked fine.  We didn't even have to put her collar on her all the time and she'd still stay in the yard.  Some dogs will leave anyway for the right temptation.  But for Autumn it was great.

texasgurly13

I rented a duplex with a backyard a couple of years ago, and I absolutely loved it.  

Granted, I had to modify the area because my brother's dog (who I was taking care of at the time) and my dog would team up and dig out under the fence.  My dad ended up going to Lowe's and buying cinder blocks to line the fence. 

I was sad when I had to move.  It was too expensive for me to afford by myself and I couldn't find a roommate.  

texasgurly13

My parents have considered an invisible fence for their property in the event that they decide to get a dog, but I don't know if they will.  They are getting a dog run for the backyard area for when my brother and I come to visit so we don't have to worry about boarding.  

ski2play

Loopy are you anywhere near Frederick now that you are in Colorado?

Helmut stays in our yard so we do not use the collar on him any longer, he was just under three years old when we moved in with FI and he took very well to the invisible fence and new surroundings.

musicalsunlight

Yeah, Loopy, it likely would be fine, I just worry about if Willow go the urge to run anyway and just tolerated the sting momentarily. Our backyard faces a busy street (with speed limit of 45mph) so I just don't wanna take the chance. She is really fearless which doesn't help my worry haha.

angelstar975

I don't know how good of a dog mom I'm going to be, TBH. I don't have to do much for my dogs now because they're family dogs and my parents generally take care of them, and, like I said, we don't walk them.

Loopyseven

Ski - I think I'm about 45-60 minutes from there.

musicalsunlight

I was worried about that too, Angel. Since my family had a dog just for a few years before I left for college, I'd really never taken care of an animal before. But it was very intuitive I guess. I was born to be a caretaker, I think.