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kitewithfishUgh I had a nice long post about the new dog and life and everything going on in my life just now, and I ruined it.
DOG:
She's a delight! She's been here about 24 hours, and most of them have been spent snuggling or sleeping with us. We received her crate a day early, in advance of her arrival by mere hours, which was great because she seemed to be a happy girl sleeping in her crate last night. We put a water dish in with her, and it seems to have worked well. We slept with the bedroom door open and she didn't even whine, just walked into her crate and settled in for the night.
I have done some legwork on the dog - she's got a license application and a trial of health insurance, and tomorrow I'm going to call some vets and see if they are actually seeing people. She came with a supply of anti anxiety meds - she's not the kind of dog who would really be happy in a kennel - so I'm fine for a couple of weeks but I don't want her to run out while she's in a new place with new people who don't know her history.
She does have some behavioral things that we need to develop strategies to handle: she's a defensive barker, so she's getting a firm verbal correction when that happens, and we're working on being really firm on the bathroom training before we try her sleeping outside the crate.
Work:
Working from home has resulted in an odd paradox, where the people who could easily do their office jobs remotely would be doing fine with the transition (minus adjustments like comfortable desks and chairs and children and otherwise managing their socially distant lives), except! The people whose jobs are to be enthusiastic extroverts in a professional capacity, they are simply melting down. They keep hosting stupid meetings and wanting to talk face to face - all the things that tell them that they are busy and doing their jobs, but actually mean they are bothering their coworkers and causing us to have to take time from getting shit done.
Social stuff:
I don't actually have a whole lot of structured social stuff going on, tho I have some standing hang outs with friends. I did a vestry meeting last week that went pretty well, but there's a lot of running around trying to compensate for the lack of being able to meet in person that feels just exhausting right now.
Covid19:
Eh, generally just kind of tired with it. I read some more stuff and it's making me wonder if my reasonable precautions are going to be insufficient - but I'm going to lean on social distancing to help as much as I can, and try to distribute money where needed to help out. I read some stuff about it being potentially viable in air for a while, more so than as droplets, and it's making me wonder if getting face masks would be worthwhile. I can make some out of scrap fabric if I need to - they're more to prevent me from spreading anything around by accident. But, who the hell knows. I'm just trying not to panic and be kind out in the world.
The only way out is thru and the only way thru is together.
DOG:
She's a delight! She's been here about 24 hours, and most of them have been spent snuggling or sleeping with us. We received her crate a day early, in advance of her arrival by mere hours, which was great because she seemed to be a happy girl sleeping in her crate last night. We put a water dish in with her, and it seems to have worked well. We slept with the bedroom door open and she didn't even whine, just walked into her crate and settled in for the night.
I have done some legwork on the dog - she's got a license application and a trial of health insurance, and tomorrow I'm going to call some vets and see if they are actually seeing people. She came with a supply of anti anxiety meds - she's not the kind of dog who would really be happy in a kennel - so I'm fine for a couple of weeks but I don't want her to run out while she's in a new place with new people who don't know her history.
She does have some behavioral things that we need to develop strategies to handle: she's a defensive barker, so she's getting a firm verbal correction when that happens, and we're working on being really firm on the bathroom training before we try her sleeping outside the crate.
Work:
Working from home has resulted in an odd paradox, where the people who could easily do their office jobs remotely would be doing fine with the transition (minus adjustments like comfortable desks and chairs and children and otherwise managing their socially distant lives), except! The people whose jobs are to be enthusiastic extroverts in a professional capacity, they are simply melting down. They keep hosting stupid meetings and wanting to talk face to face - all the things that tell them that they are busy and doing their jobs, but actually mean they are bothering their coworkers and causing us to have to take time from getting shit done.
Social stuff:
I don't actually have a whole lot of structured social stuff going on, tho I have some standing hang outs with friends. I did a vestry meeting last week that went pretty well, but there's a lot of running around trying to compensate for the lack of being able to meet in person that feels just exhausting right now.
Covid19:
Eh, generally just kind of tired with it. I read some more stuff and it's making me wonder if my reasonable precautions are going to be insufficient - but I'm going to lean on social distancing to help as much as I can, and try to distribute money where needed to help out. I read some stuff about it being potentially viable in air for a while, more so than as droplets, and it's making me wonder if getting face masks would be worthwhile. I can make some out of scrap fabric if I need to - they're more to prevent me from spreading anything around by accident. But, who the hell knows. I'm just trying not to panic and be kind out in the world.
The only way out is thru and the only way thru is together.
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Date: 2020-03-19 11:19 pm (UTC)*snort*
Glad the dog is feeling happy :)