MSTEECHUR's CalorieKing blog
Friday, Dec 5 2008 - WHEW!
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Oh thank goodness...when I saw I had seven blog comments, I worried "Oh no! I'm going to be skewered!"
I was skewered recently because I had the audacity to stay ON PROGRAM on a holiday. Hey it's what I do. Others can feel free to inhale the entire turkey dinner, if they'd like. If it works and they can get back on, more power to them. Doesn't work for me, and since I'm maintaining pretty darn well, I will stick with how I do things.
Can I just share how much of a stress relief running is? Amazing!
I got home yesterday to find a citation on our door because one of our dogs got out and then barked at the police officer when he stepped over the fence into our yard. (They are in a kennel with a six foot fence, so I have NO idea how the weasel got out.) I can handle a citation for that. The dog was clearly out when he should have been contained.
But what made me angry is that the neighbor (the one who called 911, not our phone numbers...no, that might have made sense) made it point to go over and tell the officer that they bark "all day every day." They Do Not. They are in the kennel for a max of 7 hours most days. The kennel is actually a hard attached to our basement entry, so most of the day they sleep in the very comfortable warm basement. They RARELY bark, but I've heard her MULTIPLE times scream out her window "SHUT UP!!!!" after literally 30 seconds of barking. When we're home, they are in. When we're not home, they're often in. If they bark in my house and you can hear them, why are you that close to my house? (She's one of those Alice Kravitz neighbors who often picks when we are out enjoying a private meal on our patio to look over her fence into our yard and complain about some supposed transgression.)
We have done everything to appease this woman. We moved the kennel (it was originally closer to her house), we put a bark collar on Dash when he was a puppy and was prone to barking (now he only barks when he hears us home, an intruder comes into the yard, or when someone takes his ball and then it's one of those "I'm telling MOM!" barks). We keep them in most of the time. It is not OUR FAULT the builders built our houses so close together. Nor is it my fault she used to live in the country on 20 acres and had no neighbors and chose to move in town where the neighbor is right next door. In neighborhoods people have dogs. Dogs communicate with each other through barking. If I hear her chatting with a friend I don't scream "SHUT UP!" out the window. (Because that is SO effective. Like a dog is going to say, "Oh! My bad! I didn't realize my 3 seconds of barking was disturbing you.)
In fact last time I passed teeth gritting pleasantries with her she told me that she'd heard the dogs barking that day and SINCE THEY NORMALLY DO NOT BARK she was concerned.
So which is it? They normally do not bark (as of just a month ago), or all day every day?
So if we get a citation for barking, we're fighting it. They barked at the officer, but that's normal. They were all sleeping when we got home (except Wiley who was out and about, darn him). If we get only a citation for him being out, we will pay and it will be his Christmas present. After all, that would be based on something she said. I could say she runs a crackhouse. Would they cite her for that or would they have to have some proof? Amusing thing is, one of our dogs is barkless... Oh, and she's also said they bark all night, which is amazing because that means they are canine ventriloquists who can throw their voices into her house, because I think we'd hear them if they barked all night SINCE THEY SLEEP IN OUR BEDROOM!
Anyhow, after this situation, which made me SO mad because of the lie. I abhor liars...especially when they KNOW it isn't true and KNOW it can cause problems for the person they are lying about...I went out for a run. Oh man. What a stress reliever! I couldn't even muster anger at Alice Noseypants Kravitz as I came home (although I did avoid passing in front of her house lest she come out to talk to me). It was a beautiful clear cold day. You could see the mountains in every direction and then there was this sunset that was literally breathtaking. I even extended my run by almost a mile so I could run into the sunset longer. It was all colors of the rainbow, was amazingly beautiful, and seemed to go on for 30 minutes.
Thank heavens for running or I might have to hit the bottle.
I was skewered recently because I had the audacity to stay ON PROGRAM on a holiday. Hey it's what I do. Others can feel free to inhale the entire turkey dinner, if they'd like. If it works and they can get back on, more power to them. Doesn't work for me, and since I'm maintaining pretty darn well, I will stick with how I do things.
Can I just share how much of a stress relief running is? Amazing!
I got home yesterday to find a citation on our door because one of our dogs got out and then barked at the police officer when he stepped over the fence into our yard. (They are in a kennel with a six foot fence, so I have NO idea how the weasel got out.) I can handle a citation for that. The dog was clearly out when he should have been contained.
But what made me angry is that the neighbor (the one who called 911, not our phone numbers...no, that might have made sense) made it point to go over and tell the officer that they bark "all day every day." They Do Not. They are in the kennel for a max of 7 hours most days. The kennel is actually a hard attached to our basement entry, so most of the day they sleep in the very comfortable warm basement. They RARELY bark, but I've heard her MULTIPLE times scream out her window "SHUT UP!!!!" after literally 30 seconds of barking. When we're home, they are in. When we're not home, they're often in. If they bark in my house and you can hear them, why are you that close to my house? (She's one of those Alice Kravitz neighbors who often picks when we are out enjoying a private meal on our patio to look over her fence into our yard and complain about some supposed transgression.)
We have done everything to appease this woman. We moved the kennel (it was originally closer to her house), we put a bark collar on Dash when he was a puppy and was prone to barking (now he only barks when he hears us home, an intruder comes into the yard, or when someone takes his ball and then it's one of those "I'm telling MOM!" barks). We keep them in most of the time. It is not OUR FAULT the builders built our houses so close together. Nor is it my fault she used to live in the country on 20 acres and had no neighbors and chose to move in town where the neighbor is right next door. In neighborhoods people have dogs. Dogs communicate with each other through barking. If I hear her chatting with a friend I don't scream "SHUT UP!" out the window. (Because that is SO effective. Like a dog is going to say, "Oh! My bad! I didn't realize my 3 seconds of barking was disturbing you.)
In fact last time I passed teeth gritting pleasantries with her she told me that she'd heard the dogs barking that day and SINCE THEY NORMALLY DO NOT BARK she was concerned.
So which is it? They normally do not bark (as of just a month ago), or all day every day?
So if we get a citation for barking, we're fighting it. They barked at the officer, but that's normal. They were all sleeping when we got home (except Wiley who was out and about, darn him). If we get only a citation for him being out, we will pay and it will be his Christmas present. After all, that would be based on something she said. I could say she runs a crackhouse. Would they cite her for that or would they have to have some proof? Amusing thing is, one of our dogs is barkless... Oh, and she's also said they bark all night, which is amazing because that means they are canine ventriloquists who can throw their voices into her house, because I think we'd hear them if they barked all night SINCE THEY SLEEP IN OUR BEDROOM!
Anyhow, after this situation, which made me SO mad because of the lie. I abhor liars...especially when they KNOW it isn't true and KNOW it can cause problems for the person they are lying about...I went out for a run. Oh man. What a stress reliever! I couldn't even muster anger at Alice Noseypants Kravitz as I came home (although I did avoid passing in front of her house lest she come out to talk to me). It was a beautiful clear cold day. You could see the mountains in every direction and then there was this sunset that was literally breathtaking. I even extended my run by almost a mile so I could run into the sunset longer. It was all colors of the rainbow, was amazingly beautiful, and seemed to go on for 30 minutes.
Thank heavens for running or I might have to hit the bottle.
1 comments so far.
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a decade ago
boo! for nosy neighbors! i'm glad we've got nice neighbors, he's done snow removal on our driveway and offered us fruit from his pear tree! i watched your video, too, finally! very nice. how were you holding the camera? it didn't look like a mini or helmet cam...
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