K-9 trouble!

Two days in a row Kella has slipped through the front door and run away. She makes a MAD dash and thinks a clever "chase me" game has started. Joe and I swear she's bi-polar. During the day when she's in the house, she is the laziest dog everrrr. Then when she gets outside for a walk, she is so hyper!

Yesterday she slipped through the front door and Joe and I tried to calmly bring her back. As soon as she realized what we wanted, she thought it was a game. It was a "high speed chase" for about 20 minutes in the blazing hot sun! Brody (who is actually trustworthy off his leash) tried to chase her down. He did a better job then Joe and I could... she is insanely fast! She thankfully stayed somewhat close to the house. Finally, Joe was able to reel her in with a treat, and as she got close enough he grabbed her by the neck. Boy was she in trouble!

Today, as a parent was picking up their child from tutoring, she slipped out again! Brody went again to chase her down (while Joe went out barefoot as well). As I tried to gently shuffle my parent/student out the door so I could help, Joe was already carrying Kella back. Unfortunatley during the chase, Brody cut open his paw and has a loose flap on his paw pad. Poor boy has been licking and slightly limping all night. Not to mention as they were running, Kella dashed right into the street while a car was coming! Thankfully, the car stopped... we're so lucky and thankful our CRAZY dogs are ok! Needless to say Kella is on lock-down and being carefully watched!

Also last week (of course while Joe was gone on a trip) I came home to a big mess. There was a huge pile of throw-up (dark brown) and a shredded box that used to be chocolate covered macadamia nuts. The box was 1/2 full... meaning there were about 20 large pieces still in the box (aka-too much chocolate for a dog!). Now, they've gotten into chocolate before, but not this much. They'd never gotten sick off it, so I was a little worried when I saw the big mess. Then as I let him outside, he continued to get sick. I called the vet asking if they thought he needed to be seen and they said "yes". Conveniently (or rather, not so much) they were booked for the day so I had to rush to a vet off base. With it being considered after hours (it was 2pm on a weekday!) and the language barrier, it made for an interesting afternoon. I brought Kella since I didn't know if she got into the chocolate as well (but back to my previous statement of her being LAZY... she must have never got up from bed and was guilt free this time). They gave them both medicine that made them throw-up to try and get all the chocolate out of their systems. As I said, Kella was fine so I felt a tad bad bringing her in. Then they gave Brody some crazy medicine that made his neck bloat up to the size of a tennis ball and they said it was to help soothe his stomach. Weird! Anyway, two days later he got into another small box of chocolate (seriously, I don't leave it out for them to get... he jumps and takes it off the back of the counters). Needless to say, all chocolate is being kept inside the pantry now. Although, I'm sure he'll out smart us and figure out a way to open those doors too...

So they've both had their share of being in the "dog house" lately! I think they were acting out because Joe was gone for a week and a half and I was busy with my new tutoring schedule. *Sigh*... It's never a dull moment in the Bisson house!

Bedroom additions

We lent our bedroom TV to a friend since they were still waiting on their household goods to arrive (they needed to be able to watch The World Cup!). I had a bunch of money saved up from tutoring and was looking for something to use it towards. We had mentioned buying a flatscreen for the bedroom, so now was the perfect opportunity! Don't get me wrong, we don't watch endless of hours of TV in bed. We really like to watch the "Planet Earth" and "Life" series late at night before going to bed, or a DVD we rented but want to get comfy and lay down to watch (next on the list is to buy recliner couches... but that might have to wait until the next house). We also decided to buy another Blu-Ray player for the bedroom since we've been buying mostly Blu-Ray's lately anyway.

The TV and Blu-Ray player was the easy part. Finding something suitable to put the TV on wasn't so much. We had a specific height/color/width requirement we were looking for. I think in one day, we went to 6 different places looking for something. Oh how we miss Target and Wal-Mart!!! When it comes to furniture out here, either things are super duper nice but comes with a hefty price-tag, or are average priced, but completley made of cheap materials and would most likely break in the next move.

We finally settled on a piece that does the job. I also got some cute decorations from the gift shop. Now it's just another place where we can store yet more of our books on! (I think we have more books than anything else in this house!).

June Pedi

I've been dying to get a new pedi since mine was severely chipped. With school being out, it's been nice to have a few days off to myself! I know the 4th of July is in a few weeks, so I thought I'd be festive with red, white, and blue :) I really like it!

New Job!

Well, I'm excited to announce I was offered a 2nd grade teaching position for the next school year!!! I'm SUPER excited! I received a call on Memorial Day asking if I was available for an interview the following morning. I gladly accepted the interview and spent the afternoon prepping and getting my resume and portfolio ready.

When I talked to the asst. principal on the phone, he informed me they narrowed it down to me and one other person. Those sounded like pretty good odds. I got there early and it turned out the other person up for the job was someone I already knew. She works as a para at AEIS and I see her all the time. We both laughed about it.

The interview itself went well. As well as an interview can go I guess? I was extremley nervous and stumbled over one of the questions, but I reminded myself to relax and be myself. They seemed excited to take on new teachers which really put me at ease.

My secretary at AEIS was itching to know who received the job. The other lady and I always would run into each other and ask, "Did you hear anything?" and we always just shook our heads no. As I was signing out of school one day, the secretary asked me if I had heard anything and I had told her no. She said she was going to look into it. She's got the inside scoop on things!

The next morning I was signing in and the first thing she says to me is, 'I'm mad at you" with such a straight face. I looked at her puzzled... my mind racing about what I might have done wrong. Then she smiles and says, "You got the job!". I laughed and couldn't believe it. She said she called HR and asked around! Then she told me she was mad because she wanted me to get hired on at the school I've been subbing with, but they didn't list their vacancy until I'd already been "claimed".

The other school I had previously talked to the principal about the possibility of a 1st grade vacancy also heard I got hired and told his wife he was a little disappointed I'd already been selected. It's been so nice to hear so many people rooting for me to get hired on this year!

I'm running a million and one ideas through my head about what I need to do in order to set up my classroom. I've been looking online and have a TON of things to order! I'm soooooo excited!

Promotion!

Joe pinned on Captain on the 31st! Unfortunatley since there are so many other guys being promoted in the squadron (15 others) they don't do a special pinning on ceremony like some other people do. He's just expected to show up with the new rank. Oh well! I'm still proud! We had some friends over on Memorial Day to celebrate! They also are having a big Captain's Party next week, but I'm not sure if Joe will be here to celebrate. Congratulations to all the '06 grads who just got promoted!