One thing my yard does not lack are tiny little snails. They are all over the place! Every time I take my pups out I walk into the yard and each step I'm bound to hear a little crunch or a pop. These teeny snails have shells the size of a pea and they crawl all over the grass and, at night, on the sidewalk as well. It's gross. I don't mind them, I mind the fact that I'm smooshing them! Am I the only person who feels guilty when they kill a bug?
On another note not related to snails and bugs: we are two weeks into our deployment! Two down, eight more to go! I know that sounds like a lot, but time is flying. Before I know it'll be three weeks down, then four, then only a month and half left. There's still so much to do before Matt gets home: finish painting the living room, decided I want to paint the hallway, hang up my hooks in the kitchen so I can hang up my aprons and make it look a little more homey, decorate for halloween, finish Scuttle's shots so I can potty train her for real, and finish ordering the gosh darn wedding albums! I'm almost a year into my marriage and still have not ordered those suckers! It's so hard to choose 65 photos out of a million that I want to showcase! And I have to pick 12 of the Magic Kingdom photo session for the Bridal Portrait Album...I can't pick just 12!
Anyway, Matt is doing fine. He says the ship is much like Ground Hog Day..wake up and do the same thing over and over again. He's been working out a lot which he is proud of. We get to email every day (well I email him a few times a day and I usually hear from him by bed time) so I feel like we are caught up in each other's lives, at least. I had a sad morning today...I was sitting in my living room watching my dogs play and watching Golden Girls while drinking a small cup of coffee and just thought, "how wonderful would it be if Matt were here sharing this morning with me?" It's been forever, it feels, since we have laughed out loud together. It's not the same chuckling to yourself while typing something funny in an email. And it is not the same when you get a delayed response hours later with the person chuckling back. But, it'll have to do for now. I just can't wait for him to come home.
Scuttle is now officially taller than Petrie! She is still light as feather, but she's got gangly legs and giving Petrie a run for his money! She is definitely a trouble maker but her cuteness makes it a little more tolerable! She has gotten a little bit better about chewing on the legs of my furniture. I haven't seen her do it in a while, but, I don't want to speak too soon. Watch, I'll come downstairs in the morning to find a missing leg on my end table! She's already torn her bed to shreds, so she is stuck with old t-shirts to lay on in her crate until she can prove to me she won't have me waste money on another doomed doggie bed.
Well, it's time to go crunch on some more snails while I walk these dogs. Crunch, crunch! Good night!
A princess throws herself into the world of the United States Marine Corps...
