Working on working...

and a little bit of play.

Sunday, Wesley and I met up with Amy and Paris at the dog park. We decided to bring her new addition, the sheepdog puppy, for his first socialization at the park. She picked him up Saturday morning, and promptly came down to my work so I could meet him. She threw out a few names, and then she said, "I also thought about calling him Cesar, after Cesar Millan." All I could say was, "You HAVE to name him Cesar!" and so it was. After she had made the decision, I thought about it, and she should have called him Millan.. then she would have Paris and Milan.. I'm such a dork!

While there, I met up with Lee and Lucienne, the owners of one of my favorite students... Jamie, the Irish Wolfhound. They said they were interested in having some private training with Jamie, as he seemed to be back-sliding and would love to have the help at home. So, it looks like the end of June I'll get to play with Jamie some more. I love that dog.

I'm standing at the park, talking to Amy, while Wesley and Paris were wandering doing their own thing, and the next thing I know there's a weimaraner standing next to me. I pet him, thinking it's Wesley and then I realize the collar is different. "Wait, this isn't Wesley!" Amy and I both look at the big male weim surprised. Then a lady walks up to us and says, "Nope, that's Casper. He's mine. He has a heart condition. I'm not only his mom, but also his vet." I mention to her that I just got accepted to the Vet Tech program at PCC and she says, "Wow, that's great.. you should apply at my clinic, they're always looking for techs they can train, and we hire students." So I went down on Monday and applied.

Wesley had a grand time as usual, and he really needed the socialization. He gets a lot when I take him to work, but he's never allowed to just roam and do what he wants when he's there. He really enjoys the freedom of the dog park, and it's an incredible place to make connections, apparently. Even if I don't get the job, I will definately go to Dr. Matarazzo for Wesley's vet needs, considering she HAS a weimaraner!

Monday I had an interview for a reception position for home design company, and then also enrolled in a temp agency. I really don't care for the temp agency though. I felt like I was in prison as long as they kept me. Wati....Fill this out... wait... take 5 separate types of typing tests... wait.... show us your id... wait... get an interview... only to be told they don't have anything for you, so wait some more. I think I'll do better on my own. So after finally being released from there 3 hours later, I went down and dropped off my resume at the vet clinic mentioned above.

Then it was time for some fun!

Originally, Geoff had contacted Eldon and myself, saying, "I don't care who we have to kill, we're going to this!"

No cover... $2 drinks, and strippers attempting to play a game show?? How can you say no to this? I'm going to rip some of the breakdown of the evening right from Geoff's interpretation of the night, as he is much more eloquent than I. Color coded for your convenience. My comments will be in this color. His in yellow.

"Altogether there were seven of us - a female friend,(me) her boyfriend,(Eldon) another gal,(Ashlee) her boss,(Dimitri) and a married couple (Chris and Leanne). Oh, and me (Geoff). A very mixed bunch. Much to our chagrin, Stripper Wars had been cancelled. However, we decided to stick it out at the Ash Street and deprive them of their happy hour specials."

After the realization that Stripper Wars had been cancelled, we had to make our own fun.... Ashlee broke out the bubbles, which Geoff took to much like Eldon's cat does when we break out the "catnip bubbles".

Eldon thought it was amusing to keep the $2 drinks coming....

Notice my eyes match the drinks?

Funny thing is, I think I was the only one who was actually sober by the time we left. I didn't even drink both of those. Good thing too, because I was driving. :)

Wait.. I take that back, Geoff had to go to work later, so he had to make the claim that, "Real men drink near beer!"

Eldon put me in a headlock for some reason, and Ashlee joined in at the last second, making it yet another "Eldon moment".

It was Geoff's idea that a "reverse Eldon moment" had to be captured. Who am I to complain surrounded by guys? :)

I don't know what Ashlee's boss Dimitri was thinking. Either, "These guys are retarded." "Hmm.. is it warm in here to anyone else?" or "Pass me another drink!"

Either way, Chris and Leanne seemed to have a good time, although they sorta kept their additions to our conversations to a minimum, until it came to the sweaters... and I'll get to that. But first, back to Geoff's rundown of the topics:

"We b.s.'d for a good hour and a half

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Subjects covered (in no particular order and not limited to):
(1) Cheese modeling (dont' ask... it had to do with a conversation Eldon, Ashlee and I had at the melting pot.)

(2) German sweaters

I love getting Geoff and Chris together, they just play off of each other so well. This was actually taken WHILE they were discussing German Sweaters, complete with the bad accents and all.

(3) Clown porn (This actually exists, and sadly I have to admit I've been subjected to it MORE THAN ONCE!)
(4) Gay cheese modeling (A Geoff original, a spin off of the cheese modeling discussed above.)
(5) Penis torture (as in, Don't see the movie "Sick")
(6) Orgazmo (as in, a MUST see movie.)
(7) Low-rent deities (The dieties in question.... Testocles, Gonad the Barbarian, and Hermaphrodite.. at least one of which I believe is a Geoff original.)

Geoff only claims responsibilty for two of these... I love my friends!

At 7:30 or so, it was decided that due to the lack of boob-age from the cancellation, our mini-herd had to relocate. The general consensus was a strip joint."Isn't it always when I'm involved.. How does that happen?

So we went to Cocktails and Dreams, because I had heard about the fountain stage, but I really HAD to see it. No pictures from inside of course... let's just say it was really fun, and us girls had just as much fun, if not more than the guys did! What a night!