Adventures of Patty: part 2
Elsa and I got up at the crack of eastern time zone dawn (8AM) fulfilled a burning need for me to go to Office Depot to check out their laptops. We arrived at a little after 8:30AM and all the cheap ones were gone. Which was just as well because I had my eye on a new Toshiba 17" widescreen. A new laptop because the new expansion of World of Warcraft is bringing poor old Toshi to its erm.. bytes. Toshiba because my old one was a war busser wireless that saved our geek butts when Elsa's and Trina's couldn't. Heh. 17 inch because my main monitor is 24" and total eye candy. So I bought this one. It was a floor model so I got a nice discount too.
Geek heart molified, we met Patty and his foster parents at the Michigan Human Society for the formal adoption. Poor Patty did not like that place. She threw sporadic fits until she could finally make a break for it. We cut her shelter collar and she became Patty Grant. We bundled all the doggy shower presents (and Patty) into Elsa's car. Next was a trip to Pet Supplies Plus for a cart of more doggy stuff, like a crate. It's was like Lance's puppyhood all over again. A few more errands later we were on the road.
We finally arrived home about six hours later. Elsa had Patty in the garage; I brought Lance down for The Meeting. They butt sniffed a little and Lance proceeded to ignore her. Lance went in the door first, followed by Patty who took off exploring which she did all evening. There were no accidents or incidents. She slept in her crate. She's basically been giving Lance his space and not getting in his face. He still pretends she isn't there except when she's in her crate and he peers gleefully at her. Meanwhile I can tell she's having prior life flashbacks, read: spoiled. I said, "Okay time to go to bed!" So she promptly leaped on my bed and settled down. Sigh. She's napping on my bed right now as I blog. Lance is sticking to me like glue. Hopefully he will warm up to her in time.
In a bit we will get to Three Happiness in Chinatown for dim sum, then over to an AT&T store to get my razar phone wiped and reset. Elsa is swapping Patty for the phone. Hee. Then she hits the road after noon. I'm supposed to call JJ so she can take us all over to her house for a Thanksgiving day rerun.
Geek heart molified, we met Patty and his foster parents at the Michigan Human Society for the formal adoption. Poor Patty did not like that place. She threw sporadic fits until she could finally make a break for it. We cut her shelter collar and she became Patty Grant. We bundled all the doggy shower presents (and Patty) into Elsa's car. Next was a trip to Pet Supplies Plus for a cart of more doggy stuff, like a crate. It's was like Lance's puppyhood all over again. A few more errands later we were on the road.
We finally arrived home about six hours later. Elsa had Patty in the garage; I brought Lance down for The Meeting. They butt sniffed a little and Lance proceeded to ignore her. Lance went in the door first, followed by Patty who took off exploring which she did all evening. There were no accidents or incidents. She slept in her crate. She's basically been giving Lance his space and not getting in his face. He still pretends she isn't there except when she's in her crate and he peers gleefully at her. Meanwhile I can tell she's having prior life flashbacks, read: spoiled. I said, "Okay time to go to bed!" So she promptly leaped on my bed and settled down. Sigh. She's napping on my bed right now as I blog. Lance is sticking to me like glue. Hopefully he will warm up to her in time.
In a bit we will get to Three Happiness in Chinatown for dim sum, then over to an AT&T store to get my razar phone wiped and reset. Elsa is swapping Patty for the phone. Hee. Then she hits the road after noon. I'm supposed to call JJ so she can take us all over to her house for a Thanksgiving day rerun.