We had a nice time on our road trip to St George for Thanksgiving. It
is so cold though in SLC. I don’t like it. It was 20 degrees out and
this morning our first bus was 18 minutes late!!! Standing there not able to
make any forward progress for 18 minutes is so annoying!!! Racer’s butt even
started shivering. Here I was all happy and in a good mood this morning looking
forward to getting back to the routine and then the bus puts me in a bad mood.
I might be considering taking some martial arts lessons. LOL it
sounds hilarious to me but I’m totally going to look into it because guess
what? I’ve actually had some weird guys make me feel nervous in the morning on
our bus routes. A couple of weeks ago when we got off the second bus on the way
to work and were approaching State street to cross I heard a man screaming
swear words coming towards us. He was alone and was just screaming to himself. I stopped and told Racer to sit and I turned my back to the man
as he passed and just gripped my phone. He passed us and didn’t acknowledge us
thank goodness, but he started kicking
objects after he passed us and I could hear him making a racket all the way
down the block. This was right before I was supposed to do my street crossing
on busy State street and so we stood on the curb and I waited a couple of
cycles of light changes before I could clear my head and pay attention. It’s
weird because I thought SLC was pretty tame and safe but it seems like in the
last ten years it has changed and downtown has some creepy people. I and going
to an acupuncture appointment
tomorrow and I’m going to ask them about martial arts and I think some of them
are high up in it. Martial arts isn’t something I ever thought I would take an interest
in, but why not? Maybe it will
just give me some confidence.
It seems like I’m only talking about negative things. Honestly things are going well. Racer
makes me laugh every day. One funny Racer story, there is a couple in my
building that got a new puppy.
Racer loves him and always gets super excited if they pass each other and he
does a dance whenever he sees the puppy. We hadn’t seen the puppy for about a
month but the other day outside after relieving Racer,
I had the harness over my shoulder while Bob had Racer’s leash
and the owner walks by with the
puppy wearing a cone. He got fixed. Well Bob and I are
commenting about the cone and saying that the dog looked embarrassed to be wearing
it. We waved and the owner walked away and I noticed Racer was being super calm
and watching the puppy walk away and I thought Racer is getting more mature.
Then as soon as the puppy went around the corner and was out of sight Racer
leaps into the air and does a jig and prances around jumping and leaping and licking
my face. It was as if he was so happy to realize
that other dogs have to wear that cone too! And it was like he was laughing at
the dog behind his back. It was like he waited for the dog to leave to show his
amusement. Bob and I about fell down because he ran around us squeezing our
legs in the leash! Too funny!
I swear Racer has a sense of humor!
“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― L.M. Montgomery
― L.M. Montgomery
