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When last we left our blogging heroine, she had been poised to leave work to go home for the night (last night, in fact)...

But on the way home, I received a call from the hubby, unable to find Rover Oaks. And he had a nervous dog and the map on the floor of the car. I couldn't give him good directions since I had only driven by it in passing on the way home from the mall--"You know, it's on that road we went down that one time." So, I decided to detour from going home and sprint to Rover Oaks to make sure they made it.

And they did, luckily. I got in and saw them ready for class. The trainer seems very knowledgeable and nice. The class has a variety of dogs, from young pups just learning manners to what appears to be a show dog getting an obedience tutorial to a dog that was attacked by another dog and is in serious need of help.

Rose did well overall. Hubby says that she was scared to go into the room at first. When I came in she was sprawled on the floor beside his chair, not looking too shut down or nervous. She wasn't quite sure what was going on, but she seemed willing to stick around when she realized hubby and I weren't abandoning her.

The class started with easy stuff once the trainer got to know the dogs. First we taught Rose to respond to her name (she's supposed to look at our face when we say it, but sometimes she'll still look at our hand, hoping the Amazing Clicking Treat thing will give her a yummy.) She also got to learn more Sit, which is already somewhat knows but she got reeeeally good at. We also did a little bit of baby work on Stay and her release command. All in all, a good class.

Fast forward to today (it really did seem to fast forward!) I had to wake up at 5:30 so I could get to the County Awards Ceremony in time (I needed to be there by 7:30 to be ready to greet people). My brain decided I should wake up at 4:30 instead so I didn't get much sleep. But I did get to the UH Hilton on time, which was good.

The ceremony was very nice. Ed Emmett addressed us, and he is actually a very good speaker. He had no notes and just gave a stream of conscience talk on leadership and ethics. It was pretty interesting, considering how he said that if not for certain politcal events, leaders such as Lincoln and Churchill would not have been respected due to their ethics (at least in our current age.)

So when it was time to leave, however, getting out of the parking garage was a nightmare. And then, to add insult to injury, on my way back the feeder road of I-10 to 6 was closed due to an accident (a car's entire backseat and trunk had been crushed in--I'm not quite sure how they managed that, but it couldn't have been fun). That took additional time to crawl past since they closed the entire four lanes. Once I fought my way through that, on 6 a truck decided his load had shifted so he blocked off a lane to unshift it.

At that point, I decided I was safest getting to work ASAP and thus hurried to the library. Phew.

Stay tuned for our next exciting chapter: does my car get fixed and pass the state inspection?