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oh how begrudgingly slowly, and yet quickly, time goes by... all in the same breath.
Minutes seem take their sweet, southern time, dragging out each painful second on their journey round the clock the same way a child drags their feet en route to a task they have no desire to complete....
yet it seems you've hardly blinked and a month has passed.

moving has been completed, logistically... however I am still arriving home to a house full of cardboard boxes, strewn halfheartedly across what has become our life.

There has been a new addition to the Coverston Clan... an announcement I had intended to make official with a photograph... however that seems unlikely to occur, and the excitement of her existence is too much to omit... Her name is Colby, the puppy. She is absolutely beautiful, and 100% puppy. The good news, she is smart as can be. We have only had her 2 weeks, and she already knows how to sit, lay, shake, beg, and play dead. If she is taken outside and you tell her to go pee, she does, almost immediately. She can walk on a leash without pulling, and is figuring out how to be in a Crate and not whine about it. She in general understands the concept of fetch, however her attention span for the game is quite limited... She has only had one accident inside. All wonderful traits. She is sweet and playful.

She is also puppy.

Meaning she is curious, and impatient, and selective in her listening and obeying skills.
She is a great puppy, but, don't be fooled by her calm demeanor. Take your eyes off of her and in a wisp she will have figured out how to do exactly what you don't want her to do. Close her in the bathroom with a baby gate? She can already jump it. Barricade her in the living room, she will jump over the couch. Leave your food on the table for a minute, she is standing on top of it when you return. Reprimand her, and unlike most dogs who will put their ears down and their tail between their legs, sauntering shyly away knowing they have done wrong... instead she responds like my nephew to correction... wagging her tail playfully and looking at you with mocking eyes, panting in a way that almost resembles laughter. So basically, she fits just in. lol.

It is almost time for Vegas, and despite the expenses that daunt me right now, I can hardly wait. I need a break, and a break with my closest, best friends, and the most wonderful man I have ever known, and it doesn't get much better than that.

Surgery was postponed.... for a while...
and no, its not because I cancelled it. They lost track of my appointment. And to be perfectly honest, I am more than okay with that.

I am the closest I have been to starting school in the fall... Praying that it works out. I have theoretically been approved for the financial aid, and I need to get my transcripts in, and we are good to go. The transcripts are the part that worry me... I need to have official ones sent from APU according to what I have seen online, and that will not happen because of the hold on them for the money I owe. I am working toward paying it off, but until it is, they refuse to release my transcripts. I hope this works out somehow, but there is no telling if it will or not.

I am still exhausted... not end in sight to that.
I love my fiance... no end in sight to that either =)
but gradually, we are reaching the end of this summer of torture....
and I can't wait to say goodbye to it.
It wont come a moment too soon.