My period is due today.  It's usually on time, or early (although for a couple months in the last nine it came 2 days late--yeah, that fucked with me big time), but it normally comes at the end of the day.  Last month, it showed up at 10PM, as I was getting ready for bed.  So, I am still waiting.  I have not done an HPT test.  I know some people get addicted to them, and because I have a rather obsessive-compulsive personality as it is, I feel it is not such a good idea to launch myself down the road of daily testing.  If I do not get it by Sunday morning, I have decided that I will test, and not one minute before!  Plus, for me (and I know that other people feel the exact opposite), I feel less disappointed finding out I'm not pregnant by actually seeing blood than the absence of a line on a plastic stick. 

Not to mention it's cheaper this way.  (Miser, remember? )  :-)

I am working at home today.  About an hour ago, I went into the backyard and discovered that my dog (remember my wonderful dog from several posts ago?) has started to dig two new holes that go under the chain-link fence that separates our yard from our neighbor's.  This is mainly because they also have two dogs, and my dog enjoys playing over there.  I'm sure, to his little doggy mind, it makes perfect sense--sort of like a secret passageway to his friends' house.  But to me, it's extremely frustrating, because everything I have tried to get him to stop has not worked.  I have combined punishment (yelling NO DIG! while standing him next to the offending holes), and reward (bringing him over to the hole in the corner of the yard that I've decided I can live with, and putting treats in it while praising him for digging there).  I have tried spraying bitter apple on the holes in question.  I have tried putting a piece of his little doggy poop in the hole.  I have tried putting rocks over said holes.  Nothing has worked for long.

Part of the problem is that we allow him to go in and out of the yard during the day while we are at work.  But I don't want to crate him for eight hours at a stretch, and I also don't want him to start urinating/defecating in the house because he can't hold it.  We bring him to day care one day a week, but that costs $18 a day, and we are a decidedly middle-class family.  I just don't have it in me to spend close to a hundred dollars a week  to bring him every day.  

What to do, what to do.....

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