Bye, Bye, Bye,  Two Oh One Five.

I’ve got a huge celebration planned for tonight.  Dinner, movie and bed.  I know that you are brimming with jealousy but hold onto it.  It may even involve two huge golden retrievers vying for room on the couch.  Rich and I have date night every Friday night and have been doing so for over ten years.  It’s the same but different every week.  We usually have pizza, but sometimes opt for wings and always popcorn with a ton of butter and lots of Mountain Dew, our crack of choice.  I’m not sure why, but the caffeine in Mountain Dew doesn’t make me nuts, but coffee keeps me up for days.  Rich has always been proud that he converted me to his drink of choice and so we consume a ton of it every Friday.  Since Friday is so special, why not make it New Years Eve?  I never make it to midnight anyway, so there’s no difference there.  We love movies and certain television shows that we “power watch” on Fridays by watching them on demand or Net Flix.  The dogs think they own the night and if one has couch time, the other thinks that she should as well.  Once they see the afghan placed on the couch it’s every dog for themselves.  Some evenings Rich has to sit somewhere else as they are serious couch hogs.  Aggie turns fifteen in February and struggles going up and down the stairs so Rich has to guide her to make sure she doesn’t fall.  She’s rolled down the stairs from top to bottom at least twice and scared the crap out of us, but jumped up like nothing happened.  Bella, who is four, decided this week that she’s not getting enough attention, so ate a make up brush, a Christmas ornament and a very large pinecone she found.  She’s never quite figured out what growling is for, so she growls at everyone while wagging her tail and trying to show them a stuffed animal she always carries.  She has stuffed animals in every room because she has to have one at the ready in case someone comes to the door, she hears a loud noise, or she thinks Rich is home.  I’m seriously not sure who runs this house, because it’s definitely not us.  I know they have us trained.  Good thing we didn’t have kids.

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