Camping indoors with a 42 inch flatscreen and an x-box.

It turns out that even in my unemployment, lack of furniture, lack of funds, lack of hobbies I still can't find time to a) update the blog I just created or b) fix the two posts I DID manage to create that contain grammatical errors (thanks for pointing them out, Mother) and wonky photos. I will try to be better, but I can't promise anything.

We arrived in Virginia! Wooo! The rest of the road trip was fun, we spent about 4 days with Kyle in Nicole in Kentucky and did all sorts of fun things like eating taters and going to Dino World and the Maker's Mark Distillery. But now too much time has passed and I don't feel like going into all the fun details.

I will, however, update you on live in the VA. Basically life in our nice luxury apartment consists of 2 camping chairs (with footrests, nothing but the best!), our 42 inch tv sitting on an overturned plastic storage bin, an air mattress (that actually isn't that bad, I was concerned that when Ryan got out of bed, I would sink to the floor or that during the night he would weigh his side down so much that I would slide over and be stuck in the middle of the bed. Not the case with this air bed). Our stuff is still pretty much strewn all over as we don't have the appropriate receptacles for our items.

The job hunt is on, but as yet has been unsuccessful. Ryan got a pretty promising response from a phone interview he had, so we are thinking good thoughts about that but trying not to get our hopes too up.

In the meantime Ryan and Penny have entered into a power struggle. Immediately outside of our "Veranda" aka "Porch" is some dirt and we would really enjoy for Penny to make that her designated potty area to avoid having to walk all the way out of the complex in the cold only to have her poo on the floor of the parking structure (in front of a person no less, naughty puppy!). She has been resisting. Ryan refuses to give up on her, so on day one of the power struggle he took her out to the spot, which she can access by jumping through the bars on our patio, repeatedly with no success. She pretty much is just holding everything in and had been pretty good about not having accidents on the floor. She finally went #2 out there, and he got so excited that he let her come back in and started playing with her. Unfortunately this caused a tidal wave of urine to come out that she couldn't even control when he tried to pick her up to carry her out.

The struggle continued on to today. She last had used the facilities when we took her to the dog park at approximately 5:30 last night. She continued to defy Ryan all day long, when she finally peed on the dirt as FAR as her leash would possibly go away from the porch at 4:30 PM. Success after nearly 24 hours of probable discomfort!

Stay tuned as the saga continues...