Today I am productive...

Well... kind of...

While I am not actually doing any of the work I get paid to do, I have accomplished a number of little things that I have been putting off for some time now.

This morning I took the puppy out, twice. She still has not figured out that she is supposed to "go potty" (according to the books, they need a specific code always used to tell them when to go, and this somehow has become mine) anywhere other than my kitchen floor. This morning I stuck on shoes and a coat over my pajamas so I could get her outdoors before he little feet could ever even touch the floor. Bed to front of the building we ran. Outside I thought for sure this would be the moment we'd been waiting for, there was no way she could resist her first thing in the morning release! Much to my disappointment she just hopped around like a kindergarten kid begging the teacher for a bathroom pass before he wets his brand new jeans. The second we got back to the apartment the floodgates opened... why couldn't she have done that outdoors?? Alright, so maybe the first pee of the day will have to be on the wee-wee pad, but I was confident for round two, the after she eats her breakfast round. This time I went more prepared with a pad she already used so she could at least pick up her scent. Out the door we went and again it was to no avail. I quit.

Then there is the whole me wanting to be a writer thing. Unfortunately I never know what to write about other than myself and how interesting can that really be to anyone other than myself on a semi-regular basis? "Getting Personal in Print" will apparently teach me how to make my stories more engaging to others! So next time I'm trying to wax poetic about the boy that got away or my dog's potty training stats, there will be no emotional barriers, no walls between my thoughts and the blank page to overcome. Mostly though I'm doing it out of relative boredom.

So, in my world actually doing those two things has made my day into something more than a waste. I think i'm becoming even more pathetic than I feared....