I'm Back!

Hola! It is me the charming Chihuahua who lives with the Hunts!

I have succeeded once again in outsmarting Alan and that overbearing mate of his Brooke in order to post on the blog. Brooke is always forcing me to cuddle with her and kiss her face and do tricks for crappy chicken flavored treats…yuck. Last time we spoke was shortly after the Hunts moved me from my comfortable home in Minneapolis to this overcrowded NYC. And since the Hunts are at work right now I thought I would sneak on and write to all of you, my followers.

Its spring here and I love it. I hate the cold! I weight around 10 pounds so 5 minutes in 20 degree weather pisses me off. Plus, I have terrible aim and when I squat to pee I sometimes hit one of my feet and then my pee freezes to my paw and my walk is shot from there. I also love the spring because it gives me lots of green to pee and poop on. I hated doing my busi-nasty on snow. I am starting to get better at barking at small children, other dogs and strangers on the street. Alan and Brook do this wonderful thing where they distract me with a treat every time I look like I’m going to bark or try to chase anything. It’s so mean but I love getting the treats.

So there’s this big dog in our apartment building his name is Teo or something stupid like that. Who names their dog Teo? I really don’t like him because one day this past fall I was feeling like a bad ass and I took him on. I was off my leash and I ran right at him, jumped at him and I bit onto his neck and just hung there for a few seconds. Now remember I am 10 pounds and he is like 75 pounds. I lost my grip and fell down. After I hit the ground Teo looked down at me like he was really pissed. So He picked me up in his mouth and shook me a few times and threw me against the tree we were next too. What a jerk right?!?!? I was just playing around and he had to go and get all serious on me. So since then I have hated him. Alan and Brooke hate that I hate him cause we see him almost everyday.

My cousin Penny (Chad and Nicci’s dog) are getting along fine. Penny has showed me how to retrieve underwear from the clothes hamper and I have shown her how to be really disobedient with her parents. We play off of each other and it drives all of them mad. Penny and I still wrestle all the time. Sometimes Penny gets sick of it and starts whining like a little sissy but I still run at her and chew on her face…I know she loves it.

This last week I had to put up with this cat that lived in our house because a friends needed them to take care of it. His name was Avocado and he is a big black cat. He sure as heck didn’t taste like an Avocado. He tasted more like a chunk of fur that smelt like cat. I tried to bully him around but crap are cats fast. It was like one second he was there and the next he was gone! I don’t know what kinda magic they work but it must be the stupid kind cause it was dumb.

Anyway, I have only gotten like 16 hours of sleep today so I think I’m going to get back to my blanket on the couch and rest up for when Alan and Brooke get home and I can act super hyper and excited to see them. Really I just wanna make them feel relevant. They are so easily fooled.

Adios!

Love Sgt

Happy Anniversary!

So I’ve slacked off again and haven’t posted in a while and I apologize. This picture is from Easter.

We are just finishing the worst week of spring weather (7 straight days of cold, clouds and rain) but today is sunny and in the 70’s! Brooke and I have been here for 350 days. In a way this is our anniversary post. Therefore, I will give an update on how things are going right now and review our year.

Brooke is loving “beauty school” and is so ahead of the game she wishes she could be done with classes and work on the solon floor every night. BRAG ALERT! Brooke is the only student in her cohort to be asked numerous time during class to step out onto the solon floor and assist the other students in the program. This displays that here instructors see her talent and trust her on the solon floor months before she’s technically supposed to be working out there. Besides school, Brooke is taking advantage of very weekend since it’s her only free time.

For me, work is going alright but I have continued my quest to find a psychotherapist position. I have interviewed sporadically for therapist positions even after I started this job because I really want to get into one of those positions. I’ve interviewed with half a dozen places, a few of which have offered positions, but none of them have been exactly what I want. So if I make a move it’s got to be for a position I am going to love.

Both of us are looking forward to a full summer here in NYC while both of us have jobs and money to actually experience it. If you recall last year when we moved I didn’t even receive a first pay check until 3 months after we moved (late August) cause it took a while to find a job.

This first year in NYC really has been a blast. Nicci and Chad have become more than family, best friends. They have been great support in so many ways. We really experienced the city as “tourists” this last year. Visiting the Rockefeller, Chrysler, and Empire buildings, pending time touring the Metropolitan and Sex museums (ask me about it some time), touring Ellis Island, seeing Ranger and Yankee Games, hanging out at Coney Island and Long Island beaches, seeing a Broadway show at least once every couple of months, exploring Manhattan and Brooklyn and doing whatever else comes to mind.

From here, our plan is to just take things year to year. We have intentions of moving closer to the families in MN because we love them so much and can’t imagine living so far from them. But I will not disclose that tentative date. Yet, you never know what could happen I could become a ground breaking therapist and Brooke could become a stylist to the stars forcing us to purchase a high-rise condo on Park Avenue and we would live here for the rest of our lives. Or we could become victims of this economy and rush home to MN for safety and security. Most likely we will live as we are until life brings us to another place.

We love and miss you all! if ever you want to venture out east you are welcome to visit us with proper notice.

Love Alan and Brooke