Wow. It’s been a month, and I owe a lot of you visits. I’ve been treading water with all the things I need to do, all while keeping one eye and half my attention on the dog because he won’t stop chewing and digging and wreaking havoc. Even as I type this, I am shoving him away from my carpet where he’s ripped up the edging. It doesn’t matter that he has a squeaky monkey right there next to him that he’s allowed to chew, he wants what he can’t have. Plus, if I get him to stop doing the naughty stuff, he wants my attention and will whine, bark, and claw at me and refuse to let me type (as he is doing now). But I’m the only one up between 5-7AM, so I’m the one on puppy duty.

My husband says the dog likes me better than him. I say I am a novelty and he only gets to see me in the mornings and evenings, which makes me more interesting. We have puppy class on Saturday, then it’ll be five weeks of basic training to hopefully curb the madness of puppy teeth and claws. But being constantly on my guard has left floundering with the writing aspects in my life, making it impossible to sit at the computer and focus for more than a few minutes at a time. I have left my computer four times during just this blog post. My critique group can attest to how often I’m standing and removing something that shouldn’t be in my dog’s mouth while we video connect.

I hope training helps because I have 20K to write in June to be on target and it feels like I’m running on fumes. (And now the dog is chewing on my clog…)

IWSG Question of the Month – What were some books that impacted you as a child or young adult?

My childhood was made up of Xanth, Landover, and Goosebumps (puns, magic, and a tad bit of horror). Maybe that’s why my sense of humor is so off-kilter at times.

Got any puppy tricks? What books impacted you? Anybody got a spare brain?

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