Nationals next week

We're going to the American Whippet Club National Specialty next week, which means there will be around a thousand whippets in the Airport Hilton in Atlanta. What this means is we'll be surrounded by whippets and friends all week. We are both really looking forward to it. We'll be taking our crew -- Chase, Chippy, Juliet, and Viola. We're staying with friends and my Mom for the week, so it will be quite an adventure.

I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do about our freelance work for the week, I guess we'll have to tell clients that neither of us is available during the day and we'll have to get back to them when we can on the hotel's wifi. The bad part of having a home business is that you really can't leave it at home when you go on vacation.

Chippy and Juliet will be showing in the National, both with well-respected handlers, so we are excited about that as well. I have been working on their toenails but they are still a bit long ... hopefully I can get them down shorter before next week.

Jo

Dealing with grief (still)

It comes and it goes. Sometimes I think of Lexi in a bemused, wasn't-that-fun kind of happy memory. Sometimes it stabs at my heart and I choke up and cry. Little things bother me. Big things don't. I have no problems with Chippy wearing Lexi's sunflower PJs. I couldn't bring myself to throw away the half pill (meloxicam) that had been sitting on the counter for three months. I had to ask Derek to throw it away. It didn't help Lexi. None of the drugs helped my girl.

I updated her site (www.alexiswhippet.com) with her story and more about who she was. That was pretty hard to do, but I wanted to share with the whippet world more about my girl and the life we had together. Editing the photos of her was the hardest. For some reason it wasn't as hard to detail our story ... but seeing her sweet face had the tears running down my face. I was foolish enough to work on the photos at work and had to hide my tears and try to get it together before I saw anyone.

Overall I'd just say it comes and it goes. Sometimes I'm totally fine. Sometimes I'm a total mess. It's up and down, it's a process, I know I'll be all right (I did not know this in December) but I know it will take more time.

Jo