it's been a good and really really long weekend for me. i ended up only working monday and tuesday of last week-it's a long story but i took a sick day on thursday for a funeral so i ended up with 5 days off in a row. i do, however, have to work a rather interesting event tomorrow night for work.

yesterday was the 4th of July and turned out to be a pleasant day. gregg played golf with a friend in the morning and then we went to lunch with some friends and downtown last night to watch the fireworks and hear the austin symphony play. it had been quite awhile since i'd seen fireworks and i'd forgotten how happy they make me-and everyone around it seemed.

macey is slowly opening up to us and becoming more comfortable. she now walks on a leash (thank goodness) but isn't really trained to obey so we will start working on that next week after her surgery. she seems to be getting attached to me and seems to need to have me in her sight at all times. i guess dogs really are good preparation for children after all. at this rate though, it doesn't look like we'll be having children anytime soon. gregg has "planted" grass on our balcony in plastic trays and we are encouraging her to use that instead of walking her down 4 flights of stairs all day. she really likes the balcony and the balcony grass but doesn't usually make use of it so we frequent the stairs.

that's about it..tomorrow is already sunday. wow..