The Thousand Dollar Dog is in Trouble With Me, The New Job, And The Lions Of March

28*, feels like 18*, 63% humidity, NE 12 mph wind, cloudy, FLOOD WARNING

The thousand dollar dog is in big trouble. Mr. Hyper blamed the cats on getting into my ghetto grow light stand, knocking it down, eating my ferns, unpotting them, and eating most of the catnip plants soil and all. But I knew better. I was angry. I had been babying these plants, tenderly administering my love to them. I had put up barriers the cats couldn't cross to get to them and they have been working. But I did not count on Sasha to get in there and destroy it all. I have proof. Here is my evidence:

1) when Sasha's tummy is upset, she likes to eat grass. But, since she's indoors while I'm not home, she had no access to it.
2) She ATE my rubber tree plant the other day and the daylily seedlings in the ghetto grow light stand. These are plants the cats have ignored.
3) There was DIRT on close inspection this morning in her lamp shade collar.

No, this was not a case of the cats ganging up and going on a rampage. This was Mr. Hypers precious dog who can do no evil.... But I am giving her the evil eye this morning. *Sigh* I guess I don't need 10 cat nip plants anyway. I guess 3 will have to do....and maybe the pretty ferns will come back...but I'm guessing at least one is way past recovery.

In other news, I started my new job yesterday. I ran around like mad, in hyperactive sponge brain mode, trying to absorb everything I have to learn. Its great! There is so much I need to learn for this job, classes to take, surgical instruments to learn, there is no way I'm going to get brain bored here for a long time. At the end of my shift, I felt pleasantly worn and tired. Not the worn feeling of sitting at a desk all evening on the computer handing out a few supplies for patients all night, but physically, and mentally worn. It was exciting, I wanted to dive right in but I'm not sure of my place yet. This is completely new to me and I am unused to having to look to others for direction as I'm quite independent when working. And the great thing? I'll actually have weekends off and most holidays too! No more being treated like crap by co-workers. I told my former boss EXACTLY why I was leaving. And I told him why he had trouble keeping good employees. I'm not one to complain when I'm giving a task at work to do. While others drag their feet or snarl, i just DO IT. I think this is why they were taking advantage. It's a shame that those with good work ethics get walked all over, but I've drawn a line now. And anyone who crosses it from now on will face my wrath. I will never allow anyone to treat me this way again. I know they won't in this new place. I've worked hard to form a good relationship with everyone working there before the job bid came up, and the boss has her hands in the department always unlike my ex-boss who kept out of it and let a designated employee run things. Not that I need a boss over my shoulder, but it's others who need that guiding hand sometimes. Yes, I'm going to like it in my new job.

The lions have over taken the march lambs, just as I expected. Yesterday started out so nice but the temps dropped, by night it was in the twenties and we'd had sleet in the afternoon. Luckily, it didn't snow, and I can still see yellow lawns. But I know it's not over yet. I'm sure we'll get a March storm like always. Snow showers are predicted all the way through Saturday now.