AAGGHHH.... PIPER!

So, today started out early for me, cuz the workers for the foundation work we are doing at our home would be here. My usual routine after waking is to take Piper out for potty. Today she has to stick to a smaller grassy area since the guys have dirt dug up everywhere. When she poos, in the yard, she makes it right in the center of the walkway by our flower garden. Hmmm... I should pick it up so the workers won't step in it. Ah, don't really want to. Besides, it is my yard, so I leave it there. I try to sit and watch morning talk shows while drinking my iced tea, until I'm no longer groggy.

~~~~~~~~~~Piper had other ideas. She wanted to play, she's jumping on me. Groan. I thought, hey, the weather is cool this morning (low 70s), so if I take her for a walk, she'll calm down and let me chill! DH took her collar off one night we came back from Jazz Fest (buzzed) and now, we can't find it! So, I had to use her choke collar. Well, might as well do some training along the walk. ~~~~~~~~~~~~It took me at least 10 minutes to get everything that I needed for the walk. Lock doors, get ponytail holder, cap, cut up some treat (from sausage roll - for dogs); grab cell, grab sunglasses, put leash on dog. Out the door we go!
~~~~~ I say G'Morning to the guys. G'Morning they say. THEN, one guy asks: Can you move the car out of the drive way so we won't hit it with the shovel? I said, let me get the key. So, we come back inside (bummer for Piper). Can't find the key. Call DH. Find key, tried to put in gear, it won't turn on. Dead battery. No other cars around, just HUGE work truck. Sorry guys.
~~~~~By now, my knee has begun to hurt... grumble, grumble... and now I have to go for a walk. I go in house, get Piper and head out for walk.
~~~~It's nice and cool, Piper's too excited and keeps jumping. I work with her a bit and she settles down for treats. Walk going pretty good. All of a sudden I'm walking with resistance. She does this when she wants to stop and smell the roses (or poop, as it were). NO, not this time. This time she IS taking POOP on the SIDEWALK!! The HORROR!! Quickly, I look around to see if anyone is peeping out the windows. I did not bring a bag to pick up poop! I didn't expect it! She never poops or pees on my walk. We do that before walk at home. Oh Crapdiddly! I can't leave it in the middle of the sidewalk! What to do? AhHa! There are some big leaves on the ground, so I pick it up with leaves. I was gonna leave it at the edge of the sidewalk beside grass, but then I thought, ah, they need fertilizer anyway. ~~~~~~~~~Off we go. I jog, then I slow down. This is to get Piper to do whatever I want to do. This is my walk. She's learning and does pretty good. Then I do some quick turns and stops. After stopping, I say "heel", then we start walking again. The other trouble I had with her was to keep her from walking in front of me. I kept having to tug at her collar. Made it home. WHEW! Now I'm all HOT. It's now 79 degrees.
~~~~~~ Now, I take off her collar & leash, and put away the treats, change from sun glasses, get a drink, gate off the "no enter areas", then sit down to watch my videotaped "Desperate Housewives". Piper keeps bothering me, jumping on me, ringing bell (tied on door - to go out), ahhh...
~~~~~~~I've got to let her out. We're trying to train her to ring bell hanging on the door knob to go potty, so I have to take her out. I put back on her collar/leash & go outside. All she wants to do is chew leash and jump around! I can't let her out alone cuz of the workmen. Grrr..... so we go back inside. So, I never started Housewives, cuz I was busy cleaning up pee in the carpet when she escaped w/o me looking. Then I decided, while we were in backyard walking to find a potty spot, to go ahead and pick up the poop from earlier, cuz I didn't want to step in it! (HA, serves me right!)
~~~~~~~~~~Grabbed some paper towels, picked it up, threw it in toilet, (that's when I found pee on the carpet), I flushed, and went to clean up pee. Went to throw toilet paper in toilet. OOPS, it's clogged -- CRAP!! and DOUBLE CRAP!!!
~~~~~~~~~After I throw the soaked TP in other bathroom, I check on the clogged toilet. Ah, good, the water has gone down, so I flush it. YIKES, the water is rising back up to the top!! Please, oh please, don't overflow!!! Nope, it didn't listen to me... SPLASH... All around the toilet area floor.... CRAP, AGAIN! This time, little bitty pieces of poop rise with the water.... NOOOOOO...... Not that too!!!!!
~~~~~~~I check on it later. The water has receded, but NO... No-Way, am I going to flush again! I'm too busy to look for the plunger. I'll leave that for DH. After all, he is the one that wanted the dog. hehe....
~~~~~~~~~Done with that. OK, just maybe I can make some breakfast! It's almost 11:00, time for The Young and The Restless to start! Piper keeps up her behavior while I try to have my breakfast/lunch. I've had enough! I take Piper and put her in her kennel! ~~~~~~~So, now I am able to finish brunch, then watch Housewives & Y&R, cuz I've missed both! Since I recorded them both, I get to fast forward thru the commercials. THEN, I fall asleep in the chair!
I get piper out 2 hrs later. Ah, it was nice to finally do what I wanted. She is good the rest of the day! WHEW!! Hope tomorrow's better, but I doubt it, cuz workers will be coming back.