Thundershirt has been dispatched via Express Post, thank heavens, so I should have it tomorrow or Thursday. Since WAAG's next Saturday I was getting a bit concerned that it wouldn't have cleared customs in time, but crisis averted- and I have a ten per cent discount off my next Waggle purchase for the trouble. Shame I have no spare money at the moment.
So I just wanted to have a ramble about something that's rather quite exciting.
Actually found a use for iCal. Happy days.
But it's not just that I've found a use for iCal that's exciting, it's those yellow boxes. I went through and managed to semi-decode the proposed CCCQ trial dates for 2012 and those yellow boxes are ones that should or definitely are ones local. Look at all the pretty highlighted boxes! Apart from January, November and December, since that's when trialling is starting up or winding down for the year as usual, I could be trialling the majority of weekends every month.
How. Fucking. Awesome.
And that's not even counting all the ADAA comps I want to go along to next year. WAAG's the closest, but PADS and BAAD aren't too far a trip away so I'll probably go along to them and I would absolutely love to go down to Tamworth for at least the ADAA Grand Prix next year.
I'm determined to finish off my last eleven hours and fifteen minutes of driving on my Ls before the end of this year so I can polish up on my non-existent parking skills, scrape together some money and go for my Ps in January which will leave me free to borrow one of the cars and take myself off to trials whenever I so please. I'm aiming to have enough money saved up for a car by the end of next year at the very latest, so that'll be good eventually as well.
With the end of the year drawing to a close, I'm starting to again think about goals for next year with Charlie and trialling- given all the opportunities at runs we're going to have, I'm aiming for at least one quallie in novice agility. I'd absolutely love to finally get into ADX, but if we just get the one Q in AD I will be absolutely over the moon. I can't wait to see whether the Thundershirt helps him keep his head at WAAG and the Purple Trial because that could very well be the only problem why he doesn't get his contacts- he's just too wound up to. If we get over the one bar wonder, our JDX title is very, very do-able for next year as well. I don't know if we'll have enough gamblers runs for his GDX title, but if we do that's another very realistic possibility since gamblers is our domain :P ADO might be a bit of a stretch, but if we iron out the "thou shall only do ten poles" attitude Charlie has, the final four (should be two but something in my room eats Q cards) quallies for our JDO title could be done and dusted as well.
ADAA titles still confuse me so I won't even think about goals for that.
Zeke shall be starting a bit more of a focused approach towards his agility foundation once I've finished school (next weekend officially) and he'll be six months old this coming Monday so it seems like a good place to start. He's very reward focused and that makes him a bit of a velcro doggy who doesn't look where he's going, so we'll be doing a lot of work towards getting him to run with me without needing the toy out on the ground and having me hold it instead. I'm thinking about pulling him from the tricks class we do on Tuesday nights and changing him into the puppy gym; I kind of want to do my own thing, though, and even though I know the instructor really well I'm not sure whether I should be in the class if I'm going to want to skip certain things or do other things my own way.
Buuuut, we'll see.
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