kate79

this coming fall, 2009, i will be a student at the university of puget sound studying occupational therapy!!! i just got the phone call this afternoon and am positively ecstatic. now i need to figure out how the heck to pay for it.

Training my two dogs has been a goal for I have made only mediocre progress on during the past 5 months. I feel that I really need to form a plan if I am going to reach my goals. One of the biggest challenges I have been facing is trying to work one-on-one with each of them. When there’s food in my pocket there are always two noses working hard to get at it. Not that I blame them, who’s going to ignore cheddar cheese? There’s a reason that I’m vegetarian and not vegan, it’s an entire food group really, dairy! I love you milk. but I digress.

I need to identify my long term goals, short term goals and create a plan to achieve them.

long term – I would love love love to compete with the Grimm in anything. obedience, agility, schutzhund, rally-o, you get the idea. With Jonah, I want to get his CGC and TDI and possibly do some obedience and rally-o with him. He’s about as coordinated as I am, so agility might be a wee dangerous.

short term – I want these to be goals for individual weeks, or however long they take. ie. touching a target stick, not scaring the bejeezus out of people at the door (ahem…Grimm), etc.

plan – multiple, short, individual training sessions each day. before work, after work, evening, late evening, whatever/whenever I can fit in.

For week 1:

The Grimm – targeting a stick with her nose, not her teeth.
Jonah – same as the Grimm.

I was able to make my first payment this week. While I still have a loooong way to go, it felt good to start chipping away at the debt.