Little Alexx Blog

Well hi. Normally I wouldn’t be posting on a holiday week, but I think I owe you guys a few posts, considering I’ve been so absent. So… I’m back in Branson with the family and like every year, it’s a good time but also exhausting. It’s even harder this year with young pup. I have tried my hardest to get him on routine and as spoiled as he is, he still has restrictions! Yeah, not with my family! He gets as many treats and an abundant amount of water, which doesn’t work out well with his small bladder, so I am up about 5 times a night taking him out. #hydrated

My breaks from school don’t look like regular breaks. While other students go home and catch up on all of the sleep they had been deprived of during finals, I come home and work. And that’s all I do. I work until I can’t work anymore. For a month straight, with the exception of Christmas Day, I am at work.

And Lordy, there are moments, like the other night, where I feel like I’m going to have a heart attack. I work in an extremely busy restaurant and by the end of the night, I’m drenched in sweat (ew). As much as I’ve love to be sleeping away my days or on a vacation, I know that at the end of the day, as I fall asleep before my head hits the pillow, I’m working hard now to be able to enjoy the things I want later. You know me. I love to travel. But being on my own financially and now having pup, I have more responsibilities to take care of. I love it though. I love to be able to take full care of myself, to buy what I want to, what I need to, and know I’m going to be okay. It’s taken me a bit to get to this point, and still the fear creeps into my mind worrying about the future but I know that with a little hard work and smart decisions, I can take care of myself.

Adding Hemy to the mix, as much as he brings joy to my life, is an added stress. Yeah, so I’ve never raised a dog on my own. And yes, there was a lot of hesitation among my friends and family, uh… Alexandra is getting a dog? I got him on a whim. Literally. I saw the post that he needed a home and called the lady that summer morning, 3 days before I left for a month to travel. I didn’t have anything ready for him to come home, which is honestly sickening for me because I like to plan. (When I have a baby, the entire nursery will be done 2 weeks in, honestly).

I could hear the banjos playing as I drove 5 hours into Arkansas to meet up at a random McDonald’s and pick up “Solomon”, as he was named before he became mine. He slept and drooled on my lap the whole way home. I had some wonderful friends look after him, as if he was their own baby while I traveled and my family has done so much for us, and since then, we haven’t been apart for more than 3 days.

It’s been just him and I. Okay, so while I am a weirdo to begin with, I’m an even bigger weirdo with my dog just because he is sometimes just a little human. He’ll just sit there and look at me and I wonder, am I being a good mama? Are you annoyed by me? Not sure if he’ll ever answer that, but I’ll just continue to wait.

Have a wonderful holiday, enjoy times hi with your friends and family!

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Today’s Mantra:

“I AM ending my year the right way.”

Blessings, a