I was very proud of myself tonight!

I am proud of you all of the time, Kathy. You are rocking!

Can I plan hooky tomorrow?

Yes.

You can both plan it and play it.

Unless you can't. Can you?

smonster, Frankie isn't a deep chested dog, so the chances of him getting bloat are less likely than him being constipated a bit.

Just in case, though, here is the wiki bloat page.

Look for signs of discomfort. But, more than anything, try not to stress about it. Your stress is his stress.

Is he behaving any differently?

while my old lane byrant's, with their wrong band size and cups suffice. They are at least located where my real estate is. But they slip around too much.

Can you get them tailored? Some places do that.

Character shoes are ...uh...they're mary janes with low heels that people wear on stage? Often have a leather sole?

but I often find the Fluevog heel shapes too whimsical for my taste.

It's like you stopped typing recognizable words to me.

Sadly, I'm contemplating selling a pair of my Fluevog boots. They're adorable, but I think I've worn them three times since I got them last year: [link]

(I have the cream & black w/ red buttons, which are ... no longer available. Hmm. I think I will wear them to work tomorrow.)

while my old lane byrant's, with their wrong band size and cups suffice. They are at least located where my real estate is. But they slip around too much.

Can you get them tailored? Some places do that.

If you were in Seattle, I would set up a sewing date with you and show you how to take in the bands.

You can both plan it and play it.

Hee. That's what I meant, I just left off the playing part, by mistake.

Sadly, I don't think I can do either though, because I will be out at the end of the week.

smonster, I was interested to read, on that wiki page, that studies show happy dogs are less susceptible to bloat.

Sadly, one of Bartleby's good friends, Fred, died of bloat 6 months ago. It is true that he was a more worried than happy dog.

I wonder what the correlation really is.

I never spend that much money on shoes unless they`re Docs. But Docs last forever so you have amortize the cost out, which means by now I`ve spent about ten bucks a year on my current pair. I thought I was tossing them when the laces wore through and the pull loop broke, but it turns out those are trivial things. New pair of laces, another three good years so far. I love them because they have the paint splotches from painting this house on them.
 
I was feeling all hormonally lonely and shit, probably from reading Anne of Green Gables books too many in a sitting, but I`ve got my head on the dog and the SO is chattering to someone on the phone in the other room, and here you all are.