Dogs and HDTVs.

I survived last night!
My brother and I went out to Indiana to my cousin Kitty's new house to watch her 12 week old German Shepard, Deeno, while she was at a wedding reception. And it was actually pretty fun.
Nate forgot how to turn on their TV after they left. I had no idea how, because Kitty's husband Donny got carried away with all of it...it's one of those flat screen HD things (with NO BUTTONS ON IT...) and satellite and two DVRs and XBox, Wii and PS2, not to mention a DVD/VCR hooked up to it.
AAAHHH.
Oh, and instead of just having normal remotes for everything, there was a touch screen universal remote. It took me a half hour to realize it was touch screen, and I could turn the TV on but I didn't realize that the satellite box was by Yamaha and doubled as a stereo, so I couldn't get that to work. Then I tried putting in a DVD, but the DVD player wasn't working. It was all very, very confusing.
The dog was ADORABLE. Twice as big as Snoopy, our twenty one pound two year old beagle. And not housetrained (but he only pees on the carpet, not on there hardwood floors, so I kept him in the kitchen the whole time and it was OK...until he pooped. But Nate got to clean up that one). But really really reallly cute. With mammoth paws. And his ears were twice as big as his head. And when he gets excited, he gets clumsy and falls over a lot. =] Admittedly, I'm more of a cat person, but this dog was fun for an evening.
We ordered a pizza for dinner, which was good, but I didn't know the address or street or phone number, so ordering took a few minutes while I ran around outside to see the street name and address and then found their number on my cell. They said that they only asked for phone numbers, so that was all they left for me...
Adventures.
And did I mention that because they just built the house, there was no yard? Yeah. Just dirt and a random patch of sod. So I got to take the dog on several walks all night so he could pee without ruining carpets. He doesn't walk very well yet, and he's really big, so I've got some pretty good arm muscles now...
So that was my night!
21 DAYS TIL I MOVE IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 WEEKS!!!!!