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[lizzybennet]

I discovered my new next door neighbor barking at Max this morning. Uh, ok...He made a comment yesterday to Max, saying "Don't bark at me, Dog. I'm your neighbor!" But if you bark at him and rile him up, he's going to bark back! I'm not quite sure what to do about that situation.

The kids enjoyed their first day of school. Josh didn't realize that I'd put his lunchbox into his satchel, so he thought he didn't have it and had to eat school lunch. He didn't like that (although they had pizza, which was always the best school lunch when I was a kid.) so the minute he walked in the door he sat at the table and started eating his lunch. He said to me, with a mouth full of p-nut butter-fluff sandwich, "Oh yeah, that is good." Crazy kid :) He checked three times today to make sure he had his lunch before I left him in his classroom.

In my adult life I have lived in Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Washington, and Idaho. Of all those states, Florida is by far the most complicated when it comes to setting up household. Here's a little example for you: in order to get my water turned on, I needed a Florida driver's license. I still have an Arizona license because no other state has required this of me (for those of you who've lost track, I've lived China, WA and ID since AZ.) The water was switched on, but I have only a two week grace period to get my FL license. This morning I went to the driver's license bureau to get my new license. I knew they needed my birth certificate and SS card, so I had those two items. However, I also need my marriage license and a piece of mail with my address/copy of the lease. Of course, none of these items can be copies--they all have to be originals. This is really no problem for me, I have all those things readily available. It's just so many hoops to jump through to get things established!! It was the same for getting the kids enrolled in school. Crazy amounts of paper work and official forms.

So now I'm off to try again with all the appropriate forms.

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[heatherejc.livejournal.com]

Our neighbor's dog, Holly, barks at us ALL the time - anytime we come home, anytime we are outside doing yard work - whatever. Pretty much anytime she sees people she doesn't live with, she barks. Oh, and they've had her for probably about 5 years. My husband barks back and often says "Holly! We live here, it's OKAY!" I think the only time he got her to stop barking was when he decided to try using dominance tactics on her and forcefully walked towards her giving her the impression that he was bigger, stronger and going to do something to her (he wouldn't, of course, he loves dogs. And she was behind a chain link fence anyway). He can be kind of scary when he does that. He made her poop once because he scared her so much. But that time, she was running lose and her family wasn't home, and she wouldn't come to us. He had to get her to run back into her yard somehow, so he pulled that scary dominance stuff on her.

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

I think if Max had a chance to meet the guy and get to know him, he'd be fine. But now that the guy has made such an issue of it and barked at him, I feel embarrassed to ask him for a meet-and-greet. I just need to get over my shyness and let them get to know each other.

It would drive me crazy to have a neighbor dog that barks at me every single time I leave or enter my house. I don't blame your husband for barking. I just wish the neighbor had given Max more a chance. He's just a bit weirded out by adjusting to all these changes this summer. Hopefully he'll settle down and I can get to stop barking.

[themenow.livejournal.com]

Wow, all that for the Driver's License? I guess it's been too long since I got mine in FL. I just got mine renewed, but maybe we had all that stuff. I don't remember.

When we lived in PA we had so much to do. We got into a lot of trouble because we didn't get our driver's licenses as soon as we moved to PA. I tried to explain that I was still a student when we moved since I was doing an internship and my husband moved with me and when the internship was up, we weren't sure if we'd be moving back to AL or not. Oh man, lots of money and time. We had to get new license plates and then the cars had to be checked - that yearly thing they do in some states. Never had I ever had to do that. We got by that by the skin of our teeth. For a year, I held my breathe every time we passed a cop.

Moving is just so nuts. *hugs* I hope it settles down for you. At least the kids are enjoying school. And yay for Josh for getting settled in and having a good first day!

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

I couldn't even get my license, after all that rig-a-ma-roll! Turns out there is a "problem" with my social security number and I can't get my FL license until I first got the SS office and see what the issue is. Isn't that odd? I've never even heard of such a thing. I wonder if it is because I moved so many times this summer? I moved three times, just myself, so maybe there is an issue with updating my address. I'm going straight there tomorrow after I drop the kids off at school so hopefully I can beat the rush.