My husband is back!

I'm SO happy!  His plane landed at 11 last night, and I don't think we got to bed until midnight, but it's wonderful to have him back.  If you had seen how he packed for the return trip, you might have fainted.  He brought back quite a few breakables, including framed pictures and medals and mementos from his grandfather's time in the royal navy in WWII, wine glasses from Charles and Diana's wedding, and a few framed pictures and memorabilia, including a framed explanation of his clan's name and history (technically, he's of Scottish descent).  He packed all his clothes in one bag, and everything else in a soft-sided suitcase.  He wrapped the wine glasses in one layer of newspaper and then stuck them in the suitcase with the framed pictures.  I don't know how this happened, but the wine glasses made it, and only one piece of glass in a frame broke.

Unfortunately, our morning wasn't so great (and I'm starting to feel like this is turning into a complainy-blog) as our dog had ANOTHER seizure, and then our neighbor came over an yelled at us personally (at 6:30 am!) about how we don't cross the street soon enough when we see him walking his dog.  I'm completely blown away by his attitude (and rudeness).  He has a very large and aggressive german shepherd who, as far as I can tell, has never been socialized with other dogs.  Our dogs are extremely friendly and want to play with every dog they see.  We live in a court, and often as our neighbor is leaving to walk his dog, we're returning with ours.  It's generally dark out and his driveway isn't exactly lit, so a lot of times I don't see him until I'm pretty close.  As soon as I see him, I usually cut across the court, but apparently my husband continues walking on the sidewalk past his house.  His dog usually growls and lunges at our dogs no matter how far away we are.  He informed us that we are being incredibly inconsiderate, and when I explained that I always cut across the court as soon as I see him, he told me I'm not paying close enough attention and I should be noticing him sooner.  And then he said he wasn't going to be considerate of us anymore and left.

I was a little shocked.  Our dogs are super friendly.  When we walk them, we never have any problems with other dogs that we pass, and people who have more aggressive dogs usually cross the street when they see us or other dogs out.  People with friendly dogs don't, and our dogs say hi and then keep going.  I've always thought the onus was on the owner of the aggressive dog to avoid other dogs - after all, I don't know which dogs are aggressive and which aren't if I haven't met them before.  On top of that, I've never heard anything about this before.  If he had come over and asked if we could work with him and been pleasant about it, I would have agreed in a heartbeat.

My husband is livid.  He is once again talking about moving, and as much as I love our house, I'm ready to move too. 

Oh, and it might just be spotting, but I think my period is starting.  This would be day 25 of the current cycle, I think, so a little early, but I had surgery and then was horribly sick for two weeks (I still am, but now it's manageable) and I took estrogen pills instead of having the much-stronger estrogen patches, so who knows what my cycle is doing.  I'll be happy to start testing for ovulation soon, though.