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The last few days have been pretty eventful for me, though not too much fun. Monday Jess and I went shopping for food and basically just chilled here at her apartment. Tuesday rolled around and we thought it might be a little fun to just hang out here with her neighbors and watch some fireworks and have a few drinks =) Now anybody that knows me knows that I 99.99999% of the time I won’t touch alcohol. The last time I did was over 3 years ago and that was basically the first time for me. But I thought it might be fun to drink a little when it was just me and her here, so we walked outside and that is when my week began to suck like hell.

Chloe was extremely afraid of the fireworks. Even when we were inside, she was growling and barking at them and just wouldn’t calm down. Well Jess and I thought she would be okay if we brought her out with us. The guys next store were shooting off Roman Candles and when the first one went off, Chloe sprinted back inside with some other dogs. We made her come back outside and I shut the door and when the next batch of fireworks went off, she took off around the corner. Well she runs down the street and back all the time so we thought nothing of it since all the other dogs around went in the same direction. But after a few minutes, all the owners went looking for their dogs and in the end, Chloe and Charlie were missing. Charlie’s owners had seen them running further down the street, so we went looking for them and looked around for a good 30 minutes before returning home, only to find Charlie sitting there…without Chloe.

We went looking throughout the entire night for her, unable to find her. This all happened around 10:30 PM and we were out looking until around 4 AM. There isn’t really that much around this apartment complex. It is relatively new and the only things near here are another apartment complex, and a main road. We’ve driven down all the roads a good 50 times and thank god we haven’t seen her hit or anything. She was wearing her collar, which had her tag saying she had her rabies shot and her other tag has a 1-800 number on it to call if she is found. When we got her, we had a chip implanted in her to where if she was ever brought to an animal shelter, they could see her tag, scan the chip, and return her. We called the number and let them know that she was missing, so hopefully whoever has found her will realize that they are supposed to call the number on it. But the people around here aren’t quite the…oh what’s the phrase….brightest in the world.

We went to Kinkos and a friend of Jessica’s sister was working. He gave us 50 free color copies of the flier we made, which ended up being like a $49 value! He also just handed us a stapler and some staples and said to go find her, so he helped a ton. It was so much more than he had to do for us, but we were so thankful and it really did help a lot. We drove around and posted a good 30 of them on STOP signs and whatnot around her house.

We were driving back in the woods around her house and we kept stopping ever 1/2 mile or so to listen for barking and call her name. We heard tons of dogs barking, but we did stop once and this one barking caught both our attentions. We looked at each other and ran back to the car to see if we could find the source of it. We sped to Wal-Mart and bought some flashlights and by the time we got back, the barking had stopped. It really sounded like Chloe’s “I am fucking annoyed, so give me what I want” bark and tomorrow we are going to go back there during daylight and see if we can find her. Wish us luck. She really is like our baby to us. We treat her like a child and joke about “practicing” with her for when we have our own kids in a few years together.

So, other than that, nothing much else has been going on with me lately. I’ve been busy playing Neopets and posting on Mia’s message board while on the computer. I called my old employer today and asked about getting a job for next week. It paid $8 an hour and you get 40 hours a week, so $260 for a week’s worth of work really would help out sooooooooooooo much. I am currently about $50 in the red after payment for school this upcoming semester, so I really need some cash to hold me over until I can get a full time job down in Columbia. But really, most of my time has been well spent searching for Chloe with Jess.