I love it when I come to office on a Monday and find a bar of chocolate on my desk :)

Thanks, Wei Ting!

Anyhow, it was a pretty good weekend! Good weekends don't happen very often. Most of the time, weekends just 'disappear'. Either there are so many things to do that it doesn't feel like a weekend at all, or I totally wasted it by sleeping/stoning/generally doing nothing.

Lana had ticks :( so we couldn't bring Genie to meet her. What we did do, was head for lunch on Sat with Glenn and Uncle Teng. Had chilli crab *yum*

After lunch, we drove Genie to Petmovers in Pasir Ris. They have a small fenced area just for dogs to play over there. Think of it as a dog playground. She ran around, chased the chihuahuas, and escaped from other dogs who tried to sniff her butt.

We had wanted to bring her for a grooming session after that, but were informed that you actually need to make an appt! How weird >.> when I called up a few places to check pricing, no one said anything about appointments. In fact, it was a "just bring her in over the weekend" It means her grooming thingy has to be delayed for about a week or two.

At any rate, she was so tired after running around at the park she fell asleep in the car on the way back and slept the rest of the day.

The fact that all the regular places for grooming was packed turned out to be a blessing in disguise though!

We went for lunch on Sunday with Melvin's grandparents and guess what! We found a pet shop near his grandparents' place who offered to do the full grooming for $50. Much cheaper than Fur Away (or Furs Away.. Don't remember. It's in that turf club place at bukit timah) who wanted to rip us off for $65. I mean, even the pet safari at Vivocity only charges $55.

It just simplifies things, ya know? We can make an appointment there, drop her off, and head over to his grandparents' place for food (note: the shop is within walking distance from his grandparents' place - two blocks down? or three?)

The thing that totally convinced me to send Genie there was the 2 extremely well groomed Westies I saw in the shop waiting to be picked up by their owners.

It was another exciting afternoon for Genie. She met Louis and Ruben (Age 12 and 7? Not sure of Ruben's age), Melvin's cousins, over lunch on Sunday and spent much of her time running away from Ruben.

Needless to say, she totally conked on our way home and slept the rest of the day away.

I wonder if this is normal.. I thought dogs were supposed to be energetic. How come her batt runs flat so fast >.>