It's a Meagle

So, after a little research online last night, we've come to the conclusion that Halo's breed (if you can really call it that) is Meagle, which is a Miniature Pinscher/Beagle mix... Though I like to think a more appropriate hybrid name would have been Mingle, but whatever. He leans more toward the MinPin from what we can tell though.

Apparently these mixes that are being bred and sold like purebreds -- like Labradoodles, Puggles, and Chugs (cissi) -- are more widespread AND they even have their own club...the American Canine Hybrid Club. Good to know. If you check it out, I found a list of 300+ recognized "breeds."

Here are some of my favorite names from the list: Rattle, Taco Terrier, Bowzer, Jack-A-Bee, Faux Frenchbo Bulldog, Bossi-Poo, Cheeks, Free-Lance Bulldog, Crustie, Shocker, Dorkie, Cojack, Jug, Poshies, Saint Berdoodle, Foodle, and Sharp Eagle.

details, details

As far as the job goes... I'm working at one of the headquarter offices (in Dublin, not downtown) for Nationwide on their Life Insurance floor. Basically I'm split between two departments, or will be. So far my training is only on the billing&payment side of things. I'm bouncing around a little bit between doing training part of the day and just shadowing people the rest of the day for now until my computer system is set up and I can work without interrupting the rest of what they have to get done. But it's good.. I think I'm actually being taught more processes than originally planned because of it.

Oh.. and for the living room. The pictures with the dogs are all taken in our living room, but the profile pic/Ninja picture is definitely not ours. ;)

(finally)

I got a job. And started today.

More dog pictures

This is Halo's giraffe toy that he loves... and he's right at that point where he's cutting his big dog teeth, so the head stayed whole for about 30 seconds...
And once we had him home for a few hours, and we started getting icy rain, I realized that he might just need something to wear on the really cold days. John's not a big fan (at all) of dressing up dogs, but luckily we found a happy compromise when we came across a Cavalier jersey at Petsmart... And if we can find a plain colored doggie sweatshirt that fits him, I'm thinking about getting that sewing Halo logo onto it for him.
And this one is just to prove that Sydney is adjusting.

All in the Family

Since this is the prodigal return of the Zebra Lounge, we figured we'd start off big. Or in this case, small. Meet Halo (named after one of the greatest games ever created). Technically, according to Franklin County, his name is Kris... but that's just on paper. He's pretty crazy and wound up, but he's ours. He's almost 5 months old.
As you can probably guess, Sydney's in super territorial mode, but all in all, she's adjusting well and they like each other.

A little bit of De-Motivation for everyone

Voices from the Zebra Lounge...

(John speaking)
Jill, Because you are now my family, I am not going to verbally bash you for not knowing what the zebra lounge is. But I will say this, you cannot find your coolness or your Steve Martin like quirkiness until you can effectively define it without my help. (PS...Lisa didn't know what it meant either...and still might not really know.)

(Lisa) Kara, The first background was just the first thing I found to get the blog setup. I really like the new one we found. However, I am having an issue because in the Template section where you're supposed to have an option that says "Add new Element"... I don't have one. Any ideas?

(John) Kara... Our backgrounds are magical entities owned by the Microsoft corporation, so if you value your life you'll quit bringing it up.