success x three

*i finally won a game of monopoly against alvin the other night, for the first time ever. i don't know what i did right, or he did wrong, but it was very satisfying to watch him mortgage half of his properties and finally give up.

* i've utterly traumatized beagle dog with my new tactic for making him be quiet: when he starts making the screaming beagle noise, i squirt water on him from the water bottle sprayer thing. he hates water. it works. even better is that it works on beagle dog if i spray the other dog! they often run around in circles in the living room, and when beagle dog gets tired of running he hops up on the couch, which inevitably pisses off other dog because he's not ready to quit. that's when other dog starts the high pitched barking that hurts my brain. so i spray him when he keeps it up, and beagle dog makes a run for it downstairs. it's hilarious. water solves all dog problems.

lest it sound like i'm torturing my dogs (i'm not) and enjoying it (i am), i've only sprayed them about five times total. they bark a lot less now.

*i made a 94 on my statistics test. =) quite a few people made 40-somethings or otherwise failed, so i don't feel like such a bad student anymore.