I stayed home from work today, wasn't feeling great. I wish I would have just sucked it up and gone because I feel better now.
In other news, I realized that my dog has separation anxiety issues. And I probably encouraged them and didn't realize it until now. In my defense, some of the things I did just had to be the way it was at the time. For example, my back yard is all fenced in except for ONE part. So, I finally got some makeshift fencing to totally enclose it so she could be in the back without me out there. But up until this time, I had taken her out to go potty, I had always been in the backyard with her even when she was off leash (I stood where it wasn't fenced in so she couldn't get out). And now, when I leave her out there and go back inside, when she realizes that I'm not there anymore, she will come to the gate and whine and bark. I just want her to sniff around the yard like a normal dog. But, I have created separation anxiety in her and now I must work on that.
I suppose I was particularly annoyed because I cut my finger and got dirty in assembling the fencing/gate, spent money on it, all for her to not even use the backyard as anticipated. I'm also annoyed at myself that I subconsciously created it in her.