Separation Anxiety

Video Voter Guide NYC

I am in New York working on The Video Voter Guide- it’s a comprehensive voter information program that allows all candidates for city election to tape a candidate statement. I’m overseeing the project and it’s being taped at 30 Rock/WNBC which is pretty cool.

What is not cool, however, is how much I miss Ranger! I’ve only had him a few short months but I can’t stop thinking about him!

My Son Ranger

To deal with my own separation anxiety I have developed the following coping mechanisms:

1. I have about 10 different photos of Ranger on my phone and I shuffle through them at least a couple of times a day.

2.  Change my home screen so that I get a new shot of Ranger every day.

3. Check in on Ranger at his home away from home (my friend Amy’s house)

4. Hang out with my dog-owning friends and family in NYC.

and finally

5. Stop random people with dogs on the street and get my dog fix.

Last night I did a combo of 4 & 5 when I had a fabulous dinner with my friends Shelly and Julie at Tiramisu (a yummy Italian place on the corner of 80th & 3rd) with their adorable Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Sadie and Sasha. I felt like a true New Yorker, sitting outside and enjoying a great Italian meal with friends (canine and human alike.)

Then as I was heading home, I saw the most adorable Chocolate Lab just sitting like a perfect angel as her parents enjoyed their sushi dinner. I couldn’t resist asking if I could say hi.  Jordan (the lab) and her parents obliged my need for a dog fix and Jordan and I engaged in some mad love complete with slobbery lab kisses- a personal favorite.

Chocolate Lab in Pearls

I come to find out Jordan’s parents are actually transplanted LA people, they went to the same vet that I do and Jordan is a rescue; definitely my kind of people. Oh, and Jordan has been featured on the Martha Stewart Show- a celebrity dog!

It’s doesn’t all up to actually being able to be with Ranger, but I’m coping!

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