Mouscron...

allright ppl.. the show on sunday!

Gosh, I can sometimes be such and idiot and totally not using my head. I had a big plan on saturday.. when I would go to sleep, bath Casper and all that so I'd be all rested out and ready to "kick some ass" on sunday..
Well, that didn't work out as you might have found out... we had just bought tekken 6 for the playstation. It's a martial arts game and I had played it once on playstation 1 a billion years ago and loved it. So we started playing a bit in the day and it was fun, and I sucked...
Then we rented some movies, I was gonna watch one movie and then bath Casper and go to sleep..
Well when the movie (wich was awful, demon somthing with Cuba Gooding Jr) was finished I was gonna go do what I had planned and Nick was gonna watch "final destination".. it was in 3D and there were glasses with it. I had never seen a movie in 3D and of course wanted to see how it was.. so I watched half of the movie before deciding it was boring and that I had to go do something.
I didn't bath Casper though, and I didn't go to sleep. After Nick had watched the movie I had a glass of redwine, I had decided to go to sleep a bit later as I wasn't that tired and wake up earlier and bath Casper in the morning (=at 4 am)...
I had to finish my glass of wine before going to sleep so we started playing tekken.. and I finished my glass, and 2 more.. the box of redwine was empty and that should have stopped me but I was very thirsty so we opened a bottle and had that and kept on playing! I started to be better and better and won several times:)
Between 1 and 2am we finally went to sleep... it was a short night and at 20 before 4 I wake up to Casper squeezing in between our heads.. I had 20 more minutes of sleep and of course couldn't really sleep because I was up.. but I stayed in bed and at 4 I stood up, brushed Casper and bathed and made him ready.
Then I had to load the car I had already put some stuff in the night before but the table and groomingbox had to go in... I was so on time this morning that it was incredible!
I am ALWAYS a half hour behind schedule..
So I go to the car, it was rather cold outside and yes the lock was frozen so I could hardly get the key in! After alot of swearing, a little kicking and trying to getting the key in I made it.. but it took about 15 minutes I think!
Ok all stuff in the car, start the car and get it warm.. put location in the gps and finish loading the car and off I go... half an hour after schedule.. but it was ok, I got an ok parking space (the parking in Mouscron is AWFUL, there are hardly any spaces there).
So in I go and get set up next to Wendy, Caspers groomer.

Then hangover took over.. or something. I wasn't feeling bad but I was just "off" when the time came to get ready and go in the ring. Casper was also very unfocused and not performing like he usually does.. so we got the reserve after the white italian champion male who was shown for the first time and ended up best male.
It was ok, of course I would have liked to have won, I need to get a CAC on Casper to start his belgian championship (a year and a day need to pass between the first and last CAC so the sooner the better..)
Casper has now 2 reserves here and I really need to get a CAC. He's entered to Gent in the end of february so we'll see what happens then.
I am gonna go to showtraining with him and get my act together.
I was so ashamed of myself and my performance in the ring.. I looked like a complete beginner and I guess when you don't go to shows every weekend and haven't done it for a while you get a bit rusty... and there are so many more things to think about when showing a poodle vs showing an IG so I really need to go train and find my style again because I have learned alot and seen alot of I was gonna "do it all" and of course it got messy... so the reserve was deserved:)

Tingen is exploding, she's so pregnant it looks like she ate a watermelon or a football or something! She's rather uncomfortalbe now, didn't sleep much this night so I guess the puppies will be arriving soon.

We didn't go to the gym this week, I don't want to leave Tingen alone now in case she starts her labour so hopefully the pups will come this week and I can go to the gym on monday.

That's all for today:)