Wasted rotate, quirks

So over the weekend I rotated the tires in the Prius, hoping it would help quiet down some road noise from a couple tires that were showing wear.  Well instead the noise got even worse.  I gave Cindy the green light to just get all four tires replaced.  She called up the place we bought them from, Tires Plus.  They were nice to deal with last time and gave Cindy a military discount.  The guy said he would get us a partial credit since the Bridgestone Ecopias have a 65,000 mile warranty and we only put maybe 55,000 miles on them.  It turned out that we wound up paying about $100 less than we did the first time so I was happy with that.  Cindy said the Prius drives and sounds much better.

Bringing Elsa into the house has been a lot of fun but we are still trying to figure out some of her weird quirks.  She still gets very nervous at times, getting scared of things that aren’t obvious.  When it gets dark out she seems especially scared.

She rarely will stay out in the great room with us at night.  She prefers to retreat to the office and hide under one of our desks. The odd thing is when Sadie is with us, who is always near by, Elsa wasn’t doing her nighttime hiding.

Lately in the morning she has been hesitant to go out first thing to pee.  We don’t know if it’s the fog or the wet grass.  Cindy hasn’t been able to convince her to go out alone.  I have been coming out as well and going out in the yard in my underwear to entice her to venture into the grass to relieve herself.

As quiet and as timid as she can be, she also can be super energetic and funny.  When she comes out of the bedroom in the morning she comes running up to the office to greet me, jumping around and licking my face.   When she plays with the neighbors puppy she runs around like a maniac.

Getting to know her personality has been a little challenging but overall very cool.  I can tell how happy it makes Cindy to have Elsa in the house which always make me happy by proxy.  Of course I find it very endearing that her preferred sleep position at night is normally laying against or on me.