Passing For Normal

IT JUST CAME! There will be SLEEP tonight! *happy dance*

As for the dog question: Sounds like excitement urination, which is not at all unusual. A variation is submissive urination and you'll often find both discussed in the same context, although there are distinctions between them in triggers and approach.

Fortunately, the Whole Dog Journal, my favorite resource for things dogly, has a great article online about it: Preventing Unwanted Urination.

In my personal experience, the most effective thing has been to largely ignore the dog for the first few minutes at meeting-after-absence times, which are most likely to trigger the behavior.

She'll be all excited to see you again, and you want to bring that excitement level down to something more moderate before giving her attention. So when you first see her in the morning, or when you first walk in the door arriving home, ignore her at first. Don't give her eye contact, don't pet her, don't talk to her. Give her a few minutes (could be anywhere from two to five or even as much as ten; watch her for cues) to calm herself down from the stimulus of seeing you. Only then do you greet her, but do it relatively calmly and quietly; make it a quiet-happy greeting rather than a vigorous, bouncy-happy one.

Training her to sit to be petted/greeted/etc could be helpful, too, if her owner would be interested in adding that to her repertoire. It gives the dog something specific to focus her attention on, and it gives her an exercise in self-control with a built-in reward which is always nice.

It can also be useful to get her accustomed to an end-of-attention cue (whether that attention is greeting, petting, playing, or whatever).

I usually use a simple, neutral physical cue (gentle one-finger tap to the bridge of the nose with one dog; similar thing one the top of the head with another; a gentle, very brief hand wrapped over the muzzle with a much more forcefully enthusiastic dog, etc) paired with a quiet "That's all" and then ignore any further attempts to get your attention. It's neither a praise/reward thing nor a correction, just a neutral signal. They generally pick it up quickly, and it actually reduces anxiety because you are giving them a definite boundary that they understand.

It's likely to take some weeks to fully resolve the urination issue, with steps forward and the odd step back, but stick with it and you'll get past it together. (Possibly it could take somewhat longer, but hopefully not in this case since it's not a lifelong pattern, nor universal with all people.)

Best of luck!