my dog is the epitome of normal...& the final day

15 weeks tomorrow and 15.5 pounds today. How's that for "right on target"? LOL

Took a walk tonight with all three... normally it's just too much of a PITA to take all of them, espeically as Orion has crap for leash manners, but since it was his last night with us, I figured "what the hell". I took pictures....
This is a picture that I'm sure, down the road, that I will treasure... It's a bit on the fuzzy side, but turned out really well... Sure to love dem dogs!!

They love being able to run out in the grass... so we took a nice long walk then I found this grassy area (yes, there IS grass in Arizona folks!) and let them off their leashes to run :) They had a good time.


It was mostly Orion and Dakota chasing each other and Sedona trying to keep up, but when all was quiet, they glanced over at something that made a noise...


Dakota and Orion have always loved each other... still true today, despite the occasional growl ;-)

Take a few to check out these video's I caught... You can really see Orion's crazy topline in the first one... but I love to see them just running and being dogs mostly ;-)

Video number 1
Video number 2

and finally.....
My "me me". I love this dog. I love him TONS. He's so wonderful in every way (except conformationally). I sure will miss his beautiful eyes and smiling face.

another tooth gone...

Not sure why it amuses me so, but it does :)
Now if only i can get her to STOP PEEING ON MY CARPET!!!!! :P

it's a good thing she's cute, I tell ya!

can you tell?

Can you tell that I MIGHT have dogs?? I think they've taken over!!!!!

(disclaimer: please don't look at the disaster around the dog toys ;-) )

Kota's uncle Riley....

Kota's uncle, Riley, (C-Myste Kamikaze, CD, RA, OAP, OJP, NAC, CGC) rubbed elbows with comedian Tom Green.... I find that pretty darned cool! :)

Riley gettin some lovin' after doing his skateboard riding trick with his mom Kristine. Tom Green is on the ground petting Riley :)

Riley is Dakota's uncle on his mom's side... Riley and Baha are littermates :) Go Riley!!!

i'm going to kill it

no lie, every 15 minutes, this little Phoebe clone terd is PEEING ON MY CARPET! I find her piddle, tell her NO, shove her outside... I go back into the living room, there's another piddle! I CAN'T WIN!!!!!!! Overactive bladder..... or something. GRRR. but the little shit wont' pee in her crate during the day, but yet she'll pee in the house every 15 minutes. I'm about to go to the leash method (connecting her to me so she's never free) if she doesn't knock this shit off... :(

she lost her first tooth!!!!

See it? On the bottom?? She lost it recently... not sure when, but I noticed it tonight when looking at her bite...
Good bite, good teef, goooood puppy :) (now she hates me ;-) )

2 funny jokes

I heard 2 funny jokes this morning on the radio during their "one liner Wednesday" time...

1. Q)What's bigger than Winnie's Pooh?
A)Gomer's Pile

HAHAHA

2. Q)Why do mermaids wear seashells?
A)Because B Shells are too small and D shells are too big!

HEHEHEHE

I don't know why they cracked me up, but they did... LOL

More later....

starting to get a little sad

knowing that each day with Orion will be my last with him.... my last Tuesday... I can look at him now and get welled up with tears... I'll miss him so. I just really really hope his new family loves him as much as I have... he's such a good dog. I will miss his goofy antics. I will miss his beautiful blue eyes looking at me every morning. I will miss so very much about Orion.

another day done

feeling a little meloncholy tonight... another day done... another day towards the end of the year. Another day closer to my birthday, which marks yet another year of being alone. Everyone I know HAS someone... a boyfriend, a husband, a significant other. While I may tell myself I'm ok with being alone, and most of the time I really am, I can't tell you how nice it would be to just snuggle up next to someone... to know I'm genuinely cared for and loved... Someday, I suppose... that some day just keeps at such a distance... I tell myself I'm not such a bad catch.... but what is it then? I know I'm emotionally distant now, after having had the "ex-fiance experience"... is it that I keep myself distant, or do I keep myself from being available....?
yes yes, I know... in time.
damned pms gets me every time.
Going to bed.

9/25 down

I am training a new girl at work today... when I asked why she wasn't training with the girl she's likely going to work with, I got a very quick shake of the head "no" from my boss and was assured that she was in good hands with me. *shrug* I've never trained anyone, I just hope I can answer all her questions and teach her something.

Nothing special to write about... orion goes into his new family's hands on Sunday, so I'm going to spend time with him while I can. i'll miss this big goofy blue boy. I just love him to pieces but couldn't pass up a good home, especially knowing I might end up in an apartment sooner than I hope....

sorry.... got sidetracked....14 weeks, served....

damn this puppy is cute when she wants to be ! :)

14 weeks and growing like a weed...



and thus the photo shoot commences...







So there you have it fans.... 14 weeks has come and I have a bigger, cuter, orange faced munchkin.....

baby puppies

I just got home from Kathy Davis's house (Dwysan) where she has 4 week old baby puppies... They're out her her girl Marla (who i found out was named after marla gardner because of her uncanny ability as a baby to talk constantly) (CH Kollage's Some Like it Hot) by a Harry Potter son... a lightish red boy whose registered name escapes me... but he's in the 2006 catalog... his mom is Tribby? Mandy, i'm sure you can figure out who i'm talking about :) (both of his parents are Kingsbury dogs)
Anyway, they're cute cute cute and , for 4 week old puppies, are quite nice. :) I'm going to go over again in a week or so and then again at the 8 week mark, when Jackie is supposed to come out and help Kathy eval the litter. Sounded like a good opportunity for me to 1) meet more people and 2) see how others evaluate litters. kathy is nice tho. I liked her a lot :)

Will be putting Donut up on the table later once the heat of the day has passed... it's actually getting nicer and nicer with each passing day, but the sun is actually still quite hot and it makes the table hot on her wee widdle tootsies. After seeing those 4 week old bundles, Sedona is a big dog ;-) According to my not so accurate house scale, she weighs 14.5 pounds, which is right on course with where she should be, in my book. Up until now, she'd been a little under for her week (1 lb per week average), but seems she's ok now. She's turning gangly and will be unsightly for a little while I'm sure.... but i'll continue shamelessly taking pictures :P

Off to find lunch... Pictures will be posted later.

life keeps moving on...

Yesterday I found out that after 9 long months, my friend Nicole's husband Brad finally got himself a new job. It couldn't have come at a better time, as they were nearing the end of their savings. :) I'm so so happy for her! He's not quite as happy, as his lavish lazy WoW loving lifestyle is about to end, and he has to be at work at 6:30am Monday, but hey ;-)

So they came over last night, we went to Red Lobster and I ate like a feral beast (crab... mmmmm.. good stuff!) and then we came back, shared a few drinks and went to sleep after a good long time of Brad harrassing the dogs with the laser pointer ;-) I think Sedona wormed her way into his heart :)

Nicole made sure to say her goodbyes to Orion, as she will not see him again.... *cry*

After they left I decided I needed to rid my garage of the umpteen million cricket carcasses, so I plugged in the trusty dog drier and blew out my garage. I then knocked down the cobwebs in the attempt to make the big huge scary ass Brown Recluse spider like thing go far far away.

I went to Costco and spent just a little more than I would have at the grocery store and I got double the amount of stuff :) Thank goodness for the Costco membership :)

Came home and have been hanging out since....

Tomorrow I will (hopefully) wash the box, do the laundry and hopefully convince the guy from work to hang out for a little while... the bum works every Friday and Saturday night on the radio so he can't go out those nights... makes hanging out a little difficult with him. We have fun tho. He's a hoot.

Gotta take 14 week old pictures of the kid tomorrow... I can't believe they're 14 weeks old now!! Just a sanity check, I had Sedona go in the Sherpa bag so I could actually believe that she has grown ;-) Yep. She's grown alright :) Nicole hadn't seen her since the day I brought her home over a month ago...

Kota got Orion on the face tonight I think.... I DO NOT like this side of Dakota. I kick myself for letting it escalate between he and Ollie. I can't help but wonder if I had gotten Ollie out sooner if Kota wouldn't have gotten like this. he's not nasty, but every so often he'll have a nasty side. he listens tho, and when i tell him to knock it off, he does. Orion melts, so it never progresses... but still, Kota gets himself pretty wound up :(

Welp, i'm getting ansy... time for more beer ;-) stay tuned for tomorrows 14 week pictures :)

a photo shoot

Oh what a beautiful baby....

She once was known as "Kora", but is now known as the dog who will hold the name of my past.



Long awaited, but never quite expected, the smiles... the glee... the joy she brings me.



With high hopes I anticipate her future, but with a meloncholy sadness I say goodbye to each passing day that she is no longer a puppy.



But the thing that I am most thankful for, is that she is there, smiling at me, every morning and every night. changing my life with each passing day.

With her I will say goodbye to a few "pasts", and say hello to a much anticipated future.

Smile on, my beautiful puppy-girl... smile on :)

a bright ending to an otherwise shitty ass day

Day ends with a phone call from a guy from work who I went out with and hung out with this weekend.... and then I get an email from Kate who tells me to go check my mail...

Kate is the best Kate in the whole land!

Ironically enough, I saw she had a crate tag for Blue and wrote her asking where she got it done.... she told me to check my mail, and WHABAM, there they were! :) I'm so so excited and so so lucky to know such a great person :)
Now to find the perfect way to mount these things on travel crates :)
Thanks for making the otherwise shitty ass day, bright, Kate :)

Your neice-dog, Sedona, thanks you...
(insert obligatory cute dog photo here)

thoughts

on my way to work today i saw THREE stray dogs. I felt so bad for them :( I saw them and thought "wow, how lucky are my dogs.... have a warm/cool place to stay... food in their bellies... someone to love them and care for them..." Poor lost little dogs. I hope they find their way home :(

I'm having a thought... you guys can tell me if I'm nuts or not... Orion has been on a hunger strike, and he's peeing in the house more than ever...
Might he be aware that things are changing? That he might be the "outcast"? I know... you're all probably thinking I'm nuts.

I finally enticed Sedona into eating... put some canned tuna into her food. Kim1 made me remember that she may well be teething... thus the hunger strike. Tho she wasn't real interested in the soggy food from the previous morning either. little terd.

Had my review at work today... "mid year review" as they called it... to set a "benchmark" so they say. Whatever. Either way, I'm looking to get out of this position and into anything I possibly can. The sooner the better...

And here's another REAL thought... what if I don't get a job that takes me to Oregon by March? Should I stay here in this house or should I move and find an apartment closer to work? So many questions. :(

PMS'ing started today, I'm pretty sure... tummy is tight, felt really emotional... damned menstrual cycles :(

Enough bitching out of me for one day I suppose...

am i bad?

"I'd like him, and him, and him, and him :) "

I've never been one to focus my attention on more than one guy at a time, but maybe it's a result of being BURNED so damned bad. A few guys from work have caught my attention... one I think might be a pipe dream, but he just gave me his number and said "we need to hang sometime, call me" so.... the other, well... I can't help but wonder whether he's in it for the fun of the chase.
Either way, I'll just roll with the punches and try to get a life... ;-) I need to stop blaming the fact that i don't have a life on my dogs. :P

Boys are interesting... tho a strange breed. I'll keep them at a distance, but they sure are fun to play with ;-)

(hee hee hee)

13 weeks

Getting a picture this week was quite a bit more complicated than weeks previous... Not sure why, but it was.... this was the best of what I could get out of her... Not too bad, considering the 1000 other pictures i took that turned out like utter shit.

mission accomplished, I think

I've wanted Mandy to have a new website for a while now, as hers was pretty antiquated and unloved... I made her a shiny new website this weekend...

I change the air filter in my A/C unit....

I mopped and scrubbed the kitchen floor

I moved all the living room furniture and vacuumed under it

and I still have some things I want to get done, but it's highly unlikely ;-)

happy housewarming, Bobby

I went to a co-workers housewarming party last night... I went fully intending not to have much fun, but i did have fun. I drank some and laughed a lot and hung out with folks from work and their friends. It was an informal setting, and people were hugging and being silly and slapping each others butts all night long. It was good fun. I was invited to go dancing afterwards, but since I had left the kids at 4:30p and didn't feed them, i knew it was time for me to go home. I would like to go dancing some night tho... would be fun! :)
I changed the air filter this morning finally... had to get my step stool and lead it up to my grooming table, which put me tall enough to change the filter... damn being short! It was pretty nasty.
have nails to do today... and 13 week old pictures of Sedona to take too. I should clean, but I don't wanna. It's so friggin' dusty and the floors really need to be mopped. I also was going to straighten my hair too, but I wanna be a computer geek ;-) *sigh*

YES

Just got a call from Johnson Ranch Vet Clinic....

Sedona's fecal came back NEGATIVE :) WHEW! No additional cost this month! YAY!

TGIF folks... TGI freakin' F

more later

the answer... from blogger... FINALLY

Users who have switched to Blogger in beta will not be able to login to comment on blogs that have not switched. Commenting using the “anonymous” or “other” options will still work. Update (9/12): We have started working on making this possible, however the change is substantial and will take a little while before it is ready. — latest update on Tuesday, September 12, 2006

I'll bet dollars to donuts that this is what is affecting my blog. I had an account for a few years then I removed my stuff, then I upgraded to the beta... tho Kate has had hers just as long.... maybe Kate didn't "switch to blogger in beta"? I dunno... I can only hope that it becomes easier for folks to leave me comments... tho that is how i have to leave comments for everyone too... I'll keep checking for updates.

Off to find breakfast.

visitor outside

I stepped out to let the dogs out one last time this evening and saw this visitor on the wall (yes, the very wall where dog photos are taken)... Very cool guy so i snapped a few photos...

vet appt & other misc things that pissed me off today

Took Sedona to the vet today and took in a stool sample... she weighed in at 11.8 pounds. Vet thinks she's fine, I think she's a little on the thin side... I'll increase her food. I hate when vets talk to me like I don't know what I'm talking about. annoys the piss out of me. Got a one dose supply of heartguard plus... doc says it will worm her for round worm and something else... hook worms? it was four dollars... i can afford that for now. They'll call me either tomorrow or Friday with the results of the fecal... lets hope she doesn't need worming... :)

On to other things... my dad called while driving home to tell me that my (dearest) Aunt is in the hospital... had been for a WEEK. "And this is the first I"m hearing of it?" I said to him, to which he replied very snottily "yes". I ended up hanging up on him in tears and calling my mom to rant. While in the vets office he called back and said "are you ready to talk now?" to which I replied "are you ready to LISTEN now?" I told him why i was so upset and he SAID he understood, but this aunt (his sister) is the only family member, aside from my own parents, who has given two shits about me my whole life... She always came for my graduations... she was there when my sister died... she's just always been there. So yes, I was upset to hear she's in the hospital. I hope he got the picture.

I think I'm goign to have some liquid dinner with my pasta salad tonight... i need something to calm my frazzled nerves....

but back to the cutie patootie.... Here are two photos i snapped of her on the camera phone while in the vets office....

the funniest thing

I just got out of the shower.... and I mean JUST... to see Sedona chewing on something. I saw a black string so I got closer to find out that she had gotten into my suitcase (yes, I still have the suitcase in my bedroom from the Portland trip) and grabbed a flip flop. I proceeded to grab the flip flop and give her a big huge NOOOOO. I took the flip flop, tossed it back in the suitcase, and closed the top and turned back to her. She proceeded to melt into the floor next to the bed and as I got closer to give her one last "no chew shoes" she literally rolled herself under the bed so as not to be seen. I couldn't help it. I lost it. I had to come in and write it down because that was just too friggin funny not to. that dog cracks me up! She's so stinkin' smart and such a character... good puppy.... no accidents tonight even :) But OH my GOSH the personality on this dog! Silly little goof :)

what a difference a day makes

We (Sedona and I) made the same walk in 1/4 of the time today... MUCH more confident and even strutting her stuff out in front of me (she has a lovely rear!). The one thing I HAVE noticed is that she carries her ears like her MOTHER (pinned back) when she moves... weird :) And for having a high-ish tail set, she carries her tail LOW LOW LOW... rarely even lifting it off her dairy-airy ;-)

In other news, I opened the door to the house to find the lower baby gate knocked down. What does that mean? The two prisoners inside of the room broke out. When? not sure. Luckily, no harm was done (i've been toying with the idea of leaving at least one of them loose during the day). I was surprised more than anything. I wonder whether Sedona was making such a fuss that the boys broke out to see what was going on.

She's not pooping in the house during the day anymore (thank dog), but she is peeing... she won't pee on the puppy pads without tearing them to shreds, so I left an old (crappy) towel in there and it did the trick. So much for the puppy pads.... LOL

Might be strong armed into going to a co-workers party this weekend... it's not far, so that's good, but I don't know if I want to go and hang out. I probably should... it's not like I have any burning plans anyway.... ;-)

New opportunities?

I spoke with the senior most manager here at work today and talked to him about getting me into a more technical position. He said that he forsaw a position opening up in the modem group by the end of the year and that he'd consider me first for it. I hope that comes to fruition, because if i have to stay in this stupid dispatch position much longer i might go NUTS.

I still haven't heard from Jason like I was supposed to... I guess it's time I hunt him down and say WTF!?! If he wants my help, he has to work with me. He's got problems. I'm glad I don't have problems like that. It really makes me re-evaluate MY life and realize that things could be much much worse....

Why is it that I always want it to be the weekend?? ;-) sad huh?

a walk outside

I took Sedona for a walk down to get the mail and around the block... at first she was a wee bit skittish at the noises of the cars and horns from car alarms and whatnot, but by the end of the walk she was a pro.. walking proudly. She met a lovely couple who share our backyard wall, but three houses down... Joe and Laura. They're originally from NY but relocated here when the houses were still being built. Nice nice older couple who offered me all sorts of plants from their front yard :) Sedona thought they were pretty nice too :)

I didn't get the job in Medford.... they called and left a voicemail. I'm a tad bit bummed but relieved at the same time, as I am NOT a work-a-holic, and it sounded like the hours would not have made me happy.

I'm going to talk to Don (the guy over all of us in our building at work) and see if I can't get in with the modem group at work. They work on the modems that get the "remotes" group access to the switches. I wrote him and told him about my desire, and he said to go in and talk to him.. he's busy quite often. I'm hoping he'll be available for a few minutes tomorrow... at least I've planted the seed.

Well, rather than sit here and graze on the Almond Coconut Crunch I have sitting here at my desk, I should go forage in the fridge to find dinner.... more later.

a tribute, written by my friend...

written by a friend of mine... Brandon.....
a very VERY talented writer, who, in my opinion, should be published....

I could never have said it so eloquently.... tho I will have my own thoughts on this day later.

Fallen

a place where at one point

two giants stood

a symbol of power

and truth understood

in a heartbeat a nation

is down on its knees

an outcry of pain

and sorrowful pleas

rocks and debris

were all that remained

and a service that left us

permanently stained

We still remember

5 years past

our hearts still aching

our prayers we hold fast

through all of the claims

that we're winning the war

we're still losing soldiers

to settle the score

many more lives lost

even after the fall

heeding the yell

of our presidents call

a nation remembers

and will continue to moan

until all of our loved ones

are safe back at home

Sedona 12 weeks

My little child genius... Got in and out. Put her up on the table, took four pictures, got this one :) Not as nice as last weeks picture, but still, not shabby in the least! :)

random photo adding time ;-)

A size comparison...

When Rion was a puppy, I caught some pictures of him laying sideways in his crate... so thus starts a "tradition"... so I can look back and see "back in the day, you used to be able to fit sideways in there!!!" :)

This was a random shot taken before bed this week... Doesn't she appear to be an angel?? (well, most of the time she really IS a good dog!)

caught sleeping with her foot in the bowl. She always snuggles up to Rion's food bowl... not sure why.

Half brother and sister... they REALLY love each other. I know they're going to miss each other when Rion moves away...

Going to get 12 week photos today, hopefully... it's no small feat, doing these stacked photos alone with no help! It's doable only because of the timer on my dear camera. :) I used to have one that had a remote, and that was handy, but quite honestly, it took much more inferior pictures and I'm not even sure where it is now! (haha) I do want a new camera tho. This Sony cybershot pisses me off about 80% of the time when it won't snap the picture I'm telling it to. Kate, what was it you told me to do to fix that????

Will post later with the results of the 12 week stacking attempt....

Happy 12 weeks to the "D" litter.. :)

sweetness

am i the only one who feels the need to hold her sleeping puppy?? my adults wont relax enough to sleep in my arms, but the puppy will.... tooo sweet. have i said lately how much i love this dog????

oh & her adult coat is starting to come in...straight as a board, thank goodness

pay day :) bill day :(

Got paid today... dont' have any money to show for it because 95% of my bills were due before my next pay day! So what did I do tonight? I sat down and paid ALL my bills so I can be broke as a joke till the 22nd, when I get paid next. :( Let's hope I have enough money for gas for the car and food for muh belly ;-)

Cutting out the one real "extra" i had for this month, which is getting my nails done. Gonna see if I can make all my bills with extra to spare and see if I can add that back in later.

Gotta start figuring out a dog show fund... cuz goodness knows dog show weekends break the bank. Travel costs, hotel costs, entry fees and of course, the obligatory "you won so you get a present" cost ;-) Why does the one hobby I really love have to cost so damned much money?? ;-) It's all Mandy and Carolyns fault. I didnt' want to show dogs. I wanted an agility dog. STILL don't have my agility dog! ;-)

Gonna be a lazy ass this weekend, since I cancelled my nail appointment. don't have to leave the house for anything (tho I think i do need to go to Costco to get dog food), so I plan on playing WoW all weekend . . . ah yes geekdom :) Ain't it grand?? :)

(I really need a life!!)

I was invited (as were most of the people I know from work) to a party at a co-workers house... but eh. I'm tempted to go just so I can go hang out with him (he's kinda cute ;-) ) but I think he may have a thing for the tall thin girl who wears the push up bras ;-) We'll see.

sad

I was just watching Primetime (news show) and they had a feature on the kids born to mothers who lost their husbands on 9/11/01... five years later. OMG the tears... the sadness... the kids were ADORABLE of course, but the premise of the story... man, I haven't cried like that in a while. And I didn't even KNOW anyone! LOL

Five years... amazing how fast time flies. One of those things that we'll always remember EXACTLY what we were doing at that time when we found out.....

Changed our lives forever.

phone interview v1

I seemed to have clicked with the lady I had the phone interview with for the Mail Tribune position in Medford, OR. She was nice and I think we got along well... all except the part where she said there would be lots of "long hours" involved for a while. We'll see.
I have phone interview v2 tomorrow at 12:30pm (my lunch hour). We'll see from there, whether they want to continue pursuing me as a candidate for the position. If they do, they said they'd pay half my flight to get out there... we'll see how tomorrow goes and I'll make my judgement after that.

Kate, the bum who is always nagging about Gogo's topline posts THIS picture....

And has the nerve to complain about the dogs topline? WTF Kate! You're crazy! I love that dog. Always have. He's a lot of the reason I wanted a Phoebe x Carbon kid. I'm thankful I have her, and now if she can turn out half as good as her big brother, I'm set :)

In dog news, Sedona the evil munched on the wall today... I thought MAYBE, just MAYBE she would leave the wall alone if I exposed it. Nope. No such luck. I'll be putting the tarp back up in such a manner so as to protect the walls. *sigh*

Had the exterminator come in and spray... he said it was the worst cricket infestation he'd seen in a long long time, but did say there was nothing I did that caused it. The only thing I could have done was to have it exterminated before this. Good thing they'll come out for free now that I've paid them to come out once. I'm sure they'll be out in a week or so to kill crickets again! He showed me the one Black Widow that was near death before he left. he said anything that is out should be dead or will be shortly... I'll trust his word. I was to keep the little one on a leash for an hour after the spray outside...

Work sucked ass today... but then, when does it NOT suck ass? I long for a job that I don't hate. Sometimes I really kick myself for leaving GreenLeaf in san Francisco... but I needed out of that toxic environment. I was not doing myself any good there.. For reasons you all know that I don't need to get into here :)

Off to cook dinner....

am i insane?

People who know what I went through with my ex, Jason, would say that he treated me like shit. I would tend to agree. However, that was 10 years ago that we started seeing each other... I broke up with him in 99. Since then, his life went down the toilet. For 4 years he was addicted to bad bad things and they did a number on him. He recently figured out he needed to get his head above water and we were talking last night on IM. I've decided I'm going to help him through this. I'm not sure why I feel the need to help this guy who was so emotionally abusive to me, but he needs a friend.... and I'm one of the few people who know that deep down, he has good intentions, he's a good person with a lot of potential.

Am I setting myself up? I don't know. I'll never know unless I give him a try. He needs someone to talk to, who can help him see the positive side of things. For some reason, I feel like I'm that person for him.

And thus begins a chapter that will hopefully have a positive outcome for Jason. He's smart, and really IS a good person... he just wasn't good for ME.

We'll see what comes of this. I hope he doesn't make me regret this....

insanity

work was pure insanity today... have a telephone interview for an IT position with the Mail Tribune in Medford tomorrow at 3:30. I also have the exterminators coming betwee 4 and 5 to take care of this blasted cricket problem I seem to be having. Just in time... i saw a nest of spiders at my front door! EW. I can't wait till these evil little bugs are gone.
Got billz to pay, but can't until I get paid on Friday... I hate living hand to mouth. :( Hopefully if I get a new job it'll allow me a little more financial freedom. how am i supposed to show a dog with THIS salary! I can't! :(
It's days like this that I wish I could go back to being 10 years old... rollerskating in the adjacent parking lot and not having a care in the world.....

The best so far...

Here she is... 11 weeks and looking like a seasoned vet on the table :) Not all of the shots were quite that pretty, but when I saw this one and it made me melt, I got all excited about the prospects this little thing has in store for me....

And her brother/nephew... equally as handsome....

The more I look at this picture, the more he looks stuffy to me, but it's because he has JUST been blown out... Still a handsome dog, all the same. Yea, I think I'll bring him out soon... just as soon as I have money... :(

It's been a nice quiet Monday.... somedog pee'd on Sedona so she got a bath.. as did Dakota, right after. The offending "somedog" didn't, as I didn't feel like putting up with his weirdness about the table outside.

i've been a geek the better part of the weekend.. saturday night I went bowling with friends from work but the remainder of the weekend has been spent playing WoW... pathetic, but true. I did find a good part of my desk, and the sheets have all been washed too. I watched Flightplan and BBQ'd some ribs.. continued cleaning my desk and vacuumed the floors... alright so maybe I did do something other than play WoW, but at the moment, it feels like I've been in STV for ages ;-)

Piling up the bills that need paying so far this month... should be fun, watching the money go to ZERO just as soon as that rent check clears... thank GOODNESS I get paid on Friday!! Then I can pay all these other bills that insist on returning month after month ;-)

Can I go back to being a teenager again? This adult thing is for the birds sometimes ;-)

a whim

I decided to toss Kota up on the grooming table and take a few pictures...

This is what came out of it. Even tho he hasn't shown in 9 months, he's still a great show dog... loves the table, loves to be pampered :) At three years, he's really developed quite nicely... Look at that CHEST! :) There was another picture that his head and chest came out better, but the topline wasn't right.... I'll attach it here, if for no other purpose but to see his shoulder angles, chest and head :)

Have I mentioned lately that I love this dog??


I let the two younger kids out for a potty break and took Kota in my room to take the sheets off the bed for washing. He jumped up on the bed and wouldn't move, so I wrapped him up :)

I found my dog in all of that and had to take a picture... him's such a wub!

thank goodness for Dakota... He changed my life in so many ways. Him's my baybee :)

And in comparison... here's some pictures of the Giant Corgi...

He IS a cute dog... sweetest big little dog I've known :)

I could have pulled his rear our farther to stretch him out, but it's not as natural... this is almost as natural on a table as he gets...
you can see how much more of the table he takes up, as compared to Kota too... pretty dog, he really is... but a conformational nightmare :) I wub him all the same!

a picture I took outside of work the other day...

Just outside of the building at work (the one to the right), I couldn't resist when I saw the rays coming out from behind this cloud... it was a shot I had to take and hope it turned out. Seems it did. I only wish I had my REAL camera with me and not my camera phone.. it would have been that much better... Oh well.

She's a Natural! She loved to shop!! I took her to PetSmart where she was more nervous, and from there we went to Target (more for the socialization than for the shopping, as I really didnt' need much)

She wasn't bothered by the noise or the attention (both of which were plentiful), tho she did tucker out quite easily as evidenced below....

She was a good good girl, who is rock solid in temperment at (almost) 11 weeks. Beauty and brains.. what more could I ask for??

For her trouble, I bought a Mallard Duck (aka Kimi-Willows favorite toy that has turned into a favorite around here too... we have parts of two others floating around) and a big loofa dog that grunts too... as long as she is at this point. It's quite cute.

Was going to take a brother too, but realized it was just easier not to. Especially with wanting to go to Target... couldn't have gotten them in nearly as easily as I did her.

Off to burn some brain cells on the computer game ;-)

off we go

Taking the punk to PetSmart and Walmart (if they'll let us in)... need to get some dog bones and some people stuff from wally world... Will post later on her big adventure.. :)

it's official

Orion is going to live in New Mexico at the end of September. His new family (the Wards) aren't able to get him this weekend, but can at the end of the month, when their son has another long weekend.

They sound like a great family... 10 year old son, husband that works from home, 1 acre yard. I know Kota and Sedona will miss the heck out of the big blue goon, as will I, but I know it's for the best. (as i look down and see Kota grooming Orion)

I tried to prepare myself for the possibility that I would lose Orion somewhere down the road, and it is easier to deal with than it was with Ollie, but I still love this dog so much it hurts... I am sure there are many tears to be shed over this decision (damn it, i'm welling up now), but I know if I look towards my future, I will need to be down to only 2 dogs. I know this. I will have a third and probably a forth at some point, but for my immediate future, I must cut down.

Must post the obligatory "cute" picture before I start to cry....

Damn she's cute... and what a looker she is turning into with each passing day!!


My sweet, happy, Duh. This dog changed my life and I couldn't be more thankful. He's my shadow, and I can't imagine life without him.


And then the big blue wonder... the dog with the most incredible temperment and personality. I will miss him TONS.


And the crew, together, in the spare room. Hard to believe these three are so closely related, but yet look so distinctly different...
Thank you Carbon, for all of these kids who have graced my life. Without you, none would be here :)