My husband has been giving me grief lately, because he feels like he married the next John Grogan. The only thing I seem to post about on this blog are my dogs.

Well, let’s face it, I’ve had a rough couple of years in terms of my life with dogs. First, I lose my best friend and our first family dog. Then we bring home Mugen and he starts sewing us up and then we adopt Lucy and feel like the family is complete only to have her taken from us by cancer less than two years later. Along the way, we adopted Jazzmin because she needed someplace to go and when Lucy was gone, I was so horribly lonely without her that my husband decided we needed a third again and we adopted Jet. That’s a lot of doing with dogs in three years, so I have a lot to talk about when it comes to my crew.… [Read More]

So this is Christmas…

I was going to write a piece about Script Frenzy.

I had planned to sit down this morning and really go through everything that had happened while I was learning how to write a stage play over the last month.
It’s amazing how so few words can change your world and change your direction.

Osama bin Laden is dead.

There are conspiracy theorists who will say that he lives on, that the burial at sea wasn’t good enough for them. To them, I have to say: The CIA has photos. The president has seen the photos. I may not agree with President Obama’s politics, and I do believe he is the kind of man that would lie about something like this to make himself look good, but I do not believe that he is lying. There’s also the little matter of the CIA having a confirmed DNA match to bin Laden’s sister.… [Read More]

Osama bin Laden is Dead.

There is a certain peace and serenity that can be found in the company of an old dog. I experience this every Saturday morning when Miss Lucy wakes me up before the sun comes up to take her outside. I step outside with her and watch her run around the yard and she smiles and I smile and then she comes inside, taking her time up the stairs leading to my deck so that she doesn’t fall. Then we come inside and she curls up on the family room sofa and I sit down with her and we just… stay like that.

Sometimes, it’s really nice to just… be.

I love old dogs. They have a wisdom and a knowledge that comes with an entire lifetime’s worth of experience. They have the most beautiful souls. There is nothing more wonderful in my world than the quiet, constant, companionship of an old dog.… [Read More]

Old Dog

So it’s been crazy this last week.

I started NaNoWriMo.

The basement smells like Axe, so I can’t go down there to hide and write. On top of all of that, I’ve had the flu, hubby passed his written FAA exam, one of my NaNo friends finally, after 29 hours of labor, gave birth this morning at 1:45 am and I was miserable that I could not be at the hospital with her because I’m contagious. She texted me frequently and sounded so scared, but I know that I was scared too when I was having my first child, I did my best to keep her calm via text message and be supportive. I’m surprised that no one took her phone away from her. I just wish I could have been there to hold her hand. I hope she knows that I was there in spirit.

This gal amazes me. I can’t believe she’s still intending on participating in NaNo this year, but she has done it every year for the last three at least.… [Read More]

Like Magic

So I got up on time this morning.

Daughter overslept.

Son got up on time.

Hubby took daughter to school and I took son to school and up to this point, everything was totally ok.

I get the son to school and I come home to discover that hubby has left me with the oatmeal that I do not eat for breakfast… and no other breakfast supplies. I checked the board where we write down the stuff we’re out of before I left because I pass 2 grocery stores and several breakfast establishments on the way back from taking the son to school. I also checked the pantry, just in case.

Whoever took the last package of oatmeal out of the other box… left the empty box sitting on the shelf. So I had no idea that I had to stop to get myself something to eat…

And yeah, I could have eaten the other oatmeal, but my stomach seriously balked at the idea of eating banana flavored oatmeal this morning.… [Read More]

A Morning in the Life of 2 Gemini

Mugen’s first day at Puppy Kindergarten was last night. I was disturbed by the fact that he was the only Lab in the class. There were five german shepherds, a soft coated wheaton terrier, a chihuahua and a sheltie… Oh and a flat coat retriever.

Mugen… was the single, solitary Lab. So when asked to explain the history of the breed, it felt strange to offer up that Labs are one of the three most popular breeds of dogs in the United States… I opted not to say it. Instead I explained that Labs come in black, yellow and chocolate and that no other colors need apply and that this dog was commonly used for hunting in the retrieval of water fowl and that they were excellent swimmers and that Mugen was just awesome.

I got a few smiles and a few chuckles.

The daughter forgot to bring her camera. I forgot to bring my camera so we were left without photos, but I think she and I will always have a fond memory of last night because we finally saw who Mugen was, the both of us.… [Read More]

First Day at Puppy School!

I know that not everyone wants to know this, but it is important to my story. See… I am PMS’ing this week. My PMS is brutal. My husband wants me to get on medication for it, except they can’t put me on medication for it (I have adverse reactions to birth control and all those warnings that they say women shouldn’t be or do when they’re on the pill… I do or am almost all of them).

This is Mugen’s second run-in with me on PMS.

I love my puppy, I can’t count how many times have I logged on to the off topic threads on the MINI forum to gush about some innocuous and cute little thing that he did. Any other week out of the month, this dog is awesome. But not this week.

It started two days ago. Mugen started chewing at a spot in my carpet nervously… it was almost compulsive.… [Read More]

Death Wish

Ever since the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in 2001, I have used this day as a day of reflection. It was the first day of my adult life when I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that my life would change forever as I watched events unfold. My heart broke as I watched the buildings collapse on CNN. My confidence in my safety sank and for weeks afterward, I didn’t sleep as soundly as I normally do.

Each year, on this day, the anniversary of the WTC collapse, I like to write a blog post and offer my heartfelt condolences to those who lost loved ones that day, but this year it feels a little bit different for me. I still feel for the families of those who died, but somehow I feel more as if there was something I lost that day too. We all did.… [Read More]

September 11th, 2009

I saw the news this morning that the Obama administration told Citibank to ditch their plans to order a 50 million dollar jet from a French company and thought, “Wow… that jet represented jobs for French workers. I bet France is pissed.” and it occurred to me that no one is thinking about the bigger picture when it comes to the economy.

I believe that it is necessary to spend money in order to create stability in a capitalistic environment. I also believe that manufacturing jobs in France probably mean offices in the US that employ Americans. Now, I’m not sure that this is the actual case in this specific situation, but in most cases I suspect it is the truth.

This sort of thing really isn’t the result of a trickle down effect so much as it is the result of a what goes around comes around effect. If you spend money in France, in addition to creating jobs there you create the need for representation for that company on American soil which means… American jobs are created too.… [Read More]

Cents and Nonsense

And how many Israeli children died or were injured when Hamas launched ROCKETS on civilian targets within Israel?

Is Reuters publishing that number in their article?

No.

Instead, they are trying to sell this notion to the American public that Israel is the bad guy here. Israel is doing something wrong by invading Gaza and kicking the holy shit out of Hamas? Really? And what would Reuters say if Mexico City suddenly started launching rockets on the city of Dallas? What if Barack Obama had been trying to negotiate peace for 80 years, and nothing moved? What if Barack Obama had been trying to negotiate peace and the international community did not care about the safety of the citizens of the United States?

Who would he have to side with then? The UN? The “international community” at large? Or should he side with the people who hired him to represent them?… [Read More]

30 Civilians, Including Children Dead in Israeli Attacks on Gaza?