Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
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Benefits of feeding you dog a Raw Food Diet
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
New Year's Resolution
I hate making New Year's Resolutions. If you want to make a change, just do it. Don't wait for monday, or the first of the month or the first of the year...just do it and don't waste any time. So anyway, Dallas had her first agility class yesterday and did great. She went through tunnels, up and down the A-frame with no problem, and even gave the baby see-saw a try. On the way home I decided to stop in at the vets to use their scale, it's on the way and her weight has always been a problem. Holy-Moly 53 Lbs! That's a 3 pound weight gain which is the equivalent of me gaining 12 Lbs! We are both going on diets...today.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
AKC Registration
So before New Years, I filled out and mailed some paperwork to the AKC to get Dallas registered. Since we adopted Dallas, we have no idea who her parents were so she is not eligible for a regular AKC registration. Instead I am hoping to get her a Purebred Alternative Listing/Indefinite Listing Privilege (PAL/ILP) registration number so that we can compete in AKC events like agility. That is if she wants to. I want her to because she is so smart. I can't wait to start our agility class on Tuesday. It's been such a long road to get here.
We started out in a basic obedience class just a couple of weekes after adopting her. Since then we have gone through to get her Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Certificate and taken a clicker unleashed class. I remember that first class we took her to in basic obedience. She was so afraid and nervous that she shit on the floor right after the instructor started talking. She did a lot of bouncing around to different homes before she came to us, so it must have been stressful for her to have a new family and now be enrolled in school.
Dallas after being awarded her CGC Certificate. Look how happy she is, she loves a sense of a accomplishment.
We started out in a basic obedience class just a couple of weekes after adopting her. Since then we have gone through to get her Canine Good Citizen (CGC) Certificate and taken a clicker unleashed class. I remember that first class we took her to in basic obedience. She was so afraid and nervous that she shit on the floor right after the instructor started talking. She did a lot of bouncing around to different homes before she came to us, so it must have been stressful for her to have a new family and now be enrolled in school.
Dallas after being awarded her CGC Certificate. Look how happy she is, she loves a sense of a accomplishment.
What a cool idea! It's a changing table that folds up and hides all the changing stuff out of sight when you're not using it. I'm so going to make my husband either build one of these or buy me one.
"Here it is some best inspiration ideas about decorate modern baby nursery interior design with some creative white baby nursery furniture design. Bybo Sweden famous baby furniture company brand presents comfortable and simple baby room interior design. One of the furniture designs as shown below is the baby nappy changer furniture. It has great relaxed rest pad and several shelves to keep the baby stuff like baby cleaner, soap, cotton etc and the most important point it is awfully portable. You can fold it up and move it around the home without any hassle."
I took this from: http://www.newhouseofart.com/modern-baby-nursery-furniture-design-room-by-bybo/
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Shopping and Babies
Had an unexpected day off today, which was nice. The studio I teach for on Tuesdays doesn't start back to dance until tomorow. I had a nice "for me" day. I spent it putting laundry away, picking up the house, and spending the remainder of my Christmas money at the Victoria's Secret Semi-Annual sale. I use to work at Victoria's Secret and the twice a year sale is the only time I'll shop now. When I was employed there I got 30% off of any purchase, except any sale items, you paid sticker for them... So, when I worked there I never shopped the sale because it was last season stuff that I was tired of looking at and I didn't get any more of a discount on them. Now that I don't work there, the only time I can tolerate shopping there is during the sale, because I refuse to pay full price for anything anymore. This is something my husband doesn't understand. My jaw use to drop when he would pay $100 for a couple of shirts (literally, maybe two shirts) and a 1/2 a pair of jeans. He would never even look at the clearance rack! ....I don't want to go down this path, lets just say men are different from women in many ways.
So I was purusing the aisles in Burlington Coat Factory today, where I scored some Skechers Shape-Up SRT's for only $50, and I decided to take a stroll into the baby section. I can't believe how much baby stuff they have. Saw a crib I reall liked, it was all white with a matching changing table. The crib had no price on it, but the changing table was $150. This made me wonder what it was at full price, since I know that the shape ups I bought are usually over $100. I wish I could find the crib I was looking at online, but Burlington Coat Factory seriously needs to re-evaluate their online shopping experience. I understand that they are like a discount store and I love their discounts, but I also like shopping online. It makes me sad to know that there's no way for me to prepare for our first baby before we are actually "expecting" it. That really only gives me 6-7 months tops to prepare for this monumental life changing event since you don't even know you're pregnant until you're almost a full month into it. In the 8th month there may be a baby shower, and you can just forget the 9th month, assuming ofcourse I make it that far. My sister had her second child after only 6-7 months of pregnancy due to Preeclampsia ,which is thankfully not supposed to be genetic, but who knows.
So I was purusing the aisles in Burlington Coat Factory today, where I scored some Skechers Shape-Up SRT's for only $50, and I decided to take a stroll into the baby section. I can't believe how much baby stuff they have. Saw a crib I reall liked, it was all white with a matching changing table. The crib had no price on it, but the changing table was $150. This made me wonder what it was at full price, since I know that the shape ups I bought are usually over $100. I wish I could find the crib I was looking at online, but Burlington Coat Factory seriously needs to re-evaluate their online shopping experience. I understand that they are like a discount store and I love their discounts, but I also like shopping online. It makes me sad to know that there's no way for me to prepare for our first baby before we are actually "expecting" it. That really only gives me 6-7 months tops to prepare for this monumental life changing event since you don't even know you're pregnant until you're almost a full month into it. In the 8th month there may be a baby shower, and you can just forget the 9th month, assuming ofcourse I make it that far. My sister had her second child after only 6-7 months of pregnancy due to Preeclampsia ,which is thankfully not supposed to be genetic, but who knows.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
A New Year a New Hobby!
OK, wow. Now I'm a blogger. This is something I never thought I would do. It's like an online diary, that anybody in the world can read. This is my first post ever. A quick background on me is: I am a socially inept dance teacher, who is newly married and lives in New Hampshire. My favorite thing to do is spoil my dog Dallas because I feel like, if she is happy then somehow it will make me happy. Dallas however is happy doing anything. Sleeping on the couch (like she's doing right now) running around chasing balls, and eating of course. We have just enrolled in an agility class which starts on January 11th because I feel that she needs to be fulfilled in her life. Don't get me wrong, I have a wonderful life: I work with children for only a few hours a day and I make more money per week now than I did when I was a full-time paralegal, go figure. I have a great guy for a husband, who spends several hours each day playing video games (like he's doing right now), but yet is terrified at the though of having children. We have this plan to take a "babymoon" this summer for our 1st wedding anniversary, but I think it's just his way of pacifying my desires to start a family and it's working. I'm starting to doubt whether or not it's a good idea to have children.
We live in a cape style home that my husband bought for "us" before we were even engaged. He's been living here now for about 4 years. I moved in last year. It's a nice little home with a fenced in yard for Dallas to run around in without us worrying about her. The fence, ofcourse, is more for keeping other animals and people out, rather than keeping Dallas in. She has no interest in straying from the house or our side. We technically only have one bedroom though, which is on the main level with the kitchen, dining and living rooms. That bedroom is where I am sitting right now, starting my blog. We don't know what to do with it since his brother moved out of it a few months ago after our wedding. At first it was so empty it echoed, but we have since filled it with miscellanous crap from around the house, including our computer desk which we got tired of looking at in the dining room. When it was empty it was easy to imagine it as a nursery, but now it gets harder and harder to see it as such.
My husband just walked in an asked what I was doing. I'm flattered he's actually interested... I told him I was starting my own blog and he kinda got irritated because, I changed the screen so he wouldn't see what I was typing and he took that as being secretive. I told him what I was typing wasn't a secret, but it was private. He didn't understand. I explained to him that I didn't want him reading what I was writing, while I was writing it because these were my private thoughts. He still didn't get it. So he did the only thing he could do, he went to take a shower. I wish this blog would tell me how many words I've typed so I can set a limit. Without limits I run the danger of rambling on and on.
Where was I? Oh yea, our house...technically one bedroom, two full bathrooms, a living room, a dining room, kitchen, mudroom and an unfinished attic. I didn't count our basement because it is not technically considered livable space. There is only one way in or out of the basement, the stairs. None of the windows are big enough to squeeze out of, so if there was ever a fire we'd be screwed. I bought him the biggest fire extinguisher I could find, as a housewarming present because our bedroom is down there; as is a second living room, full bathroom and laundry room. We just refinished the whole basement last spring because it flooded. We replaced all the carpets and the bottom halves of all the walls. Luckily we were able to save all the furniture and appliances down there by cramming it all upstairs onto the main living room; Remember at this time his brother was still living here, so we didn't have this extra bedroom to use. If it happens again this spring, we'll probably move up stairs for good and then all hope for raising a family in this house will be squashed. This bedroom isn't even big enough to fit our bed, nevermind both our wardrobes. There is the remote chance we may finish off the attic, but then where would we store all of our Christmas stuff? Remember, we're already using the basement.
Wow. It feels good to talk to someone. I like this bloggin idea. Maybe I'll do it everyday...well, we'll see. Here's a video of Dallas from this past year she is six years old now.
We live in a cape style home that my husband bought for "us" before we were even engaged. He's been living here now for about 4 years. I moved in last year. It's a nice little home with a fenced in yard for Dallas to run around in without us worrying about her. The fence, ofcourse, is more for keeping other animals and people out, rather than keeping Dallas in. She has no interest in straying from the house or our side. We technically only have one bedroom though, which is on the main level with the kitchen, dining and living rooms. That bedroom is where I am sitting right now, starting my blog. We don't know what to do with it since his brother moved out of it a few months ago after our wedding. At first it was so empty it echoed, but we have since filled it with miscellanous crap from around the house, including our computer desk which we got tired of looking at in the dining room. When it was empty it was easy to imagine it as a nursery, but now it gets harder and harder to see it as such.
My husband just walked in an asked what I was doing. I'm flattered he's actually interested... I told him I was starting my own blog and he kinda got irritated because, I changed the screen so he wouldn't see what I was typing and he took that as being secretive. I told him what I was typing wasn't a secret, but it was private. He didn't understand. I explained to him that I didn't want him reading what I was writing, while I was writing it because these were my private thoughts. He still didn't get it. So he did the only thing he could do, he went to take a shower. I wish this blog would tell me how many words I've typed so I can set a limit. Without limits I run the danger of rambling on and on.
Where was I? Oh yea, our house...technically one bedroom, two full bathrooms, a living room, a dining room, kitchen, mudroom and an unfinished attic. I didn't count our basement because it is not technically considered livable space. There is only one way in or out of the basement, the stairs. None of the windows are big enough to squeeze out of, so if there was ever a fire we'd be screwed. I bought him the biggest fire extinguisher I could find, as a housewarming present because our bedroom is down there; as is a second living room, full bathroom and laundry room. We just refinished the whole basement last spring because it flooded. We replaced all the carpets and the bottom halves of all the walls. Luckily we were able to save all the furniture and appliances down there by cramming it all upstairs onto the main living room; Remember at this time his brother was still living here, so we didn't have this extra bedroom to use. If it happens again this spring, we'll probably move up stairs for good and then all hope for raising a family in this house will be squashed. This bedroom isn't even big enough to fit our bed, nevermind both our wardrobes. There is the remote chance we may finish off the attic, but then where would we store all of our Christmas stuff? Remember, we're already using the basement.
Wow. It feels good to talk to someone. I like this bloggin idea. Maybe I'll do it everyday...well, we'll see. Here's a video of Dallas from this past year she is six years old now.
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