what comes from bordem...

so...i have an amazing job.

but i also make a full time salary working at most part time...

so i have a lot of free time, and i don't do sitting well...

i can sit for a while but at some point i almost literally go insane...

so ive been trying to come up with something to do with all my free time...

my house has stayed pretty clean, my dog has gotten multiple walks a day, way to much shopping has been done, a lot of time has been spent online doing pointless things, but still i was completely bored....

so i was trying to find something i could make and sell, or a place to volunteer...

since volunteering is not going well at the moment i decided to make something...then it came to me...

Dog Bandana's...

i want to make them for mac anyway and have made a few for her already and they are super simple and quick...

so while home to see my parents and go to a few church things i stopped by a huge and more importantly cheap fabric store....my mom and i dug for about 2 hours and found some good stuff.

it wasn't the greatest prints but this is a trial thing for now so i wanted cheap but still nice...

so we bought 15 different birght colored patterns and then I was going to make bandana's and list them either on amazon, or etsy, or ebay or whereever....well i looked into all those places and decided to see what happened it i just put them on craigslist...

so i posted yesturday and within a few hours i had 6 bandana's ordered...

its not much, but i figure for a few hours and the fact that criagslist isn't exactly where people are looking it was pretty good...so in the near future i will probably venture to ebay or amazon or etsy....

so for now i figure its just an adventure...but it could be a way to "volunteer" by giving my profits to an animal shelter or something like that, or if i ever need extra cash it could help with that as well...

so that is my new adventure to fill up my free time....

MAC

so how about a puppy update?
there is not near as much to tell as there should be because i am majorly slacking with the whole training and socializing and fun stuff...
but we go for walks just about every day( minus rain and working 12 hours days). and she is finally getting way better about pulling, it was hard because they say stop so the dog learns they won't get anywhere if they pull, well i stopped she came back and sat next to me, they say turn around so they see they won't get where they want to go, the problem was she didn't seem to be trying to get anywhere, except occasionally home. but now about 90% of the time there is no pulling which is amazing and should mean that if we keep it up all will be well by the time she is full grown and i won't be able to hold her if she pulled.
she has not been to training classes, but i need to suck it up and get on that....but she does know how to wait at doors and for her food, she sits, and shakes and lays down, she will leave it sometimes, and she will drop her toys so i don't have to play tug-o-war to get them and throw them. i know its way less than she should know but like i said im slacking, so i will try and get better and increase her vocabulary. she does know how to watch out when on a walk thanks to a few walks with little kids in strollers and being run into a few times( she learned very quickly what watch out meant.
she eats a ton, other people say she is getting bigger but i don't notice it. she likes people and will go up to most people that want to pet her, she jumps a lot on new people which we work on when possible. she has gone to a race, lots of petsmarts and petcos, downtown temecula, a few farmers markets, and lots and lots of car rides and walks...
overall she is still a good dog. we had a brief issue with a neighbor saying she barked all day and all night, but i bought a bark collar and it seems so far that in one day that sovled the whole problem, i still put it on her when im not home but when im home she no longer makes a peep. and she is getting better about growling and barking and all at other dogs, still a big work in progress though.
currently she is passed out on the floor by my feet, a normal occurance when im home.
i have to say minus the licking im pretty attached.

Brooke and Delaney

meet brooke and Delanhey. these are the new girls im nannying for. i can't call them kids, they take offense to that. brooke just turned 10 and delaney is 6 1/2. they are both very fun. brooke is a bit more out going but we have had a lot of fun together the last two weeks. they haven't been in school so our days have been filled with a lot of hanging out at home, playing with the 3 dogs, trips to the park, a lot of oragami, and a lot of feeding the ducks....

they both had the ducks eating out of their hands a lot....they have a lot of the ducks named and they have made numerous friends at the duck pond that keeps them occupied for a few hours multiple times a week. we stop at vons and get 88 cent loafs of bread and they go play for a few hours. its fun and simple and close and a good thing for everyone i think.

ENJOY

so I think i have decided....the word for the year is...

ENJOY

why you ask? well....
there are a lot of goals I would love to accomplish, a lot of things I would love to improve and do and and and...
but really after the last year and just knowing me and how I have been feeling for probably the last 4 months... I have one priority...

Enjoy...
I want to enjoy my new house
I want to enjoy my new puppy
I want to enjoy being closer to the man I want to marry
I want to enjoy being on my own
I want to enjoy being involved with a preschool
I want to enjoy the little everyday things
I want to enjoy school and learn things
I want to enjoy races
I want to enjoy the positive things in life

I spend to much time thinking about the bad, especially lately and a lot this past year....so for this coming year I want to be more positive...it used to be thats just life be happy and move on, but lately its not that way so this year I want to just enjoy life and help others enjoy it as well by helping everyone as often as possible. I want time spent enjoying even the little things, not worrying/stressing/complaining about the bad things.

so for this year.....ENJOY!!!!!