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!!!!!

What a year

a goodbye to two amazing little boys
a later goodbye to two great toddlers
a forever goodbye to 3 people who had a part in my life
a goodbye to my parents house
a goodbye to living at home

a hello to my first house
a hello to my new puppy
a hello to a new job
a hello to being closer to adam

Overall it was a triyng year but some great things in the process. I bonded with two amazing toddlers, I spent some time palying wallyball and dominozs with a church college group, I bought my first house, There was a lot of death, a lot of disappointment, and a lot of goodbye. But in the end I will try and look back on it and try and remember the happy memories even thouhg i will miss those in the memories a lot.

crazy as always....

well there is a lot I want to put on here, like the pictures of me racking up all the leaves that have been burrying my yard for the last month. like me fixing my washing machine all by myself. like the girls weekend we just had that was shockingly pretty fun, like things about my puppy, like things about a great guy that may not be perfect but the fact that i still think we are perfect makes it all right.
but instead for many reasons I will just jot down a few tid bits of life, mainly because i cannoy upload pictures at the moment because i seem to be misplacing a lot of things lately, and memory card readers are on that list.

so last saturday afternoon my mom, cousin, and aunt came out to vist and have what was supposed to be a girls weekend but turned into a girls afternoon/night.....
i was not really looking forward to it because lets face it, i don't really enjoy long periods of family, and they got there and all of them seemed angry about something so i got even less in the mood for the rest of the day....
but it turned out we had a lot of fun, or at least i did. We drove around town seemingly aimlessly a bit, looking for a few things. We got lunch which was yummy, we got Mac's picture taken with santa which went well and gave mac the chance to see other dogs which she desperately needs, we then went and painted for a few hours which I turly enjoyed doing and I think our creations came out very well, we then went and got our traditional starbucks drinks and headed out for christmas lights, we ended up only looking at one street of lights but let me tell you, it was absolutely AMAZING!!! and I was impressed which is very hard to do. Then we went shopping for some random things as well as for some dinner muchie/ appetizers and headed home to eat and watch how the grinch stole christmas at 10 o clock at night. we then ate and cooked and laighed a bit and and had a little surprise birthday thing for my mom and it was a good day. Then next morning we pretty much woke up and got in the car to drive home...but it was a very fun afternoon.
The night before the girls came I was not looking forward to something else that was planned...i should have been but after my night before and his day i just wasn't. I thought we would both be in a bad mood and it would be a super short unfun few hours. However, yet again I was pleasantly surprised.....i picked him up, we laughed together, he bought straps because he needed them and we looked for more lights, because he is slightly obsessed, and then we grabbed dinner. THen was the part I wasn't looking forward to...between rain, mud, me being unsure, him having had a bad day, me not caring and not wanting to put up with anything, it just wasn't set up to go well...but instead it included me being in awe of trees...ive never seen trees that big, it was weird to be so interested in them. then he said he liked a certain kind, i was like okay i don't really care, then he looked at a few but i picked one, we looked some more, but i still liked that one, and then he told the guys and they loaded it on the car and he said I was a good tree picker outter (we are very fancy people). and then we headed home. He was nice and sweet when we unloaded it, hleping me not making comments that that nigth I would have taken very personal. THen we set up the tree put ligths on and hung ornaments....there was great conversation, a lot of laughs, a puppy being amazingly good, and a good night looking at what we had done together for the third time.....it was a great night.

well so much for tid bits of life, but i don't want to forget these memories...the pictures of lights, raking leaves, mac and other things will come later......

Mac's first race

So I have been to many races and often times there are many dogs...but this was my puppies first race.

she did AMAZING!!!!

she only got scared once, and got so much more confident around all the people it was awesome.

she was not a fan of me leaving her to work on the car, but she is never a huge fan of me leaving.

she was fine on pit row, she was fine up the hill by the track, she was fine wandering through the pits, she was fine with the parites at night in the track.

it was a great weekend. She was awesome, i was hesitant because you never know what they will do, and I didn't want her to be terrified and if she would have been scared it would have been a very very very long weekend.

but it all worked out amazingly and she was defiantely the hit of the race, everyoen thought she was adorable and well behaved and being great for a puppy at the race.

and this picture is pretty cute considering what we were trying to get her to do and all....

overall a great experience and i can't wait for more races next year.