Complete teddy bear carnage.
No plush toys are safe.
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October 31st, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
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October 30th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
So, as I sit here, I am pondering things.
Important things.
Like, for example, our natural impulses and good ideas.
Why don’t we act on them more often? Those ideas we get and think ‘Wow, wouldn’t it be cool if I…..’. Those things we sometimes write down in notebooks, sometimes stick on pink post-its to our board, to stare back lamely at us and remind us of the cool things we should be doing had we had just as much motivation as good ideas.
What’s your list of things to do like?
Mine? Its pretty long. I have been making this list for years and years. As far back as I can remember. ‘Things to do before I die’.
Hot air balloon ride.
Go to Australia.
Write a book.
Start that business.
Write for magazines.
Learn to be a dive instructor.
Spend the winter in India.
etc
etc
and so forth
And I can honestly say that I have crossed off plenty of things since the list began- mostly the travel destinations, but I have also added a WHOLE BUNCH MORE.
And here, sitting in front of me on my board, staring at me for the past 2 months or so, is an idea written on a pink post-it note. An idea that I think is so great, so achievable, so fantastically wonderful, that if I did it, not only would I earn a pretty penny for it, but I would also contribute to society.
Yes! That kind of idea!
And what am I doing?
I’m sitting here, staring at it, day after day. Making no moves to turn it from a daydream into a reality.
Why?
I know I’m not the only one here. We all have our lists, so my question is: why aren’t we acting on them? Imagine the person you would be and the life you would have if you wrote that to do list, and then acted on it.
So people out there with lists, I challenge you.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: START CROSSING THINGS OFF.
Life gets in the way, family gets in the way, social lives get in the way, but find some time, anything you can grab each day, and start planning. Start initiating. Start doing.
I’ll do the same.
So let me know how it goes.
……this message will self-destruct in 10 seconds……..
boom
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October 26th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
October has been a mad, mad month. We’ve had an onslaught of dogs in the house, and I’ve spent the past 3 weeks living in other peoples’ homes taking care of their dogs. Thankfully, everything will come to a close tomorrow morning when the last dog (a Jack Russell puppy who PEES EVERYWHERE) gets picked up by her owners, and the people who live at the place where I am dogsitting come home from vacation.
In this most recent home, I’ve been taking care of two German pointers, aged 11 and 14 years old.
The older one, bless him, is knockin’ on the Pearly Gates, and it’s a bit sad to see really. He’s been an endless string of problems: open sores that bleed puss and goo, peeing on his bed during the night, howling for company at 3 am, explosive diahrrea- you name it, this dog is going through it. He can’t walk well due to a spinal disorder, and he needs to be helped out for a wee every three hours or so, so it is taking up massive stores of my energy, time, and concentration. I want to hug him and squeeze him and comfort him in his old age. Give him treats and rub his belly and wash his face with a warm wash cloth.
But during this past week, I also have my real job to do, and my dogs to take care of, and the little potty-training puppy to take care of, and Halloween costumes to make (we are SO going to win this year), and the apartment to try to keep clean (not working), and- and- and!!! So its been running, running, running! Run here to take care of these dogs, run there to walk those dogs, run here to do some work and make some calls, run over there to try and find pieces of Halloween costumes, run back to start the dog walks all over again, wipe up this pee, clean up that poo, change this bandage, do some laundry.
I feel like inside I am screaming, SCREAMING for Saturday when all of this will be over. For a chance to just stop and BE. No dogs waiting for me, howling in their sadness and laying in their urine. No dust bunnies made of dog hair to be vacuumed up. No bed sheets to be laundered. No Halloween costumes to spray paint and sew. No calls to be made for people wanting information. No booking confirmations to write/flights to book/hotels to reserve.
So, if I am not answering your emails, replying to your texts or messages, calling you, whatever. This is why. Because if I do get in touch, you can be certain that the only thing that I will be doing is whining in your ear about too much to do, too little time!!!
So bear with me. I’ll see you/speak to you/message you next week when life returns to its monotonous, hum drum existance, and I can sit around and stare at the walls all day with all the time in the world to kill.
Boo? …oh yeah! BOO!!!
October 18th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
Holy shit is it the 18th of October already?!?!
Where the hell did September and October go so fast???
Ah yes. Thats right. It flew by in a whirlwind of dog hair, muddy paws, way too much time spent in the park, and a ridiculous amount of puppy puke and piddle. My two favorite months were spent wondering WHAT THE HELL I GOT MYSELF INTO with this dogsitting business.
I am learning some cold hard lessons, people, and I’ll blog that all out of my system another time. This blog is about something MUCH more important than life lessons. Its about HALLOWEEN!
*boo!*
Holy Pumpkin Buckets Batman! Halloween is nearly upon us! And here’s me, too wrapped up in dog dilemmas and the drags of depression to have even BEGUN thinking about a costume! This is something that I start pondering in April (whatever shall I be for Halloween???), and now Halloween is a scant two weeks away and I only just realised it the other day when a friend sent word of a Halloween costume party in Amsterdam- a rare and precious thing to find!!! (By the way, thanks Stu!)
I’m SO there.
I have wracked my brain (OK…the internet anyway) and come up with a pretty ingenious list of costumes, if I do say so myself. I’ll remind you folks that for four out of the past 5 years, I have won Halloween costume contests of some description (prizes ranging from bottles of vodka which my roommate completely consumed to trips to Ireland, only one of which I actually took). This year I will try my damndest to take that prize title even further and maybe, hopefully, *please*please*please* win yet again. Something. Anything. A free pen will do!
Unfortunately, my hectic schedule (DID I MENTION DOGS PEOPLE?!) and expertise in procrastination means that I will probably only even begin putting together an outfit on the day of the party, like last year. I know this limits my chances, but what are you gonna do? Me and procrastination, we’re like this (fingers crossed here). We just can’t live without eachother.
Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah. Is October nearly over already?!?!?
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