Gus '07

A few weeks back we put our blessed old soul, Gus, down. Gus had been with us since the first few months that Joel and I had dated. I was out on a job in L.A., Dallas, wherever, and Joel called to tell me that a dog had been following him. It was Gus, who must have seen a pretty good ride in Joel, what with Lucy and Red following him. Those girls were nothing but beautiful. Gus came to us scruffy, skinny and beat up. He barely had any teeth and he had a bad case of heartworms. We were able to miraculously subdue him for a month in order to kill the heartworms and he grew into a beautiful dog with a loving and dear personality. I'll never forget how he followed me around when I was pregnant with Jake. He never let me out of his site. He loved Red dearly and was the only one with her when she died. He tolerated Izzy until he loved her and Izzy never felt anything but utmost adoration for him. He set Miss Pico straight from the moment she showed up, letting her know the hierarchy of the household with a simple and gruff growl. We will always miss you, Gus. You we're our boy. I know you are there with beautiful Red, romping her up for a good run to keep her in shape. You two are waiting for us, while Lucy sheriff's the whole rainbow bridge population.

I'm sorry it's been so long since I've enlightened anyone out there with my witty observations about life, etc.  I am currently feeling the heat of yet another catering season blowing it's steamy breath into my eyes and causing my heart to pace a little quicker.  My bank account hungers for those caterings while my joints roll over and hit the snooze button.  I'm already plotting t-shirts . . ."I survived Catering Season '07"  TACODELI!!  I am looking forward to, to, to, ummmmmm, nothing.  I get more tattoos on my birthday, yippee.  I'm about to enroll in Introduction to WWW Authoring and XHTML, the first website design class at ACC Informal Learning.  Just creating a little backup plan if you know what I mean, hint, hint, wink, wink. These joints ain't gettin' any younger and I'll be damned if I'll be greeting losers at the local Wal-Mart in my 70's.  

Kindergarten is upon me and I have no idea what to do.  I'm terrified.  I can already see Jake graduating, and thank god, apparently he plans to have me live with him forever in order to show him how to make ramen and also tell him how to get to his best friend, Brandon's, house. He mentioned we needed to get beer first.  I have no idea where he got that idea!

Well, I've written more than I expected. Keep on keeping on and don't forget to stretch, breathe and smile, every hour, every minute.

Oh, swimming season is closing in on us. Don't forget to get your dunk on as much as you can in the next few weeks. The title is linked to Austin's pool schedule.

Sorry, I'm no photographer.

Run. Eat. Learn.

So, what I know now is that you have to create something cool in photoshop or illustrator, then create an image and html it into the blog. That is how I will make this blog lovely. And, I have got to get rid of the dots. They are starting to make me crazy. And how about this rain . . . oh my god. I lived in Portland, Oregon. This is much worse. I lived in Colorado. This is not as bad. I yearn for hot summer days and dips in the pool. I don't care what anyone says. Kindergarten starts in 4 weeks. We've got one week left of summer camp and our life as Jewish parents will slowly crawl to an end. Though my hopes are high that we might make frequent visits to the Jewish Community Center, the fact is that we won't. We never go there other than to drop Jake and pick him up and I'd rather spend my money on yoga and Gilbert's Gazelles. Joel has taken up running and it's been awesome. He has run up to 7 miles on one day and frequents 3-4 mile runs regularly. He looks awesome. I keep dreaming of consistent running but have lightly sprained my ankle twice just since I started messing around with it. My ambitions are high but I'm very much still committed to YAAC (yoga at all costs) which has been working out great for me. There are so many things to do and never enough time for all of it. I constantly struggle with time. Time for Jake, time for me, time for love and family, time for the dogs, time for the house. The struggle to balance is impossible and I really don't see where I am supposed to fit in any extracurricular learning. Maybe I should consider ritalin. Atleast I could focus long enough to learn how to sew. My own compelling need to fix this ugly blog will eventually force me to learn some HTML. Here's a tip for anyone who's chasing whatever latest fad diet that exists. One, those diets only work once. If you gain the weight back, they rarely work twice. Two, consider that you may look great just the way you are. Three, consider a lifetime change in diet. My bestest gal and hottie chickie friend, (you guess who you are) told me about her lifetime change years ago and I've done it twice and it always works. Drop wheat out of your life, consider dairy too if you are a huge cheese, ice cream type eater. I'm not. The wheat is my demon. Suddenly I'm not drinking beer, eating bread, flour tortillas, crackers, goldfish, etc. Immediately I drop water weight. It's awesome. Then I lean down, just a bit. Gotta exercise too. Don't forget your supplements if you skip dairy. I promise prettier blog and pictures. I'm lazy about uploading. Happy Raining!

Learning HTML!

Does anyone out there know HTML. I'm trying to teach it to myself. I can't stand not having control of my blog. I keep thinking about starting the web design program at ACC but then I think, this is stupid. I can learn HTML. Nonetheless, I'm very excited because I just changed the fonts on my blog and that is enough to put a smile on my face. Yippee. If you are trying to learn HTML, check out the link on this title. Oooh, just looking at the classes at ACC gets me excited. O.K. must go wake up the Jake.

New Destination

I'm not sure how heinous this is. But, I have moved my blog to wordpress.com. Just like any move, it's in shambles but I'm working on organizing it, and my blogging ambitions are rusty these days. I loved wordpress because of it's awesome templates and the fact that it fused my three blogs into one place, yogadenada, joanna fried poetry and redtruckbetty mamastuff. So, go check it out by hitting the title of this blog. Hope you follow me. I'm going to try to get busy hitting you with all kinds of new and exciting information about yoga and mamacrazies and maybe a bit of new poetry. Take care for now, and so sorry Blogspot. It was sweet while it lasted.