more miming

this is funny miming, it reminds me of signing to songs for ASL class.....Thanks Andie!
and funny things about plate spinning, according to a source that will remain unnamed, there are training plates. they're light and have ridges to keep them on the stick. that's pretty lame.

mimes vs. plate spinners

Anatomist and I had a heated discussion this evening about which sucks more: mimes or plate spinners. She's voting for plate spinners as "the bottome of the totem pole." Personally, i think mimes are worse. they're just creepier and more annoying....and miming looks easy. it may not be as easy as it looks, but it looks stupid anyway, so who cares? But plate spinning.....that looks hard. So therefore, i stand behind my belief that plate spinning takes more skill and mimes just suck. but I want to know what everyone else thinks! vote for who sucks more......mimes, or plate spinners?

good times

This weekend was spent having grand ol' times at Evilcat's place. We hung out, drank beers, talked 'bout wrasslin', watched a bit of wrasslin', did a bit of wrasslin'.
going over there is like a field trip for Rosie. Theres a big grassy yard to roll in, and people to play with!







Wheel chair beer runs have rules: no getting out of the chair!

the prize goes to:

I'll spare y'all the visuals. But I printed the most disturbing roll of film I have ever printed. I think that is saying a lot, considering the time I have spent in the mini lab industry. I printed a roll of film that was almost entirely of one dudes nutsack. There were a few normal pics interspersed among the nutsacks. You know, "standing in the garden." or "Sitting in the easy chair." I thought that maybe it was a before and after of nutsack implants or something. It was very disturbing and confusing. Then I thought maybe this guy had just never taken a mirror to check out that region. After I packaged up the order, (double prints + CD), I took it to my boss and coworker, slapped it on the counter and said "I deserve a bonus for printing this". Turns out it was a "legal issue", it was an "injury". They asked if he was missing anything, I said it was more like an extra something at one point. I am permanently traumatized.

I'm trashtastic

hickeys are so trashy.



Check out this Evolution of Dance video that Pulpshopgirl sent me! This guy is my hero. You have to watch the entire 6 minutes, it's SO worth it.

it's working

well the remote training collar seems to be doing its job. We went on a very long walk yesterday down to Greenlake and back. Rosie was a very good loose leash walker. once we got to the lake there were lots of kids and dogs and people on rolelrbladdes and skateboards. But she was so SO good! She stayed with me, paid attention, and walked right by other dogs, kids and people without any lunging. On our way back from the lake we even walked right past a very small dog that headed towards her first, and i did have to turn the collar up a bit for that one, but she made it right past the wee dog without any chomping or anything! It was AMAZING.
i had a really great wrestling practice this evening! my first one in the ring. we worked out some good stuff. Tom showed us some good moves, one that is totally awesome involves some hip flippin'. It's awesome that our manager wrestled in high school! Churpa gets to toss me around a lot. It's pretty fun. I sure go flying! and I get to DDT her, so I'm happy.

not so bad after all

Last night after a little bit of liquid courage I got around to trying out the shock collar on myself, and on some friends! Thanks y'all, that was a good time! I feel much much better now about putting it on Rosie. It's not so bad after all! it feels weird, not exactly pleasant, but it doesn't HURT. I see why she would jump and why she would respond. She's been much better behaved even without the collar on today. It's so so SO exciting. I am looking forward to working with her a whole lot more! When I got back home today our new "Remote Training" collar and transmitter were waiting for us. I plugged 'em in to charge, and I've been reading all the little booklets. I probably won't stop talking about this for a long long time. Like I don't already just post about my dog.......now hopefully it will be better news! I am just so excited about the possibilities! and so relieved that this may be the solution to her behavior problems!
This was a great weekend. not just because of the Rosie miracle. I had a great time in Eugene! It was crazy busy and hectic, but an all around fabulous time!

the hardest thing ever

I'm down in Eugene, and got to meet R!'s uncle, the DogTrainer. I'm borrowing a shock collar from Andie's dad, and we're working on some discipline. Rosie is "Learning to be a citizen." It's working. I have to admit the results were pretty instantaneous; coming when called, even with other dogs around and walking with me off leash right past other dogs. It's phenomenal. but shocking her is the hardest thing i've ever done. little jumps and little yelps are like sharp knives in my heart. this is so so hard. i had to cover my eyes only once, and i've only cried a little bit. i"m trying to reassure myself that having her maul another dog or get mauled by one, or even worse, get ahold of a child, would be a whole whole lot worse.

my dog ate my money

at least it was only $1 but she chewed up my bootiful wallet handmade by Deer Pee

so many things, and so many links to them

Big D and I had a pic-nic at the beach today. we took Rosie, so we didn't go on the actual beach. Rosie barked at everything, other dogs, scuba divers, old ladies, and especially birds. I liked watching the sailboats. though sometimes i got really scared 'cause they SO looked like they were going to tip over.



I posted my pinhole picture on the pinhole day website. it's of rosie and my yard flamingos. they're blurs of pretty color.



also, i set up a myspace page for our wrestling team. be our friends!

if you haven't already seen/heard/read Stephen Colbert's little roast at the white house press corps dinner, i strongly recommend it. check here or here. (thanks to anatomist for the links)

one other thing that REALLY pissed me off this evening, the most obnoxious commercial about HPV. check out tell-someone.hpv.com. HPV causes cervical cancer? who'da thunk it? so get pap tests. yeah......but don't mention ANYTHING about vaccines for HPV that are still unavailable due to opposition mostly from the religious right. 'cause if we ain't gonna get cancer from sex we might just go and have it more. check out this article, Virginity or Death. It's a good one......

here's some interesting websites about more upsetting stuff: Energy Bulletin - Peak Oil: Life after the Oil Crash - The Oil Drum : Discussions about Energy - DIE OFF good stuff there.

on a completely different note, DAMN! LOST was INTENSE! that was a twist I didn't see coming!

homesick

today was my day off....I made a deal with myself that I would schedule at least one day off a week. It wasn't easy, but I managed it this week. so I slept in, and got up around 10 to let Rosie out. i opened the door to a gorgeous sunny day. So i put on a bikini, and lay out on my porch for about 4 hours. i just lounged and read and soaked up some rays. I didn't get ANYTHING actually "done" today. I had planned on laundry and cleaning and working on "stuff". but doing nothing was so fabulous. It was like my own mini sunny vacation. After the sun moved on a ways and my porch was getting too shady I decided to take rosie on a walk through carkeek park to the beach. I had been thinking about the ocean and about the Oregon coast. I miss it. So i thought I should go to the beach here, since, hell, its within walking distance! The forest in carkeek park reminded me of the forest near my parents house in Eugene, and how much I loved growing up in those woods. when we got to the water I was reminded by many signs that dogs are not allowed on beaches in seattle, subject to $500 fines. I had forgotten that, and I was so disappointed. No walking on the sand for Rosie and I. I sat on a bench and watched the windsurfers for a bit before heading back. I realized I'm quite homesick, and I miss Oregon.