Dogs are wonderful, except...

Dogs are so wonderful, except for:

1. Ticks and fleas
2. Peeing in the house
3. Getting into garbage
4. Shedding
5. Pooping in the house
6. Barking at everything and nothing
7. Bad breath
8. Flatulence
9. Rolling in anything that smells disgusting
10. Destroying property, mostly underwear

Other than that, dogs are wonderful.

Sarah Palin is back - a poem

Sarah Palin is back
She never really left us.

Supporters can't get enough,
for some it's politics
For others it's lust.

Sarah Palin is back,
again in vogue.

Cynicism brought her to life,
drafted as a GOP version of Hillary.
Great strategy, until she went rogue.

Sarah Palin is back
stumping for McCain.

Tea Party loves her,
GOP still needs her,
She is basking in new fame.

Sarah Palin is back,
that's a long ass 15 minutes of fame.

Addison this morning

Addison is happiest when someone is talking to her, making faces at her, playing with her, feeding her, carrying her... you get the picture. She likes to be INVOLVED in the action. Just 18 months before she can join her first soccer team!

Sleep, eat, sleep, bark, sleep

I have a new word for lazy: Beagle. It will go something like this:

I feel like a beagle.

Not now, I'm too beagle.

It's OK. You deserve to be a little beagle after all the work you did yesterday.

Beagle also might be used as a substitute for couch potato.

Did you see so-and-so, he never moved the entire time we were there ... he's soooo beagle.

I'm sorry dear, I just want to sit here in front of the TV like a beagle.

Maybe it's a little unfair to the beagle. It could be our two beagles are made to appear even MORE lazy because they live with a border collie.

I have a new word for manic: border collie.

Sabbatical

I want to take a sabbatical. First I had to look the word up. I need all the ammo out there to convince my agency.

The word originally referred to resting the land after 7 years, as in not planting crops that year. So now that meaning has evolved into taking a leave of absence from a job, and again after 7 years according to Webster's. How long have I been on staff? Oh yeah, 7 years! In December it will be 8 years. Not always full time. Still, 7 years. To me that's relevant.

When would I need to take it? I think this summer. Starting the first of June, returning in September after Labor Day. Three full months. That's not so long really. I wouldn't want to impose on colleagues though. The thought of them having to pick up my slack. Not cool. I could run it past them before I run it past my boss.

I wonder what Paul thinks?

My tummy hurts... wahhh

You know the trail mix with M&Ms in it? I just ate all the M&Ms outta a really big Costco-size bag. I wish I hadn't because now my tummy hurts.

Vacation pictures

Top to bottom: the top two photos are of the road immediately outside Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas. This is what it looked like as Paul and I headed home. It was beautiful, but also blizzard like. Little did we know, we would end up driving in blowing snow for most of the trip home March 20th, the first day of spring. The turkey picture is of a wild turkey that had come into our camp area. There were 5 of them, one male (in photo) and 4 female. Very cool.