Miscellany Monday #22111

{1} Meet my newest baby
Unless you've been in a hole or just really don't care about me and my life at all *sniffs* you've probably heard/seen photos of Rob. But just in case you didn't, here are a few. He's been a typical puppy, getting into EVERYTHING and despising being left alone. But other than that he's been a good boy, I even took him with me to baby-sit for a friend of mine. That was... an adventure... But between him and Bubbles I'm not getting much sleep. Going to bed between around 12AM (around meaning between the hours of 12am and 3am) getting up between 3-5AM and then getting up for work around 7AM is not. Cool. I literally want to cry right now just from sheer exhaustion.

{2} Car Shopping
This, my friends, has got to be one of the most boring-est, nerve wracking, stressful things I've ever shopped for in my entire 21 years. Well, honestly the hardest part is wanting a car that I can't afford at the moment. Even harder since my parents bought a new vehicle within days of selling the other. Green Eye'd monster did try to rear his head..I'll admit it but in retrospect I was driving their car for the last TWO years, so its only fair.
Anyway, over the last two weeks, my mode of transportation has varied from day to day Monday - Thursday I drove my parents new vehicle (yes I was surprised the let me drive it...all by myself no less!), Friday - Sunday my neighbor was out of town and let me use her vehicle, Today - Tomorrow I'm stuff with the Tank (aka THE VAN) then Wednesday - Saturday my roommate has let me use her car while she's out of town.
I'm extremely grateful to everyone loaning me their vehicles but I'm so ready to have my own car again.

Next week Lord? Does that sound good to you?

{3} School
I was going over my assignment schedule in math, when I realized Spring Break is only...TWO WEEKS AWAY!
One question I'm beginning to hate is the "How's school going" question. Well I'm going to answer this once and for all. ITS.NOT. I mean it is, or shall I say, its coming back. Now that life is back to what I call normal (aka running around like the chicken with..well you know) I can feel myself able to focus on my school work more. However coming back from the "major" slump I took the week before last is difficult. Especially in math. There is just so much homework that its  almost impossible to keep up with once you get behind.

I'll be extremely happy if I get a C+ in this class.

Oh and to whom it may concern..no I have NOT had to re-take a class.
Thanks.

...don't ask...

{4} Random Photos from my 365 Project
Amazingly I've only missed two days thus far! My sister was inducted into Phi Theta Kapp this past Sunday

Family Portrait for my Mom's Birthday. It was freezing and my sister Kristen drug us all out there. Bubbles kept hopping up on us just as the shutter snapped so I finally just held her in my lap. We would have included Texas if had been anywhere around, but was off doing "whatever".

{4}  Angry Bird Fans 
Lastly I leave you with this video. Came across it on Delicious and thought it was super cute! Oh to have such an imagination and the ability to do something with it!!

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Randomosicity.

1. I made the mistake of going to Sam's Club and Wal-Mart yesterday. Can anyone say mad house? I have never seen that store (Sam's Club anyway) so jammed with people! While I was there, I came across a family of, what I believe to be, eight children. They were all huddled around the book section, picking up book after book. Coming from a family of six, it always grabs my attention to see other large families, so as I was glancing down the book aisle I was counting them, as I know people have done to us many, many times. There were two small children in the top part of the shopping cart, and an infant carrier in the basket area. I'd walked around the aisle at least twice before I realized, the infant had been crying..no screaming at the top of his lungs for the last 5 minutes or so. This wasn't a I've just woke up type scream, but I need something now scream. Did I mention there was a blanket covering his seat...inside the store? Once I realized he'd been screaming, I stopped to see where the mom was, if I, a passerby had noticed the child surely she'd be a along shortly. 10 minutes later, no mom, and no one checking on the baby I knew I had to work up the courage, to ask one of the kids if they baby was OK. As i neared the group I noticed a man that seemed to be with them, so I approached  him and inquired about the child. "Oh he's just hungry." Well let me just pick my jaw up off of the floor here, and I'll be on my way. I was distracted by some friend of mine, coming up and trying to pet Pompei, so this stranger, missed an opportunity to hear a piece of my mind. So you're going to ignore him and let him scream, because you can't do anything about his hunger? If you are indeed the parental guardian of these children..why...?!?!? 
2. I knew when my boss greeted me with "Erin! Look at you! All early!! Finals must be over" I knew that my stress over the last couple of weeks, has been obvious not only to me, but my co-workers as well. These last couple of weeks have been such a blur, its amazing I remembered to come into work at all! However its over! And since I can't access my final grades...it may really be over. But i know I didn't do that badly! English is iffy, but I'm pretty confident with my other classes. (For the record I wasn't early, I just decided to go to my desk before doing a major reworking of my hair....believe me that eats up time! And its faster than trying to do it at home. Don't worry I make sure its "neat" before I leave the house) 
3. Still no where close to being done with my Christmas shopping.
4. I have nice neighbors. Just FYI.
5. That's all I have for today. Our Guide Dog group is having their Christmas Party today, so I'm going to make a made dash and try to get there (1.5 hours away) by 6:30pm. Wish me luck!

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[1] I seriously thought I was first hand ...listener.... to a mid air plane crash this morning. It was just thunder after all. But scare the bahgeebas out of Pompei and he hopped straight up onto the bed, and on top of me. What's funny is Bubbles didn't even blink an eye, and she's the dog that freaks OUT over thunderstorms. Come to think of it she probably thought it was a crash too...
[2] Three page paper on the "The Case Against Perfection" by Micheal J. Sanders is due tomorrow. Just writing an analysis of the paper and weather or not his method of writing is effect for the audience its aimed at. Fun times I tell you.
[3] Another bird flew into my house on Thursday; this one however, was much smarter than our last little visitor, and calmly walked around the house, with my roommate close behind. We eventually closed it in the dogs room, and shooed it out of the window. 
[4] Congrats to my friends Ben and Vanessa we went down for their wedding this weekend. Another one of "my crowd" getting married. Its a little scary!  Had a blast hanging with friends and such like. The weather was perfect for their wedding and the impromptu soccer game afterwards. :) 

[6] Now that its 12AM and I still haven't finished/started my paper..I think I will eat a Twix Ice Cream bar and go to bed. I'm ready for school to be over, I'm at the point where I don't care anymore I really don't. I'm ready for it to stop already. But alas in a few weeks I add another class to my already CRAZY schedule. *soobs*

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{Pompei - Guide Dog in Training 2010}

Oh camera. *sigh* 
I really don't know what to say about it.
We've been estranged from each other lo these many weeks, it feels like. 
I feel that my creative juices have been sucked out of me.
I have not touched it in about two weeks.
I am not looking forward to another photography class after last semester.
It was brutal. 
I had a extremely hard time, as I'm a visual learner, and we were only given written assignment, no examples or anything of what he wanted to us to do...which made it difficult for me to wrap my brain around what he wanted us to produce. 
I was really ready to give up photography. 
I still sometimes wonder if its really something I'm GOOD at...
Or if people are just saying that because they don't know "good" photography.

{Photography Class Assignment 2010}

Yet I've seen some pretty bad photographers out still clicking away and making a living doing it.

So compared to them..I'm pretty good.

I want more equipment for sure..but don't have the money.

I would love a 50-mm or a 28-75mm for my Sony.

No Flashes though...I hate flash. I'm sure I'll need it one day.

I'd also love to sell my Canon, but at the same time am loathe to part with it.

Funny as I don't really like the colors produced with that camera.

Its become an integral part of my life.

No really.

I just like having two cameras truthfully.

But I need the money....

{Hiking Trip 2010}

If I keep pursuing this, I'd stick to kids, animals and events.

Those are my elements.

I dislike posing people for portraits.

Its soo awkward.

They expect you to know what to do, when in truth I just really want them to do their own thing and let me take the photos.

Mabye Journalistic photography.
Maybe I'll just forget this and go into dog training full time.

{Ira Service Dog in Training - 2009}

I don't know.

I am so confused about this right now.

*sigh*

{Eden Service Dog in Training - 2009}

2 weeks, 1 day and 3 hours until school starts.

I don't know I just made that up.

I have an appointment with my adviser on Friday.

Did you know this semester starts on a Saturday!??

The End.

Minute Monday

Who of all your blog friends would you like to meet and/or who have you met?
Hmmmm..... I have met a fellow Puppy Raiser who lived in NC with me, but no one from this blog. I would love too meet up with anyone! 


What kind of vehicle(s) do you drive?
I am currently driving a 1999 Toyota Corrolla that belongs too my dear father. One day, I will have my own car.


What kind of cell phone do you have?
HTC HERO - BEST PHONE EVER!  Even if its not getting text messages regularly.

{iphonekiller.com}

What's the most annoying thing you wish bloggers would stop doing?.
I really wish the whole word verification thingy would be banned. Either turn on comment moderation or just delete spammy comments. Plus its extremely inaccessible for visually impaired people.


What's the one thing that you still have on your bucket list to do before the year is out?
Geez I don't have one. I have a couple of gazzillion other lists that I need too accomplish though! :-)

Dear Monday

8:15AM

That’s what time I got up this morning.
Only about 45 minutes later that I should have gotten up, if I was going to get my sister to her 9:05am class on time.
I think I glanced at the clock, and decided to let my parents take her this time.
And I went back to sleep until about 8:40am…
Really cutting it close there, but we managed  to be only 10 minutes late to class, and since its pretty much a lab class, I knew it wasn’t that big of a deal.
We are working on a research paper about alternative forms of energy. Wildly exciting right?? Wrong. The hardest part of this paper is just coming up with the intro, I’m pretty confident in the materials I have researched..But since I have no real interest in the topics…it’s a little difficult to come up with something..Clever to start off with…anywho...

Photo class was pretty brutal today..Teach starts off telling by us how disappointed he was in us, and the work we were turning in.(Insert surprised faces)
Then goes on to say, that only 2-3 of us got the assignment correct. And that he wants the assignment re-done, then went on to show us a correction version of what he was talking about.
I’m sure he’s a great teacher and all that, but so far I haven’t really enjoyed being a part of the class…and as an extreme visual learner, it’s been difficult to grasp what it is he wants us to do, when we have no examples. Once he started showing photos of what he was looking for, he was suddenly bombarded with question, after question.
Apparently I wasn’t the only one who didn’t really understand what it was he wanted.

But I still got a “B” on this assignment so that counts for something I suppose. 

Still have to redo the assignment. 

Grrrrrrrr.

Yep..its Monday

I have never really been one to dread Monday...well until this week. My two week vaca from the university is over.....

We arrived home from AL around 7:30PM last night. I was basically dead on my feet; I completely forgot I had to drive home the night before, and stayed up talking to like 3:00AM, as I'd done the last several nights. My head was aching so badly by the time we arrived home, I could barely do anything.

Though I'd left my heaters running while I was gone, the house was frigid, and didn't warm up...much.  My toes were literally NUMB, by the time I crawled into bed. I had to turn on a heating pad, since my bed warmers were all still at the kennel.

Though, I do have to admit it was nice to have the whole bed to myself. Aaaah.

Anyway, I got up this morning with about 10 minutes to spare, since I had no little furkids, I was out the door, and still made it to work with 5 minutes to spare. (OOh yeah baby)

The morning kind of went steadily down hill after that, I managed to mess up a couple of vet appointment, cause some people to panic...than I took my lunch break to pick up the munkchins and managed to lock my keys in the car. Thankfully my parents live about 15 minutes away, and were able to rescue us.

That left me mere moments to dash home,  and "throw" the pups into the house, and race back to work.

Once there my co-worker and I (@ the service dog job) started talking (via Email) about Victoria, and her career as a Service Dog; by the end of that convo, we'd decided to remove her from the program.

Wow that threw me for a loop...not in the fact that she was career changed (as we call it) but because I actually had the opportunity to keep one of my babies, right there in arms reach.

But is it the right thing to do? Can I afford three permanent dogs plus whatever service dog I have in my home? What about moving? Traveling? Vet Bills?

And I have 10 days until school starts, and ony 8 days too get registered, which in reality is only 4 days due to work.....AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

My head hurts. And it doesn't help that I probably got a total of 20 hours sleep this entire weekend.

Not to mention but tomorrow I have to run over the mountain (1.5 hours) for an important meeting...

Yep....its just gotta be Monday.