And then my "egg on toast" was "egg on floor".

Imagine this (because I'm not allowed to post pictures of work), two beagles get into fights when you try and play ball with them together, or if you take them on walks together.  So, I walk them separately.  I also play ball with them separately.  I decided to pick up all of the balls, because they are ball crazy and all they do is stand at your feet with a ball in their mouth waiting for you to throw it for them, and put them in a bucket and up high so that they could focus on sniffing stuff.  I put them on the ledge of this 4 foot rock wall, right? and ignore the dogs for a bit.  Then, I look up and see one dog has managed to scale the rock wall and the other has it's feet up checking that his partner follows through with the task.  Crazy dogs, but also so funny and it totally made my day!

11:11
Many people use this time of day AM or PM to make a wish.  The "ex" (Oh what a dreadful term...maybe he just needs another type of reference name.  Like Todd.)  Todd would make it a point that whenever he caught this time he would yell out, "11, 11 make a wish!"  So we'd make our wishes using that whole minute to think it through.  Now days I seem to catch this time constantly.  I look at my watch, or I look at my phone and say to myself, "Really?!" as if it's a joke that it keeps happening.  I do not make a wish when I catch it though, I just think of it as a sign.  So, I guess this means it's my SERENDIPITY SIGHTING #2.  I'm never expecting it to happen, it just does.  I don't know what it means though.  He told me his wish was always the same, so I decided to ask him what it was (just now actually) and he said it was "that we would be happy together".  Doesn't that just stomp the soul?  Perhaps wishes are just hopes that we have to make happen ourselves.  There's no hope for the human race then...just kidding (I think).

A random thought that came to me: I believe in Science because it gives me knowledge to understand how the world and the things in and around it work.  I believe in God because this faith gives me the knowledge to understand my life and the things in and around it.

Other random thoughts:  My feet stink; Keds are not airy shoes.  Having a strong sweet tooth makes you sweeter; Or at least that's what I'll tell the dentist next month.  I have a feeling that my savings account will end up going to some random act of awesomeness; I wanted to buy a book today that was about how to be awesome (or something like that).  The guy on the TV is trying to find a mathematical way to communicate with aliens;  I think it's an interesting idea and I also think it's a bad idea. HAVEN'T THEY SEEN TRANSFORMERS???!!!

The title, "And then my egg on toast was egg on floor," came from this morning when I was eating my breakfast while trying to watch some primetime on demand...and my egg fell off of my toast.  So I said those words to myself and thought them to be funny.  I just had to share it with y'all!

Newts in a glass!

 

Here's me the night of walking the graduatory stage!

 

Here's Matt the day of celebrating his graduation.  He didn't want to walk so I made him wear my robe and hat for a bit.  I even sang the song while he stomped around the house.

On other topics:

1. I have never heard of Port Arthur alas I have been sent a whole travel packet with information about the place.  They have something called Pleasure Island and that totally shouts CSI show to be.  Maybe I'll stick to a vacation spot I know like Rock Port.
2. My mom's cat, Boo, finds the strangest places to call comfortable.  She likes to nap behind the computer under the upper level of the desk; on top of stacks of paper (right now she's on top of some scrap booking materials); and sometimes she'll be half on the couch and half on the wicker storage thing she's allowed to rip to shreds with her claws.
3. Acorns are in full fall.  Not yet has one his me in the head but there is still time.
4. Another fact on Boo the cat: she likes to jump.  She jumps up to the top of the entertainment center and she makes a horrific rattle while jumping to the top of the china cabinet.  I'm surprised nothing has been destroyed.
5. I'm loving my job!  I got to meet the newest gal who's still in training.  I was doing my best to act myself and not get a power high.  Hopefully I helped her answer any questions she had.  I didn't want to just make her do everything since I came there to work too so I did some of the most unpleasant parts of the night shift...like taking out the poop trash and cleaning the loft.  She'll get her chance to have fun with that stuff.  I made sure to ask that she's given meds before so I wasn't taking anything away from her new experience by doing it myself.
6. Finally, it sounded like an air raid was about to go down but it makes me feel good that it didn't.  It looks so pretty outside right now.  However, I really want to get some more painting done in my closet.

That is all.

I majored in art...

but now I'm walking dogs? 

That's always my quick explanation of what I'm doing since I graduated.  But the truth is, this book helped me realize that it wasn't just art that I wanted to pursue and working with animals was going to be a wonderful thing to calm my mind when all I had on my plate was getting ready for an art show.

It is true that I am working on getting an art show together.  I have a "dead-line" for October 20th but I've lost inspiration and it sucks.  The other day I spat into the sink while brushing my teeth and the coolest shape was formed...however, my sketch was 10x more exciting than the drawing I made because of the sketch.  It's like the inspiration died when I tried to make it over and over again.  It needed to be original.  AND THAT'S WHY I NEED ANOTHER MINI SKETCHBOOK!

About this book...my friend Jill lent it too me at my graduation party.  I didn't really read it because she said that it has some neat exercises in it that I might enjoy.  I did!  I enjoyed flip-flip-flipping through the pages until I came across another exploratory exercise where I wrote all over a piece of blank paper which then turned into a collage of everything I have ever thought about doing.  It was crazy to figure out that, ya know, I'm doing exactly what I want.

Well, not exactly.  At the time I wasn't employed by Crackerdog, the canine boarding and daycare facility I work at now, but I was certainly prepared to after working with the dogs at the Guadalupe County Humane Society while I was still at school in Seguin.  I may have adopted a cat after I had left, but that goes to show that I wasn't going to be able to give a dog the attention it needed.  I love April...don't get me wrong...but she makes me sneeze! 

The book got me really pumped about getting my art studio up and running and also having that "third thing" to keep me sane.  You see, one of my favorite art professors ( I basically loved them all, but for different reasons) was teaching our Senior Seminar class preparing us for graduation and helping us get our first art show up and was giving us the low-down on how to survive: Don't use glitter and have a third thing.  He always hatted it when one of the art majors used glitter in everything...she'd use it in one room and it'd end up in another!  His third thing, to help you understand, is biking.  He has a family, an art studio, he is a professor, and he loves biking!  Now what am I? I have a love of my life, an art studio, and a job working with dogs!  I'd say I'm on the right track.

Another one of the exercises in the book was to make goals and then prioritize them by recognizing which ones are the most possible and ones that you really want to invest time into.  So, of course I put down having an art show to part-way benefit a good cause but then I also put down owning our own (Heather and me) humane society/daycare/boarding facility.  Half of it seems non-profit while the other half brings in profit.  Confusing?  Yup, but that is a long-long-long term goal. 

After revising and revising I finished up my list and made it all pretty using colorful paper and I took it to my studio...and that's why I can't tell you exactly what's on there because I don't remember.  Lame, but overall I'm happy where I am, even if I'm stumped in the art world.  It's okay, remember? because I have that third thing to take up my time that isn't spent staring at the ceiling of the teal carpeted studio trying to push something into my brain that's not going to come yet. 

Now, I encourage everyone out there who just graduated or who is still stuck in a rut to either pick up this book to dig down deep and find your dreams/goals and organize them!  Or just think of ways to organize them yourself.  No need to buy/borrow a book when it's already turning the gears in your head.  The book started to get redundant when I had already gotten everything organized so I just closed it, took a deep breath, and got serious.

Be serious, don't settle for less, do what you can handle, eat Pringles AND FEEL GOOD!

That is all!