Sleeping Beauty

One afternoon, Jadan, Ella and I we watching a movie...or so I assumed. I looked around and noticed Ella was not in her bean bag chair, so I went on a hunt. And this is what I found.

Michael Phelps Learning Mandarin

Alright...the benchmark has been set...we learn Mandarin Chinese and win 17 Olympic Gold Medals in the event of your choosing.

Here's another blast of life...........

Go get 'em you psychedelic freaks!!!

Pray Away the Gay!

Palin believes you can 'Pray away the Gay'. Having many gay friends, I am appalled by this close minded thinking. How can I be so different than my siblings? I am so proud I now am part of an open minded family. . . How do you feel?

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20080907/Palin.Gays/

Health

I know..I started the poll and you guys responded and I didn't...I suck..yeah yeah....

Well here's a little bit of what I've been doing to improve my health..besides jogging with puppy, cutting out almost any carbonated drink or alcohol, and eating much more healthily and regularly, I'm also back to working out more. I bought some push-up stands and have been making great use of those. They reduce the strain on your wrists and also allow you a deeper plane to push-up to and through. Check the product, the blooper, and the action shot of what puppy usually does while I'm trying not to pop a major blood vessel in my forhead.

Puppy's teething

***WARNING*** ***GRAPHIC CONTENT***

-May upset some viewers. Viewer discretion is strongly advised-

So, puppy is teething, April, did Winston go through that? I'd read a bit about it so knew it was coming. And when those little biters at the front go, it was easy enough. Shortly afterwards some new, smoother, rounder, and larger adult teeth were coming in. But knowing the long canines were the last to go, I still wasn't prepared for a night when suddenly there was a smear of blood on my front door, blood spots on my flooring, blood spread all over her soccer ball, and then blood on my forearm and wrist. I was a bit panicky and not sure if she'd just lost a permanent tooth or what. But I calmed down, did some reading, and steeled myself to the fact that she was just losing her teeth. Afterwards the fun part became trying to collect as many as possible.



One night we were playing fetch in the entryway and she started licking oddly, I wasn't sure, but got the sense something was up. So I came over to her just in time to have the second canine fall onto the marble flooring. I snatched it up and kept it. Apparently it is quite rare to find puppy teeth, they usually swallow them. So this past week I've kept tugging at the two canines that are left. Of course the one that seemed solid and unlikely to drop fell out suddenly while I was building the puzzle upstairs. I never even saw it. The last one has been dangling for days and is just firmly enough rooted yet that I don't to cause puppy any pain in my avarice. ;)



Incredibly, while I was sorting some puzzle pieces upstairs one night, I came across a little white fleck that turns out to be one of those little biters she had in the front. It's pretty amazing because she was only allowed upstairs ONCE, and we all saw how that turned out. So I'm considering myself pretty lucky to have found the two, and puppy is healthy and almost through that phase of dog-dom.



Check out the photos of her missing tooth the night the first canine fell out, and also the shots of the stubborn third canine and the new canine growing in the same spot. Pretty cool...



Mom, could we make a Rescue 911 reenactment of this scenario? :)

The Kindness of Koreans

Went hiking yesterday morning with 5 out of 6 students from my Tue./Thur. 10am class. I took puppy along and we got near summitting a mountain I had never been on before. Buramsan. (sp) Was a good hike, puppy was tenacious and never needed to be carried more than lifting her down from a rock that was suddenly shoulder height. The women were really kind, gave me coffee, chrysantheum tea, Korean pears, hard-boiled eggs, even a handkercheif to wipe the sweat from my increasingly bare head. Awww...

In the afternoon I had a class with two girls...one of their mothers, the hiker the fourth from the left showed up as I was leaving the class and gave me a gift. She knew I had been a little sick that morning and bought some plum concentrate for me. It is supposed to be good for digestion. Mix one part plum concentrate with about 3-4 parts water, warm if the weather is nippily, and viola! Instant happy gut. I'll let you know how it tastes after I make a cup.

Enjoy!