quote du jour

Many people think that if they were only in some other place,

or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful.

So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can

and don’t put off being happy until some future date.

- DALE CARNEGIE -

posting puppy pictures is my stress relief

You have no idea how much I need a stress relief right now. Taking mini breaks from responding to emails and soldering new necklace designs to post puppy pics is therapeutic. He's the first person I've met, with the exception perhaps of my mom, sisters, best girlfriends Katie Sarah and Tracie and my dad who don't get bored to tears hanging around me when I'm making stuff! Oh, yes- that Bran is a sweetie, but he supports me not by tying mini knots in 300 strings until 2 a.m. the night before a show (Becki knows what I speak of)-- but instead, buys me neat things like boxes and fancy wire decorative items that he gives me and says, "See- I thought you could use this to hang necklaces on in your art fair booth!" And you know what's amazing? He picks the most fabulous stuff. I'm always trying to find display items that don't take up idle storage space, but instead always pick stuff I don't mind setting around the house, and everything he's ever given me completely fits the bill. And it's more than him having good taste and knowing me- the fact that he gives me things like this as gifts (tomorrow's our 5th anniversary, FYI- hence the gift thing) means that he is like, "Here, sweetie... here's something to help you get just a little bit closer to your dream."

Fitting.

On our first not-really date, we went to Subway and we talked about everything you can fit into 39 minutes of your work lunch break. I'll never forget that Brandon just came right out and asked me in his enthusiastic Brandon way, "What is your dream?" Anyone who knows me and my INFP ways knows that I LOVED that he asked me this.

Anywho, if things keep up at this rate I'll either have to hire 3 Moonwater Elves- preferrably from the only bunch o' folks in this world who don't bore to tears around this stuff... and Koda's out due to the no fingers thing- or I'll have to increase my hours at my current part-time job, one option being reducing my sleep to 3 hours per night as opposed to 6. Who needs sleep, right Sarah?

Koda looks as though he's T.O.'ed that he's wearing another non-collar, but it's just kind of his Koda face. Even though he is very much a puppy, he's not the mouth open, panting, "smiling" type of pup. That's just not his style, peeps. He's a cool pup who is only uncool when he gets really excited and pees on people's feet. Then he's just temporarily a tiny bit uncool.

This has been a crazy last two weeks, so if I owe you a phone call or email, please forgive me. Good things in the works- but busyyyy!

because photos are so much quicker than words...

This is what our puppy looks like the night after a morning spent at the dog park. Koda loved running around with other dogs, especially now that he's nearly the size of many of the medium-sized adult dogs out there.

"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz....." Koda, 5 p.m. Sunday night


We stopped by the coffee shop prior to heading to the dog park, so as we stood there with our mochas in hand, at a DOG PARK on a Sunday morning, I imagined everyone around us assuming us to be Hamilton & Meg Swan from the movie Best in Show:

Hamilton Swan: Honey, I'm thinking of switching to the mock turtleneck?
Meg Swan: Is that not breathing?
Hamilton Swan: Well, it's breathing now, but it'll be hot down there. I could go with the lambswool, but then again, you'll see a lot of khaki down there and this merlot looks good with the gray.