I'm in the middle of the end of fiscal year rush from all the government departments so I've got like 15 projects on the go! Marc is slowly cleaning and fixing up our house to put on the market.
This weekend Marc and I are going to the "Country House" in Lumpkin, Georgia. Always a good time. It's a house on a tall hill overlooking two ponds. Really great fishing. Actually the last time we were there the ponds were overstocked and needed to be fished badly! Can't wait for this time! Hope we can have an old fashion southern fish fry! Lucas is going to come with us and he is old enough this time to try and fish. We're also going to shoot some guns. My new favorite activity. I just like to beat Marc with my marksmanship. Marc and I discovered after we went to the house last year that it's right near "Little Grand Canyon" which I'd really like to see, so hopefully we will have time for that! I'll post pics for y'all to see! I can't wait to see tired little lukey after a day of fishing with his dad and uncle and aunt!

Pepper's first grooming

Sorry I dropped this for so long. I've been so busy! Much has happened.
Yesterday Marc and I tried to give Pepper her first grooming. Bad Idea. Let me tell you.
We decided this needed to be done because it was getting pretty hot out, and she was becoming a little ragamuffin. Also, last weekend she got a dread lock on her chest and while apparently trying to scratch herself she got her canine tooth caught in said dread lock, while we were in the car. It took a solid four or five minutes to get it unhooked. Needless to say I really freaked out seeing her in such a funny position and yelping in pain all the way in the back of the Subaru. So yesterday we started grooming her, she did great at first, we held the clippers up to her body and she got used to the buzz of it all. We were attempting the "breeders" clip. Thats where you cut the schnauzers tops part, leave the bottom long, and cut the hair on the head, leaving the eyebrows. Took us a good 30 minutes and we got the back area cut, but when it came to the head, she was just not having it, at all. About 30 minutes of trying to get the clippers close enough to her head to help her see there was no danger, we finally gave in. I have never heard a dog squeal like that before. So now I have an adorable puppy with a shaved back and a pouffy head. I have a covert operation planned where when she passes out at my feet one night I'm going to go at her with some scissors. I'll let y'all know how that goes.

Time and Space

Selecting the emotions i though would come true

despair comes running but its just passing through

Baring those bones, muscle and heart

living but learning, a piece from the part

Shifting from space into the times

loosing the pace but keeping the rhyme

classifying the existence of everything in place

loosing the time but keeping the space

First week of the new puppy. Pepper is a 7 week old mini-schnauzer. Cute as hell.
She's a handful though, as most puppies are! The hard part about the puppy is you have to avoid certain habits when they are babies, so they don't get used to them when they get older and have separation anxiety or aggressive behavior. So since she's going to have to stay alone at home while we're at work, we are trying to get her used to this right away. This involves so much extra driving though to go home at lunch to check on her! She's doing great with it, although she cries a lot when I first leave her in our laundry room. Sounds like a screeching monkey. Buddy sometimes gives her a "shut up" bark to I discovered while waiting on the other side of the front door listening to see if she stops. All and all she's a smart, good-natured loving little girl. Marc and I got a lot of dog training books out of the library, and so far the best one by far has been "Before and After getting your Puppy - Dr. Ian Dunbar. " He is great and really gets into the psychology of the puppy. A couple other good tools is chew toys! Especially the ones you can stuff food in. We have found the one that is two pieces that screws together is the best. Since it's hard for her we can make it easier to get her food out.

A lollipop to anyone who knows who this is!?

My Favourite Websites

Since I spend a gi-normous amount of time at a computer (40 hrs a week!)
I have accumulated a lot of great websites I peruse through at lunch:

www.mylifeisaverage.com - this website is like reading the funny pages of a readers digest! Love it

www.failblog.com

www.buzzfeed.com - pictures and videos and new stories that are the most popular right now on the internet all in one place!

www.emailsfromcrazypeople.com - This website used to be golden, now it's lacking a bit, but the first postings are hilarious!

www.oddlyspecific.com - Great signs people have seen around the globe.

www.comixed.com - website of images randomly placed together to make comic pieces. Has its moments!

Was a Pioneer, now I'm left in the dust!

When did this all happen!?
Seems like not that long ago I was up late chatting with my friends online, trying to keep my typing quiet so that my mom wouldn't wake up from down the hall and know I had snuck out! Ah technology of that day, it was nothing more then the mIRC program downloaded to computer with chat rooms named after the town you live in.
Now even my grandma has a blog! Everyone I know has face-book (except for my grandfather). My little cousin won't even let hers be public to her "friends" for fear of persecution! (mind you at her age there is no way I'd even let my parents/family be my "friends"). Our social structure has definitely had a drastic shift hasn't it?
My co-worker who is 62 has a hard time having a conversation with me sometimes because everything can be wikipedia'd at the click of a mouse. She says she misses the old days where people just would take your word for it!
Needless to say it looks like I've started a blog again! I am going to make this a combination of my life experiences, the things I find fascinating and my "joie de vie!"