The Weekend Summary, The Pups and Ska Giddiness

The Improv show was awesome and beyond well attended. The venue has a fire code of 240 and the crowd numbered 213. So the Antics have locked in on the 10:30-12:00 timeslot for the upcoming year. Good for them. Ryan has video he'll get up with his professionally obsolete mini dv camera (that is still really awesome, it just doesn't have hd). PS the sound was recorded with the same camera.

Saturday we went to somewhere that I've never been, the Murray ampitheater where we saw my cousin in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Lindsey did a phenomenal job for her young 17 years. After 5 years of being on an on again off again family and friends performance hiatus, its good to feel like I have time to support the people I care about and see them shine. And who doesn't love Seven Brides for Seven Brothers? It references the Aeneid and every time I giggle at the wittiness of the writing. We watched it in my second year latin class and wrote a comparisson essay on the connection of the Sabine women to the 'Sobbin' women in a modern day interpretation and what can be lost from translations.

So that play holds a special place in my heart for special torture reasons and other nerd related aspects.

Odin ripped out a few of his stitches so we put some neosporin and a bandaid on and basically straitjacketed him in a blanket for a few hours. He's good and there was probably no real harm done, but we didn't want Link or him to continue pulling out stitches.

Last night when Ryan got home I had a ska playlist playing and the puppies were moshing (jumping and excited to see Ryan) and I told Ryan its a sign that he needs to like ska. He laughed and teased me, but agreed to go with me to the Reel Big Fish and The Aquabats show in October! I'm so excited, concert going without Ryan is lame and last time I saw The Aquabats I had no defense from the mosh pit. But here is my proof, recorded so that Ryan can't renege. Yay!

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15 Minutes, Fall and The Boys Surgery

15 minutes to reflect on this past summer and its close. I’m tired, 100% bona fide tired. I remember when summer meant lounging around all day playing with friends, and now (and for the past 6 years) it has meant next to nothing, just no school. That doesn’t mean no work, it just meant accumulating projects would try to break me, not the happiest news would test me, and the inability to say no to people I barely know stressed me.

I’m really quite good at telling people I know exactly what I can and won’t take on, however, people I don’t know, I am terrible at telling no, or letting them know when I am in way over my head.

However, Fall means less crazy, good ol’ consistent fall with its promise of beautiful fall leaves. For one there is a dramatic difference with the ever consuming issue of people always being out of town. Fall is lovely, and as always my most inspiring time of year. Be it the colors, the feel the magic of change in the air, consistent change that isn’t loud like spring that falls on its face, because lets face it, spring seems to leap before it really thinks about the outcome, this leads to crops freezing because they came out to early.

Fall isn’t that way, it thinks before it prematurely drops buckets of leaves everywhere.

The sun can go on vacation for a bit, I’m ready for sweaters, boots, and jackets. The pups won’t know what fall is, and I think they’ll think that all the leaves everywhere are chips waiting to be chomped up. I’m super stoked to let them run about and eat crunchy leaves to their little hearts content.

We neutered them this last Saturday and other than the day of surgery, they’ve been their energetic little selves. The nurse specifically said not to let them do any of the following:

Wrestle
Go up and down stairs
Jump
Play with other dogs
Get wet

They have done all of the above except for the last two, but the storm yesterday gave us a run for our money. We’ve been giving them the pain meds, and all we can think of is that the meds work a tad too well. Saturday they were limping around, so much so I didn’t bother closing up their crates, but Sunday they were zipping around, jumping, wrestling and going up stairs.

It was all we could do to keep them separate, lets see how these next two weeks fair for our little dudes.

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They're Getting Big

Mary came over this weekend and saw the pups. She wanted a pic of them with here, so I utilized photobooth until I can figure out where I packed the camera...

I remember when they fit in both my hands and now they're 3-4 times as big. I'm going to be better about taking more pictures of them growing, and hopefully not just sleeping or being held by others.

This is Link's we are not amused face.

Eat mary's chin.

Link looking like a coyote.

Memo to self:

Odin is particularly hard to take pictures of in bad light.

The front room is not particularly well lit.
Find camera that is packed away somewhere and take pictures of the pups in better light and maybe even outside.

The pic Mary posted on her blog is here.

Ironically its the link of Link looking like a coyote and Odin just sitting.

So, what do you do to get good pictures of animals and pets and what do you do to encourage yourself to take pictures?

Thanks,

A

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New members of our family!

We've recently acquired 2 new furry members of the Meeks clan.

Meet Link and Odin! We adopted the cute little guys from Zuka and Zasha, Carlyn's dogs. The tan one is Link, and he lives up to the name, he's the little mischief maker, and the black one is Odin, and despite his small size he rules with an iron paw.

They are so well behaved already and such good little guys. We love them a lot.
But then wouldn't you love them too?
I love their little wet noses and curiosity with the world around them. I love how smart they are and know after a few short weeks what they can and can't chew on.
I love how happy they are just to be in the same room as us while we are doing homework. They do so well with our current busy schedules and play with each other when we aren't around. They are so friendly and it just breaks my heart when I have to leave them and go to work.

We sure love these little guys.

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