Uh oh

Okay, so I know I can't get another dog until I can afford a) obedience classes and b) a car or zipcar to transport the beasts to green spaces and travel with me. And I know two dogs is a lot more than one (and probably harder to find dogsitters/people to stay with), but:
1. Raleigh would LOVE to have a wrestle buddy. He and Bijou love each other, but he does have to hold back with her. He needs a pup more his size!

2. I just. want. more. dogs. in my life. Some people get really excited about traveling all over the world and worry they won't be able to go all the places they want to go; I have minor anxiety about not being able to live with all the doggy soulmates I know I have out there!

3. Look at that face and try to say no:

from Petfinder

My prediction:

Janelle Monae.

Yall better recognize. That's all I'm saying.

sleepsleepsleep

I keep being reminded that I just sleep better in the winter than in the summer. In the summer (yes, it feels like summer some days here) I sleep with the window open, the fan going, and nothing heavy on my body. Too many noises, not enough weighing me down, and too much light. Then I wake up feeling unrested and dehydrated.

Bah humbug.

(so good)

i want to tell you how good i am at transcribing

(so good)

i hear a word and i'm like, gosh i don't know that word

and then i look up what it sounds like

and bam! i was totally right

words of the day:

culatazo (a kick)

ultrajar (to insult, abuse)

fregar (to annoy)

Dr. Who Night

I made a cake. I was going to make it anyway, but I made it on Saturday so I could pawn it off share it with folks who gathered to watch Dr. Who (Colin's got us all hooked). The newest episode was really creepy! It was about these "weeping angels" who are stone statues when you're looking at them but as soon as you turn away or the light goes out or you blink, they advance, ready to eat you and spit you out in 1920 or so. Yeah, it's a little complicated... but they're like a cross between the ninja cat and those freaky videos that are of something innocuous and then all of a sudden it's some crazy scary face and it's screaming at you. Yeah, I know you fell for one of those at least once.

Anyway, cake. Lemon

and raspberry

and food coloring and sprinkles.

Also, Raleigh is allowed on the couch at Colin's so he was pretty happy about the whole Dr. Who viewing thing.

See those eyes? Those are the "Mom I'm so happy right now please don't make me get off the couch" eyes. "Unless it's to get up on that chair with you. That would be okay."

The sky looked kind of pretty like it was clearing up, and then it was like "BAM, I'm gonna rain on your FACE."

Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day
When I don't have to buy groceries

Gosh Inez, you really like that cemetery, don't you?

I have absolutely no idea what would give you that idea.

Shades of pink

Saturday walk in the cemetery with Raleigh:

I took my ipod, thinking I would catch up on some This American Life. I decided I needed pepping up more, so I turned on my latest dance playlist so loud that Lady Gaga was all there was. I tried to smell the pretty pink flowers and couldn't smell them because the music was so loud. I danced around the cemetery looking at all the shades of pink suddenly blooming and singing along to Love Story even though I was probably off-key. Whatever, it was just me and my dog.

Easter weekend

I dropped my dog off for a weekend-long doggy playdate.

(play)

(date)

Then I flew to Cleveland to hang out with my relatives.

(do you like how I'm in my 20s and still doing patterns with patterns? I'll dig up a picture from when I'm 5 for you one of these days. then you'll really see how it's done)


We made labels for our Easter baskets.

Then we made Easter eggs.

Also I did some baking.

Because I've been thinking about how cross buns ever since the last time I burned made them.

And then, you know, we sat around and ate our chocolate bunnies and stuff.

Then I stepped into my private boat and waved good-bye
and sailed back over Ohio
and in and out of Pennsylvania
and through Maryland
and into the night of my very own DC
where I found my pupper waiting for me
and he still loved me.

My morning is going to be better than your morning. My morning is going to have PANCAKES.

Last night I was hopped up on a latte I got in the afternoon, and felt like some exercise. Left my house on my bike at 7 to meet up with a friend and didn't get home till 8:45, having done a few 3.2 mile laps around Hains Point. It felt good! Then it felt tired. I went to bed before 10 last night... and woke up at 5:52 this morning. Do you know when the last time that happened was? That I woke up BEFORE 6 and felt rested?

Yeah, me neither. Probably pre-adolescence.

Anyway, I made banana chocolate chip pancakes and I'm still early enough that I'll be able to drop my bike off at the shop on the way to work to get my rear wheel trued/rounded (can you say that?) and my rear derailer adjusted. How about THAT.