cutest. puppy. ever. take 2!

So, because I'm in such a good mood because I feel like it's the end of the semester. Despite the fact that I still have one big project left - I decided to bring on some more cuteness.

Also, because, you know, Dakota really is the cutest puppy ever.

So I convinced my mom to send some more pictures. Granted the one with the cat doesn't represent the cuteness, but it does show how tiny he is.

So I'll bring the cuteness and then go to sleep. I can't even wait! Sleep! SLEEP!!!

a new view.

I clearly have to credit Killer with making photography and other art more interesting for me. Or, you know, piquing my interest in it past, say - Annie Liebovitz - or Ansel Adams. Not to say I don't enjoy their work. It's just. Easy. If that makes sense.

Which, did you know Annie and Susan Sontag were lovers until Susan died? Who knew? The things you find out. It kind of makes Annie seem cooler. I digress.

When I was a kid I really liked art, and I especially liked to draw. Markers, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, oil paint - didn't really matter. But, as I got older (read: started drinking, smoking, and hanging out with friends in the latter years of high school) I was more interested in hanging out and I essentially thought my stuff wasn't that great. And? It wasn't. But I still loved it.

I have to admit though that I wasn't that drawn to photography as art. Or at least I didn't really think about it - and I wasn't exposed to it as thus very much.

Killer - with her preference for the photography - really opened my eyes to thinking more about photography and now I am totally digging photography and she's even teaching me to be a snob about it too.

Though...I do have to say that I still like a lot of the more mainstream stuff than she ever would.

Okay, long post short. I discovered this photography blog - I'd say around the time I was still reading every -ist created. Man, those were good times. Anyway, this guy is a photographer in the UK and I fucking love his photos. I save them for work screensaver. Sometimes you're like, really? That's a photograph? And I have no idea how he takes some of them, but I think one of the reasons I love them so much is because of the coloring. Either very vivid or blue-ish. Anyway, it's nothing shocking or earth-shattering but I love going.

Plus? I think anything that can provide a new viewpoint of something seen everyday can be enjoyable. So this was procrastination tool for the day. I guess I really should try and finish my paper for class tonight.

one down...

And. Well. Lots to go.

I can't even believe that I still have to try and do reading tonight and write another paper.

Fuuucckkk....

I can't believe my professor kept us the full time tonight when our 'finals' were due AND didn't even give us a break!!! I was fried and was essentially like, you've really got to be fucking kidding me.

Though I am more excited for Friday now, since we'll be doing a bit of a belated birthday celebration for Killer since half the team was out of town on her birthday.

Yay, fun for Killer's birthday!!

crawling to the bloody finish line.

I don't know why this semester has seemed both particularly rough and busy as well as flying by rather quickly. Like, I can't believe that I'm already crawling to the end of the fucking finish line.

Like, serious hands and knees and bloody stumps crawling, but still another semester under the belt. Though I guess the official end is still off and this fucking ridiculously time consuming journalism course is throwing me off because my final is due tomorrow.

Just in case you're wondering. Ugly has set up in my apartment and isn't planning on leaving for quite some time.

So of course that means it's time for me to procrastinate blog.

I guess it's turning into a ritual.

All I can think about though - and I know it's because I'm totally fucking stressed out - is the end of next month in NYC and seeing Shortie's play and seeing CBF and celebrating and having an awesome time.

Of course I'm not thinking about the fact that I'll have started summer classes by then, plus my internship, and of course work. Clearly Ugly will be fucking me all summer long.

Crap.

cutest. puppy. ever.

So in mid-fall last year, my favourite dog, the best dog ever, Cody, was really old and sick and my mom had to put him down. It was a very rough time for me, as he had been my friend through many a hard things and when I still think about him too much I'll get teary, BUT he was an awesome welsh corgis.

Because of Cody's awesome personality and just because how cute they are, Welsh Corgis are the greatest. I totally want to have one when I'm more of a grown-up.

Unfortunately about two weeks ago my mom's other dog had to be put down as well. Clearly, this post doesn't seem to be the happiest one. But please refrain from slitting the wrists quite yet.

So my mom by luck found this lady with Welsh Corgi puppies (yes, the Queen's dogs) and so she found one with the greatest personality.

And I would like to introduce you to Dakota. The newest member of the family and someone I can't wait to meet!

new obsessions are expensive.

iTunes is essentially the work of the devil. Especially when they seem to expand upon their library introducing awesome music that you had searched for before, but then couldn't find. Especially when you can't find them on Amazon or on half.com for cheaper than 20 bucks because they're an import CD.

Plus? They totally know what they're doing with their whole just click 'buy' and don't you worry about actually adding in your credit card information so you can change your mind.

Killing me. Financially, of course. Because in reality? I totally fucking love the expanding library they have that isn't just whatever 'Joe I'm Playing it On the Radio and VH1 and it's going to be a hit dammit' is pimping for the week. I especially love it when their free songs of the week are music I've been thinking about getting, or an artist I love.

I digress. This morning on the way to work my iPod tripped upon a song I hadn't heard in a few months, reminding me how much I did indeed love the song. Like, listening to it on repeat, but I couldn't find the album on iTunes or on Amazon, and I didn't love it enough to purchase from one of the Amazon stores abroad. So I decided to check again today and they don't have the newest album by the group, or the the entire one, so you have to buy per song, but now I want to buy the album.

In a fucking fierce kind of way.

Must. Hold. Back. Especially since I haven't checked my bank account because of fear lately.

New obsessions can sometimes be painful.

betty sucks!

So after a rumour about there being a Betty Sucks! t-shirt, Killer and I decided this could very well actually be a possibility. Especially during one bourbon session where I described exactly what I was envisioning.

So this is partly what we were envisioning, but I think it'd fucking rock on a t-shirt. But likeness blah blah whatever isn't allowed at Cafe Press.

This would be the best t-shirt ever though. Maybe a sticker?

i feel like fucking paris hilton!

I'm currently house slash dog sitting. I think dog would be a strong word for this animal. It's like the tiniest little poodle ever.

The tiniest little poodle that could bark.

Seriously, I know small dogs are yappy but this is pretty fucking ridiculous. I arrived at the house today all ready to take a power nap and could barely get any rest because she kept on barking. I kept on trying to call out to her or get her to lie with me or you know, anything to keep her quiet. I mean I started to worry about the neighbours.

So now, the only way that I can keep her quiet is to have her physically sitting at my lap. So I'm sitting here with a tiny dog in my lap while I type at my computer. I mean I do realize I'm doing this as well because the constant barking now that it's dark is freaking me out.

Could a person buy some more curtains? Seriously. Big house and lots of windows do not make a person feel safe. Especially with a constantly yapping dog making me peek past the front door every two minutes.

Who knew accessory dogs were so high maintenace? I love dogs, and my absolute favourite dog I've had so far was a smaller dog, but this almost doesn't count as a dog. My cats have been heavier than this dog.

My cat could kick this dogs ass, so I'm not exactly thrilled with the barking and freaking out because this dog offers no extra protection. It would like, lick the burgar after barking at him.

And here I am trying to get work done. Oh well.

lauren. lauren. lauren.

Lauren Hoffman seemingly inexplicably will just cause me to constantly geek out.

Her current free song available from her website is a cover version of Helena and it's pretty awesome. I've been chomping at the bit for her to announce her US tour dates so I can go see her wherever she may be performing. I think she must be amazing live.

Granted, geeking out on my part lately doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. I was telling Killer over the phone tonight - due to a very convulted commonly knowing somone - and how this person provided me with The X-Files in high school. A fact I was very thankful for. I tried telling Killer how geeked out I really was and she was all, "uh. Yeah, you fucking loser. I was scared shitless of that version of you. Don't tell me more you weird weird person.' The last bit when I was trying to tell her how obsessed with the show I was. Didn't want to hear it.

Looking back on it - I'm glad there probably isn't much photographic evidence. I mean, we're not talking like flashlights, bad hair, and alien solving kits - but closer to posters of hottie David Duchovny (along with at the time smokin' Gillian Anderson, which on an even further tangent, I recently heard a bigwig type say that she was the worst interview experience they had had in their career...sad! And, seriously? Ruins an image you have of a beloved persona. Digression!) and I'm not going to overshare, but I'm sure there are people out there with dolls!

Anyway, you should listen to Lauren Hoffman do My Chemical Romance better than My Chemical Romance. And even download it for free. Even though Killer seems to be totally clueless and was ranting about how it should be free and downloadable blah, blah blah. I think this is my way of getting back at her for her lack of geek sympathy - but she's still helping to save my ass, so she rocks.