"happiness is a warm puppy." -charles schultz

okay, that's bad. i only wrote one entry and took a five month hiatus. i'll try to write down all of the interesting events more often. where to begin!

since august i have recently obtained a job as an educator at the mirage's sigfried and roy's secret garden and dolphin habitat. it is a temporary part-time position but it's always money in the bank and right now that's really all that matters. i'm enjoying the days at work, although it does feel a bit campy i guess, seeing as i spend most of the time telling people to keep their stuff off the pool walls and to not let kids bang on the glass windows.

therefore, i am now embarking on a scary but exciting journey to find a position in the clark county school system here in las vegas. whew, these kids are so different from the ones back home. those kids thought they were so rough, but these kids here would put them to shame. my eight-year-old neighbor scares me. he has a mohawk and rides his bike around the neighborhood like a bad-ass up to no good. which makes me kinda jealous. i remember being eight. i don't think i even brushed my hair, much less thought about designing a hairstyle out of it. i played with ninja turtles. that was pretty bad-ass for a girl growing up in the 80's-90's i guess.

moving on! i've also made some pretty solid friends while living here. i met katie online and she introduced me to laura (a security forces wife like her) and laura introduced me to mary (former military, now wife of military). so we four get along great, we even started a book club that tries to meet at least once a month, but usually some form of us meets up at least once a week. so far we've read some pretty interesting books (the other boleyn girl, the heretic's daughter, the book thief, and i think that's it so far.)... anyway, they are pretty much the reason i haven't resigned myself to sitting at home feeling sorry for myself for not having anything to do. now that i have a job, timing's harder, but what can you do? they're really kind and and really quirky, just what i like!

so, the newest addition to this blogger's life is an adorable one-year-old beagle from the spca. her name is brookland, she smells like pee all the damn time, and i love her. her kisses are really thorough. if you didn't think you'd ever french kiss a dog, well, she kinda doesn't give you a choice. she sleeps a lot though, and i don't know if it's because she's a rambunctious puppy or if she's just bored... hopefully the first one.

right now, i'm discovering mumford & sons, they're pretty beautiful (looking and sounding). and i'm reading the lost symbol by dan brown. i feel kinda embarrassed reading his books because they're so popular among people who don't actually read. i don't mean to be an elitist, but i try to read books that are maybe more meaningful? i don't know what i'm saying.

anyway, i have a new year's resolution! my resolution is to create and sell items either through etsy and/or at craft fairs this year with the help of my friends mary and laura. i knit and crochet a lot, but never really finish projects because they don't really have a purpose. i'm just doing something with my hands honestly so i don't feel bored. so maybe if that activity had a motivation, like making things for an actual person... not really to make a profit at first. i really just want to make something that someone else would actually want to wear or give as a gift to someone else. i think that says a lot about your ability, if someone would actually buy it from you, instead of at a buy one get one sale, or worse, at walmart. yikes.

so there you have it, folks. i've made a resolution, now i actually have to take steps to put it into fruition.

much love...