Canine 'Tricks'

Yeah, they're not funny.

You hear that, Jake? NOT FUNNY!

Yours truely (ah, me) went running this morning. But it wasn't for exercise. No, and probably my body didn't benefit from my run at all. In fact, I'd be willing to bet you money that I will be coming down with at least a cold in the next few days. My hair was wet. I was in boots. I had no bra on. And I threw the first sweatshirt on that I could find. Oh, and I grabbed a squeak toy at the last minute.

Now, why on earth would emmie go running in the freezing cold morning with wet hair and a squeaky toy you ask?

Because my dog ran away. Thats why. This is the second time in a week. I had the man neutered years ago to stop this behavior. But noooooo....

Its all my fault really. I didnt hook him up. I was too busy focusing on Frankie and making sure she went potty. Jake is Mr Old Reliable. Usually. Not this morning!

Nope, Jake decided that he was going to go trick or treating... without me! So as soon as I discovered he was gone, I muttered some swear words under my breath, followed by a "Not again!". Then I grabbed some stuff and I ran. And I ran. And I screamed out Jake's name. And then I almost plowed over my startled neighbor. It was still dark outside you see, and he was only trying to take the garbage to his dumpster. Then his crazy neighbor lady comes flying around his garage, screaming, sopping wet hair, squeaking a dog toy. Yep. I probably wont be invited to the next neighborhood bonfire.

After rounding more blocks than my shins care to talk about, I bolted back towards home. I grabbed my keys and I slammed my truck into gear. All of the images of Jakes limp body laying on the side of the road floated through my head. You see, even at the mature age of 7, Jake still has no 'traffic sense'. And after jumping a fence at the tender age of 2yo, and escaping for a day, he managed to get himself hit by a car and left for dead. Luckily, my vets own vet tech happened to be driving by and found him, scooped him up and hauled him into the ER. It was a bad time for me. And all that came rushing back.

After 5 minutes of my driving around (still with wet hair. Still in a sweatshirt and not warm pajama pants. And this time, with all the windows down, still screaming) I saw a dark figure standing in the middle of the street. JAKE! I whipped the truck around and gassed towards the shape. But it wasnt Jake. It was the neighbors black lab. But why was he standing in the middle of the road? Because Jake was in the neighboring yard. I skidded to a stop, shooed black dog back out of the road and into his yard, and opened the truck door for the yellow figure hauling ass towards me. Jerk. Why does he scare me like that?

But you know what? Its all good. I managed to punch in right on time for work this morning. I may not look the greatest today. But its okay. Its all good that I'm pale and my hair is a rats nest and I'm wearing an old sweatshirt. Because its Halloween. And I dont have to look good on Halloween. I just have to look scary. And that I do. So I guess I should be thanking Jake for giving me the pale, sick, scary look on such a day. Right?

No! Not right! He scared the crap out of me today! It was waaaaaaaay too early in the morning for a dog induced heart attack! Come on!

Happy Halloween, folks...

Camera...

...oh how I've missed you.

My camera is finally on it's way. Well, not technically on its way. I am waiting on the tracking number. But when I have the tracking number, she will officially be on her way. And then I can get back to sharing my world with you digitally.

I've missed my camera. I've always used my camera as my way of expressing myself. And then sharing myself with you all, my wonderfully patient readers. I am feeling the love.

I'm also feeling very impatient because I know the guy sent it via Snail Parcel Service (thats not a real parcel service. I am just crabby because it will take so long). Which means a week or something before it's arrival. And you know what? I dont think I have a weeks worth of clever or witty euphamisms for you all. I know you are getting to where you can't stand my writings, and that the only reason you come here is for the photography. Right? So I really am going to need for that camera to get here. Quick. Quicker!

But really, I do appreciate you all hanging in there. And even more so you sticking around because I know it has nothing to do with my photography. Or my writing. You come here because you need the links to get to these other awesome blogs that I am following down there on my blog list. Right? Yeah, I know what's going on.

But really. Did I already say that? But really? No, but really, I have to go now. So even if you dont come here just for the links to other blogs, you really should check out the blogs I'm following at the moment. They are pretty dang good. God knows there isnt anything for you to see here for a while! Ha!

Strange Visions

I realize that some of you are alarmed at the recent 'experimenting' I've been doing with my site here. Those of you who know me generally know me as one who isn't much fond of change.
However, as I learn about this blogging 'drug' that somebody created however many years ago, I can officially say that I am a blogoholic. Thats the realization that came to me today in a conversation with my friend 'dhw'.
I want to use the technology available to me to make my blog the best that it can be so that you may enjoy it as much as I do, if not more!
So please be patient as I 'makeover' my site. You will see things you like and things you dont like. I had a rather 'girly' background up a while back and I hope nobody saw it. God forbid people think that I have any sides to me resembling feminine. Ha!
You'll see things that are me and you'll see things that aren't me. Bear with me while I work though my brief identity crisis!

Diving off horses

You know what? Screw what I said last week about the $2.99 gasoline.

$2.39 gasoline, baby!

I filled my gas tank this morning, from empty to full, for less than $40. And I'm elated over it. That sucker is such a hog. But thats what I get for thinking I need to be an SUV owner.

In other news... Its cold here in the many lakes state. We had our first snowfall of the season yesterday. Accompanied by 40mph winds. I decided to ditch all my errands last minute and stay home, curled up in my chair with my book and many dogs piled on top of me. It was quite a relaxing day.

Except for the whole Melby episode. We dont go there today. My ass still hurts.

My deepest apologies... Still no camera, which means still no photos. But I'm working on it, man! Just chill.

Back to work.

Happy Monday.

Stay warm.

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Today is my daddy's birthday.

Happy Birthday, Dad!!!!

Tomorrow him and Red and Jen's man, Jake, are going out fishing. Sounds like they will have a perfect day for it! And tomorrow I get to run dogs around. Can't wait.

Happy Friday everybody!

I Told You So

It has already been a week since I last bitched to ya'll about my broken camera last. Which is still not fixed. However, Red and I decided that since he needs a fishing camera anyways (Definition of; Fishing Camera ~ A camera in which wife, er Em, doesn't care whether or not hubby; Red, drops said camera in the lake because she's got the new camera safe at home) that we would just go ahead and buy another camera of the same make and model (are we talking about a car?) and then when we have time we'd get the old camera, now called the fishing camera, fixed as cheaply as possible.

I think that my old english teachers might not be thrilled with my run on after run on after run on after run on in the previous paragraph. But you know what? None of my old english teachers read this blog anyways. So I think I'm safe.

Stay on the subject would you? I'm trying to tell a story here.

Back to my cameras. Well, we'd bought the original camera, now the fishing camera, at a store. It was a great camera. Unfortunately, it malfunctioned only 2 months after the expiration of the manufacturer's warranty. My exact response to this news "Awww MAAAAN!"
So, while we searched for a good camera fixer upper place, we decided to buy the new one on eBay. I found a great deal, half of the price of the original one new, and it was packaged in the new box and came with all sorts of extra goodies. And the seller had over 15,000 positive 'feedback' responses. So I knew he could be trusted. We recieved our camera in the knick of time. But it was broken. I think maybe broken during shipping. Dammit! However, because we'd done our research on our eBay seller before making the purchase, we knew he would replace it at no cost to us. And he is. I shipped the broken camera back today. The broken eBay camera, not the broken fishing camera. Come on, keep up.

So, the good news is that a new camera IS coming. The bad news is, I still have no photos to share with you, my precious readers, today.

Unless... Do any of you know who Doc Bar is? No?
This is Doc Bar.

He's only like... The greatest cow horse ever to live.

I am a lost soul...

....without my camera.

You all remember my rut when my computer broke down, dont you? Well this is just like that. Except worse. I have no camera! It finally broke. I say finally because, well lets face it, I am not so good to my electronics. I have never put a cd back into its original case. I have a whole tower of cd cases from the 90's that dont actually have cd's in them. Where are the cd's you ask? I dont know. You tell me.

I am a little better with DVD's. But not much. Ask Red. Ask him if his woman ever puts the movies back into their cases. This is another reason why he makes me rent Netflix movies. He cant be charged for the damages that way.

And my computer... Well, lets just say that my computer and I have a very love/hate relationship. If the mouse doesnt move like I want it to, I drop it from a few feet above the desk. I dont kid, I swear that it makes the computer run faster. And if the computer locks up, which is always does, I bang on the keyboard. With my fist. And I swear it unlocks the computer. I dont kid!

My camera... Well I am good with my camera. Its small and very precious to me. It is my connection from here to there.. It enables me to share my visions with you, my dear readers. However, as punishment from the other electronics that I abuse, the electronic god has decided that he was going to make me pay... By taking away my most prized electronic device. Jerks!

So as I wait for the new camera to arrive, I have no photos to share with you. And I'm sorry. And I'm also sorry that I havent posted in almost a week. And I'm really sorry that I havent updated Wyoming Sun in over a month. I'm really, truely sorry.

But not that sorry, because I started a diet. AGAIN! And diets make women crabby. You take away my chocolate and think that I'm going to be in a pleasent mood? Think again!

Gas & Logic

To say the least, it's started out to be a rough morning. But being the Minnesota girl that I am, I am trying my best to see the silver lining.

There is a silver lining, right? Right?!

Of course there is. I had to fill up my SUV fuel tank this morning. No, that's not the silver lining. But it brightened my mood to see that fuel had dropped to $2.99 per gallon. I'm writing about it here so that there is a date attached to the price, because I want to be able to show my grandkids when it was that I rejoiced over $2.99 gas. Sick, huh? Yeah.

I have a question for you all, and I am trying hard to see the logic here. But there is none. Whilst I was in the gas station, I went to grab a Mountain Dew. Yes, I love Mountain Dew. You leave me alone about it. I grabbed a 20 ouncer, which cost $1.49. I glanced over at the 1 Liter bottles of MD and noticed that they, too, were $1.49. What?
Than I happened to look a little further over and there were the 2 Liter bottles of MD. $0.99. WHAT?!

If someone would be kind enough to please explain this mystery to me, I would be thrilled.

Thank you have a nice day.

For real.

Why Red doesnt let me rent movies anymore...

I'm a proud member of Netflix.

I'm one of 'those' people who can't seem to return a movie on time, so Netflix seemed like a good solution for the dollars I was spending in late fees every month.

Originally we rented from Hollywood Video. $4 per movie, but you got to keep them for 5 days. That was reasonable to me, considering that the previous grocery store I used to rent from would let me keep them until 7pm the following day, which I swear they must have known that that would be impossible for me, then charge me 99 cents every single day it was late. So in reality, I would be saving $1 per movie...

Well, a couple of years ago, we moved away from Hollywood Video, and around the same time, they went bankrupt anyways and left town. We were stuck. Then I discovered Netflix.

About 2 months ago, I requested 3 movies from my Netflix account. I received them... And I still havent sent them back. And you know what? They dont care! But, because I havent returned them, that means I havent gotten new ones to replace them. (Yikes) So about 10 days ago, we rented 2 movies from our local grocery store. We watched one of them. And then I forgot about them. And forgot about them. And continued forgetting about them. Until yesterday. We get a phone call, they want their movies back. What movies? I say. Oh.. Those movies. I still hadnt watched the other one.

I returned them last night and said I would pay the fines right away. You wanna know how much those fines were? Huh? You wanna??!! No, you dont wanna. Let's just say...

We could have bought those movies for less than I had to pay per movie in fines. And I didnt even get to watch one of them!

And this is why... Red doesnt let me rent movies anymore. If you are anything like I am when it comes to movies, can I highly recommend you check out http://www.netflix.com/. It will save you lotsa moolahs.

Happy Friday, folks!