Random Photo Wednesday

I found this on my phone whilst cleaning up my picture storage. How can you not smile (or laugh out loud, as I did) seeing this adorable face?!

Cute canines

This past weekend I stayed at my parents' to dog sit for little baby Iris. We had quite an excellent time watching HGTV and Food Network, eating, and sitting inside on the couch. I tried to coax her to enjoy some outdoor time, but she just wasn't having it.

Brody killed a young bird about two minutes after we got there. I was not very happy, but he was quite pleased with himself, and Iris was most impressed.

This is her "I-would-so-prefer-not-to-be-outside" glare.

Summer goals

Back in May, I made a Summer 2k12 to do list. I have not gotten very far...

• Seriously clean my car Done!
• San Diego Well, that one was easy.
• Organize school binders (I forgot to bring home my three-hole punch so that one is proving difficult)
• Scrapbook 15 layouts (2 of 15 completed--see below!)
• Take Brody to the park 
• Watch Gilligan's Island--all 3 seasons (I've only watched season one and two episodes of two)

Pretty sad. And rain is forecasted all week, so the park is out for now. Maybe I could just add more goals to my list so my ratio of completed to uncompleted goals looks better...

Apologies for the cell phone picture.

Every year I make a dog sitting scrapbook pages for their parents when they come home. Unfortunately, I realized that I have a tendency to go for blue and yellow. Oh well, it's summer-y. :o) See last year's digital page here. I also made a Vegas food page yesterday, but I forgot to take a picture. 

Random Photo Wednesday

This has to be the happiest dog on earth. If she visited Disney World, would the world implode?

Mostly tongues.

I had to share a few pictures from dog sitting! I just love these pups. But don't let the fluffy clouds and cerulean sky fool you--it was only like this for about two afternoons. Mostly it was overcast and rainy!! 

Yawny McYawns a lot. 

 Sticking her tongue out at me.

They are all so sleepy! 

Overseeing the pack.

 Doesn't he look like King Lazzy with his royal subjects/toys?

Seriously. Licked me right on the lips.

We Missed You :: Scrapbook Layout

Hello! After two weeks of no tv or Internet, we are connected to the world again! I must admit that it was kind of nice to be unplugged for a little bit...until I was having to wait around and be on hold with customer service for hours on end.

For the past few years, I have spent a week and a half in the summer dog sitting for some family friends, and at the end of my time there I like to make the humans a little scrapbook layout with a few pictures of their cute pups. This was the first year I went digital, and I just realized how much more quickly digital pages can come together! I am a fiend about measuring and placing things just so (and I love my undo button), which is one of the many reasons I love digital scrapbooking.

Fonts :: Garamound + Love ya like a Sister
Patterned Paper :: Beach Bloom Mellow paper pack
Frame :: old Designer Digitals freebie

Yay for the short week--I've still got another phone call with AT&T tomorrow to try for a third time to return the old DVR to them. My grandparents are coming in town, so the weekend will consist of good food and hopefully a few workouts.

Meet my Four-Legged Friends!

Meet Lazzy. He is so sweet and easygoing...until he sees someone walking down the street that he doesn't like!

Micah...my protector (from Callie, the garbage men, and children) and bed mate. He takes up more than his share but we're still friends. We bonded over our love of going back to sleep after breakfast.

Daisy is the queen of the castle. Sometimes she sounds like an angry bear if you make her mad. I don't get growled at anymore (I learned fast not to pick her up), but Callie is a regular recipient of her angry noises.

And baby Callie! She is a new addition to the family and still learning her manners. Her favorite thing to do is put her front paws on the first step in the pool with her back feet on the concrete and splash back and forth. She is really cute...when she's not jumping on me (wet or otherwise) or locking me out of the house.

They are some pretty funny dogs with big personalities...I am exhausted but having a great time with them! :)

My night as James Bond.

The trickster.

So dog sitting had been going pretty well--lots of relaxing by the pool, watching tv, playing, walks around the neighborhood...until last night at 9pm. It rained for hours yesterday afternoon/evening, and little Daisy wanted to go outside (but not by herself). Being a thoughtful dog sitter, I go outside with her in the rain and wait for her to do her business. Now Callie (who shall from now on be referred to as The Trickster) wanted to come outside too, but due to her romps in puddles in the preceding hours, she was denied access. I noticed her sulking by the back door but thought nothing of it. I dried Daisy off and went to come back inside...but the back door was locked. 

Deadbolt locked. 

Like I'm sure everyone does upon discovering that he/she is locked out (at least that's what I tell myself), I stand at the door and shake it and try twisting the handle different ways, hoping that it's just stuck. No such luck. The Trickster, in her hopes to be allowed passage outside, had somehow flipped the deadbolt just enough (it wasn't the whole way) so that I couldn't get in. And then she stood at the door, still hoping I'd let her outside. I didn't have any shoes on, my cell phone was inside, and my car was in the locked garage.

So in the midst of the lightning and thunder, I thought I remembered the owners saying they had a copy of the key on the front porch. Luckily I hadn't locked the gate from when the mowers came that afternoon. I ran to the front of the house, and of course I had forgotten to turn on the porch light when it got dark. So I crawled around on my hands and knees, trying to feel for a key everywhere I thought one might live. No luck. I looked around to see if any of the neighbors were home so that I could call my parents to bring the spare key. Of the neighbors I've made eye contact with in the past 2 years of dog sitting, none of them were home. Awesome.

I ran around back again, hoping that the defunct doggie door to the attached garage would allow me passage inside (I knew the door to the house inside was unlocked because I had used it earlier in the week). There was a burglar door on it, so I had to carefully slide it up so that I could crawl through. Of course, it was darker than dark as I felt my way across the garage that I've only been in three times. After what felt like 10 minutes, I finally found the door and got back inside. I finally let poor Daisy back in and The Trickster ran away and hid in the dining room for the rest of the evening. Very interesting night.

Has anyone else ever had to be creative from being locked out?

I'm a graduate! Again!

Well I am officially done with school and will be a graduate (again) on Saturday, assuming I passed my RPTS class. Since then I've been dog sitting and just relaxing. Also watching James Bond movies. Currently I'm watching On Her Majesty's Secret Service, which I've seen twice and still didn't remember a lot of it. It's a really good one though!

Speaking of dog sitting, all four of the dogs are passed out. Which is weird because they've been going nonstop since I got here Monday morning! A lot of playing did occur after lunch, so I guess they're just resting up for their next round.

How do you feel about dryers that play music when the cycle is done? I have never encountered such a thing (until now), and I must say, it makes me want to empty the dryer rather than just leaving the contents sitting for hours/days.

Yesterday I got sunburned because my dumb sunscreen was not as water resistant as it claimed. It's supposed to rain the rest of the week until I leave next Wednesday so I decided to lather up with new bottle my "Very Water Resistant" sunscreen and play in the pool again. I am not even joking when I came back inside most of my burn from yesterday on my arms was gone. Is that normal? I am very perplexed.

Brody keeps google chatting me because he misses me. I know it's him because he types in all caps. It makes me laugh. :)

Ok that's it for now. I need to go lay down or stretch or do something because I made up "water aerobics" exercises when I was in the pool earlier and sadly I'm really sore. And yes, I'm aware that old people do that as a form of exercise.