Category — Randomness

Their first dance?

How Obama and Family move into the White House.

Today, Heather and I gathered up our old prom and homecoming dresses for underprivileged high school girls in Minneapolis. There is a school social worker who attends our church who expressed a need… After donating 8 dresses total, buying a coffee and then sitting through a relevant church service, I feel pretty good today.

I don’t do resolutions.

So, I’m going to call this: the-feel-better-physically-and-mentally-eat-better-in-general-exercise-a-little plan.

Less cream and sugar in my coffee
Less coffee in general
Use treadmill at least 3 times a week
Portion control
No eating after dinner unless it’s fruit or veggies

Get on a sleep schedule
Start doing yoga/other stress relieving activities

Yup, I was yelling. And I’m not a yeller.

I’m not a soap box type person, but some of these ‘banned breed’ lists are getting out of control.  I’ll state this for the record, my current dogs are powerful, strong, driven and had the potential to be ‘dangerous’. In fact, one of the four varities of Belgian Sheepdog is on the banned breeds list. Belgian Malanios are some of the most intelligent breeds of dogs (as are a lot of the dogs on the list). They are used as police dogs. They save peoples lives. And without proper training, have the potential to become aggressive. News flash; so do 5lb yorkshire terriers.

Stupid people who don’t have time/knowlege to own a dog= unbalanced, bored and unruly animals. Dogs need structure, someone to tell them how to do things. They are looking for guidance. Do I get a little nervous when I see a huge dog that appears it wants to take my arm off? Hell ya. Then I travel up the leash immediately and look at what human is in change of it.

Try walking into my house when my dog isn’t ready for you. He sounds like he might take off a limb or two. Then he crumbles into a little puddle on the floor, *gasp* licking you. I raised my dogs to know who’s boss. These are the same dogs at 70 and 40 pounds respectively, that will ‘babysit’ my kids.

Honestly, don’t get a dog if you don’t know how to teach and guide it. No matter what breed.