thought it would be a good idea to give you some idea as to who i am and what my life is like. i live in arizona with my husband, j., and my son, p., who is 10 weeks old today. j. has a son who comes to stay with us every other weekend and we take him to dinner one night a week. we live in a nice house in a neighborhood we despise with our 5 dogs. i know that sounds a bit excessive, but two of the dogs weren't really supposed to be ours to begin with.


we had our three dogs, two chihuahuas and a weimaraner, then one day when we made our morning circle k run before work, we saw a man with the cutest puppy trying to give him away to anyone who would take him. he told us that his neighbor got evicted and left the dog tied to the doorknob when he left. (a few weeks later at a pet store we saw identical puppies for sale, so we kind of think the dog was stolen, but the owner didn't know what he was getting). anyway, we gave the puppy to j's mom for xmas, only to have him returned two days later. he's a really super dog now that he's house broken and done being a puppy. circle k dog decided to fall in love with our weimaraner and they had a litter of puppies. (no worries, everyone is now spayed/neutered.) the whole litter was successfully given away to super good homes (friends/co-workers of ours) except the runt. we gave him to a good guy with one other dog, but apparently his dog didn't want to make nice, so we ended up with the runt back in our family. i suppose that means it was meant to be. lol.


i'm studying to be a librarian, i'm not one yet. i've got one more year to go and then i'm finished with my master's and with school, forever. i can't tell you how tired i am of writing papers, studying for tests, blah blah blah. j. is also earning his master's, only in illustration. j's a painter with crazy talent and has had several gallery shows here in town. i think it's only a matter of time before he makes it big. here's a pic from the last gallery opening on june 30th. it was a full house all night long. he had four paintings up but you can't really see them from this picture. unfortunately, that's the only real picture we have of the place, but you can check more out at http://www.windupgallery.com/.

well, that's all i have to say right now. obviously that's not all there is to me, but i'm tired of typing and besides, if i said it all right now, what would i post next time?