This is Halloween...Everybody moan and scream

Yes, Halloween is here! YAY!

My favorite day of the year...okay, next to Christmas and my birthday....but none-the-less, IT'S HERE!

It's also a good day because it is Mikey's and my first anniversary!!!! Where did that time go?

At any rate, HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all ghouls and ghosts, witches and warlocks and anything else of the sort!

I will post again tomorrow with pics of the Puggies in Halloween costumes and pumpkins carved and glowing!!!

Happy Howling!

I surrender.

I don't have anything left for today. Not one ounce of energy or creativity. I was just sitting here, in my world of corporate beige, staring at my monitor...day dreaming. You wanna know what I was dreaming about? Nothing. Nothing at all. It was one of those hazy moments where you can't blink, you can't move, you can't think and then all at once you snap out of it and wonder if you were day dreaming or if aliens abducted you and then hours later returned you to the exact same place and position they found you in. Fortunately, it was only a couple minutes and I don't have any mysterious implants or anything that would lead me to believe I was abducted. Although, if I was, that would explain a lot.....

These are the days when a half hour seems like a lifetime. When all you want to do is run screaming from the building because you can't handle being at work anymore. I think I must have been attacked by an awful energy-zapping Brain Sucker who extracted every last brain cell and left me in a mushy pile of goo.

So I thought, "Hey, I should post something on my blog". I tried to think of something interesting to say, or some cool art to create relating to this crazy exhaustion I feel. You know what popped in to my mind? NOTHING!!! Again, nothingness.

I've lost the fight...I give up, I surrender. I am not going to even try to think, create anything or chip away at anymore of Mount-work-pile that is staring at me. I am done.

If anyone knows where my brain is, can you let me know?

Complete Chaos

Ever feel like you are spinning and spinning...Tazmanian Devil style and everything around you is doing the same? Like everything is out of control and the harder you try to control it, the more insane it becomes....

I'm there. It seems like everything around me is a mess/unorganized/chaotic. Just one of those days I guess. I knew I should have NEVER stepped out of my bed today. I knew it would be one of those days...I felt it. And there it was, just like I expected, a miserable day. It's my chaos theory...I knew if I got out of bed and went on with my day things would all turn chaotic. So, maybe if I stayed in bed all day and just hid...let the bad 24 hours pass...then everything crappy would pass too? Huh. Maybe a theory I will test out one time - not anytime soon though, things have to be controlled, chaos halted and everything ordered and restored to a soothing cadence. Wait, let me put my super hero cape on....

At any rate, we spent Thanksgiving weekend in Regina with my parents, my brother and his wife. I roped my brother, Cam, in to doing a photo shoot of Mike and I and taking some nice pictures of The Puggies. If you'd like to see some more of Cam's stuff, go here

Here are a few of the photos we had done...awwww PUGGIES!!!!







These last two photos were taken at Darke Hall - the old University of Regina Campus and one of the "Most Haunted Places in Canada". Only fitting I guess since Halloween - one of my favorite days of the year - is scarily fast approaching!

What are you thankful for?

I think it is kinda silly that we (meaning I) don't take more time to think about what we are thankful for. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate how fortunate I am quite often, but don't really take the time every day to think of the individual things I am thankful for. Nothing says focus quite like a list, so in light of the season, here is my list of things I am thankful for this year (in no particular order)...

1) My family - the best family
2) Mikey - my everything...I think that about sums it up...
3) My Puggies - they are chasing each other like crazy people around the coffee table right now
4) My friends - some of the best friends and surrogate family anyone could have
5) My creativity
6) The fact that I am loved and I love
7) Laughter
8) My senses - often taken for granted, I see, smell, touch, taste and hear life around me everyday
9) My strength
10) My life - in general, pretty darn good...I AM LUCKY!!!

There are many, many more things that I am thankful for, but it it 10:40 and I have put off packing long enough. Tomorrow I get to see my family! I am Flying in to Regina tomorrow night. Mikey and The Puggies will follow on Sunday. I am so thankful I get to be out of this city, with my family and feasting on all the super-awesome and fantabulous (I know it's not a word, duh) food my mom and I will make.

What are you thankful for?

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!