skipped

looks like i've skipped a week or so writing. it's been a busy time so i've had a lot to write about and not much time to do it. i got to see a lot of my family this past weekend. it was my niece's graduation and a dinner celebration. both were nice events to attend. another event most of us attended was our old pastor's funeral. it was nice to see his family. they were always so nice to us. very sad to see him go. i spent the night at my brother's that night and got to help out with the birds. it'd been awhile since i'd done that and i always enjoy it so that was nice too. i'm going to work on getting all those pics up soon. this is where they should start from when i posted last. the first one's of the riverrock festival i took colby to last weekend. he took his first swim in the river and had an absolute blast. gareth's gone to see two movies in the past two weeks. macgruber and prince of persia. neither were good. we watched the road at home and weren't too impressed. i did watch a gem the other night though called the defendor. i got my cholesterol checked again for the first time since i've been on meds. it's normal now which is great news. our landlord came by today to inspect our mold problem. the ac unit is infested and spits out little pieces. he helped me clean it up so i hope it's no longer a problem. it was pretty gross. i guess that's about it. except probably most importantly i've spent a lot of time recently looking into a career with animals. right now i'm looking into what it will take for me to work at a vet's office or a shelter doing vet assisting and eventually getting a degree to be a vet tech. i hope i actually pursue this instead of just thinking about it. it seems like something i should do.

trees

it's been a nice week. besides getting out a lot to enjoy the summer weather i also got to see a lot of movies. invictus comes out next week. so does valentine's day but i wouldn't recommend it. or good hair. i finally saw man on the moon and it was great. we also saw iron man two and gareth loved it. i enjoyed it as well. i took colby home on sunday for mother's day. he had fun being around everyone especially my nephew who ran around with him for most of the time. i just got my webshots album updated with all that. i took colby to another park with fewer dogs yesterday. he did a lot better playing with just one or two dogs. i think we'll start going there instead and build up his confidence a bit. it's supposed to start raining today and have scattered thunderstorms for the next few days. guess it's time to work on him with the treadmill again. gareth got this great shot of the baby birds in our side yard. he's tall enough to see into the trees.

free

i chopped off my hair last week. every few years i take off ten inches and donate it to locks of love. i actually got a nice haircut this time though. found out some salons give free cuts for donations. colby got a makeover too. it was much easier to bathe him with the bath mat we got. we also did his nails for the first time ourselves. it didn't go so well. the clippers were leaving them shredded so we got a dremel. he hated both. we finally got them all done but that's going to take a lot more work to get him comfortable with it. i took him to the dog park again but his girlfriend wasn't there at all and he didn't play with a single other dog. i finally got him to fetch the ball after the other dogs weren't around but it was sad to see him so uncomfortable around all the other dogs. we've had a nice day with me off today and not having much to do. i watched the first iron man in preparation of the second one's midnight opening this week. gareth's so excited about it. he saw a nightmare on elm street last week. we went out to maggiano's this weekend. it was exquisite as usual.