*I've been working on a rather lengthy and in depth blog post for a couple of weeks now.  My inability to finish said post has caused me to avoid this space.  Like that really good friend of yours you sometime avoid seeing because you lost that DVD you borrowed two months ago.

*I've been really backed up with unfinished projects.  I have some ( Read more... )

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The last I don't even know how many days weeks, Sugar has been keeping us up at night.  At first, I was convinced she was just being an ass: playing this "I just want in the bed with you" game.  But then she had a few nights were she was clearly terrified of something.  We're guessing a noise she's hearing from inside our neighbor's wall (best ( Read more... )

It would appear that Sugar and I share some of the same talents.  One of which, gets us both rather far in life.


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While Rhonda and I were in Dallas for the holiday weekend (NOT PLAYING IN A SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT.  THANKS A LOT, HURRICANE ALEX), Sugar crashed at my Mom's house with Bella.  When I dropped Sugar off on Friday, the two pups were thrilled to see one another.  Like they haven't seen each other since that high school reunion ten years ago, and my ( Read more... )

Our weekend consisted of three key points:

1.) Binge eating of pizza, the love child of ground beef and tater tots, and cookies.  Also?  More cookies.
2.) Seriously disturbing my sleep schedule.
3.) Art projects.

Consequently I'm rather sluggish from eating truckloads of heavy food and the random bouts of sleep.  I've begun to make up for it by going ( Read more... )

I know I haven't been here in a while.  I'd like to say I'm sorry about that but I'm really not.  I was sick.  And then the Canadians got here.  And we had the most wonderful time playing with them for four days.  Stories to come, for sure.  But for now?  I'm exhausted, and it's my first day back at work after a week off.  Sugar will stand guard ( Read more... )

Every now and then Sugar will curl the sides of her mouth up when she's really happy.  She gets these adorable dimples and resembles Walter Matthau a little bit when she tries to smile.  It cracks me up every time.  Thanks to the iPhone and my lovely wife, we have video.  And I'd like to state for the record: That's not a beer I'm holding, but an ( Read more... )

Our weekend was great.  Lots of crafting, sleeping in, good food, family visits, zoom-zooming around in Rhonda's new ride, softball and to cap it off, a migraine!  Yes, a migraine that decided to hit me with the little orbs of blinding light while I was playing softball.  At shortstop.  I'm literally yelling at my coach to pull me off the field ( Read more... )

This last weekend was a rather eventful and sleepless one for everyone at The RubinSmo Manor.  I'm surprised I'm still standing, actually.  Lucky Sugar is able to sleep it off while I work.  I'm half tempted to curl up in that crate with her and shut the door.  Last night at about 9:30 we were finally able to crash on the couch with a collected ( Read more... )