Notes about Maggie's first day at Dogtown

Maggie went to doggie day care for the first time on Tuesday. They liked her so much, they decided to video her and put it on YouTube for me to check out! Nice folks, huh? Anyway, I thought I would share. I'm a shameless parent...

Notes about George W. Bush as a Frat boy

I just finished watching an interview with good ol' George conducted by Charles Wallace of Fox News Sunday. I have to admit, W happens to be, IN MY OPINION, the smartest idiot I have ever listened to. He is a real charmer. After fumbling over himself and using slang and disregarding a question, he pulls out at the end and says the thing the American people want to hear. All through the interview he states that American history, i.e. his presidency, cannot be determined at this time because there is no such thing at short term history. It will take years to determine the effect of this presidency on America because it needs to be studied. He finally state, when the new president is inducted into the White House, he will leave them a letter that says "Let each day be guided through by a higher power". Wallace asks him if this is true? He replies, Yes, it's the only way it will work. Being a country founded on Christianity, and given a strong sense of forgiveness Christians carry, of course this was the right thing to say. He also states that dethroning Sadam was the right thing to do. Naturally, I agree. However, I think of the relationship with Bush and Iraq as this:
If you have ever been out one night with the girls or the boys, and you are without your other half, and someone of the opposite gender responds to you in a positive manner. No one else in your group had been hit on all night and this gives you a feeling of glory amongst your friends. It gives you a smile on your face that feels good. You know you probably shouldn't go there, because after all, it is a slippery slope. You do it anyway. Have a couple of drinks/dances with this person, and after one too many, you make a drunkin mistake and give your number away. Oops! You told this person you are single and you kind of have an attraction with this person. Over the next couple of weeks you do a delicate balancing act with maintaining like your relationship is normal, and occasionally making a phone call or two to the person from the bar. After about a month, you wake up and think this is crazy. You want to cut it off with the bar person, but you don't know how. You are in too deep. There is a tangled web you have to navigate out of to get out of this one; thus begins your journey.
Bush is in the same thing with Iraq. He made the decision to pursue Sadam and Iraq, and just thought it was a one shot deal. Dethrone Sadam and Iraq will be good. Nope. His relationship with Iraq was his slippery slope. The web kept getting more and more tangled. Other "friends" aka allies, got involved. Its a big mess. Now, he is trying to get out of it. It's not as easy as it seems, getting out of these messy drunken relationships. Iraq is like a needy single drunk girl at a bar, and Bush is like the frat boy that wants to impress his brothers at a bar, even though he has a girlfriend, who conveniently isn't there. Then he actually likes the attention of the bar girl (Iraq) and all the publicity he is getting. Then it all goes bad and all his brothers (America) hate him, because he is playing his girl (Canada and American Allies) and destroying relationships. He tries to get out but the bar girl (Iraq) just gets more needy. Ick! What a situation. To be continued...
Possible outcome: The Fraternity (America) kicks out Bush and his girl breaks up with him. The fraternity inducts someone else in his place that is honest and kind and wants to fix all that Bush f-ed up. Bush's ex-girl is friends with all of his ex-frat brothers and keeps hanging out and then starts dating the new guy because he is the opposite of Bush. In the meantime, the bar girl (Iraq) doesn't see Bush very appealing anymore because he got kicked out of his frat and has no friends. So she leaves him alone. All of a sudden Bush is no one. Figures, huh? At one moment you are the desire of the world and then the next minute, you are nothing.

Notes about History homework

This is what I feel like when I have to sit down and do history homework. I don't know why it's SO hard to make myself do it but every time is set aside time, I can always make up 8 million other things that are WAY more important. We have our first quiz this week and test next week and for the life of me, I can't sit down to study. ARGH! Any advice?

Notes about Dog Parks

So Maggie got attacked yesterday at the Bull Creek dog park in north Austin. What really upset me is it was by a girls pitbull that she had said she only adopted 2 days ago! The Magster has a big teeth gash on her back that is open and bleeding. Man, did this upset me. So I went to the "pets" section of craigslist and this is what I posted...

"I understand that in a perfect world we would all have a dog that loves and trusts us and we could let run off a leash freely at a dog park, and he/she would run and play and bring much needed joy to our hearts. However, living in the cruel reality that we do, this is not always true. Please take more time to make an effort to evaluate whether it is a good idea to let your pet run off a leash or not. Example... If you have adopted you dog less than a week ago, my assumption is that the dog no more trusts you, than you do the dog. If that is the case, then you probably don't know the dog enough to know how he/she will act off the leash and how he/she will react around other dogs. Socialization is a process. It doesn't happen when you have only had the dog for 2 days. Please do other dog owners and dogs a favor, and leash your dog until you are fully aware of how your dog will react in given dog park situations. There is an unfortunate stigma placed on certain breeds that is unfair for the breed because they have owners who aren't responsible for their dogs. Please don't add to this stigma. Be a responsible dog owner, especially at dog parks. These parks are put in place for all of us to enjoy."

It's not all grammatically correct, however, it was in the heat of the moment...
Update on Maggie: She is ok. I put some peroxide on her open cuts so they wouldn't get infected. We went to a different dog park today and she was up to her chipper self wanting to play with every dog in sight.

P.S. I dare to think of how I would ever raise children seeing how protective I already am with a dog...haha.

Notes about Dog Photography

So I have finally decided to launch my own Dog Photography business/website. I just want to get some feedback if anyone would like to add their 2 cents. I have decided to call it Barklyn Park Photography. I take a lot of candids of peoples dogs at the dog park at town lake. This is where and how I want to start marketing, and just see what evolves. I want to know basically what people want, whether it be out playing at the park or home on the couch. This is a "ruff" draft of my header for my website. What do ya'll think? I would appreciate your input!