I know, it’s been awhile. But I couldn’t let the holidays pass without another picture of my awesome pooch. Recently, we won a giveaway hosted by @ValTorontoGal for a very fashion-forward Canada Pooch jacket.
Doesn’t Penny look smashing? Thanks, Val and Canada Pooch!
A new addition to the family has been keeping me busy.
Meet Penny!
After Ripley died earlier this year, C and I thought we wouldn’t be ready for another dog for awhile — at least, ’til I finished my master’s degree in May. But my birthday came around, and summer found us with some extra time on our hands… and so, we started looking, and found a puppy ready to go at a breeder several hours away in Dashwood. Of course, the rest is history. I’d forgotten how difficult it is to raise and train a puppy. My pockets constantly have kibble/treat crumbles, and I’m constantly cleaning up dog messes. But we’re still having fun.
Keeping with the tradition of naming our pooches after geeky/odd characters (Ellen Ripley, Sid Vicious, Mr. Peabody), Penny is named after Felicia Day’s character in Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog. Officially (at least, for her kennel club paperwork), we’ve named her Penelope Pitstop, after the old Hanna-Barbera character. Though Dr. Horrible or 70′s cartoons usually aren’t the first assumptions that people tend to make after finding out the pup’s name is Penny. No, she’s not named after Penny in the Big Bang Theory. No, she’s not named after Inspector Gadget’s daughter. She’s also not named after Tux the Linux penguin’s female counterpart. And no, she’s not named after porn star Penny Flame.(Though, admittedly, those Pennys are cool too!)
Needless to say, Penny and school seem to be taking up much of my time. Photography is on hold for now, but I’m hoping to get out and shoot next weekend — provided the weather holds.
Wow. I just realized that my last 365days post was way back in March, and this blog has been sadly neglected since. Not that I haven’t been taking photographs, of course. Just not as many as I would like, and unfortunately every day. However, since my last post in March, I’ve:
While in L.A., C and I visited the La Luz de Jesus Gallery (highly recommended if you dig contemporary art!) and really dug this piece by Max Grundy. So we had to take it home, where it’s now hanging above our television. :) It’s our second purchase from La Luz and our third Max Grundy original. I really dig his retro-style apocalyptic/propagandist images. To say the least, the new piece definitely makes a statement in the living room. ;)
So, we’re home now. At least, for the time being. I’m looking forward to spending the next few weeks just hanging around and enjoying time off before school starts in September. Maybe roadtrip with C and the pooch to the Maritimes. We’ll see. In the meantime, I definitely hope to be getting back into photography and updating this blog more often. Stay tuned.
I can’t remember the last time I received a letter in the mail that wasn’t a bill, advertisement, or something I bought over the internet.
Marie is a dear friend whom I met pen-palling when I was in my teens (before this new-fangled internet thing). She sent me a postcard, along with some old photos from a visit back in 2003. I don’t think her penmanship has changed since we started exchanging letters more than 15 years ago!
C has decided to try the Paleo Diet, and since he cooked dinner tonight, I went Paleo by proxy. The salmon and roasted green beans were delicious, and I was so full I didn’t really miss not having anything carby.
I don’t think I can eat like this full-time; I don’t have the willpower (I’ll fully admit to being a slave to the carbohydrate monkey on my back) — but I’ll take this for dinner any day.