idle musings

I am asking everyone on my f-list on LJ or who reads my blog to go to Refresh Everything and vote for SAINTS. The top two ideas in this category win $25,000 and SAINTS dropped from first place to third place over the course of the last 24 hours. From the SAINTS website: SAINTS is [...]

Emma Parsons, author of ‘Click to Calm’ is coming to Vancouver in September 2011 to give a seminar. I’m so excited!

I’m starting a new class with Maia. It’s a beginner clicker class, also taught by Dana (my agility instructor). I’ve been doing clicker stuff with Maia for a while now but I learn best by watching someone irl do stuff and then mimicking it. I know my timing can be better, and I want to [...]

My kitchen hit the point of nuclear war zone today. I realized that I was avoiding eating because I didn’t want to open the fridge. And then I watched “How Clean is Your House” and realized how embarrassed I would be to have anyone ever see the state of my kitchen the way it was. [...]

“Let me put it to you this way. Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are asked to laugh about it because other people think it’s funny.”—Shaker everstar, on Shakesville Can’t get more concise than that.

A seal head bobbed out of the water and it was so quiet I could hear the exhales and inhales. I am so in love with living in the country.

I seem to have a problem. It involves books, and credit cards, and clicking stuff online that magically appears on my doorstep a few days later! Due to arrive shortly: Help For Your Fearful Dog by Nicole Wilde (especially because I will be going to see her in May) Try Tracking! by Carolyn Krause Mine! [...]

Plan for the day: walk the dog laundry replace hall light clean floors empty fridge It’s now 1 o’clock. Laundry takes a while so that doesn’t count, and the dog is already walked (because I like to start a to-do list with something I can already check off) so I think giving myself two hours [...]

Either I’m getting sick or I have finally stared at the computer for too long. Time for reading a good book and an early night to sleep. As an aside, I am so thankful that Maia has a huge bladder capacity. If I take her out to pee now she will be totally fine until [...]

I’m going to see Nicole Wilde when she comes to Vancouver to present in May. Excited!