Puppies and Babies... is there a difference?

Since I named my blog after my monster/rat (the single entity that is my two dogs) I figured I should write about them every once in awhile!

Well, the longer we have had Wrigley (a little over a month now) the more and more I realize what it's going to be like when we have a kid.  Not that I think having a puppy is at all like a child, but I'm thinking more along the lines of how Zach and I will act when it comes to having kids.

Here's an example of a typical evening at our house:

Scene:  Kristi is in the kitchen, at the stove, cooking up some delicious eats for that evening's dinner.  Zach is in the living room (banished there by the evil chef Kristi because he just gets in the way and does not do things according to her standards; basically he's a nuisance) watching some sort of  sports broadcast talking about bracket this and bracket that and jump shots and field goals and pinch-hitters, yadda yadda ya.  The pups are rough housing, which involves Wrigley attacking Chico every time he comes near her bone, but then walking away when he walks away from it, but then immediately running back at him when he goes near it again.  This continues over and over and over and...

ZACH
Wrigley!  No! No! NO!  Ewwwwwwww!

KRISTI
*Sigh* Who threw up?

ZACH
Wrigley did!  Luckily I caught her before she got on the carpet and she threw up on the hardwood floor.

KRISTI
*Sigh*  Do you need me to clean it up?

ZACH
Well I'm holding her right now so she doesn't get at it, so yeah, can you come clean it up?

KRISTI
Suuuuuuure.

Scene:  Kristi is cleaning up vomit because Zach's job of holding the dog back is waaaaaaaaaaaay more important than picking up the icky, smelly dog throw-up.  This is nothing new to Kristi, she's a pro at picking up any and all sorts of dog messes.  Zach continues to make choking, hacking, vomit noises.  Chico and Wrigley go back to playing.

KRISTI
Okay, well I'm going to go finish dinner now.

ZACH
Do you want help?

EVIL CHEF KRISTI (a split-personality of the usually sweet and kind Kristi)
NO!  Keep your dirty hands away from my food!  You are not fit to fry a single item of food, let alone clean up dog vomit!  I banish you from these lands (aka the kitchen)!

ZACH
Okay evil chef Kristi, I was just trying to be helpful.  Yeesh!

KRISTI (unaware of the personality change)
What did you say, dear?

ZACH
Nothing, just go back to cooking.  Let me know when it's ready.

KRISTI
You know, sometimes I would like your help with the cooking.  Or at least cleaning up the vomit if it occurs when I am cooking.  It's not like I ask for much around here.

(They stare at each other for a moment, each thinking the other person is crazy.  But then their attention is distracted by Chico)

CHICO
*cough*hack*sputter*gag*cough*hackity*hackity*hack*sploooooooooooooosh*

KRISTI & ZACH (in unison)
Not again! 

ZACH
I'll get Chico.

KRISTI
I'll get the paper towel...

END SCENE
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We throw up.  A lot.

So yeah.  That is what it is like with two dogs.  Lots of vomit (that Kristi cleans up) and lots of Zach yelling from the other room to have Kristi come clean up the vomit.

I suppose it's a trade-off since he is the Holy Killer of Bugs.

Marriage.  It's a give and take.

                               

No Pictures, Just Words

Good morning!  Daylight savings is kicking me in the behind today... I just want to sleep in because it was still soooo dark when my alarm went off today.  I suppose I can deal if it stays light out longer.  The things we do...

Anywho, it's spring break here at the University of Minnesota, which means everybody but the poor saps who sit in the main offices (aka ME) get the week off.  I get bubkis.  Well, that's not true, I get Friday off, which is pretty awesome, but I will be spending it getting my drivers license with my new name (did you know that you have to take a written test in order to get a Minnesota driver's license... oh boy.)

Not really much going on.  I wish I were more interesting lately.  School is really bogging me down right now... ugh.  Hopefully, sometime after this craziness is over I can focus more on crafting and painting and such... hopefully.  (When exactly will this craziness be over with?  That is a question I have no answer for unfortunately.)

In other news, my sister took me to Joann's this weekend for my birthday present.  I pretty much bought the store out of fabric, and now I have a beautiful pile of bright and happy fabric just waiting for me to turn it into something!  I actually started making a school bag for myself because I am tired of carrying my purse plus a bag for my books, notebooks, folders plus a computer bag.  I had had enough!  I look like a crazy bag lady and they were all so darn heavy.

So now I will be making a fun (and large) school bag.  I hope I can finish it by class this Saturday, which reminds me, I have so much homework to do this week!

Anyone know any good articles about gendered linguistics, specifically about language that objectifies women and the role it plays in maintaining a patriarchal and misogynistic society?  Anyone... anyone?

I Wish I Was There (IWIWT) Friday!!

WOAH!  Today has been jammed packed, I'm exhausted and it's not even over yet (class until 9:30pm).

So that means there are only two places I would rather be today for "Wish I Was There Friday."  The first place I wish I was today is...

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 ...a spa!!  Just thinking of that is calming me already!  I wish I was this girl!

The second place I would rather be today is in my bed... oh goodness I am so tired.  I feel as if every minute of the past week has been work, school, work, school, work, school... ahhhhhhhhh!!

I need a break, but I won't get one until... well I don't know when I will get a break!  (And by break I mean something longer than the weekend!)

So here's to a good and relaxing weekend for you (and me)!

In other news... BLOG BUTTON--WOOT!

YAY!  I figured out how to make my blog button functional thanks to this, this, and this!!

WOOT!  So grab my button... you know you want to!! *wink*

Cooking with Elephants

Since I'm still new to this whole blogging world... I have no idea how to title my blog posts, let alone think of interesting things to write.

So today is all about RANDOMNESS!!  I'm finally posting some pictures of my crafting/sewing under my "The Crafts" button, so check-it-out!

Other than that, I really do not have a lot to say!  So I will just post some RANDOM pictures (psst... I am working on taking pictures better since I realize a lot of bloggers are avid picture takers.  I like taking pictures but I really don't understand, nor want to understand, the technical side of it... if it looks okay to me than AWESOME!)

 

Dinner prep... can you guess what we're having?!?

 

My grandma got these as a wedding shower gift... she's integral in feeding my obsession with elephants (WOOT--just got a blog post idea!)

 

 

I know, my obsession is sick and hopefully I will stop posting pictures of my puppies... or not because this is my blog and I will do as I please!

Well that's all for today, I will post my pictures of my craft canoondalings soon!

Honeymoons and elephant BFFs

This is a short blog post today (had to re-edit after I finished, clearly I was ambitious in thinking this would be short!)  Let's start again.... Good Afternoon!! All that other stuff (aka life) is getting in the way with my focus on my crafty-blogging side.  It's mostly school work, of which I have a large load of homework due by Friday--eep!

So this post is about something I am very very VERY excited about!

As you may know, I recently got married (hence some of the pre-wedding posts on this pre-wedding-turned-creationista-blog!) and we have been planning our honeymoons.  Yes--you read that right, as in plural.  No--we are not secretly rich and rolling in Ben Franklins.  But, the hubs doesn't like to fly further than three hours or so (pretty much no further than the borders of the continental U.S.) so he agreed to do two loooooooong weekend honeymoons.

That way we each get to choose one!  Well, he chose Washington D.C. over July 4 (not because of Independence Day, though that should be cool, but because the Cubs are playing the Nationals and he wants to go see that).

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Since he decided on some place so historical and diplomatic, I had to choose some place fun and exotic.  So I chose....... ARKANSAS!!


Okay, I really have no desire to go to Arkansas except for the fact that they have an elephant sanctuary there and for a small fee (okay, not so small, but small enough that we are willing to pay it) you can spend the weekend living with elephants!!  WOOT!!

(Side note: just google image searched "Arkansas" and by golly if it doesn't look like a beautiful state---it has the Ozarks)

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I am super duper excited about it, yet when I tell people there first reaction is usually, "How did you get Zach to agree to that" effectively killing my high-as-a-kite-buzz-of-excitedness.

I should probably back up and preface this with a little fact: I am OBSESSED with elephants!  I have been in love with them since before I can actually remember a time of not being in love with them!  I think it was born in me that they would be my favorite animals and the moment I found this place (Riddle's Elephant Sanctuary) I have wanted to go.  They only offer 4 Elephant Experience Weekends a year, which means I have been hounding their site like a madwoman almost every day since the new year, anxiously awaiting the new dates for 2011.  Well, they were finally posted and I got the last two spots available for the April 29-May 1 weekend!  (double WOOT!!)

Not the dates I had originally wanted (I have class on that Friday) but I am so excited to live with elephants for the weekend that I said "class be darned, we are going to go!"

Besides, who can resist how darn cute these guys/gals are (yes, I understand they could step on me and crush me to a pulp, but they're such gentle giants and so soulful when you look at them *sigh*).

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And here's an adult one (these are not actual elephants from the sanctuary, just random google image searches!):

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Also (I love "also's"--clearly) I have this random love for pictures of their behinds!!  It's weird, but I think pictures like that are so cute!  I'll show you one:

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And this image pretty much sums up want I wanted my life to be like when I was younger (I dreamed of having my own elephant and it would live in my parents' backyard in a pink barn and I would ride it everywhere and it would go everywhere with me and I would be the awesome girl with the elephant!):

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And so with that I will end with the back end of an elephant!!  (Seriously, it's cute, right?!?)

Also (there it is again!), I realize for calling myself "The Creationista" I haven't really shown you a lot of my creations, well, I'm sorry.  There are a lot and I photographed a ton of them last night, but  *life* has gotten in the way of me posting them.

Hopefully soon!

P.S.

BTW... I am still working on my "shop".  It doesn't exist in a corporeal form yet, but metaphysically speaking it is there.  I have a few products and items that I've created, but I'm still working on perfecting my design/craft/finishing, which the indie biz 3.0 is definitely helping with!

Keep checking back and I will hopefully put up pictures of the things I have created!