Things I’ve Learned While Puppysitting

This week I am puppysitting for my aunt and uncle.  I have basically been living at their house since last Friday to stay with the dogs and watch the house.  It has really been an interesting experiment and I have had a few personal realizations that I thought I’d share.

• I definately like living on my own.  Not that I’ve been going out every night, but if I do want to go and do something I don’t have to tell anyone or report back.  It’s kinda nice.  It’s official, I’m ready to move out. (sorry mom and dad)
• I feel the same way about dogs that I do about babies: I’ll play with them, love on them, take care of them for a while, but honestly, I don’t have the patience to be the sole care provider for them. I want to send them back to their parents.  That sounds bad, but it’s true.  In the event that I ever have dogs (or babies) of my own,  I have to have someone else to help me because I’m kind of going nuts over here :/
• When I have nothing to do, and when I’m not in my normal routine, I spend a lot of time of facebook.  When I have my normal routine and nothing has changed, I don’t really care to check it every day…interesting…
• I don’t do well with boredom.  I already knew this about myself, but it has been confirmed.  I have been jacking around on facebook and watching reruns of CSI all week. 
• I am a communicator.  Part of the reason I’m having trouble with the dogs is because they can’t tell me what they want (I know this is a duh moment, but seriously!).  The dogs just stare at me and wag their tails, but I don’t always know what that means.  If they could tell me “I’m hungry” or “I need to go outside please” or “move over so I can sit next to you” I would be a lot more comfortable.  Instead they stare at me and I stare at them and end up getting antsy because I don’t know what to do since I don’t know what they want.  I deal better with people than with dogs because of this fact.  Tell me what you want, I’m not a mind reader! haha

So there you have it.  My thoughts are not very well organized, but that’s what’s been up for me this week.  My aunt and uncle come back on Sunday and the puppysitting gig is over.  Until then I’ll have puppies following me around and staring at me for the rest of the weekend.  haha Such is life.  Next week: Vegas!  I”m sure I’ll have an update when we get back

Playlist: Friday

Here’s Friday’s list of songs that have been in my head:

• Signed, Sealed, Delivered/I’m Yours (Stevie Wonder)
• You’re So Vain (Carly Simon)
• When I’m 64 (The Beatles)
• Kiss From a Rose (Seal)
• Roxanne x2 (Sting…And then the remake that was in Moulin Rouge)
• I’m In Love With a Girl (Gavin DeGraw)
• I Believe in a Thing Called Love (The Darkness)
• 1812 Overature (This is the random award winner for the day)
• Ready for Love (India.Arie)

So there you have it. Real update tomorrow I promise.

Still Here

I realized it has been AGES since I’ve updated this thing, so I thought I’d give a little hey there and hello.  I’m still here, I’m just busy.  There are about a thousand things I can think to write about, but, as has been the case lately, I don’t really have time to sit and really concentrate on the blog right now.  Here’s a summary of what’s up with me, and there’ll be much more later I promise.

1. I started grad school at UMKC (there’s gonna be TONS of stories there I can already tell, my classes really have me thinking a lot about my interests).

2. My grandma died, that has been an interesting and crazy experience, and this week has just been wierd because of it

3. The restaurant I work at closed.  I am no longer a server, which I’m kind of ok with because that was a HUGE time suck on the weekends, but I’ll definately miss having the extra spending money.

4. In general, life is pretty nice for me right now.  I’m learning a lot about what I think about life and am forming new opinions and I think I”m growing a little bit.

Like I said, there’s a lot for me to think about. And for me to blog about.  I’m just trying to find the time.  Major update this weekend, I promise.