5 posts tagged “daily musings”

Saturday - Productive, mainly got all my errands done. Stopped at the Carlsbad outlet malls -- thought I'd tackle a little early Christmas shopping -- but apparently I wasn't the only one with that idea. The place was packed. Scary packed. I thought I might die under a heap of customers clawing at the 50% off bags at Coach. Narrowly escaped.

Sunday - Went for breakfast and took Bucky. When another jumpy/sniffy/nosy dog got near Bucky, we again found out that Bucky's still not dog-friendly. :-(  His next training is Saturday.

Went bowling with some friends, and now my legs are sore. Geez, gotta get back in the gym.

I also tackled my first cheesecake, and it turned out pretty good.  I stuck to a simple recipe -- just cream cheese, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and lemon rind.  A lot easier than I thought it'd be.

Had some friends over for dinner last night; that's one of my favorite things to do.  Sigh, I already miss the weekend....

Work, work, work. We had a massive proposal to send -- which is good news for my company. It was a lotta work and all hands on deck, so my weekend was spent in the office, and running some errands. Now I'm feeling gratified that it's all done, off my desk, and well, it looked pretty damn good. Hopefully this means we'll get rich. Well, at least a step in that direction.

I did get a chance to go grocery shopping, and I did menu planning for the week -- something I always mean to do, but almost never actually do. I will successfully avoid eating out and eating cereal for dinner this week!  On Sunday, I made a roasted wild Alaskan sockeye salmon with some mushroom risotto and a salad.  Last night, I made a big rum roast with onions and had a few friends over for dinner. Served it with some sauteed kale and squash, and sweet potato fries. Tonight's menu is a leek, potato and feta tart; tomorrow - shrimp and corn in cream sauce over rice; Thursday, pasta with broccoli and chicken apple sausage.

It's not the cooking that's difficult or time-consuming -- it's the grocery shopping. If someone did that for me, I'd be able to get home-cooked meals on the table pretty easily. Maybe someday I can get a personal assistant. :)

Yesterday was Bucky's training -- and he was a star pupil!  Our trainer has been very pleased with his progress.  He's learned sit and down, and now we're working on stay and come.

Sit and down were critical for Bucky, as he learns to get over his dog-aggressiveness. Out of fear, he'll launch at another dog, so we need to overpower his natural urge with obedience. And it's been working!

I'm very happy we adopted Bucky, and our adoption agency, Boston Buddies, was great and very honest. But, I've learned that when you adopt a dog, you don't really know what you're going to get until you've had the dog for a couple of weeks. Usually, the agencies get very limited information, and they only know what they observe.  I wanted a dog-friendly dog, and I'm sure that Bucky will be dog-friendly within a couple of weeks max, but he wasn't exactly dog-friendly when we got him.

I highly recommend getting training for any dog, but a dog with aggression or bad habits must have training, or they will be a liability to you and a danger to themselves. It's a small investment over a dog's lifetime.

Anywho, in two weeks Bucky will get to venture out with other dogs!  The honey and I were kind of sad that Bucky doesn't have any friends in the animal kingdom, but soon, soon!

If anyone in SD needs a trainer, ours is John's Natural Dog Training Company, and we like him a lot.

What summed up yesterday?  Rest. I fell asleep at around 9:00, not having done anything on my to-do list (give Bucky a bath & brush his teeth, make a healthy dinner, read). Oh well, it felt good. Bucky will get his bath tonight.

My blog posts have been dwindling a bit lately -- since I usually stick to travel & food -- but I'm longing to be a bit more introspective. Without boring you. I read a suggestion recently, that I like, which is to sum up the day in a sentence or two.  So I think I'll start.... with yesterday.  These will be short enough so you can browse right on past when they're boing. :)

The most important part of yesterday was after I cam home from work. Nothing exciting; it just felt good to walk my dog, especially when he has that little spring in his step. I had a lovely dinner with the honey, indulged in my weekly viewing of Mad Men, and read my favorite magazine. It just so happened to feature a series of articles about finding your purpose in life, which is something I often ponder. I particularly connected with the article that discussed ruling out who you are not, rather than trying to define who you are. I'm learning to let go of the stress of figuring out what the rest of my life holds. But living authentically, just being me - that's a lot easier. I think I'll go with that.