OMG, I've been DYING to share this layout I did last week for the new Gutter Girlz challenge! Since they only get announced on the 15th of every month I had to wait ... but I love how this came together :)

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Day 158!

I just had to post todays picture even though I'm trying to batch them these days :)

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Day 116:

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Weekend POD:

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Day 30!

"Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism."
-Leo Buscaglia

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Day 4

Prompt Photo and Journal

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are"
-Mary Jean Irion

Record a normal, daily routine, take note!
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today was a good day.

but now we're tired and want to go to bed.

thank goodness:

Here is your horoscope for Sunday, October 14:

Even if things have been difficult for you lately, by this afternoon you should feel that zing you've been missing. It makes it easy to jump into just about any new situation -- and people like what they see.

1 - I don't even know why i post my horoscopes other than for entertainment purposes. But it does give me optimism and sometimes food for thought.

2 - the word difficult makes me feel really really selfish. Yes, the last couple of days have been emotionally difficult for me as I am prone to depression, but, um, there are millions if not billions of people around the globe who have it much more difficult than I. For some reason reading that word this morning reminded me to stop being so damn selfish and self-centered. I, for now, have clean water, food, a lovely house, a loving family, a fortunate life.

And my doggie. She is my happy place:


For certain this calmed me hella down yesterday.

Today we took the doggies to Sweetwater Creek Park for a 3.5 mile walk.
It
kicked
my
ass

being ruggedly uphill half the time.
but the big exciting news to me is that i let charo off her leash and she walked almost the entire way like a good girl! Only once did she start running into the woods after a squirrel. And she walks sooooooo much better off leash. On leash it gets really frustrating cause she always wants to stop or walks really really slow but off leash she wanted to be right next to herschel and keep up with him.

oh and the other big exciting news is i saw no snakes this time.

thank fucking god.

For the www.onelittleword.typepad.com "Pure" challenge.
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Daily card for the www.thisisme.blogspot.com "Fear" challenge.
I made this tonight after reading about someone's chi dying in a freak accident and got so scared for my own chi and the emptiness she'd leave me.

Journal:
"If you had told me four years ago i could love something this much i wouldn't have believed you....i love my baby girl so much it scares me."

I had this portrait of Charo done a couple of months ago (http://www.myspace.com/tinypawsart) and have been looking for the right paper and time to scrapbook it the way it deserves! I found this pink paw paper yesterday at my local scrapbook store. The layout looks really cool because there are 3 different levels and couple of different textures.
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So, I posted a blog the other day about redesigning a package for work for a pet tag direct mailer and how I was not given any credit for it.

Well, a couple of weeks ago we got samples of the tags we're offering and we needed a picture to send out to clients to sell the package. In the creative meeting my boss asked who wanted to do it and I was like, well, i can, i have a short haired dog and what not...

So, i'm totally psyched that my princess is going to be on the outer envelope of what we call a "donor conversion" campaign, and I also designed that package, my first. It's a little more clip arty than I would like, but that's what they wanted. Besides, who's going to be looking at the fake holly when such a cute doggy is looking back at them :) The package will only be going to people who have adopted a pet from a Humane Society but have yet to donate any money.



And there's also rumblings from the printshop who looked at it on Wednesday that they may want to enter it into a national print production contest for duotone printing (that means everything being printed is red or green including miss charo's picture). Neato.

My god, charo was already stuck up ... now her ego is going to be the size of a pit bull!

Miss Becca at deviantART made this illustration of teen-age charo!!

Original pic I sent her:

Charo was about 5 months old here.

cute cute cute cute!
I LOVE the big ears, eyelashes and nails.

her myspace

I had a VERY intense dream last night that is haunting the fuck out of me.
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low-key weekend.
friday night we watched BeerFest and then i crashed in bed.
i slept so poorly thursday night from the interview excitement i hardly made it to 11pm.
ya, we're partiers :)

saturday we spent some time at the dog park - ms. charo is such a social creature now! it warms my heart to no end watching her go up to new people and dogs to say hello.
she's 110% different dog than 6 months ago when we first started going there.
got my hairs trimmed all pretty-like too.
and my stylist and another commented on how lovely my color was.
i don't think i wrote about this, but i recently dyed my hair again with a 100% gray coverup brand. i have too many gray hairs now to be able to tear them out like i used to before.
but apparently the color i chose was good and my hair is super healthy.
saturday night i worked on some valentines cards and shrinky dinks.
i was creaming my panties at how cute they turned out!!!
kind of make ups for my all of the sudden scrappers-block that has been tormenting this week.
(i'll post a picture after i know the recipients have recieved theirs.)

today i got a manicure.
with lilac colored polish and drove downtown to look for the place the interview is at tommorrow.
then i decided to take the MARTA (rail transit) there so i don't have to deal with the parking and crazy traffic. to make the job sound even sweeter the building it is located in has a MARTA stop in it!!!! that's just fookin' crazy! and convinient.

now, i am enjoying a 2nd glass of pinot grigio until i make eric take it away so i don't drink too much. i need a clear head for tommorrow. i'm very very nervous but trying to remain calm. just trying to remember that fate is the key, and if i don't get this job there is another one i'm meant to get sometime in the future. i keep trying to ask myself obvious interview questions and coming up with answers, but i'm having trouble keeping on task. so we'll see how it all goes...

I <3 my baby girl so so so much.
eric took this on thanksgiving - we were having a siesta together:
i don't think i've ever loved anything or anyone more than i love charo.

OH my gosh - I was going through old files last night trying to make space on my hard drive and came across these 2 movies of my chihuahua Charo playing with my old cat Mr. Groovy Cat. Groovy recently passed on so it was really really special to see these again and I am SO GLAD I took them!! Groovy raised Charo from a puppy and was so patient and always a warm soft thing for her to sleep up against. He was such a funny old man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA16_QUdnCc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWHmqPleAac

I just posted this to the chihuahua LJ group, but thought i'd liek to record it here as well:

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Well, we spent alot of the weekend rearranging, unpacking, organizing etc
house is starting to look even more awesome!
now i just need to make some friends here to share it with :)
eric and i just went to Ikea to look for shelves and picture frames.
we have both sworn never to go back there.
i don't know why we keep doing it to ourselves.
every time we go we say never again.
they make me soooooo mad.
it's like, they promise you this awesome stuff and then in reality you get there, herded like cattle in a highly constructed order, and everything looks either cheap and useless or is nothing like what i am looking for. And i leave bitter and frustrated.

In other news, yesterday was Charo, my chihuahua, 3rd birthday! I can't believe we've had her for 3 years.
I'm drinking a mojito now, I've learned to make them at home. yum!