That's a dog....in a basket.

It's been super pretty weather here this weekend, so we took the opportunity to get off the couch and get some sunshine in our lives...

If these don't make you smile, then you may just not be human.

Saturday we rode our bikes down to Dog Beach. It was the first time we put Zeus and Fritz in the baskets so we weren't sure if they'd like it....They did.

Sunday, we rode our bikes down a path beside the beach. We only had one little teeny mishap in which the demon black dog jumped out of the moving bike and scared me to death. He then got tucked in even tighter into his spot in the basket.

Here is a video from today :) Look how cute they are! Love it!!

Ready for movie night at home after their big bike adventure.

Sassy Suggestion Deux

It's Friday biatches! And you know Friday means!!....The weekend, duh!? Unless you work weekends, ehh that sucks. Wahh wahhh. But, I don't. So moving on.

I know the weekend is a great time to sit on your couch and eat ice cream. You don't have to tell me, honey! But, in an effort to make 2012 better for yourself and possibly impact someone or something around you in a good way, you (and I) have to put the ice cream shovel down and peel ourselves out of the cracks of our couch. Remember? Read last week's Sassy Suggestion here.

Sassy Suggestion Week Deux

1. Forgive. We all hold on to negative feelings more than we should. A lot of times, we don't even know that we are harbouring these feelings until many years after they have dragged us down silently. Sometimes, we may never realize how being angry at someone or something wears on us. I know it takes a big person to forgive or let go of painful feelings/experiences. Honestly, I think its something that many people are not willing to do, so they let it harden them or keep them from people or things they once loved. You can choose to vocalize forgiveness whether to yourself or someone else or silently forgive inside your heart. Either way, you will shed something that is holding you back and causing negativity in your life and who wouldn't want to do that?!? I believe that sometimes there will be no resolution. No explanation. No justification. No apology. And our only choice is to let it go and stop carrying whatever it is on our shoulders. There comes a time when it just doesn't matter anymore. That doesn't make us weak, it just makes us capable of moving on and looking forward.

 If you can't forgive someone else, then find something to forgive yourself for. If you are like me, you have a thousand things that you are angry that you did, didn't do, didn't do correctly, or just totally messed up. It's ok and it doesn't matter anymore. The fact that I literally ate two rows of oreos three days ago before my husband even got home from work is completely irrelevant today. And, so is the fact that I failed my first semester of college. Whoops.

"You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change the past." -Dr. W. Dyer

2. When you are out and about this weekend, give someone that you don't know a compliment. Compliments to strangers are hard to give because we just don't tend to want to put ourselves out there like that, but even I, in my antisocial mind, have done this before and it inevitably makes you feel good for choosing being kind over just ignoring someone. Now, if you're a man and thinking of giving some random woman a compliment, let me just stop you right there because that may be weird. No, no, it will definitely be weird. Choose your compliment wisely...or better yet, just tell that guy you parked next to "Nice truck." That will surely make his day. I mean, unless its a crappy truck then of course don't say that! Ugh. You get the point. People have all sorts of things going on and sometimes one little thing can make their day better. You never know how you can impact someone.

"Spontaneously engage in acts of benevolence and generosity."- Leon Nacson

 

He's a Beaut!

Please welcome the newest addition to our family, fish-with-no-name-yet-because-I-am-crazy-and-I-am-scared-he-will-die-so-I-can't-bear-to-get-attached-yet. Come on folks, we all know how often we find our pet fish floating in their bowl and let's face it, the fact that Husband poured him in a kitchen strainer (while I squealed and bounced around behind him) before putting him in his bowl may have set the odds against him. But, so far, so good.

Every morning I run to the living room like an idiot to make sure he isn't floating. *sigh* Thoughts and well wishes are welcomed. (Not for the fish, for me.) And let me just add (because we don't want the Worldwide People for Fisheries-Whale Wars department on our backs) that the husband wasn't participating in animal cruelty by putting the beloved fish in a strainer, but rather transferring him from his little container to his new ballin'-metropolis-of-a-bowl. 



Sassy Suggestion

January is a time for self-reflection and setting theoretically wonderful goals for ourselves. For example, this one side of me tends to create a 7 page report of what I should do or improve and hands it to the side of me that is watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians only as I am waiting for the next Real Housewives of I-dont-care-what-city-because-I-love-them-all to come on. I acknowledge the first four items on the list (all the way down to the one that says "do 100 crunches, squats, and lunges after your daily 5 mile run) before giving that crazy bitch the finger and going back to Bravo tv.

The point is people, New Year's Resolutions are one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of. I am willing to bet my new sparkly shoes that nobody keeps these stupid, dumb, waste-of-time, "resolutions". (Please do not even get me started on DIETS. A DIET will not keep you thin and healthy because one can only DIET for a certain amount of time before they give their "other side" the finger and grab three jelly donuts and a box of fried chicken as an appetizer.)

Phew. Now, that's not to say that I don't want to work on things. But I get bored. Very bored. With almost everything. Except Bravo TV or E! But I would never be able to commit to something extraneous every single day. I would never do it. In an effort to do something with myself and hopefully not bore myself to tears, I am going to write once a week about *different* things I can do between watching Kim's marriage unravel on television and clicking refresh on facebook that will satisfy Crazy Biatch with the 7 page report, while also hopefully impacting someone or something (big or small *and no, I am not referring to the size of the person*)  in a good way. Umm hello? You too! I mean I can give you directions to the nail salon, but I am not painting your nails for you, Miss Priss! (Similar to "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it?....nevermind, geez.)

Sassy Suggestion

1. Call a friend you haven't talked to in awhile. No, a facebook message won't do. Friendships are something we tend to let slide to the back of our minds. Until of course, someone gets broken up with and then all the sudden that long lost friend you haven't heard from in 8 months is calling you at 2 am and you're thinking "Oh hell no, I don't think so. I haven't heard from her in three years and now she's gonna interrupt my beauty sleep". Not to be sexist, the man version of this would be needing help with a house project or needing help moving. Anyway, you get the point. Don't be that person. You will need a friend at some point and you never know, they may need you right now. So call them.

2. I just cannot tell you the amount of respect and appreciation I have, as an animal lover for organizations like Fairy DogParents. I know that most people do not think to put animal's needs above people's needs, especially in times where everyone is saying things like, "I'm broke as a joke fool. I only put $7.68 of gas in my tank for the rest of the week!" or maybe you'd just rather have that $300 purse than donate any money to some animal you will never even see. But if you're like that then I think you suck donkey balls so get off my page! Okay. sort of just kidding about that. In donating to this sweet organization, you can help not only a dog, but an owner of a dog who loves them but can't afford to take care of them. Pay if forward people, gah! Didn't you see that movie!? It makes you feel better when you look at your puffy face every morning! Do it.

***If you have a Sassy Suggestion that you would like featured, please email it to jennyleigh510@hotmail.com with the subject Sassy Suggestion. This includes any organizations that are near and dear to you***

"Goals are tools for focusing on your life and for inspiring you to take action. Today, determine the worth of your goals...because everything you want may not actually be worth having." Keith Harrell

Coronado Murders...eek!

So, in case you haven't heard on the news, there were four people killed in an apparent murder-suicide just a couple of hours into the new year. You can read one of the articles about it here.

It is so sad, and so, so mysterious. What could have happened? Why would a Navy guy in pilot training go out downtown with his roommate and his roommate's sister (and another guy) to ring in 2012, then come home and kill everyone, then himself? I am dying to know why.

Why do I care you wonder? Oh, just because it happened two blocks from my house! I mean, that's not the only reason, but it is what everyone in this little town is talking about right now.

Coronado is like Mayberry, but beachy and with mansions. And with a whopping one murder on the books from the entire last year, four in one night has everyone frazzled.

We walked to the beach the day it happened and there was yellow crime scene tape and media trucks galore. Very surreal.

So anyway, I'm freaked out now and on top of the murders there has been this crazy creepy fog that keeps engulfing the island every night. It looks like a death cloud coming from the ocean and it slowly moves inland and as it does, it takes everything out of sight. It is the thickest fog I've ever seen and it gives me shivers. Taking the dogs out for their nightly walk has become dreadful. Like some scene out of a horror movie, you can hear things/voices near you, but can see nothing. Ugh! The husband thinks I am crazy (as usual). When I come back inside at night, I'm all weirded out and saying how creepy it is and his response is..."It's fog, Jenny." As if you can't look out our window and see all the makings of a zombie movie or psycho killer flick. Umm hello, 4 people just got murdered on our sleepy little sweet Mayberry island!....IN the fog I might add! You do the math!

View of the zombie death fog from our balcony

Now I'm in the market for a gun. That's right. I'm going to be ready when the zombies come out of the fog or when the serial killer hits this turns-out-not-so-sweet-Mayberry-wannabe-town.

Since the first time I came here, it felt like the town was a little too perfect. I still love living here, but I can't help but wonder what other "uglies" are not visible. As if I needed anything to flood my already insane/unrealistic/neurotic imagination.

To any literary people who like to make non-existant comparisons and analyze literature and find common themes and other extremely useful things that I, as an English major was taught to do...here is my comparison to this town:

"Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading,

it is unfathomably deep;

but now and again we rise to the surface

and that is what you see us by." -Virginia Woolf