Luna TailAnxiety, Dogs, and Life

I don’t know what it is.. but every now and then I get this irresistible bug to go and spend money. Buy something frivolous and something that I really don’t need. I wonder if this is a touch of what a shopping addiction is like?

So lately I’ve wanted another blue Life Is Good collar for Muffit. The blue is perfect, it’s my flyball team’s colors and looks so good on Chase. So yesterday I actually put Chase’s on Muffit, and I ordered a new one for Chase. =P Yeah, totally pointless and not needed in our house full of collars! Dangit! But I just wanted one so I ordered ack. I’m terrible. But I do have some money, so I guess I can spend it. =P

That link goes to the Life Is Good website but they don’t have the collar I’m getting. They do have, however, this pink tank! It matches Tatum’s collar and leash… oh boy, we’ll be matching!

But you know, this is quite dumb of me… because I just went to lunch at Rumbi. And I just donated $5 for a parting gift for a coworker… and last weekend I spent some money at the Bark in the Park event I went to. And gave $20 to my obedience trainer… so why on earth do I feel the need to spend any more money?

I just pulled out $100 from my checking account for cash for this pay period. Unfortunately, I’m not supposed to pull it out until Friday (on payday) and so it’s now supposed to last me 3 weeks instead of 2. And already $15 of it is gone. GAH!

I had a busy weekend. CRAP! What is the deal with me! I’m too busy. I was at a Bark in the Park all yesterday (Saturday). Our flyball team did a demo, well two, and so we had to hang out all day. Which wouldn’t be so bad if I had any days at home to relax, which are few and far between. I know, I complain, but I do love doing dog things.

This morning I did obedience training. Then I built a couple of jumps (is this my dog blog or my personal blog? LOL). Then I vegged in front of the TV for a couple of hours… watched Monk and Robin Hood, I liked both of them. Monk freaked me out… tearing up that poor house! Ugh! I had to take a break from watching it for a bit as that disturbed me. But then I came back and it was definitely funny.

Now I’m watching TV and blogging a bit. I did, however, get some books from the library. Real Live Books. I hope to actually have time to read them. Usually I get books on CD anymore so I can listen when I drive. But I do miss just sitting down and reading.

Today will be a short work week, thank goodness. I’ll get to work from home on Wednesday for a few hours, in my home office, though I could use a new desk and chair. Oh well… I’m just happy I can work from home!

Okay.. I am still trying to understand and use OpenIDs. At long last, I think I finally understand.

So an OpenID has to be in the form of a URL. Big thing that was tripping me up, lol. And there are places where you can register your OpenID and they kinda are like an OpenID host. You sign up with them and they give you an OpenID that you can use to log into various websites that support OpenID.

I like Beemba so far. I have my own Beemba OpenID. So when I go to various websites, I use my Beemba OpenID to log in (yes, I have to log into Beemba so you can’t, even if you know my Beemba OpenID) and then voila, I’m in via OpenID.

And if you click the link to see my Beemba OpenID, you’ll see various information about me, too. And this is what I’ve been wanting! Instead of clicking my OpenID and seeing just a site, with nothing about me, that’s boring. This lists my FriendFeed info, Twitter, Del.icio.us info, and my website address and my picture of Tatum.

So far, so good!

And now for my relaxing weekend… ha! Well, not so much. Maybe Sunday afternoon. I reserved some books from the library… gonna check out Dennis C Carey too, see what he’s all about. I want some books on CD too to take with me when I got to Laramie the weekend after the 24th of July, so maybe they’ll be some good ones!

Well, I got The Pursuit of Happyness today from Netflix, stuck it in the DVD player this afternoon and watched it. I haven’t watched it until now because I figured it would be a tear jerker and I really, really hate to cry.

Well, it did make me cry, but not as much as I had thought. What an amazing movie. A heart wrenching tale for sure. Will Smith does an fantastic job. Not only is he an amazing action hero, it’s amazing at drama, too. A very talented man, Will Smith, and so hot, too! I loved him in Hancock as well. It got pretty bad reviews, but I enjoyed it a great deal!

It breaks my heart that so many people are homeless. No one should be homeless. It’s a tragedy in our society, in our country, in this day and age. It shouldn’t be… and yet it is. There are very serious things wrong with our country.

It makes me thankful and utterly grateful that my parents gave me the skills I need to support myself and my fur family. I can’t imagine how awful it would be to be homeless. To have no place to go, no friends to help me, no family to give me a hand. I’m so lucky I have a wonderful family and a great support network of friends who would not only take me in, but my husband and my dogs and cats as well, if needed.

Thank you friends and family. I love you all. And I wish with all my heart this country, this world, will change and people, someday, will never be homeless.

So no diet pills for me… just a happy healthy life. Though every day I worry that my life will crumble. I worry that I’ll lose my job and my house. That is why I want to retire from the State and have a pension. That would be security. That is what I dream and pray and hope for every day of my life.

For a long time now I’ve included the www. in my domain name URLs. Recently… probably less than a month ago, I decided that I would get rid of the www and see how I liked it.

I have my server set up so that if you put the www in, it’ll still find my websites. So no one will get lost! But I really, really like having no www on my domain names. The www is just messy, more to type, and takes up too much room in the domain name.

So it’s gone! What do you think? Do you keep the www or do you drop it on your domains?

Now that my blogs are upgraded to the newest version of Wordpress, my emails are cleaned out (I have over 600 in my trash… ugh) and I’ve posted a post or two, time to go watch a movie and wish I had wall mounted home theater speakers to go along with my HDTV!

I’m a member of both Entrecard and SezWho. I joined up with SezWho about a month or so ago because I saw a post about it over on Eyespi20 and it looked like a good commenting system. And I’d already played around with Intense Debate and Disqus, as you might know if you read my blog off and on.

Well I didn’t like that Intense Debate and Disqus stored my comments off my blog. I like having ownership of my own comments. Maybe I’m a bit of a control freak… okay, I know I’m a bit of a control freak. So I like to have my comments stored here, on my server, with my blog. And so I switched to SezWho.

I like the idea of having a commenting community, and SezWho provides that in a good way. They are growing, too, and I hope to be able to meet and keep friends lists on SezWho. I really don’t like their Red Carpet Widget, though, it’s big and cumbersome, so i am not using that on my blogs. But I like the SezWho environment and community.

So I think it’s great that Entrecard and SezWho have partnered. Now if you post a comment on a SezWho enabled blog, you earn Entrecard Credits. Which is very cool! Though I post comments on other blogs regarldess of that. But hrm.. maybe it will inspire me to post more comments on those blogs!

Two things you might hear a lot about if you are in the dog training world are Frustration Tolerance and Impulse Control. Dogs have to learn these things in order to be trained well, and to function in a human based world. Even wild animals learn both of things at a very young age.

I think both of these things translate well in the human world, too. I’ve been thinking about Impulse Control a lot lately. Mainly in the area of eating. I am pretty sure I’m addicted to sugar. And chocolate. And probably salt. I love them all and can eat them all day long.

I get major cravings in the evenings for sugar and chocolate. And usually I give in. Eating right is not only about choosing the right foods. I think a huge part of it is emotionally based, and not giving in to those cravings, and learning about that impulse control. Just because we feel something, either emotionally or physically, giving into it and doing it is not always the best thing!

Sometimes it is. Sometimes we need to follow our gut. But usually in the area of eating, in our society, in our day and age, it’s not. Following the gut, or filling the gut, isn’t a good thing! Eating less, eating healthier, helps us feel better in the long run, and live longer too! And when we lose weight, we can all win trophies for ourselves!

I have a ton of Wordpress Plugins on my blogs. I even have a plugin that shows all my plugins. If you want to see my plugins:

Here’s my plugin page

I’m writing this mainly because I just installed another plugin… I reply to my comments whenever I can, whenever I remember, and whenever I have time. Which is most of the time, I hope! Anyway… I like my comment plugins, I have more of them than any other, and I wanted a way to thread the comments so I can see my replies to the comments near the comment itself.

So I found Yet another threaded Comments plugin. And it works with my Comment Email Responder. I hope it works okay with the rest of my comment plugins too… I haven’t actually tested it yet. But I’ll go have a look!

Please let me know if you have any problems commenting. You can email me at web at tiptail dot com.

I now have just about 15.4 Gig of photos on my latop. I’ve been digging up old backups from CD and DVD and from my husband’s computer so that I can arrange them all and organize them all and back them all up together. Then I’ll probably put a copy in a safety deposit box so as to keep them very safe.

I love photos. This is of my husband when we went sailing on the San Francisco Bay back in 1998. I think it was 1998, anyway… the pictures don’t have a date stamp on them and I’m not positive about the year! But I’m pretty sure that’s it. We didn’t stay at any Hilton Head rentals in San Fran… but I’ll tell ya, it was a total riot sailing into Fisherman’s Warf from the ocean side, finding a slip, and staying overnight!

I don’t think I’d ever do it again. We were pretty big dorks and didn’t know what we were doing sailing. And I wouldn’t feel safe now that I’m older and much more mortal. But I’m glad we did it, we got some great memories and pictures!

My sister’s birthday is today! I won’t say how old she is… she is four years older than me. She’s the best sister in the world. I remember when I was a little kid, I’d chase her around trying to kiss her and she hated it! LOL

I love having a great sister. We have a lot more in common now than when we were kids. We are great friends too! Family is awesome. And we’ve both been at our employment for about 20 years now, how scary is that!

Happy Birthday Chris!