Separation Anxiety

My dog has separation anxiety. We moved out about 2 months ago and she misses Sarge like crazy. I got her a cat Who I named Toothless 

He was free at the Humane Society. Front declawed (poor guy), neutered, good with dogs and kids. Eight years old and lived with the same family since he was born. Their elderly relative moved in and was allergic and their loss was our gain. Gracie is doing a bit better with him around. 

But today I got dressed for church and I think she knew I was leaving because she took up a door step vigil making sure I wouldn't leave without her. 

Unfortunately it didn't work because bringing my dog to worship with me would be both against the rules and highly distracting. The good thing is that every time I get home, she has nothing but love for me. And it's a nice light during a dark time. 

I miss Toby more than you can imagine, and this is how I cope. 

Meditation is the new black

My anxious yoga doing friend Kristin was telling Janae and I after our last community action yoga about her therapy homework.  One month her therapist assigned her to meditate for ten minutes daily. It turns out that when anxious people get therapy homework, we kill it. We kill it because we want our therapists to like us and think we are the best therapy patients in all of time. Because anxiety. 

So Kristin did just that. She meditated for ten minutes a day for an entire month. It changed her life. That struck a chord with me. While I've always been an avid lover of savassanah at yoga, I have never been a regular mediatator. So I decided to give daily meditation a go. Turns out that there are multiple apps and guided meditations on iTunes and in the app store. I have been listening to a guided meditation each night while I fall asleep. I downloaded Buddhify app with multiple meditations for situations which I face every day-things like getting out of bed. 

And tonight the meditation will be for well being and weight loss. I often fall asleep. I don't mind. My journey into meditation means calming my mind and removing the unsettled feeling that often plagues those of us with anxiety. And if that means extra sleep, especially at first, then so be it. I forgive myself. Meditation is going to be a practice, like yoga with ups and downs, but there will be no rights or wrongs because all meditative time, will over weeks or months or years or whatever may come, bring me closer to the spirit and closer to living my life with daily intention. Namaste. 

Details, details

At least the person who cut this pizza pays extreme attention to details, or in other words: worst cut pizza I have ever seen. But if you want a tiny piece of pizza, you know where to find it. 

Wrong State

I hate to break it to the owner of this vehicle, but he or she probably lives in the wrong state. 

Summer Nights

In the summer I try to avoid using a blow dryer whenever possible because heat on heat on death. This means that on beautiful breezy nights like this, I can be found on my back porch round brushing my hair in the wind. 

Knee Injection

I was really brave for my shot so I got a big kid band-aid. 

Haircut

We hate getting our hair cut and now we are mad at you mom.

Can someone please help me figure out how to trim her without leaving these silly lines?

Mint on mint on mint

When my nails accidentally match my hair tie. But also if my scrubs were involved in this outfit it would be mint explosion. 

This picture showed up today

You guys her little puppy face. And she grew up to be so mellow. Someday I'll probably write a creepy Ben Folds style song called The Luckiest about her. 

Adoptaversary

Facebook and Jessie reminded me this morning that it has been one year to the day since I adopted this little lady. Honestly one of the top seven decisions of my life. My dad keeps reminding me "you know she's not a human right?" But that's exactly why I love her so much. No human is capable of loving me in the way she does. If you want to learn unconditional, limitless love, get a puppy.