So many of you know that I am pregnant with my first child. We're 20 weeks along now. Those of you who do not wish to know whether the baby is going to be a boy or a girl may as well look at the ultrasounds and not read any of the rest of this post, just being assured that everything looks to be developing normally. You may also wish to cut off contact with the rest of our friends and family, many of whom know. :)

First, we go in chronological order. I had a wonderful experience last Monday- for those of you who don't know, I'm training my dog Boo to find lost pets. She is far from ready to be certified and go out on actual searches, but I do demos with her and that sort of thing, keeping the level of difficulty to what she can handle. She's training to do two separate tasks: (1) focus on the scent of one individual animal and ignore all others, tracing the path that animal took until she catches up with it, and (2) alert me when she catches the scent of any particular species I'm looking for and show me where the nearest one is (in this case, cats). On Monday, here's an account of what happened.

Haha! It's been less than a month since I last posted- bet I'm surprising you all! :D

So it's been awhile, again, since my last post. Life's been good. Zug and Boo are settling in well together, though Boo is still learning she can't squeeze Zug too hard. Michelle and I went horseback riding a while back with Seth's cousins. It was awesome, even better than I remembered. I can't wait till I can go riding again.

It's been a long time since I last posted. It's how things go- I've never been very good at this whole journaling thing, but here I am posting now! Work's going well, nothing too exciting. There are ups and downs, but I just try to focus on the ups. The house is cool still. We need to paint stuff, and there are still projects, but we'll get there.

It's been two weeks since I last posted, and most of that time I've been really sick. Most of the rest of the time I was caring for Sean, who was really sick. We're both doing better now! Of course, this set back Daboo training, especially during the five days or so that I had no voice whatsoever. It was very very quiet in the house, rather disturbingly so. Daboo did well though responding to voiceless, hand-gesture commands.

Yeah, I know, I haven't posted in a while. So let me try and fill in the blanks while I sit here downstairs on the futon with my laptop while the puppy goes about diligently killing the blanket. After all, if she didn't kill her blanket, it might take over the world!

Thank you, Valentine, I couldn't have said it better myself. (From the film Mirrormask, if you didn't catch the quote titling this blog.) And it's true. I don't want to be a waiter. Or a fast-food worker. Or a banker. Hi Michelle. :)

We went to see Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul yesterday at the GBPAC. That show totally rocked- I loved it! Celtic Music is just so much fun, and you could see they were having a blast just playing with each other, walking around and playing by this musician or that in the band, challenging each other and just generally having a grand old time. It was spectacular and I relished it. :D

I wrote this for a journal essay entry on Faith for one of my classes yesterday. I figured I'd post it here.