The Rest

[talktooloose]

This weekend was particularly restful and necessary. I worked myself up into quite a stressed out tizzy last week. Work was busy, I was having trouble writing and I'm not sure what all else, but by Thursday, I was a mess and I didn't know how to reset myself.

Friday, Snake and I both felt like we were coming down with a cold that's been going around so we descended into major hibernation mode. We spent a lot of hours in front of the TV watching our way through the first four movies of Michael Apted's Up series which is as addictive as crack. WARNING: even I had to avoid the spoilers on the linked Wiki page.

I would like to blog later about a very disturbing effect one of the stories in the series has been having on me and what that reveals about my own insecurities. This is not surprising in that it's a series that absolutely calls for viewer projection. Interesting stuff.

On Sunday, Klondike had a playdate with a 4 month old bull mastiff pup who is already the same weight as he is (and will more than double him in weight within a five months). Below the cut are many pictures of doggy cuteness in the snow.



By last night, I was feeling human again. Nothing like rest, good movies and fresh air to fix the brain. I would be starting the week firing on all cylinders if we hadn't stayed up to watch the whole fucking Oscars ceremony. Idiots.

Comments

[ginalin.livejournal.com]

LOL, the mastiff is in lurve with Klondike..A Pembroke corgi?

I almost adopted a dog that was part corgi and part dauchsund before I found Frosty. So cute.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Nope, he's a cardigan. Note the large tail. Pembrokes (like the Queen's dogs) have no tails or rudimentary ones.

A corgi/dachshund cross? He would have been the short-leg poster child!

[ginalin.livejournal.com]

Oh, right...mixed up the names. Cardigans also typically are brindled and white like that, too, I think. Pembrokes tend to be tan or red colored.

Yeah, this poor doggy had been abandoned and starved, people just left her when they moved, but she's doing okay now. I work with the local Humane Society. I'd have a dozen dogs if I didn't exercise severe control over myself.

She wasn't actually any more short legged than your typical Corgi, but she had dauchsund fur and tail. She needed a bit more care to get her weight up to normal and she was still a bit traumatized to be thrown in with our other 3 dogs and 2 cats, so we took Frosty, a JRT instead.

Some neighbors of mine used to have a dog that was part Corgi and part Lab...it looked exactly like a black Lab with very short legs, which was odd and cute at the same time.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Cardis can be found with brindle coats, tri-colour, red or sable and so can Pemmies, I think. However, red and sable pemmies are much more common and cardis tend to be found in brindle and tri-colour mostly. I think it's a fashion thing.



This is his dad, the champion Admiral. Admiral's sperm arrived in Canada frozen in a vial which was then introduced over a lobster dinner to Klondike's mother, Meghan. Ahh, love.

[ginalin.livejournal.com]

Oh my....you really can have a long distance relationship that way!

[nyahnyahnyah.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee. I thought of you when they brought out a corgi along with the costumes from the movie about the queen mum (amazingly, the costume bit was really the only part of the Schloscars that I caught, and that was by accident!)

BTW, you've double-posted, darling.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Second post gone.

Heh, the corgi was all WTF? up on stage.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

Ginger is Andrew and Fleur's dog, btw.

[nyahnyahnyah.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the dog totally show the show XD

No kidding! I've seen a mastiff a bit older than that one, and those pups get MASSIVE.

[painglass.livejournal.com]

oooooohhhhh....tooo cute! Almost enough to make me want a puppy around the place again (but what are the chances I'd find one who'd not want to eat my rabbits?)