You never know how attached you become to a pet until you lose them.

R.I.P. Yuki

born the runt of the litter...
came to us with everything but mange...
grew to be the largest of the 4 surviving puppies...
and was the sweetest Rottweiler you'd ever meet...
though at times she was the epitome of the word "bitch"...
we loved her well and know that she's in a much better place now...
and as long as I can picture her in my mind, she'll still be there...
butt wagging with a big doggie grin on her face as her greeting of welcome home

Have you ever had a moment where you're looking at something you've done in the past and gone, "Oh holy crap, that's actually pretty good!"

Yeah, I did that a few minutes ago while looking at this:


It kinda blew my mind away! I NEVER like anything I've created!

So snowboarding/skiing season started early up here in MI... I've been out 4 times since Thanksgiving... hence the reason for the lack of activity on my account.

Between work, kickboxing, snowboarding, beer league racing (more snowboarding), and spending time with the new BF/SO, I don't have much time or energy to do much else on my down time than sleep and just vegge out.
Hell, even food consumption and chores have fallen by the wayside!
It's going to take at least a month for me to equalize things... hopefully by then I'll have time to pick up my sketch pad and have at it!

I'll try to do something the few days we'll be at Holiday Valley in NY next month... just don't hold your breath! (I'd feel guilty if someone died of suffocation because of me!)

So I'm tired of the long, cumbersome journal I had before... I'll finish updating it sometime... but I just didn't want that monster on my page.

For those of you who care, you've probably noticed that I've been MIA for awhile...

I think I've been to busy and content with my life... my work life, my home life, and my social life have all been too busy for my muse to settle on my shoulder.

I have two down weeks coming up... we'll see if I become malcontent enough to create something

Until that time...

"There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea."
--T.S. Eliot