Meet Freyja, aka Mama Freyja. She is a six year old retired breeder from Southeastern Guide Dogs. She is queen of the house and she knows it. (Taken with my iPhone X) . We brought her home at eight weeks of age, raised her as puppy raisers, sent her back for training. She came home three weeks later chosen as a breeder and had three litters before she retired. Her babies have all grown up to be guide dogs, service dogs, ambassador dogs, and breeder dogs as well. We love her to pieces.
Ten Things About Me. (Blogtober Day 3)
Ten things about me, that are probably ten things too many.
I am a Leap Year baby. Yep, born on Feb. 29, 1972 (you can do the math) I celebrate my birthday on non-Leap Years on the 28th. It causes all sorts of computer chaos when filling out forms.
I was born in 
and lived within 20 minutes of my parents until I was 30 years old and I was dragged kicking and screaming to 
when my husband took a job here. That was 16 years ago and I’m still not over it.
One of my hobbies is 
I own Kiki Mac Photography in Florida.
I also like to 
We raise 
for Southeastern Guide Dogs.
I drink way too much unsweet 
I go by our local 
so much during the week, that the barista starts my order when I pull up. (Trenta Black iced tea, unsweet, no water)
I teach at my daughter’s old high school 
I took my very first 
on the MSC Seaside last April and can’t wait to do it again. (Psss… call my friend Chip at Oceans and Lands Custom Travel
In 2005 the previous version of this blog had a write up in talking about a knitalong and swap I hosting that revolved around hurricane season.
Ok, that’s ten things about me. All random, but it was fun finding all the clipart. I’d love to find out more about people, so leave a comment with your ten things, or send me a link to your blog!
Fantasy vs. Reality (blogtober day 2)
I love Fall. I love the idea of Fall. I love the crunchy leaves, I love the long sleeve shirts, I love the boots, and the scarves and the wood smoke, and the bonfires..and record scratch…..I live in Florida. Southwest Florida to be exact—where Mother Nature is having a hot flash and thinks we all need Summer to continue.
My idea of what Fall should look like.
What Florida looks like for the next week…well, the next two weeks.
There’s so much wrong with this picture. Ninety! Ninety degrees in OCTOBER! This is ridiculous. This is July and August weather. We should be in the 80s by now. Alas, this is what I get for living in the tropics, or this year, an extra bonus– red tide that prevents us from going near the beaches. So, what’s a Fall-loving gal to do?
She decorates the outside of her classroom.
Voila! Instant Fall. My students thought I was nuts, but my coworkers love it.
On a positive note, I am headed to Washington D.C. next weekend for a conference and maybe I’ll get a little bit of Fall weather. I won’t have much time to sightsee, but I’m going to try and get to the National Archives and maybe the Mall. For all of you who live in areas that don’t get much Fall weather, what do you do to make it feel like Fall?
Apparently I am insane.
I guess I don’t have enough to do so I thought, hey why not. It’s been nearly a year since my last post and I am in what one might call a ‘slump’. I’m so busy with everything at work that I feel like I have forgotten what it is like to be creative. I”m hoping that this will jumpstart my writing again and this will also be interesting because I will be traveling twice this month, so that might be a challenge getting posts up. What is that challenge? Well, the challenge is to blog every day for a month. Thirty-one posts in one month when I haven’t blogged since November 10th-ish of last year. I’m trying to plan the next week of posts, so if there is anything you’d like to read, drop me a comment. 
Sometimes…..
You just need a little time to yourself even if you have to attend a board meeting. I’m in Orlando where I serve on the board for the Florida Technology Students Association. We have meetings four times a year and it is so nice to get away from people and dogs needing you to answer a million questions, cook dinner, take the dogs out or find something that is right in front of their faces. This is my view for tonight and tomorrow because I am not going to sit in Orlando at the height of rush hour on a Friday. I’ll just get up on Saturday and drive the hour and a half home. I’ll probably make it home before the rest of my family gets out of bed. 