A Day in the Life of Lola

Lola's day begins with a long, leisurely stretch that moves into a howling yawn. She then does a lap around the living room looking for warm sunshine. Today, it was a little cloudy, so a belly rub from Thomas is the way to go.

After the sun comes out, what is more fun than hunting for lizards in the garden with my brother?

Then Lola needs a little down time so she decides to chew a stick inside meticulously spitting out every little piece of wood onto my carpet. But wait! She needs to figure out what Henry is chewing just in case she needs to get up and steal it.

After a long day Lola settles in on the sofa for a little tv and another belly rub.

I've always been The Baby

I am the baby of my family and I am still affectionately called Little Baby Heather. Today I turned 30 years old. I'm not really sure how that happened and I'm not really sure if I like it. But here I am. 30. As I told my best friend, Susan, I never really thought I'd turn 30. As a kid I was excited to be a teenager. From a teenager I was excited to jump into my twenties. But I never prepared to enter my thirties. It's a shock to my system and the only thing getting me through is a quip my friend Marian said in conversation, "I can't believe you're only 30, you sure packed a lot in to the first 29 years!" That line makes me think about how I could fill the next 29 years, and that makes me kind of excited. And, I'll still be the youngest person at my party!

A comfy new bed

I was laying out ideas for a project, went to the kitchen to get some orange juice and when I returned things were not as I had left them. Someone moved in.

Slow start

Somehow nobody in this home woke up before 9:08 am today. It's cold and dark and blustery outside. While we, the humans, had our morning cup of tea Lola decided to snuggle in for a I've-just-woken-up nap complete with dreams and cuteness.

They're Californian and they don't like the rain either

This post started out as a whine-fest about how we've been sick for a total of ten days and it's been raining for that many days too. And how tonight was supposed to be our first night out together to have a romantic stroll around Carlsbad but now it's pouring and we probably won't go out but instead sit at home and watch another random movie from our Netflix queue. But then I remembered how most of my family and friends have been living in an arctic air blast for much of the last two months and it made me giggle so I thought I'd stop whining and just let you know the dogs are bored.