Daily Diversion #125: Here Are Some Cute Photos of My Dogs to Look at Whilst I Work Against a Deadline

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Deadline. Deadline. Deadline.

Since I’m up against one, I will be playing hooky from the blog today. But,

only after I leave you with a quote and a few photos of my beloved dogs.

“The writers greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.”-James Baldwin

I will always need you darlings, but I have to run off to write a review. Until tomorrow, then.

This is how

This is how

my babies

my babies

really sleep.

really sleep.

26 thoughts on “Daily Diversion #125: Here Are Some Cute Photos of My Dogs to Look at Whilst I Work Against a Deadline”

    • We love our labbies! We had a black lab named Nassau until May 2010. Our poor baby. They are THE BEST, so you are very lucky. Our yellow babies our sweethearts, too.

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      • Oh. I thought you had kids too. I thought wow, this woman is superwoman. Kids and animals is like….whoa. But dogs are still children. Fun, love, but work too.

        We raised great danes when I was growing up.

        My mother…. smh… I think I’m the lazier generation haha for sure. I have a kid? Most likely she will have alot of little vacations with family and extended. Can you say handful?

        Haha.

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      • Nope, although I am, ahem, not exactly 25 the husband and I are still newlyweds. We plan on adopting in a few years, anyway. Right now, the husband working out of state, 2 dogs, a cat, a writing, publishing and editing career, blogging, and something of a social life is all I can handle. And to think I’ve been considering getting back into acting. Maybe not just yet…We have to move first!

        I will need lots of help if/when we have kids. Lots.

        Wow, Great Danes? And I think of my English labbie as being big! We’ve had a Great Dane in our building and it was huge. I mean, I know I am a small 5 feet but this thing was huuuuge.

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      • OMG. you should totally get back into acting. You have such a photographic presence!!! I didn’t know you acted (wait was that in your bio)? Oh yes, move first.

        Hahaha. I’m not exactly in my twenties either. Awwww, newly weds? Aww. How did you all meet?

        Maedez I hear you. I am an advocate of the extended community with kids. People really need support. It is not easy, whether it’s one or four kids.

        I’d like to adopt one day as well. First screenplay I sell, I am adopting.

        Hahaha. Yes, great danes are huge. And they eat for another person, and washing them is like dealing with a big oversized kid, not to mention walking them. We got walked. Haha. But they’re actually very loving dogs.

        My parents got our first when I was about a year old.

        You have nice dogs. Are those labs? And what kind of cat do you have?

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      • Maybe! Ohio actually has a thriving indie film scene (no, really), especially short films. I know people, lol.

        We have been married less than 2 1/2 years. I mean, yes, we’ve been together nearly 7 1/2 but I am definitely still feeling like a newlywed. 🙂

        People definitely need support with kids. My mom was (mostly) a single mother (after my parents’ divorce) when I was young, and I have no idea how she did it. Plus, she was 20 when she had me. I cannot even imagine. It does not compute.

        I get walked by my 70 pound lab mix (the 90+ pound pure-bred English labbie is lazy, and thus easy-going). I’m only 5′ so it is a sight. A Great Dane, though….

        We have a hand-me-down Calico named Zizi Jeam-Maire. Do you have any pets now?

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  6. Hahaha…I like how you said…”No really.” Really? Haha. I didn’t doubt you? 🙂 Please let me know if you have any suggestions of festivals to hit out there (meaning enter). 🙂

    So, as you attend you need to have your headshot or comp card with you…

    Wow, 7 1/2 years is wonderful. But I hear you about being a newly wed, I’ve heard being married is different. So this training period will be over before you blink Maedez. Sure your husband is counting the days too.

    How did you guys meet?

    Wow, a 20 year old with a baby. She must have been pulling her hair alot. A 20-year old? Whoa. From what I see when I am just babysitting, your life is bought, sold, and maintained by baby. You for you? No more….er…til they’re like 18! Unless you get a little badass stupido like me at 14, who thought she was grown enough to leave. I left home at 15, talked my parents into sending me to the U.S. I thought I was sooooo mature (BIG LAUGH). Fifteen is fifteen, womanly or not. Well, when you guys adopt I’m sure you’ll have friends and family ready – if you keep reminding them about being active in the children’s lives. Haha. That’s what I’m gonna do, if I ever have the chance!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Hahaha. I bet you get walked, and you’re like, “If this dog gets any heavier I’m going to need muscles!!!!” It’s crazy, it’s seriously kind of humbling. 🙂 Oh yeah, my brothers and I got walked by our dogs for sure. For that reason one of them always getting loose. Poor neighbors.

    Zizi Jeam-Maire? 🙂 Is that after someone? I love the name Zizi. Nope….no animals now. Got knocked off my feet during this recession. Impossibly humble quarters. 😦

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    • If you want to know about festivals and the Ohio scene, I can hook you up with my filmmaker friend, Louie. He’s got the line on all of the details.

      Being married is different. It is hard to explain why, actually. I mean, the day to day is exactly the same but mentally it is different. And better. It is weird that way. 🙂

      We met on, wait for it, eHarmony. Yeah. It actually worked.

      I do not know how my mom did it. I mean, her family always helped us out, especially after she left my dad when I was a baby. But, still. Her strength as a young parent was amazing. I am in awe. Where are you originally from? You must be quite the convincing smooth talker to have convinced them to let you loose in another country at 15! I thought I was the bomb when I went to NYC by myself at 16 to study acting, and I was only a 70 minute plane ride away. I mean, I got hit on by a rock star on the plane ride there. All I could think of at the time was, “Oh, my goodness. My family is going to make me turn around and go home when they find out that stuff like this really happens!” Fortunately, I have always had a great head on my shoulders and my mom wasn’t worried.

      My problem in walking our dog Duncan is that he is pure muscle and has enough energy for 3 dogs. It would probably be easier for me to walk a Great Dane. Duncan is just a chaotic ball of energy with no social skills. I’ve hurt myself twice walking him whilst The Chef has been out of town.

      Zizi is named after the French ballerina of that exact name. Not because I love ballet (I don’t, particularly) but because I was obsessed with the movie “Anything Goes” (a musical starring Bing Crosby and Donald O’Connor) when I was a teenager. I was so weird. Anyway, she co-starred in it. So, the cat’s name is a throw back to an old obsession.

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  7. Maedez,

    That would be great! Sure. I need to compile some festivals to enter Mask in (as that it the more technically proficient one). The other one was pretty problematic from all sides, and even though I like my story I don’t like the end result as well. Anyway, it would be great to get the skinny from him. By the way, thanks for reading my stab at poetry.

    eharmony?????? Really?????????? Wow Maedez. did you chat with a slew of people before you found anyone decent? Oh I wish you’d do a post on that one. I’ve tried the online dating, didn’t like the experience much. But, I would like to find someone and I find out in life men either turn into total babies around me (scared to step wrong) or they’re really aggressive but the psycho ones. I am praying/meditating on something else. Even where I live there is this guy that likes me so much but he turns into mush, and is unable to put on step in front of the next. And the day of me asking men out, is done. I don’t think most can juggle that psychologically.

    But wow, amazing. So ….eHarmony works for some. How long before you all met??

    OMG. A Rock Star coming on to a 17 year old. Ofh…you mighta made a great news story there!
    Oh your poor mom, she musta been a wreck. I was pretty smooth at 15, because I thought I was sooooo ‘mature,’ and a woman. You know how you see those teens who carry themselves like they are 30? That was me. I’ve lightened up. Haha. Anyway I think parents should think seriously about letting their kids loose cause this is a big crazy world. And yes, some pedos/perves out here focused on the 17/18 yr old variety at 45!!

    OMG Duncan sounds like a hand full. Awwww, and he probably thinks it’s all in good fun the whole way through. Oh no!!! How did you hurt yourself (walking him)??? Ooooo boy.

    Oh guess what I saw today (movie) that was really good. A Place Beyond the Pines. You and your husband might enjoy that one together.

    Anyway, I love how you named your cat. I think I saw that movie. I do have a pet – a guy who lives next door to me. Needs to be house trained. Just kidding (not really).

    Roommate.

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    • My pleasure. Louie is an actor/writer/director. As far as the latter go, he does short films but a contact is a contact. I will email you his info, and will give him a heads up, too.

      Yep, eHarmony. Totally spur of the moment. I was watching some television marathon over Memorial Day weekend and they just kept running the ads. I totally fell for it through repetition (which I knew, so maybe that makes it a bit better?). I used it on and off for about 5 1/2 months before being “matched” with The Chef. The rest is history…I never had any bad experiences, either. I exercised the common sense I was born with. The hardest part was letting perfectly nice guys down gently, but you just have to do that or you won’t get anywhere. Not everyone is suitable for you, and you just have to acknowledge that!

      Yikes, guys turning into mush stops being attractive after the teen years. It is a compliment at first, but it gets old really fast because nothing is accomplished. I am sure you carry yourself with grace around him, though.

      Yeah, I had just turned 16 about 3 weeks earlier. Empty plane on a Sunday morning. Just me and a very popular band at that time. The drummer. Sigh. It always seems to be the drummers. Even when I told him I was 16 he didn’t seem to care. Maybe he was hungover? Who knows? It has provided me with a good story all these years, though. I actually heard their big hit earlier this week (for the first time in a long time) and just laughed.

      It sounds like you had a good head on your shoulders as a teen, though. I was level-headed and trustworthy, but even my extended family thought my mom was nuts for letting me go to NYC. If it makes you feel better, I am also a LOT less serious now than I was then. I am still pretty serious, but I have lightened up so much!

      Duncan is a sweetheart, he just has no manners. How I hurt myself is a long story. Let’s just say it involved me, an overly energetic dog, and a brick wall.

      “Anything Goes” is a musical mostly set on board a cruise ship, if that rings a bell.

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      • Hahaha. Maedez, I remember the name!! But why can’t I remember the movie? Unless it just struck a cord with you, it just didn’t in me? Haha.

        Anyway, I know!!! I came to NYC after High School and my parents, well, almost everyone was uncertain about it.

        OMG, the musician didn’t even care? Pervert. Ugh, if I had been sitting nearby, he woulda gotten the side eye of death from me. Haha. In my older years, I am really attuned to this type of stuff in my surroundings.

        I never want to offend precious teenagers who think they are their own universe but there is a larger one circulating around their world that isn’t considered at times, like when you see some 14 yr old girl being flattered that any guy is giving her attention somewhere (she and her friends giggling) and the guy looks like 45.

        I didn’t last on eHarmony. I felt demoralized by the whole online dating thing, like I was begging for attention by contacting them. And everyone has a slightly precious attitude when it comes to you as a black woman.Guys, unless they are highly educated plus aware of the misguided narratives we are all trained on, power of media, social conditioning, all that, tend to give off this super reserve when dealing with you or this straight for the jugular sex innuendo talk that is deeply inappropriate for any first contact. They’re on a regular diet of the Rhianna’s and the Shake it up over sexualizing of the Beyonce’s, Ciara’s etc, so everyone including black men think this is an okay direction to take, or they are busy wanting so called ‘better,’ as they chat with you like something they’d be settling for if they explored it. It’s too bizarre for me.

        So I’ll be finding the special deprogrammed guy via another route I think. But I’m fascinated how life circumstance can play out differently from different perspectives. It’s lovely the site works for some – for real. =)

        A brick wall? OUCH. Oh noooo. [Pained face for you.]

        Haha…well…you might be past the stage for manners now, with Duncan… 😦 Haha.

        But thank-you for telling me about your friend Louie. Any kind of filmmaker is fine. It’s all difficult. Wonderful. Thank-you!!!! I’m kind of excited to get back into the swing of it, but entering film festivals is like a full time job sometimes.

        It’s a pretty demanding affair.

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      • Honestly, I don’t particularly like the movie all that well today. When I was 14 or 15, however, it was a different story. There have been various stage shows and movies by the name of ‘Anything Goes,’ which is probably why it rings a bell.

        The musician did not care. I was surly and rude. He didn’t care. To this day, I do not want to know what he was thinking. But, it gave me a great rock star story!

        As I said before, I only tried eHarmony on a total whim. After I answered all of those 200+ questions, I felt compelled to give it a go. I am convinced the only reason I did it is because that is how I was meant to meet The Chef. We lived in different cities at the time, and never would have met otherwise. I was never particularly comfortable participating in on-line dating, although I did appreciate the guided process on eHarmony and the fact that you cannot troll for people at all, let alone based on how someone looks. I deliberately never put a photo up, which ended up being almost like a social experiment. It was really interesting. I know that my interactions were way different than they would have been if I had posted photos. It is amazing what men think they can ask a largely anonymous woman on a dating site, even one as guided as eHarmony is. Dating is difficult, dating as a woman is difficult, and dating as a black woman must be even more so. I really enjoyed reading your perspective in the last comment. It was great.

        I am pretty much convinced that Duncan will never acquire manners. He is 3 1/2 now and is going to be acting like a foolish puppy when he is 10!

        I will definitely get on the Louie intro this weekend. I am so in over my head with everything, between work and moving. I know how difficult being an indie filmmaker is, and I respect anyone who does it.

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  8. Haha. Of course….you are probably universes apart from your 14/15 year old self. I mean I think about Twilight (which I enjoyed, but when I read the reviews on Itunes I did notice, not in the same way as the youngins). 🙂

    Haha. Yes it did. And you should write a short story about Mr. I wanna pick up a teen. I think it’s pretty interesting how his fame or whatever didn’t work on you. In this day and age, teens are really focused on fame, it would make it an interesting read in the now, against our backdrop of fame obsession in society.

    200+ questions….it is alot of questions isn’t it????? I thought so too. I didn’t even realize it was that many, I just remember being like ‘Wow this questionaire is ridulous, how long is this?!’

    I agree with you, dating is difficult for anyone. Women of different ethnicities encounter different things but none of it is easy. I had a close friend who was every dating site known to man, for a bit (about 3 years), she really wanted to be in a relationship. But the quality that comes at you was just… unreal. We’d talk about some of em,’ analyze some of the conversations and figure out some of the issues ahead, even some of the scammers.

    Sometimes it was funny, but other times it presented this view of our society in terms of declining values for relationship and true ability to respect a woman…

    She eventually met her husband through work, but the online dating thing started to get her depressed. So i agree, that is how you were meant to meet The Chef.

    On Duncan – weeeeeeelll haha 0_o….then…ya better develop some muscle for your enthusiastic child.

    OMG…take your time with the Louie thing. I know you have alot to accomplish first. And WP is probably the relaxing moment. How’s the search coming? And the packing?

    xo

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