I adore Shibas and Jindos but I think you all know that.
I just Googled the name of a woman I knew in the mid-1990s. She was part of a Hollywood circle that I was in (my ex-fiance is an editor) and she was a terribly pompous, mean, bitchy person. In "our" circle, of which I was pretty much the only civilian, she was one of the lesser accomplished people industry-wise, and she was just so fucking grouchy all of the time. She was the epitome of "mean girls".
Anyway the Google results completely crack me up because after she wrote a slew of the MTV Real World books, she went on to become a YA author. Of probably really insightful and kind books. Such irony. Maybe she's really nice now. Who knows, that was 15 years ago.
Who knows, that was 15 years ago.
I know that the me of now is
very
different than I was 15 years ago.
I've finally gotten to the point where I feel sympathy for my past self rather than simply wanting to kick her in the ass repeatedly.
15 years ago I was 5 months pregnant with CJ and felt I was stuck in my marriage with no hope of escape. Took a while, but yeah, I have changed a bunch since then.
15 years ago I was 5 months pregnant with CJ
Speaking of, I can't believe you had him driving. I can never, ever tell Ben this. He just turned 14 in February, but still. Yikes.
I adore Shibas and Jindos but I think you all know that.
That's where I knew that dog's face from. Now that you say that, maybe he's a Jindo or Jindo mix. He looks like this [link] but he's probably about six months old. We just hope he's chipped.
15 years ago I was 5 months pregnant with CJ
Yeah, fifteen years ago Emmett was in utero.
My life hasn't changed too much since then. @@
There is a Jindo who hangs out in our local park. He's gorgeous.
I can't believe you had him driving.
He has been pushing so much about getting his permit in July and about how driving will be easy. I think he realized today that while driving is mechanically not that hard, just managing an empty parking lot was challenging. I hope it gave him some respect for the process. Judging distances and speed really surprised him. I don't expect to do it again until he has his permit.
The physical act of driving isn't that hard; negotiating traffic is.
I think about this all the time with Emmett, and how I need to teach him how to read traffic. How to understand what's going on around him, in front of him, behind him, and far ahead of him.
Suzi, I can't imagine having to do driving lessons (argh!) but awesome that you did.
