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photojojo:

We agree. A camera for every day of the week.

missdean: (via porcelains)

"so i hear there was drama at the dog park..!?"

This weekend has been QUITE eventful. Friday started it off amazingly well with jazz in the sculpture garden and then Ted’s Bulletin for southern sides (like creamed corn and mac n cheese) followed by chocolate peanut butter banana milkshakes with our newest friends from Capital Hill. We had such a great time exploring our side of town and really investing in some truly wonderful people. Who knew the dog park could be such a great place to find new friends? :)

Saturday was meant to be a day for studying and going to the Krooth and Altman annual company picnic. We made it to the picnic, had a few beers, enjoyed watching attorney’s get soaked by a water balloon dunking machine, and all around had a really nice time getting to know the people at the firm a little better. We got back home around 5 and decided to meet our new friends at the dog park before Jonathan got all settled in “study mode.” The rest of the day went a little differently than planned. We chatted, enjoyed the company of all the dogs (our friends have a great dane and a chihuahua mix), and then the drama happened. Jonathan was playing fetch with Jude and threw the ball where Jude crossed paths with a large black “bear of a dog.” The dog is huge and very old. Basically Jude ran right up next to the huge dog (almost running into him) and the dog reached out and took a huge bite out of Jude’s right flank. I look up hearing Jude let our a piercing cry and see a flash of red and pink on his skin. Jonathan and I run over and see that Jude has a silver dollar size hole. Let the freaking out begin.

We get Jude to be still and see that while he’s not bleeding too badly, the dog’s bite cut deeply into his skin and fatty tissues revealing his muscle. I’m not going to lie—it looked pretty horrible. The huge dog’s poor owner comes over and says he will of course pay for all vet costs to get Jude back to normal and apologizes profusely—-most of which I’m not really hearing due to a slight case of mommy panic. I run to get our car while Jonathan stays with our group of friends and worried onlookers and works out where we should take him to get fixed up. Everyone recommends Friendship Heights Veterinary Hospital which is about a 20 minute drive away so that’s where we go. We get there and wait in the waiting room for about 15 minutes to hear what the vet thinks the best plan of action is. Much to our surprise, around the corner walks our two new friends from capital hill, come bringing us drinks and snacks and to hang out with us while we wait for our sweet boy. It just about made both Jonathan and I cry on the spot—we are so blessed to count these two our new friends :) So while they waited for us in the waiting room, we went back with the vet to get Jude checked out. They had their special surgeon take a look at the bite and decided that he would have inner and outer stitches and be put under just local anesthesia. They couldn’t get to him until 10pm that night and recommended having him put in a crate there until the procedure so he would stay calm.

Thank goodness for Ashley and Tammy; they took us to a little Greek place to eat an amazing dinner in Dupont Circle and then to the Velvet Cupcake after for dessert to keep our mind off of things until we could take Jude home. They hung with us from probably 6-11 and made what would have been a completely ruined saturday night into a great night (minus one poor puppy dog). Finally the vet called and told us we could come get him, so they dropped us back at the vet and we took a drugged Jude home. Here’s what we got:




7 stitches and a relatively fixed weimaraner. You can kind of see from this picture how big the flap of skin was that exposed the muscle. ugh. Not pictured is the huge cone he has to wear around his neck so he doesn’t mess with the wound. He whined most of the night from stress and the discomfort (probably mostly from the cone really). Jonathan slept with him on the floor most of the night to keep him calm and so he would sleep….so sad and sweet. Thankfully it’s Sunday and Jonathan and I are able to stay most of the first day of recovery with him at home so he won’t have to wear it much, but the coming two weeks are NOT going to be fun. No dog park, no ball chasing, no good sleeps b/c of the cone. Bum. However, we are so thankful that he wasn’t hurt worse and that God provided us with some great new friends to bring joy to a miserable situation. The community here has proven to be an amazing blessing. We even woke up to see that our car had a little note on it from another weim owner we spend time at the dog park with. Turns out he had searched for our car (he walked his dog with jude over to our car to keep jude distracted during all the drama when we picked jude up and gave him his dog’s toy for the ride) to put a note with his phone number asking us to please call and let us know how Jude was doing—“love Bill and Micah” (micah being the weim friend) There are no people in the world as wonderful as dog people :)

the adjustment

and so begins my life as the wife of a gwu law student….aka spending much of my saturday alone while the student studies his life away locked up in the bedroom of the house. poor student :(

so i could have spent my saturday moping around, painting my toenails and watching bad television (well ok, i might have done a little of that), but instead of succumbing to what would have easily turned into a rotten saturday, i made myself get out and explore my city a little. i went out and found a legit place to get my rolls of film developed (until i decide which darkroom in the city i’m going to use to develop my own) and buy darkroom supplies. I have these two really old rolls of film my mom found in the attic with “Stephen D. Floyd 2009 Scott Avenue Charlotte NC 28203” and I’m dying to know what’s on them. I was born in Charlotte NC and that’s where my dad did his residency. Sadly though when I got to the photo place dt they didn’t have the right chemicals to develop this particular kind of roll. They gave me the name of another shop in Georgetown that I’m going to call tomorrow but I’m concerned that it’s going to be a discontinued combination of chemicals…. :/ Looks like i’m in for some tedious internet research! Either way though I’m thrilled to have found a photography resource in the city.



After wandering through the photo supplies dreaming of when I could check out their large format toyo 4x5 camera (they rent camera equipment here too!), I drove on over to Eastern Market and bought four farmers gold apples and a bouquet of flowers. And yes I did have an incredibly difficult time saying no once again to the strawberry shortcake cupcake and the apple butter loaf bread they have for sale there that taunts me every weekend.

in the end Jonathan and I did get to spend some time together tonight and went to see movie. it’s all an adjustment but i think it’s going to be just fine ;)

maybe tomorrow i’ll make use of all the free contemporary art that’s available to me at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden!

This installation was created for the 50th Biennial of Venice in 2003, and ended up in San Sta church on the Canale Grande entitled Falling Garden, and is the work of collaborating Swiss artists, Gerda Steiner and Lenzlinger. Why can’t I have loads of money and fly the Venice to see it? Talk about inspiration.



strangelybeautifulthings:

Falling Garden by Gerda Steiner and Lenzlinger (via The Jealous Curator)

perks

 

20 rows back from the field in the company’s season ticket seats :) Go Nats!

AND it was a firework friday

so i’ve officially worked for Krooth and Altman LLC for one week. week one. woo. the first week at a new job is always an interesting experience. you’re running around trying to learn everything you’re supposed to know, learn the politics of the office, pick everything up as quick as possible so as not to get in the way, and give off a good impression. woo. All in all though, it’s been a really good first week! It’s made all the difference in the world that the people have been nice and so helpful in my transition in. My position as an admin floater gives me the great opportunity to meet and work with everyone. One of the paralegals, who was an admin floater only a few months ago, immediately took me under her wing and invited me to lunch with her within the first few days. She’s been awesome in helping to make this experience a good one for me :) Really and truly though, the office is intensely busy at times, but it keeps me on my toes and i’m ultimately enjoying it! First paycheck on friday!

oh and another plus? if you work for a relatively big law firm, more than likely they have a box or great seats for most professional sporting events in the city! guess who got Nationals v Diamondbacks tickets for friday nights game??!! ME! apparently right behind first base!

ah lazy sundays

'First Friday' Art Gallery Walks in Dupont Circle

so yesterday night I got my first taste of the art scene here in washington dc that doesn’t involve crowds of tourists or the name ‘smithsonian.’ every first friday of the month (hence the name) the multitude of art galleries in dupont circle stay open from 6-8pm and have a gallery opening for a new artist(s). they serve wine and snacks and most have live music! cherry on top? it’s only a 10 minute walk from my new job :) guess i know what i’ll be doing every first friday of the month!

to see an example of some of the art we saw look here: