a day in the life of sleepyeve

Spider that lived in our backyard for about a day…

I very much strongly dislike walking my dog. I will be dislocating my wrist or shoulder one day, thanks to her.

And finally… here’s the video!

Here are the photos from Saturday’s project:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepyeve/sets/72157606808836166/

This is Bodbrane the Wizard working his magic:

Movie to come later this week!

The 48 Hour Film Project for San Jose started 7:30 PM Friday and ended 7:30 PM tonight. The genre Christian & Jason pulled was fantasy. The required prop was a pin. The required character was Chris or Christie Doyle the drummer. The required line of dialogue was “What just happened?”

Christian & Jason, of course, went in full force and came out with an excellent end product (in my opinion). I spent Friday night – Saturday morning cranking out two wizard costumes and assembled several props. Christian had to take Lily to obedience class alone Saturday morning because I was way behind schedule and was still assembling wizard robe #2. Thank goodness class ran late because that bought me an extra 15 much-needed minutes to sew sleeves on! I played photographer all day Saturday while the guys shot their footage. At about 5 PM, I started feeling the onset of exhaustion and realized that my mind was a little gone when I started texting in Gibberish to Jason’s wife, Sharon. After 40 sleepless hours, I finally hit the sack for a much-needed 11 hours last night. I still feel completely exhausted, but it’s very satisfying to know everything we accomplished in a mere two days.

I’ll post photos and pictures as soon as they get uploaded.

The film will be shown on the big screen at the Camera 12 theaters downtown this coming Wednesday for those of you who are in need of plans Wednesday night and want to support us (at least help vote for us to win the audience award!) It’s the Camera 12 Cinemas on Second street. The films start at 7:30. Hope to see some of you there!

Christian and I went shopping for our donation to the Back to School Drive being hosted at Yahoo!. Shopping was always my most favorite part about going back to school. We loaded up on tons of goodies for a low-income 6th-8th grade girl. We weren’t allowed to buy red or blue backpacks, so I chose purple (because pink was just a hair too girly). I hope she likes everything we got her.

Yes, that is Purell anti-bacterial gel. Cleanliness is important so don’t knock it.

If you have the opportunity, consider making a donation too. You can make a monetary donation or buy a backpack for some lucky kid. Visit the Family Giving Tree website for more info.

Lily ripped my handmade pillow (1 of 2) that I made for our couch almost 3 years ago to shreds. She pulled the blanket that was on the couch because it was sitting a little too close to her crate and the pillow must have moved right up against the crate bars. I’m a little sad and a little mad. Cuteness will not win this owner over this week. Nope.

Lily went to her first session of obedience class yesterday.  The session was an hour long at Sirius Dog Training with Eleanor Stewart in South San Jose.  Great instructor.  She’s super-nice, direct, and uber-knowledgeable.  Lily was only second-worst in class.  She wasn’t THE worst, but her excitement (causing her to constantly whine) certainly put her up there.  Lessons learned for next class:

• Don’t feed her breakfast in the  morning or she’ll be done with treats before class is over.
• Bring paper towels in case she decides to hurl in class (Lily didn’t do this, another dog did).
• Bring tiny bites of soft, chewy food instead of her usual crunchy treats – she takes too long to consume those.

I’m uber-glad that she didn’t pee in class from being so excited, but I certainly hope that we work with her enough this week to make that more manageable by next class ’cause it’s a little embarrassing.

Today is Lily’s first day of obedience school. We leave in about half an hour for Sirius Dog Training – south San Jose location. It will be 6 weeks, an hour a week on Saturdays starting at 9 AM. I’m not expecting any miracles, but I’m hoping to learn how to get her to listen to us. Walking is one of the biggest problems we have with her, so we’ll see what they have to say today. I’m not too sure about what to expect. Look for a follow-up to this post!