If you’re on twitter, I have a suggestion for you. Bryci brought this to my attention, and reading these daily mantras have brought some calmness to my life. You learn to step back and see things differently I suppose.

Since some of you might skip this by, I thought I’d share some of the more recent daily posts. See if it’s something you can wrap your noodle around.

http://twitter.com/tinybuddha on twitter and of course, http://tinybuddha.com/ on the web.

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"Don’t be pushed by your problems; be led by your dreams." ~Unknown 8:55 AM Jan 22nd from web

"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin." ~Unknown 12:09 PM Jan 21st from web

"If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is." ~Unknown 10:09 AM Jan 20th from web

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." ~Charles Swindoll 10:08 AM Jan 11th from web

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Thank you B, for helping me become the man I knew I was capable of becoming, I love you for this.

We regularly give Jack these little treats when we go out without him. They’re called Beggin strips, they are small bacon like dog treats. It keeps him happy for 5 minutes, and we’re gone and he comes to out of his crack like fix and isn’t even really aware we’re gone till we get back. Sure I am sure he knows we’re gone.. .but dog’s don’t tell time like you and I, or so we think (different topic perhaps?).

So we today we at the pet store and I saw these…

These are two large strips, and we figured… well, I figured… HOLY SHIT he will go NUTSHOW!

So I grabbed them, and we gave him one when we got home. Now the carpet is a pretty shade of pink and Jack, well… Jack is… here, photos will detail this better then I could.

Now this graphic really doesn’t show the full magnitude of Jack in his clown suit (red food dye) so here’s a bigger pic to amuse you with

This bacon thing… there is a small 2 inch piece left, Jack will sniff it, walk away like… fuck that noise… heh

I’m fairly sure it was red going in and sadly, it’ll be red coming out. Not a happy night for us. hahaha

Two days down, several more to go… Buddha is amazingly chill for a puppy. On his first night (Dec 23), he was very WTF whine whine when we put him in his bed for the night. He doesn’t have a closed crate/kennel, we figured we’d try him on just a simple dog bed.

First night… sketchy for sure… but he eventually got the hang of it. I woke with him the next day, letting B sleep in because well, she’s my girl and this is what I do… try and take care of her as best I can. Take notes motherfuckers, it’s the small things that count. :p I got around 6 hours sleep on day one. Was I tired? yeah, but meh, 6 hours is no big thing, I used to run on a lot less, as I am sure many of you currently do. It’s the adjusting that is the bitch.

Day two, Dec 24th…  we went to bed and he didn’t whine, whimper, dance ‘cause he had to pop a deuce, nothing.  Dude was relaxed, chill, weird as hell… but not complaining. We went to bed at 1:00am, I woke this morning with him at 7:45… so a little more sleep, and straight through as well. Nice. +1 Buddha, +1 indeed

Do today, Christmas day… we of course chilled at home all day, B made turkey, I helped with potatoes and what not, we had a huge feast. This little guy slept prob. half the day easy.

It’s now approaching bed time and we’re pondering if he will be insane in the membrane (insane in the brain) this evening as we try and slumber. We tried to get him all worn out playing fetch but he’s the kind of dog that will fetch one second, and watch the ball roll by and do sweet nothing the next.

Weird note… he will creep up on the ball and wiggle back and forth and pounce, like a kitten would.

Should his name be kitteh? me thinks it’s a possible.

So that’s the update on life over here. We had a great Christmas, Bryci blogged about it on her blog… and I quote…

I just wanted to take a quick break out of todays festivities to wish all my lovely members and fans who read my blog a very merry Christmas (or whatever you celebrate)! Today is a pretty relax day for us, Buddha was our Christmas present to each other and he rocks, he enjoys the wrapping he came in more than anything. We did get each other stocking stuffers, I got some gel sockies for bed, a gift certificate for a big spa thing (woohoo!) and a ton of chocolate heh. I got a special someone some super soft undies, a bunch of chocolate and some fun bedroom stuff Turkey supper should be done around 5 and although it’s going to be a small one it’s going to be oh so good! Off for a nap with my boys, happy holidays everyone and remember if you’re celebrating with booze then taxi it!

So we didn’t go crazy on each other because we told each other a puppy is our gift, we’re more focused on clearing debt then going further in debt. Credit cards will be the death of ya if not careful so we’re tackling life responsibly, or at least trying to. I got her a kick ass Spa package and bunch of goodies for her stocking, she got me some goodies and some new Calvin Klein Micro Modal undies… trust me guys, if you need undies, check these out, they’re comfortable as fuck. She also got be some goodies for us in the bedroom and no, no more details other than… Whoa.

So yeah, great Christmas. Not about the gifts or the food, just that I got to spend it with the one person that means the most to be in the world. That’s all that matters.

Alright… bedtime… B just called me. Hope you all had a great Christmas!