First day, new blog

I'm bloggin'! Oh, the pressure to be witty and interesting is mounting already.

I am about to embark on a big adventure: 8 weeks in Hutto, Texas (in July and August, thank you very much!) where I will be learning to be a dog trainer. That's right: dog trainer training. This is something I've been planning to do for over two years now, and circumstances have aligned against it until recently.

To make up for the years of misaligned circumstances, I have now been offered the sweetest deal ever: my current employer is holding my job for me for 10 weeks (including travel time) so that when I return I can continue to have a salary, health insurance, a roof over my head, and other creature comforts, while starting to build my dog training business on the side.

My adventure began this weekend. First, I started making a list of all the stuff I need to do, buy, pack, etc. before I go. Second, I was able to cross my first item off that list with the purchase of a 2008 road atlas. Did I mention I'm driving to Hutto? Third, I put a box in the living room and started randomly throwing stuff in it. Based on the contents of that box thus far, during my time at school I will:

Have beautiful skin
Not get pregnant
Not get a yeast infection
Not get lost

I'm gonna need a bigger box.