i'm a little teapot

in my recent trip to fairhope, alabama, i ran into my favorite antique store after lunch and saw this teapot. it wasn't even priced yet, but i bought it immediately. the teapot fits neatly inside a big teacup! which is speculated to be used either to drink from or to put a tad of boiling water in to keep your tea hot. who knows? all i know is i like it. and it's auburn orange, so i nestled it among the rest of my auburn memorabilia, just in time for football season.

it cheered me up.

another thing that cheers me up: puppies.

here's a couple of things about me:

1. i love weiner dogs. LOVE them. they're my fav and i've always grown up with them

2. i hate pet stores that sell dogs. HATE them. because they usually come from puppy mills and are severly inbred and severly unhealthy. and, come on, they spend their puppyhood in crates and cages. not cool. for this reason i normally boycot pet stores with puppies.

3. i live next door to one of these particular pet stores. and i only go in it because i have a friend who is the caretaker for the puppies. and because i know and trust her, trust the treatment of these puppies only enough that i will go in and i will look at them. occassionally i still get sad, but it is my guilty pleasure.

so the other day i ran in for dog food and this little girl was staring me in the face from the minute i came inside. i darted to the puppies, cooed and baby-talked and made weird faces at her until an associate came up to me and asked if i wanted to play with her. i think i just squeaked. the husband-to-be interpreted for me and said "yes."

so we played with her. she was adorable and not-so-inbred-looking. she was also really hyper. i loved her for a brief moment in time. then we found out she was $1200. what are these people thinking?! then i had to end my love affair and walked away sad. but it was fun while it lasted.

side note: DO NOT pay this much for a weiner dog. i got mine for $200 and she grew up roaming green pastures, until i took her home and she was mine. my other one i also got for $200. except she came from a meth house and i adopter her through a rescue agency. so i can't help where she came from, but i can help where she is now. they are the best dogs ever and they cheer me up just as much as a tiny puppy.

tell me about it

i stumbled upon this today:

¹³ Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

James 4:13-17

tell me about it. we spend our whole lives...planning our whole lives. and it. is. exhausting. i'm taking a break.