And now back to our regularly scheduled programing! Ahhhh that was a nice little blogger break. I highly recommend it if you’re feeling blogger burn out or just want to drop out and live life blog free for a bit. It felt fucking great! So, now that I’ve had a little respite I thought I’d give you one massive update on what we’ve been up to.

1. Life. The road of life can be super smooth like a freshly paved highway, or totally bumpy, full of pot holes and riddled with crap like road kill and torn off bumpers. I’ve felt like over the last few years I’ve hit a few traffic jams—maybe even got a flat tire. But the last few months, well, those have been equivalent to the road that you take when you’re going hiking in Yosemite or somewhere—the scenery is really,really beautiful but the road is a disaster and super scary because you’re driving on the side of a cliff. Now, today, well let’s just say that I got out of the car, wiped the beads of sweat off my brow and I’m ready to go on an amazing hike in one of the most beautiful places on earth. I’m pretty confident that I’ve found a new path and a new mode of transportation. I’ll just have to be sure to use my compass and a few other helpful tools and not get lost again.

2. Backyard Upgrade. When we moved into our new house last Fall we focused our energy on decorating and sprucing up the inside of the house. I still have to give you guys the tour! But now since spring has sprung we’ve spent the last few weekends tackling the backyard. And let me be clear, I use the term “backyard” loosely. Between our house and the garage is a 30ft x30ft tarmac with chain link fences between ours and the neighbors properties. The upstairs apartment deck hangs over about half of the space giving the non-covered space a few hours of sunlight in the afternoon. By New York standards this is the equivalent of approximately 10 acres of manicured land with trees and wildflowers. We’ve been spending our spare time into turning our outdoor space into a little plot of paradise. So far we’ve put up tiki fencing, got a table, loads of faux plants for the spaces with lack of sunlight, purchased a BBQ, potted plants and hung a beautiful string of bulbs.

3. TV Obsession: Parenthood. I’ve become so sickly addicted to this show that I’m actually watching it right now as I write this. It took me about 2 weeks of 2-3 episodes a day to complete the first 2 seasons and I just downloaded all 19 glorious episodes of Season 3. This show is so unbelievably fantastic that when I’m finished with the third season I’ll loop back and spend another month re-watching the whole thing and fantasize about what it would be like to be a Braverman.

4. Puppy Training. Training Zeus is going surprisingly well. In comparison to training children the puppy is a cinch. The modern miracle of wee wee pads have changed the puppy training game—they didn’t exist when trained my first dog. Don’t get me wrong though, I think casually allowing the dog to “go” in the house is really hideous, but they are great durring the training phase. And because of our”backyard” we’ve been able to see the signs of him needing to go and make it outdoors 75% of the time. I’d say in another month or so he’ll be house trained. We’re also using a crate. And besides all the housetraining, Zeus is exhibiting signs of being an awesome family pet loved by all.
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