I'M DONE

DONE DONE DONE DONE.
Freedom is bliss.
For four days, at least. Why is it that we only have four days off...well, two actually? That's kind of mean and cruel, if you're asking me.

Tell me did you sail across the sun?
Did you make it to the milkyway to see the lights all faded?
And that heaven is overrated?

I love Drops of Jupiter. I'm thinking it's my favorite song..ever.

Funny thing is, I never knew it was by Train. I always thought it was by Lonestar. But then I remembered it's Amazed that's by Lonestar. This is one of my other all time favorites.

Another song that never ever gets old. The classic I Dont Wanna Miss a Thing - Aerosmith.

They all have a way of making me cry. There, I said it.

Almost Done

Tuesday was chemistry. Wasn't too bad. Today was biology. That wasn't bad, either. Almost done. Just have english and math...that should be brutal, but the worst it over!

and so they begin.

Exam week is officially here.
I have been studying like crazy for history, which I write tomorrow. But I haven't really looked at any other subject. Should probably get on that. An exam everyday for five days is a little too much. In my opinion anyway. They're so overrated, too. Who cares if you can memorize a bunch of information? Seriously.

The only ones I'm worried about are chemistry and math. History isn't bad at all, biology shouldn't be, but I really need to start looking over stuff. English is going to be a joke, it's just reading and responding. But I'll be there forever. Chemistry. hmm. I don't think that'll be very good. I know my stuff on hundred percent for one chapter, the stuff we just did is alright, I think, though Ihaven't recieved my mark from that test yet. And the other two .. I don't even remember what they are. uh oh. And math, well, we all know I'll just bomb that. I don't even care anymore.

So, as I'm talking to my friend right now about chemistry, and realizing that I forget a whole bunch of terms, I think that is my cue to go study for tuesday.

I love them old dog :)

Five Exams = Insanity.

Um. Exams are next week.
I think I have officially started freaking out.
Five of them.
That's ridiculous.

Life. It's so insane.

Thursday I taught Mach to backup. In like, five minutes. I swear, if I had time, this dog would be a genius. Put it on cue that night, too. "Beep, beep, beep, beep" Clever, eh?

Friday I dissected a shark. My mom came, which was really nice. I named him Berni. (go see 365 to see the guy.) He was so cool. The liver was by far the best part. It's so huge! So cool. We're finishing up the dissection tomorrow. All I need to do is extract the brain. Seriously. I'm so lucky.

Saturday I went to the barn. Mach was rocking the four straight poles. Getting the easy ones, too.
Toffee, I just don't know if I can say "she's awesome/amazing/perfect/etc." any other way. Because, well, she is all of those things. Honest. She says so, too.

Today, we went to the barn on a whim. Dad needed to fix some of he equipement so I decided to bring Mach and work on his weaves. Which turned out to be awesome. I added the third set of two by two's and he was doing awesome with those six straight, so I put him on a solid six. Now I can say "Mach is awesome/amazing/perfect/etc.", too. Okay, obviously he still needs work on them. But it's so exciting!! My puppy can weave!!

Tomorrow booger will be sixteen months old. He's growing up so fast. I didn't think we'd be so advanced with our training at this point, because of school. But I've become a little better at managing my time. That of course means absolutely no life other than school and agility. But I'm okay with that.

Mach is so wise.

I wrote a debate. er, my mom did. hehehe. I suck at debates. I am the furthest from being an opiniated person and trying to prove a point in front of an entire class. It's just not going to be good. And I'm in the very first group, speaking second, tomorrow. Ahh. scaryy.

I have a chemistry unit test tomorrow. Then on tuesday I have a biology quiz and a chemistry project class presentation. On wednesday I have a history WWII/holocaust unit test, chemistry project parent/professor presentations, and a math test (oh goodness.) Four tests this week. Five exams next week. Like, holy pooh. Insanity.

In history we started watching Schindler's List. Oh my goodness. So intense. I don't know if I blinked the entire hour. I'm actually surprised I didn't have nightmares about it on friday night. It just shows everything. It was so real. We're finishing it tomorrow, which I'm scared to see, because I get so into it. I yelled out "NO!" and "Ahhh, stop!" while the class was watching so many times. I then have to go immediately to my chemistry test. I hope I'm not too freaked out.

I really should get back to looking over my chemistry for tomorrow, but I don't want to. I worked hard today. And this weekend. Yesterday, I spent six hours at my friends house working on chemistry project. It looks good, but holy crap.

This, at the moment, is my favorite song.
It, of course, changes basically everyday.
Because there are so many awesome songs out there.
Oh, music.
Oh, life.

First Day, etc.

Apples with peanut butter is very yummy.

First day of school today. It was hard getting out of bed this morning. 6:30 is far too early.

Math is a very stupid subject. Though I did figure out my assignment all by myself. Chemistry is alright. Although I would like my teacher to say things more than once to expect us to understand it perfectly. Bio is fun. Tomorrow we're dissecting a perch, in preparation for our shark dissection on Friday. I'm ever so pumped for that!

I'm excited to get this semester over with. But exams have to come before that happens. It's only eight school days left before exams start. The only thing I'll miss is bio. I love that class so much, it's kind of scary. :)

I think I only did about 4 hours of homework tonight with supper and music to distract me...and a few cuddle sesh's with my ever so adorable dogs :) Impressive! I got a lot accomplished, too. I did things that are due at the end of the week. Score!

Not only does Mach target on teeters, he can target feet. Because he's cool.

Mach weaves four straight poles, and is almost done his running aframe. Mach is awesome.

Last Day.

Officially the last day of my break. I'm not ready to go back, but there's nothing I can do about time.
We took the Christmas decorations down this morning...finally. I was getting a little old. I mean, I love Christmas, but I was feeling a little clostrophobic. My mom usually takes it all down herself when we're at school, but as much of a pain it was to get every little ornament back into the boxes, it was like a freash start. The house feels more open now.

For the past few days we've been taking the dogs to this field over on the next street. I don't know why we haven't been doing that forever. Its a big open field where the dogs can just run. They never get to just run. Always on a leash. Boo. So it was really fun taking them, seeing them so happy :)

Dogs are extremely smart. It's kind of freaky, actually. Just so you understand how this is, I have to tell you how to get to the field. You leave my house, then you turn right onto this short street then you turn right again onto this other street and you go to the end. The first day, while we walked there, it was just like a normal walk. The second day, Mach started getting all excited and pulling when we were a few houses away from the field. The third day, as we turned onto that second street, Mach started basically screaming or crying that he couldn't get there sooner, then the fourth day as soon as we stepped outside my house. Today it was the same thing, though we decided to keep walking past that last right turn and see if he would calm down. It didn't work. Somehow he knew how to get there by the other road.

So we were walking, planning on going to our dog field, but mom suggested that we walk down this drive way. It's really long and had a For Sale sign. Apparently there's thirty acres there. So we start walking and then we see that it's just a road. We let them go. Long story short, the road is long, we didn't reach the end, I was tired, because I'm extremely out of shape. Mach has absolutely zero recall when he's given freedom...and when Toffee is around. And it was a really nice morning, weather wise, too. Not too cold :) I even took off my mittens for a while ;)

That's my morning. Now I have to go and do some chemistry review, should probably open my math, but I really don't want to. I need to clean, too. Blah.

However the rest of today isn't so bad, tonight I'm going to the barn. Yay!

:)

I didn't bring the camera on our new adventure today, because it was spontaneous. So here's some from one of our other runs at the "Dog Field"

I love this picture. Very very muchly so.

Typical Piercy Pup Picture.

Newman readily at mom's side, Bailey just chillin', Toffee barking and Mach behind Toffee, staring, ready to chase.

I wish there was something exciting.

Sadly, no.
School starts on tuesday. How unfortunate. I'm going to miss Christmas break. I actually did things these past two weeks. Sort of. It was nice not doing anything, or watching movies, staying up late because I wanted to, not because I had to in order to finish my imense pile of homework. Whoever made up my schedule was nuts. Seriously. When we go back we start reviewing. I'll most likely learn even more in bio and chem, because they're intense classes. But I chose level one, I know. At least I absolutely love my bio class. The content, the people and the teacher. It's just a win-win-win situation. But that's basically it.

I wish it was summer. Or at least spring. Don't you just love it when the snow is melting and the first sign of spring is here because you can actually see the grass. Or when the first flower blooms in your garden. (Not mine, because my mom kills every plant she even looks at. It's a disease.) Or when the sky is clear blue and the sun is shining and the chickadee's are singing their good morning song. Or what about when you finally dig out your shorts from way back in the closet and wear them to school for the first time. And sandals. When you get your first sun burn or my absolute favorite part; digging out the agility equipment. Setting up the first sequence and running it - in your barefeet, without snowpants, winter jackets, gloves, scarves, hats, barn dirt all over yourself. It's like you're a new person, ten pounds lighter! It's amazing. I bet people who do agility in like..Florida would really appreciate us here in Canada. We do it all year long, but in the freezing cold weather for 6 months of it. Too bad we can't compete in the winter here. In the maritimes, at least. No place big enough to hold one. Well, there is. but it's in NS. As bummish as it is not playing agility as much as I would like to in the winter, it's nice to give the dogs a break. But I just want school to be over. For it to be nice out again. No snow. No below freezing weather, no bulky outfits. Just summer.

Wait! I do have something exciting!!
Mach was a super big boy today. At the barn we did lots of big boy things, like sequences and decels. I think I'm going to call those "Diggit Up"...as in him digging up the grass. I thought it was clever. But I might just go with the letter "D" It's easier. But the other one is cooler. hm. We also did teeters. I think next week we will get the other teeter base out and have a full lowered teeter. Hopefully he'll take well to it! Other than that, we did 2x2's. We're almost to four straight poles. Although they are amazing and he's doing very well in them, I noticed today he doesn't know any of the easy entries. Of course it's my fault. From the beginning we worked really hard on the difficult entries and just touched on the easy ones. Oops. Mach can nail the entries from 2 - 10 o'clock, but once we get up in the top pieces of pie - 11-1 o'clock, he has a really hard time. Funny. Only us. ;) Besides the weaves and the teeter and the sequences, we worked on our aframe! Running aframe. It is very exciting. We worked up to probably three and a half feet. Maybe. I don't know, I'm terrible at estimating. But he didn't fail. Not even once! The only thing, though is that he only takes one stride. He hits the up and then soars over the apex like an eagle and then lands in the yellow on the other side. I thought that if I raised it, he would have to step after the apex before taking the final stride, but he didn't. He just soared longer. He's very graceful, though.

I guess there's good and bad with everything. I'll take the good over the bad and work with it and overcome it all.

Here's a picture of Toffee from today. She soars, too.

I was lost.

I used to be a blogger. Honest. Used to write about a plethera of things. But I got lost somewhere. Perhaps it was the lack of subjects to write about, or maybe it was the abundance of them. Enough of that, though. I don't like making excuses. I haven't decided what my New Years resolution is for twenty eleven, yet. Possibly it could be "Make No Excuses". Hmm. Myabe not. Last year it was to enjoy and appreciate even the simplest things in your life. I actually followed through with it. Still am. I think it's something I will forever carry with me. Maybe it helped that I took on this character. No, that's not the word. I think I've been a hippie all my life, I just didn't know it. Now I have taken on this lifestyle. I like it. Makes it easy to just "be". It's easier not to care what people think.

But who cares about people. Seriously? Dogs are much better.

Toffee and Mach. Running until their heart's content.

One dog. Full heart.

Two dogs. Bursting heart.

Much better.

They are my life. I don't care about that quote "A dog isn't our whole world. But they make our lives whole." They're lying. Okay, maybe not. I mean, school, family, friends, etc. But basically, yeah; they're my whole life.