Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Monday Mischief

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Hubby’s alarm goes off during the week at 5:30 am.  He gets up and hops in the shower.  After he’s done showering he gets dressed, kisses me good-bye and heads to the kitchen.

Some mornings both dogs follow him and other mornings it’s just Delilah.  Sampson likes to lie in bed with me and snuggle.  (Well it’s more like I’m trying to snuggle but he wants his ears rubbed.)

My alarm goes off at 6:00 am. Most days I hit the snooze button so I get up about 6:15.  Once I’m up, I head into the kitchen to get the dog’s food ready, after it’s ready I place it in the microwave to help take the chill off it. (We feed raw….more on that in another post.)

After the dog’s food is ready, I go back in my room pick out my clothes and head for the bathroom.  At this stage Sampson is either on the bed or on the couch in the living room.  Delilah is normally on the bed.

If I exit the closet and Delilah is NOT on the bed, that means Mischief.

On rare occasions she brings her treasure into the bedroom, but most days she heads right for the living room rug.

Which is exactly where I found her.

Nom nom

Nom nom

 

It’s the creamer I used when I melted butter for my popcorn the night before.

Apparently I didn't get all the butter out.

Apparently I didn’t get all the butter out.

 

I had left it IN THE SINK.

I was slightly surprised that she carried a heavy creamer to the living room, and very grateful she didn’t drop it on the kitchen floor.  (She could have hurt herself!)

What does your fur baby do that surprises you?

Welcome to the Monday Mischief Blog hop, hosted by Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Blog,  My Brown Newfies and Luna a Dog’s Life.

2013 Goals

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Since we’re already into the middle of January I thought it might be a good time to lay out my goals for the upcoming year.

I’m calling them goals, but in essence they’re more like guidelines, because this year I’m allowing my goals to be flexible and I’m not beating myself up if I don’t meet them.

You may need to remind me of this at some point if I start to have a melt down.

Blogging

I think my blogging goals will always be to post every day.  Granted some posts may be longer than others, but for me I need the discipline of posting every day.

I’d like to have more of my sense of humor show in my posts. Most of you don’t know this, but I’m actually fairly funny in real life.  For some reason I can’t seem to let it shine through in my posts.

A person can be serious AND funny right?  Or would that just be seriously funny?

Twitter

Oh Twitter, I want to love you, I really do.  I want to be able to use you, but what do you say on Twitter?  My niece who is quite the Twitterer, says it’s just like having a conversation, you think of something and you tweet it.

Yes, it’s true I do occasionally retweet a blog post, but for the most part, I don’t use it.

This year (like last year) I hope to learn how to tweet effectively.

I think for now, I might just stalk a couple of you on Twitter.

Other social media platforms.

There are so many social media platforms out there right now, that I honestly cannot keep up.  So for now what I intend on doing is I will strive to post at least once a week on Pinterest, I’ll check in on Triberr and see if I can figure that out.

Is there anything else that you are using that you think i need to know about?  If so, please let me know.

Writing

I still have a goal to get paid for writing, this is something I’ll be working on.

I’d also like to finish at least one of the two books I’ve started.  I actually like the book I wrote in November (during the NaNoWriMo challenge) better than I like the first one.  The problem is I over-dosed on it in November so once the challenge was over, I pulled the thumb drive and haven’t touched it since.

This year, I’d like to work on it a bit more, maybe get it to the stage where I can submit it.

Sampson and Delilah

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My goals for them will never change.  It will always be to give them the very best life I possibly can, to love and cherish them and enjoy the time we’ve been given.

Do you set goals for your blog, or yourself?  How do you measure whether they are successful or not?  Do you have any tips or goals you’d like to share?

Nine Little Monkeys

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Nine little monkeys jumping on the bed, one fell off and then he said, “Hey Heart Like A Dog, here are your yearly stats from wordpress.

Well okay, I may have embellished that a little, my point is those little WordPress monkeys who were hard at work figuring out everyone’s statistics (and sending them out) finally got around to calculating mine.

Who compares a blog to the Cannes Film Festival?

Oh, the wordpress monkeys that’s who.

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 20,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 5 Film Festivals.

In 2012, there were 211 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 267 posts.

The busiest day of the year was November 23rd with 1,444 views. The most popular post that day was Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest.

If this blog was Fatal Attraction…

Those little monkeys must have been watching movies while they were calculating my stats, I see lots of movie references in this report.

These are the posts that got the most views in 2012.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for heart like a dog, hurricane delilah, jodi stone, heartlikeadog.com, and heartlikeadog. (I wonder how many of these searches were mine?)

Where did they come from?

73 countries in all!  Most visitors came from The United States. The United Kingdom & Canada were not far behind.

Glad to see they’re off the film theme.

Who were they?

Your most commented on post in 2012 was Dogs of Blogville Calendar Contest

These were your 5 most active commenters:

I really already knew this.  🙂 You guys are so awesome.

Many thanks to all of you who shared this journey with us and for all of you who shared and commented.  I hope you’ll hang around and see where the 2013 ride takes us.  Tomorrow I’ll look at the goals I set for myself last year and set some goals for this coming year as well.

In keeping with the movie theme the monkeys set out for me:

That’s a wrap.

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