Well readers, it's the second most wonderful time of the year, the first being Christmas of course! This second most wonderful time of the year though is the beginning of a new season of LJ Idol! Yes Idol contestants, I'm coming back ( Read more... )

Well readers, several years ago, Mom told me about a newspaper article she read about a couple women who have a hobby of simply entering contests. I don't remember the details of this article anymore, but I am guessing they didn't win often enough to make a living out of this hobby, but I seem to remember that they won a fair amount of the time. ( Read more... )

Hello readers, it's Gilbert here. Mom just realized that while she has talked a lot about me in her entries this summer, she forgot to give me the chance to speak for myself. "What better day is there than Labor Day to let the working dog speak for himself!" she told me. I agree! But don't worry. I'm not going to go on strike because I've got a ( Read more... )

(I intended on posting this yesterday, but LiveJournal wasn’t working again. I didn’t want to change anything in this post though, so just keep in mind that it was intended for yesterday when you read it ( Read more... )

"So what have you been doing this summer?" I get this question every year from friends and relatives, and usually, my response is a lazy "Nothing really. I've pretty much just been reading and relaxing." This summer as you readers know has been different, as I had finally accrued enough wisdom to be eligible for an internship. When I tell them I am ( Read more... )

You know what readers? I should stop making promises in this journal. The longer I have been blogging, the more I am beginning to realize that my writing inspiration is as unpredictable as my state's weather, and as cool as my internship experience has been, I feel more inspired to write about a different kind of exciting experience I had recently ( Read more... )

Well readers, I promise that the next entry will reveal all the duties I perform in my amazing internship. But I thought that since I have at least ended the suspense about where I am doing my internship, that you guys wouldn't mind a break in the series for the assistance dog blog carnival. I made this decision for two reasons. First, Gilbert has ( Read more... )

(Well readers, finishing up part 2 ended up taking longer than I anticipated, but at last, here it is. Read part 1, the entry below this one for the beginning of the story ( Read more... )

Well readers, between family commitments and the typical summer heat and humidity that always makes me feel sluggish and uninspired, I haven't been able to write the internship update I promised over a month ago. I have been picking at it, writing a couple sentences a day, but the inspiring story of our country's founders must have rubbed off on me ( Read more... )

Well readers, I know I promised in my last entry that the next entry would be about my internship experience. But in light of an event that happened last week, I couldn't get inspired to write about internships. So the entry after this one will be about my internship, but I need to use this entry to set straight a lie I told in the early days of ( Read more... )