Gosh golly - it's been too long!! What a disgrace... I mean, really... we were plodding along just fine - stumbling through snow storms and city adventures, cookie-baking and DIY projects... and then, *just like that*, life got crazy and two whole months flew by without a post!! What on earth, you ask, could have kept the Beast from flexing his dog-blog skillz and celebrity clout for so terribly long? In a word - this shameful suspension was squarely on me. And I take full responsability for the deliquency - BUT, I promise my distractions were worthwhile, many of them were in fact entirely related to the content of this blog and will be shared in short order.
For starters: 1. Oscar helped me wrap up another thrilling semester of teaching (fellow teachers - nothing boosts your status in front of a room full of teenagers like the presence of a large, too-cool-for-school hound). 2. Dove-tailing with the grand end of the spring semester, I was uber-fortunate to be involved in multiple print illustration projects - two of which appeared in major canine publication! (more on this in an upcoming post) 3. In between grading art projects and working into the wee hours to meet my print deadlines, I had the pleasure of collaborating with one of my studio besties (a videographer with an eagle-eye for story-telling) on a short "day in the life"-type featurette. Not only did a cheerful 4-minute video result, but Oscar made his film debut! 4. Oh yeah, and - despite dirty looks from the Beast everytime I laced up my trainers for a long solo run - I ran the Boston Marathon this year... so pretty much all of my non-work hours were spent pounding pavement around our fair city...
Topping off such a corral full of awesome preoccupations, just last Saturday, this very blog was chosen as the winner of the Best New Blog at the "Nose to Nose Pet Blogging & Social Media Awards" (the culmination of the fifth annual BlogPaws Conference, held this year in Virginia). Wow. Oscar and I could not be more honored!
So you see, dear readers, we haven't thrown in the towel and abandoned your sweet selves, nor have we found ourselves lacking in worthy content to share - nay, we just needed a wee break to catch up. An expansive summer recess is before us (as evidenced above by Oscar's first ice cream of the season), and our regularly scheduled posting will resume this week. Look for another post - with proper content, free of excuses and self-shaming - this Thursday - so stay tuned!
*It's good to be back...
Congrats on your nose to nose award. Well deserved!
Posted by: pawsitivelyhumane | May 22, 2013 at 12:17 PM
Thanks so much!! We were THRILLED with the announcement! :)
Posted by: Natalya | May 22, 2013 at 10:20 PM