Blah to Blog

(Getting "IT" Started)

I've always wanted to write a journal, a book or a blog. I have started a few on different subjects about some aspects of my life like health, love and family but for some reasons I cannot really keep up with "it". My daughter, Amanda, suggested I should start a real blog, here on Blogger. You know, just like the movie Julie and Julia only not about cooking.

"Ah, hmm...how about our dog?" Amanda suggested.

"Leuca?" I asked with ten million thoughts of Eureka! going through my head

"Yeah, why not? Like how our life is before and after Leuca came along. Perhaps eventually write a book like Marley and Me" Amanda added.

"...but calm and submissive dog." I added smiling.

"Thanks Cesar Millan." Amanda playfully continued.

It sounded like a great idea but for some reason I couldn't get myself to doing it. Perhaps too much pressure to do it, to make it big, maybe too much expectation, too much commitment, too much thinking, too much excuses. Ahhh! That's it! I got this. This blog is about a little puppy who won my heart and mind after 18 years of saying no to adopting dogs of any age, shapes and sizes. It is a story of a dog, who has enhanced my life by inspiring me each day to be a better human being, to be present each moment and live happy and balance in harmony with others.

So today, I am home alone again with our pup, Leuca, and I found myself video blogging again with my cell phone and posting them on Facebook. (For those who are not familiar, Facebook is a social media where you can create a profile and reach out to old and new friends and share your thoughts by posting a short update, photos, videos and links.) It began as a short status update, a link here and there, some pics, then one or two 30-second video uploads from my cell phone. Now I have accumulated about 32 videos of Leuca and probably over 600 photos of her posted on Facebook in less than 2 months since we got her. Life will never be the same. I can't even count the links I posted about dogs when we started thinking about getting one or about the Dog Whisperer to learn more about the right way to adopt and own the responsibility of puppy parenting. Now I cannot stop thinking about it and posting about it. "It" is the story. I realized "it" has started and I must Blogger "it".

And I shall blog "it" one post at a time.