the anticute

Today I drove past the Toyota Center to head to a doctor’s appointment and saw kids in blue caps and gowns. And I realized that eight years ago, I was one of those kids graduating at the Toyota Center. I remember I was both excited and sad that my high school days were over. Sad because I said goodbye to many of my friends but excited to be going away for college in the fall.

I wanted to tell those kids what lots of people told me when I was that age: Enjoy it because it goes by so quickly. Soon college will be over and you’ll get a job and get married and buy a house and have kids. Then you’ll see kids graduating one day and think, oh, life used to be much simpler then. And you’ll want to tell them to enjoy it too. 

My younger dog, Duke, developed an ear infection over the past few days. I noticed on Friday that he was shaking his head and I meant to mention to my husband that our little buddy needed his ears cleaned. (Tangent: if you say “clean your ears,” our older dog will walk out of the room.)

Anyways when he checked Duke’s ear it was inflamed and full of pus. So gross. I cleaned out a lot of it and we put some medication on it but our little buddy has just been hanging out in his crate most of the weekend so he can rest and resist scratching. Poor little guy. I feel so bad for him.