Hello! Again!
I can't remember what I first called this blog when I started it in 2006. I think it was just ALASKAAMIE. I was 29 and living in Atlanta, Georgia. This blog was part of a blogging community back then. It felt like I had friends with similar interests that were actually reading about my daily adventures and sharing theirs. It was before anyone used the words "social media" and before Facebook and Instagram, also towards the downward crest of MySpace. I wrote so often because I found it helpful to log my life, see my daily choices in black and white, it also was a fun way to improve my writing just by doing it so often. Since I let the blog die off I have moved 12 dwellings since then between Atlanta, Pennsylvania, Alaska and currently in California. I'm now 41, almost 42 years old and a completely different mindset, different body, different goals, LOTS more life experience. The funny thing about blogging is that you get to say "I" a lot without judgement and it feels good! I really feel the need to sort out how I got here, look at my daily choices again in black and white, and see how it all adds up to the life I have created in vivid color.
Before I get to the new stuff, I have to clear out the past. A new title and look needs to be refreshed. The heaviest is the About Me section of this blog. Much of this blog in the beginning was about me and my dogs - my boys - Petey and Blue. They have both passed on to Rainbow Bridge this last year and honestly I am at a complete loss without them. I've had over a dozen dogs in my life since I was 18 years old. Those two have left a mountain size crater in my heart with losing them. They had such an amazing life together, and we had 12 years together! For some reason I just can't let go. I find myself counting the days since they left me almost everyday. I scroll through this blog at the peak of my fitness and the peak of theirs - we were a perfect match for each other and had so many adventures. We became a perfect trio that grew older together in perfect harmony. We added my husband to our pack, then a cat, a couple foster dogs, and finally an abused pup from Philly named ChaCha.
Now I'm struggling to move on, struggling to tell myself that ChaCha is enough dog. My husband and I have come to a point in our lives and careers where we travel, a lot. We want to travel more for pleasure and see more work travel in the near future as well. We want to simplify our dwelling style from a house with a yard and a doggie door, to a super low maintenance condo in the city next to the train and with a pool. We have agreed that ChaCha is the last dog for us for this new chapter of our lives. Thus the new blog name Alaska Amie 4.0 since it is my 4th time reinventing this blog, and my fourth decade in this particular human experience! I just realized there is also 4 of us right now - my husband Matt, me, ChaCha and Kitty. While I have also been called Alaska Amie, I have a strong connection to the number 4 right now.
I love my old About Me section with the info on my boys. God I loved them so much and I loved our life together so much! It looks like an obituary in this format but I need to do this so I can move on. So before I rewrite my profile I am going to place the old one here about the three of us so that I have it in a safe place that slowly moves down the page, but is only a search away and always there in vivid color.
About Me
Blue
More About Blue...
Blue was born in Anchorage, Alaska in September of 2004. I found him when he was named "King" at the Anchorage Animal Control Center where I volunteered. He was only 70#, as his 2nd owner had surrendered him because she 'couldn't afford to feed him'. He doesn't eat that much for a big dog, in this picture he is a healthy 100#. And is as sweet as the first day I met him!
Petey
More About Petey...
Petey was born in Clemson, SC in late 2004 with the name "Thump". He has grown up in Atlanta. Much of his history is unknown, I adopted him in 2006 from my cousin who was his 3rd owner. His early papers put him as a 'K9 mix'- I think he has some Border Collie in him somewhere, but I like to call him a 3rd+ generation mutt. He is the smartest dog I've ever had and the best walking partner I could ask for!
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I am going to leave the rest of the sidebars as they were. I don't have a lot of emotion connected to them. Except my Grandmothers book! I'll leave that up there forever probably.
But for now, I am going to work on rewriting the section about me. I'm really not sure where to start....
Before I get to the new stuff, I have to clear out the past. A new title and look needs to be refreshed. The heaviest is the About Me section of this blog. Much of this blog in the beginning was about me and my dogs - my boys - Petey and Blue. They have both passed on to Rainbow Bridge this last year and honestly I am at a complete loss without them. I've had over a dozen dogs in my life since I was 18 years old. Those two have left a mountain size crater in my heart with losing them. They had such an amazing life together, and we had 12 years together! For some reason I just can't let go. I find myself counting the days since they left me almost everyday. I scroll through this blog at the peak of my fitness and the peak of theirs - we were a perfect match for each other and had so many adventures. We became a perfect trio that grew older together in perfect harmony. We added my husband to our pack, then a cat, a couple foster dogs, and finally an abused pup from Philly named ChaCha.
Now I'm struggling to move on, struggling to tell myself that ChaCha is enough dog. My husband and I have come to a point in our lives and careers where we travel, a lot. We want to travel more for pleasure and see more work travel in the near future as well. We want to simplify our dwelling style from a house with a yard and a doggie door, to a super low maintenance condo in the city next to the train and with a pool. We have agreed that ChaCha is the last dog for us for this new chapter of our lives. Thus the new blog name Alaska Amie 4.0 since it is my 4th time reinventing this blog, and my fourth decade in this particular human experience! I just realized there is also 4 of us right now - my husband Matt, me, ChaCha and Kitty. While I have also been called Alaska Amie, I have a strong connection to the number 4 right now.
I love my old About Me section with the info on my boys. God I loved them so much and I loved our life together so much! It looks like an obituary in this format but I need to do this so I can move on. So before I rewrite my profile I am going to place the old one here about the three of us so that I have it in a safe place that slowly moves down the page, but is only a search away and always there in vivid color.
About Me
Why don't you ever wear a scarf? It doesn't need to be cold outside for your neck to feel naked.
It makes me look like I have no neck when I wear a scarf. But when it's cold outside it's soooo comfy to wear a nice scarf!
Blue
Blue was born in Anchorage, Alaska in September of 2004. I found him when he was named "King" at the Anchorage Animal Control Center where I volunteered. He was only 70#, as his 2nd owner had surrendered him because she 'couldn't afford to feed him'. He doesn't eat that much for a big dog, in this picture he is a healthy 100#. And is as sweet as the first day I met him!
Petey
Petey was born in Clemson, SC in late 2004 with the name "Thump". He has grown up in Atlanta. Much of his history is unknown, I adopted him in 2006 from my cousin who was his 3rd owner. His early papers put him as a 'K9 mix'- I think he has some Border Collie in him somewhere, but I like to call him a 3rd+ generation mutt. He is the smartest dog I've ever had and the best walking partner I could ask for!
________
I am going to leave the rest of the sidebars as they were. I don't have a lot of emotion connected to them. Except my Grandmothers book! I'll leave that up there forever probably.
But for now, I am going to work on rewriting the section about me. I'm really not sure where to start....
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