Cute antics of our beloved little Jack

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antics, blog, fetch, jack russell, postaday2013, video

Our little Jack has several cute ways of both walking and running, in addition to his leaps and jumps. He does this odd combination of a prance and jump, we call it the Odie from the Garfield cartoon or if you have ever seen the cartoon How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Grinch’s dog Max does the same prance/jump as Jack.

I like to share Jack’s adorable personality because he brightens my day everyday and I’d like to share the love with my readers. Spending a minute watching a nice, friendly, adorable pet like Jack playing fetch can distract you from whatever worries that may be plaguing you, at least for a minute or so.

Now that our back yard has finally shed much of its snow, our little Jack has been spending more time searching for his prey, the chipmunks, who have finally emerged from hibernation so he has been a hunter with a mission these past few days. He hasn’t caught any in part due to, I think, his long winter session of being a couch potato (hee, hee). He needs to get back to his prior speed and quick reflexes if he is going to be serious about even catching a chipmunk. I don’t push him to be a hunter but I do like the exercise that it gives him. My chipmunk population, if it is anything like it was last year, is so large that they won’t be shy coming out.

I hope that Jack’s video puts a smile on your face. He does so to me on a daily basis. In all the seriousness of life, sometimes silliness is required.

Social Media

Do you feel like you "get" social media, or do you just use it because that's where all your friends and family are?

I use social media just because my friends and family are into it. My baby girl put me on Facebook, that was the starting point. I wandered into WordPress all by myself and with WordPress's help, I figured out how to link WordPress to my Facebook account. Later on my hubby got me into LinkedIn and then my friends got me Twitter.

I enjoy seeing what everyone is up to and I like sharing what I write with anyone who is interested in what I am thinking and what I have to say. I see the benefits of instant gratification; when in the matter of a few minutes, you get a notification that someone read your post and liked it. It helps to push and stoke the creative fires, there is a reason for positive reinforcement.

I hope that I would keep writing even if no one was paying attention if only for the therapeutic value of writing but it would be hard. Writing is like any other activity, it is so much nicer to do when you feel that you are doing it well and part of knowing that is through other's encouragement.

So in essence I don't really "get" the whole social media thing but I still like it.