Sean A Sullivan : Web Developer, Marketing Enthusiast, Musician

Lazy Sunday of Watching Football

Sean Sullivan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:56:46 +0000

Zelda the Basset Hound

Sean Sullivan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:02:48 +0000

For my wife, Becca’s birthday, we decided that a fun present would be to adopt a beautiful female Basset Hound from the Greenhill Humane Society here in Eugene. We had found out that she was in need of a home via their website. After contemplating adopting her for a couple of days, we decided to pull the trigger. The biggest factor in adopting her was not so much whether or not she would be a good fit for her (we knew she would because she appeared to be such a sweetheart), but rather how our existing dog, Oscar the dachshund would feel about her.

When we went to the shelter to meet Zelda, we took Oscar. Now, if you’ve ever thought about setting foot in a shelter with any intention of getting a dog, let me tell, once you see their eyes looking up at your from their pens, it is next to impossible to leave without bringing them with you. Zelda’s handler brought her out into a fenced area for all of us to get to know each other and we decided we needed to take her home with us.

Adopting Zelda has been a great addition to our household thus far and we really love the way she greets us when we come home from work (if you haven’t been exposed to hounds, they love to howl.) If you’ve ever thought about adopting a dog, I highly recommend the experience. Giving a home to a lonely dog is right there at the top of my list of greatest feelings I have experienced!

Random Things I Did Over Thanksgiving

Sean Sullivan — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:56:51 +0000

With the chaos of the Thanksgiving holiday, it was a little hard last week to keep in the blogging frame of mind. With a little bit of a turkey hangover, I am guilty of not recovering until now. What was I doing instead of blogging? Well, I chose to engage in a number of other activities… Here’s some random things I did over Thanksgiving.

Was challenged by my mother-in-law to Wii Bowling, and lost. Yes, she’s actually that good! (And I’m not all that great.) I did end up breaking 200 in one game, which was a new personal best. But alas, when it was all said and done I couldn’t stand up to her turkeys. (What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than hitting a turkey in bowling!)

Braved the crowds on Black Friday. Nothing like going out at seven in the morning to see all of the die-hards at Best Buy trying to find a deal. I was amazed by how many people were out shopping. I quickly thought to myself that I didn’t want to hear about the economy being poor after seeing all of the HDTV’s and laptops leaving the store in shopping carts. Although there were some decent deals, none were amazing. Although, I did end up picking up a copy of Burnout Paradise for $20.

Hung Christmas lights. In growing up, it seemed that we always put up our Christmas decorations the weekend following Thanksgiving. This is our first year in our new home, so we decided that we definitely had to do something. After a viewing of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, I was awfully tempted to go all out and cover the house. But, upon buying some lights and coming to the realization of how time consuming this project could get, I decided to just go along the roof line in the front of the house. It was my first time on the roof of our house, it is a little higher than I realized…

Made reubens. First off, my wife planned and cooked an amazing meal for Thanksgiving. Once we had hit the leftovers pretty hard, we mixed things up one afternoon and made reubens for her family. They are by far my favorite sandwich in the world. I love to load ‘em up with tons of kraut and corned beef, which in turn makes them incredibly hard to flip. They were good.

Watched Oregon destroy Oregon State in the Civil War. Final score was 65-38. Enough said. I don’t know if I have ever seen such an offensive shootout. It was a lot of fun to watch.