tonight is the spring ball by a well respected armenian-american organization (american chamber of commerce here in yerevan) and for the first time in a long time I am going to get spruced up to go to a bara-handes. actually a lot of us are going, so I am pretty excited.

i am working hard and today spent some of the day designing my new business card now that we have a logo. have you all visited our website www.cmf.am ?

i am still dressing warm. i can't believe it. new york didn't even do this to me. this is my last warning for yerevan to warm up.

as for my personal life my marriage is plagued with arguments about "to dog in the house or not to dog in the house" arthur is strictly against it and i have been known to bring home a puppy... cry and beg and beg and then get rejected by arthur... meaning we can't keep the puppy... then i take the puppy back in tears (and everyone thinks i am crazy to cry over a dog i only knew for over three hours in the middle of vernisage)... and then i come home and sulk till arthur tries to make me happy... which works until i see the next puppy. vernisage people laugh at us every time we pass by the dog section because this has happened with three puppies. we live in an apartment so we would have to keep it in the house. arthur likes dogs but not in the house. this argument has been going on for the last year... and especially this spring since dogs all over armenia started giving birth to adorable lakots (armenian for puppy) and i started to see them. i don't know how i am going to convince him... or if i am going to convince him at all.

maybe we can try to have kids and then i will forget all about my favorite four legged creature. maybe i will never quench my thirst for puppy power.