Woofstock 2026

July 29, 2026 | cclelandnissen

Dakota Dachshund Rescue’s Woofstock 2026!! August 22, 2026 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm in Sioux Falls, SD.
See available dogs here: https://www.dakotadachshundrescue.org/animals/browse

If you’d ask me what my dream job is, it would be designing things for a dog rescue. I do it for free, but I have always felt honored to do it. Woofstock is one of my favorite events! I’ve always loved to play around with the retro vibe of the original Woodstock festival. Incorporating my favorite era of music with my love of dogs and design is an absolute delight.

This year I felt like embracing the softer, maybe more bohemian, flowery and flowy side of the 70’s. I’m happy with it, I can’t wait to see how all the t-shirts and merch turn out!

All that aside, our rescue is filled to the brim. All rescues around here are, and have been for a long time. It’s not good. Please consider adoption. Check out rescue events like this in your area!
We all need to work together to make life better for our sweet, little friends ❤

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So, I’m putting together a project involving my photos from the past 20 years, and I’m only 1/4 of the way looking through them at this point in time. It’s a project I’ve been wanting to start for years, but I get overwhelmed when I start going through my pictures, there are a lot of painful memories.

An interesting thing I noticed is that the photos of me seem like they’re not me, and I really don’t remember looking like that. I don’t remember much from those years, which they say is normal with eating disorder patients. Apparently you need to eat regularly for your brain to work! Who knew?

I think back and I’m ashamed of nearly everything. Mostly how I treated others. I hate that my eating disorder was always top priority for me, and I had decided to just wait around until it’d kill me. I hate that I let it take over everything.

Your real life, your relationships, they get blurred so that your disorder can stay in focus, and it’s fucked up. I’m still working on not blaming myself for that. I’m still working on not thinking I’m a selfish piece of shit.

But now that I’ve been working on integrating myself more, and practicing self compassion (barf) I see this person much differently than I used to. I don’t hate her anymore, I’m not disgusted by her appearance, I can’t sit here and pick her apart, because I honestly can’t think of much.

I just want to help her, because I know she’s really hurt, confused and lost. But I also know she is stubborn and likes to learn things the hard way, and get hurt, and fuck everything up on her own damn time.