Wordless Wednesday

The Santa Paws Drive!

Y'all KNOW I love animals!  My two favoritest are my beautiful baby boys.  They're well taken care of -- they have plenty of food, water, toys and lots and lots of love.  They're very lucky, even if they don't realize it.

Unfortunately, not all dogs are so lucky!  When I read about the Santa Paws Drive on My Brown Newfies blog, I just knew I had to help in any way that I could.  While neither of my boys came directly from a shelter, I've gotten past pets from there and will get future pets from there too.  

Here's some info taken directly from their web page:

Santa Paws Drive is dedicated to helping shelter animals have a happy holiday season! These furry friends are often overlooked during the holidays, and it is our goal to make sure they get the love, attention and gifts that other pets are lucky enough to get. Please help us bring some joy today! 

Now in our third year, Santa Paws Drive is the first "virtual toy drive" for pets! Donate either cash or gifts (the choice is yours!) and the Santa Paws elves will divide up the goodies and money and send them off to six shelters across the world! Our goal is $900 plus oodles of toys and treats for each shelter!

Check them out on facebook and twitter too!  If you're poor like me but still want to help, post about it and spread the word.  All the shelter pets will appreciate your help, in whatever form you provide it.  Shelter pets deserve happiness too and what better way to bring it if you can't take one home today?

Half Full Friday!

Half Full Friday is a series of weekly posts that Eyegirl originally started in June 2009.  We believe that a lot of our happiness is determined by our attitude about the things that happen to us.  So by participating, I'm deciding to see the glass as half full instead of half empty; I'm choosing to concentrate on the positives instead of dwelling on the negatives.  The Half Full Friday posts are a way to do just that.  They're a list of the things in my life that have brought me happiness over the past week.  I'm determined to find something good in each day.  Are you?

For the next week, I'd like to challenge each of you to keep a list of at least one thing that brought you happiness each day.  Be sure to link up here once you've posted your list!  (This isn't a blog hop so please only link up if you've participated by posting your happy list.  Thanks!)

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~I'm happy because...

I've had an entire week off from work and school!  Me and the chi's have spent lots of quality time together!

I've slept in every day but one!

I still have two more days off!

I found a paid internship for next semester that I'm going to apply for!  It pays more than my current job does AND I'd be getting college credit for it!

I mostly got my car fixed!

I got most of my homework done this week!  Just need to catch up on some reading, do an outline and get it sent out to my study group.

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Wow, this week has just zoomed by!  I knew that it would.  Time off always does when it's so limited.  I really appreciate holiday's and long weekends so much more now that I'm back to school and work. When I wasn't doing anything, they were just like any other day.

No matter how hard I try, I just can't convince myself that I need to work on math this week.  Because my professor told us that we didn't have to do our required online hours this week, I haven't touched it at all.  I even have my notebook, pencil and calculator all set up by the computer but I just can't force myself to even log in to the website.

Thanksgiving wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.  It was very quiet.  I've never been a big fan of Thanksgiving anyways but I really wasn't looking forward to this year's as it was the first big holiday since my dad died.  Actually, I guess it isn't.  He died July 3rd so I guess July 4th was the first big holiday.  Anyways, I definitely felt the loss yesterday.  As I said, it was a very quiet day.  I kept thinking about how he always watched football while my mom did all the cooking.  He always carved the turkey and would fight with my mom about how to open the sparkling cider bottle.  (He was an alcoholic so we didn't have champagne.)  My mom said a quick prayer of thanks before we ate and her eyes teared up.  It finally occurred to me that as much as I miss my dad at times, it must be 100x worse for her.  

Today is Black Friday and I'll be spending it at home catching up on reading.  After bringing my car in for a simple fix, I'm now freaked out about how I'll pay my mortgage in January.  Thank God I put money away from my job but now that money is all gone and I still have to finish getting my car fixed. I originally took it in because my gas gauge wasn't working.  I ended up with a new fuel pump and they told me I needed to replace the front tires IMMEDIATELY!!!  One tire, the tread was separating from the inside part (can't think of what it's called right now).  I can't believe it was that bad and I never noticed it before!  Still need to replace the brakes and get an oil change.  This has been a good little car though and I've had to do very little maintenance to it over the years so I guess it's all just catching up to me now. 


***Edit:  I don't know why the Mr. Linky thing didn't work and originally, the font was really tiny for some reason.  Blogger is sooooooooooooooo annoying sometimes!

Wordless Wednesday

Monday MeMe

Getting my car fixed today.  It's supposed to take most of the day.  Since I'm stuck without a car, I'll be doing homework.  I can't believe there's only 3 weeks of class left, another week of finals and then this semester is DONE!!!  It went so fast!

I snagged this meme from Curious as a Cat.


1. You arrive at work to find all the items in your cube packed up in a box.  There's no note and you have no idea what's going on.  What do you do?  


After freaking out initially and presuming I must be fired, I'd ask my boss or a co-worker and keep my fingers crossed that the reason my shizz is packed up is because I'm moving to a different cubicle.

2. What continent would you most like to visit?  Explain why.  Have you been there before?  Is it the last one to check off your list?


I'm embarrassed to admit that I had to look up the seven continents.  I remember learning them as a kid but it's not like I use this info daily so it's long since been forgotten.

Anyways, I've decided on Africa.  No particular reason and I don't even know what I'd do once I got there.  I've never been before so it would be fun just to sight-see and maybe visit MaxMom if she wasn't too busy.

3. List some good memories of your father.


When I was a kid, I remember the neighbor girl talking about all the fun things she did with her dad.  My dad worked nights at that time and I remember telling her that I didn't remember the last time I'd seen my dad.  I'm sure I'd probably seen him recently but I was probably only 4 or 5 so it just seemed like forever.

Then I grew into a teenager and my father and I didn't get along.  At all.  I couldn't stand him and the feeling seemed to be mutual.  Things remained much the same way as an adult until I finally moved out on my own.

The last really good memories I have of my dad is when he was in the hospital.  He wasn't of his right mind and didn't seem to know who I was most of the time.  I'd been visiting him for awhile one day when I told him I was going to leave him be and let him rest.  He asked me not to go so I didn't.  I'm really thankful that I stayed because by the end of the week, he was gone.  A day or two later, he seemed to be doing so much better.  He hadn't been able to eat and was being fed intravenously.  I walked into his room to see one of the nurses feeding him.  They left shortly after I came in and I fed my dad.  I was so excited he could eat again and thought he was getting better.  The next day, he was in a coma-like state and the day after that, he passed  away.  So those are the memories I'm going to share today.

4. Show and tell.  What comes to mind first when you see this picture?  Or tell a story if it reminds you of one.

It reminds me of a castle.  I'd love to go there on Halloween and see what spirits were lurking there.

Half Full Friday - On A Saturday!

Half Full Friday is a series of weekly posts that Eyegirl originally started in June 2009.  We believe that a lot of our happiness is determined by our attitude about the things that happen to us.  So by participating, I'm deciding to see the glass as half full instead of half empty; I'm choosing to concentrate on the positives instead of dwelling on the negatives.  The Half Full Friday posts are a way to do just that.  They're a list of the things in my life that have brought me happiness over the past week.  I'm determined to find something good in each day.  Are you?

For the next week, I'd like to challenge each of you to keep a list of at least one thing that brought you happiness each day.  Be sure to link up here once you've posted your list!  (This isn't a blog hop so please only link up if you've participated by posting your happy list.  Thanks!)

~I'm happy because...

I have the next NINE glorious days off from school and work!!!

I got a new shirt!

I put all but $20 from each paycheck into savings so I can afford to get my car fixed!  Unfortunately, it's going to take most of my savings, boo!

My BusComm professor let me switch groups for our skit!  Didn't like the first group at all.

My Comm professor let me do a different extra credit assignment since I didn't care for the first one!  The first one was something similar to doing the final without studying - yeah, I don't think so!

I'm getting together with friends on Saturday!

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I'm sooooooo excited about having a whole week off!  I got home from school and work last night and had a hard time keeping my eyes open.  I'm physically and mentally exhausted!

I don't have any exciting plans beyond sleeping in everyday.  The only day I have to get up early is Monday so I can bring my car in to get it fixed.  The gas gauge went out a couple of weeks ago so it needs to be replaced.

Other than that, I have some homework to catch up on and the extra credit assignment for Communication.  I'll also be studying for finals.

And catching up on blogs!  And napping!  And spending time with the chi's!  And napping!  And getting pix of the boys!  And napping!  And making my house look presentable again!  And napping!  And going to Christmas bazaars!  And whatever the hell else I want!

Yes, that's a lot of napping!  My new meds make me sleepy. 

What are your plans for the coming week?

Wordless Wednesday

Mellow Monday

So a few weeks ago I took my first math exam and failed miserably with a pathetic 56%.  My math professor looks over our work and will sometimes give us credit for an answer even if the online program doesn't.  She hadn't posted my grade yet and I kept wondering what was up with that.  Friday afternoon, I checked again and she raised it up to 69%!!!  Still failing, but I'm still excited because it's one point away from a C-!  I'm really behind but I'm going to try to catch up more over Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was never my favorite holiday anyways but I'm really not looking forward to it this year.  This will be the first big holiday since my father died and it just won't be the same without him.  I'm half way betting my oldest bro will come visit and he and I DO NOT get along.  I suffered through his visit when he came for the services because I had to but I also avoided him as much as possible.

While I'm not looking forward to the holiday, I AM looking forward to Thanksgiving week because I have the whole week off from school!!!  It'll be sooooooo nice to have some time off.  Once the week is over, it's back to the grindstone hardcore because there's only a few weeks left of school so I need to focus on finals.  I'm just praying that the week off won't be like spring break where every professor gave a big assignment to work on over the week.  Either way, part of next week will be devoted to trying to get my chi's to cooperate so that I can get their pix for my Shutterfly Christmas card.  I don't know how long they take from the date of order to shipping them out but hopefully I'll get them in time to use this year.

I'm really looking forward to this!  It's only $10 maximum before shipping, I think I can swing that.  You still have time to join in -- it's open until November 28th and everyone will get their swap partners on the 30th.

Several of you asked what I named my new betta fish.  I wanted him to have an "O" name for some unknown reason and couldn't decide between Otto or Ollie.  So he gets both!  His name is OllieOtto but I call him Ollie.  I ran it by him and he didn't seem to mind that he has a dumb name.  He just fanned his beautiful fins out.

Rescue Me Week!

I don't know Mayzie but all week long I've been seeing lots of my bloggy furiends pawticipating in her Rescue Me Week.  I'm a day late but I love the fact that she's doing this so much that I just had to join in.

Sadly, her Grandpa J passed over the rainbow bridge and to honor him, she's asked that Blogville post about a pet that needed to be rescued.  To encourage as many people as possible to pawticipate, she'll pick out 5 posts and award a $100 prize to their favorite shelter.

You know I'm all about the chi's so I found a beauty to present.  Meet Princess.  Wish I could take her.

Princess is a tiny black and tan Chihuahua who is around 2 years old.  She came to Fuzzy Pawz Rescue from a shelter where she was doing poorly and was completely frightened.  She is a delightful little girl who loves to snuggle and follow you around.  She hates to sleep alone and needs to have company at night.  She is happy and sweet and prefers scratches and love to playing with toys.  She is a "people" dog, but also plays well with other dogs and cats.  She recognizes other Chihuahuas and gets all wiggly and happy when she can play with them.  Princess has obviously had a rough go of life so far; she is a bit shy at first, and, until she knows you, she likes her space respected.  She doesn't like hands to be reached out to her and will nip a little until she is used to you.  It took her all of one minute to bond with me and become her darling Princess self.  If you give her a minute she will bond strongly with you and wont leave your side.  At first she was scared of the men in the foster home (spouse and 2 teenage sons), but it took less than 24 hours for her to warm up and snuggle shamelessly with them all.  Now she prefers to sleep with one of them over the foster mom.  However due to her being a little bit fearful of strangers, Princess will have to go to a household with no children under the age of 14.  Princess loves naps and laps and will bring your family years of joy and delight.  Please contact foster mom Liz at 899-9656 or sweetlizzie972@gmail.com for questions and to set up a time to come and meet the Princess.  Note an adoption application is required and can be completed on-line at http://www.fuzzypawzrescue.com/adoptionapplication.htm.  There is a $40 adoption fee for Princess.  Princess is spayed and up to date on her vaccinations.

Half Full Friday!

Half Full Friday is a series of weekly posts that Eyegirl originally started in June 2009.  We believe that a lot of our happiness is determined by our attitude about the things that happen to us.  So by participating, I'm deciding to see the glass as half fullinstead of half empty; I'm choosing to concentrate on the positives instead of dwelling on the negatives.  The Half Full Friday posts are a way to do just that.  They're a list of the things in my life that have brought me happiness over the past week.  I'm determined to find something good in each day.  Are you?

For the next week, I'd like to challenge each of you to keep a list of at least one thing that brought you happiness each day.  Be sure to link up here once you've posted your list!  (This isn't a blog hop so please only link up if you've participated by posting your happy list.  Thanks!)

~I'm happy because...

I've discovered my love of the trolley!  I'd seen it driving around campus but never paid much attention to it until someone mentioned she rides it regularly because her classes are all over campus like mine.  Best part -- it's free!!!

I got signed up for classes for next semester!

My adviser says I'm right on track for which classes I need to be taking with the exception of math!  This was my first advising appointment so I'm happy that I'm doing the right thing.

My new heartburn meds make me sleepy.  This makes me happy because it requires me to go to bed much earlier to get the sleep I need.  (I'm a night owl and rarely go to sleep early so I pay for it in the morning.)

I finally named my new betta!  It's a stupid name but he doesn't mind!  lol

We had beautiful weather yesterday!  We're supposed to get nasty weather this weekend so that kind of helps make up for it.

Today is 11/11/11!

I was prescreened for ADHD yesterday and it turns out that I exhibit many (but not all) of the symptoms!

Why would this make me happy?  Because I couldn't figure out why I can't seem to focus.  And now I feel like I'm not lazy or crazy.  I've always had issues with it but it seems like I notice it more now when I have to focus.  

Because I exhibit many of the symptoms, I need to go back for the actual screening process.  It costs $200 but my insurance should cover it.  I just have to get some documents together and have my mom, a friend and a former employer complete some forms.  Not sure what to do about the employers as none of my former bosses still works for the company.  I don't talk to my current boss much (he stays in his office for the most part) so I doubt he could really provide much information.

It really does make me feel better to know there may be a reason behind why I can't seem to focus.

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Because of my bad hip, I swore I'd use a campus map when set my schedule for the coming semester so I won't be running all over creation again.  Didn't do much good, my classes are still all over.  My first four classes are fairly close together at one end of campus while my fifth one is waaaaaaaaaay over on the other side.  BUT...now that I know about the trolley, it won't be so bad!  My first class is only 2 days a week which is nice.

Wordless Wednesday

2011 Shutterfly Holiday Cards

Have you heard of Shutterfly?  I'm sure you have; a lot of bloggers have done reviews for them.  They have the cutest designs so I decided I needed to get in on the action and order some for myself.  They have so many designs to choose from that it'll be hard to order just one set.

These are some of my favorites:

holiday card collection

Christmas cards

And if Christmas cards weren't enough, they also offer...

party invitations

(With an invite like this, I would sooooo want to go to Maggie's princess party!)

thank you cards

(Isn't she the cutest?)

and even address labels!

These are just a few of the examples of the fabulous designs they have to offer.  Aren't they just so cute?  Instead of using pictures of myself, I'm going to use pix of my chi's.  I've received Shutterfly's cards in the mail before from various friends so I know they're excellent quality.

Are you a blogger?  Want a chance at 25 free cards this holiday season?  Register here.

What are you waiting for???

Half Full Friday!

Half Full Friday is a series of weekly posts that Eyegirl originally started in June 2009.  We believe that a lot of our happiness is determined by our attitude about the things that happen to us.  So by participating, I'm deciding to see the glass as half fullinstead of half empty; I'm choosing to concentrate on the positives instead of dwelling on the negatives.  The Half Full Friday posts are a way to do just that.  They're a list of the things in my life that have brought me happiness over the past week.  I'm determined to find something good in each day.  Are you?

For the next week, I'd like to challenge each of you to keep a list of at least one thing that brought you happiness each day.  Be sure to link up here once you've posted your list!  (This isn't a blog hop so please only link up if you've participated by posting your happy list.  Thanks!)

~I'm happy because...

I got my hair cut yesterday!  It needed it!!!

I finally went to the dr. and got prescription meds for heartburn!  It's bothered me most of the year so it was time!

The weatherman lied and we didn't get the snow we were told to expect!  

My mom bought me a new betta fish!

I got some very sweet comments on Monday's post!  Thank you one and all.

A friend invited me over for dinner yesterday!

After failing my first math exam so miserably, I've resigned myself to having to repeat the class next semester so I'm not in the least bit worried or stressed about that class anymore!  At least until next semester!  lol  My professor typically comes around and checks our progress but she hasn't done that with me since the exam.  Maybe she's given up on me.

I won Amber's giveaway!  I won free Shutterfly cards so I'm going to use pix of my chi's on them. 

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I don't know if it's true or not but someone told me that the reason my Anthropology professor is pushing us so hard to create a culture journal is because it's going to be an extra credit assignment at the end of the semester.  If that's the case, that explains why he says it'll help us.  It'll not only help us to understand and define culture, it'll also help our grade.  I haven't started it yet because I'm still kind of mulling over all the thoughts and ideas everyone gave me.  I figure Monday's post is a good start for my journal and that there's still lots I can add to it.  I really do appreciate everyone helping me with this.  

Now is there anyone who can help me pass my math class in just under a month?  lol

Wordless Wednesday