tiggerprr’s scratching post

OK this isn’t a big post, yet…I’ll come back and post again after the show…but my daughters and I were all…ECSTATIC (!!!!) to see the dancers from So You Think You Can Dance on the show! It’s like the best of both worlds! Yay!

My hardened heart…has cried a few times already….

Clicky the picture if you want to learn more, or even better donate what you can. If everyone gave a buck…what a difference it could make. It’s very easy to think that we maybe should help those at home in the US first, I am not exempt from those feelings myself. But you cannoy deny the help that’s needed globally and after all, we are one humanity, eh?

Our adventure has been well…eventful for the last few months.

First, Ashlyn turned 18 on October 2. She informed me she was going to “ride that ass!” then she giggled as I picked my heart & jaw up off the floor. She was of course, referring to the donkey at the Fiesta del Burro Loco. Ai yi yi.

Then on October 5, she wrecked our Cadillac…

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My bloggy friend, Slacker-Moms-R-Us wrote about this poor puppy Reign. He is only 18 months old and was hit by a car when he was 3 months old. His owner never got him the medical attention he desperately needed so his badly broken leg, is STILL broken and never healed properly. The shelter he is in is raising funds for the $4500 surgery that will likely save his leg and end the pain and suffering he’s endured for the last 15 months.

Kristie has a Chip-In widget on her site and has graciously offered to match the funds that her readers donate for Reign’s surgery.

If you find it in your heart to do so, please go to Slacker-Moms-R-Us and give even a dollar towards this poor furbaby’s surgery. Show him some of the love that he’s sorely lacked during his short lifetime.

For this month’s Perfect Post Award, sponsored by Lindsay at Suburban Turmoil and Kimberly at Petroville, I chose HK Muse’s post about the roller coaster that is life. It touched me to read about her “most important days”. It’s always good to take an inventory of one’s life and remember all the good, the bad and the downright awful. The latter two, make you appreciate all the good in your life.

I’ve actually known HK Muse IRL for a few years now, since she started dating Cybrpunk. I remember thinking she was pretty cool and I hoped that Cybr wouldn’t screw things up! LOL Apparently, he’s pretty smart, since he married her and my first impression of her must have been right. Take a moment and go check her out! She helps homeless kitties in Hong Kong too, she can’t be all bad, eh?

Hi all, Yoshi here, hijacking the blog and giving myself some shameless self promotion.

This year, on 7/28/07, I’ll be participating in the annual Blogathon. For those of you not familiar with this, it’s a worldwide thing where participants will blog every half hour for 24 hours. Yes, basically I’m staying up 24 hours to write about something on my website. This is my second year doing the blogathon, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be better prepared for this!

Why do this, you ask? By all means, it’s for a great cause. This year, I will be raising money for The Susan G. Komen for the Cure. As you all may or may not know, this is a really great cause, and I’m sure you’ve all seen the pink ribbons everywhere. For more information, please visit http://www.komen.org/

How does this work? Basically, it’s simple. You will become my sponsor by signing up on the Blogathon website and say you will donate a lump sum of however much you want to donate, and that’s it. When the blogathon is over, you will receive an email telling you where to go to donate.

Key point: you don’t give money to the blogathon people, only directly to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure directly, and only AFTER the blogathon ends. I have to post for 24 hours for you to make your pledge! make me work for the money folks!

To get more details and my progress, visit hello! yoshi.

Enter a pledge and become my sponsor!

Please feel free to spread the news!

tiggerprr edit: Hi folks! Yoshi didn’t mention one thing, your donation/pledges are tax deductible. I sponsored Yoshi last year donating to the same, very worthy cause. Not only did I get to help my friend support a cause near and dear to his heart, but I also got to deduct my donation at the end of the year! It’s a win-win!

Personal to Desert Songbird: Why, yes…someone is home! (For a few minutes anyway, hehe.) See, I’m even posting!

So, along with a whole bunch of people, I watched last week’s “Idol Gives Back” special shows. I have to admit, that although I do feel compassion for the plight of those less fortunate than I am, I am not often moved to tears when it is not people in my own little community. In fact, I am more apt to get upset over the mistreatment or misfortunes that befall our furry friends than other humans. I’m not sure why, I’m not a mean person, I’m just wired that way. This special though, really struck all three of us and in fact, all three of us found ourselves wiping tears away and I know I heard sniffling. Seeing the softer side of Simon was sort of touching too. We voted for the first time this season, to help do our part to help give a little.

Homelessness and hunger are a much larger problem in our country than most people realize. What’s almost worse is how many “working homeless” people there are. I was shocked to learn when I lived in Springfield, IL that in a town of approximately 100,000 people, 400 people (mostly women and children) had no place to call home and either bounced from home to home of friends/relatives or vyed for one of the limited spaces in the various homeless shelters available to help them. It’s disturbing to me that families, who have jobs, can’t afford to pay for a roof over their heads. It affected my heart profoundly when I met with the director of one of those shelters to find out how serious the problem was in what was then the town I called home. I also realized that until I met her, I didn’t see the face of homelessness, aside from the one or two people I’d seen while driving through the “downtown” area. I now know, that even though I can’t always see it, no matter where I go, there is a homelessness problem. Don’t even get me started on hunger and the statistics of how many kids go to school hungry…

I never thought that American Idol would ever make me really think…but it sure did last week. How did it affect you if you watched it? Something to think about for sure, eh?