tiggerprr’s scratching post

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.

I’ve been working. Loving it! (So far. I’m ever the optimist LOL). Soooo much less stress…sooo much more appreciation. I like it so much, I think I’ll actually take my Successories in there. I never took any personal crap to the last job, unless you count chocolate and Special K bars. We’ll see how it goes.

The kids also started school this week. So we’ve been adjusting our schedules and getting used to waking up on time to get five of us out the door and to our respective destinations. So far, so good.

I’ve also been playing WoW, but I am NOT addicted to WoW as someone seems to think. I just enjoy it, I could quit any time. I just choose not to.

Our first recording of our joint podcast led Yoshi to decide that we needed to have 2 podcasts, one where he and I co-host and interview fellow bloggers about themselves and their blogs. Jenny Ryan has graciously agreed to be our first victim interviewee. I just have to get off my butt out of Azeroth long enough to help Yoshi prepare some good questions for her. If you’d like to be interviewed by Yoshi and I, drop either of us an email, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re also going to go with our other podcast idea which is a mass hodgepodge of general discussions about topics of the day, news, movies, games, vacuum boobs, what Britney Spears isn’t wearing, etc…

So some pretty exciting stuff going on behind the scenes here! I’ll keep you posted!

Oh, and the cats are fine but OC seems to be a little more verbal and needy now that people aren’t around all day again.

Well…I can’t totally post what I THINK about Michael Vick because my kids read my blog and there would be a string of expletives here that would make Richard Pryor blush. But, I am certain of a few things here…
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Don’t you have days like that too, where you feel like you’re just chasing monkeys? Especially those of you with toddlers? The poor zookeeper at the Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo definitely feels your pain.

I read this news article just now, about Oliver, the capuchin monkey at the Tuplelo Buffalo Park and Zoo that rivals Criss Angel and Harry Houdini in his ability to get past locks. As naughty as he apparently is, perhaps his name should have been Marcel.

On a serious note, there’s a lot of discussion about the caging of animals for our viewing pleasure, and I have mixed feelings about it myself. In a way, I wish that all animals could just be left in their natural habitats. But until we humans get over ourselves and the need to build, build, build and procreate with wreckless abandon, we’re destroying their homes, and sadly by the time my grandchildren are around, or my daughter’s grandchildren (God, even just saying that makes me feel like I’m 80) are here, the only place (if the animals aren’t already extinct) they may be able to see these wondrous creatures might be zoos. So I just don’t know.

Of course, now the disease fearful part of me starts to think of that scene in the Outbreak where the monkey that caused said outbreak is chilling in the forest…he was most certainly not picking up field mice and bopping them on the head though.

I need to go wash my hands. LOL j/k!!!!

If you’ll notice over there on my right (only) side bar, underneath the BlogHer Ads that I force you to look at in the hopes that I can get make a little me money since my teenagers suck all mine away….I’ve installed a graphic link to The Animal Rescue Site. Supposedly, if you click their link once a day, the site’s advertisers pay them which in turn pays for bowls of food for homeless animals in shelters across the country.

Now, I’m not crazy (though some might argue that fact), but if I could, I’d take in every homeless animal I could because it breaks my heart to think of any little animal like my OC (who was in fact, homeless, until he found us) and Carma (who my husband adopted as an older cat from a shelter - kudos to him) out there alone, hungry and afraid.

Now I can’t say for sure that I know that by clicking this link that it’ll send money to provide money for the animals, but I know for sure that not clicking it won’t. So I’m clicking every day, and I hope you will too.

Thanks a lot for bearing with my begging, and I know that the animals are grateful for the people who help them. I know OC is everytime we cuddle.