Happy Singles Awareness Day!

Because you're single - and Valentine's Day makes you painfully aware of this...

Link your Valentine's Day posts! 

I've only had a "Valentine" for 2 of the 32 Valentine's Days for which I have been on this earth and both of them sucked royally. So I think it's safe to say that I am a pro when it comes to being single on Valentine's Day. How do I celebrate it? I don't... But this year, I'm going to. I'm going to celebrate it by being mindful of the things I love and the people in my life who make me happy. From the simple to the profound - and everything in between.
So here is a list of the things in my life that I love and appreciate - in no particular order...

• The beach. Florida beaches to be exact. White sand and blue water stretching for miles. The memories from my childhood when my family went to the beach all together and rented a house for a week. My teenage years after my grandparents passed away and we continued that tradition with friends. Sorry California beaches - ya'll ain't got nothin' on THIS:

• Thunder storms.

• Laughter through tears.

• Clean sheets.

• The beauty of purebred Arabian horses. My FIRST love. These majestic creatures taught me numerous important life lessons. The two most important being: 1) Don't look down. If you look down, you'll go down. Keep your head and eyes up. 2) If you fall off your horse, no matter how hard it is or how scared you are, you HAVE to get right back up in the saddle. If you don't, you won't ever ride again. My trainers throughout my horse career taught me the value of hard work and never let me forget that sometimes you have to shovel a whoooooole lot of shit in order to get where you want to go. And even when you get there, you may still have to shovel shit. That's just how life goes.

• Sleeping.This is probably the main advantage I have over all you not single people. SLEEP! No one interrupts mine (except the dogs - when they are hungry or thirsty... or bored). I can go to sleep whenever I want. I can sleep all day if I want! I have no children to care for, no man waking me up wanting to - you know - "be intimate" - and now no job dictating when and for how long I sleep (at least for now - so I better enjoy it while I can...) So this Valentine's Day I'm having a love affair with sleep. I'm going to do it all I want today - whenever I want! I may take two or three naps even...  

• My dogs. 

• My family.

Circa 1982-ish

Sea World San Diego 2009 

2009

2010

2011

• My Friends.

• My hockey team.

I would LOVE to hear about some of the things you love and appreciate in your life! 
*click on the pictures for photo creds. If there is no link - they are mine.

A Childhood Actor's Untimely Death aaand... PUPPIES! Welcome to life inside my head.

The following post is all the fault of Dwija - who inadvertently (and unknowingly) sent me on a quest today. 

A quest for what you probably didn't ask...? Well I'll tell you! 

A quest for the autopsy results for actor Corey Haim - who as it turns out - didn't die of a drug overdose after all. Funny how the media didn't make the fuss over THAT little tidbit of information as they did in suspecting his death was an overdose. He died of natural causes - that in my professional opinion were the result of years of drug abuse - but that's irrelevant. It wasn't an overdose. 

Going on this quest today sent me to Corey Haim's website (how did we we ever get along without google...?) and then on to his Myspace account. Where I was reminded of how much I love the song "Vincent" by Don McLean - and of crazy Jonathan who lived in my apartment complex in college and used to sing it with a lisp whilst playing it on his guitar. HILARIOUS. Go on - sing it with a lisp. I'll wait...

Hilarious, isn't it? 

Then - since I actually remembered my password and was able to login to my Myspace account - I decided to look at my pictures that I haven't looked at in years on there. That's where I came across these little gems. This is the first (and only) litter of puppies Savanna had. Rhett is their father, and they will be his only children as well.

This is how my mind works people - from a childhood actor's untimely death to puppies. I could have adult ADD. It's entirely possible... 

But let's look at cute puppy pictures now...

   

I hope you are all enjoying your time with friends and family this weekend. I am laid up in bed sick. So I'm going back to sleep now... 

Apparently...

Somedoggy is trying to sabotage my quest for my North Star.

Lookin' at you Rhett.

Tail Wagging Tuesday - With Your Host: Scarlett :)

Today's Theme: Your Pet's Favorite Toy!

With Your Host: 
Scarlett

I'm going to let Miss Scarlett tell you about her fellow doggie companion's toys today... 

"O. Hai. Dis Scarletts. Plz excoose my spelling. I'm gonna show you some pichures today."

"Das Rhett and Savanna wiff dere stoopid squeaky toys. I hated dose toys. I ate dem yesterday." 

"Rhett stole Mommy's Christmas teddy bear when him was little. I didn't think it was berry nice of him - but I laughed... Cuz mom den chased him until him gib it back."

"Dat's Lili's bunny - LiLi is a baby.
Sometimes I bite her." 

"Dis mine big bear dat Rhett dropped in da hot tub. Now my bear broken. I lubbed my big bear...


Stoopid Rhett. 
I tink I may bite him later. 


I tole mom not to buy a house wiff a hole in da backyard. She neber listens... Hoomans!

"Das LiLi again - she ated mom's shoe. I gabe it to her! HAHA!

K. Bai!"

I Have Found a New Blog Hop!

I stumbled across this just a few minutes ago and HAD to participate. 

This is a picture of my Rhett-Rhett the day I brought him home back in December 2005. 

My Daddy came over to visit the night Rhett came home and was instantly in love with this little wrinkly, whiny, bratty thing I'd brought to live with me - as was I! 

He's my little Stinky Pete Baby Love :)

(P.S. yes - I made it home safe from California & no small children were harmed during the car ride home... ;)

{Semi} Wordless Wednesday

Uh-oh Mom...

I dropped my bear in da hot tub...

I drop Jimminy Crickett in too? Bear might be lonely...

This is What I Come Home To....

And then he pouts when he gets in trouble for it....

What's a girl to do...