via Tonya, please go vote for Baby Hope

This is a great rescue and could use your help. Please take a moment to
vote today and tomorrow!! Feel free to forward!!

HWAC Events Baby Hope has been leading the contest but has fallen
behind. Please vote for her again and pass on to your friend's and
family. BCAA will receive $500 to help us pay our bills and we can
certainly use it. You can vote once a day and the contest is going to
end this weekend

http://www.animalcenter.org/events/h4th/essay_contest.aspx

I was mildly amused by this:

I was mildly amused by this:
Scorpio (10/23-11/21)You're done talking about the issue that's been making you crazy for weeks, if not months. You're so done that even when a certain someone who's ordinarily quite good at pushing your buttons starts to subtly poke at you, you won't bite. It wouldn't be fair, and it wouldn't even be fun. You know you can win, and win easily, but you can't justify the energy. It's just as well. You have bigger fish to fry

Random Thoughts for the Day:

1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear
your computer history if you die.

2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you
realize you're wrong.

3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was
younger.

4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.

5. How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

6. Was learning cursive really necessary?

7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty
sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the
son-of-a-gun died.

9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind of tired.

10. Bad decisions make good stories.

11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment at work
when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the
rest of the day.

12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I
don't want to have to restart my collection...again.

13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me
if I want to save any changes to my ten-page research paper that I swear I
did not make any changes to.

14. "Do not machine wash or tumble dry" means I will never wash this --
ever.

15. I hate when I just miss a call by the last ring (Hello? Hello? Damn
it!), but when I immediately call back, it rings nine times and goes to
voicemail. What'd you do after I didn't answer? Drop the phone and run away?


16. I hate leaving my house confident and looking good and then not seeing
anyone of importance the entire day. What a waste.

17. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to
answer when they call.

18. My 4-year old son asked me in the car the other day "Dad what would
happen if you ran over a ninja?" How the heck do I respond to that?

19. I think the freezer deserves a light as well..

20. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or
Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Lites than Kay.

(via Eileen - thanks!)

bye for now

Dear Dad,

It's been a tough day. I read your name in the Social Security death index this morning. I lost my breath and tears filled my eyes. The finality of it all struck me harder than I imagined it would. In my most secret thoughts, I imagined I'd see you once more. Maybe from just across the street, but maybe, close enough to where I could see your eyes. Maybe I could see the way you looked at me just once more in my life, like you did when I was a little girl playing on the floor in front of you. I'll have to take solace in the memory, but at least, I have that. It's been a sad day for me, and I can't seem to control the tears from falling when I think of the never ever now, but I know you're in a better place. I know you've suffered and seen things no man should ever see, and have been hurt more than words can express. I'm sure you'll be surprised to see your son there to greet you, but I'm glad you'll be together with him, our beloved, and ever missed brother. He cried tears that broke my heart when I got your letter and read it to him. I still can hear his laugh though. So maybe you and he can sit side by side crackin' off color comments, out of earshot of course. Forever in my heart, your daughter, Carebear.