The hole in my heart

Tonight my cousin stopped by with a cd he made for me. He has been copying his parent's home movies before they completely deteriorate. The cd he made for me consisted of movies taken by his dad (my great-uncle). There were movies of me from a few months old to age 8....cousins, pets, parties, new cars and more. The quality was not great...heck some of the ones copies were 49 years old... so precious. I watched those movies and cried my eyes out...watching my mom, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles....all gone. Watching myself at age 5 teaching my cousin age 2 how to do the twist, birthdays, picnics, boating...all there. I can't help but realize how lucky those babies born in the 1980's and after are...their movies have sound...they can hear those precious voices, voices I can only hear in my head. How fragile life is, how we live each day and barely see the time racing around us...until it is behind us. 4 generations of family, laughter, fun....where have they all gone. Theres a hole in my heart......

Baily Rose 4 weeks old

She is growing like crazy!









Isn't mama cute watching over her little family!

Snow Pugs

It was freezing when we went out this morning. The girls wanted to run across the yard, like always...crazy things. Coming back across the yard, they both started lifting their legs and standing like.."help me", then they sat down in the freezing snow! I coaxed them the last 20 feet and when they came in they stayed in their coats for a while to warm up. I guess it was only 14 degrees! It did warm up to 42 this afternoon and the sun came out. Crazy weather.

Who out there wanted snow???

For those of you out there that wanted snow...come and get it! This was my drive in this morning...at least the first 10 minutes of it. It was snowing less as I traveled south. The drive to work is only 20 minutes, with no expressway travel. Looking at these photos I think it looked like the movie The Shining! It was freezing out too. We have been spoiled by the lack of snow and everyone has to learn to drive all over again. It is supposed to go back up to 40 degrees tomarrow..oh good, my favorite, slush! The girls run outside pee and run right back up on the deck. Even with their hooded coats on...those poor little feet. They are such babies.

My turn at the computer....finally

Now that college classes have resumed and the hubby works straight third shift, it is a fight for the computer. Seems every time someone gets on, the hubby wants on too. He sits in the chair next to the desk and stares you down until you give in and sign off. I hate that! He just loves surfing ebay and driving us all nuts.

Anyhow, not I got my turn and have nothing exciting to talk about. I went out to dinner tonight with an old co-worker and then came home and cooked dinner...does that make sense?

Here is a link to a novel by Alison Pace that will be coming out on May 2, 2006, anyone interested in hearing more about the book, go to:

http://www.alisonpace.com/pughill/index.html

I'll have to add it to my Pug library.

Meet Bailey Rose

Three Weeks Old Today!

So what better way to decide on your new baby, but to climb right in the pen with them. Okay, I really wanted all five, but well that would be selfish and besides I can't think of any way I could ride in the car with 7 pugs on my lap!

We (or should I say I) ended up choosing the baby that we picked the first day we saw them at one day old. Oh, she is a sweetheart. We can't wait to bring her home to meet her new big sisters, Chloe and Zoey.

We also videotaped today and placed it on the big screen tv for the girls. Zoey, of course knows the adult Pugs and when you hear me call them on the tape, she started barking her head off.

Bling

These are some sweet, rhinestone slide letters I purchased to make name collars for the girls. The one with Rosie on it is actually a bracelet. This will probably fit for a week! HAHA I've been trying to locate collars to fit these on, but so far have only been able to find ones that are 12". Seeing Pugs have fairly - large necks...I'm still looking. If anyone knows of a place I can get these, please let me know!

New Baby Photos

We couldn't ask for our baby to come from a better place. They are so loved and well taken care of...look at them grow!

You never know where you'll see a Pug

Check out this ebay listing the hubby came across today: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4605470222&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1

So this is what they do all day!

Pugs...everywhere

Zoey was sitting by my stove and I realized that my towel has Pugs on it and the magnet on my fridge is almost as big as she is! She used to bark at the magnet, but finally gave up about it.














The puppies are growing...here is a photo of them. Seems one is always facing the opposite as the others. We will be picking ours out this weekend. I imagine it will be no easy task. They now have their eyes fully open and play...adorable for sure!

Martin Luther King Day - yahoo another day off!

Thankfully our law office takes all the holidays off. IF the Courts are closed so are we! Makes it nice after the holidays to have that one Monday off in January and February!

The hubby had his work Holiday Party this past weekend. One of the events at this party was "The Newlywed Game". They picked four couples...and you guessed it we got chosen. Well, the hubby was astonished at my answers..when asked "ladies, what is one thing your husband does that you hate?" my reply....leaves his underwear on the bathroom floor. I thought he would pass out! It was so hilarious and he was mortified. There was one grand prize winner for a $50 dinner certificate and they gave the rest of us $25 dinner certificates for making fools out of ourselves. Everyone kept coming up to me for the rest of the night telling me what a good sport I was and how they would have hated doing it. I thought it was fun...heck, I don't work with those people!!!! One person at each table also got to take home the centerpiece. Made for a nice addition to my kitchen table.


Yesterday I went to Joann Fabrics and bought new flowers for the wicker planter on my front enclosed porch. I got the planter during the summer and have changed the flowers for summer, fall, Christmas, and now Valentine's Day. I just have to remember to pick the flowers away in a place where I will actually remember and label each container accordingly. I also got a garland of roses to put around front door and red doily hearts to put in the cupola windows. My neighbors requested that I NOT remove the candle lights from the cupola right away. They say it looks very welcoming. I have to figure out some way to have them turn on and off during the daylight hours. In case some of you don't know what a cupola is...it is also called a "widows walk"..basically a small room above the attic with windows on all sides. Ours is only about 6 feet by 8 feet. I used to play up there when I was a kid..I loved it. My kids never went up there. They were too afraid to go thru the attic....ghosts and stuff!



So today I packed away the lighthouse village from our Den and put together the sewing/cutting table my husband got me for Christmas. It is HUGE. I won't be opening that full size in my current sewing space in the office. Guess I'll have to wait for my son to move!

Puppies...almost two weeks old

Some updated puppy photos. They opened their eyes in the past two days. I can't believe how fast they are growing! They are really starting to lighten up too.







I am still trying to figure out 3 how I am going to handle three leashes......

Let sleeping Pugs...........

This is the space in between my cupboards where my dishwasher was. Back before we got Chloe, I had my husband remove the dishwasher. I was constantly redoing the dishes and decided that I really didn't mind washing dishes by hand. Once removed I told him that was where the crate was going to be for my first Pug. After my begging of 6 months that came true. Since neither of the girls slept or stayed in the crate during the day, we took the crate out last summer and replaced with their bedding. Right now my daughter's old comforter is in there with their bed on top that they got for Christmas. Now usually the cat is in there, but today this is where my daughter found them! Their own little Pug cave! Hope they don't get upset when the crate goes back in there for the new puppy!

Speaking of that puppy - no eyes open yet! Darn!

MISSING NEW YORK PUG UPDATE! - Pug has been returned to his owners, thinner, but fine!!!!

Last one in the office is the rotten egg????

Have to love those little faces!

Okay, so today hasn't been the best of days. I am a paralegal and work in a small law office...2 attorneys, 2 paralegals and a receptionist/book-keeper. We previously had 3 paralegals, but one retired, we tried to replace her, that didn't work out and we re-arranged our work and have the 2 of us. The last day of the 2005 work year the other paralegal called me at home (we were let out early) to tell me that she had accepted another position..."what??????". We had Monday off for the holiday, came back I placed the ads in the local legal publication and on a website. Let the interviews begin. I forgot to mention the retired paralegal has been helping out with our overload of work, basically the bosses (there are 2) say call her when you need her. She is the best and a great friend. She got me into scrapbooking. Anyhow, we have set up some interviews and are plodding along and whammy today we find out our receptionist/book-keeper has cancer. Okay, did I mention my other co-worker had breast cancer last year???? Now, I had my own scare with cancer this past Fall (also breast). This woman has "female" cancer and is due to see her surgeon on Monday. I officially told my boss that in order to get through this we WILL be required to drink at work. Now I am not a drinking girl, but I think I CAN become one. Not that things weren't sounding bad enough, the paralegal, whose last day is Friday, says to me..."wow, who would think she would end up with cancer, I mean your the one who has had all the weird symptoms and stuff and she hasn't had anything, isn't that weird that it's her and not you????" Okay, I really wanted to hit this woman at this point. This comment was followed up with "wow, you are in a bad spot here right now, you better get on with hiring someone". Okay bitch, leave already. I'll manage, just leave.

Also, learned today that my son did not get accepted into the college he wanted for Spring term. Seems all that goofing off at community college did not pay off. Now his fiance has moved (today) and he has decided, as of this moment, to return to community college, retake those "F"'s and apply for Fall semester. Meantime, I'm sure his fiance is freaking out to have committed to an apt. off campus, by herself an hour + from here. The best plans go astray. He is still not home from the great move and I can only hope I am sleeping when he arrives..........BLAH.

Today did have some good points. Met the hubby for lunch, made a great meatloaf, hugged those Pugs, and talked to a Pug friend on the phone. Oh and the hubby bought us a new ceiling fan for the bedroom. Seems the one we got 18 years ago, has some problems...you think???? I love the sound of the fan, but let me tell you when the bearings are going it sounds like a motor is hanging over your head...ready to drop. It does not lull you off to sleep!

Potatoe Bug

I bought this dog bed on ebay. It was on ebay as a pillow and I won it for $20.00. When I got it, I thought wow this is a huge pillow. I was constantly moving it from my chair so I could actually sit in the chair. Well, the other day I saw it on one of the links on Merrylog's site....guess what, not a pillow, but a dog bed and it cost $90! So, I decided what the heck, I only paid $20 I'll let the girls sleep on it....well.....Chloe sat on it and turned and turned and turned...and left to...yes, sleep on the floor next to my feet! I think she looks like a potatoe bug from this view...what do you think? She does tend to look worried, doesn't she?

Tour of New York

Today at 8 a.m. we left and took the girls and drove to downstate NY to pick up a motorcycle the hubby bought. Okay, so Mapquest has a few kinks in it. The 2.4 miles with slight left was more like 12 miles on a winding road and then turning right. We were almost to PA. When we got there the guys said we had to drive to another location to get the cycle. Drove there and put it on the trailor, which between loading and talking took another hour. The girls and I were very bored waiting. We took off from there to drive to see the Pug babies. Our time schedule was to arrive there at 11 a.m. At 11:15 a.m. we figured out that we were heading south instead of north...yeah, did hubby say the sun was at his back??? Got ourselves turned around and arrived at 1:30 p.m., with a pitstop for drinks and bathroom break. When we got to our friends we took the Pugs outside for a romp. This was the first time mama Pug got to play with our girls. She liked them fine as long as they stayed AWAY from the puppies. They could walk by, but God help them if they stuck their faces in the pen. We broke up a couple of fights between Zoey our fiesty little girl and mama. They have the same personality and really like each other. I did get to hang out in the pen area and hold the babies. They are one week old today. They have doubled in weight. Their ears are starting to look like little Pug ears, but their eyes are still not open. It is amazing to watch the changes up close. I think our family has a favorite, but I REALLY need to see eyes open! Also, personality. My friend says I should let the girls pick....haha. Chloe would probably run and Zoey would want to play with them all.

We left from their house around 3:30 p.m. and the girls and I napped all the way home and after we got home, we took another nap. All that driving was exhausting. Tomarrow is breakfast with a couple of local Pug friends (No Pugs allowed).

Tag Your It

I have been tagged by Ragus' mom:

SEVEN THINGS TO DO BEFORE I DIE:

1. Spend an entire summer at the beach.
2. Own a beach house.
3. Take a road trip across the US.
4. Retire.
5. Become the artist I aspired to be.
6. Be a grama...(don't get any ideas yet kids!)
7. Learn sign language.

SEVEN THINGS I CAN NOT DO:

1. Fly.
2. East saugsage...ugh!!!!
3. Afford to quit work.
4. Loose weight.
5. Play the piano.
6. Climb a high ladder.
7. Scuba dive.

SEVEN THINGS THAT ATTRACT ME TO BLOGGING:

1. More fun than journal writing.
2. Meet crazy people like me.
3. Meet crazier people than me.
4. Read how it is to live in other areas.
5. Get and give advice to all different types of people.
6. Networking aspect.
7. Learning how to actually creat the site.

SEVEN THINGS THAT I SAY MOST OFTEN:

1. Has anyone taken the girls out?
2. Turn that down.
3. Can I get on the computer please?
4. Hurry, good girl potty.
5. I am freaking exhausted.
6. Did you unplug that hair straightner/curling iron?
7. Stop asking me for money.

SEVEN BOOKS I LIKE:

1. Robert Parker (Spenser books)
2. Patricia Cornwell (Kay Scarpetta books)
3. Cape Mayhem by Jane Kelly
4. Unloveable by Henry Holt
5. not good with titles
6. so the above are way more
7. than 7 books!

SEVEN MOVIES I WOULD WATCH AGAIN:

1. Titanic
2. Fried Green Tomatoes
3. Family Stone
4. White Christmas
5. Milo & Otis (heck we bought this for the girls)
6. Home Alone
7. Pirates of the Caribean

SEVEN PEOPLE/DOGS I WANT TO JOIN IN DOING THIS:

1. Zena the Pug
2. Pugley
3. Bubu the Pug
4. Chan the Pug
5. Peaceable Kingdom
6. Brandi
7. Max & Buddy

HELP MISSING/STOLEN PUG

Urgent message came from my Pug group. Missing 5 month old Pug puppy!!!! I know this is in New York State, but we are reaching out to anyone that can help bring Archie home to his family.

Please visit this link for information on this sad event:

http://www.wnypugs.org/archie.html

Red Creek is located in New York State in the northern area along Lake Ontario. Whomever stole Archie could be taking him anywhere. Breaks my heart.

Rain, rain go away

Okay the weather sucks here right now. I am sick of the rain, so I am going to focus on puppies!!!! Aren't they adorable! Isn't it amazing their tails are straight?

I realized today that all those cute little outfits I have made for the girls, now require a co-ordinating baby outfit....what's a crazy Pug mom to do? I have two of everything! My daughter keeps telling me Zoey is going to need therapy as she will be the "middle" child. That soon to be middle child is under my feet as I keyboard.

Our server at work got a virus through Outlook. All our computer guy kept saying was "this is really not good". Anyone else out there have trouble? We heard microsoft was working on a patch due out 1/10. Not sure how they helps now.

Almost a terrible day

Okay, so can I just smash the computer today. First I try to upload to Snap Fish...nada...won't work, go to help, it doesn't even have the options that help tell me to click on. Okay, forget it. Next off to blog...got some cute new pics of the puppies...page not available 4 times...finally get to browse and then after picking 5 photos..slam..not available. Okay, can I just say forget it tonight.

Worst part of day today..I call my friend to ask how puppies are doing...she is mildy hysterical and telling me "something wrong with Isabella, taking her to vet, I'll call you later".....okay, so I am thinking what is wrong. Worst case will she die. Our Pug Zoey lost her mom at 2 weeks old to a head injury. These puppies are only 3 days old, how will they survive. I fretted and fretted and then got the call...she's okay. Apparently she got bit by a spider or something. Her eye swelled up, tongue turned purple and she was in a bad way. 2 of our other friends were there, one went on the vet run..holding the lethargic mama. Forgot to mention that my friend gave her Benedryl, which saved her life! She is doing fine tonight. Thank goodness. Has anyone else out there had bad reaction to bugs with their Pug? I am going out to buy Benedryl tomarrow for sure.

Happy note...I agree with All up in the Koolaide....one of us should def. win the HGTV dream home! We could have a Pug Blog reunion. There is that bunk room. Or perhaps make it into a Bed and Breakfast for Pug Lovers...you know how hard it is to find a place that takes pets...even when you tell them that they are your children!

Good night.

Another day off

It was nice to have that extra day off work after the holiday. I managed to take the Christmas Tree in the dining room down and pack away it all away. I also took down all the small trees, kitchen decorations, and stuff in the main bathroom. I have left the tree in the living room. It looks so nice and no one goes in there, I just hate to take it down. I think I'll give that one another week (good thing it's fake!). I had aspirations to get to Joann Fabrics today to spend my gift certificate, but never got there. I did give both the girls baths in their new tea tree soap. When they got out they started fighting. I guess maybe they don't recognize each other when their clean! My sister gave us new flannel sheets for our bed, so I put those on and they both picked a warm spot to nestle in. The hubby is working the midnight shift, so we will have the bed to ourselves. Plenty of room for another little Puggy. We will be going to visit the babies this Saturday, then picking up the motorcycle the hubby found to buy. He parts them out and sell the parts on ebay. He enjoys it and it keeps him busy for hours and hours.

Happy New Year - Welcome babies!

Here are photos of our new baby and her family!










Here our human sister holds her favorite puppy!




Our family took a trip to visit the new puppies. They are so, so, tiny! The new mama is doing a great job. It is all about the puppies are our friends house! We love them all. We will pick our baby out in a week or so. Our human sister has her favorite. Mom really wants to see them with their eyes open. We will love whoever they pick.

Our sister has been born!

New Year's Eve is the official birthday of our new baby Pug. We got the call at 1:24 a.m. that the first puppy of the litter had been born. Eight puppies were born from that time until 8:10 a.m. Unfortunately, 3 did not survive. Mama Isabella and the babies are doing great. We are waiting for the photos via email and will post when they arrive. We are going to visit either tomarrow or Monday.



This is a photo of the mama and daddy of our new baby. It is all exciting and will be very crazy for sure. Are we crazy to have 3 Pugs? All you puggies with big families give us a shout and let us know what life is like in your family!

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our friends. Stay safe, warm, and happy!

2005 is winding down........

So 2005 is quickly coming to an end. Hard to believe that we were all just talking about what was going to happen to computers when we went from 1999 to 2000! Time seems to move faster and faster. It is weird to realize that I have more time behind me than in front of me. Wow, that is way too depressing to think about. I need to hold on each moment, not the big picture, that is for sure.

Good news of the day - boss gave us Monday off
Bad news of the day - co-worker called to tell me she had accepted another position.

Just got telephone update on puppies...they think labor may have started. There may be puppies by tomarrow morning! Yeah, puppies. Hopefully everything will progress well and they will all be okay. It will be such fun to sit in a room full of Pug puppies! All that puppy breath! HAHA

Ahhh, yes I am becoming a blog wizard!!!!

I guess you can teach "an old dog, new tricks". I have managed to make some changes and additions to my blog. Yahoo! I have added a Stat Counter (oh, how exciting) and a section for "Fellow Bloggers". Now, some of you may be out there laughing, but for someone who basically writes and solves legal problems for a living - this is a major accomplishment. Of course I probably shouldn't feel too impressed, since mostly I just fooled around in the template and copied and by trial and error got it to work. I shall pat myself on the back anyway!

Now if I can get that little map thing to work, I'll be really happy.

Puppy Update: No news yet on their arrival. Today is day 64 of the gestation period. We heard Pug puppies usually come on day 63, so much for that! Hopefully they will arrive (safely) tonight or tomarrow, so I can make the hour trip this weekend to see them! I don't have to do my "first pick" thing until they are two weeks old. I think it will be hard to choose.

Back to Work

Clearly going back to work was.... ugh! After 4 days off all I can say is "bah humbug". At least the boss decided to give us Jan. 2nd off, which makes another long weekend. I think I would really like to only work 4 days per week. That would be great. Left at 3:15 today for drs. to check on problem with knee/foot/back thing. Dr. says all three are not related, so he wants me to go get x-rays on foot and knee. I have to say they were both feeling pretty good today, until the appt. After being bent and streched, things were hurting again. Tomarrow another doctors appt. for that problem "mass". This is 3 month check up. I pray nothing has changed.

Weather has warmed up around here and all the snow has melted. You could almost get to thinking that winter is over. Yeah right! I hear it is going to be good for the rest of the week. That's good so now my son can go move that chain link fence that one of our old neighbors gave us. It will be great to have a fenced area for the Pugs.

We had an update on our new baby Pug addition....nothing yet! Bummer. Today is day 63, so we expect news late tonight. Keep your paws crossed on that.

Here are some pics of the girls wearing their beautiful necklaces sent by their Tampa Pug friends....Max and Buddy! We love you guys!

Where is our new baby sister?

Mama bought a new recliner for her home office. She told daddy and the people in the store that she wanted a Pug colored chair. We think she did a good job of matching the chair to us. She took this picture of us today while she was home on her last vacation day for 2005. She is very sad to leave us home tomarrow. We'll be okay, our human brother and sister will hug us and take us outside. Dad says there is room for one more girl on this chair. He is holding up a sign for a photo mom took for our Aunt Linda. Her pug Isabella is having puppies and one is coming to live at our house. Mama wants to name her Holly Rose and call her Rosie. She was supposed to be born on Christmas Day. Mama says she better hurry up and come or she will have to be named Shelby Rose...heh, maybe that's the name she really wants and that is why she isn't born yet. We hope she comes soon. The vet says that there are nine little pug babies in there. Wow, Isabella is going to be a busy Pug mom. We will have to teach our new baby about those cats that live here and try not to play too rough with her.

We really need to go to bed now...we are so tired!

Merry Christmas

The Christmas Pugs became Mousepugs!

Merry Christmas to all from our computer to yours! Hope everyone has a great time with family and friends, both human and furry! Stay safe, warm, and happy.

Christmas Eve

Just winding down from Christmas Eve festivities. My best friend came over early today to exchange gifts. She is fabulous cookie maker and always gives me a great cookie tray. This year she topped it off with yummy coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Dinner was here at 5pm. My immediate family now consists of Hubby, son and fiance, daughter, dad, step-dad, sister, brother-in-law, 2 nieces and a nephew. We had a fun time. My sister and family had to leave at 7:30 to go to in-laws. This is their first Christmas back as a family unit and doing more "together" for the kids. She was upset as Christmas Eve has always been our thing, but I told her it was fine. It was strange having everything breakup so early. One of my daughter's girlfriends stopped over to exchange, but everyone else that was left was gone by 10pm. I dragged the gifts downstairs, filled the stockings, and got ready for bed. I let my daughter open one gift. Her gold hugs/kisses bracelet.

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Tomarrow we go to hubby's sister's house for dinner at 4pm. Lots of niece and nephews and their kids. Lots of noise!

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On a sad note my dad's old girlfriend, from 1978 until the early nineties..told my dad that she has cancer....lung and back, same as my mom and gram. I believe she is only 72...such a sad waste. She quit smoking around 5 years ago. My mom had quit for 7. My gram had quit for longer than that. I thought quitting saved you?????????

Peace.

Is it Christmas yet????

Seems like Christmas is weeks away and then all of the sudden here. Seems like I am down shopping, yet still yearn to go into the stores. HAHA Luckily we got out of work today at noon. My coworker and I went out to lunch and then I picked up some last minute food things at the store. Came home and picked up....put the leaves in the table, set the table. We have 12 tomarrow night for dinner. There is the possibility of a few additions....you never know. Wrapped my son and his fiance's gifts. Still need to wrap dad's but need to get a large box first. Seems none of the stores had the right boxes when you checked out this year. We got my son a beautiful chess set, dragon theme. Last year I saw a set that came with a chess table. This year I couldn't find it anywhere. I finally found the chess set 40 minutes from home. I had one of my mother-in-laws side tables in our barn. Sent hubby over to get it out and now and in the process of doing some painting to the top. I put a silver specialty paint on top and on the edges, where the board doesn't cover am going to paint dragons. The theme of the set is dragons, he likes dragons, hence the reason to paint....dragons. Of course, I would like to give him this table Christmas morning, which means I will be painting and varnishing in between things all day tomarrow. Why or why do I do this to myself????? I am tired thinking about it. I think I'll take a nap!

Almost forgot. I mentioned before that we are getting another Pug puppy. A good friend bred her Pug and we are going to be parents, again. Anyhow, she went 2 weeks ago and took her for an x-ray, the vet said he didn't see any puppies, but saw 4 sacs. Last night she had another x-ray done and there are 9 puppies!!!! She is due Christmas Day. We are so excited! We get first pick of the litter...how will I pick?????

dog tired..........

Wow, we're all tired tonight. The girls were desperate this evening as the Eukanuba can was EMPTY. Zoey was trying to dig for it in the empty dish. I finally relented and drove to Petsmart. We just heard that locally the "Diamond" brand of dog food has been pulled from store shelves in our area. Seems certain dates of the food has grown mold and several dogs have died from it! We do not use that brand and don't know of anyone that does. I was paranoid tonight looking at the expiration dates and ingredients on the bag.

While I was out I made one last walk through Joanne Fabrics and Barnes and Noble Bookstore (they are in the same plaza as PetSmart) I bought a book for my son, a magazine for the hubby and that was it. As I walked to my car I said "enough already". I have plenty for everyone and need to stay away from the stores. Earlier today on lunch break I went to the liquor store and bought some cordial type things. My husband does not drink at all and I only occasionally. I thought maybe some fun martini type drinks that are colorful and can be made weaker would be fun to do. I also bought candy and stuff for stocking stuffers. It is amazing how much it adds up to. I AM DONE!

Hopefully tomarrow the boss will relent and allow me to leave before my Friday time of 3pm. I would like to just finish up the wrapping and relax.

I am an overachiever

My daughter's cheerleading coach in high school told me I was an overachiever! HA - but of course if she wanted someone to do something guess who she called!!!! Anyhow, I got most everything done today that I set out for myself last night. A big chunk of the day went to my daughter and I and our nail appointments. My tech was sooooooooooooo slow that the owner took over to speed things up. We went back to the salon we used to go to two years ago. Much more fun there. I don't feel like their talking about me while I'm sitting there! After the nails we tortured ourselves and went to BonTon. Good sales, long lines, bought stuff I didn't need. I actually bought a few things for next Christmas. The cutout cookies are baked, but not frosted. I did not do the chocolate chip ones yet. I found those fun chips that have little Christmas shaped chips in there. Guess I'll bake those tomarrow after work. All but my son and dad's gifts are wrapped. Did some wash, decided the house was not dirty, so why clean it? I will clean the bathrooms and kitchen on Saturday morning. No one is coming over until 5pm, so I have plenty of time.

Chloe and Zoey would prefer I just rest this evening..so I am thinking that sounds like a good idea. I really wanted to run over to Barnes and Noble, but what the heck I have 2 more days to do that. Why overachieve anymore for today!

How much can be done in one day off?

Cape May Lighthouse

Well, tonight hubby and I went to do a little more Christmas shopping. Ended up at the bookstore sitting in chairs reading. Like we can't read at home? Anyhow, he asked what I was planning on getting done on my day off on Wed. and I replied....cleaning, baking, wrap presents, nail appt., and grocery store. Now he was stunned that I thought I could possibly get all those things done. I was like heck the cleaning and baking can be done at the same time. I mean really once you put the cookies in the oven you have 8 whole minutes before you have to take them out! Hasn't he heard of multi-tasking? So, tomarrow we will see what really gets done!

I hate cars

Chloe waiting for a ride

Just want to say...I hate cars! Seems like we are always fixing, fixing, fixing. Since November we have put tires on my son's car ($125) fixed a sensor ($239) 2 tires and inspection for my daughter's car ($179) another sensor for son's car ($180 for part)...now hubby's truck needs FOUR tires and some strange headlight sensor that is over $100 but no one has in stock. It causes the interior dash to be dark and no tail lights...strange, strange, strange. He messed with it tonight and got it to work, hopefully for the two weeks that it will take the darn part to come in. So, I say to myself...would everyone consider these Christmas gifts???? Yeah, right.

The son is still waiting to hear about college acceptance for January 17th...the daughter is starting to look at transfer college for Fall as she is on last semester of community college. One thing is constant if life "change". I am secretly looking forward to the son getting out on his own and forging ahead with life. He got engaged on Halloween and they are now going to attempt "living together". Wonder what granny would think of that if she was still alive..she'd probably give him a piece of her mind! HAHA

Anyhow, this morning when I got ready to leave for work the Pugs tried to get in my car for "bye bye". I felt bad and promised them a ride after dinner. Hubby and I drove around with them and looked at the Christmas lights....seems people have none or tons. They are all, including hubby sleeping now...so tired.

So please notice the attempt at decorating the blog for Christmas....I figured the easiest way was colored font. Easy to change and doesn't mess any settings!

Rescue complete

Got home a bit ago from hooking up with the Pug rescue! We completely drove a different way than directed and ended up at the right place....kharma. Turk (name to be changed) is gorgeous! He has the most coiled Pug tail I have ever seen! He was an absolute charmer all the way home in the car. Sat in his new mom's lap and behaved like a gentleman. It's so nice to be part of a "happy ending". He has a new home for Christmas. I'll post new photos of him soon.

I'm fretting a little tonight...the hubby dropped a pistacho shell and Chloe ate it! I'm hoping that is all comes out okay...if you get what I mean!

Can't believe the weekend is almost over! Also, can't believe that Christmas is knocking on my door!

So tired

Myself w/Cydney the cat, Mike (from Shelter)
Gale, Lisa, and Tara in front


Today has been a very long day. We started out at 8:30 a.m. to go to clean out our stuff from the rooms we were renting for our Meetup events. The owner has leased(?) the space and we are moving...again. We still had our donation items for the Wayne County Shelter there too. We packed our cars and headed off to the shelter. They are very appreciative of any and all donations. I was happy that we had so much stuff and money for them! Afterwards we went to coffee.

From there the hubby and I traveled to Canandaigua to pick up a chess set for my son. We took the "long" way around...phew, I had to take the last set from the display case! Dragon theme set in silver and black. I'm sure he will be pleased. Now if I could just get a table finished.......ugh!

After that we went to Eastview Mall and wandered around. The best part was the delicious (and expensive) ice cream at Maggie Moos. No lunch for us! By the time we got out of there it was 5pm! What a day. In the midst of all this driving, I made arrangments for the adoption of Turk the Pug. I am driving with his "soon to be new owner" Donna tomarrow to get him. We are meeting in Batavia at 5pm...it will be yet another long, long, day.

Finally wrapped, or should I say bagged some gifts and put them under the tree. Phew! I finished off the night by making my neighbor/tenant/friend some photo coasters for part of her gift. These coasters are very cool glass coasters that came with a wooden box to hold them in. She is crazy about her two cats, so I scanned their photos and made 4 colorized versions. She is a great person and a wonderful tenant. I will add this final part to her gifts and be almost done. Thank goodness.

Glad it's Friday!

Here's a photo of the winter coats I made for the girls. We had this taken at our Pug Meetup and used it for our Christmas Cards. I think they look adorable and you can see by their smiles that love them too.

We didn't really get the storm predicted for our area, although travel into work today was a little scary. I drive a VW Beetle with a 5-speed so I feel pretty safe in it. I'll just look like a spinning red top!


I got contacted yesterday by someone needing help placing a Pug! Poor baby only 1 yr. old. He is beautiful and we already have 4 families that want him! I hope to pick him up in the next few days to have him in his "forever home" for Christmas. Isn't he adorable??????

Baby it's cold outside

Wow, the weather is freezing! The girls HATE getting their little paws cold in this weather. Can't say that I blame them. They haven't figured out that we can't still walk around the whole acre to find the "perfect" spot. A fellow blogger is making us booties to try out. Should be interesting. They have several choices of winter wear. The most recent being reversible coats. One side embellished fleece and one side taffeta, along with the fur edging, we think they look mighty cute. Now many non-Pug owners have seen this photo and always ask "what's with the tongues"...I say HOW DARE THEY!!!!! They're Pugs. Well, having some problems posting the photo - guess we'll have to try to post it later. Keep warm!

We're backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Tara, Cyndi, and Debbie

Zena, Zoey & Chloe watching for their moms in the lobby. Shouldn't they be enjoying the party?


Well, we have been busy or maybe just lazy. Too much to say in a post and then say nothing at all. Just crazy. Thanksgiving came and went, now Christmas is right around the corner. Most of the shopping is done, but nothing wrapped under the tree. Our Pug Meet-up group had a party in November and the girls had their photo taken. I scanned photo at work and forgot to send home to add, opps! Anyhow, last weekend our meetup groups had a Christmas party. We collected items for G.R.A.S.P. and Wayne County Shelter. Last night Tara and I delivered the donations to to G.R.A.S.P. at their Christmas meeting....they were thrilled with everything.