After reading this post, I wanted to list my five celebrity “get out of jail free” cards that Will and I had agreed upon:

1.  Ryan Reynolds

2. Dane Cook

3.  Zach Braff

(because I can’t link to this picture for some reason)

4.  Dwayne Johnson (yes, it’s The Rock)

5. Billy Zane

Who are yours??

Thanks to Tropical Storm (soon to be Hurricane) Faye, I am having a very dreary day.  A few bullet points of how my day is going so far:

• Tropical Storm and inclement weather SUCKS (this is my first hurricane btw)
• Got fired from Publix for calling out tonight - details in a later post
• The copier has jammed on me TWICE and spilled powdered toner all over me and everything in sight
• My soup for lunch was crappy - not a big deal but not helping my already crappy day
• All I feel like doing is sleeping but since I’m at work, I can’t. 

I really hope this Monday is being nice to all of you and to prove that, I will leave you with some pictures from this weekend that I edited today:

I caught this rare moment that Olivia wasn’t being a total bitch and was actually being kinda sweet to Sammy.  They took turns grooming each other and the SECOND Olivia realized I had my camera and was paying attention to them, she darted under the table and hid and shot me dirty looks:

So what did Sammy do?

We had to put a little bit of that Ph solution in Guinness’ ears because he is very prone to ear infections, so of course they got pictures, too:

Mia is checking on Guinness because he is in the process of rubbing his head all over my floor to try and rub that solution out.  I thought it was really cute, so I tried to get some good pictures, but of course Mia kept getting in the way.  She HAS to be the center of attention all the time:

So, enjoy these lovely pictures and then visit some of the blogs listed on my blogroll if you are interested in who I read.  Also, I have noticed that a lot of you have clicked the link on my Myspace profile, but alas, mine is private.  If you have a profile, just add me as a friend.  My profile is private because someone in Texas kept checking my profile like 12 times a day EVERYDAY and I don’t know anyone in Texas.  It was getting creepy, so as long as you’re not THAT person, send me a friend request.  I’m sure I’ll approve.

I stumbled across this photo of me when I was little on a photo ordering profile I had created a couple of years ago to make some Christmas presents for the family and I decided to share it with you:

I know you will forgive the grainy and blownout look of this picture because it was taken circa 1984-85ish.  It was Christmas morning and I was completely enthralled by this little view finder.  I know it’s blurry, but if you look at the giant eight-track type “tape” sticking out - it’s Sesame Street!!  Plus, look at that SWEET Rainbow Brite Doll in the background too!

Yeah, I was cool.

I’m not quite sure what the rules are for Nik’s Funky Photo Friday  postings, but I think I’ll include this one cause it’s me and I’m cute. And on that note:

I know it’s Friday and I have no Furday Friday pictures to post because I’ve been working two jobs all week and haven’t really had time to photograph anything.  My typical day begins at 6:00 a.m. when Will’s alarm goes off.  He almost NEVER hears it and I end up waking him up just so he can hit the snooze button until 6:30 when MY alarm goes off.  He then meanders into the shower and I sleep until 7:10ish when he gets out of the shower and comes and kisses me good morning.  Then I stumble around the bathroom getting ready and go downstairs and with groggy brain and bleary eyes, attempt to put on make-up while I drink my FREE Starbucks coffee.  (Will gets a free pound every week at Starbucks, so we have stockpiled coffee for future the Apocalypse. (whole beans because apparently it lasts longer) Hmmm…as I’m writing this I am thinking that maybe I could bribe you people with FREE OVERPRICED COFFEE to de-lurk yourselves and start leaving some comments around here. I’m gonna think about that and I’ll get back to you.

 Anyhow, I leave for work around 8ish and am at HRC until 5:30.  I rush home to change, walk the dogs, eat a sandwich and leave for Publix around 6:10 in case I catch the bridge AND the train.  Then I work until 10:30 in my awesome hairnet (yuck) in the deli at Publix and come home to shower and pass out.  6 a.m. rolls around and I start the same process all over again.

Alright, as the Queen of TMI, I’m going to get back to work and think up a great contest to do here where you folks can win some coffee, and maybe some other great prize!

Because I was bored at work today, I did this:

Me:                                                                               Will:

I am 27 (and will be 28 next month) and I have NEVER been to Disney World.  I’ve always wanted to, but we just never did in my family.  Hell, we barely went to Six Flags because My Dad and My Brother have terrible inner ear problems, it’s a thing.  So anyhow, Will and His Parents used to go EVERY year when He was little and it’s always been something that We want to do together, and for Morgan’s birthday in October, Will’s family is going and invited Us along.  I am SO EXCITED I could scream or JUST CONTINUE TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS SO IT LOOKS LIKE I’M SCREAMING. Or not.  We found out today that his parents’ neighbors have a time-share in Kissimmee, FL and the only fee that they have to cover is a $25 fee for changing the name on the reservation!  How awesome is that??  We are also getting discounted tickets because apparantly you get a Florida Resident discount, who knew?

Another really awesome thing is that there is a program there where if it’s your birthday (and it will be Morgan’s birthday when we go) then you get a button that says “It’s My Birthday!” and all the characters come up and tell you happy birthday, PLUS when you go to the center to get your button, you are automatically included in the “drawing” to spend the night…wait for it….in CINDERELLA’S CASTLE!!!  You can’t PAY to stay here, you only get PICKED!! 

Onto other news, I’ve slowly been trying to teach Guinness some new doggy tricks.  People don’t always know that he is still a puppy because he is a 95lb PUPPY and  He will be a puppy until he’s about 2 years old.  He just turned a year in April, I think, so we still have a long time to go with him.  We’ve finally gotten the bathroom routine down and He hasn’t had an accident in a while now. (just because I typed this, I’ll go home and He’ll pee on the floor today)  He has a lot of energy and LOVES to play, so it’s harder to teach him the tricks that require being still and patient.  We’ve been working on it S-L-O-W-L-Y.  Here is some photographic evidence:

Now, let’s discuss the differences.  First, Mia is totally ignoring the cookies, where Guinness looks completely confused as to WHY I would be putting cookies on his paws and not into his mouth.  The look on his face is simply priceless.  The photo of Mia isn’t actually a very good shot because usually she will look at me, but apparently the barking dogs on The Dog Whisperer caught her attention and cookies be damned.  Both of my dogs like to watch that program and they really do pay attention when the dogs are barking and such.  I think it must be like a soap opera for them, or something.  Of course, neither of My dogs like television as much as My Mom’s dog, Missy.  She will get up and BARK at the TV when the other dogs are barking.  I can just imagine her going “Are you gonna take that?!? I don’t think so!!  You tell him, girl!” and it seriously cracks me up.  (I am totally getting into all sorts of crazy tangents here, but I’m sure you’ll forgive me.) My Mom adopted her from a Pomeranian rescue.  She used to be a ”puppy mill” dog, meaning that they left her in a crate and bred her over and over.  When My Mom got her, she was always terrified of people and she had a really bad heart murmur that they treated with some medication and she would run around in these tiny little circles all the time. She still does it a little bit, but she’s used to having a lot more space to live in now, so I don’t think it’s so overwhelming anymore. Let this be a lesson to NEVER adopt a puppy from a pet store because terrible things like that happen to sweet animals like this:

  Getting back on subject, here are some other photos with the fortune cookies before I let my dogs devour them:

Pretty soon, I’m going to set up a sort of “guideline” for the blog postings I do, like Furday Friday so that I can be sure to post every day, but I am waiting to get a little bit more “settled” into my new routine with the 2 jobs and all.  Until then, make some comments people!! Let me know you were here!! I promise I am going to start doing the same on your blogs, starting today!

Since I’ve started my part time job at Publix this past weekend, I haven’t had much time for photographing anything, much less keeping up with ideas for blog posts.  So, in order to keep everyone interested, and because I know you love them almost as much as me, here are some old pictures of Sammy that I edited in photoshop today.  I chose to post them in black and white because I really love how the sunlight and shadow play and I feel it makes the pictures more interesting.  Decide for yourself:

I swear, he looks like a fat little gerbil in this last one!  He’s SO LAZY!  Olivia will jump into the windowsill and stare outside, but Sammy won’t.  He’ll climb from the couch to the windowsill or, like above, just lay on floor if the blinds are down and open.

• Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
• Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
• Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

So here we go…

1.  I sleep with my feet out of the covers. And I can’t tuck the sheet in at the bottom because then my feet can’t stick out and I feel like I’m suffocating.  Even if I’m freezing, I’ll still fall asleep with my feet OUTSIDE of all the covers only to wake up in the middle of the night and find two blocks of ice have encased my feet and then I put them under Will’s legs to warm them.  Then they go back outside the blankets and I fall back asleep.  Sleep with socks on?? FORGET IT!  My Mom told me once when I was little that if I fell asleep with socks on then little elves would come steal them.(I think she didn’t want to have to search for missing socks in the blankets)  I think that is why I now sleep with my feet outside of all the covers so that those little sock-stealing elves don’t have to make the trip to see if I’m wearing them, they can see from across the room or where ever they sneak in from.   Some people in my family refer to it as “Cannon feet” because My Grandmother used to do it and My Mom does it too. Or maybe the elves used to steal theirs too.

2.  I have to see the steps as I’m walking down stairs.  I don’t know exactly what will happen if I’m not watching them, but I have a suspicion that it wouldn’t be good and possibly could be painful for me.

3.  I have to shower at night before I go to bed.  I am not a morning person AT ALL and want to sleep as late as possible and showering takes up valuable sleep time.  Plus, I have this thing that I MUST BE CLEAN when I get into bed.  Even if I did NOTHING all day long, I’ll still feel dirty at the end of the day and feel like I need a shower to get into bed.  I think that this stems from when I was in high school and living with my parents, my second job was at a place called Schlotzsky’s Deli and when closing a restaurant, you get sweaty.  Well, my parents bedroom shared a wall with our shower and it would wake up my parents if I tried to shower, so I’d have to shower in the morning after the other 3 members of my family so I’d almost always get the cold water.  Sometimes I’d drive down the street to where Will lived with his parents and use their shower and then go home and sleep.  Weird, huh? 

4. This one is about Me AND Will.  We have been best friends since 1998ish.  He and I started working at the Schlotzsky’s Deli in Peachtree City, GA where I was his boss until they opened a new store that I managed and Will got promoted to manager at that store.  We were best friends all through high school and college and even moved in together as roommates in 2001.  Then we both got new jobs at South Fulton Medical Center where he was MY boss for a couple of years and then we moved out into our own places,drifted apart a little bit, and then became best friends again in 2006.  He went with Me and My family to the Bahamas on our family vacation that July and by that November, we were dating.  Now, he’s stuck with me.

5.  Buffy the Vampire Slayer is my all time favorite television show.  I own all the season on DVD and Will actually downloaded a program that allows us to download all the comics, so I’ve been reading those as well.  Why, yes, I am a huge dork.

6.  My big toe on my left foot pops constantly.  I jammed it when I was younger at this dam that my parents took me to so that they could go fishing (boring!!) and I fell climbing some huge rocks and jammed the hell out of it.  I also lost a jacket and a huge box of Garbage Pail Kids Cards that day.  Damn Rocks!!  So, now I feel this pressure build in it and I must pop it. 

7.  I am like a hairless wonder.  I have virtually no body hair that you can see.  My arms look like I wax them, but all my hair is really babyfine and blonde so it looks like peach fuzz in the light.  My eyebrows have to be penciled in  so you can see them and I only have to shave under my arms or my legs about once a month and even that is pushing it.   Even the hair on my head is super-fine.  I have A LOT of it, it’s just really thin and fine.  I’m not complaining or anything, but people tell me I’m a freak of nature.  Although as I’m getting older, I’m finding that I’m getting a few stray hairs in strange places.  I have one on the left side of my face that I just discovered this year (in horror) and wondered how long it had been there (how could it have been there long enough to get THAT long and I never noticed it??  Did this monster just pop up overnight?!?) and how many people had been having conversations with me JUST STARING AT IT in horror themselves and unable to tell me.  So, now i obsessively check for it everyday when I put on my makeup.

So, there you have it folks.  I’m now going to tag 7 people who’s blogs I read and they will hopefully participate.  Here goes:

1.  First up is Nik because I read her blog everyday and I think she is hilarious and could totally see myself hanging out with her in real life and having a great time.

2.  Second is Wishcake.  I just recently stumbled across her blog and it has become a part of my daily reading because she is so darn cute.  I love that she writes such personal stories that I can relate to completely.

3.  Third is Sheila.  I have been reading her blog for about a month now, and she never fails to crack me up with her stories of being a doggie-parent like Me.

4.  Fourth is Amanda.  Another blog I stumbled across about a month ago and reading about her pregancy seems to quiet my baby fever, but only a tiny bit.

5.  Fifth is Sallad. She is a Georiga Girl (like yours truly) and her crafts and photography are very cute.  I started reading her blog after seeing her Exposaroonie submissions.

6.  Sixth is FeatherNester whose blog I love reading because she is so honest about what is going on with her and I appreciate how hard that can be sometimes.  Plus, I’ve been a lurker on her page and it’s high time to introduce myself, sort of.

7.  Finally is Christina.  I know she just did something similiar about a month ago, but here is my de-lurking on her blog as well.  Plus, her photography is amazing.

I hope everyone enjoys and checks out all of these amazing blogs.

In lieu of a Furday post, I want everyone to go check out animal planet and watch the puppy bowl!! Then come back and tell me how cute you think the puppies are and how it makes you want one.  (minus the potty training and chewing on EVERYTHING)

Well, it seems I have crazy eclectic taste in music.  See for yourself:

I am using one of the wedding photos as my Exposaroonie challenge because I think that CJ and Mandy both look excited, happy, and full of EMOTIONS!!  So, don’t forget to submit yours before Friday!