I am so thankful for all my family and friends, all the joys
that God has provided, good health wonderful people, the furry ones included!
I hope your day is full of family, friends, and blessings!!

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Happy 27th Birthday to my beautiful, smart and wonderfully entertaining daughter
RIVENDELLROSE!!!!!!!!! (I can't remember how to do the live journal user thingy, sorry)
Jen, you have made my life so special and amazing over these last 27 years.
Thank you! I hope your day today and the upcoming celebrations are as special
for you as you are for me! Have a wonderful day, and I'll see you Sunday!

A PET'S TEN COMMANDMENTS.........Share


1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years. Any separation from you is likely to be painful.

2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.

3. Place your trust in me. It is crucial for my well-being.

4. Don't be angry with me for long and don't lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your friends, your entertainment, but I have only you.

5. Talk to me. Even if I don't understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me.

6. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it

7. Before you hit me, before you strike me, remember that I could hurt you, and yet, I choose not to bite you.

8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, I have been in the sun too long, or my heart might be getting old or weak.

9. Please take care of me when I grow old. You too, will grow old.

10. On the ultimate difficult journey, go with me please. Never say you can't bear to watch. Don't make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there, because I love you so.

~Take a moment and be thankful for your pets. Enjoy and take good care of them.
Life would be a much duller, less joyful experience without them.

I'm a clumsy person. Those of you that know me in RL know this is
true. Today, I was trying to get a cobweb off the ceiling with a swiffer
extender, (I manage a house cleaning company for a living) took a step backwards, not realizing my vaccuumer had set the vaccuum
behind me.I tripped over the vaccuum, twisted to try to catch myself and slammed
my rib-cage into the corner of a glass table. Like I said, Owww.
Not the stupidest thing I've done at work though. As Rivendellrose can tell you because
she worked with me one summer before college, I once fell down the same customer's stairs
2 weeks in a row! Amazing, huh? ;D

My sinuses and allergies have gotten so out of control this year
I have been miserable, so I finally listened to my Doctor (go figure, huh?)
and bought a Neti Pot to go with my Flonase.
I have to say if any of you (Rivendellrose, I know you do) have sinus and allergy issues
you will not believe what a difference using the Neti pot
every morning has made in my life! Only takes a couple minutes, and I immediately feel so much better!
I you are having problems, I'd highly suggest you give it a try, it's cheap, and
wow, does it work!

Going to a friends house today for Sangria Sunday.
Whee, I love it. It's beautiful here in Seattle, but
I would really appreciate some cooler temperatures.
Maybe even a little rain? Just sayin.

My current favorite is coconut cream pie, how about yours?

Snagged from Melian
The BBC says the average person will only have read 6 of the 100 books below.
Put an X next to the ones you have read. Total each section as you go along...


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total so far: 7

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total so far: 12

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

Total so far: 17

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

Total so far: 23

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X

Total so far: 29

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X

Total so far: 34

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Total so far: 36

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery X

Total so far: 39

80 Possession - AS Byatt X
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom X
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total so far: 44

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 47
Less than half. That kind of sucks.


I just noticed that I had missed x-ing The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, which I have indeed read. So, 47 instead of 46.
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My favorite Michael Jackson song, although I loved them all,
is Man in the Mirror.

I am so saddened by the death of Michael Jackson.
What a tortured life he led. Yes, he was weird, yes
a freak even, but can you imagine growing up in the way he did?
I will always feel sad for his child self.
That said, goodbye to one of the most talented people in the world.
Michael, thank you for all the wonderful music, and may you now,
finally, find peace.
You will be missed.

So yesterday I ran the Furry 5K run which benefits the Seattle Humane Society.
So many darling dogs! I can't even begin to guess how many dogs I saw yesterday. Every breed imaginable! I had so much fun, and actually, even being distracted by so many darling puppies, I didn't do too terribly considering I only started running a few weeks ago. It was at Seward Park which is really a pretty park, I hadn't been there in years. Half point of the run is a BIIIG hill which I walked up. I knew I couldn't run it.
This poor bulldog who was chubby, even for a bulldog, was with his Mommy and she was dragging him up the hill, and about midpoint, he just went "SPLAT" all 4 legs akimbo,
and he was NOT getting back up. He was soo cute, but I felt so bad for him, you can't take a chubby bulldog on a run like that. So cute though. I wish you could have all seen this beautiful black great dane running. It was like watching a thoroughbred horse...beautiful.
My time was 37 minutes and 29 seconds which, like I said isn't amazing, but, I did
pretty good for a 50 year old just starting out.
The man who came in first finished in 16 minutes and 50 seconds, and I bow down to him,
for he is amazing.
In other news, had my physical (except for mammogram, which I must make appointment for)
and I need to go finish the payroll at some point soon.
Butm yeah....I ran, and I finished. I might be getting the hang of this.
Next weekend (sunday) I'm doing the Roman Meal 12K walk.

Happy Birthday to althenesangis!!!
I hope you had a wonderful day and that you are pampering yourself!
You deserve the best!

Happy Easter to my friends who celebrate!
Went to a new church last night, and enjoyed it, then to dinner with my
family to Powerhouse resteraunt.
It was a fun day today, spent with my folks at the casino,
then home to do payroll for the week and other various
Bizzy Broom chores.
WAY too much food has been involved in the last week and a half. Ugh.

Yesterday I was on the computer doing some stuff, and I reached down to
move the mouse, and OUCH! My mouse bit me! I looked down at the mouse,
and sitting there on it, is a bee! Right here in the house, on my mouse,
during winter! Go figure. Huh.

They were saying on the news last night that it was going to
snow. I get so sick of them sensationalising everything.
Well DAMN if it didn't snow! It's so beautiful, but
this is sure a goofy year for the Pacific Northwest.

I hadn't worked out in about 3 1/2 weeks due to sciatica and a bad sinus/ear and bronchitis thing that was going on. when I'm not working out it makes me want to eat bad too. Just a few days ago started
with my workouts again. I've been doing my 4 mile super walk with Leslie
Sandsone (walk away the pounds), and it's amazing how much better I feel and eat when I care enough about my self to exercise.
Feeling so much better...Yay!

Wow...I didn't think Remus would be that high. ;P

I knew Snape was out to get me!! ;D