Hey! How is everything with you? I guess, I should tell you all thanks for being my bloggin buddies!
Here is a picture for you...
Not as good as the first time I came up the stairs. This is my bed... maybe I should qualify that... my side of the bed and this is also Shadow (my 6 year old mutt whom we rescued when he was a puppy anyways I digress...) this is his favorite spot during the day. My first trip upstairs he was laying stretched completely out with head on pillows soundly asleep ~ that was the picture that I wanted to share but he seems to know when your sneaking up on him...
the other mutt... is Copper, who is my 10 year old Boston Terrier/Pomeranian cross... Best dog ever! Heck, I had a designer dog before such a thing existed! True story, I went to the store and when I came out (in Great Falls, MT some 60,000 people) in the car across from mine is this white dog... I swear, Copper only white... hmm... Copper had 2 sisters, he was about 6 at the time and I had no idea what had happened to his sisters, (yeah, you know where I'm going with this) so I wait... about 10 minutes for the owner (ok, I did go and talk to the dog, but she wasn't giving any info, she did want to be petted and she was sweet but mums the word on her family) the owner comes (finally) and long story short... yep...Copper's sister! and I could tell it was... and her owner said the same thing... Best dog ever!
My RAK for the week, I went to the post office on Monday. I had to go into the office for pay for postage. The poor gal working was suppose to have help but they never showed and when her supervisor called she kept saying she'll be there... well, no, she's an hour and a half away in another town! So, this poor gal (who is filling in) has had no break, no food, no drink because she thought she had help... she had been there since 7:30am and it was 3pm... and she still had 2 hours to go... I went and got her a pizza and liter bottle of water...
Every year it seems the tradition that we make New Years Resolutions... many of us do this only to set a goal too high in the exuberance of the moment. It's wonderful to set high goals for ourselves, especially when we achieve them, but when we don't it only seems to add a sense of failure. Now don't get me wrong... I'm not saying don't set high goals for yourself. I'm just saying don't set unreasonably high goals for yourself! I know there are some people who set their goals to never think of them again and are never bothered by it, but there are also those people who only seem to make themselves feel worse.
I have a Challenge Resolution for you. I'm making it for me too. Part 1: At least once a week do something for someone else that has no benefit to you or simply is a Random Act of Kindness (R.A.K.) Call a friend or a relative and let them talk... just listen, don't talk about you. (I tell my kids all the time: You have 2 ears and 1 mouth!) Cook your husband or kids their favorite dinner or dessert for no special reason. Make a batch of cookies and take them to your neighbor or to the senior home. Make a dinner and take it to someone who's shut in. Pay for the coffee for the car behind you in the drive up or go down to the local cafe where the old boys have coffee in the early morning... pay for their first round! Send a thank you letter or card to a serviceman or woman over seas or to Walter Reed Hospital. Heck send a box of unused cards and a book of stamps so they can write someone else... I guess what I'm saying is there is some much that we can do to make our world a better place, and it's even better if we don't expect any gain from it! (but I do believe that good things happen to those who aren't expecting anything). Part 2: Keep a journal... not to pat yourself on the back but to keep track of the positive things that happen or how it makes you feel about yourself)
I will post a weekly R.A.K. that I myself have done... We start next week!
Now, on another note... OMGosh! I woke to -23 degrees!!! It looks sooo pretty outside... clear, blue skies, frosty trees, sunny sparkly snow... and way too cold to go outside! The guys think it's gonna warm up to go snowmobiling. I have my doubts.
Our friends called to see if we want to come over tonight after dinner to play games, my husband thinks I should offer our house cause it's bigger... my brain is rebelling saying You will have to clean... my heart is saying what about all that stuff you just wrote! lol so, I'm thinking I'll call and offer... see what she thinks.
Happiest of New Years to you and yours...
KimV
the other mutt... is Copper, who is my 10 year old Boston Terrier/Pomeranian cross... Best dog ever! Heck, I had a designer dog before such a thing existed! True story, I went to the store and when I came out (in Great Falls, MT some 60,000 people) in the car across from mine is this white dog... I swear, Copper only white... hmm... Copper had 2 sisters, he was about 6 at the time and I had no idea what had happened to his sisters, (yeah, you know where I'm going with this) so I wait... about 10 minutes for the owner (ok, I did go and talk to the dog, but she wasn't giving any info, she did want to be petted and she was sweet but mums the word on her family) the owner comes (finally) and long story short... yep...Copper's sister! and I could tell it was... and her owner said the same thing... Best dog ever!
