Archive for May 2009
Twilight Saga ~ New Moon Trailer!
May 31, 2009 | 
Author Stolen off YouTube…but I saw it first on MTV tonight!
Looks freaking AWESOME!!!! November cannot get here quick enough!
Right now I’m re-listening to Twilight at work on my iPod. I think I’ll listen to the entire series again. Such great books and such a great story!!!
Hmm…I may even get inspired to change my blog theme!
A lot of artists have put out Twilight kits…but Flergs’ is my absolute FAVE! I have her Edward *swoon* background as my desktop on my laptop…and my background on Twitter is twlighty too!
Ahhh Edward….why can’t you be REAL?? haha
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Monday Pears from DeviantART
Look at how SWEET this picture is! LOL it makes absolutely no sense, but I LOVE it! heh I especially love it because it’s got a lot of purple in it…Purple and pears….how can it go wrong? LOL
Frilly Pear by ~dimespin on deviantART
I think this next one is beautiful! I’d hang this print on my wall in my office in a heartbeat!
Beautiful Pear by ~oupelay on deviantART
And I always think this next one is Hilarious!!! LOL WUT!
The Biting Pear of Salamanca by `ursulav on deviantART
And I always think droplets just make a pear look EXTRA juicy!
The Pear by ~loopeh on deviantART
Oooh and I found this next one after I found the others. Too funny!
Pearaphim by `ursulav on deviantART
Nutro Cat Food Voluntary Recall
Nutro Products Announces Voluntary Recall of Limited Range of Dry Cat Food Products
Franklin, Tennessee (May 21, 2009) — Today, Nutro Products announced a voluntary recall of select varieties of NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Dry Cat Foods and NUTRO® MAX® Cat Dry Foods with “Best If Used By Dates” between May 12, 2010 and August 22, 2010. The cat food is being voluntarily recalled in the United States and ten additional countries. This recall is due to incorrect levels of zinc and potassium in our finished product resulting from a production error by a US-based premix supplier.
Two mineral premixes were affected. One premix contained excessive levels of zinc and under-supplemented potassium. The second premix under-supplemented potassium. Both zinc and potassium are essential nutrients for cats and are added as nutritional supplements to NUTRO® dry cat food.
This issue was identified during an audit of our documentation from the supplier. An extensive review confirmed that only these two premixes were affected. This recall does not affect any NUTRO® dog food products, wet dog or cat food, or dog and cat treats.
Affected product was distributed to retail customers in all 50 states, as well as to customers in Canada, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Israel. We are working with all of our distributors and retail customers, in both the US and internationally, to ensure that the recalled products are not on store shelves. These products should not be sold or distributed further.
Consumers who have purchased affected product should immediately discontinue feeding the product to their cats, and switch to another product with a balanced nutritional profile. While we have received no consumer complaints related to this issue, cat owners should monitor their cat for symptoms, including a reduction in appetite or refusal of food, weight loss, vomiting or diarrhea. If your cat is experiencing health issues or is pregnant, please contact your veterinarian.
Consumers who have purchased product affected by this voluntary recall should return it to their retailer for a full refund or exchange for another NUTRO® dry cat food product. Cat owners who have more questions about the recall should call 1-800-833-5330 between the hours 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM CST
Information came from: http://www.nutroproducts.com/
Happy Mother’s Day & Morel Mushrooms!!
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Well, actually it’s tomorrow…but in some places in the world, it’s today!
Tomorrow we’re having my parents over for dinner. We’re going to BBQ some chicken and some salmon and have roasted potatoes, green beans and Asparagus. My husband is going to check out some dessert too…so not sure what he’ll pick for that, if anything.
I invited my parents over not even thinking that it was mother’s day, which is funny…but my mom called me today and said, “you know, I didn’t even realize that Sunday was Mother’s Day!” haha. Oh well…dinner will be nice.
So we’ve been cleaning the house to prepare for company. Good thing it’s not horribly messy. The kitchen, of course, was a pit…but that’s just because I LOATHE doing the dishes. They will all be done though! And I am really going to try to keep up with them and the rest of the house as well. Enough lazy ass stuff…time to get in gear here!
On to the Morels….
We had about 3 or 4 morel mushrooms growing on the side of our house and our neighbor asked that we don’t mow over there so he could pick them when they got a bit bigger. His son wanted them.
I’ve heard of morel mushrooms before, but I always thought that they grew in the woods, not in the suburbs! Kind of weird!
Anyway, because they are kind of cool looking and because I just think it’s bizarre that they were growing there, I took a couple pictures of them.
See them in the center of the photo?
Here’s a close-up of the bigger one.
Pretty cool, huh?
Our neighbor put pots over them and I guess it really helped them grow! My husband said they were huge when he picked them today. I wish he would have gotten a picture…oh well. Maybe I can get one next year. This is the 2nd year he’s picked them there.
I have to get back to cleaning…hope you all have a great Mother’s Day!
May Desktop, Lupus Diagnosis & A Few More Pix
First, I’d like to show off my May desktop that I just made!! My birthday is in May (16!) and so I wanted to make it birthday themed. It’s hard to come by a nice birthday kit for some reason, but as I was searching through my scrappy kits…which, let me say I have WAY too many of…I found a CUTE birthday kit by Ellie Lash! I don’t even remember buying it! It’s perfect though.
I usually “feature” one or more of our animals in the desktops and this month I am featuring Malcolm, or Mooshy as he’s better known. It’s kind of a joke because he’s the cat that gives me the most trouble. I call him “Malcolm J” also…the J is for jackass. LOL And I usually don’t cut the animal out like I did here either, but I wanted to put a silly little hat on him!
Anyway, I think it turned out great! I love purple, and it can’t get much more purple than it is. All the main elements and papers are from a kit called “Birthday Joy” by Ellie Lash and the two wedding (anniversary) graphics are from a freebie kit called “Summer Wedding” by Bon Scrapatit Designs. The yellow flower and leaf are from a kit called “Wildflower” that I got on the My Scrapbook Art forum. I believe it was also a freebie for NSD.
I was really tempted to make a Twilight themed desktop with Flergs’ new kit, but my laptop desktop is of Edward Cullen already, and I thought my husband may not want to stare at Edward like I would heh, so I spared him an Edward background…for now. hehe
On to other things…
My husband was recently diagnosed with Lupus on top of everything else he has going on. In all honestly, nothing much will change…but it’s just yet another diagnosis to add to his long list.
He has not been having the greatest time with the diagnosis. I think it’s because we’ve been dealing with APS now for 4 years and this is something new. Plus for whatever reason even though Lupus and APS are similar…sister diseases even…Lupus, to me, is much scarier than APS. And it really probably isn’t. But Lupus has a huge spectrum, I don’t know…I guess it’s just another thing to deal with. Hard for me to explain.
It’s almost like, I know APS. I basically know what to expect with it. Lupus…I have no clue. Guess I’ll need to learn about it just like I did with the APS.
The other thing that is bothering me is the whole kid thing. We probably won’t have kids for sure now. I have Lupus on my side of the family. My dad’s sister had it. And now, Todd has it…the poor kids will be doomed! I don’t want to do that!! And no, I’m really not ok with that. It really bothers me. But, there are alternatives…like adoption and I actually think I’d like to foster and then adopt, or just adopt. Babies make me really nervous, so maybe we could find an older child who needs loving parents. Maybe in the future. Who knows…
The only good thing about this dx being added is that he may be able to get on some other meds that might help him. Plus, it will help when it’s time to review his disability. I just hope he gets used to it, or is able to cope with it all. He’s had a hard time with that overall. I know he tries though.
Ok enough of that Lupus stuff for now. I’m sure we will revisit this at another time.
I’m gonna wrap up with some pictures I took of our Crab Apple tree that’s out front. It’s so pretty with little white flowers on it! Plus, I was trying to practice my Macro skills! I think these ones turned out pretty well!
I like that you can see the tulips in the background of this one below…oh, and my car in the upper right! LOL
This next one is my favorite, I think! I love the shadowing and the way the sun hits the leaves! So pretty!
I may have to scrap some of these pretty pictures!
