First things first…update on miss Beans kitty. She is doing fine right now…no new seizures or anything, so we’re just going to keep an eye on her still. I don’t know what we’ll do if the seizures are going to be a regular thing. I honestly don’t think I can deal with two epileptic animals and good Lord, there is absolutely NO way to medicate that little kitty! She doesn’t let us pick her up! So, we’ll see. I may have to look into giving her up to a rescue. I don’t want to do that, but seriously, I can’t deal with it. Judge me if you will. I already have an epileptic dog, 3 other cats, another dog and a sick husband…I cannot take one.more.thing. We’re not to that point yet anyways. She’s only had the two seizures, and I’m hoping the 2nd was stress related. So we’ll see. Plz think positively for our little girl.

Google Reader. Google reader is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful too of pure and utter WIN! I don’t know WHY on earth I didn’t start using this sooner! I follow about 15 or so blogs. Most are scrapbooky type blogs, but some are regular ones. I just like stalking some people. LOL Anyways…before, I’d have them all listed in a sidebar on my Blogger blog and when they updated it would let me know, so I put my own blog into my “Morning Coffee” rotation (If you have Firefox and have a number of sites that you visit on a regular basis, I highly recommend this add on! It’s too cool!) But now, with the Google Reader, all of my blogs that I follow are in one spot! How convenient is that?? LOL I am slow, I know!! I never understood “feeds” and RSS and all that…but I am loving it now! I even added a couple blogs that I sometimes go to, but weren’t on my old list. Yeah…welcome to 2000, Heidi. LOL

I need to put little lines in or something when I switch subjects abruptly. lol Maybe stars or something. I dunno.

**New Meds: My husband, as you may or may not know, has a number of Autoimmune diseases including Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome and Lupus. He’s been diagnosed since 2004 when he had a DVT in one of his calves. He’s had a number of TIA’s since then and a lot of other diseases and syndromes have been added to the list. We’ve stuck together through the good and bad of it, and although it is stressful, we deal with things as they come.

Anyway, he has been asking his new hematologist if he could be put on Plaquenil for a few visits and this past week he finally wrote the hubbs a script for it! It’s really supposed to help him with some of his APS and Lupus issues, which will be great. I’m so glad he finally got it…but the side effects so far are kind of crappy…heh, pun intended. He’s back and forth from the bed to the bathroom all night long…which then wakes me up, so I’ve had a few of the worst night’s sleeps EVER lately! Everyone we know who’s on this med says it will subside after a week…I sure hope so! I can only imagine what he’s going thru, but it’s driving me CRAZY to get no sleep and then to have to work for 8 hours…then do it all over again!

Now…the Duggars…

Tuesday nights at 9:00pm I watch the Duggars (18 & Counting) on TLC. This family fascinates me! I have been watching them since they had just a couple special documentary type shows on whatever channel…TLC, Discovery…not sure. I watched out of curiosity at first, but now…they truly fascinate me. I can’t get enough of them! In a total good way too.

In this day and age having so many children is odd…being self sufficient with this many children? OMG I have to hand it to them! And she homeschools? Michelle Duggar is destined for saint-hood. I don’t care what anyone thinks…this family is awesome. I don’t want to live my life like that or anything, it’s fine for them, not for me. But it’s so interesting to me.

My husband makes fun of me for watching it. I don’t care. I like the Duggars. I like their family values, and I think in this day and age, families like theirs are a rarity. Maybe not in Arkansas or around where they are from…but definitely where I’m from. So many families are breaking up and everything…it’s great to showcase a family where the love is strong like that.

So there. My Duggar love has been revealed. It’s better than watching Jon and Kate…UGH! I am SO SICK of THOSE two! (that’s a whole nothing blog!)

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On to Sparkly Vampires!………

So yes, I have the mad, mad love for Twilight and all things related – sparkly, vegetarian, vampires…and OMG check that smile above!!! *swooooon*

Ok, I had a point…got distracted by the Edward Cullen…

Oh yeah, so I was listening to the Sookie Stackhouse books on my iPod for a while, but I only have 1-5 and then #8 I think…and I was on #5 and didn’t want to finish #5 and then want to keep going and not be able to, so I abandoned Sookie. Sorry Sooks, but I can’t keep going, so until I get at least #6 and 7…I’m taking a Sookie break.

So I spent a couple days listening to CD’s on the iPod…Eminem, Limp Bizkit, Paramore, Pink and the Twilight Soundtrack…and then decided to listen to Breaking Dawn again. My VERY favorite of all the Twilight books aside from Twilight itself.

Ahhh Breaking Dawn…although, it’s SO annoying to have book 2 of BD read by “Jacob”, it’s still my favorite. I think I’ve almost cried at least 10 times. I hate that too! I’m sitting there listening and working and choking back tears and sobs. My face gets all red and everything. Yuck! But yet, I listen on!

I’m almost done too…and then who knows what I’ll listen to…maybe I’ll take a vampire break…GASP! Not that! LOL I do have other books I haven’t listened to on my iPod! It’s not ALL Vampires! Some is Romance…hehe and yeah, some is even NORMAL!

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And I will leave you with some cuddly cuteness!

This is our Razzle kitty…he really likes it outside! If you click on the picture, you’ll go to my Flickr site and you can see a couple more photos of him just chillin’ on the table while we were sitting outside. He didn’t move for a long time…he just kept looking around. Usually he is trying to get down and explore, but this time he was pretty content just hanging out with us.

And these are our crazy pups! For some reason lately Topaz has been really playful…trying to get Onyx to play with him. She will for a little bit and then she just goes after him. She’s the boss, ya know. So this is Topaz trying to play with her. He kept getting on top of her and I snapped this while he was in the air!

Once they were done playing…he layed down in his pool. LOL silly puppa!

I follow TrueBloodHBO on Twitter and they posted that Tru Blood, the drink from the show is now available to pre-order. How cool is that? We may just order some to have the bottles in the house, they are too cool.
From the website:

Be the first to own the Tru Blood Drink, Ships early exclusively at the HBO Shop!
It’s official! The Tru Blood drink has now been ‘de-fictionalized’ and emerges into reality as a delicious blood orange carbonated drink.

• Meticulously crafted, the Tru Blood Drink is an exact replica of the bottle design as seen on True Blood. The 14oz glass Tru Blood bottle is stained in a rich red, with raised Tru Blood English lettering and matching Japanese Kanji.
• This blood orange flavored soda is slightly tart, lightly sweet and subtly carbonated. Designed to taste great while matching the appearance of Bill’s favorite drink, the drink pours like a regular soda, but with the standing appearance in a glass is stormy and mysterious.

Drop Dead Diva is also on and so is Army Wives. I think DDD is on at 9 too, but I can always catch it when they rerun it, or we can catch True Blood at 11:30 when it comes on again. I didn’t think I’d like Drop Dead Diva, but I really do. I think I’ve seen them all so far…and I even got the pilot for free on iTunes and it’s on my iPod! I think it’s pretty funny and a concept that hasn’t really ever been done before. My Sunday nights are filling up with choice TV viewing!

I didn’t really blog to discuss my television viewing choices for Sunday nights, I promise! Well, not that I have much else better to say…lol

Comic Con is going on right now and they released two sneak peeks of New Moon the other day. Someone video taped them, so this is like a video of a video but the quality is actually ok, and you’ll get the idea. There are 2 of them, although when I first saw them, I saw them both together in one clip. I can’t find that now…so here are the 2 separate. I put 2 first because I like this one better. *Edited the videos out because they were removed due to copyright violation…*sob*!

There is a BUNCH of screaming during both of them. I REALLY hope that seeing the actual movie isn’t going to be like that. Theaters should have an “adult” showing of the movie without all of the screaming girls! When we saw Twilight there was a little screaming, but not so bad. I can already tell this is gonna be CRAZY! Too many bare chested vampires/werewolves in this movie! lol I’ll probably go see it a week or so after it’s been out…give the screaming girls time to see if first.

So my husband went out and did this thing…we shall not talk about. It was MY idea really, which I totally regret putting the thought into his head, but like I said…we’re not gonna talk about that. Anyway…his phone was eligible for an upgrade, but he didn’t want to upgrade his phone. Whereas, I really do ♥ my blackberry, it’s been slow lately, not loading websites, and for whatever reason, on Friday, the BB Messenger wasn’t working, my camera wasn’t working and it was SUPER slow to load anything!! I was ready to throw the thing out the window of the truck, but I didn’t. He contacted Verizon to see if his phone upgrade could be transferred to my phone…well, it seems as though it can! So he ordered me the new Blackberry Tour. I don’t like touch screen, or I would have gotten the Storm…but the Tour is cool and seems to have great ratings. So tomorrow, I will be the proud owner of a brand new shiny Crackberry! LOL Hopefully it won’t take me too long to get used to it. It only took me 8 or so months to get used to the Curve! LOL I’m sure it’s not THAT different from the one I have now!

So like I wrote in my last post, my husband and I had never seen True Blood on HBO because we don’t have that channel. I kept hearing how it’s "Twilight for Adults” and how many of the Twilight loving bloggers who I follow are now watching True Blood and are really liking it. Curiosity got the better of me and we ended up buying the first season on DVD.

We started watching it last night and got through the first 3 episodes! I’m already hooked and will be calling our cable company tomorrow to order HBO! My husband is hooked too…which I knew he would be!

We stopped for a break (he had to run and get some hamburger for the dogs’ breakfast) and we’re on Episode 8 I believe. There are 12 in the first season…I figure we’ll make it through another 2 tonight. Part of me wants to just stay up until we’re finished with Season 1, but the rational part of me knows that staying up all night is no good and will talk myself out of pulling an all-nighter to finish it.

The only thing about the show that I don’t like is that it always seems to end with something huge happening. I can totally see myself being mad every.week about this! I get mad when shows leave you hanging when they end! Although, it keeps you watching because you NEED to see what happens next! NCIS ended their season with some huge cliffhanger ending…oooh I am still mad about that!

So i can add True Blood to my obsessions. lol *sigh* At least I’ll have something to watch during the summer! I didn’t have anything on Sunday nights. (I think that’s the night when it comes on)

I think, also, that I will start listening to the “Sookie Stackhouse” series by Charlaine Harris. I have 3 of the books, #1, #2 and #8 and I actually have an audible credit that I’ve been sitting on. Maybe I’ll wait till after I listen to the first two books to use it to get the third…if I like the first couple. Right now I’m finishing up Eclipse for the 3rd time…squeeeeeeeee…and will go on to Breaking Dawn when I’m done…so it will be a week or so before I would get to it. Hmm…but audible is having a good sale right now…LOL

Ok…lol so I just got the 3rd and 4th book and another one that I had on my wish list. I love Audible!

Anyway, I’m gonna hop on Facebook for a few minutes while waiting for the hubbs to return from Meijer….then it’s back to the vampires!

My mom bought a few different magazines to look through to look for ideas for K’s shower invites and she finally found one that she really liked. I am not sure of the name of the magazine, but it was a scrapbooking invitation one. it had a lot of examples and then had where to get the materials for it and what to do. Well, I told her I could copy any design in the book as long as we could find a similar vintage picture.

The site where the picture came from was listed, so we went there and luckily the same picture was available for digital download! So we bought the sheet, and got started. The vintage picture came from www.lunagirl.com.

And here’s the completed outside of the invite!

I am a horrible scrapbooker and I am not sure where I got the pieces from, so I will have to go back searching to give the proper credits…and I will definitely make sure that I do so!

In the middle of printing them…well actually I got about 10 done, my printer died!!! My mom owed me a birthday present, so off we went to Best Buy for a new one.

Here’s my new little baby…an HP Photosmart C6380 All-in-One:

It’s WIRELESS too!! woo hoo! I can finally print from my laptop. And omg, the ease of not having an extra cable to hook up! I didn’t need to spend the extra money on the new cable or spent the time under the desk hooking it up.

The new printer prints SUPER fast too! It just FLEW through the invitations! It’s SOO noisy though! Sounds horrible, but does a great job, so I am pleased with it.

Thanks Mom and Dad for my HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPY Birthday gift!

Yesterday was such a long day…my mom got here at 9am and left at 12:30am!! I barely slept the night before, so I was totally wiped out by the time she left! Of course I had some time to tweet a little and play some Farkle on Facebook…ugh, my new addiction!! So dumb…but this morning the dogs got me up around 9:30. I got up, fed them and got online for a bit and then around 12:30 pm I laid back down to sleep. I ended up sleeping till like 4! I was sooo tired!

My husband and I were going to dinner with his folks tonight, so I got up and got ready and we headed to Buca di Beppo and amazingly, we got there before they did! We had a really nice dinner…they have the BEST food there! YUM! We got this Pizza called Pizza Angelo.

Pizza Angelo

Tender chicken breast, mozzarella, roasted corn, fresh mushrooms, fresh thyme and Alfredo sauce topped with Parmesan potato chips.

It was SO good! Sounds weird, but soo yummy! We also had a great salad. It was a good time!

My husband’s parents gave us a Costco card for gas or groceries or whatever and the hubbs wanted to go fill up his tank for tomorrow so he went up there tonight. Of course, he went in to look around and they had the first season of True Blood. I’ve heard it’s the Twilight for adults and that it’s loosely based on the Sookie Stackhouse books…which I have a few of on my iPod, but I haven’t listened to any of them yet and I’ve wanted to see the show, but we don’t have the cable channel that it comes on.

So, he bought the 1st season because it was like 15.00 cheaper there than it is in any other store! Costco rules! Anyway, tomorrow we’ll start watching that! I will have to write about it after we’ve watched a few of them.

I think it’s funny also that some of the other Twilight fans who’s blogs I read are also going to be watching True Blood for the first time!

Ok…gotta go help the hubbs check for kitty poop under the bed…fun job…NOT!