My friend Keo’s birthday was today. I sent him this cute pic of a panda toy I found online… I edited it of course to personalize the cuteness. I love you Keo! I hope you had an awesome birthday!!!
Another B’day! October 20, 2009
New Biz… and Website! October 19, 2009
I’ve been working on some business ideas and designing my new website. I’m excited. It has been taking a lot of time and effort. I’ve been doing a lot of research in preparation. There seems to be a lot of stuff to know about a personal business, but I’m looking forward to getting started!
Pusc’s Boo-boo October 19, 2009
We’ve been letting my tabby Puscifer start coming in and out as he pleases again. Since it started getting cold, we want him to be inside as much as he wants. He was outside earlier today, since we had a random warm day… and when he came home we noticed he had a really bad boo-boo. His front left paw is all swollen, and he’s having trouble walking. He even fell off his cat climber, scattering his food everywhere. That scared everyone. I set up an appointment to take him to the vet tomorrow so the doctor can check his paw for infection. Hopefully it won’t be anything too bad. It breaks my heart to see him limping around. He doesn’t cry or whine. He just looks up with a very sad face every now and again.
As a writer and artist myself, I prefer to give proper credit to the correct author. October 10, 2009
I just received an email containg a wonderful poem. Beautifully written and touching… however, as beautiful as it is, the integrity of the poem was compromised.
I don’t mind passing along a bit of uplifting writing, but as a writer and artist myself, I prefer to give proper credit to the correct author.
So I did a little research:
“The American Cancer Society will Donate to a Dying Girl if enough emails are circulated-Fiction!”
Summary of eRumor
An email says there is a little girl who has six months to live. People are asked to forward the email about her to as many people as possible because the American Cancer Society will give 3 cents per email to support her treatment. It stars with a poem titled SLOW DANCE. The email is signed with the name of a professor at Yeshiva University in New York.
The Truth:
According to the American Cancer Society, the email is a hoax.
The girl in the story is never identified, the American Cancer Society has not made any such commitment, there is no way for forwarded emails to be accounted for even if someone wanted to make a donation for each one, and the professor named at Yeshiva University, Dr. Dennis Shields, says he never had anything to do with any such story. If you dial his number, you get a recording saying the story is not true.
There are several versions of this email making the rounds of the Net. Some simply say this is a poem written by a dying girl. Others say the little girl gave it to a medical student. Others say the poem is being circulated by a doctor.
The poem is actually from the pen of psychologist and writer David L. Weatherford (www.davidlweatherford.com).
updated 9/17/08
For more information about The American Cancer Society:
http://www.cancer.org
A real example of the story as it has been circulated is as follows:
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Hi All,
Here’s something to make you stop and think!
Please read the whole message, it is from a child.
Be sure you read the end of this message.
S L O W D A N C E:
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round
Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last
Do you run through each day on the fly
When you ask “How are you?”
do you hear the reply?
When the day is done,
do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow
And in your haste,
not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
‘Cause you never had time
to call and say “Hi”?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away…
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO HELP THIS LITTLE GIRL
Dear All,
PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know.It is the request of a little girl who will soon leave this world as she has been a victim of the terrible disease called CANCER.
Thank you for your effort, this isn’t a chain letter, but a choice for all of us to save a little girl who’s dying of a serious and fatal form of cancer.Please send this to everyone you know…or don’t know.
This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to tell everyone to live their life to fullest, since she never will. She’ll never make it to prom, graduate from high school or get married and have a family of her own. By your sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people!!!!
PLEASE PASS IT ON
Dr. Dennis Shields
[Address and phone information removed as a courtesy to Dr. Gaines]
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Pets Are Not Accessories! October 8, 2009
Getting ready to move… just transfering to a bigger place with the same property. The landlord is being unpleasant about things. She wants us to get rid of our cats or she wont let us transfer to a new place. Without a lot of other options right now, we’re trying to find someone to house the cats for at most a year… just until we get out of the apartments and into our own house. We think we have someone who might be willing to help us with this.
I’m a firm believer that my pets are my companions — They are NOT accessories to be discarded when they no longer suit my needs.
I Speak October 8, 2009
I am just me.
I’ve actually been described by one person as “lovably crass.” I rather like that.
I’m sarcastic. I’m brutally honest. I will most definitely step on toes. Wait… Strike that. I will skate across toes on my shiny, razor-sharp ice skates of doom. Especially if the toes were arrogant enough to step out onto MY ice unprepared.
If someone wants to debate a topic with me… great! But for the love of self respect… PLEASE pick a sturdy argument to stand on. Battles of wit are absolutely no fun whatsoever if the challenger shows up unprepared.
I have no reason to pretend that I’m something I’m not.
Everyone I know may at some point find themselves in one of my writing projects. If a person is a real stinker, their chances of being written in as the primary antagonist of a story immediately increases to 100%. Thanx for playing… jerks.
I like to write more than I like to talk. (That means I write a lot.)
According to my parents my tongue is “loose at both ends.” I’m also adamant about getting the last word… Thus my father dubbed me Footnote. I’m inclined to ramble on about anecdotes beginning with the phrase “remember when….” And I have a lot of them. I will never run out.
You may ask me ANY question. I will not lie about the answer.
Which brings me to a big no-no: Lying. Lying is a BIG no-no. Don’t lie to me. Don’t lie to yourself. If you start lying to your self I may be inclined to set you straight. That may prove to be unpleasant (refer to brutal honesty and ice skates of doom above).
I do not revel in brutality. I do not enjoy seeing people get hurt (unless I’m watching a really cheesy horror flick, in which the so-called “good guys” are horror movie survival impaired… in which case I root for the bad guys… I will also laugh and/or cheer when the waste-of-film hero gets eaten).
My favorite animated personalities are Foamy the Squirrel and Invader Zim.
I like chocolate.
A lot.
And coffee.
And ice cream.
Thus ends the first of many blog entries.
