>Spirit Day 10.20.10

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Today,

In honor of the suicide victims,

we are wearing are purple.

Purple (Violet) in the gay flag means spirit.

We wear purple to raise awareness against anti-gay bullying.

And to let the kids know that

WE CARE!!

"It Gets Better"

>Summer!!

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I hate summer. :) Its too damn hot here in the south. I guess its nice if you have a pool but we don't, so its toooo hot!! Its like 95 everyday!

We are moving into our house (rented, of course!) next Friday!! Were super excited. Its bigger, alot bigger. With a big backyard for the dogs and there isn't a pet fee!! :) And, there's a slim chance we could maybe put a pool up!

We finished spring classes (both with B's in anatomy!! :D ) and were now in our summer classes!

In other news, next month is our 2 year anniversary!! <3

>"The One with Stellaluna" :)

>On Tuesday, the cutest lost/stray dog came up to us in our driveway and hasnt left yet. We figured she was lost and had owners because she was so calm and not afraid of us at all. We put her in the car to drive around the neighborhood to see if anyone was looking for her. Unfortunately, no one was looking for "Stella" (as we call her). Our vet told us to get in touch with this lady who owns her own shelter. Her shelter is a no-kill shelter and the pet fee is free. All this lady cares about is finding good homes, which is exactly how we feel. So we met with her and she asked if we could give her 24 hrs to try to get a foster home ready so Stella wouldnt be in the kennel with the loud dogs. We kept her 2 nights and she slept in Kiwi's crate. Luckily, Kiwi is trained so well that all we had to do was put her bedding from her crate on the floor and she still sleeps there. We say "get in your bed" and Kiwi understands that still means the pillow she sleeps on whether its in the crate or not. :D Today, Stella ended up at the shelter anyways, because no foster homes were available. But the lady did say she would just keep her in the office. Stella is such an awesome dog. She is housetrained, crate trained, and leash trained. She didnt bother our dogs and she let our puppy just climb all over her. We wanted to keep her so bad, but in an apt with 2 chihuahuas already, its just too much. In a month, were moving to a house thats alot bigger and has no pet fee. So were thinking about getting her back either to foster or to keep. Somehow, I feel like we let her down and turned our backs on her. Even though we did all we could for her. I guess somehow how taking her to this shelter reminded us of B&A (see post from summer '09 for story).


Stella

We have this thing about feeding stray animals and we do it, A LOT!! It started with a black and white cat that we called "Buddy" (were currently in the middle deciding to change the name since we have been informed "Buddy" is actually a girl :)) It took us a while to get Buddy to come up to us while we were outside.. but after leaving bowls of food out every few days, she has definately learned to like us. :) We put a box (turned on the side) outside by our door with a towel in it, so when it rains Buddy will have a dry & comfy place to lay down. The box layed on the porch for about a month or so never used. Last week, Buddy made a little home out of it and is in it every night/morning. :) We have discovered another cat eating out of Buddy's dish... so we got another bowl to feed her as well and we pretty sure shes pregnant. Thats not good since shes already a stray but maybe we'll be able to get her and the kittens to this animal shelter here and het them adopted.


Buddy

>The One With All The Cleaning .... (And 1 less roommate!!)

>Weve had drama drama drama over the past couple of months. Our situation with our roommate reached an all new level and well, she no longer lives here. After a few yelling matches, 1 extremely dirty bedroom full of trash and evidence un-potty trained pet, 1 filty bathroom with a stopped up tub, and a visit from the local police, we are without a roommate. And we are so Thankful!!!! We treat our fur-babies like real children... So we expect someone living in OUR apt to treat their dog the same. Well at least feed it and take it out on a regualar basis would be fine too. Some people shouldnt be allowed to have pets or kids, ever. But now, all is said and done and we have a new bedroom and bathroom to decorate (all completely stripped and cleaned now!!!)

Aside from all that drama, weve been studying and taking care of the "kids". Kiwi and Mango are quite a hand-full. But we wouldnt trade them for anything in the world. Kiwi, our older chihuahua, enjoys a laid back day with lots of naps in our bed, on the couch, or her bed. Mango, our little one, loooooooooves to be wherever Kiwi is, especially if its in her bed. He loves to run around in her bed (her bed is really big for their size and alot bigger than him!), sleep in her bed, or bring all his toys in there and chew on everything. Kiwi tolerates this behavior from him as long as he stays somewhat still. The moment he starts running or "digging" in her bed, shes out. She comes looking for us as if to say, "Mom!!! That brat is in my bed again!!!" Hahahahaha oh the simple joys of our house.

>MIssion: Complete.

>So I woke up this morning and called the new apt place to ask if we could move in early. The lady said that would be perfect since the people living there have to leave early in May. So Yay!! It all worked out. I'm a bit of a worrier and quite a pessimist so I'm easily stressed. Jess on the other hand is a total optimist. And she of course said " baby dont worry everything will work out." Thats just bugs me more... lol... However, we found out that our pet fee is $300... EACH!!! Eww. So now with the pet fee and puppy shots, I dont believe we'll be eating for a long long time.. =)

>When it rains it pours....

>So today we found out that Jess's lease on her apt is up at the end of June. And our lease doesnt start until August! Great... now what are we gonna do?!? There are a few places we can stay for a month but that means we have to move all her stuff out at the end of June, move in somewhere for a month, and move back out the first of August... UGH. Thats tiring just thinking about it. So we've come up with two plans:

1. We're going to call our apt and see if we can push our move in date up to July 1st.

• We'll call her apt and see if theres anyway she can extend her lease a month.

 

If those plans dont work, then we'll just have to find a place for a month. And end up moving her stuff 4 times. Fortunately all my stuff will still be at the Mom's. Not to mention this is messing with our cash flow since we planned everything out for August and now we have to come up with rent a month early. Ahhhhhhh the stress. But on the bright side, its a college town so they're always sub-leasing rooms here and there... Now we just have to sleep on it and figure it all out tomorrow.

Wonderful.