Have you ever heard of a website called Moolala.com? Me neither, until a friend of mine sent me a message about how one of the agencies that she does business with (Triangle Direct) had done a deal with Moolala that they would provide matching funds for every coupon sold to raise money to stop child trafficking. It does my heart good to hear of companies trying to do the socially responsible thing. Kudos to both Moolala and Triangle Direct!
Have not been getting much done these past couple of days. One of our dogs, Bilbo, has gone missing and the whole family has been effected by this loss; not a happy home right now. There is never a good time for something like this to happen, but there is certainly a worst time and right before the Christmas holiday has got to be one of the worst times. There is so much that needs to be done every day in order to make Christmas as special and run as smoothly as possible for such a large family as ours. Usually all of this is done with a type of holiday spirit that keeps us all in a good mood, no matter how hard or time consuming these yearly tasks are, but there doesn’t seem to be any bit of this spirit with us right now and Christmas day is only 12 days away.
We have been calling the local pound every day. Been combing the neighborhood several times a day, knocking on doors asking everyone we see on the streets, not a word from anyone. We even did some Lost Dog flyer printing efforts, had over 50 Color Copies of this flyers printed using SuperFinePrinting and we spent a whole afternoon tacking them up all over and showing to whom ever we came into contact with. Still no word.
With each passing day, the odds are greater that Bilbo won’t be returning home, but there is always a chance. We have been hearing some very heart warming stories as of late about some pets traveling major distances, some taking years to get back home. We will keep hoping for our miracle story to develop and keep trudging along.
It looks like we are going to have another wedding to attend some time in the next couple of months or so. My cousin just announced his engagement via an email sent to the entire family last night. They have not set a permanent date as of yet, but they are shooting for an early spring wedding, the specific date to be announced at our family Thanksgiving dinner in two weeks.
Right now they are getting busy looking for either titanium rings or tungsten rings for the up and coming ceremony. They say that these types of rings are 100% hypoallergenic, which is important to the both of them since they both have allergies and issues with any other type of materials that most traditional rings are made of. Apparently these types of rings have only come about in the last decade or so. Up until then these materials were normally used in aerospace engineering, the medical field, as well as in aircraft manufacturing, but are now becoming very useful and popular in today’s jewelry stores. Pretty interesting and incredible stuff actually, I’m glad I took a few minutes and looked around online a bit earlier today and found a lot of good information on titanium and tungsten rings.
I was reading on the Time.com website that one year ago today that there was a fatal shooting in South Carolina. A twelve year old boy was shot to death while trick or treating! The person who shot him used an assault rifle and shot thirty rounds! The assailant has been arrested and charged with murder and assault (he shot his brothers and father that were with him too!) The assailant claims he thought the trick-or-treaters were robbers. But the assailant was not even a resident of the house! That excuse sounds wacky to me; I suspect he was high on something! What a horrible tragedy.
I don’t know if I prefer daylight savings time, or standard time, but I DO know one thing. I don’t like changing the clocks back and forth! I’ve heard that the clocks are going to be set back in less than 2 weeks. I don’t mind that time change as much, I think that it is safer for the kids to not have to stand out in the dark in the morning while waiting for the school bus. But I don’t like how my stomach, and my body, just don’t adjust to the change easily. Research has shown that the changing of the clocks back and forth really don’t conserve any resources. I wish they’d just pick a time and stick with it.
