Just an update

I guess today, besides the vodka link, I'll take some time to say hello to the people who read my blog (hi guys!) and let you know that things are going pretty darn well.

Work continues to be a bright spot for me. I'm getting better at what I do, we just won 6 awards out of the 7 we entered into a regional PR award show. We also got Best in Show (hehe...and advertising didn't get it this year in their show after a 3 year streak). I also got a random call from a recruiter about some position, which I haven't called them back because I'm happy riiiight here. :)

Love life is awesome, sometimes to the point I can't quite wrap my head around it! It's effortless. It's honest. And it's fun, and I love it. Though still getting used to having someone around who is everything a BF should be. It's sorta sad that it's odd to me. But he's training me well and he's so generous.

AND I'm still thrilled stupid about becoming and aunt (and an Aunt-in-law!!!) in early 2009. That's right, Shawn's sister Nancy is Preggers also!!!! 3-4 weeks behind Sherri. The race is on for the first Craver grandchild. EEK! BABIES EVERYWHERE! it'll be fanTAStic.

That's all for now...i'm off to do some busy work until 5:30, see y'all soon.

Pretty Vodka

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Stuff

"It's about moving forward, not looking back."

"Things change"

Apparently, some very complicated feelings can be comforted somewhat by rather over simplified comments. awesome....

Help the Woodland creatures...they're cute.

I decided to begin a campaign for little animals. This time of year, fluffy bunnies, randy birdies, and trillions of squirrels are out and about enjoying the weather (and mating season) just as much as we humans are. The unfortunate part is that many humans enjoy the sun and fresh air riding around in gas-thirsty motor vehicles.

Not a big issue to us, other than gas prices, but to the animals?? They get the entirely crappy end of the deal. First, roads and highways keep little fuzzy animals from crossing to new feeding and mating grounds. So we get very hungry, inbred animals. This happens a lot to deer. Second, the vehicles themselves…what a tragedy! I saw a cute chipmunk the other day who scurried confidently across a very busy West Hartford road, made it out of the way of my car and under the wheel of an oncoming car. I saw the whole thing in slow motion. The sad part…is that the wheel only crushed the little guys shoulder and front leg, so he got thrown off balance, having to gather the ambition to make it the rest of the way across with half of his body destroyed, where he likely stayed til he died. Or maybe he made it to the woods, but as far as I know, no veterinarians live in the woods to help out injured animals such as this little chipmunk. The poor guy got totally screwed out of a great summer.

I later ran over a squirrel, though some how he made it out from under my car unscathed. And today, (though according to Darwin, I may have been doing the gene pool a favor had I not come to a complete stop) I encountered a rather scraggly squirrel playing on the side of the road with a much better kempt playmate. He stupidly ran out into the street and then made a sharp turn to head down the street in the direction I was traveling. I stopped. One, because he looked so goofy with his messy fur and half mangled tail, two, because I felt bad that he was not as smart as his playmate who was safely in the grass still, and three, because I’ve been getting so disheartened by all the animals getting run over lately. Most upsetting are the deer who frolic out of the woods on a mission for some dinner and end up getting spanked by a Mack truck barreling down I-84 and splattered, very literally, across the pavement. So sad.

I say all this to say to all of you, please keep an eye out for these little woodland creatures. Yes they’re cute, but also, the mess they leave behind when run over is a really big downer when commuting to work everyday. So in that regard, I suppose this rant is more a campaign to keep the roads gut-free than to let the little guys live. I mean, really, most of them are highly populous in Connecticut anyway. (I’m actually kidding here, guys, they deserve to live here too!!) my next bumper sticker is going to say “I break for little animals.”