Please VOTE to help the AQUARIUM of NIAGARA win important grant!
Please VOTE to help AQUARIUM win important grant!
Simply by voting online, you can help the Aquarium of Niagara win a $50,000 grant from the national Pepsi Refresh Project to build a coral reef exhibit. The project funds good ideas, big and small, that make the world, and the community, a better place.
The Aquarium of Niagara is in the running for this grant from Sept 1 to Sept 30. Grants are awarded to the project that GETS THE MOST VOTES!
You can vote once a day, each day during September. Vote online, by phone, texting or Twitter.
The Aquarium of Niagara needs every vote — please tell your friends!
The Aquarium’s coral reef will combine the beauty of a living reef with an educational audio-visual display. The reef will make a fantastic addition to this community institution which is celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2010.
Wouldn’t this grant be a great anniversary gift for the Aquarium — and a great benefit to our children!
Deep Fried…Beer?
This winner of the “most creative” fried food was “Fried Beer.” It is actually a beer-filled pretzel pocket, but diners can open the delicious dough and pour a cold one.
“I was lazy. I figured, ‘Why should I have to drink and eat when I can just eat?” I wanted a pretzel, I wanted beer and I figured a way to combine them. You know, make something fun out of it,” said inventor Mark Zable.
Books Read 2010
Must. Read. More. Books.
You can find more about the books I’ve read and want to read over at GOODREADS.
41. The Help, Kathryn Stockett
40. Girl Seeks Bliss: Zen and the Art of Modern Life Maintenance, Nicole Beland
39. The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream, John Zogby
38. Unaccustomed Earth: Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri
37. STORITelling, Tori Spelling
36. The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
35. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
Camping Time!
And I’m off the grid until Monday night…camping with the family of Dayna. No interwebs!
Rain, cool weather, campfires, books and time with my most favorite person in the whole wide world, my niece.
Life is good.
Happy long weekend everyone!
Darn Fleas
FLEAS!
The many, many, many fleas I found on poor Simba Cat last week made me want to cry. On payday I bought Frontline from Elmwood Pet Supplies instead of waiting for Advantage through the internet, fast relief right?
Frontline says it can take 24-48 hours to work. And it sure did. 24 hours later I was still brushing fleas off Simba Cats coat. Far too many. Advantage would had zapped them instantly. Next month, Advantage.
I’m REALLY looking forward to this problem not existing anymore in my household because I too am being eaten alive!
I can only imagine how the poor kitties feel…
Allow me to wallow, for just a few moments…
And then I will jump back into the life I love…
But for now?
I’m sad.
I’m grieving.
Which is odd considering I had a lovely time with family this weekend.
But while at the church today it started to sink in…
I’m riding with my brother and my sister-in-law and the most perfect amazing niece in the world to church to meet up with my little little brother a generation below me…and his wife…and their baby for a christening. My mom and her husband sit in the row in front of us. Proud grandparents. My sister Vanessa is there too, sitting by her dad. (Ness is still young, she has PLENTY of time to find one of the boys and settle down.)
At my age, I should be identifying with the elders, not my early 20′s single fun loving sister. (Although most days as we all know, I adore the same exact situation. Black and white. Hot and cold. All or nothing.)
My mom married into the Spinler family when I was 16…I was the oldest of the grandchildren. My brother was three years behind. Cousins, cousins everywhere and most 10 years younger. And now? The younger cousins…the ones now out of college and working jobs and getting married are having babies.
Me? I’m still blogging about wanting to have a family someday.
Ain’t that a kick in the head!
I know I chose a different life path…I never had a serious relationship until after college and even at that point, not sure what I would call those 7 years. So obviously me getting married and having a family at that age wasn’t what I wanted. But I did ASSUME I would have that SOMEDAY. After ending my relationship two years ago I still believed that I *might* have that SOMEDAY.
Today?
Today I realize that a majority of my friends are on their 2nd or 3rd…some 4th children. And my oldest and dearest friend from childhood Linda Lu is having her baby tomorrow. Not too long ago I thought our children would grow up together like we did! Linda and Bob and Jen and Mark and babies! Except one of those people didn’t feel the same…and while Linda Lu was trying I was breaking up with the man I wanted to have children with someday.
Tonight, I will grieve.
Tomorrow, I’ll be back to normal and welcoming little Aiden into the world with my best friend.
Food, glorious food!
I love payday week!
I have eggplant, yellow squash, beets, fingerling potatoes, green onions, tomatoes, radishes, green and red peppers, bananas, peaches, apples, corn, green and yellow beans, red and yellow cherry tomatoes, lettuce, blueberries and lemons in my possession. Yum!
White Cow Dairy Yogurt
Addiction. Sweet, sweet addiction. White Cow Dairy Yogurt. 2/$5 at the Farmers Market. Love it. And the jars are *so* cute too!
Flowers? For me?
Me: Well, thank you! They are beautiful!
Me: You’re welcome, everyone deserves a little pick me up once in a while.
Three days already?
Where does the time go? Oh yeah. I spent most of yesterday in bed, darn allergy head. Although the weather, ahhhhh….the temperature has been cool and perfect sleeping in weather for days off. Lovely.
Good thing I have the weekend and the beginning of next week off cause my *vacation* is not lasting as long as I would hope. Although I am accomplishing much relaxing. I need this downtime to hang out with myself, catch up with me. Get ready for the upcoming insanity that is a new season at work…
I have big plans for the weekend. Farmers Market. Elmwood Festival of the Arts. Hanging with my niece soon-to-be-kindergartner A, going home for my nephews christening on Sunday…Irish Festival?
And then more R&R&R (the extra R is for reading.)
