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And there is!!! Dewey's this Saturday!!

Gotta get our snacks ready!!

Spotlight Saturday

Since its #Caturday.....

                    When I graduated high school I got a dog. My mom had a friend who worked at the spca and he told her there was a dog in quarantine for a skin issue and he thought I would like him. I went and saw him and instantly fell in love. A Dachshund Corgi mix, and he was perfect. I adopted him and was able to pick him up a few days later. I named him Peanut and he was my everything. We did everything together, he would even come to work with me sometimes, if it was nice out and I could leave him outside. The bond we had was instant and it was rare to not see him riding around with me. A couple years later I added a rescued Pit, Ladybug, to the mix and they were instant friends. But Peanut...he had my heart first. He did have a skin issue, and had to be on steroids and special meds. I was 19 working a bs job but I did what I could, and my aunt worked at a vet and would help me out too. My friends use to make fun of him all the time, but he was my little baby. One night a friend came over and he tried to sleep in the bed with me and peanut and lady, peanut growled at him and I told him peanut didn't like him so that meant he had to sleep on the couch. He thought I was joking....but peanut always came first. More than once my boyfriend at the time told me he really thought I should put peanut to sleep bc of his skin issue. One time I slapped him (on the arm, although it should have been across the face) and one time I threatened to break up with him. Very few people understood the bond I had with Peanut.

(I thought I had better pics of him, but since I had him pre social media, I must have them somewhere else)

                    I had 6 amazing years with Peanut. When I was pregnant, and it got closer to my due date, the dogs (we had 3 by now) were fighting pretty much every time we left them. Peanut was on steroids for his skin, which made him mean. I decided to finally put my Peanut to sleep with Mason coming. So I called my aunt and made an appointment. Worst day of my life by far and I wont go in to too much detail bc it still makes me cry to think about it. 

                    I never thought I would want a dog again, esp since 2 years after that I was forced to give up my ladybug. I was dogless for the first time since I was in 6th grade and I didn't want another. No one could replace Peanut. But after we moved back to VA Aubrey said he wanted to get Mason and I a dog for Christmas. I had kind of talked about wanting a FAMILY dog, but for whatever reason he didn't want a dog and told me he would get one but it was to only be mine. I didn't know at the time that meant he was going to do literally nothing for the dog, and had I known that I would have told him I didn't want the dog. But Mason and I went and picked out Pluto. I tried with Pluto, but probably b/c of the way Aubrey treated me over the damn dog, I hated him. I had no bond with Pluto like I had hoped. In fact, in made me miss Peanut even more. 

                    I took Pluto to my new apartment b/c I felt obligated to but I still had that hole in my heart from Peanut. The weekend we moved in we went and got a cat b/c Mason wanted one. I was instantly in love. I had a cat growing up, but never really thought of myself as a cat person, but I loved her. About 8 months later, on a whim, I got Mason an orange tabby kitten a friend had. My lovie. I love Rainbow but shes not the cuddly kitty we wanted. Well we got that with Nemo and my heart was full again. I miss Peanut and wish Mason had known him, but these cats....they fixed the void I felt from Peanut. And I even sort of like Pluto now that I don't have someone screaming at me over things he's doing. I never thought cats would fix me, but they did and I can't imagine not having them around 💕

Friday Reads

I'm having a really rough week this week. I can't find the energy/ don't want to do anything but curl up in bed and read. But whenever I do that, I either can't focus on my book or I fall asleep. This weekend I'm going to try and organize my life a little and then maybe I can focus more on my books. The books I am reading are SO good, and I'm frustrated they are taking me so long to read. Well, anyways, here are my Friday reads!!

Before I Fall, my mom actually sugessted to me. It's a movie now and I want to finish the book so I can go see the movie. I have a different series by this author on my goodreads and hopefully I'll read that series next! 

The book by Rober Dugoni is actually #3 in a series I started b/c its free on kindle. It's about a female cop in Seattle. So it's a crime and mystery series and so far I am liking it. I listen to it while I am at work.

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Pretty little lairs is back!!!! Last season ever 😢

Prompts

                            I've been searching prompts for the last hour and haven't been able to find anything that jumped out to me. 

                            

                            I saw a '5 year plan' one that sounded interesting, but once I started writing I realized that I don't really have a very exciting plan....I want the same as anyone else. I want a house, I want to feel settled and I want Mason to have a yard. I hate that I don't even have a balcony for him. I want to go to school but don't know where or for what or when I would find the time. I already work too much and can't even find time to sleep. So, I don't see myself being very successful in school. I want a Wrangler 😁 and besides that I don't really want much. I don't want to be married, but I would love to have more kids. I have pretty much given up on more kids though, I'll just have to love on my friends kids <3

                          The next prompt I have been thinking about is my bucket list. To be honest, I'm not sure I really have one. Besides going to Ireland and taking an Alaskan Cruise to see the northern lights, there isn't much else. I'm sure if I *really* thought about it I could come up with some more silly ones. But I don't have any celebrities I want to meet, I don't want to go skydiving, nothing like that. I am boring. 

                     When Nikki posted the prompts for this month I was excited about the "5 things people don't know about me" and I thought about it too, but I really don't think there are 5 things that the people that actually read this blog, don't know about me :( I'm pretty much an open book....

                      Sooooo, I guess in short, I want to write and have nothing to write about.....

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 Is '13 Reasons Why' ruining anyone else's life?! I loved the book, but I really just want the show to end already so I can get on with my life.

Beach day!!

 It's here!! Vacation!! Mason's been on spring break all week, and we've been having fun hanging out with our friends, and lounging around the house, but this is what we've been waiting for!!

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I've always wanted pretty bookshelves, and I love looking at pictures of other people's on fb, and now that I am trying to make a library in my apartment I am actually looking at ideas. Number 1 is probably the most likely of what I will do, but I like all of these ideas.