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Expensive Pets

Sadie
I love this dog. I really do. She is so sweet and helped me through some rough times, but I am finding that she is a very expensive dog. Now, granted, she has allergies and often has to be on some pricey medications and when she was a puppy she chewed up some of our things (which puppies will do). But recently, well, we’ve found that Sadie likes money. Not coins, paper money! A month or so back I lost a $20 bill and thought I was just losing my mind because I know I left it on the end table next to my couch. It really bothered me, but I knew I wasn’t imagining it and I wasn’t losing my mind. This morning I found my purse knocked over on the floor, my wallet pulled a little ways out of my purse and the $5 in singles I had set on top to give to my daughter were gone…along with a $5 bill and another single out of the wallet itself! Now most people would think that it was just my girls “borrowing” money, but unless they are both award-winning actresses, they didn’t do it. No, it had to be that four-legged “baby” we have….

UPDATE:  Say ewwww….the proof was in the poop! BLECK! (and no, I’ll not try to get the cash back!) :P

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This Weeks Soldier Was Suggested By Kathy

Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie

Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie
41 years old from Ann-Arbor, Michigan
Specialist Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie is a Iraqi American U.S. Army linguist soldier, from Ann-Arbor, Michigan who was kidnapped on October 23, 2006 in Baghdad and has not been seen since.

al-Taayie joined the Army in 2004 to help not only his country, the United States, but also his birthplace of Iraq and was deployed in 2005. On October 23, 2006 he was visiting his wife in the Karrada Shiite neighborhood in central Baghdad when he and his cousin were kidnapped by a group calling themselves Ahel al-Beit Brigades. His cousin was released shortly after. On November 2, 2006 al-Taayie’s uncle received a ransom demand of $250,000 for his return. Along with the ransom came a grainy video that showed a man beaten up who was identified as al-Taayie. No more has been heard from al-Taayie or his captures.

For more information on Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie you can go here

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. To find out more about Wednesday Hero, you can go here.

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Laughing Wolf at Blackfive has a wonderfully written, very moving tribute about what today truly means. Here’s is but a bit. Please use the link above to read his entire piece…

“…The ideals, the slogans, and ultimately even home and hearth were not why they stood. When the bugles call, the bullets fly, and the bombs burst such things become of minor import. What matters then is love and duty. Not a duty to some higher power or state; rather, the duty one has to one’s brother in arms. What shell they inhabit means naught at such a time, and what they were before means less than nothing at all. The only thing that matters then is that they are with you and you with them, and the love and duty that exists between at that moment is all. They will not be failed. So Tommy steps forward unto the breech, Molly takes over the cannon and fires, and unsung heroes step forward into the fire…”

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A tribute to the fallen both past and present. May God bless and keep them.

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TISSUE ALERT! And prayers go out to the families of PFC Anzack, SPC Jimenez and Pvt. Fouty, as well as all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guard and their loved ones.

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Pfc. Joseph Allen Jeffries
Pfc. Joseph Allen Jeffries
21 years old from Beaverton, Oregon
Army Reserve’s 320th Psychological Operations Company
May 29, 2004

Below is all the information that could be found on Pfc. Joseph Jeffries.

Pfc. Jeffries was killed with two fellow soldiers, Capt. Daniel W. Eggers and Sgt. 1st Class Robert J. Mogensen, and an unnamed sailor, when their vehicle drove over an IED in Kandahar, Afghanistan. All four service members were attached to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force – Afghanistan. He is survived by his wife, Betsy, and his parents Mark and Linda Jeffries.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. To find out more about Wednesay Hero, you can go here.

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18 Years Ago Today

May 22, 1989 – She had bright red hair and a temper to match when she was born! She’s now a gorgeous young woman who will be off to college soon! We are so very proud of her!ICE CREAM!

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Secrets

Ol’Broad tagged me with the “Secrets” meme. I have to divulge five secrets. The ironic part is you could almost take Ol’Broad’s list and use it for me!

1. I was a gymnast and competed for three years. I also coached for several years when my daughters decided to try gymnastics. (coaching paid for their lessons and fees!)

2. I love Big Band, too! Glenn Miller, but also Benny Goodman!

3. I love to read and actually read 265 books in one year while working full-time. (I answered the phone at a corporate law firm and we were allowed to do whatever as long as the phones were answer promptly and professionally.)

4. I took three years of piano and probably haven’t played in 15 years! I still love to listen to really great piano pieces…Mozart, Chopin, Bach…

5. I don’t watch as many movies as I used to, but “Some Like It Hot”, “The Philadelphia Story”, “Bringing Up Baby” and “The Quiet Man” are favorites of mine. Oh, and the 1932 version of “Little Women”!

So, I really didn’t divulge any deep dark secrets, but now you all probably found out something new about me. I won’t tag anyone, but if you feel so inclined to participate, please let me know in comments so I can read your secrets! :D

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Curious

Diamond Card Case
Opinions please?! (By the way, there are about 5,400 little beads in this case which measures approximately 3 3/4″ by 3 1/8″!)

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A Million Thanks

Shauna FlemingThis is Shauna Fleming and she is a high school senior.  Her idea to send thank you cards to our military men and women has grown to such proportions that she is overwhelmed. Luckily, this time around, the GMC, Pontiac and Buick dealerships are helping her out. If you would like to send a Thank You to a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine or Coast Guard, you can easily drop it off at your local dealership! Shauna has boxes at all the dealerships across the country and she has been on TV, radio and touring the country (on weekends and after school and between senior class activities!) to promote this endeavor. The boxes will be at the dealerships until Memorial Day and then the cards will be send out to our military men and women. I think this is such a great thing and it would only take a minute or two to drop off a card.

If you’d like to know more about the program and everything else they have going on you can see it all at A Million Thanks.Org and Shauna has her own blog at A Million Thanks’ Blog.

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