Proud Grandma

My Grandson Logan, almost 4 months old.

Logan is getting so big.

My sister in law came for a visit. Grandpa was making Logan laugh.

He's a happy baby, that's for sure.

He's gonna be crawling around before we know it.

My daughter and grandson.

He's gonna be crawling soon.

Grandpa feeding Logan.

Grandpa (my hubby) looks tired. lol 

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too.

This week I received so many freebies that I couldn't fit them all in one picture!

                                                            From First picture:
                                                        A sample pack of Pull ups

A newborn onsie for doing a short survey

Advil Allergy and Congestion relief pills and coupons

Flexitol Heel Relief

Enfamil powdered formula mix

I was sent the Advil Allergy and Congestion Relief and coupons from smiley360

and found the links for the other free samples on Freebie Shark and Hey It's Free

From Second picture:

A coupon for a free 2 litre bottle of Pepsi Next

Undone by Sara Humphreys- I won from Tea and Book Blog

                                       Dr. Scholl's Massaging Gel insoles for women from BzzAgent

Fancy Feast cat food

I found the Pepsi Next coupon and the cat food freebie from a link on Freebie Shark.

Twitter Promoted Posts

If you use Twitter, you've probably seen posts much like the one above...a Promoted Post. 

I saw one the other day and wondered how it got in my Twitter feed so I did some searching and this is what I found out...

Companies pay to have Tweets like this one put into news feeds of Twitter users that twitter thinks you might find useful. I found one from Toyota..and have no idea why Twitter would think I would find this useful. 

So I wondered how can I get rid of these promoted Tweets. I found that they are extremely easy to get rid of..just hover your mouse over the Tweet and click the words that say "Dismiss". All gone. 

Now I don't get many promoted posts so I don't have to do this very often but I thought anyone who has seen these and had the same questions about how to get the tweet out of their feed would gain something from this post. 

Rats Like To Photo Bomb Me

This is probably the funniest. I was trying to take a picture of Patches in the background when bandit popped his head up front. 

Photo Bomb.

Fang was right behind him but Bandit came running over just as I snapped a picture of Fang. 

Photo Bomb.

I was trying to take a picture of Lucky's new food bowl...He popped his head in just in time. 

Photo Bomb.

I was taking a picture of Ares when hades came running over. He was still moving when I snapped the picture which is why his face is blurry. 

Photo Bomb. 

Brodie ran into the frame and Ares ran out like they had it planned at just the right time. 

Photo Bomb. 

This is the photo I was trying to get and I finally got it on the third try. It's Jasper and Hades curled up next to each other. 

This is the first photo I took while I was trying to get that last one. Ares started crawling right over jasper's face to see what I was doing. 

Photo Bomb..

lol 

How To Destroy A Fleece Cube

You start out with three cute rats. This is Marbles. 

Bandit...

And Patches. Even though he's the smallest..he can tear up his bed, hammock and cube faster than the other three. 

This is what the fleece cube looked like the first day I put it in the cage and they love it. I go through 1 fleece cube every other month. 

It's cute, right? They love sleeping in these fleece hammocks and cubes and they love biting, tearing, and chewing on them..

This is Patches and all you can see is his little nose. He finally has the cube the way he wants it and this is how he sleeps in it now. He and his brothers chewed through the lining, and lay inside with just their little noses sticking out. Must be comfy. Although Patches passed away a few days ago, I still wanted to share this post because he was a little sweetheart and these pictures show that.

There are several holes on the side, the front and in the back so they can now get inside the cube from all sides. lol 

I let them keep it for as long as possible but after it gets dirty and I can't wash it for fear it will fall apart because it's only holding together by mere strings...I have to replace it.

Looks like I'll be buying another cube soon. 

More News From Christine Feehan

This was straight from Christine Feehan's website. 

Looks like all of us Christine Feehan fans are going to get 3 new books in the Dark series between now and September 2014!

I can't wait!

Medical Cannabis Coming To A Corner Near You!

I would rather see a person use a drug that has been approved by the doctors, government, scientists and proven by patients to work on things like PTSD and depression than have someone use pot ...a drug that is illegal and has no real health benefits other than that which is in the mind of the pot smoker who uses it to get high so of course they are going to think it helps. If you think that marijuana is the answer for ailments like cancer, PTSD, Depression and other illnesses that aren't terminal, then you are an idiot and are perpetuating the problem.

I see soo many pot smokers saying that they would much rather take a drug (Medical cannabis) which has no side effects rather than a drug approved the the government because it probably has toxins or some such nonsense in them. Oh and don't get your kids vaccinated because those vaccinations are filled with poison.

Why is it that so many of the conspiracy theorists seem to be the same paranoid people smoking medical marijuana? Did you know that a side effect (yes pot has them) of smoking pot is paranoia?

People like to say that medical marijuana eases their pain, helps with their anxiety ect. well, with that thinking why don't we just get some junkie to say that heroin eases their pain and make that legal too. I mean it's the same logic.

I am appalled to see the Senate has passed the bill that allows marijuana dispensaries to become legal here in Nevada. I mean I really thought our government had more sense than this. Just click the link to read the article. Here's a little of what it said, "CARSON CITY — A bill to allow medical marijuana dispensaries easily passed the Senate on Wednesday.

Backers said the measure, approved 17-4, establishes procedures to comply with a constitutional amendment approved by the voters in 2000 that allows the use of medical marijuana.

The bill would allow 40 clinics in the Las Vegas area, 20 in Reno, two in Carson City and one in each of Nevada’s remaining rural counties."

All I can hope is that it goes no farther than this and the bill gets stopped. But in reality I don't see that happening. I can only hope that if marijuana ever does get to be a legal drug that all those pot smokers that go to buy their pot from these dispensaries have to pay a hefty tax on all their marijuana that they buy, even the medical marijuana card holders. They should have to pay a hefty tax of at least 25% for the privilege of getting high legally.

There should also be DUI type laws just like for drinking and driving. A person under the influence of marijuana if it becomes legal to smoke..should not be allowed to drive while under the influence and if they get caught driving while smoke..DWS..they should go to jail, have hefty fines and after the 2nd conviction of DWS= driving while smoking or driving while high or driving while under the influence of pot..take your pick...they should get their pot card pulled so they can't get it for a while.

Even if weed is legalized people are going to be going to jail for getting behind the wheel while high and driving, causing accidents and driving stupid.

Oh I can see this all going to hell in a hand basket.

Most pot heads say it's not likely to overdoes on pot but this article says otherwise thanks to something called, "Dabbing".

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too.

This week I'm on a mission from Smiley360 and they sent me a box with some seventh generation samples in it to try. 

I received from them, Mandarin Refreshing cleansing cloths

Baby Natural Laundry Detergent

Lavender Moisturizing Lotion

Mandarin Nourishing Body Wash

Wee Generation baby shampoo and conditioner

I also received a coupon for a free box of Belvita breakfast Biscuits and I found the link for this on Freebie Shark. 

If you'd like to get free products delivered right to your home then click on the Smiley360 link up above and sign up. They pick you to try products and all you have to do is write a review, share your thoughts about it with your friends and share on fb and twitter. It's really easy. 

Help Me Win Tall, Dark and Vampire!

Hey you guys, Sara Humphreys is running a great contest over on her facebook page where you post a picture holding her books and can win another one of her books, Tall, Dark and Vampire plus swag. I posted my picture on her page and would really appreciate it if you would click on her fb page and leave a comment on my picture. The 5 pictures with the most comments by July 1st wins and I would love to win this. The picture I posted on her fb page is below..just look for this pic and leave a comment. Thanks guys! Click here for her fb page.

RIP Patches

My little guy on the left passed away tonight. He was 3 years old. His brother on the right looks a lot like him. 3 years old is pretty old for a rat and his two brothers are the same age and seem to be in good health so I am hoping they live quite a while longer. 

When I first adopted him from a friend, he was really shy and wouldn't let me pet him. He his under the hammock and behind the plastic igloo. 

But he warmed up really fast and would run over to the front of the cage when I came over. 

He was the littlest boy in the cage and a very sweet boy.

He didn't gain weight like the other two have, he stayed a tiny boy.

But he was always ready for a treat. "Mommy, you brought me a treat, right?"

Patches was the boy in the back in this picture when Bandit popped up in front and photo bombed me.

When I first adopted them, he had a brother we named Fang that he cuddled with all the time. Unfortunately Fang passed away soon after we got him. 

Fang and Patches hung out a lot together when I first got them and I made friends by feeding them both treats while they sat together. 

I'm gonna miss my little guy. 

RIP Patches

Focus Groups

 A few years ago I was called by a survey agency a few times and asked if I would be willing to come in and sit in a room around a table with about a dozen other people and talk about a product or TV show. There was a large two way mirror behind us and they told us that our discussion would be video taped and shown to the people paying for the discussion. I would get paid $80 for 2 hours, get a free lunch and coffee and other drinks were always available.

Of course I said yes and went down to their site and one time we talked about a Daytime Soap Opera and what we thought should happen with the different characters. I had a lot of fun with this one and enjoyed it since I was actually watching this particular soap opera back then. It's been a while since I've watched one now though.

Another time we talked about frozen dinners and how they could be better. I think we all pretty much agreed that we would only eat them on special occasions like we just didn't feel like cooking. lol

And yet another time we talked about one of the laws that had just passed here in Las Vegas about it being illegal to give the homeless food if they were in a park. None of us liked that law. I mean if there are people going around on their own time handing out sandwiches to the homeless and they want to do that...why should the police be able to stop them and give them a fine. It didn't work anyway..those people kept doing it and just paid the fines. So it was rescinded and the law is no more. I wonder if us being in that focus group and none of us liking that law had anything to with with the law being over turned?

Have you ever participated in a focus group?

Looks Like I'll Have To Buy A New Cage

Because Lucky has decided to chew a hole through his cage.

Yes, there's the little culprit.

I turned the cage so the hole is in the front and he seems to have stopped chewing on it...for now.

But it's a pretty good size hole and if it gets any bigger I'm afraid he'll get his little head stuck.

So unless I can figure out a way to put something over that hole to keep it from getting any bigger that he won't be able to just chew through...my next survey points will be turned into Amazon gift cards for a new cage.

Yep, he thinks looking cute will appease me...and he's right.

It's Memorial Day

I would like to thank those who chose to serve. Yes, it's a big deal and they should get recognition for what they did. But I also want to say something else. There are a lot of our troops coming back with PTSD and other ailments and there's only one way to cure that and it's not at the bottom of a bottle or in a bag of weed. It's called counseling.

See a therapist, seriously.

Think back to when our relatives and neighbors came home from serving in Vietnam..they had problems and many of them sought out psychological help. I know my uncle did. He came home and had nightmares, I know this because his wife told us and he finally started seeing a psychiatrist and started taking anxiety meds and anti depressants. After a while he no longer needed the meds and was able to stop seeing the psychologist. Those people self medicating aren't going to be able to get through what is bothering them if in fact they have PTSD and aren't just faking it for the weed and disability payments...which does happen more often than you think it does.

I had several relatives including my grandfather who served in the military and when they came back you didn't see them acting the way you see people acting these days. They put their big boy pants on, acted like a man, got real help if they needed it and got on with their lives.

If you are telling others that medical marijuana helps with PTSD you are perpetuating the problem..you are the problem and you are brain washing others to believe this BS the people who really truly need psychological counseling and the right medicine aren't going to get it because of people like you.

Stop being a whiny little girl and really deal with your problems.

I had PTSD at age 12 when my mother's boyfriend shot himself in front of me. I didn't deal with it for a few years and then I finally got psychological help and anxiety medications, it took a while but it no longer bothers me the way it used to. It's still there, but if I had hid my head at the bottom of a bottle or in a drug induced stupor, nothing would have changed.

Happy Memorial Day

I am Anti-Marijuana

I have seen too many people spouting the lies about marijuana for way to long and I just can't nor won't be quiet about how I feel about it any longer. I am anti marijuana, anti medical marijuana. It's a drug, it gets you high. Period. There are no good uses for it, it doesn't help anyone, it doesn't cure cancer and it sure as hell doesn't help anyone suffering from PTSD, social anxiety, depression or seizures.

Someone actually sent me an article in which they proclaimed that a parent gave their child marijuana and it cured his cancer, it's utterly ridiculous. If it cures cancer than why aren't all the pot heads who have cancer and are smoking it because they falsely believe that it can help them gain their appetite back or ease their pain..how come it isn't curing their cancer? Because it doesn't cure cancer. That's why. It's not medicine. Stop spreading your lies about how this is a natural medicine and it cures all kinds of things. Just because it grows in the ground does not mean it's medicine. Oleander also grow in the ground..if you eat them they kill you. Just because it's "all natural" doesn't mean it's good for you.

It's a drug. It gets you high. That's all it does.

Want to ease symptoms of depression, anxiety or PTSD? Take a xanax and talk to a psychiatrist. Pot does not cure these ailments, it masks them while you are HIGH as hell and you don't care. Just like an alcoholic when he gets drunk doesn't care about his problems while he is drunk the pot head isn't bothered by their problems while high and gets a false sense of being "better" because they are smoking pot, when in actuality they are just too high to really understand what's going on in their brain.

Smoking pot actually causes a lot of the symptoms that people smoke it for. It causes paranoia, diarrhea, foggy thinking, weakened immune system, lung disease and makes seizure disorders worst.

I found some great pages on Fb that you can join if you are against marijuana getting anymore wide spread than it already is.

Mothers Against Synthetic Pot

Marijuana Makes You Violent

Anti Marijuana

Do You Give Money To The Homeless?

I have on occasion given a few dollars to a homeless person who was standing on the street asking for food money. I just hate the thought of someone going hungry.

Then I saw this documentary a few years ago about the homeless in Las Vegas where a news crew hung out with over a dozen homeless people and they showed the crew how they made money, how much they made and what their life was really like.

Most the the homeless people they followed had homes and a car and wore old stinky clothes and held signs that read "Homeless need money for food"

They showed the crew that they were making upwards of $100 a day and when they made enough they would walk around the block, get int heir car and drive home.

Some of the people said they couldn't get a job because they were felons, made more money pan handling or were drug addicts and couldn't hold down a job.

It was sad but it also made me mad.

So the next time I saw a homeless person asking for money for food I asked them if they would like a burger from the fast food place I was going to. Only one time out of 4 did the guy say yes. All the other guys said they would rather have the money which they did not get.

Now I realize not all homeless have cars, a home or are going to use the money for drugs, booze ect.. but if I offer to buy them food you would think they would be happy to accept it and that's not always the case because some of them are scam artists and don't want food, they want the money for other reasons.

I think if someone wants to help the real homeless that actually need the help, they should give money to the shelters, food banks, chow halls, and homeless shelters that help the homeless in their area.

Celebrity Tweets

I know other people have found funny celebrity Tweets and posted them and I read a few and found them pretty funny so I thought I might do the same thing. Oh and if you didn't know...@GlamBulge is Adam Lamberts page for his 'bulge'.

Robin Williams @robinwilliams 8 Apr  Hey, smells too good to poop here! #Leonard pic.twitter.com/AIdDIhwtpD

GlamBulge @TheGlambulge 3 May  haven't tweeted in a while...but trust me...the bulge is ever alive. ;D

Cher @cher 8 May  OMG! My 87 Yr old MOTHER JUST TOLD ME MY FATHER STOLE A CAR & TOOK IT 2MEXICO & SOLD IT! OMG! Guess I come by car theft from my dad!! OMG !

Ellen DeGeneres @TheEllenShow 13 May  Happy birthday, Stevie Wonder! I just tweeted to say I love you.

Leonard Nimoy @TheRealNimoy 10 May  I've been told i'm in the new Star Trek movie. I'll see for myself when I attend the LA premiere next Tuesday. #LLAP

Ian McKellen @IanMcKellen 29 Apr  Dear Willie, You are far too young to play Gandy.But nice try; have a stoner of a birthday. Love and admiration. Ian http://bit.ly/11S8A3k

Samuel L. Jackson @SamuelLJackson 6 May  MUTHAFUKKAZ left Manu WIDE OPEN?!!!! # Deserve To Lose!!! Brain Fart. Almost speechless, WTF!

Jonathan Frakes @jonathansfrakes 25 Apr  I remember when flying was fun✈

Tom Hanks @tomhanks 12 Apr  Another lost spatula in Hell's Kitchen. When will it stop? When? Hanx http://say.ly/Trb5A4D

George Takei @GeorgeTakei 20 Apr  Thanks for all the Bday wishes. Yes, I do share this day 4/20 with a lady named Mary Jane.

Brent Spiner @BrentSpiner 30 Apr  Thanks to many of you I now know that my masseuse is a woman. She deceived me with her disguise (beard) and her lie about Harvard.

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too.

This week I received a sample of Garnier BB cream

Rufflies trash bags

Purina One Smart Blend cat food. 

I found the links for these freebies at Freebie Shark and Hey It's Free. 

I also got a free box of Wheat Thins just for Tweeting @WheatThins in there promotion. Go to their Twitter page and take a look at their free box promotion to get your own free box of Wheat Thins.

Just click on either one of those links to be taken to those freebie sites and sign up for any freebies that you see you want. It usually takes 6-8 weeks for free samples to come in the mail. 

Elective Mastectomy

I just heard on the news that Angelina Jolie and a Miss America contestant have both elected to have a Mastectomy because they have a high risk of getting breast cancer in the future.

They don't have breast cancer now and they don't know if they ever will but they choose to have surgery and cut a piece of themselves off...just in case.

I had thought about this some years ago after finding out that you could actually do this even when there's nothing wrong with you right now. My grandmother had breast cancer, my mom had throat cancer, my aunt had stomach cancer, my uncle had lung cancer and my grandfather had cancer. There's a big history of cancer in my family...but after thinking about it I decided not to do anything like this unless I actually find out I have cancer.

I know some people think why wait? Why take the chance that it could become stage 3 in a few short weeks and kill you before you even know you have it.

Why? Because I'm not going to worry about these types of things until or if they happen. I understand other's choice and reasons for going to such drastic measures but I decided that wasn't the right choice for me.

I wonder what criteria they use to tell you that you have a 90% chance of getting this cancer. Is it just family history and the fact that you have the gene that may cause this cancer or is it something else. I mean what if they find a gene that can detect bone cancer, brain cancer, brain tumors, eye cancer..ect..are people going to elect to have an arm or part of their brain removed just to be on the safe side?

I don't know...but if science keeps moving along the way it is, we might find out.

Yeah, That Should Fix It!

So I woke up last week to a painter right outside my living room window and he was painting the overhang right outside my window that hangs over the walkway by our apartments. Now this overhang has major cracks in it and when it rains the water runs right through the cracks and onto the walkway. On the other side of the building this happened last year and the overhang fell down because it got soaked with water. That's what's happening now on my side. 

So what does the manager do about the cracks? Why she sends a painter out to paint over them. The cracks are still there but now it's painted. I'm sure that fresh coat of paint will stop the water from falling through the gaping holes in the overhang...not!

The painter was such an idiot that he dripped paint all over the side walk and didn't bother trying to clean it up.

Paint drips can be seen along the entire length of the walkway.

Down past my apartment door the painter didn't even bother to paint the entire overhang..just threw some fresh paint over the cracks and left everything else the old color. Yeah that looks wonderful. 

Oh and the apartment right next door to me that has a roof leak and can't be rented...yeah the manager and maintenance man decided to take out the air conditioner and leave a huge hole right into the apartment that birds, insects, bee's, dust, water/rain, and people...let's not forget about how this isn't the best neighborhood and we have drug dealers and stupid teens looking for places just like this to hang out and do drugs or whatever they're doing. So keeping a huge hole open to the apartment for weeks probably isn't the best idea they've ever had.