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Why I volunteer with a dog rescue

Getting into bully breed dog rescue has changed my life. I no longer have any free time on the weekends, but I love it. It doesn't matter if I'm standing outside in the heat at an adoption event, spending all of my gas money driving across the metroplex (south Ft Worth to Mesquite is a LONG drive) transporting dogs, creating newsletters to send, reading adoption applications, or inspecting random people's homes to make sure they are safe for our dogs. I get messages from friends all the time, asking if I can help a dog they found. Sometimes I succeed and find a home. Sometimes I have to ignore my facebook feed because I can't save all of them. I follow several animal shelters on Facebook, and see all the dogs that need help. I hope and wish for the day when the steady stream of dogs in need of help stops. I cry when dropping one of our dogs back off at the boarding facility because a meet and greet didn't go well. I have had to teach myself to not fall hopelessly
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First Day of School 2016

**CNBC TRIGGER WARNING** School started today. If you missed my last post, you missed the big news- we're PARENTS! We temporarily adopted my niece. The last 3 weeks have been a huge adjustment for us. In a good way, mostly. Hubs and I are having a lot of pain issues, but we aren't used to being so active. Either we'll keel over from the pain or our bodies will eventually get used to it. Getting up at 5:30 to make sure the kidlet is on a bus by 7 is definitely a change of pace from our usual "sleep til 12" schedule, but it was a needed change. I can get a full day's work in and still be home in time to make dinner at a decent hour and bathe the kid. Although it takes time to adjust, I think it's good for all of us. We are actually having to make 3 meals a day, and I think that has been the toughest. I'm never hungry in the AM, so having to actually set aside time to make food for the kidlet is unusual. I'll have to start making my breakfast sm
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This is a MAJOR life update.

Hubs and I did something CRAZY this week. We became parents. Yes, you read that right. After the years of complaining that we will never be parents, things has changed. For at least a few months, anyway. My niece, G, is a little crazy, like me. For not being biologically related, you sure wouldn't be able to tell by looking at her mental health evaluations. She has been diagnosed as high functioning autistic and manic depressive, which is the fancy new term for bipolar. We've tried just about everything, from meds to psych hospitals, and nothing has worked well. Then she made a grown up decision to ask her mom if she could live with someone else as an only child for a while, to see if it helps "make her better". The sad part of this? She's 7, and she knows that she really needs help. She has a lot of issues with expressing emotions and feelings with words, so she uses actions, like anger, to try and get her point across. Unfortunately her siblings don't un
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July 2016 Monthly Goals

Here was June's list - Work: - Keep up the 6 hour days - Mostly.  - Work on/finish the freelance web design job now that the client has made some decisions - Worked, yes.  Health:  - GET BACK TO YOGA. (This will be on my list until I succeed) - Nope - Continue meal/batch prepping - Not really - Keep taking my meds. - YES - Do the Walk of Hope - YES! - Do better at staying off oil - Ehhhh... Vegan junk food will be the death of me lol Personal/Home: - Clean my kitchen from top to bottom - nope - Clean the living room, more particularly the zoo area, from top to bottom - nope - Work another pet adoption event (that'll make 2 for the month!) - Yes! - Have fun with my niece when she comes to visit! - Yes! - Start working on next month's surprise :) - Yes! - Finish reading the self-help books I rented from the library - Still reading I'm so excited about the July surprise. Only 5 people actually know what's going on, and they are just as happ
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Super Late June 2016 Goals

It's halfway into June and I realized that I never did my monthly goal post. Better late than never! Seeing as how I have missed half of the month already, it'll probably be a shorter list. Here was May's list: Work: - Keep up the 6+ hour days - mostly - Host a Norwex party - nope - Finish up a freelance web design job I picked up -no, had to wait for client.  Health: - GET BACK TO YOGA. - no.  - Re-order the supplements I'm out of - Most of them - Keep meal prepping - yep! I did pretty good last month Personal/Home: - Get office and spare bathroom cleaned up/organized for visiting family - YES! Even though that family never showed up. - Go to 2 rock concerts! - YES! There was some crap surrounding one that caused some major emotional issues for Hubs and I, but we've changed our perspectives and moved on. - Keep writing in my happiness journal - I stopped midway through the month and need to start again. - Work an pet adoption event - No, it got c
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May Goals: 2016 Edition

Work: - Continue working 6+ hours a day - YEP - Host a Norwex party - Nope, because the hostess keeps forgetting to call people. - Help my first consultant  get started - No. Health: - Work out at least twice a week . - Nope. - Be consistent with my supplements. - Yes! Now I just need to reorder the important ones that I have run out of. - Meal prep on weekends so I have food when I don't want to cook - I've done this once, which is so much better than not at all. It was nice to have meals finished for several days. School: - Start and finish my Mobile App Development course - Just need to take the exam, which I might not have the cash to pay for. - Work with Hubs to set a schedule to finish another course together - Nope. Hubs isn't really interested in taking any of the courses that I have paid for, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. PCOS Group: - Plan April's Dallas event and post details in the group - Yes. - Plan May's Ft Worth ev
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April Goal Update #2

Another Goal Update! I'm fairly happy with my goals so far. But first, I have to mention something that is weighing heavily on me today. Prince died. I usually don't get upset about celebrity deaths, but this one really hurts, because I almost met him. It's been almost 10 years now. My grandparents and I had dinner with Larry Graham, former bassist/vocalist for Sly and the Family Stone. He was a good friend of Prince's, and had told Prince in advance that we were having dinner. This was the same time period that Prince decided to start studying with Larry to become a Jehovah's Witness. Since my grandfather was a JW Circuit Overseer in the Minneapolis area back then, Larry requested that my grandfather attend one of the studies. My grandparents always talked about me, so when Prince found out that I would be in town, he went to Larry's for dinner. Sadly, we had left about 20 minutes before he arrived. When I found out, I was so sad. He has always been one of
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