A MeeshMellow World

Pinterest Round-up: Art For My Home

Published on August 10, 2011 in Daily Rambling. Closed

Here’s another round-up from my pinterest page. I admit that many of these ideas came from other friends who took the time to find these little treasures online. I just finished our mural wall in our house and realized that I still have quite a bit of art to hang, but not much more wall space. I guess some of these will have to wait…

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1. Important Dates in a Frame
2. Map of California Coast
3. Julia Child Quote
4. Please Wash Your Hands
5. Hello Front Door
6. Over the Rainbow Quote
7. Happiness is

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Pup profile: Pebbles

Published on August 8, 2011 in Daily Rambling. Closed

You thought I wasn’t gonna give you the last profile of the dogs today? Have some faith! I saved our dog for last because- well she didn’t “go home” after a week’s stay. You’ve all met Pebbles.

She is the best dog ever. Look at that face. I dare you not to fall in love. Think that’s sweet? Look at these tender doritto-smelling puppy paws:

When you are diabetic you really begin to appreciate that your dog smells like tortilla chips… Sweet delicious tortilla chips…

… Oh sorry. Back to Pebbles…

These ratings are on a scale of 1-10, 1 being not into it and 10 being unbearably into it.

Snuggle Scale: 9
Food Obsession: 10
Amount of bark: 2
Cuteness of bark: 10-4 depending on what she is barking at. It’s a 4 when it is the neighbor’s dog that she is barking at and a 10 when it is the hiccup-like gruff when she hears the neighbor’s kids playing in our front yard.
Jump height: 7
Playfulness: 5
Car-riding: 10
Pathetic-ness upon your return home: 9

Best quality: there are too many to count. She is just awesome. She does only poop behind the bushes, making it super easy to keep the yard clean.

Worst quality: her obsession with the neighbor’s dog. I wish she would just give it a break already.

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Pup profile: Penny

Published on August 5, 2011 in Daily Rambling. Closed

Next up is Penny. Known as Pennster, Penpen, and a slew of other names. How old is she now? I think we established that she is 3 years old. The kids have had her since she was a puppy. As you can see, the kids like their dogs small and fluffy. Penny is a havanese.

Penny is aloof. She is the one who just chills by herself when she wants and only gets close when she wants. She pees when people come in the house and greet her, though this is getting better.

These ratings are on a scale of 1-10, 1 being not into it and 10 being unbearably into it.

Snuggle Scale: 5 – she only gets close when the lights go off.
Food Obsession: 2
Amount of bark: 10
Cuteness of bark: 0.00 – I’m sorry Penny, but for a breed of dog that is supposed to be quiet, you certainly broke the mold.
Jump height: 1 – she needs lifted onto the bed… and sometimes off as well.
Playfulness: 7
Car-riding: 2
Pathetic-ness upon your return home: 2

Best quality: she can keep herself happy
Worst quality: BARK

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Pup profile: Maeby

Published on August 4, 2011 in Daily Rambling. Closed

So this has been a big week in A Meeshmellow World. My sister and her husband went on vacation and we went from a one dog household to a three dog, one rabbit household. It has been surprisingly easy for me to juggle all of these animals, partly because the part of my brain that screams “overwhelmed” has been disengaged and partly because “snuggle” could be my new middle name. Both of these qualities I am attributing to pregnancy.

All of this time with the dogs has made me think about their individual and pack mentality. I thought I would share this with you because it gives me a reason to post pictures of cute puppies.

Let me introduce you to Maeby. She the youngest (just about a year now) of the bunch and my sister and her husband adopted her less than 6 months ago.

She has got to be the wiggliest dog I have ever met. I also thought I could never meet a dog who wanted more attention than our dog, but here she is.

These ratings are on a scale of 1-10, 1 being not into it and 10 being unbearably into it.

Snuggle Scale: 15
Food Obsession: 10
Amount of bark: 2
Cuteness of bark: 10 – sweetest little howl I ever heard
Jump height: 8 – I saw her head pop up to the countertop last night when I was dishing out dinner
Playfulness: 8
Car-riding: 8
Pathetic-ness upon your return home: 9

Best quality: she is damn sweet
Worst quality: she eats poop

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Internet Math

Published on August 3, 2011 in Daily Rambling. Closed

I have a bad habit. A really terrible bad habit. I look at things on the internet and flag them for later use only to come back to a backlog of a billion things to organize. Here are my current stats…

Starred items in my RSS feed that need to be sorted: 474

These are articles on starting your own business and being successful, as well as items I want to get on Pinterest before I forget their awesome existence.

Number of emails in my inbox at work: 3,837

Dude. This is insurmountable. I have given myself 30 minutes a day to sort through this stuff. I can’t believe how much email I get here at the office. It’s a good thing I can delete the approximately 1,300 emails related to getting coffee or lunch

Number of emails in my gmail to sort: 1,963

This is my NON-junk mail account. And I have 2,000 emails. The problem with Gmail is that they make it so easy to just not file things. With that handy dandy search, I can always find what I am looking for, so I have a tendency to just let things sit in my inbox.

Number of emails in my hotmail to sort: 1,052

This is my junk email. I check it 2-3 times a week as it is the email I use for online purchases. I am kind of surprised that the number is so low here. I am not going to panic until I reach about 2,000.

Let’s do the math on how long it will take to get my internet back into a svelte little organized machine:

That is MORE THAN ONE WHOLE WORK WEEK! This doesn’t even include sorting through my RSS feed. You know what I might do instead of sorting through the email? Make baby boy pants.

Yes I did the math. I now wish I hadn’t. Yikes! Does any one else have this problem?

p.s. I think the explosion drawing function in powerpoint is highly under-utilized. Just sayin’.

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