Titles - Yay or Nay?

I know I have the "title" option but haven't used it although I may from now on ... I'll try to make them enticing enough to want you to read the rest of my entry. :-) Hope you're enjoying your reads so far!

I'm a bad mommy ... a bad PET mommy, that is. Why you ask? Because I have thus far failed to mention them in this here blog! I have 3 dogs. Two we picked, one each from the Miami-Dade County Dog Pound and one from the Broward one, and one we inherited when we bought the farm. Their names are Buford (Beauford), Snoopy, and Smiley (Sonrisa - Smiley in Spanish - or Sonri, for short). Big Buf is a bassett hound, Pooty (as Ian used to call Snoopy when he couldn't say Snoopy - sweetheart!) is a beagle, and Sonri is a mix of pitbull and something else. They're all great and we love them all.

We also have a cat named Chomper or Chompi for short. We've had him since he was an itty bitty baby and he got his name because he bit Tod (and drew blood, may I add!) when Tod picked him up. He was stuck in our backyard fence and we kept hearing him meowing all night so Tod went out there at dawn and found him. Love at 1st bite, people! Tod LOVES that cat as does Ian and now Dylan, too. Both the babies have just hugged the poor kitty to pieces.

Me? It goes without saying. I've been a cat lover all my life and wacked my head many-a-times as a baby trying to get out from under the china hutch with the kitties we had who'd go under there to hide from me, I'm sure. I would refuse to let them go so that I could get out. I had scratches galore all the time to prove my undying love for those little suckers and the pictures of me putting them in my baby doll stroller, too. I had NO use for the dolls and would just throw them out the stroller! Kitties only please! :-)

As for dogs, we always had them growing up but I only came to love them once I met Tod. Now, they're all my babies and they all get along too, the cat and the dogs. It's a full-on happy family around here!

Recently my sister had people post the story of how they met their loved "one" on her blog and here's what I posted as my story of how I met my man, Tod, or how he's affectionately known in these parts, Todness.

I went to a high school friend's fraternity Halloween party in 1988 and there he was standing on the side of the road. As I drove by looking for a place to park, our eyes just met. He had beautiful, BIG light eyes although I could not make out the color because it was nighttime. (They are green, by the way. BEAUTIFUL green eyes.) Once inside, I looked for the guy with the beautiful eyes 'til I found him. He was standing in one corner of the outside open-air terrace with his friends and I stood on the opposite corner with mine. I kept looking at him, he kept looking at me but when I looked away one time and then looked back over to this corner, he was gone! I thought I'd never see him again when someone taps me on the shoulder and wouldn't you know who it is! Yep, my guy. When someone asked who'd like to go get drinks at the convenience store, Mr. Green Eyes (as I later took to calling him) and I volunteered, went, came back, dropped off the drinks and sat back in his car for the rest of the night. The disappearance act made for a flip-out by my friends although they had nothing to worry about. He never kissed me the whole night until he asked me if he could at the very end. Once we did, he sweetly said "I've been wanting to do that all night." We talked about 10 times the next day and 5 months later were engaged. A year and a half after that we got married on a Wednesday. It was August 29, 1990 but 4 years later, the unthinkable - we DIVORCED! He married someone else 4 months later but they also divorced (of course) and he came back to me. I'd had my relationships but never remarried but 7 years later I remarried him, my ex, 11 years to the day and date - Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - from our first marriage and even with the SAME rings. As our wedding invitation said: "we were always meant to be." Indeed! Today we have 2 beautiful boys (Ian 3 1/2 and Dylan who turns 1 tomorrow) and the grandest, most wonderful, abundant, positive, loving life I could have ever imagined. Notice I didn't say perfect but I've gotta say it's actually more than that. It has just been nothing short of a dream and a fairytale and I wish everyone this kind of happiness! -- February 22, 2007

I finished reading the Don Colbert book, Stress Management 101. I'm a fast reader but this is actually a short, little book so that's why I'm done reading it a couple of days after posting it on "What I'm Reading" on the main page. Anyway, I was reading a chapter or two a day and it was just great. Everything he says is very true and really good advice actually for living a really good life. He uses scripture to illustrate a lot of his points so it's awesome to see the Bible used that way. I recommend the book highly!