Today is Dixie’s first birthday!  Woo hoo!  So in honor of her birthday, she’s gotten some yummy food (her most favorite ever) and lots of belly rubs and ear scritches and rump scritches, too!

I have to work today so her party isn’t ‘til this weekend.  We’ll have her a proper party then with cake, hats and a balloon. 

Anyway, just wanted to share a few photos of her through this past year. 

LOOK AT THAT CUTE-ASS flopped down ear!  I could have just gnawed it right off the top of her itsy bitsy head.  It stood up a few days later. 

Don’t hate coz you don’t have a pink camo teeshirt with a rhinestone skull on it.  If you were Dixie, you’d be cool like this, too.  But you aren’t.  SO sorry!  Look how long her legs are in these photos in proportion to her body.  She has grown into those legs now.  LOL!

She had been playing in the mud this day and was quite pleased with herself in how dirty she had gotten.  Until I picked her up to go give her a bath. 














This photo was taken after I spent the afternoon planting pots full of flowers that she and Buddy ate as soon as I went inside to wash my hands or something.  Anyway, I came outside and her face was covered in dirt.  Now, is this a guilty look or what?    And now look how huge her ears are in this picture. She has grown more into her ears.  Before she was looking kinda Yoda-ish.  Yoooooooooooooda....Y-O-D-A Yooooooooooooooda....teehee

Here she is snuggling with her favorite toy.  Buddy.

Before her first hair cut:

After her first hair cut:  (Of course the bitch wouldn’t stay still to get a decent damn picture.)

Here she is in one of her Christmas sweaters.  With, of course, her Buddy. 

Of course, she also likes Teddy a lot.  Teddy likes sleeping on the laptop because it is warm and he’s a whore.

And here is all growededed up Dixie. 

She is my little princess...and she just continues to make me love her more all the time with her goofy antics and how she gets all hepped up about things sometimes.  She makes me laugh daily!  Stinky rotten thing. 

Recently (I know, I’m behind the times, shut up.) I have been reading the labels more of the foods that I buy.  And while I buy fresh, organic and wholesome foods, sometimes dammit, I just want to eat a meal from a box or have a tuna salad sandwich.  Anyway, I’ve been noticing how much SODIUM is in shit.  Like tons of freakin’ sodium. Like way more that I would have ever realized.  It is quite scary the amounts really.  I honestly never realized just how much sodium that we ingest regularly.  And it is in nearly everything, too.  Even my bag of frozen organic green beans (I hate fresh green beans...gag!) has sodium in it.  They don’t offer a no salt added version of it.  Disgusting really if you think about it.  Most people read up on the fats and calories in a particular dish but never look much further than that.  At least I didn’t used to so I assume most folks don’t.  Well, I am now.  Geez.

Now, there isn’t a reason that I started studying this.  I don’t have any high blood pressure.  In fact, mine has always been extremely low.  But still, why add it if I don’t need to, right?  And I LIKE salty foods.  I love salt.  It tastes good and makes me happy.  But I’d much prefer to add my own than to have it forced upon me.  And I’m NOT going on some crazy crusade about sodium content in foods.  I’m just going to make better decisions about it.  Like, okay...instead of this canned chicken to make my chicken salad with, I’ll just use leftover baked chicken.  Then I can add my insanely sodium-ized piece of cheese with it.  I ain’t givin’ up my cheese.  Not. gonna. happen.  Cheese is the only reason for eating.  If you want more info on the sodium thing, just google but here is a starting point.

Anyway, I’m going to a stampin’ party tomorrow!  If y’all don’t know, I have started another papercrafting blog.  I’m not linking it here but if you want to know it and don’t already (most do) then I’ll send you the link.  I am really enjoying my crafts.  SO much fun and stuff.

I gotta clean house, too.  Not looking forward to it as there are piles of magazines and mail on the counter which drives me INSANE.  I hate piles of anything (well other than money...heh!)

a properly fitting pair of trousers.  I recently bought two pair to wear to work.  In two sizes smaller than my others.  Of course I didn’t try them on at the store, that would be just weird.  So I get them home, they are BOTH the same size....and one pair fits okay but the legs are short, the others I can wear with someone else.  Okay, firstly, I am not in the least bit tall or long-legged.  I’ve got short legs, I’m only 5’5” but the one pair?  Are flooding.  The others...I don’t know how they are so disproportionate.  The length of the legs are fine.  The waist is a little loose but okay.  But the thighs and hips part are HUGE.  I feel like if I stood out in the wind that I’d billow like a freakin’ flag.  Ugh.  I guess I’m going to have to go to the store and try them on next time.  Oh did I mention they were both the same brand?  Yeah coz they are/were.  I’m so annoyed at finding clothing! 

And it is cold here.  Okay, okay so it isn’t cold by NORMAL people’s reckoning..but by my accounts, it is cold.  I had to turn the heat on today!  Even the furchildren were cold.  Dixie was snuggled up on me on the sofa on a warm, fuzzy blankie and Teddy and Buddy curled up with one another on the rug in the sunlight by the back door.  It has to be cold if these two are snuggling with one another.  Teddy doesn’t like Buddy much because Buddy chases him.  Dixie and Teddy snuggle up with one another all the time.  And since it was so unusual for these two to be so close together, I had to snap some photographs.  (And then I broke my camera.  Nice.  It still works just fine but the little door where the memory card is had a little piece of plastic break off.  I don’t know what the plastic was supposed to do but it was there and then it wasn’t.)

  Weird furchildren.

Other than that, I’m looking forward to having a 3-day weekend starting tomorrow!  Yaaaaaaaaay!