Our Abandoned Friend

I am left trying to find a home for this beautiful kitty because yet again one of our neighbors has moved out and left their pet behind.   I just do not get this mentality that people have that make them think it's OK to get pets and then leave them behind when it's no longer convenient to have them anymore.  I have 4 cats and they are my children.  I would feed them before I would feed myself,  and I could never leave them behind.   I mean come on people these are domesticated animals.   They don't know how to fend for themselves, they count on us for that.   If you are going to get a pet please make sure you can commit to that pets care for the next 16 to 20 years or however long they live.   Anything less is animal cruelty.

Today is World Animal Day

Today is the official World Animal day so I thought that we could all just take a moment to stop and focus on animal rights.  Anyone who knows me knows that I am an animal lover to the core.  My life revolves around my two cats.  I have an orange tabby cat named Milo and a black and white tabby cat named Zoey.  They are my babies.  If I could I would take in more animals.  I have always loved animals.  One of the things that saddens me is the thought that animals are treated poorly.  They don't have their own voice.  We must be their voice.  We must speak out for them.  So if you have the time today to stop and donate 5 or 10 dollars to your local Humane Society, or even pick up a bag of dog or cat food and drop it off there that would be a great way to show that you care on this day.  Or just give that stray cat in your neighborhood a bowl of milk and a little love today. 
Here's one idea.  Its a little out of the way but it is from now until the 8th of this month.  There is a fundraiser at the Oceana County Animal Shelter today.  They are taking returanable bottles and cans to help their shelter.  The address is 8214 W. Hazel Rd Mears Mi. 49436.
Another place you could donate to is The Pet Pantry.  The Pet Pantry is a local non profit in Muskegon, Mi that helps people who can afford food and supplies for their pets so that they don't have to lose their pets or put them in shelters.  You could donate food or money to them.  The web site to them is http://www.petpantrymi.org/donate.html
OK, I will get off my soap box but I just wanted to take a moment to let everyone know that today is World Animal Day.  I also wanted to show you pictures of my kitties as a celebration of this day.  You can check out world animal day at http://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/

Milo

Zoey

Inspired to Blog

So last night instead of going out and running all over the town with a friend like I usually do I stayed home for a change and watched a movie.  The movie that I watched was "Julie and Julia"  which was a movie based on the true life stories of two women.  One was Julia Child the American woman who wrote a book on cooking french food, and the other was Julie Powell, a young woman who became famous because she spent a year cooking all 520 or so recipes in Julia Child's cook book and then she blogged about it.  What made people fall in love with her blog was that she was so inspired and so honest.  She was authentically herself.  She knew who she was and she wasn't hiding it, she was embracing it, and that is what people fell in love with.  So that is what inspired me.  I have always loved to write but in some ways I feel like my writing has been inhibited and not as honest as it can be.  So here's the challenge.  This blog is going to be the authentic me.  Its going to be about the things I love like crochet, reading and my cats.  But more than anything it is going to be about my thoughts before the editing.  I am not going to hold back.  What you see is what you get.  I am tired of writing about the weather or how nice the weekend activities have been.  Sometimes I think as adults we become so good at holding back that we almost forget how to let go and be authentic.  So now I will express myself authentically.  If you disagree with me that's fine, I didn't write this blog to impress you. 
   So what else is this blog going to be about?  One of the things I am going to blog on is my crochet projects.  Here is a hat that I made this summer for my niece, Lilly, who is 1 year old.  I have included a couple of pictures of the hat for you to see. 

The other things that this web page is going to be about is the books that I am reading.  The reason I want to write about this is because I really have a passion for reading.  I feel as though I really can escape when I can find a good book to read.  My favorite books to pick up and read are usually Christian fiction, or inspiration, or science fiction.

The last thing that this blog is going to be about is my life in recovery from drugs and alcohol and my recovery from anorexia, and my new recovery from smoking cigarettes.  Everyday I thank God for freedom from these chains.  I have 7 years free from Anorexia, 2 years 9 months free from Alcohol, and 2 months free from cigarettes.  Everyday God gives me a beautiful gift and I want to share this gift with the world.