December 2011 | Miki's Hope

If I could ONLY breath

Saturday, December 31, 2011

This is gettin' real old--the meds are making me feel absolutely horrible--and what is even worse--my hands and legs are trembling. Just a reaction to the meds I hope!! Now I remember why I almost never go to a doctor!!! But all this is conspiring to make it very difficult to type.

I was going to write up a couple of book review/giveaways but I think I may try a bit later--I can barely keep my eyes open so I think I will let you go for now.



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And the winner of "The Fund" is.................................

Out of the 82 lovely comments the number drawn by Random.org was 37

nikkilynn46 said... 37

I follow on GFC
December 17, 2011 12:56 PM

Congratulations Nikki Lynn!! What you have to do now is reply to the email I will be sending you in a few moments within 48 hours with your full name and mailing address so that I can forward it on to the publisher who has been nice enough to sponsor this give away.



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And the winner of the $25 Lavender-Love GC is...............

I went to Random.org and out of the 290 comments (thank you all very, very much) the number that was chosen was #49

Cathy W said... 49

Like you on Facebook (Cathy Wallace)
December 26, 2011 4:38 PM

Congratulations Cathy!! What you have to do now is go to my Lavender Love site and chose up to $25 in products--then respond to my email within 48 hours with your complete name, address and phone number and the items you would like ordered for you. I will have the items sent to you directly from Lavender-Love!!!

And remember to come back often to Miki's Hope for lots of other great giveaway!!


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How's Everyone doing today?

Friday, December 30, 2011

I'm still sick but hanging in there and as usual am late for work (nothing new there). The newest addition to my giveaways is a big one--$190.00 PayPal and it started last night at midnight and ends 1/2/2012. You can enter on the rafflecopter form on my blog. You can only enter ONCE--if you have already entered on someone else's then you can't enter on mine!! Home Grown Families and Moma to 4 Blessings put together this great giveaway.
And of course I put up a $50 Winners Choice Giveaway and the $25PayPal-Thankful for my readers is still up but will be coming down pretty soon.
Then there is the $25 in Lavender Love products you could win (this one ends tonight! So does The book giveaway "The Fund"--
AND I really love the music CD by Dee Emeigh--you gotta come listen and then sign up for this giveaway.
Well gotta get going now
Go to www.mikishope.com for all these great giveaways!!

Have a great day!


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Cashing In The New Year Event - $190 Cash Giveaway! Ends 01/02

Hostessed by Home Grown Families and Mama to 4 Blessings with the help of several other fantastic group of bloggers we bring you Cashin' in the New Year! This giveaway runs from 12:01 AM on Friday 12/30 and will run until Monday, 1/2 at 11:59 PM (all Eastern times). One winner will receive $190 Cash into their paypal!

a Rafflecopter giveaway


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$50.00 Giveaway-Winners Choice-More Grateful then You Know!!-Ends 1/21

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

This contest is now closed--Thank you everyone for entering!! There were 1063 comments--Random.org picked #759

mahnrafjtb said...

tweeted this message.
https://twitter.com/#!/mahnrafjtb/status/157999778196766720


Thank you again everyone for taking the time to enter!

Now all you have to do is reply to the email I am about to send you and tell me whether you would like your $50.00 in PayPal, a Barnes & Noble GC or a Visa GC.
If you want PayPal please reply to my email with your PayPal addy. If either of the other two I will need your full name and address in order to mail it to you. You will have 48 hours to reply!!

Ok I am home with lots and lots of meds to take-lots and lots of books to read-bad case of Bronchitis--but as promised I tallied up who ever answered my plea for assistance and the

WINNERS CHOICE gets it

So this Giveaway will be for either

1. $50.00 PayPal
2. $50.00 Barnes & Noble Card
3. $50.00 Visa Card







And because I am so GRATEFUL to all of you I am going to make this SUPER SIMPLE

Mandatory: EITHER follow me on GFC OR Follow me on G1

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Tweet Once Daily

That's it---

Just please remember to put your email address in each and every comment-one separate comment for each thing you do--I will, of course, use Random.org to pick the winner at the end and the winner will have 48 hours to respond to the email I send them--One little thing--because this is WINNERS CHOICE it may take me a bit longer to get your prize to you-as I may have to go out and purchase the one you want!!

Good Luck EVERYONE



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I need some INPUT here!!! and Quickly!!!

I have been blogging for almost a year--I started in Dec of 2010--and I can't tell you all how very grateful I am that you like my blog!!! Now-----I have 2942 GFC followers--would love to get it to 3000 by the end of the year-(although I will be thrilled if it hits the 3000 mark the 2nd week of January 2012)-and I also want to do something special for all my loyal readers--I know you all love Barnes & Noble GC's and PayPal and Visa GC's--BUT which do you actually prefer? This is my dilemma--AND I NEED YOUR HELP!!

I will be going to that doctor's appointment, then to Barnes & Noble for that reading challenge--but when I get back---I would like to put up a giveaway for $50.00--Please leave comments below--just say PayPal, B&N GC or Visa GC-or say make it Winner's Choice!!-I will tally the results when I get back and a new Giveaway will be posted on my blog-called..............More Grateful Then you Know

So get your votes in---


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I can Not Get it Together today

Usually by this time (7:31 am est) I have entered my giveaways in a bunch of daily linkies, written a post and done various other computer related activities--
Not today--I did manage to pick the winner of the Mid Winter's Eve hop that I was giving a $25 B&N Cert for--and I emailed the winner! I entered some of my other giveaways into maybe 2 linkys (if you look at my linky list by week you will realize that I normally do a lot more then that!!) And I entered an Alexa lowering hop which I ultimately bookmarked because I can not seem to concentrate. This cold or whatever it is has really got me--I can barely keep my eyes open (coffee isn't helping)-well I am going to the doctor today so maybe he can get to the bottom of this and give me something to make me ALL BETTER--(or at least feel ALL BETTER)




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And the winner of the Mid Winter's Eve $25 B&N GC is...............

Thank you everyone for entering--there were 477 comments!! So what number did Random.org pop up with?

BookAttict said... 242

Happy Holidays & thanks for the giveaway!

Congratulations!! You won the $25 Barnes & Nobel Gift Certificate! I will be sending you an email in a few and all you have to do is within 48 hours reply back with your full name and mailing address--I will get it out to you!!

More great giveaways to come-so keep your eyes on Miki's Hope!



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A Trip to Barnes & Nobel is in my IMMEDIATE Future

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

As you might or might not have noticed I took the plunge and joined a reading challenge--which means that I have to start getting those books!! Now, like most of my readers I love James Patterson and the Woman's Mystery Series is the one that I am going to attempt to read every one of. Now that is all good--except--I have trolled the internet--B&N, Amazon, and a couple others I never even heard of before- have seen prices ranging from .99 to 10.14 (brand new). Now if you know me at all you will realize that after I have read and reviewed each book I will want to do a giveaway. Now this means I need new copies of these books---so when I ship it off to someone else it will be in near perfect condition!! And to top it off another of my favorite writers, Teresa Mederios new book "The Pleasure of Your Kiss" was just published and is ready for purchase!!! I have been waiting for that book it seems like forever!!!!! And of course I will be doing some more B&N Gift Certificate giveaway soon and need to get some of those (Just found out today that CVS does not sell the $25.00 ones!! Darn it all) And Janet Evanovitch-I have read Smokin Seventeen 4 times now---soon people soon---And of course Jane Feather's "Love's Charade" (on my 3rd reading right now) Can you tell I really like these books--AND James Patterson has a couple of new ones out as well--
I am going to finally go to the doctor tomorrow cause I fear I will never get over whatever it is I have without antibiotics--but I think a little side trip to B&N will put me in a much better mood!!!!




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Adgitize is closing it's doors!!

I just received an email from Ken Brown of Adgitize, which I am sure many of you did as well. They are shutting down shop as it seems they do not actually make enough money to keep it going--a good business decision on their part--I wonder how it is going to affect all the people using it? And there are MANY!! No longer will we get hits from people seeing our blog on others sites--

And don't worry--anyone they owe money to will be paid unless their paypal or address is invalid!! So go check now!!

We have until December 31st to take them off our sites----



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I've Signed up for "The Woman's Murder Mystery" Reading Challenge




I will sign up for Level 1 (to read 1-3 books in this series) and review them here--however--I will really be trying for Level 4 which will include one of this series books by Patterson which won't even be out until March 2012!! Here is the list of books currently in this series

The books in the Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson are:

1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, Book #1)
2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club, Book #2)
3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, Book #3)
4th of July (Women's Murder Club, Book #4)
The 5th Horseman (Women's Murder Club, Book #5)
The 6th Target (Women's Murder Club, Book #6)
7th Heaven (Women's Murder Club, Book #7)
The 8th Confession (Women's Murder Club, Book #8)
The 9th Judgment (Women's Murder Club, Book #9)
10th Anniversary (Women's Murder Club, Book #10)
11th Hour (Women's Murder Club, Book #11) - expected publication March 1, 2012


If you would like to sign up for this CHALLENGE click on over to Darlene's Book Nook

I'm signing up as a Level 1----but which level do YOU think I will actually achieve?
And remember--I will still be reading lots of other books as well!!


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Alexa------------

Monday, December 26, 2011

Good morning everyone--before I head off to work (tissues in hand) I was just thinking-I always hear and see stuff about the Alexa rating--although I hate to admit to this-that number drives me slightly insane-Now I don't do reviews for companies unless it is for those I sell or a friend sells-I do receive the occasional request to do a book review for a publisher which I always say yes to (still trying to figure out how they find me)-I think I read somewhere that the Alexa rating is from Amazon? I could be wrong here--and I was told that it is comprised of every single blog in the universe-which is NOT true-it is comprised of all the blogs that have the Alexa button or are somehow attached to Alexa. Do companies really use the Alexa parameter to figure out who to give their business to? Well just in case--I have decided that I will put a review on anyone's Alexa that puts up a review on mine--just respond to this post with your website and I will go in and look it over then find your alexa button and give you a nice review!!
My Alexa button is on the left hand side towards the bottom!




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And the winner of the $25 B&N GC is............

The Thankful for the Holidays giveaway is over--the lucky number drawn out of 231 (Thank you everyone) was number 37

Sophia Rose said... 37

For additional entry:

I already follow you on FB as: Sally Michele Shaw

Congratulations!! I will be sending you an email in just a few moments which you have to reply to within 48 hours with your complete name and mailing address so I can get the $25 Barnes & Noble Gift Certificate in the mail to you!!


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Christmas Let Down Giveaway Hop - $25 GC to Lavendar Love Ends 12/30

This giveaway is now closed. I went to Random.org and out of the 290 comments (thank you all very, very much) the number that was chosen was #49

Cathy W said... 49

Like you on Facebook (Cathy Wallace)
December 26, 2011 4:38 PM

Congratulations Cathy!! What you have to do now is go to my Lavender Love site and chose up to $25 in products--then respond to my email within 48 hours with your complete name, address and phone number and the items you would like ordered for you. I will have the items sent to you directly from Lavender-Love!!!

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The day after Christmas sometimes feels like a letdown. 


All that preparation, then BAM it's over. 


You're left with a hundred boxes and three garbage bags of torn paper. 


Didn't get what you wanted? You're not alone. 


This will cheer you up! 


The Christmas Letdown Giveaway Hop


hosted by Planet Weidknecht and co-hosted by Going Crazy! Wanna Go? 


runs from December 26 @ 12:01 a.m. EST to December 30 @ 11:59 p.m. EST. 


Each blog on the linky list below has a giveaway worth at least $20.00. 


You can hop from blog to blog and enter to win prizes on every single one!


Good luck and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Miki's Hope is giving away $25 worth of products from Lavendar Love ( winners choice)
What a great way to end the Christmas season than to be able to treat yourself with some mind, body & soul pampering products!!
Mandatory: 
Visit my site and tell me something you might choose if you win.

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Blogs Participating in The Christmas Letdown Giveaway Hop:





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And Next Up-----

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Is the New Year!! Oh my Goshes-2012-where have the years gone-I will be 62 years young this upcoming year!! And I am sincerely hoping I can get over this REALLY bad whatever it is I have BEFORE the New Year!! I was supposed to go to a Hanukkah party at my friends house today but with my throat feeling RED (like Rudolph's nose) and I'm congested and I have a slight fever--well--guess I will just stay home today and sleep on and off!! I knew I should have bought some Echinacea----but too late now-you gotta take it BEFORE you get sick-at the very first sneeze or tickle in your throat-but I will be getting some once I go out to work tomorrow. Enchinacea really helps your immune system-

Well at any rate I hope everyone is having a wonderful time with their family and friends!!



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And the winner of Shortcuts to Inner Peace is..............

This giveaway is now over--I have been to Random.org and out of 88 really nice entries #51 popped up!!
Linda Trinklein said... 51

Daily tweet 12/17
@lindatrink

Congratulations Linda!! I will be sending you a copy of Shortcuts to Inner Peace by Ashley Davis Bush as soon as you reply to the email(within 48 hours)that I will be sending you in a few moments with your name and address.

Thank you again everyone for entering and please be sure to enter all the other great contests I have going on right now (more to come!)


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Wishing EVERYONE a very Happy and Healthy Holiday!!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

I would just like to take a minute to wish everyone, no matter which holiday you are currently celebrating a healthy and happy one!! May all your dreams come true and love permeate your soul for all creatures big and small.




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Well Seasoned-Dee Emeigh-CD Giveaway-Ends 1/31

This giveaway is now ended--Thank you for all the lovely comments. Out of 114 comments Random.or picked# 8

Kelley said... 8

Very nice CD. I loved it. I really enjoyed Wings. That was my favorite. Thank you. The words and melody were beautiful.


December 25, 2011 10:32 AM

Congratulations Kelley!! When you see the email that I will be sending you in a few minutes all you have to do is reply within 48 hours with your full name and address so I can get the CD out to you!!

Dee's first album in twenty years, WELL SEASONED is a chronicle of the journey between sowing and reaping. With songs for the seasons of life and spirit, it testifies of endurance and faithfulness, restores hope and encourages us to keep our focus on God's ever-present Love.

In honor of this occasion, Dee would love to give one lucky reader a free CD of her brand new album WELL SEASONED.

She really wants to know which of the songs on this album you like best so---




Mandatory: Listen to some of the songs on the album and then come back and comment on which song you liked the best! Click Here. Her voice is so beautiful and soothing you may even want to purchase this album or download one of the songs so you can listen time and time again
Extra: Become a fan of Dee’s on Reverbnation
Go to Indieheaven and vote for Dee's Song of the Month!
Follow Dee on Facebook

Like me on GFC or G1 (to the right)
Subscribe to my emails or RSS (up top)
Like this blog post
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Write a separate comment for each thing you do and please do not forget to put your email address in each comment so that when I go to Random.org at the end of this giveaway I will know how to contact you!!



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Need to Get a LOT more sleep!!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

I don't seem to be sleeping through the night--I wake up at 2 or 3, at least last night I was able to fall asleep again for around 2 more hours!! But still feel tired! I WILL NOT resort to sleeping aides! But I do dread driving like this all the way to New Jersey--maybe coffee will help if I make it REAL strong--gotta do something here cause I have to go fight it out with the accountant again today--

And I keep having life like dreams and I hear my name being called distinct and loud but I can't quite make out who's voice it is-I remember part of the dreams--it is when I hear my name being called that I usually wake up--(I live alone)

Oh well I will get to the bottom of this eventually--




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CHOCOLATE!!!!!!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

We had a really nice Holiday office party at someplace called Tomatoes--never heard of it before but it is an Italian restaurant in New Jersey and makes some super great Chicken Parm. And my Secret Santa gave me-----CHOCOLATE---1 bag plus 3 boxes full of CHOCOLATE----then as we were leaving I was handed this cute little glass vase filled with Hersey's Kisses!!!!!! I'm in Chocolate HEAVEN--of course everyone kept saying how I was not supposed to eat it all at once and should eat it VERY slowly like over a couple of months-HA HA HA--good luck on that one. My bosses little daughter saw me sitting in the corner (I tend to hide at parties) and said-"you're Michele--you always have candy!!! I laughed and agreed with her--I also keep candy in my office in case any little or big (the boss) goblins come in.

Today I drive up to Mahopac to work and was informed that they will be having lunch and I am invited--I may not be able to eat for a week after all this--of course the CHOCOLATE will keep me going!!

Happy Holidays Everyone




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$25 Barnes & Noble Gift Card-Ends 12/27-Mid-winter's Eve Blog Hop

This Giveaway is now closed!! Thank you everyone for entering--there were 477 comments!! So what number did Random.org pop up with?

BookAttict said... 242

Happy Holidays & thanks for the giveaway!

Comgratulations!! You won the $25 Barnes & Nobel Gift Certificate! I will be sending you an email in a few and all you have to do is within 48 hours reply back with your full name and mailing address--I will get it out to you!!


WELCOME TO THE MID WINTER'S EVE GIVEAWAY BLOG HOP HOSTED BY I AM A READER NOT A WRITER AND CO-HOSTED BY Oasis For YA & The Daily Harrell.

I WILL MAKE THIS SHORT AND SWEET-

Mandatory: Follow me on either G 1 or GFC

Extra: Follow me on Facebook
Follow me on Twitter
Sign up for my emails or RSS

That's it!! Just remember to put your email address in each and every comment you make so that when I go to Random.org at the end of this contest I will know where to email the winner!! Once you have received my email you will have 48 hours to reply!

Good Luck all--Now go and enter all the other great giveaways below!






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And it is off to NJ I Go

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Still feeling under the weather but I really have to get to work today if only to give my person his Secret Santa gift. AND if I don't go with them for the "party" lunch after they made sure it was a day I would be there------------I've managed to not go for a couple of years now!!! I know, I'm bad-but I am really not a party person-Meanwhile I just heard that one of my dearest internet friend's husband was kept in the hospital overnight-don't know why yet--my healing thoughts are going out to him (I fell asleep at 7:30 last night).

Well--I better go see if my friend is online yet and find out what is happening and then get to work!


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Why do I keep waking up at 3 AM?

Monday, December 19, 2011

Really, this is getting kind of ridiculous. I seem to be waking up at 3 am every day lately and can not go back to sleep!! And I'm not going to bed all that early either-around 9 or 10--My body really requires a good 8 to 9 hours of sleep--and it ain't gettin' it-by around 2 or 3 in the afternoon I find my eyes closing--have you ever tried to drive 1 1/2 hours when your eyes want to close? It is not easy--Thankfully today I will be working only 1/2 hour from where I live--and to top it all off I can't get rid of this chest cold-I am NOT a happy camper.

Well the good news is I have been getting all my giveaways into the linkys that I have on my giveaway linky list (and those of some of my friends as well)--if they have even been put up yet--I put mine up the evening before and I am oh so grateful for the others who do it also-gives me something to do when I wake up when the rest of the world is asleep!!







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You Know What I just Realized---

Sunday, December 18, 2011

(a friend sent me this)




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Warmer & Scents Giveaway -Ends 12/31

This giveaway is officially closed!! Out of 282 comments-THANK YOU EVERYONE--when I went to random.org it picked # 230

Deb K said... 230

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Congratulations Deb!! Now all you have to do is reply to the email I will send you in a few minutes within 48 hours with your full name and mailing address and I will get your warmer and scents out to you!!


I used to sell for MyScentEssence and still have a couple of items which are still in their unopened packaging. So I decided to do a give away. What you will get is a very pretty medium size warmer (black)which I no longer have a pic of with 4 different packages of scent. They are a 2 oz Palm Wax Potpourri in the Panda Rain scent, a 1 oz Aroma Ganza in Butterfly Garden Scent (really pretty!), a glass jar with Palm Wax Potpourri in Dreamer Scent and a 5 oz Soy Scent Gems in Hypnotic scent. This would be great to give as a gift or to use for yourself. And from what I remember you can use other companies waxes with this warmer.


I still have some of the sachets that she used to sell and I absolutely loved and am still trying to find a place that sells them—if I do I will let you know!! Maybe I will do a giveaway on a couple of those in a month or two!!




Meanwhile—on to the giveaway

Remember to put your email address in every comment you make so that I will know how to contact you if you are the winner of this approx 60.00 giveaway!! The winner will be chosen by Random.prg and the winner will be notified by me via email-they will have 48 hours to respond.

Mandatory: Tell me what your favorite scent is (does not have to be one of the
ones Above)

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I got MOST of it done........................................

Yesterday I really worked on catching up my own bookkeeping-only have one more credit card to go!! I did decide to do something I have NEVER done before with my own records--I DOWNLOADED the entries!! Now you might think that that is all there is to it--NOT. After the download is complete you have to literally edit almost every single entry--You gotta get the name looking legible and get it into a category--then of course there was that little thing about them creating a brand new account in my Quicken-which meant that I had to zero out the old account without losing any of the older entries-this luckily is not difficult-thank heavens for MISCELLANEOUS!! I'm hoping against hope that I can get the entries from that last credit card which I actually use the most to download cause in my wisdom (?) and in a GREEN frame of mind at the time--I no longer get paper copies of the statements-----which means that I will have to hand write the entries (since my printer does not work anymore and I have not been in the mood to go to Best Buy!!)then type them all in--at least the ones that count--the ones that will be going into my taxes--the rest I can kinda lump together!! But I am almost there--I may actually be ready to do my taxes EARLY this year--and now that I have set up download on most of my accounts--well maybe I will actually be able to keep my New Year's Resolution this year---well maybe anyway!!





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I got some of it done!!

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Yesterday, well actually in the evening, I made a large headstart on getting my paperwork into Quicken for the year! I keep promising myself I will not wait till the last possible second--been making this promise for the last four or five years--I swear 2012 will be different--I WILL KEEP UP--meanwhile I still have to get a bunch more stuff in for 2011--did I ever mention that I really HATE bookkeeping with a double seated passion?

It is probably because it is the holiday season, but I am missing Gremlin so much--I find myself crying while I'm driving to work or even just sitting at my computer. And I find myself thinking about all the other pets who are no longer on this earth--I'm pretty much a mess and I'm sick to top it off-got a really bad chest cold--

Think I'll sign off till tomorrow





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