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And it hasn't even been a whole day yet! Yes I'm taking a parenting class in school right now and one of the requirements is to bring home baby think it over. THIS IS THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE!! No joke. This creepy thing breathes when it's asleep, that's NOT normal for a doll! It also can be fussy, needs to be changed, fed, and burped. You can also kill it in many, many ways. Everyone I talked to told me this doll is worse than a real baby. I can't for sure yet if it is but this is what I dealt so far.

It didn't activate until about 3pm(so I had time to get home) and when it activated it made a cooey noise that about made me jump through the roof. Afterward all was quiet so of course being the teenager I am, I forgot it in the dining room and went into the living room to watch tv. Suddenly hearing it crying, I jump up and take off running to go save my grade err baby, but the darn thing wouldn't acknowledge me so it kept screaming!(You have to run a microchip key thing over it's stomach before you can take care of it.) So of course I was like AHHH! The baby is going to keep screaming and I'm going to fail, NOOOO! Then I heard the click noise and of course rejoiced before I went on to feed it. So now I grabbed the baby's car seat and take the whole thing into the living room with me to finish feeding it. What happens? Roxie decides she hates Hobo and starts to go after him. A nice big drama scene unfolds in my living room with me just kind of sitting there practically paralyzed by baby. I finally figured out how to hold on to baby, car seat, and bottle feed while escorting Roxie into my bedroom and shutting the door on her. Then back into the living room with the 15 lb bundle(no joke the baby is literally 9 lbs of dead weight and the car seat is who knows). Hobo being the major dork that he is, thinks baby is a plaything and wants to get to know her more well personally. Which then required more yelling and HOBO!! DOWN, IT'S NOT A TOY LEAVE US ALONE BEFORE I TURN YOU OVER TO ALPO!! In the mean time I'm still feeding this baby a bottle and Maggie did absolutely nothing to help me, ppsst some big sister. So into the crate goes Hobo and me back to feeding baby. Finally I sit down on the couch and after about 10 minutes of feeding the baby I got bored.. what do I do? Hmm there's a pillow.. AHA I'm a smart one! Propping the pillow under the baby she continues to eat(so far this is a total of 15 minutes). I go into the kitchen to fix me some food after all that hard labor of basically trying to kill my dogs, not my grade err baby. Come back into the living room, sit next to baby and watch her eat some more. FINALLY a half hour later she stops eating and is quiet. I turn my Ipod on and relax, woot! Turn my Ipod off for a second to check and I heard the creepy thing breathing, God you don't know what it's like when you in a big house alone with a breathing doll. Not the best moment, I'll tell ya. It's probably going to pull a Chuckie move in the middle of the night too. If I die, someone must come and cut this doll into tiny little pieces, then burn it while doing an Indian protection charm against it.

So I'm waiting and expecting this to be a "fun" 2 days of my life. Let's just hope and pray this was my worst day. Now onto information bout the baby. It's a girl(anatomically correct too), About 9 lbs and very heavy if you ask me, her neck moves as well as her arms and legs, and the best part I have officially named her Shenequa Janay Williams, Nay-nay for short. Personally I find it better than the other suggestion of naming her "B" after my friend Burnie.

And now onto what I think... I think I don't want kids, EVER, Definitely can't handle dogs and kids together and I much prefer dogs. But I can have fun with creeping people out with this one, I kind of have the urge to walk around the baby department of Wal-Mart, while holding items of clothing up to little Nay-Nay and talking to her the entire time. I figure it would be best if I did this alone but then again could be fun if I had another friend with  baby and see what comes out of that.

Finally pics!












Ok now off to go stare at my baby some more and see if she makes noise.

Sorry guys please ignore this pointless thread, I seem to be computer challenged right now because I can't seem to get my time straight on BPO.. making a thread to check the time hehe.

And for some dog relatedness. My small paw, Roxie, being attacked by a cat. =D

*Warning!!!* She only has 3 legs and I don't want anyone to get grossed out by it..



My sister found her out at her ex boyfriend's house. There was originally 5 of them. She took 2 to the HS, gave 1 to her sister, 1 is still at the guy's house, and we have 1 now. The one we have seems to have had her foot bit off when she was just a couple of weeks old. It seems to have healed now, but when she rubs it wrong it tends to bleed. The poor girl. Other than that it looks very well, not pretty though lol, but she definitely gets around fine! My sister said she'll pay for her spay, shots, and if she needs surgery on her leg. If anyone is interested let me know! She is a MAJOR cuddle butt and it was very hard to take pics because she was practically on top of me the whole time! I think she's about 7 months old.

My sister has named her Peggy Sue but we might change that.


The leg.


You can see some bone sticking out.


Sweet girl.









*Warning!!!* She only has 3 legs and I don't want anyone to get grossed out by it..

HEHEHE let this be a lesson to you all! If you really were a wizard you'd be able to get the cone off with magic not a fire department!

Boy freed from 'wizard' hat

A three-year-old boy who put a traffic cone on his head so he could look like Harry Potter had to be cut free by firemen.

Charlie Thomas was playing with his sisters while on a family day out and came across the cone.

He thought the traffic cone looked like Harry Potter's wizard hat and plonked it on his head.

When he showed parents Louisa and Martin they realised the cone was jammed tight, reports The Sun.

Louisa, 34, and car sprayer Martin, 36, of Cullompton, Devon tried to ease him free with soap but the cone wouldn't move.

She called the fire brigade who took half an hour to remove the cone with cutting tools and pliers.

Louisa said: "Charlie loves Harry and when he put the cone on he was so pleased with himself. But when we couldn't get it off, it was a bit scary.

"We shouldn't have laughed but he looked so comical, even though he was upset.

"The firemen got him out by pouring water down the cone and cutting the rim. He looks sorry for himself in the photo and won't thank me when he sees it in future."

Not very good but I kind of like them, mostly I was just trying the settings out on my camera. I can't wait to get another nice one again... hoping to buy another Canon S2 or S3 when I can afford it.

This was a complete screw up but I really like it for some reason!


Shiney street sign


Shiney street sign again


Fairly good one


Some dark ones




I took these on my street, towards the end I was standing in the middle of the street.. I wonder what those cars were thinking driving around a chick standing with a camera in leopard print pj pants and fluffy blue slippers. :p

Anyways I hope you enjoyed!

There are SO many people out there flooding the restaurants w/o any knowledge of how to tip. Here is a short guide for the general public to follow. Feel free to print out and store in your wallet and/or purse.

1. CHILDREN "THE LITTLE DEVILS":
If you have children, DO NOT let them, open and dump anything on the table (ie; salt, sugar, etc). IF YOU DO, you must leave an extra $5 for the server to clean up YOUR CHILD'S mess & to restock the now unusable wasted items. We are neither their babysitter nor their parent. The least you can do is pay us for the extra work. Also make sure you control your kids and don't let them scream or run around the restraunt. It's very distracting not to mention dangerous if they get ran over by a server with hot food in their hands.

2. "THE CAMPERS":
If you feel the necessity to stay for longer than 15 minutes after you pay, its an extra $3 every 30 minutes. We make our money from the tables. If you are in one and we can't seat it, we don't make money.

3. COMPLIMENTS:
Telling a server they are the best server they've ever had is not a tip. If we are good, let us know by leaving us more money. We cant pay our bills on compliments. Its not that we don't appreciate the praise, its just that if you say that and then leave 10%, its an insult.

4. THE SALVATION PAMPHLETS:
Prayer cards and any other religious pamphlet is NOT a tip. It is insulting that you assume we are w/o religion and must save us. Again, like ..3, we cant pay bills w/prayer cards. We'd go to church on Sundays if it wasn't mandatory to work on Sundays because EVERYONE who goes to church follows it by eating out.

5. TIPPING:
It is not 1960. Cost of living has gone up dramatically since then. 18% is the MINIMUM amount of what you should be tipping your servers. Just look at the tax line and multiply by 2-3, this gives you your minimum tip amount. Remember, our companies pay us minimum wage (minumum wage for servers is $6.75 in CA, $3.38 in FL, $3.09 in IA, ONLY $2.38 IN MARYLAND & $2.13 in Louisiana & TN) And we are taxed on 10 percent of your meal automatically anyway. So if your meal is $100 and you leave $10 and we tip out $4-5 to the busser, bartender, and whoever else then we pay tax on 10 dollars the state assumes we are atleast making and we actually make $5. It seems small but it adds up. How many times do you eat out per week and do this? 18% PEOPLE!!! MINIMUM!

6. THE COMPLAINERS:
If you get a discount because of your food was prepared wrong or something, do not take it out of our tip. We didn't cook it. The cooks get paid hourly regardless if the food sucks. However, we only make what you give us.

7. THE FREE STUFF:
If you happen to get anything for free and you did not have a problem with your dining experience, most of the time it is because the server thinks you will realize that they are giving it to you for free. There should be extra tip thanking the server for the free item. They could get in a lot of trouble giving away free stuff. You should give them hazard pay for it.

8. THE LATE ONES:
If you come into the restraunt 10 mins before closing or any time near closing hurry up and order your food and get out. Closed means closed, not social hour. It is so rude to sit there and take your sweet @ss time. We can't leave until you leave because we have to do sidework and clean the table you are sitting at. We don't want to stand there waiting for you for an extra hour just because you don't want to go home. We recommend 24 hour establishments such as Dennys if you wish to sit into the wee hours of the night.

9. THE TABLE HOGGERS:
If you only come in for coffee or a dessert, to do paper work, or to have a meeting, don't sit there taking up our booths for hours. We are not Starbucks or a hotel restraunt. If you want to sit for hours, go there or else you better leave a good tip for us and camping fee included.

10. THE GREET:
When we come up to the table to greet you and we ask how you are doing please let us know. We honestly want to know how you are doing. If you are in a bad mood we want to know that from the beginning. A confused stare or complete silence does not suffice as a reply to "How are you doing?". Also most of us are REQUIRED to say certain things during the greeting, so please don't interrupt our greeting and say "I want coffee", "Can we get some bread?", or "What are the soups?"

11. THOSE DAMN CELL PHONES:
Don't ever talk on your cell phone in a restraunt. This is probably the rudest thing to do. If you must be on your cell, at least keep your voice down in respect for other customers. If you are on your cell phone when we walk up to greet your table we will walk away and not return until you get off your phone. Just show some respect and give us your attention for a couple of minutes.

12. TAKE-AWAY OR TO-GOS:
Always remember to tip the take-out order servers! They work just as hard as a server, and hardly ever get tips for it! WE DESERVE TO BE TIPPED TOO!

13. DO NOT TELL ME YOU ARE BROKE WHEN YOU ARE LEAVING: If you cannot afford to tip properly then do not go out to eat. If I as a server bring you back $8.00 in change lets say from a $70.00 bill and only leave me $2.00 and tell me you are broke you should be castrated for being such an ignorant a**hole!! Do not waste your time or mine it really pisses us off.

14. High School Kids: Learn how to tip!! Just because you do not have a job and mommy and daddy pays for everything you have including the meal that you are eating do not think that it is ok to not tip. Leave a tip people b/c I remember every face that does not tip.
!!!SERVERS READING THIS!!!
Please repost this so the word can get out, since so many people are uneducated about tips and our lives depend on this - atleast for now...

SIGNED, YOUR FELLOW RESTAURANT WORKERS


I completely and utterly agree with ALL of this! Especially number 6 I swear to God if someone does that to me again, I'm just slapping them. On Sunday, we were expectingly busy and I had a fairly big table of 6 people. We also had a new cook who has only been working since last Monday. The people were not happy with their food because it was cooked wrong. I fixed it immediately and gave it back to them, which they ate. So what do I find when I go to collect the money? EXACT CHANGE for the bill! I was seriously pissed and ready to run out there and scream at them. But of course I didn't want to have this come back all on Maria.. right now I'm biding my time. When I quit I'm so saying something to my last nasty customer.

Does anyone watch Taboo on the national geographic channel? I love that show, very interesting! Today I saw the commercial for the new episode coming on at 10 pm on Wednesday. It's about taxidermy with pets. Anyone going to watch it?

http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/pet/438261693.html

Awesome great dane that needs a non stop loving home. We just had a baby and Gunner is not getting the attention that he deserves. My husband is working double the hours and I am non stop with the baby and Gunner is getting the blunt of things. He has a fantastic demeanour, very smart and very affectionate. He is neutered and up to date on all shots until February. I'm not going to lie, having a dane is not cheap. His food alone costs about $20 a week and as the shots at the vet are the same for all dogs its the heartworm pills, xl toys and the xl bones that cost the most! But danes are worth it! He is great with kids and other pets as we frequent the dog park as much as we can.

We are not looking to get money for Gunner we just are asking that you make a $100.00 donation to the Humane Society instead. We will need to see proof!
(I will give you the website/numbers to do so)

I will need to meet the people that Gunner will be living with and the situation that you have. He will be a great addition to any family or single person situation as long as there is love!
Any questions please call me, Noelle 815-405-9422 or Jason 815-405-9184