Like a Whole New Puppy!

Cute lil Smiler got her first haircut while she's been with us today. Crappy day to drive out there and back with all this snow and ice, but I think it was worth it for how how precious our puppy looks!

Adorable, huh? Now we can finally have a family picture! And then we're gonna make it into a Christmas card :)

In other amazing news. We've for real been approved for a mortgage! Now just gotta find a decent house in a good neighborhood. Sooooo excited! Real real life can begin.

And for the 'Video of the Day', a song by what I would call my boyfriend if I were still in high school or college. But since I'm a grown up now, I'll say it's by one of my favorite Christian dudes, Brandon Heath. He sings good songs, check him out if you're not familiar with him.

I've added to this post like five bajillion times but I HAD to share this with the world. Remember once upon a time they had orange Classic Short UGGs? Well, we're not lucky enough to have those again but we get second best! Hello 'Ever Green' Bailey Button UGGs :) http://www.uggaustralia.com/ProductDetails.aspx?gID=w&productID=5803&model=Bailey Button

Hello?

Hello? Hi? I feel like I haven't actually done a real post in awhile. Though it's probably only been five days. I've lost concept of time. Working holidays is not fun. Working boring jobs isn't fun. Tell me why again I don't have kids and a goats and acres of crops to care for? Now that wouldn't be boring. And would be 'fun' 80%. At least I got my two dogs for now. Who are currently beating each other up.... I think the 6.5 pound one is winning. And speaking of Smi, she chewed her harness to pieces so she's now wearing a big girl collar. She doesn't much like it.

This is important. The other day I was pouring some M&M's into my hand and 13 1/2 came out..... THEY WERE ALL ORANGE AND GREEN!!!!! My favorite! What are the odds of that?! It was magical. I saved them in my hand and showed them to Matt.

There's not really anything going on with our lives. Had a nice Thanksgiving, though definitely not a traditional Thanksgiving. And nobody has holidays at the right time so we didn't see any family. Maybe Christmas. Maybe. Only if I can have Christmas Eve off of work to spend it with my mommy's side :) Then I can see my brother!

Well I guess I gotta go. Gotta let Smi out one more time before leaving for work blah blah blah. No work tomorrow or Wednesday though :) But I still have to decide if I want to drive to Ashland on Wednesday night. Wanna go to farm class but I hate driving in the winter alone!

Peace.

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My Saturday

Howdy! So today Mr. Hartley and Smi and I went to the vet to get Smiler's booster shot and rabies shot and she was a rockstar. No whining at all and she got lots of treats- her favorite! She's now like 6.5 pounds and looks like the shaggiest dog ever and really needs to get her hair cut. And now that she is up to date on all her shots she can get cut thank goodness; I'm afraid she can't even see through her hair.

At like 330 we went to the Festival of Trees and it was amazing and I wanted to buy everything. There were these cute tress called Happy Trees and some day we're gonna have a whole bunch of them! Also, we discovered this stuff called Frappe Vino and it was amazing and we're gonna get some. It's this mix you combine with a bottle of wine and a wine bottle of water and freeze it for five hours and it turns into a delicious slushie/smoothie. Only, we don't know of any good wines so if anyone has any suggestions feel free to let us know!

After the craft fair we went to Gander Mountain where I dreamed about snowshoes. And my lost mitten :( which would come in handy for Bentleyville which we're about to leave for. It opens tonight and has nearly three MILLION Christmas lights! That's a big number, ya know. And free marshmallows and hot chocolate to boot! :)

Peace out!

PS- I miss Charlie. Hopefully I get to see him on Tuesday.

Smiler's Post

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I Feel Old

So last night was like the third night in a row Matt and I went to sleep at about 9pm. Who does that? I'm turning into my mother (love you mom!). It won't be long before my kid makes me a sign saying "Warning: Mom at Sleep". And speaking of kids and sleeping, I watched Charlie yesterday for five and a half hours and he only slept for a total of an hour during it. And cried for probably two and a half hours of it. It was awesome. He's lucky he's cute.

Smiler is also lucky she's cute because if she wasn't I'd have to squeeze her to death for stealing my flipflops to go chew on them for the 5 billionth time. But anyway, I have two dogs :)

I'm not really sure why I'm even writing this? I don't really have anything important to say. Except for that I want it to be November 20th so I can go to Bentleyville and the Festival of Trees and it will be the best day ever!

Song of the Day: My current ringtone that apparently does not wake me up if it rings when I'm sleeping because it is too familiar.

Pictures!

Hey there dear blog readers. Just wanted to let y'all know that there are tons of new ship pictures on my flickr (flickr.com/foggyacres). Apparently you can only add so much per month so I guess you'll have to wait for Penn and Smi ones which is sad because I would have added those first had I known! Also, for anybody that knows anything about flickr, can you tell me what it means when it says it will only show my 200 most recent photos? Does that just mean on my photostream? Or can people not look at my older pictures before 200 even in my sets? I don't know anything about it! Either way, check them out! A million pictures of Tregurtha, some from the Tall Ships Festival, and a few from when we were at the Soo Locks this summer.

Song of the Day: "Brandy" by Looking Glass (I'm obviously in a ship mood :))

I Don't Wanna Gain The Whole World and Lose My Soul

Hello there! I don't really have anything new to say at the moment. Babysitting Charlie is awesome. He's a good boy. And my dogs are adorable. We got a new computer so hopefully I can put some more pictures of them on here to show you guys soon. Now, for the songs of the day. Same song, two different ways :P

I Love Candy

I got to order a new phone last night! Yay! Thank goodness because my phone freezes everytime I close it and then I need to turn it off and back on. Only it doesn't really let me turn it off anymore so I have to take the battery out, put it back in, and then turn it on and cross my fingers that it works.

We had farm class on Saturday and it was good! I do believe we'll learn a ton of useful stuff. And we got three decently sized books about starting our own small farm business that I think will be really helpful. The first class was pretty much just basically an intro to holistic management, because that's the only form of management they use in this class. In fact, I think the whole program will really be based off of it. So it's a good thing I'm 100% on board with the idea! I think it's really great, especially when you look at what's going on at my former workplace where they clearly do not run a business based on quality of life goals; or if they do, they don't have very good morals. I think it's awesome, and actually really important that when thinking of the business you want (or really all aspects of your life), to think about what you really value in your life and think of that everytime you make a decision. And to incorporate all involved when you're thinking about it. Really, it would save a lot of terrible decisions in people's lives; this I know from experience.

I told you guys you'd be hearing from Chris August again, so here he is! I hope all y'all had a wonderful Halloween and didn't get too drunk, seeing as most people who read this probably did go drink too much the night before Halloween (can't wait until it turns into me telling most of my audience that I hope their children didn't eat too much candy because they're parents and now taking their kids trick-or-treating instead of getting wasted).