Day Six: A Photo of Someone You Love

Love is something that can forgive the unforgivable.

Love is listening to the needs of the one you love and not dismissing them.

Love is fulfilling those needs without having to be asked.

Love is hearing without words being spoken.

Love is romanticising the every day mundane.

Love is compromise.

Love is being able to tell the one you love what your needs are.

Love is sharing your dreams, desires and aspiriations without judgement, compromise or fear.

Love is dedication.

Love is unwavering.

Love is not taking more than you need.

Love is giving what the other person needs without giving too much.

Love does not give up in the face of it’s advisaries.

Love does not allow others between it and what it loves.

Love conqores everything in its path with grace, tenderness and compassion.

Day Five: A Photo That Makes You Laugh

He’s always doing something to make me laugh, even when I don’t want to laugh he knows how to make me laugh. He lights up my world with his style and sense of humor. He’s my lifes comical relief from stress and lifes hard knocks.

Day Four: Photo of a Place You’d Like to Visit

New Orleans, La. I’d love to visit the bayou and the old plantation houses. So much rich history, so much to see there.

Day Three: A Photo That Makes You Happy

My grandmother’s head covering was used as our wedding scarf. My grandmother was and still is a very integral part of my life. She was a single mother who raised 7 children by herself. A strong woman. A good woman. I am blessed to have her blood running through mine and my children’s blood. Blessed to be married to the man that I am married to and it makes me very blissfully happy.

Day Two: A Photo of Yourself 1 Yr Ago

A picture of me from more than a year ago. It was taken in Elliot Lake in the winter. The lady with me in the picture is K.

Day One: A Photo of Yourself & Ten Facts

10 Facts

1. I will, hopefully, be going back to school after 14 yrs for a course in Technical Writer

2. I battled and still do battle depression. I’m winning a little every day

3. I’m a survivor more than people think I am. If they only knew.

4. I’m a published author. 4 short stories in the horror genre

5. I struggle with low self esteem & self worth. I need reassurance a lot

6. I didn’t know I could forgive so willingly and easily like I found out I could in January

7. I’m a perfectionist and afraid of failure

8. I love working with my hands as much as I do my mind

9. I am addicted to INK aka Tattoos, I have 6 tattoos so far

10. I am deathly afraid of cotton balls, they make noise, they make me gag just seeing, hearing or feeling them

30 Days of Photos

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30, 30 days of photos, daily, days, family, inside look, interesting, life, love, MeMe, personal, photos, questions

This idea I took from a family member on her facebook page. She got it from Annie K.

For the next 30 days I’ll be posting one picture that describes that days question\request. Here are the 30 days of questions\requests in advance. If you’d like to do this too, just copy and paste the 30 day challenge and don’t forget credit given where credit due please. Thank you to KC & Annie K for this awesome little meme.

DAY ONE: A photo of yourself and 10 facts
DAY TWO:a photo of yourself at least a year ago
DAY THREE: a photo that makes you happy
DAY FOUR: a photo of a place you’d like to visit
DAY FIVE: a photo that makes you laugh
…DAY SIX: a photo of someone you love
DAY SEVEN: a photo of something you stand for
DAY EIGHT: a photo of someone you miss
DAY NINE: a photo of your hero.
DAY TEN: a photo you like for any reason
DAY ELEVEN: a photo of a night you loved
DAY TWELVE: a phot of when you were happy
DAY THIRTEEN: a photo of one of your favorite movies
DAY FOURTEEN: a photo of your best friend(s)
DAY FIFTEEN: a phot of you and a family member
DAY SIXTEEN: a photo from your childhood
DAY SEVENTEEN: a photo from a trip you’ll never forget
DAY EIGHTEEN: a photo of your town
DAY NINETEEN: a phot of your favorite thing from school
DAY TWENTY: a photo of something you ate today
DAY TWENTY-ONE: a photo of somebody you find attractive
DAY TWENTY: a photo of a good memory
DAY TWENTY-THREE: something you want to do someday
DAY TWENTY-FOUR: a photo of something you hate
DAY TWENTY-FIVE: a photo that inspires you
DAY TWENTY-SIX: a photo of what you want to be when you grow up
DAY TWENTY-SEVEN: a photo of something you’re looking forward to
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: a photo of something/somebody that made your day
DAY TWENTY-NINE: a photo of your favorite person from history
DAY THIRTY: a photo you find beautiful

Been A Long Time

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2011, crisis, family, life, long, surgery, time

Whew. It’s been awhile. I’ve had a very rough start to 2011.  It almost broke me, almost. I’ve been fighting depression in the last 6 months and family crisis. Everything from a dog bite with one of my kids to my mom needing brain surgery last year and getting hit not once, but twice by people driving like lunatics in the city. I’ve spent the last 6 months desperately hanging on in the middle of a hurricane.

I’ve neglected this blog and feel terrible for it. Hopefully I’ll have a little more time to attend to this blog in the near future.

A Little Link Love

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animal, animals, cats, dogs, link to, link to us, links, no kill, SAD, shelters, Society for Animals in Distress

Can I get a little link love from my readers for Society For Animals In Distress? SAD has a new Link To Us page located here: http://www.sadelliotlake.com/linkus.html

We will be doing an Ads Subscription fairly shortly with some really awesome pricing. For a site that sees between 10, 000 and 140, 000 hits (January 2010 143, 000 hits in one month!!!!) Wow, that’s some big gig traffic there.

SAD really needs some help getting their shelter out into the global world. They are struggling in a retirement community where animals are always coming in but slowly (and sometimes never) going out. I should be asking for my business site but SAD is more important to me right now. I’m comfortably living, the animals may end up not being comfortable if SAD is jeopardized and left with no alternative but to close its doors. So, I’ll beg, borrow (but I won’t steal) and plead with anyone who’ll listen to get a little link love for SAD – maybe a small donation if you can – it saves lives!

Society for Animals in Distress

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Amped Designs, animal, animals, Canada, Cat, cats, charity, commission, dog, dogs, Elliot Lake, freelance, freelancing, fund raise, fundraiser, fundraising, job, jobs, news, no kill shelter, Ontario, pro bono, SAD, Society for Animals in Distress, updates, volunteer, volunteering, work

Been working round the clock this week and last week to catch up on updates to the SAD site. Tinkering with layout, advertising ideas and networking for them. A new page will be coming up soon about advertising subscriptions for ads on the site. They get anywhere from 10 000 to 15 000 on average a month for hits. It’s dropped in the last month though because of a snaffu with the adoptions pages but that’s fixed now, hopefully we’ll see those numbers go back up.

They still need help with fund raising and there’s a fundraising commissioned based job opening at SAD. More details at the http://www.sadelliotlake.com site. Good luck to all the applicants that apply! (due date for subs is July 25th 2010)

Leave a comment about the site if you want to leave me feedback on the work I’ve done. I appreciate the feedback!