OMG Pupiez!!1!!

If I were thinking with my heart, instead of my head and my wallet, this little gorgeous girl would be on her way to me right now. However, I have to be a grown up (BOO, HISS!) and realize that we can't afford to take proper care of the dog we already have (remember that surgery Max needs? Yeah, we can't afford to spend $3000 on the dog right now...), much less a new one.

But YOU could. You want her, don't you? You know you do. And if you click the title of this post you can meet all her brothers and sisters, and you can get in touch with their mama and find out how you can adopt one of your very own...

Like this one!


Ok, seriously, the cute! It's blinding!!!

I love mutts. I've waxed poetic about Max enough times that you know that about me already. Mutts are the bestest dogs. These little loves came into the world by surprise - the owner adopted the Mama dog not realizing that she was already pregnant. She has a LOT of puppies, and all the no-kill shelters in her area (Nashville) are full. Transportation arrangements can be made to save these babies, courtesy of the fabulous Ivy.

Wouldn't one of these babies be a wonderful surprise in an Easter basket? Puppies are the new bunnies! Please e-mail Trace at Newscoma for further details on these gorgeous boys and girls. Or just do what I just did and add her to your feed reader, so that you can make sure that they all get homes. Because seriously, if it comes down to Tootsie up there going to a non-no-kill shelter or coming here, my heart might tell my head to go jump, and we might just end up with a dog we can't afford...

(Maria, I'm looking right at you... You need a puppy. If your Claire could talk she would be begging you for a puppy right now. You're within the limits of where Ivy will bring a pup, too. Or how about you, Shannyn. Rebe? If Ivy gets the dog to me, I'll get her to you. I'm willing to drive into Chicago, most of northern Illinois, or lower Michigan, in order to deliver. BJ has a thing coming up in Wisconsin in a couple weeks, if you're up there, Reader, we could make arrangements. Barb? Jake is lonely. Julie, not all dogs are as dumb as Nimbus was... Once you go mutt, you'll never go back!)

I feel like Oprah - YOU get a dog, YOU get a dog, YOU get a dog! Hahhaa...

I Got Got

Well, I thought I was the master of the April Fools, but I got pranked by BJ. I got pranked hard.

I went out shopping last night without BJ and the kids, and when I came home I opened up the computer to check my e-mail. I was greeted by several scary error messages, in pop ups on my screen that looked exactly like the real thing...

The first one said: Warning! AVG_8531.exe could not be found!

AVG is my virus checker.

The next said: Warning: conficker.wj32 detected.

My head exploded.

The third said: Delete all files on c:\?

At this point, I spazzed and powered my laptop off, and then I swore, a lot, right in front of the kids.

Then BJ starts laughing. If I hadn't spazzed, the rest of the error messages would've said:

Error reading c:\
and
Warning: Hard disc drive failure - c:\ missing or unreadable.
and
Warning: Abandon all hope.
and
I bet you think your pretty funny don't you?

Of course, I would've been screaming and crying by that point, so the humor would've been lost on me.

Jeez. I make him a Cheerio necklace, a "grilled cheese" out of pound cake and frosting, and a "hot fudge sundae" out of mashed potatoes, and he gives me heart failure. NOW I remember why I don't do April Fools Day!!

Heh heh heh

Aw... Mommy's so nice to make our favorite, grilled cheese, for dinner...


...or is she?


And WOW, hot fudge sundaes!!! What a treat!


...or is it a trick?




(The sandwiches are pound cake with orange frosting inside. The sundaes are mashed potatoes with brown gravy - the "cherry" is a grape tomato. I think BJ's going to catch on pretty quickly, but the kids are going to freak out.)

April FAIL

*sigh*

I stayed up for an hour working on BJ's April Fool's joke, and he totally didn't get it.

You see, he eats Cheerios for breakfast every morning. So, I was going to put them on a string. It's funny, not gross, not destructive... It seemed like the perfect April Fool. Plus, we had plenty of Cheerios in the house (we buy them in bulk) so I wasn't ruining his breakfast.

I thought dental floss would be more hygienic. It turned out that there was exactly one bowl's worth of Cheerios left in the box. WIN!


I measured out five arm's lengths of dental floss (mint flavored) and started stringing.

About half an hour into the project I realized that it involved more of a time commitment than I had originally assumed. Oh well, too late to turn back now!

The finished product, slightly blurry.

Get this. He thought it was an art project for the kids!! So rather than pouring himself a Cheerio necklace and saying, "Haha, April Fools, Amy!" to my sleeping self, he just got out a new box of Cheerios and left the necklace in the box.

Fail.

Oh well, I still have 14 hours to think of something else... Hee...

Although I'll probably spend a good portion of that at the BMV, my license expires in two weeks. Happy birthday, you get to hang out in line for hours. Actually, it's not as bad as it used to be, but I don't want my picture taken. Oh well.

What to do, what to do...?

It's officially April Fool's Day, and I'm up later than BJ tonight. This is a very rare event in our house, folks. What to do? What.... to.... do.....?

I thought about setting his alarm clock ahead by a couple hours, so he gets up and does his thing and doesn't realize that it's 3 or 4 am until he comes downstairs... But no. Paybacks are a bitch, and he has a long memory. I also thought about salting the coffee, but I would only be hurting myself. Plus, he'd totally have time to get me back before I got up, because he gets up first.

And then I remembered this BEAUTIFUL April Fool's Day gag I saw... It's perfect. It's funny, it's not mean or destructive or gross, and I have the perfect opportunity to set it up right now. It will make him laugh, and hopefully NOT make him want revenge.

I took pictures. Stay tuned... I'll post what I did after BJ goes to work. HEE!

(I may still go upstairs and make his alarm go off, and pretend it's morning, because that would be silly... Depends on where the kids are at when I get up there).

Hope you don't get got today!