Aug 19, 2009

Fizzy-Izzy

Ever since Easter, my younger sister has been begging our parents to get her a dog. When my parents "bought" a dog and told my sister that, she was ecstatic. After it had only been a month since the plea. Upon entering the house and seeing the golden haired puppy sitting on the couch fast asleep and deeply breathing, my sister blew up, it was just a machine dog that our parents got as a joke saying that "That is as good of a dog as you're going to get".
My sister never gave up hope on the prospect of a new dog. She did searches online for her "perfect dog". Our mother eventually got involved in it and was addicted with the search. Finally, my sister found the perfect mix for her, a Shi-cockapoo (aka a Shitzu, Cockerspaniel, and Poodle) mix. My sister seemed to have found the perfect dog also for sale of KSL(great place to look for stuff to buy and such). However, when the 10 year old, who owns that dog, found out- she was a nutcase and fought to keep the dog. Eventually the 10 year old won, and my sister was dogless.
One day, after a day of garage selling and a sudden down pour of rain/hail, my mother went to see if there was any sales of the kind of things that we were selling at our sale. And while she was checking on KSL, she looked at the dogs. And found the perfect mix, female, with all of her dog items completely for free! My mother called lickety-split and was the first caller for the dog. The dog was scheduled to meet our family the next day when my sister would be home. However, the owners called last minute and wanted to bring her over the day of the call. Even though my sister wasn't home and had no idea about our mother calling about the dog, we consented to see her. They brought her over, and she was perfect. Sweet, loveable, smart, and all things fizzy.
That evening, the family (with my sister) went out to dinner and acted like nothing was different in our lives at all. On our arrival home, my older sister and I held the younger one back. Finally, we took her inside. Sister walked in, the same time the dog turned the corner. You should have heard her scream!!!!!!!!!!! And the dog barked like crazy!!!!!!!!!!! From that point on, they were inseperable and our family had a new member named Izzy.

Aug 3, 2009

An Addiction?

So I don't know if you've noticed or not, but, I've mentioned Jane Eyre once or twice in previous blogs.... yes folks, I'M READING IT!

Girls- it is the best book I've read in a really long time. It's a chick flick written so long ago but it speaks to your heart and makes you want to really meet Edward Rochester! He's like the Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. The Colonel Brandon in Sense and Senseability. These men were created so long ago in a young woman's imagination! WHAT MAKES US WANT THEM SO!?

Guys- It will be a fun book for you too. There's no love-dovey scenes that would be considered to "girly" for you to handle. There's adventure too. Say, there's a knife attack in the night. Mysterious fires start to blaze. Delirious actions from a hidden secret. And since I'm not a guy, I can't really think of anything else, but I promise it's worth while.

Alas, I must say that I'm not yet complete with reading it. I haven't even gotten to the part where I meet the missionary. So, bear with me, I still might be quoting it quite a bit.



Colonel Brandon- picture from