Barking Mad

Take That, Mosquitoes!

Are you looking for a way to reach out to those in another nation that cannot reach out for themselves?  Is money tight (and really, with gas nearing $4.00 a gallon, who isn't pinching their pinnies just a bit more these days) yet you'd still like to help in some small way?  Then I have just the ticket! 

Malaria is a totally preventable illness, however many people in Uganda don't have access to the medicines in order to prevent or treat the disease.   The amazing folks at Compassion have put together a program called Bite Back.

This Friday, April 25th, is World Malaria Day.  Through the Bite Back blitz, folks can donate $10.00 that will provide a family with a mosquito net which will last for three years.  THREE YEARS people!!!! Some brand new cars don't even last that long!   Of course, if you feel compelled to give more than that, by all means, go for it!  Seriously though, ten bucks is not that much and offers a great deal of protection for those in need. And if you can't spare the $10.00 right now (believe me, I would never judge you, things, they be gettin' tight out there in sinking-economy-land), then you can head on over to BooMama's place and pinch the code to place somewhere on your own blog.

Oh and for my British readers (and I know you're out there!  I'm related to you!), that's only £5.00!!!

(Grrrrr, just trying to make that annoying ad sink!)

The Little Imp Learns About Karma

This is what happens when you kick and slap your mama!  You wake up with a miserable case of Pink Eye!

It looked a lot worse at 5AM (!!!!!) this morning when she decided she just HAD to wake up.  It was completely gummed shut, green and overall, pretty gross!

I'm actually debating as to whether it's really in fact Pink Eye and not a horrible case of allergies.  Yesterday she was outside playing on the screened in porch that's off of the master bedroom, and the floor is covered with green pollen from last year, before we moved in.  We never got around to really cleaning it off once we bought the house and got ourselves moved in.  Truth be told, we don't even use that porch, nice as it is.  We might this year, but until yesterday, it went totally ignored. 

When I brought the Little Imp in after playing out there for the better part of two hours, she was covered, head to toe, in pollen.  So um yeah, I'm thinking it might just be a case of pollen overload/allergies.  It wouldn't surprise me because any day now my very own eye allergies are going to kick in. 

But if it's all the same to you dear readers (all 5 of you), I'm going to interpret this as a whacking great cosmic lesson in Karma. 

More Fun

Um yeah....the Little Imp is down for the night.

I thought the following was completely apropos considering the last couple of days with the kids...

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I've still got a couple of states to go before I've hit all 50...
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I suppose the following could have been worse, had it been, oh say, a huge 48-color box, I could have ended up being "Burnt Sienna".  But alas, it was only 8....

                               

You are most like:     Black
You are bold with a dark side.  You make clear lines wherever you go, though you color outside of the lines.  Many people may just see the surface of you and think you are merely plain, but you have a lot of depth to you as well.
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What the crap???!?!?!?! 

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Ok, something smells rotten around here (and for once it's not the Little Imp's backside)!  First there's Hilter and now The Godfather?!?!  My Karma must be totally screwed!

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