WEll butter my bum and call me a biscuit!!!! DA actually did something NICE for a change and is giving us all a moment of journal pimping for free!!! I'm gonna pretend they did it for my birthday on Friday so I can actually feel like I got a subscription for a moment again!!

And yes.... my birthday is on November, Friday the 13th and I was born on a Friday way back at the birth of the universe, too!!!! Full moon and everything!! Explains a lot, doesn't it?? *grin*

Not half as interesting if you knew the day I was SUPPOSED to be born on!! (Care to guess???)*wicked grin*

Well it's long lonnnnnng over due, but I have some good news to tiddle everyone with just to spread some happy for a change!!

*Tauntaun comes zooming at warp speed dressed in a racing overall, helmet, and goggles pushing a baby pram in front of him with two very excited wind-swept Hounds of Hell in it*

Awe... Even Tauntaun is excited!!! *Tauntaun continues to run around like a mad-capped racer with the HoH nearly taking off from the over-zealous tail wagging and tongue flapping in the breeze a-la- convertible buggy style*

Yup!! After months and months and months of trying to find a pram or stroller, or ANYTHING that I could take Abernathy - my 12 year old West Highland White Terror... er... Terrier. LOL - for walks with! He has diabetes and he can't walk for more than a few yards at a time without having to take a break and now is nearly completely blind so walks usually consist of him running into things, mostly me. I could endure it and usually ended up carrying him most of the way when he got too tired to walk, but my hernia put an end to that and it broke my heart not being able to walk him and give him that little bit of joy he needed. So my quest for a pram (preferably an old European style that is deeper and bigger, and unlike the new modern-day strollers that don't let the "baby" lay flat, the old crib-like prams were perfect for poochie "portation!!

Alas... upon my fevered searching I found that not only were these coveted Prams hard to find.... but obscenely expensive when you DID find them!! Like starting at $75 up to $600 for used prams on-line. The one in a thrift store I found was $120... and considering I have negative moneys in the bank, no job, and very little left to sell... it sadly was out of my $30 budget I had scraped and saved up change for.

THEN.... TA DA!!!! I suddenly remembered a thrift store I had seen by our old apartment I had never been in.... and THERE IT WAS!!!! A MINT CONDITION PRAM!! Not only that... but it was $30!!! Everything I had!!! OMG!!

We got it home and put Abernathy in it to see if he would even stay put and he LOVED it!!! We took him and Truinnean (my other Westie) for a walk right away and he walk further than he has in a year put together!! He uses the pram as a guide and is able to keep it at his side just in what ever little vision he has left and is able to walk happily without running into anything and walk confidently therefore!!! *bursts with happiness* Then when he finally gets tired - into the Woof-woof wagon he goes until he gets his energy back and wants to walk again!! He LOVES it!!
Only problem is he loves it too much! *giggle fit* NOW he goes into the garage and instead of wanting to go out into the yard, he goes straight for the Pram and wants a walk/ride!! Alllllll the time!!!! LOLOL

The look in his eyes and the sheer windfall from the amount of tail wagging was.... so priceless.
It made me burst to make him so happy after all the unconditional love, happiness and help he has brought me throughout his life.

Something so simple that people take for granted... and the Heavens finally gave me back something I could give to him. Now I am sharing that with all of you too! *spreads the uber happy from her heart as Tauntaun and the dogs dance merrily trying to chase the fluttering heart confetti that is flooding the room*

Oh!!! And one more thing!!!! I know I am about two years and over 3000 faves/watches, etc... behind, and once DA started deleting old messages automatically, I have once and for all decided to get my arse in gear and get back to responding to faves, watches, etc... So starting with a brand new blank slate, I will be back on top of things!

For allllllllllll you wonderful peeps who have faved stuff of mine, added me to your watch list, and have been supportive of me in anyway, shape or form through all the crazy chaos and muck, and other what-nots.... My sincerest heartfelt thanks to all of you, and my most humble apologies for not being able to respond personally to each one of you as I had in the past. I hope to make it up in someway somehow. Do let me know if I do!!... or don't.

I feel a new chapter upon me... *hears the tell-tale rustle of big whopping f*#&%-off gigantic pages turning in the background*

I think I might actually be looking forward to seeing how it unfolds!!! *big smile*