Gas mask anyone?

May-May has had THE WORST gas in the world these past couple of days. Rancid. And for all of you out there, no, I don't feed her anything from the table. She eats dog food and her rawhides. That is it. Nothing else. Why are her bowels so rotten? I don't know, but if you don't hear from me in a few days, call a search party.

I hate goodbyes

So we tried make ours pretty short. Today we said goodbye to my sister, Katie, who has been living with us since June. We had a great time together these last six months, and she learned a lot here. I'm really going to miss her, but she's moving on to bigger and better things. The next chapter of her life will be even better! Thanks for the good times, Kaje, it was a time I'll never forget.

Piles of jewelry are so last year...

I was given some wonderful necklaces by my mother two Christmases go but I had nowhere to put them. They sort of fell into a pile on my vanity...

But it's amazing what sorts of things you can make using old junk from Goodwill, yes?

I used an old picture frame and repainted it, then I filled it with scrap board from Home Depot.

I covered the board in fabric and glued my spoons on it with E6000 craft glue. I had to go completely Neo Matrix style on these spoons to get them to bend.

I wanted to flatten them, but they were just too thick. And now, I have a wonderful necklace display, not to mention a cool piece of wall art.

I found the idea here and decided to give it a try. Now with my necklaces and my earrings hanging on the wall, I have so much more space on my vanity! Granted, more space equals more places to put junk, right? Oh well, they sure do look pretty on my wall, and they were both really fun to make!

Wiiiiiiiiiiiii!

Need I say more? This was our Christmas gift from my madre this year. I'm telling you all right now, THIS. THING. IS. AWESOME.

Need I say more? This was our Christmas gift from my madre this year. I'm telling you all right now, THIS. THING. IS. AWESOME. Not only does it have awesome games, but it makes you get into aforementioned awesome games! I was sore the day after we played golf, boxing, tennis, and bowling. SORE! That's right, I was sore from a video game. Can life get any better? I submit that it canNOT!

The Wii also has Netflix, so you can watch instant movies anytime. I've been watching some cool movies while decoupaging the last couple of days... which reminds me...

Has anyone seen this movie? Because it is AWESOME!

...Anyway... ah yes, the Wii. So, the Wii has Netflix, but it also has something called the Virtual Console where you can purchase really old school video games like the original Zelda, Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong and such, and download them right to your Wii. No need for game cartridges or anything. I'm so excited to start building my collection of the oldies :)

Ander still prefers to play Halo, which is totally cool with me because we are seriously kicking some Covenant and Flood booty, but the Wii is defintely a cool little piece of equipment. Thank you mom! What a great gift!

The many faces of the May-Merz

We have come to find here in the Meine household that May-May has many faces. I decided to finally catch them all in photos and put them here because I love them.

She can be a pinscher

She can be a fruit bat

She can be a baby seal

She can be a gremlin

She can be a racing dog

And she can be our puppy

These pictures turned out so wonderful... you want to know why?

That's right! For Christmas from my wonderful father we received our very own HIGH TECH digital camera! I love this thing. It's so great! It takes fantastic pictures, and it has some awesome settings. I can finally take a picture of May-May without the flash making her look like she has demon dog eyes! Hooray for practical and well thought-out Christmas presents! Thank you Dad, we really needed this! You can bet there will be many more pictures to come!