To All My American Peeps On This Special Day

May your day be full of fun and frolic and free of any major mishaps...unless, of course, they are FUNNY mishaps, in which case get out your camcorder and record it for posterity and America's Funniest Home Videos! LOL :P

It's Canada Day Again!

Happy Canada Day to all my fellow Canadians!

Let us take a moment today to reflect on the beauty and diversity of our great land.

Let us ponder the wonders that lie between Bonavista and Vancouver island, between the Arctic circle and the Great Lakes.

Let us appreciate the diverse peoples and cultures that live within our borders.

Let us be thankful for the peace and security that we have, which other places can only wish they had.

And, finally, let us remember the sacrifices our forefathers (as well as our current Peacekeepers) made in order to protect the riches of our beautiful country.

God bless Canada and all Canadians! :)

Still Procrastinating!

Okay, that list is still staring me in the face and I've started to work on it...a little...but I just can't seem to get into the correct "mode" for writing that novel just yet. I did get my notes out of Safe Storage, though, and they are now sitting on my desk in front of me, waiting. I even had my story up on screen a few times and made a few small changes!

Still, it's difficult. I think I'm going to have to read all my notes to refresh my brain before I can really get into the meat of the story. I mean, it HAS been a few years since I last worked on it. I've got it all plotted out in my notes, and my characters are pretty much fleshed out, all I gotta do now is actually WRITE THE DANG STORY!!!

But something is holding me back. What is it? Oh, right, it's my hyperactive procrastinating rather-do-anything-else-but-concentrate-on-the-task-at-hand puppy BRAIN!!!! I sit down at the computer, intent on doing something with my novel, and then the Internetz call out to me saying, "come and play!" and my puppy brain goes, "Yes, okay, coming!" so I end up getting nothing done.

**Sighs**

Well, at least I know what the problem is. Maybe I should just cut down on the Hazelnut coffee...or the chocolate-covered espresso beans...nah! :P

Good-bye May And Hello June!

**The puppy wakes up, stretches, yawns, gets up and looks at calender**

Whoa. It's June already??? Time sure flies when you're havin' sleep! I should make up my "to do" list, but first things first....

**Goes out to sniff some trees/bushes/whatever-interesting-stuff-she-sees and relieve herself**

Awwww, that's better. Now, I can get to that list. Let's see now...what do I have to do...

1. Work on Great Canadian Novel (which, at the rate I'm going, should be finished by the year 2020!)

2. Blog more.

3. Get notes out of safe storage so I can work on said novel.

4. Work on two other stories I've had going around my brain these past few weeks (or is that months?)

5. Do yard work.

6. Do housework.

7. Get back into working out with weights so as to add some muscles to my skinny little, pale arms.

I think that's all...for now.

**Looks at list**

Hmmmmmm.

**Looks at bed**

Hmmmmmm.

**Looks at clock**

Yuh know something? It's too early to be up. Puppy needs her beauty sleep!

**Crawls back into bed and drifts off into dreamland again**

Happy Victoria Day Weekend!

Wooo! It's the 24th of May weekend and the official start of the camping season here in good ol' Newfoundland! Well, actually, it's not REALLY the 24th of May weekend, cuz that's NEXT weekend, but for some ungoogly reason The Powers That Be decided that the 24th of May weekend should be held on the weekend BEFORE the 24th of May weekend. I know, it confuzzles me too, but what can yuh do? A long weekend is a long weekend and the puppy is gonna spend some time out in the deep woods doing some fishing! Did I wooo yet, cuz I'm gonna do it again! Wooo!

Now, for your listening pleasure, may I present "It's the 24th of May!"

The New Star Trek Movie Is Here!!!!!

Yes, my friends, the puppy is a Star Trek fan. Back in the day, I was a real Trek fanatic, collecting the books and movies, putting Star Trek posters all over my wall, and joining the Star Trek Fan Club. If there had been a Star Trek Convention anywhere near me, you can bet your booties I would have dragged my poor parents to it (I started young LOL).
Nowadays, I've calmed down a bit. Okay, I've calmed down A LOT since my obsessive teen years, but I'm still interested in Trek. My antenna still goes up if I hear any mention of anything Trek related. The newer Trek spinoffs kinda threw me off a little. I liked The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, but Voyager was waaay boring and as for Enterprise...pfft. Don't get me started! The only reasons I watched THAT train wreak of a series was because a.) it was Trek after all so I had to watch it at least once and b.) it had some cute guys on it! :D
After Enterprise was cancelled, I thought Star Trek was pretty much dead in the water...and that it should stay that way. I mean, the makers of Trek had already milked the Trekkie goodness out of it. We might as well just have a memorial for it, remember it as it was (not what Paramount had turned it into) and let it rest in peace. So you can understand my trepidation when I heard that a new Star Trek movie was coming out with new peeps playing the original Star Trek characters. After watching the trailers, though, and hearing good reviews from those who have seen it, I'm starting to feel that ol' excitement for new Trek coming back! I usually don't see movies in the theater, but I'm tempted now...really, really tempted!

Earth Day Is Coming!

Yes, it's that time of year again. Time to think about the Earth and our role in making it a clean and beautiful place to live for generations to come. Of course, it isn't all about the future generations; it's nice to keep the Earth clean and beautiful for us to live in as well. After all, we only have one Earth so we better look after it!

Which brings us to Earth Day. Unlike Earth Hour (wherein we turn off all our lights for an hour to bring awareness to the effect that power wastage has on our world), Earth Day is a whole day devoted to bringing awareness of how all our actions affect this planet. All over the Earth there will be people doing things to celebrate this day. In Canada, you can go to Earth Day Canada to find out about any activities happening near you. If you live somewhere else, you can go to www.earthday.net to find out what is going on in other parts of the world. Personally, I don't know what I will be doing, but I'm sure it will probably involve picking up recyclables alongside of the road cuz that's what I do. Feel free to follow the puppy's example, y'all!

And I don't think I have to remind you to reduce, reuse and recycle, do I? This recession we're in pretty much guarantees that most peeps will be reducing and reusing, along with recycling. It's kind of sad that it took a recession to get people to change their wasteful ways, but whatever works I guess.

Anyway, I hope you will remember Earth Day, celebrate it however you can, and try to be Earth-friendly that day and all days.

Happy Earth Day, everyone!