We just found out, via a news story that a friend just happened upon, that Tugger did not win. He’s a winner to me no matter what. We don’t need anyone else to tell us that. Regardless, thanks for your votes, it was fun!!! I’m just really annoyed by how we found out. I expected to find out online tomorrow as they have announced for months, I didn’t need a personal call or anything. Just finding out like this, when you’re not expecting it, really sucked.
So, what do you think of the new design? I created the cloud layout a while back for a webpage, but it just wasn’t working as I wanted. Yesterday I came across a theme called Neptune, which had a great 3 column layout, so I started mucking around with that and then was like “hmmmm, I wonder…”, so I tried and voila! I’m really happy with how this one turned out. I think it’s a keeper!
I decided to start a plant journal. As of right now, it’s a separate entity, but I may well integrate it with this blog at a later date.
Here’s the link if you’re curious..right now there’s just one post, but more will come soon!
Oops. I bought more plants. I haven’t gotten any in a long time, and I was feeling the desire to do plant type things tonight. I bought a new jade, a pink polka dot and a calceolaria. Both the pink polka dot and calceolaria were on 50% off clearance at Walmart. I have no doubt that I can salvage the polka dot. The calceolaria is supposedly an annual, but I’ll see what I can do. 
This is what mine looks like..red and yellow.
I also took the opportunity to repot my orange jasmine and coffee plants. The orange jasmine is doing wonderfully and just needed more space. The coffee plant was getting some brown tips to the leaves, so hopefully more space will help it out. The jasmine illicifolium still hates me. While I was all muddy, I snipped a couple of spider babies to pot and also took a few cuttings from my goldfish plant to propagate. Also pruned out my alpine strawberry, but it’s not looking good.
Anyone have any clue if my ornamental pepper plant is worth trying to salvage? It flowered a few weeks ago, but I’m not sure that I’m getting any new peppers. Is it meant to repepper or was it pretty much the one shot?
Lyrics from “We Will Rock You” - a musical based on the music of Queen, which it seems didn’t even come close to the success of Mamma Mia, based on the music of ABBA. Regardless, I like what I’ve heard.
“Everything we want we can download from the internet!
All we hear is radio Ga Ga
Video Goo Goo
Internet Ga Ga
All we hear is cyberspace Ga Ga
Marketing Blah Blah
Always something new
GlobalSoft all the world loves you”
Yay, it’s almost time for voting to start! The pictures of the finalists are up on the front page of http://www.dogshowusa.com and I think Tuggy’s the cutest, but I am not an impartial judge here. So yeah, you can vote once per day AND every time you vote, you’re entered to win a video iPod! So there, more motivation to go vote, other than my guilt tripping anyone who doesn’t.
The voting will begin at 3pm today, so please, vote for my boy! Please pass this on to anyone you know who loves dogs, the more votes, the better!
Also, the Dispatch just called and we did a phone interview. They’re coming tomorrow to do some photos. Craziness, I tell you.
Melissa
I’m all foggy/cloudy headed. It started yesterday at some point, but it’s still here today. I haven’t felt like this in ages. I used to feel like this all the time. I don’t know what’s causing it, and I don’t like it, not one bit. I have work to do, this needs to stop. I can look at my work and understand it…it’s just taking 2x-3x as long to figure out what to do with it. Like I’m working through a thick wall of fog. This is not cool.
Ok, Tugger and I may be on NBC’s news tonight. While we were waiting before the link with NY to do his vote video, Duarte Geraldino talked with me on camera for a few minutes. So if you see me, don’t make fun of me because I’m sure it was awful! They got some good footage of Tuggy running around though. For the vote video, there were a lot of technical difficulties, so it ended up being really rushed. He was so good for it though! He just laid on the floor by my feet and chewed his new toy!! So yeah, I was a total dork in that too, but Tugger looked good at least! Voting starts on the 18th. Not sure if they’re actually announcing the finalists before then or not.
I just got a call from the press company handling the DogShowUSA thing. They’re setting something up with The Dispatch (Columbus newspaper) to do a quick interview/photo shoot over the weekend with Mr Tugger. This is cool, but kinda freaky!
I guess being up for 36+ hours straight would make anyone sleep good when they do finally sleep!
