Welcome to the world little Cooper! My sister adopted this ten week old dauchund, which after three days of no-name was christened Cooper (a.k.a. Cooper the Pooper) after other choices of Checkers (Think Richard Nixon & Bribes) Duditz, Retard, Spas and Asswipe. I think he should be happy with Cooper the Pooper. Plus we can’t change his name now… we engraved it on a little tag for his collar. This past Sunday, our family went all nuts meeting the little puppy, and lets just say my big puppy was not very happy to have the critter in the house. Cocoa actually took it better than we expected she might, and all in all ignored it when she wasn’t going down on the boy. Yup… the gross and upfront… but dogs are dogs, and they sniff and lick and its their nature… Anyhoo, funny side story about Cooper today…. he apparently earned his name Cooper the Pooper when my sister left him in the bathroom while she went to work. Well, he pooped his ass empty today. And he got it everywhere, inside the tub, in the toilet, on the toilet, all over the floor, on the cabinets, and even in the sink… apparently Cooper is a Jumper and made it all over the place. When Kat’s boyfriend got home, he went to let Cooper out, and seeing the mess, closed the door, left a message on my sister’s phone saying “I’m going back to work. Remember, he’s your dog.” and left. I can’t blame him… I would have done the same exact thing. *g*
Anyways, I also have a couple pictures of Cooper the Pooper… he’s about seven inches off the ground, and weighs about seven pounds too… he’s precious when his bowels aren’t overactive!

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Silly (but then again I have off tomorrow!! WEEEEE!)

What I am going deaf listening to::
Beyond the Sea ~ Bobby Darin

Believe it or not, I haven’t forgotten about my blog… There hasn’t been any publically posted material in a while, mostly because I find myself venting and ranting and they really shouldn’t be public. So, nothing for the viewers. In the meantime, I’m trying to change some of my rants into publically available reading. I’m working on a massive “Banking ettiquitte 101″ post on the basics people need to know when entering a bank (like filling out deposit tickets, the basics of check cashing, etc). I also don’t believe in ranting about my coworkers in public, so you’ll never see that here.

On a totally other random note, I’ve been playing around a little with my photoshop, and made some more fandom buttons!! I’ve added another 25 to my page (found here) including Ever After, LotR and NCIS. Some turned out well, some were just okay, but what the heck…

i’ll also have to come back and tell you how horrendous my sister’s flight from the UK back to the US went so soon after the terrorist threat…. it was bad… very very bad.

anyways… *sigh*

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lazy… just layin back and relaxin

So my dog went wild today over this huge animal (not yet identified as anything in particular) that looks like a seventeen pound squirrel. So I grabbed my handy dandy camera and tried to get a shot of this guy. Well, no luck on the animal, but on the way back in the house I did take some pictures of my flowerbed, most of which is dying in this heat, and got a single good picture. So without further adu, here it is…

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amazed the picture turned out!

My television is currently diverting my attention with::
I Love Trouble

still have a touch of creativity in me, but not a whole lot… sleepiness and tiredness are setting in. But I did put together a little something, toying around with a simplistic elegant white based background with my photography flowers showering the scene. I don’t think it can work just yet, but I am pretty okay with how this turned out, a little icon for my blog (if I can get it down to avatar size, which I doubt)

(just to confirm, it is SM, not SH… it stands for Samantha’s Musings, not my name *g*)
anyways… *sigh*

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tired… bedtime!

Well, I did it… I changed the theme around so everyone can enjoy something! Behold the newest theme, Technicolor Checkers! It took me the better part of today *being Sunday* to conceive of it and put it together, and even then what I originally conceived ended out a bit differently… I am actually quite proud of the checkered background, as that took me nearly three hours to get it just right, and I did get a couple other variations that turned out well too. But over all I’m pleased with it… Even though now the two themes are both vibrant, one is much more laid back, and the other a little more seventies flowerchild. I have also succeeded in setting up a change theme element on the sidebar for those of you with a Macintosh to view the Pink Explosion, my original theme. This also makes it easier to add more themes in the future just by adding a link to each sidebar… The one thing I would still like to work on is setting up a more uniform sidebar page so that I can just update one rather than two (or three or more as I add themes…) but that might be a future endeavor…

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pleased indeed *g*

My television is currently diverting my attention with::
The Longest Yard~Adam Sandler, Chris Rock

Well, about as soon as I finished my layout to my own particular happiness, I realized that the pretty pink only really works in the Apple Browser Safari. In Safari, it comes out exactly as I had built it in photoshop. But, it comes out more purpley in firefox, netscape, and IE. It is rather heartcrushing really, considering I had spent probably the best of my creative insight on creating this one and I’m immensely happy how it turned out in Safari. So now I am charged with the task of building a new layout that is identical in all browsers. But I don’t necessarily want to get rid of this current one, because it looks sooo wonderful!! (well, it looks wonderful to me and anyone else on a Mac) So I think I also want to figure out a way of having people choose which layout they want (I know it can be done, I just have to work it out myself) but alas, my muse has left me once more… I’m completely undecided on what I want to do for the layout. *cries*
anyhoo, I have to be off to work, in like six minutes, and I’m not dressed yet for it…

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crappy… in so many ways… /guttermind

What I am going deaf listening to::
Across the Stars (Love Theme from the Prequel Trilogy of Star Wars)