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• Guest Post by CHiC

  24Feb
  Categories: Guest Blog Comments: 9

  **I am on vacation until March 1, 2009. Some of my dear friends have stepped up to the plate and regale you with their stories, thoughts, hearts and words. Today’s submission is from a friend of mine on Plurk. She is known there as CHiC and she one of the kindest people I know! She is the originator of Simply Kind Tuesdays over at Out on a Limb and I couldn’t be more honored that she consented to guest blog for me today. Y’all be nice and give her some comment love!**

  Mr. Tree was in the middle of his work. He’s a firefighter in Australia. He was in the middle of a back burn when he saw a stricken Koala.

  “I could see she had sore feet and was in trouble, so I pulled over the fire truck. She just plonked herself down, as if to say ‘I’m beat’,” he said.

  “I offered her a drink and she drank three bottles.

  “The most amazing part was when she grabbed my hand. I will never forget that.”

  (From the Herald Sun)

  

  How many times have you driven by a creature that needs your help? Or turned your heart away from someone that needs your help?

  We’ve all done it.

  But let’s face it. With the constricting economy, we can no longer afford to just focus on ourselves. We need each other, more now than ever before.

  A little kindness, a few bottles of water in the case of Sam the Koala, can make the difference between life and death. It doesn’t take huge effort or even a lot of money. You are only required to want to be kind.

  Give it a try! The life you save may just be your own.

• Guest Post by Biddy

  23Feb
  Categories: Guest Blog Comments: 1

  Hi Kids! Biddy here. You may know me from my world famous blog, Biddy’s World. Oh, did I say world famous? I meant not famous at all.

  Anywho, Tessa asked me to take care of things around here while she goes & gets her groove back. I love hanging out at new blogs. I’ve already been through the medicine cabinet, jumped on the bed, and raided the liquor cabinet. Then her mom got mad at me and told me to put her baby aspirin and Malibu Rum back where I found them. *sigh* oh well, the party was fun while it lasted.

  So, I’ve been wondering what the heck I should talk about while I’m here. Luckily, my fear of public speaking doesn’t carry over to public blogging.

  I could talk about my insane obsession with Hugh Hefner and all things Playboy (and I promise, I’m not a lesbian). Or I could get y’all to suggest puppy names for the Yorkie I plan on purchasing soon and very soon. Or I could tell you how I kinda have a crush on someone I’ve never met in person but talk to weekly. Or I could tell you about my terrible horrible no good very bad day at work (though I won’t tell you what I did to remedy it heh). Or I could tell you about my upcoming trip to Paris and see if anyone has any suggestions on things to do while I’m there.

  Yes, I could talk about all those things and other trivial, nobody gives a crap topics. But, instead, i will take this opportunity to say Thank You. You see, a few months back, or dear Hostess and 14 other bloggers opened their hearts and their wallets and decided to make life less stressful on two people. How? They decided to do the Christmas shopping for those 2 people, selected at random.

  Guess what? I was one of those two. Imagine my surprise when I found out I was one lucky recipient of this amazing act of kindness. Excited? Yep. Stunned? Definitely. Relieved? Abso-freakin-lutely.

  You see, I was unemployed for 4 months last year. The 4 months leading up to Christmas, to be more precise. I was feeling major anxiety and a bit of anger towards the coming holiday. I know I know, it’s not about the gifts. BUT, one of my greatest pleasures in life is giving gifts. I love it. I love picking out the perfect present, spend gobs of time in the card aisle, then wrapping the present like a professional. Now, imagine being BROKE, unemployed, and a member of a very large family, with Christmas rounding the corner. Not cool.

  So, since I was an idiot and never got around to hand writing thank you notes, like I was raised to do, I’m using this opportunity to tell the wonderful people that sponsored the giveaway Thank You. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you. Really, those words are not nearly enough. I told Tess as soon as humanly possible, I plan to pay it forward. I have not forgotten that promise, and now that I have a job, I plan to make good on it.

  So, peeps, any suggestions on how I can pay it forward?

  OK, I’m heading out. I managed to hide a bottle of Jack Daniels under my shirt, but I think they’re on to me. Maybe I should just get a hotel room…

• Guest Post from TinyShrimp

  20Feb
  Categories: Guest Blog Comments: 1

  **I am on vacation until March 1, 2009. Some of my dear friends have stepped up to the plate and regale you with their stories, thoughts, hearts and words. Today’s submission is from a friend of mine on Plurk. She is known there as TinyShrimp and she cracks my shit up! Y’all be nice and give her some comment love!**

  Disclaimer: I’m going to give you fair warning that I am not the best writer in the world. So if bad punctuation and grammar ticks you off…………..Well too bad because there is bound to be some in here.

  The following story is true.

  WARNING: Do NOT attempt anything that you read here as it really is quite painful.

  I had made plans with a friend to go with her to Henrietta to see her boyfriend, so I knew that I would have to get up early on Saturday. My alarm went off bright and early. I tried to open my eyes, but my eyes felt like they were glued shut due to the fact that I had slept in my contacts. So I reached over and grabbed the re-wetting drops off my dresser. Unfortunately I accidentally grabbed the ear wax remover by accident and put several drops in my eye.

  There was instant mind-numbing pain.

  My eyelids clamped shut.

  (I never knew that eyelids could be so strong.)

  I went running out of my room screaming like a banshee. I ran to the bathroom and started throwing water in my face. My roommate Dana came flying out of her room screaming “What’s wrong!” I don’t remember exactly what I said, but the next thing I knew she was helping me throw water in my face. We finally got my eye pried open enough to remove my contact and to completely flush it out, but it still felt like it had been lit on fire. Not a pleasant feeling. I removed my contacts and was forced to wear my glasses. For some odd reason my depth perception was completely thrown off, and I spent the morning running into door jams and falling down the stairs.

  ***Now you may be thinking that this is where the story ends, but you would be wrong. I was going out of town with a friend. Remember?***

  Stephanie arrived around 2:00 pm to pick me up and we headed to Henrietta. Later that evening a few of us decided to go the park. We were having a great time acting liking little kids and being stupid when it happened. I was standing on a rock that was about 2 1/2 ft tall staring at that swings when this thought popped into my head. For some odd reason I thought it would be fun to jump of the rock, take off running, land on the swings with my stomach, push off with my legs, and fly like superman.

  That was the last thought I remember.

  *** at this point I would like to remind you that my depth perception was off due to the morning events***

  One minute I was standing on that rock thinking like a child, and the next minute I was lying on the ground with my face in the dirt and my arms above my head.

  I rolled over and everyone was just staring at me in stunned silence. You could tell that they wanted to laugh, and once they knew I was okay they laughed until they cried.

  I waited until they could contain themselves before asking them what happened.

  And I waited……

  And I waited……..

  After about 15 minutes Stephanie said that all they knew was that I was standing on the rock, then I was flying through the air, I landed on the ground face first, and then bounced twice before finally landing.

  At the mention of me bouncing twice they all fell to the ground in another round of uncontrollable laughter. I LOVE my friends. 