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Bears with clothes

I love teddy bears, and today received a birthday parcel from my parents which contained this little bear and her doggy pal:

My Mom included a note in the package commenting that she knows I “don’t like bears wearing clothing”, and I guess that’s sort of true but it also sounds a bit kinky. I like to think that I prefer teddy bears in their natural, wild state—unclad, as if they’ve just wandered in from a day in the forest (where they perhaps enjoyed a picnic). I don’t mind if they want to wear clothes, though—even in Vegas it gets pretty chilly.

And while we’re on the subject on birthday gifts, my fabulous birthday sweatshirt from Nancy:

Before Christmas we traded in a number of “bonus points” we’d accumulated from an online advertiser for a very large gift certificate from Amazon.com. We split the gc in half and each placed an order for things we coveted. I bought a Dremel Mini for grooming bird and dog nails, as well as a couple of CDs (Sarah McLachlan’s Afterglow Live and Gwen Stefani’s Love, Angel, Music, Baby). Mainly though, I bought BOOKS, and today a big, glorious box of new books was dropped on our doorstep by those nice guys at UPS. If you want to know what Brown can do for you, well, they can deliver books (and English muffins from Wolferman’s). I can now look forward to lots of great reading, ranging from Jeff Corwin’s Living on the Edge to Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume. I’m reading the latter solely because Ami Cusack of “Survivor: Vanuatu” listed it as her favourite book. I’m sure that sounds very pathetic, but I figure it’s a more mature way of showing my adoration than camping on her front lawn or having her name shaved into the back of my head. I’m all about being practical.

In sad news, our Olympus C-5060 digital camera had to be sent to the Olympus hospital in California today for emergency surgery. Sparing no expense, we enveloped it in swaddling bubble wrap and asked the aforementioned Brown to get it to its destination safely. It’s been a fabulous camera since we bought it last April, but it’s having some sort of electrical problem that’s causing it to (among other things) take photos on its own. It could turn out an exorcism is the more appropriate solution, but I hope it’s just a mechanical glitch. As soon as we dropped the camera off at the shipping store the cats started to do the most adorable things, and of course we couldn’t take photos of any of it. They’re deliberately inconsiderate.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 01/13 at 09:14 PM

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My name is Leigh-Ann, I'm Canadian, and I live in the United States. This gives me great insight on cross-border issues, like American vs. Canadian candy bars, and curling vs. golf. I enjoy coffee but not caffeine, as I like to think I'm agitated enough already. I think a day without Starbucks is a day without sunshine (there are no Tim Hortons here, so I make do with what I've got). I love animals and birds and fish and even most of the creepy crawlies on the sidewalk and in the garden, but I prefer it when they stay out of the house. I'm a veterinary technology student at Penn Foster, and I'm the Director of Wee Paws Animal Sanctuary. I bottle-feed lots of kittens, and try to find homes for society's less fortunate felines. If you'd like to make a donation to Wee Paws, click the button below, or click here for more options and ways you can help.

I live with the fantabulous Flippy. I write a blog about fibromyalgia at Tired Girls. Feel free to check out the photo gallery if you want to see 500 pictures of my dogs, cats, birds, etc. Get in touch with me via the "contact" link above - I'm actively seeking work, and specialize in Internet/social media marketing (but I don't blog about it). My background is in radio and television. One more thing: this blog was designed to be displayed at 1280 x 1024 in IE, because that's just the kind of girl I am.

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