Time Really Does Fly

I just looked at the date of my last blog and realized it was just over 2 weeks ago. Do you realize that two weeks is 14 days and that 14 days is 336 hours and that 336 hours is 20,160 minutes and that 20,160 minutes is 1,209,600 seconds which is a boatload of seconds? Yes, time does fly....although it seems to fly faster when you are very young or over 50. Somewhere inbetween, it doesn't seem to fly as fast. You spend time as a teenager wishing you were out of high school or 21 or out from under your parents' control and it feels like time just drags - then you hit 20 and it seems like 21 will never get there...and then one day, you are 50! How did you get there?

But enough about time today, let me fill you in on some of the highlights of my life the last 1,209,600 seconds....well actually, 1,296,000 seconds!

Well, for one, compliments of Hal, we now have 1900 products listed on Sortprice.com! Yea, Hal! We also have more products listed on www.girlsofallages.com and are actually beginning to get some traffic on that site. Not sure how to create a coupon yet on girls of all ages but we do have one of www.giftsfromadistance.com this month and it is "boo". Type in "boo" at checkout and you will receive a 10% discount on your entire order. Our "hot" children's item this year seems to be the plush hamster in its carrying case. Another "hot hot" item is the puplight!

It has not been all work, work, work for me the last 1,296,000+ seconds. I enjoyed a long weekend with my best friend, her two sisters, my god-daughter, Vanessa (and her two children and husband), and my "adopted" god-daughter, Ariel in Utah the weekend of the 9th. The big highlights of our "seester" reunion, besides just spending some quality time together, were a trip to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (a must trip for all animal lovers - more later), a picnic and afternoon at Zion National Park (awesome!!! want to back for more hikes) and a trip to a store in Colorado City, Arizona - the polygamist community - felt like I had just stepped onto the compound on the set of Big Love.

A little bit about Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (www.bestfriends.org)

Best Friends Animal Society is guided by a simple philosophy: kindness to animals builds a better world for all of us. In the late 1980s, when Best Friends was in its early days, roughly 17 million dogs and cats were being killed in shelters every year. Despite the commitment of shelter workers to the animals in their care, the conventional belief was that little could be done to lower that terrible number.

Best Friends' No More Homeless Pets campaign created a new vision: A grassroots effort to place dogs and cats who were considered "unadoptable" into good homes, and to reduce the number of unwanted pets through effective spay and neuter programs. Since then, the number of dogs and cats being destroyed in shelters has fallen to approximately 5 million a year. There has been much progress,but there is still much more to do.

Best Friends has 800 cats, 400 dogs, bunnies, birds and horses on its 3800 acres in Kanab, Utah. Not all of their animals are adoptable. Some are old, some are injured and some are sick but none are turned away and all are treated with love.

If you are looking for a charity to contribute to or volunteer with and you love animals, you may want to look into Best Friends.

It's almost 7am and my two best friends, Jack and River, are telling me that the sun is coming up and it is time to start our daily walks. We are still doing separates because they both still react to kitties on the street and I can control them one at a time but not together plus, River is back in boot camp so, our walk is a practice session every day - some day I hope all this training will just kick in:-)

Until my next blog,

Hugs to all,

Terry