What Makes You Happy?

Today’s prompt is: What Makes You Happy?

Lately the thing that makes me most happy and excited is wedding planning. I’m just extremely excited and extremely happy to go through this stage of life. Every time we complete something on our to-do list my excitement level gets amped up x1789789555000. I’m so happy that I found someone amazing to spend the rest of my life with.

This is just a random wedding cake. Source

Other things that make me happy are:

1. Spending time with my niece and sisters. I love my niece so much, every time I see her she’s reached a new developmental milestone and it’s so fun to watch her grow. I also feel like my sisters and I have a very special unique bond because of the way we grew up. I want to continue building on our relationship together so we can remain a united front.

2. Cuddling with my pets. I just like laying on the couch or in bed and have their little, furry, warm bodies snuggled up with me. It’s a soothing experience.

My cat Snuggles getting into the freshly done laundry. “If not for laying, why made of warm?”

3. Going to the beach is something else I really love and puts me in a happy place. Escaping the ugliness of the city and listening to the waves rush around while feeling the sun on my face and sand on my feet is relaxing.

 

Pet Gift Exchange

Last month I posted that I participated in the annual Kitty and Canine Blogger Gift Exchange and this post is to show you all the nice goodies my pug, Sheila, and cat, Snow Snuggles, received! I was linked up with Kelly, the blogger behind Brownies and Zucchini. This blog features mainly restaurant and recipe reviews. Recently I’ve enjoyed reading about her yummy looking Christmas cookies!

So now behold…cute pet pics!!

Gifts for Snuggles

Snuggles is curious…

He loves it!

Sheila was very patient as we posed her with all her gifts.

Thank you for the gifts!

WW: Christmas Pets

This is my first Wordless Wednesday post. Just sharing some cute Christmas cheer.

Kitty & Canine Holiday Blogger Gift Exchange

I’m participating in my first blogger gift exchange! I love this because it centers around pets and people who know me  know how obsessed I am with my pug and cat! My Instagram is mainly pictures of them and food. I found out about this gift exchange from blogger KJ Pugs, who can guess why I started reading her blog? (PUGS!)

Click the photo to see cute picture of pugs and more!

Fill out this form to participate! 

The rules: (non-bloggers can do it too!)

1. You have to have a living, breathing pet. Sorry but your pet rock is awkward.
2. Each pet has to be signed up individually, so if you have 3 pets – fill the form out 3 times! (It’s that easy.)
3. Deadline to sign up is Sunday, November 25th.
4. Deadline to send your gift to a cute little pet is Wednesday, December 5th.
5. Please keep the gift under $10 – it doesn’t cost a lot to send some love!
6. If you sign up you are promising to participate. No one likes a holiday Grinch!

If you participate be sure to Tweet and re-post the image to your blog!

Link back to one of the participating blogs too!

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Moving Pros

We are leaving our cozy little apartment hidden away in Simi Valley to move to “The Valley”. If you are not familiar with Southern California, The Valley is the part of Los Angeles more formally known as the San Fernando Valley. Simi Valley is part of Ventura County–it’s that big chunk of land between LA and Santa Barbara counties.

I’m sad to leave the place where my view includes clear blue skies, majestic mountains, tree lined streets and a nice suburban backdrop. I’m also sad to be that much further from my sibilings and future in-laws who live just north of Simi Valley–an easy 20-30 minute drive. I’ll be sad to be that much further away from the Ventura Harbor, Ventura Pier, Hueneme Beach, my favorite Ventura County bars and restaurants and familiar neighborhoods I grew up exploring.

When I think of The Valley images of power lines slicing across the sky, graffiti covered billboards squeezing into every possible space, buses covered in ads, strip mall after strip mall, head shops next to dental offices next to donut shops right next to a Thai restaurant, next to an auto repair shop….combined with  traffic, over crowding and unbearable heat sealing it all together.

This is my dog Sheila. I needed an image for this post and this seemed fitting. Added some text with Paint and viola! Funny pug pic 🙂 Let me know if it made you smile!

So why am I bitching so much about The Valley? I went to Cal State Northridge and I LOVED it. I work in Van Nuys. A smattering of friends live in The Valley. I even did a 6-month stint living in Canoga Park years ago!

Okay, so I know I titled this post “Moving Pros” so I better start saying a few good things about why we made this decision!

• I’ll be closer to work, so I’ll save money on gas. I might even start biking to work..if the weather cools down.
• Kyle will be starting his first semester at CSUN next week, we’re about a block away from campus.
• Our rent will be lower, another plus in the financial area.
• We will live in a loft style apartment–that’s cool right?
• We’ll be closer to the Topanga Mall, it’s HUGE and always seems to be adding more stores (make that a negative in the financial area!)
• We’ll be closer to friends in that area, so more hanging out, no more lame excuses about being to lazy to drive back to The Valley.
• We’ll be able to visit cool LA stuff like LACMA
• We’ll be within walking distance to eateries, a few bars etc.
• It’s always good to change things up, we are so content with the easy suburban life we grew up with.

See, I turned my frown upside down…Anyone else have good stuff to put in my moving pros column? Let me know in the comments below!

Thanks for reading!

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