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'm really enjoying the Bukisa stuff so far. It makes a fun "not my contracted work, but still writing" change from the gaming writing.


So far I've posted about

I posted a couple of new articles last night as well. One's informative (Snowball Shopping - Save Yourself A Bundle) and one's more community focused, Writers and Other Work-From-Home-Moms talking about the validation we as writers, sometimes receive from the strangest places. We'll see how they are received.

It's been really fun so far. Not a real money maker yet, but it's new and I'm still learning the passive income thing... We'll see!

I think one of the nice things about it is that anyone can do it. We all have our "things" we know how to do or have experience with that someone else might not. From "how to boil a perfect egg" to "5 things you should know before moving to the desert" (Boy, I wish I'd had that one a year and a half ago!) you don't have to have a degree or be a professional to share your knowledge with others.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the folks on my friends-list who've joined up have to share with the world. One has already posted a really interesting article on Real Reasons For Guilt Free Formula that I think will be really helpful for new moms or those about to have a baby.

If you'd like to give it a try, and share your views with the world, click here and sign up. Submitting content is really easy (although I've had a little trouble with wrestling it to actually post. Sometimes when I use the Publish Button after writing an article it doesn't look like it's published and I have to come back later to see if it really did or not. I'm sure it's just a glitch because it's still in beta.) I had my first article written and posted (and was getting hits on it) within an hour of signing up. It's really that easy.

In which we add to the family...

For a month or more now, we've been seriously considering adding another puppy to our family. We've been keeping an eye out because we really had a good idea what we wanted - a male, baby, shepherd mix. Basically, a little brother for Anubis.

The local shelters haven't had any puppies of late, and we really haven't had good luck with adopting teens, so we've just waited. Since we're out here in the boonies of Arizona, there's not a lot of shelters nearby and not a lot of animals moving through the shelters, but we were patient.

This morning, I saw a husky shepherd mix come up on Petfinder.com at the Ft. Huachuca Animal Control shelter, about 45 minutes away. They were only open from 10 to 2 today, and not on Sunday at all, so we headed over.

We found two adorable brothers... A friendly perky tan fellow that obviously looks husky shepherd, and then his chubby, slower little brother, who's black with white markings.  The Valkyrie fell for the tan adventurous one right off... but the little black guy just looked so sad... and the shelter (bless its heart) was so icky and run down and...

Yeah, you see the end of the story coming already, don't you?

After a few calls to the Viking, and a two-for-the-price-of-one adoption fee offer from the shelter, we now have not one but two new family members. I don't know what the hell I was thinking, but... oh my gods they're adorable.

We're still looking for names. We'd prefer something related to one another, and "us" in nature... God names, historical figure names, city names, mythological creature names, etc... We're open to suggestions.  I'm leaning towards Loki for the tan and Fenris for the black, but I'm getting shot down so far. (That's okay, we also shot down the Viking's suggestion of "Clatu" and "Verata". (Now, if they'd been triplets?...)

Anyway, welcome our new family members...  The Puppies