Well, my adopted greyhound finally arrived......and he's perfect!!!

His name is Leo, and is such a sweetheart and very cute. The first day he took to us very well. He is cautious at first of new things, but his curiosity always gets the best of him! He loves investigating everything around the house, as it is all new to him. But, he always wants you close. If you leave a room and he is laying down or standing he will always follow. Basically he is always about five inches from you at all times. They say his clingy-ness may go away as he gets more comfortable with us and the house, but I wouldn't mind if he was always like that ;-)

He is a very pretty color and has the hugest nose I have seen on a greyhound. He loves going outside, but we will have to watch him very closely once we get a fence and can leave him off leash, as he does show a lot of interest in chasing bunnies and squirrels. He also has been enjoying going for walks, but believe it or not, you have to build greyhounds stamina up very slowly, as he is just used to short bursts of running. He was actually exhausted from just walking up and down the street

Leo also has a goofy side too. He is definitely warming up to life in a house, and loves to pick up his toys and throw them around. It will be fun to see how his personality changes as he gets more comfortable.

Ok enough talking, take a look for yourself at the newest and definitely the cutest new member of my family....

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I defended my masters today!!!!

And passed!

woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been working on my masters in biology and immunology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute for two years. My thesis defense was today at 10:30am and it went really well. I was nervous but once I started talking I got more comfortable. The doctors were very impressed and the Roswell Park Education Dean kept saying what I great job I did and how it was so much work! So I am happy it went so well. It's been a long time working on this!

PLUS....they just called to tell me that the greyhound I have been trying to adopt is ready to go home on Saturday! I am sooo nervous about getting it because I have never seen him and all I know is he is a male, his color is blue brindle (the blue colors are very rare from what i have read) his birthday is February 14th and he is 3 and half years old..oh yeah and he weighs 76 pounds. When the lady called I asked for his ear number. Each greyhound is tagged with an ear number at the tracks and you can keep track of his races. WOW. Let me tell you, he is like a champion. I thought I was going to get some puppy racing dropout, not a real racer. Either way, I am fine with both but when I looked him up it says he raced in the highest category of racing and did very well. He is from the Melbourne Florida racing track and they were getting rid of their dogs because the track went from being a year round track to being seasonal.

Here is the link for his page:

So yeah thats him. What a crazy name too! They don't really use the name though so you can call them any name you want when you adopt them. We'll see how it goes with getting him on Sat!

Who would think french cuff shirts would be so hard to find! You know the ones that guys wear with cufflinks. Yeah so I have a wedding to go to this weekend with my boyfriend Nick (and (e:mike) and (e:jill)) and so I bought him cufflinks for our two year anniversary last week. He has been wanting them for awhile now so I thought it was a good gift. Well we bought a new suit and all I need now is a shirt. We tried, Macys, jc penny, sears, steinmart, s and k, mens warehouse... and just about every store you can think of. They all sell toooons of cufflinks. BUT, no shirts for them. very strange. Now I know they aren't super popular right now but you would think if a store had that big of a selection of cufflinks that there would be a shirt to match! Well the only luck we have had is Joseph A. Banks. there is only two shirts there and they are each $70 (might be on sale for 20% off though now). I was hoping to find a less expensive store but I don't think thats going to be an option. If only the wedding wasn't so soon I could of tried ordering online but don't want to risk it with there just being a week. I guess I just didn't anticipate cuff shirts being so rare!

Just found this too cute not to share:
Sai Mai, a 26-month old female tiger, plays with baby pigs at a zoo in Chonburi, 80 km east of Bangkok. The Royal Bengali tigress was born in captivity and breast-fed by a female pig for four months after her birth.
These pictures were posed by a veterinarian who works at the zoo who said that when this tiger gave birth to her cubs, they were born dead. She was so depressed that the zoo gave her piglets to raise instead!!! Enjoy.








My favorite!

I love carving Halloween Pumpkins. I went to a pumpkin patch in the pouring rain with my boyfriend and got tons. Thought I would share the finished version. They were taken with my camera phone so hopefully they will turn out...


A cat, witch, Frankenstein and skeleton dancing in case you couldn't tell. It took forever to carve!


A raccoon popping out of a pumpkin...my personal favorite



My boyfriends attempt at a scary pumpkin.

Oh so in the Halloween spirit I braved my very first haunted house... yes, i know who hasn't been to a haunted house before...but, I haven't. I'm a huge baby and that stuff scares me but my friends Katrina and Craig and my boyfriend Nick really wanted to go. And, since the corn maize on Niagara falls boulevard that we always go to was closed down from the october storm, we were left with nothing else to go. So we went to the only more reasonably priced house we could find. it was on George urban and dick and we did the house of horrors for $10. We could of done another house for just $5 but I knew I would be too exhausted from all the scares from the first one. Ok well I made it though the house...it took like 45 minutes! and yes, i was scared. everyone else said it wasn't a bad one...but once again, I am a baby. haha. who really enjoys being chased by chain saw and having people pop out at ya?! ok ok ill admit. sometimes i did have my eyes closed. I'm not cut all for all the spooks. I think next year ill just stick to dressing up and carving pumpkins!

Happy Halloween everyone!