Eastern Veterinary Blood Bank needs your help so they can continue to help you! For 17 years, EVBB has been the nation's largest volunteer-based canine blood bank. When a dog has an emergency and needs blood, where does that canine blood come from? Without voluntary canine blood banks, the blood comes from closed-colony donors. Imagine, homeless dogs, kept in cages all of their lives, their only purpose, to give blood. The alternative to this cruel practice, is a canine blood donations. Requiring just a few visits per year, a dog can give a quick and easy donation, while being lavished with belly rubs and treats. One dog's donation can save up to four doggie lives! Now, imagine if your dog is in need due to illness or an accident. If you had the choice, surely as a dog owner and dog-lover, you would accept the donation from the dog who did not have to suffer to save your own. Eastern Veterinary Blood Bank gives you that choice.
The mission of EVBB is to provide a humane source of the highest quality veterinary blood products, along with the guidance and education necessary to ensure our products are used to the maximum benefit of the patient.www.evbb.com
Watch this quick video to learn more:
My dog Maggie blogged about how easy it is for a dog to donate. She has been on medication for the last couple of months, but hopes that they are still around for years to come so that she can get in on the peanut butter rewards for doggie donors!
While your dog can still help with a volunteer donation, at this time EVBB is in dire need of monetary donations to keep this life-saving, cruelty-free operation running.
Click HERE to help today! If your employer matches donations, please bring your receipts to the powers that be and help this organization save the lives of our best pals.
Maggie promises to donate her blood if EVBB can be saved!
One day in the summer of 1985, I went to the Fort Meade, MD PX with my parents. In a few weeks, I would be starting second grade. Clearly, I was growing up and it was time to have a chat with my mom.
I explained to my mom that I needed "my own" music. I had a cassette player and a record player, but I only owned "baby stuff" like the record that went along with my "Barbie Goes Camping" book... Now, I still wanted to play Barbie Goes Camping on occasion, but I really, really wanted to have a little pop music to call my own so that I wouldn't have to sneak into my big brother's room to borrow (steal) his.
She told me that I was allowed to get one record. That's right, kids. A record. A huge vinyl LP to play on a turntable with a little needle. Oh that bzft sound when my not so delicate, seven-year-old hand placed the needle on the line where my favorite song began. Anyway, to this day, I remember standing in the record aisles, debating with great intensity which album I would bring home.
Being a little girl in 1985, there were two bands that I LOVED. I held onto The Bangles for a long, long time. Susanna Hoffs was so pretty and I loved that girls made up the whole band.
This is great footage of The Bangles performing Hero Takes A Fall on 1984 Letterman! (I was definitely in bed and sleeping when this originally aired.)
At the age of seven, I was really thinking hard about my first real album. I concluded that even though I really loved The Bangles, I wanted to be Nancy Wilson when I grew up. Now, I did not yet appreciate the awesomeness of 70's Heart at this point. How could I have known that a couple of years before I was born, they were rocking out with Luke Skywalker (check out the lead guitarist on the right) on Burt Sugarman's The Midnight Special?
What I did know was that Ann Wilson had an amazing voice and Nancy looked so RAD when she was kicking in the air and playing her guitar. I know I can't be a rock star anymore, but I still wouldn't mind having her boobs when I grow up. (Dammit, it's too late for that, too?!)
The Never video is the one that made me love the band. The hair was incredible! I was wearing braided pigtails with yarn ribbons to match my overalls, but I knew I would totally tease my hair like this and wear similar outfits when I grew up. (Thank you, God, for letting me be a child in the 80's and escaping adult fashions of this era - because the grungy girl construction worker of the 90's was so much better.) Check out the perms, the hairspray, the pink eyeshadow! The shoulder pads, the leggings, the lacy fingerless gloves!
(Video may or may not appear later this evening.)
If it didn't take approximately 17 years to upload a personal video onto Blogger, I would also share the "Nothin' At All" video. I need to sleep at some point tonight, so I will simply urge you to check it out for yourselves. All I have to say about that video is: PURPLE and BLUE highlights!
On Sunday night, I went to Pier Six in Baltimore to see Heart with my friend Angie. The Wilson sisters did not disappoint. Ann still has incredible range and seemed to effortlessly belt out 70's classics like Magic Man, Barracuda, Straight On, and Crazy On You as well as the 80's power ballads and pop songs that I grew up loving. I did read today that she sings the Bad Animals single Alone an octave lower than it was recorded, but let's face it; that song is almost 25 freakin' years old. Just try to do a cartwheel as well as you did in the 80's and then we can talk about whether 60 year old Ann Wilson's voice is still amazing. Also, Nancy can still kick your ass with her guitar skillz.
When we told people where we were going, we both received unexplained smirks. Fine. You're too cool to admit that you roll your windows up at stop lights so that you can continue to listen to these songs that I'm openly declaring my love for. Bite me. Yes, we were definitely on the younger side of the crowd, which is not something we get to say all that often when it comes to concerts, but this is a band that made me love music! I have great memories of driving my family crazy with my ear-splitting performances of These Dreams and Who Will You Run To? We were both reminded of our high school days in the mid-90's when we would drive around singing 80's music at the top of our lungs.
It was so fun to hang out with Angie and let the music take us back to a much simpler time - for us, anyway - the 80's! Smirkers be damned, it felt pretty good to feel like a seven year old singing into my hairbrush for a night.
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
ee cummings
My first dog was named Molly. Matt and I just liked the name and his two childhood dogs had names that began with M: Muffin and Minnie, so we thought it would be a cute tradition to carry on. Plus, Molly is just a fitting name for a cheerful Golden Retriever.
When we adopted Maggie, we figured we should keep her name because, after three years, she definitely knows her name. If it were a very terrible name, we would have changed it, but the name Maggie is cute and it suits her.
I realized that I had half of the girls in the ee cummings poem. I have no idea when I'll get another dog, but I'm thinking the next adoption will have to be a double-adoption and their names shall be Milly and May.
