Knorr Salty Commercials Links :)

Salty in rain :(
Knorr Salty in Neck Brace

Salty wants to be Pepper

Salty missing

Salty Dating Online

I love Salty commercials. He is so cute. I would eat lots of salt if her was here. lol. My husband teases me cuz I cry when I watch the commercials lol

Gizmo The gray squirrel

Gizmo is our gray squirrel. When we were out for a walk a couple years ago, we saw a man coming down the street with a shovel. He seemed frightened of the snow shovel and was rapidly going to a different block where he began shaking the shovel a bunch by a sidewalk, and then started walking away. Well, we were out for a walk and asked what was going on and he said that a tiny baby gray squirrel was following him around everywhere and would not leave him alone, and so I guess out of fear he scooped it up in a shovel and went running away from his house to drop it off somewhere else. He may have been afraid of catching rabies, though there are no cases of a squirrel giving a human rabies.

 Anyhow, the guy went back to wherever he lived and the baby squirrel ran over to me and climbed on top of my foot and hung onto my pant's leg. I felt sorry for it, and my husband picked it up with a sweatshirt and made sort of a nest in his arms and carried it to a park with me. At the park he stuck it on the side of a tree. It hung there looking scared and not moving. I said maybe it was too young to climb trees, and we should maybe wait to see if it was going to be ok. Then it climbed down the tree and ran over and climbed on my husband's foot and sat there.

So, we tok it home and started researching squirrel stuff online. We found out that the only place that took squirrels to rehabilitate them was far away, and that gray squirrels were not listed in animals that were illegal to keep for pets in our area, so we decided to raise him.

 We researched what they eat and what needs and requirements they have and looked at a number of different forums of people who raise gray squirrels.

 One thing that seemed a bit odd to me is that he cannot have many nuts. U always see squirrels in the wild eating nuts all the time, but it blocks calcium absorption and can cause paralysis. We have to give him calcium and magnesium every day.

 I keep referring to him as a he but it is actually a girl squirrel lol.

 Anyhow, he is a very happy squirrel and soends every morning doing tons of backflips in his cage. He also likes to lay in his rat wheel on his back with his feet up while eating lol. (He does not run in the wheel cuz he is too large) He thinks of it as a hammock.

 He likes to leap from my shoulder to my husband's and run laps around your body. 

My husband built him a cage that is about 7 or 8 feet tall and it has some perches in it for him and a nest box in the top.

 When we give him stuffed animals he wrestles with them which looks adorable and he sleeps snuggled up with them, but eventually guts them.

 He is really cute, and when he was small he used to sleep in my sweatshirt pocket...now he is much to energetic for that.

 It is really a cool experience to have him, but just a word to any of you hoping to get one...he is a wild animal and wild animals are not as calm and cuddly as a tame one and don't always respond the same as a tame one, and if u get one it is pretty much a task u will be committed to for about the next 7-12 years. Cuz, while squirrels in the wild die at age one usually...squirrels in captivity live a lot longer. Once u decide to take in and raise a squirrel you cannot really release it ever because it will go up to people and leap on them etc...which will end up hurting them or getting the squirrel put down, and it will not know how to fend for itself and become a nuisance to people. So, it is not a commitment to be taken lightly.

I hope to post more pics of Gizmo later. I have a bunch of baby pics of him on my pc someplace too.

Honey Bun my rabbit

"Bun" is what I usually call my rabbit. Honey Bun is his full name tho.

He is getting older now, and prolly won't be with us much longer. :/ He is a house rabbit. He is housebroken and very friendy yet shy. He will push his head under your hand to get petted. Unfortunately, cuz he is older and sicklier now he just stays in his cage, tho he is still in the house. When he was young I used to run through the living room jumping and twisting and he would run along side me jumping and twisting too to mimic me. It was really cool. He loves to eat paper for some reason. He is a lop. I got him at a pet store where he was in with dwarf rabbits for some reason lol. I had wanted a dwarf bunny but I got him cuz he was cuter then the others. lol. I have had rabbits all through my teen years. I got my firt one when I was between 8 and 12 years old. Her name was Buttons. My other rabbits were kept outdoors. Bun was my first indoor one. I have prolly had around twenty rabbits so far. Most of them all at once lol. I grew up out in the country and lots of times I would let the rabbits run wild in the yard, only occasionally putting them back into their pens. I love rabbits. :)

DDO online

My husband and I are excited for update 18 stuff. The new packs look cool. We want to preorder it. I am glad we will be able to go to level 28, tho I still kinda wish u leveled up exactly the same after twenty, becuz I start feeling like I am not really progressing at levels past twenty...it does not feel the same. I have not played with my level 24character in awhile.

 Right now I am experimenting with making different forms of favored souls, I made one that has higher strength and rarely uses her spells unless she has to heal er raise someone and I made one with like no strength who has lots of spell points and uses scepters that enhance her spells. She mostly casts blade barriers constantly lol. I love blade barriers and I think I am addicted to them. Too bad u have to wait until like level 12 to get em. 

 Next time I make a favored soul I think I will do even better cuz I would change some feats, skill points and action points in the way they were spent. Not a big deal but lil things here and there to tweak the character. I have two favored souls that are standard favored souls too..they can cast er fight. Oh, and on a different server I have a wizard, but I think I should have made a sorcerer becuz it seems more similar to a favored soul. 

 I think my husband prefers being a druid. He is obsessed with wolves tho, so that might be a wee part of the reason why. lol

 Below are two pics of ddo. I am sitting on the throne and my husband is on the left arm and my son is on the right. Most of my toons have blue hair, becuz that is what color I had, but now Starbucks makes me have normal hair colors, so I went for black, so one of my toons has black hair now too. lol. 

Glimpse Of Soul poem

GLIMPSE OF SOUL by Tabitha Fortier

 Window to a soul, stained glass of face,
Underneath the skin, inside a secret place.

 Touched by time, hidden deep,
Wrapped in bandages that weep.

 Life's cold blow, gouging holes inside a heart,
A path for feet, no place to start.

 Shattered fantasy, question all that's there,
Memories of something, twisted and unfair.

 Magic passes by, but never lands,
Waiting, yearning, standing there with outstretched hands....

The Waterfall (poem by me)

The Gift Of The Waterfall by Gelfwings (Tabitha Fortier)


And she knelt there, patiently, with her hands cupped before her...open...waiting....

And a small droplet fell into her hands, a gift from the waterfall to her.

And she looked down into her hands waiting for more to come, but more never came.

She waited all through the day and deep into the night, looking up with great admiration and longing at the waterfall.


Somewhere water was falling...bathing whatever it chose in it's own sweet glory.

And she looked down into her hands and realized nothing more would ever come...this was her gift in its entirety.

And she hung her head and squeezed her eyes shut tight at the painful thought of it.

It was not enough to make the sun shine. It was not enough to bring the rain
.....it was not enough to cleanse her soul or fill her up.

It was not enough..

And still she held her hands out, open, cupped, cradling the droplet as if she held heaven in her hands.

And indeed, to her it was. Nothing had ever been greater, or grander, or worth more to her then what she now held so carefully in her palms.

She swallowed hard and opened her eyes and looked down at what the waterfall had bestowed.

She knew somewhere the mighty waterfall cascaded over someone else. It's majestic beauty and magical presence blessing them in full force.

And she thought back to all she had ever had in the past...to when her hands had been full...and she realized that they had only, always, been full of empty air until this exact point.

All the times that she had ever thought that she was full, she had been empty and it had all been but a sad dream.

And now the droplet glistening in her hand was more then she had ever had before. And though just one drop out of millions...she looked at it in awe...with new eyes...for it was more then she had ever been given.

She still longed to be bathed by the waterfall, she still wished to have the scars washed clean and her soul drenched in it's beauty...

But she knew that what she held was the most precious thing she had ever held, and she knew exactly what she would do with it.

She quickly, and with great excitement, ....full of gratefulness and joy..opened up her heart and soul completely...and then..ever so slowly and carefully...she let the droplet run down her hand and over her fingertips and fall into her chest.

And  then she sealed her heart back up...tightly so that no other could ever enter there where she had placed her precious drop.

And she let the droplet touch her soul and gently caress her scars.

She was not healed. No, not even close, but she could feel it there inside of her and it was the strongest feeling she had ever felt....her adoration and love and thankfulness to the waterfall for allowing her to have the droplet.

And she layed down on her back, and put her hand over her heart and closed her eyes and concentrated on the feeling there. She could feel it with every beat of her heart. It was the most cherished of any gift received. The most exalted of any feeling she had ever felt.

  “Thankyou, “ she whispered up at the waterfall. And the waterfall kept up it's mighty rushing elsewhere....but the drop was hers to keep. 

                                          the end  Me reading this poem

Comfort For The Soulless Poem

Comfort For The Soulless   a poem by Tabitha Fortier (Gelfwings)

Comfort me, close to your heart..
don't open your eyes, lest the magic be lost

Here in the dark, souls bared completely
Welcome you in

Such beauty as this, I have never known.
My hunger satisfy. I burn, I blaze for you

Your blood I smell Your taste, I know it well
another drink dear, another sip

savor the sweet..open it up. 
I'll drink you and you drink me, 
Eternal bliss, ripe for this moment

Craving your comforting embrace
Sink them deep, swallow, I give myself to you

Trust is in my eyes, icy skin, but we shall make it warm

Your breath smells of my life, given to you

I shall not take any of this from you. Forever yours in this window 

In this well. In this special place. This magic that you do 

You Soulless love of mine,  You ever living one

In your embrace, in your firm grip, You have me now 

In pain in everlasting agony, you are my glimmer

You shine, you shine, the darkness radiates, you shimmer

I feel my life, given to you, I feel my soul is with you too. 

My trusting eyes , my yearning heart, my lonely voice ..you heard me call.

There. There in my window, ever with me now, come, my love, come and enter this world 

I shall set you free from the bonds you bear, I shall loose you and you shall feast, yes, you shall drink

Comfort me with your magic, put me under your spell

All for you, look into my eyes..all.....

me reading this poem
 

Nicholas is an awesome husband! :)

 My husband, Nicholas, does tons of thoughtful romantic things for me. We race each other to try to take out the recycling and trash before the other person can get to it. He drew on our mirror cute lil pics and wrote me a message about how much he loves me. WE leave each other paper lil notes too saying how much we love eachother, and on all of his breaks at work he texts me a bunch saying how much he loves and misses me over and over. He spends all his possible free time with me, and wants to try to eat as many of the same foods as possible so that we can do it together. Every night we snuggle up lying on the couch watching shows together, and he rubs lotion on my feet when I get off of work. He tells me how I am the most beautiful woman in the world to him and how sexy I am to him and how he loves me the most (we argue about who loves each other the most playfully) over and over. He says I am the best thing that has ever happened to him. He is a really wonderful guy. We have been married a lil over two years now and have known eachother for around 5 or 6 I guess. He loves to buy special treats for me to eat and keeps trying to get me kinder eggs (I hate the way they taste but love tiny mini things and enjoy the prizes). I love him so much. He is also an excellent daddy to our children. He is extremely close to all of them and talks to them on the phone every night when they are with my ex and tucks them in for a long period of time each night when they are here. He is def a family man and tries to include them in his life as much as possible. :)