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Finding the Right One After Divorce: Avoiding the 13 Common Mistakes People Make in Remarriage

There are 23 million divorced people in the United States today. More than 80 percent of these people will remarry, and many of those marriages will fail. Divorce recovery experts Edward Tauber and Jim Smoke draw on their 30 years of experience as divorce counselors and a survey of more than 600 individuals to explore why people end up divorced again and what they can do to successfully remarry.
To help readers avoid making the mistakes others have made, the authors present 13 wrong reasons to remarry, including:
loneliness
need to be needed
to provide fathers or moms for kids
to prove the divorce wasn’t their fault
they’ve found their “soul mates”
Tauber and Smoke provide practical guidelines based on biblical principles to help people find partners who share values, have compatible personalities, agree on child–raising principles, and more. Includes helpful “Ready2Remarry” self test.

HEY GUYS, so it's Friday morning right now and I'm sitting on my couch in my "Whadda Ya At?" Newfie T-shirt, shorts, drinking tea and watching the doctors. I have all Friday's off this semester so that's why I'm at home and not at school! haha
I took this photo last night, it is Thursday's photo. Sorry about the late uploading, but this was taken at like, 12:40am, and Jeromy was sooking (sook is a newfie word that basically means, being sad, acting like a baby haha) for me to come to bed.

SO. Wednesday, was, wait for it, my 2 YEAR CANCER FREE ANNIVERSARY. I was going to say this to you guys with my previous photo but it wasn't too appropriate with that photo, haha! So that's why I present you with this cheesy photo of me sitting on the couch and smiling haha!
Yeah, so I'm 2 years cancer free now. It feels so nice to know that in my head. I kind of wanted to go out and celebrate, just like go out with a bunch of my friends to a restaurant and just have fun and celebrate being alive, but I ended up staying home and just ordering pizza for supper. I guess since it's a weekday and all my friends live further away from each other it's harder to get everyone together. Last year, October 5 2010, my friends who lived across the hall from me in residence threw a surprise party for me for my first year being cancer free, it was also my last day of my first 365 days project, that was amazing. And as much s I wanted to go out with everyone and celebrate, staying home with my amazing boyfriend was just as nice. When I came home from school that day he also had a cake on the table that said "congratulations on 2 years!" awwhh, he's a keeper I think ;D haha!

My life sure has changed a lot. I was just a small town girl, living in a lonely world!!!! hahaha, just kidding that's Journey lyrics.
But seriously, my life has changed a lot. I used to be so different. Long black hair, pretty much hated life, complained about EVERYTHING, and I just was a different person. Getting cancer changed my life around completely, for the better. While I was sick I picked up that camera with a different mindset. With the mindset of creating art, the mindset of documenting life, and turns out photography is what I was meant to do. I mean, I had no intentions of moving out of Newfoundland, ever. I thought I was going to stay there for the rest of my life. But now I live in Calgary, and am staying in Calgary to attend arts school taking photography. I have met the most amazing people here, and that goes from my teacher, to my friends, to my boyfriend who just means the world to me…and life has just changed for the better. I am so happy all the time (I have my bad days but who doesn't?), I think of everything with a positive mindset, and everything is just peachy! ^__^

Happy 2 years cancer free to me, thank you for reading (if anyone actually did read that haha), thank you for supporting always, and I appreciate every single one of you. All of my amazing friends in Calgary and in Newfoundland, all of you who support me through flickr (I have made so many friends on flickr, I can't wait to meet some of you), just all of you. :) I love you all. xxxx

OH, and this picture is in our living room! Isn't it niiice?? I decorated it all by myself :D
And sometime over the weekend I will post some photos of the apartment, I still haven't gotten around to doing that….. I'll post them in comments under one of my pictures or something.
And you will hear from me again today since this is THURSDAYS photo not Fridays, haha! Love you all, and have a great weekend everyone!! x

Here's to all you Cat lovers who have ever tried to give their cat a pill. I was in stitches when I read this a few years ago. I have just found it whilst sorting out paperwork and thought it was ment to be shared with my Flickr Mates.

This is our cat Petal


INSTRUCTIONS FOR GIVING YOUR CAT A PILL





1. Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if

holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side

of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding

pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth.

Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.



2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat

in left arm and repeat process.



3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.

4. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm holding

rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push

pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut

for a count of 10.



5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe.

Call spouse from garden.



6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, holding

front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold

cat's head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth.

Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.



7. Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap.

Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep

shattered figurines from hearth and set to one side for gluing

later.



8. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with its head

just visible from below spouse's armpit. Put pill in end of drinking

straw, force cat's mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking

straw.



9. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink glass

of water to take taste away. Apply band-aid to spouse's forearm and

remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.



10. Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Place cat

in cupboard and close door onto neck to leave head showing. Force

mouth open with dessertspoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band.



11. Fetch screwdriver from garage and put door back on hinges.

Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last

tetanus shot. Throw T-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.



12. Ring fire brigade to retrieve cat from tree across the road.

Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to

Avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.



13. Tie cat's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind

tightly to leg of dining table. Find heavy-duty pruning gloves from

shed. Force cat's mouth open with small spanner. Push pill into mouth

followed by large piece of fillet steak. Hold head vertically

and pour 1/2 pint of water down throat to wash pill down.



14. Get spouse to drive you to emergency room; sit quietly while

doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from right

eye.

Stop by furniture shop on way home to order new table.

15. Call veterinarian.

Oscar, a 12-year-old fragile and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends, who moves into his building. When Oscar discovers that Eli is a vampire it does not deter his increasing feelings and confused emotions of a young adolescent. When Eli loses the man who protects and provides for her, and as suspicions are mounting from her neighbors and police she must move on to stay alive. However when Oscar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the only way she can.

The enduring popularity of the vampire myth rests, in part, on sexual magnetism. In Let the Right One In, Tomas Alfredson's carefully controlled, yet sympathetic take on John Ajvide Lindqvist's Swedish bestseller-turned-screenplay, the protagonists are pre-teens, unlike the fully-formed night crawlers of HBO’s True Blood or Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight (both also based on popular novels). Instead, 12-year-old Oskar (future heartbreaker Kare Hedebrant) and Eli (Lina Leandersson) enter into a deadly form of puppy love. The product of divorce, Oskar lives with his harried mother, while his new neighbor resides with a mystery man named Hakan (Per Ragnar), who takes care of her unique dietary needs. From the wintery moment in 1982 that the lonely, towheaded boy spots the strange, dark-haired girl skulking around their outer-Stockholm tenement, he senses a kindred spirit. They bond, innocently enough, over a Rubik's Cube, but little does Oskar realize that Eli has been 12 for a very long time. Meanwhile, at school, bullies torment the pale and morbid student mercilessly. Through his friendship with Eli, Oskar doesn't just learn how to defend himself, but to become a sort of predator himself, begging the question as to whether Eli really exists or whether she represents a manifestation of his pent-up anger and resentment. Naturally, the international success of Lindqvist's fifth feature, like Norway's chilling Insomnia before it, has inspired an American remake, which is sure to boast superior special effects, but can't possibly capture the delicate balance he strikes here between the tender and the terrible. --Kathleen C. Fennessy