Tomorrow Is The Day! (And I'm Not Talking About Halloween!)

Tomorrow we drive to Pennsylvania to get Batman!!! Will be back in the evening with pictures of the little guy!

Here's some from the breeder's website of him and his brothers:

More Batman Prep (2 Days!)

Good news! With Saturday fast approaching, we were getting nervous...but Batman's collar has arrived today! I ordered it from Collar Mania and it's perfect!

I also went to Petco tonight to get his food and saw this Batman squeaky toy... I thought...he HAS to have this...

The Blog Must Go On!

Great News! Back Story: About a month ago, at around 63 followers, hubby says "If you don't get to 100 followers by January 1, you need to shut down your blog." Of course he is joking and this is meant to be some sort of blogging challenge...Well the good news is, today, after work, I log in to see 101 followers! Thank you to all of my new, lovely followers for keeping this blog alive!

I've Temporarily Lost My Husband...

To DJ HERO!

It just came out today and he's already developing quite the addiction!

Handbag Warning!

Becca forwarded this to me today and I thought it was REALLY worth sharing!

HANDBAGS

Have you ever noticed girls who set their handbags on public toilet floors, then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table? Happens a lot!

It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes 'what you don't know will hurt you!'

Read on.

Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been.

It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may know what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside?

Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day?

'I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a lot,' says one woman. 'On The floor of my car and in toilets.'

'I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the floor of the toilet,' says another woman, 'and of course in my home which should be clean.'

We decided to find out if handbags harbour a lot of bacteria. We learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, and then we set out to test the average woman's handbag..

Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared. Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their handbags were at least a little bit dirty.

It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked.

Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the handbags tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria.

Pseudomonas can cause eye infections; staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick.

In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it. 'There is faecal contamination on the handbags' says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role.

People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with one exception.

The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all.

'Some type of faeces or possibly vomit,' says Amy.

So the moral of this story is that your handbag won't kill you, but it does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat. Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop.

Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes.

'If you think about putting a pair of shoes on your countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your handbag on the countertops.'

Your handbag has gone where individuals before you have walked, sat, sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc!

Do you really want to bring that home with you?

The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help. Wash cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather handbags.

Ivanka Trump's Wedding!

This weekend was Ivanka Trump's wedding to Jared Kushner...check out her gorgeous gown (Vera Wang of course) Can't wait to see more pictures!

Pumpkin Picking & Carving!

Today we went to Rose's Berry Farm in Glastonbury to get some pumpkins!

$3 a person will buy you a ride to the pumpkin patch, access to the corn maze and interaction with a live scarecrow...Live scarecrow seen here:
Corn maze!
Jay racing Pete through the maze
And Pete is triumphant...sorry, friend
Time for pumpkins!
So many...how will we choose?
Jackie
Pete
Jay found his!
On the hay ride back to the farm
"Fit as many pumpkins as you can into one red wagon for $20"

The boys hanging out my sunroof
Time to carve!
Jay's:
Mine:

BIG NEWS! (Re: Batman)

We're getting Batman a week earlier than expected! We drive to NY to get him next weekend now rather than the 1st week in November! Good thing we finished puppy-proofing the house today!

Here's some of the outfits we have waiting for him:

Jay's fave

My fave
Red sweater
Treats for "puppies"
Bitter YUCK!
One of his few new toys
His living room hangout
For the car
For his food!
For bedtime & during the day...in the bedroom

For his collar!

In other news, this week I got my free note cards from Traylor Papers...They are SO cute; I will definitely be ordering from them in the future!