DESIGNER V.S SHELTER & HELP out a shelter with a VOTE

In case you don't already know i recently got a dog.

His name is Reese

Before i actually got my dog i searched and searched thinking i wanted a certain breed or behavior or even energy level . After a few weeks i though i found the perfect pup it was a cute little yorkie i though "OMG perfect" then of course my mother ruined my excitment and said  "$1,300 dollars for what a dog that fits in a purse when there are dogs on the street that need homes." After i thought about what she said it got me thinking  "Crap" shes right. there i was looking for a designer pooch  when my soul puppy was probably in a shelter. I did my research and i found Reese on petfinder. I went to the adoption event at PetsMart and that was it i wanted to take him home right away and just play and give him crazy kisses. I know the decision i made in adopting a dog was way better than buying one from a breeder. and after playing and having the time i have had with Reese i now know that i would never have done well with a yorkie i am too active and a yorkie is not as active as i would like. Reese runs with me and is more active than I am and i really love that.I want to know what your view on adoption and breeding are. Before you let me know please read below the story of Reese and the Shelter because the shelter needs all the votes it can get!

I got Reese from an animal shelter foster family called Animal Life Savers they we awesome through the adoption and all the dogs were kept in foster homes each given attention and love from individual families until they found their forever homes. The community is small and the lady who runs it spends alot of her time traveling back and forth between  the foster homes to get all the dogs ready for adoption events at the PetsMart's near me she does events at two locations. The first location is at the PetsMart in North Bergen  and the one in Secaucus. It is a lot of hard work and takes a lot of time. they are the one main animal shelter /rescue in out area some of the other try and keep as many dogs/cats in their shelters as possible and to prevent the animals from gettting killed Animal Life Savers will try and have to animals who will be going on deaths row fostered by some of their foster families or volunteers. 

I have thought long and hard about becoming a foster home for a dog but i live in an apartment and even though reese has a lot of running room and there is room for another very small dog i just don't know if it would be best for Reese to share a home with another dog . Not yet anyway. I still think i might do it and just specify that it would have to be a very small dog, i don't know what do you guys think?

ON A BIGGER NOTE 

Animal Life Savers needs HELP they have entered a contest with petfinder.com they need all the votes they can get  the winner receives 300,000 dollars to help their shelter animals. Animal Life Savers does not have a shelter of their own like i said they work off of foster families. So it would be great to have a shelter for the animals to stay at and get round clock care and maybe they would be able to save more animals this way. So if your a dog, cat or just a lover of saving animals please vote. 

To vote click on THIS  it will ask you 

shelter name: Animal Life Savers INC

country : United states

state: New Jersey

click search it will pull up the shelter and vote. 

A New addition to my life

No karim has not proposed yet (would really like him to do so ) and i did not have a baby. I did however adopt a cute puppy. He was adopted from Animal Life Savers his name is reese he is a Chihuahua, dacshund terrier mix. We have already had him for two months we got him when he was four months.

This was his first week with us he became comfortable right away.

 After i got him we went on a little doggy shopping spree and i got him a few toys and treats this one for some reason seemed to be his favorite

 He loves to go out and play but he is also doing basic obedience training because at some point i want him to become a therapy dog like the ones i use to have when i was in the hospital. It made such a difference to my visit in the hospital i would like to do that for someone else too.

This use to be his favorite toy until he destroyed it now it is a soc monkey he seems to not want to live without. 

Enough of my sharing do any of you have a dog, cat, lizzard, or pet you want to share or have tons and tons of pictures of send me your blogs in the comments and i will check it out. 

xoxo YMV

8/6/12 workout

Today i had my first session of swim therapy i know crazy huh. Let me tell you swimming is the one exercise  i love to do more than anything else in the world  the therapist kind of ruined it for me today. but i guess i did take out a great workout and i learned some more things to add into my daily routine.

I would like to know if any fellow swimmers have any ideas about what they like to incorporate in their workouts that have helped in weight loss or in speed and endurance.also if their are an specific land workouts you do let me know.

Maybe writing a blog post when your dead tiered and stress was not the best idea oh well things happen.


xoxo YMV

A body rock challenge?!

Me and karim will be doing a body rock challenge in two weeks. We plan on having all the videos or at least work out moves we like on  a post here on my site once we start the challenge.

If you dont know what body rock is "kick yourself" no just kidding but seriously folks they are free and amazing. Here is their link BODY ROCK!!!! yes they are <---- that amazing.

So what is the challenge? Well me and karim will be competing with each other not on the amount of weight loss but on the progress on how many reps we can do for any video we started with by the end of the month. Me and karim are short on time and i have swim therapy so we plan on doing body rock three times a week for a month . In case your wondering about equipment WE WON'T BE USING AN'Y! We will only be picking videos that use no equipment or where the equipment can be modified easily. Along with this i will be also trying to eat as clean as possible. I will post rules and my diet all when it gets closer to the challenge. In the mean time i would like to know who would like to join us in the challenge we will give you our mfp's (my fitness pal) so we can all encourage one another and also be accountable to each other for doing the workouts.

Let us know.

xoxo YMV <3

On the Road to SURGERY

I have been going crazy with my weight, school, life, and especially my health. My doctor told me to be a vegan for a while then told me to stop the change did a drastic turn to my body  it was horrible. recently about two weeks ago i had a catherization, the catherization told us that my homograph (my heart valve ) is to small and is continuing to shrink in size. As you can probably guess this was not good news. As of right now we have no official date as to when it will be performed i have STRONGLY suggested that we wait until December after my nursing finals.  Of course with the severity of needing do have an open heart surgery my doctor wants me to easy my way into being a vegetarian. He would also like me to try cleansing once a week. I don't have money to buy a cleanse (yes i no longer work at blue print cleanse) but also my juicer has gone missing. I wanted to know your views on bolt house juices and if you could creat a cleanse with it ifnot let me know of your best cleansing recipes and what you suggest. and is Juicing better than blending?

I have not juiced or blended anything myself in a while i would love to start a cleanse soon but i have no idea what to do and what veggies are the best to blend without  loosing nutritional value.