It's a riot

I adore GLEE! I can't stop watching the Glee Brittany/Britney episode... Love the Toxic performance. Haven't seen it? 1. Shame on you  2. Watch it here - http://www.wetpaint.com/glee/video/glees-amazing-toxic-performance

Mom's friend Cindy made the family beautiful bracelets in support of my grandma's battle with Leukemia. Thank you Cindy. I am still raising funds for going bold and going bald on October 22. I am actually a part of the effort this year, by sending out press releases and more in my area. It's pretty exciting to be giving back again.

Life has been crazy and it will continue to be crazy for quite a while I am assuming. This weekend is Wiener Fest and both Louise and Gus are racing (Doodle is too big, she will be able to race with the larger dogs next year). I will post pictures after.

We went to the first home SHSU game with Rose, Jorge and Baby J. It was a lot of fun... even in the rain.
We spent time in Spring with Heather and Amber as they prepare for little CR :)

All for now.

Share and Tell

A lot has been going on... now to catch you up on what I can and what I feel is public related. :)
IN PICTURES!


Lee started school again. We painted his classroom.... orange!


Sammie turned 21 and we had a blast at the crazy Korean karaoke place.


Been working, tons! Lots of events. Luckily we has great help (haha).


Pets are all great, spoiled as always. :) As you can see the two going for a car ride.


Been wearing my support bracelets more now than ever. Hoping for the best.


Went to see Eat, Pray, Love. But I loved the book soooo much more!

Louise is still a crazy tortoise. We have had her almost one full year already.

Went to the first SHSU game of the football season... SHSU vs Baylor. It was a terrible experience - from start to finish. Luckily we had eachother, because the staff there was awful!! Parking, ticketing... all. Basically they oversold our seats and we missed the first quarter of the game.

Great times, with great friends. Still making time to have fun, even if the weeks are long.

Started Snickers (and Gus) in agility. Super fun! Lee is running Snickers and they love it!

Went to the Kolache festival this year with X.

Going bald again this year, support me... http://beboldbebald.kintera.org/kgervais

This year its all for my Grandma. 

Still gathering friends weekly for board games or wii 

Just a short whats been going on. 

Blackout

Started a new work out routine. Bought and elliptical from Craigslist for $30. I'm loving that website as of recently.

I adore the Blackout CD from BSpears. She may have been in a very crazy part of her life, but I love it the most. It is awesome to work out to! I love all the albums, but this is the best to work out to.

Will keep you all posted on pounds lost, but as any sane woman total weight will not be share. ;-)

CRAZY

Took everything out of the 2 extra closets. There is a lot of stuff to go through. I'm excited to have a project while Lee is off training this week. I just couldn't help myself and started a little early (while he was packing and organizing for his trip).

Today we went around to look for a possible new car. It's a brand new experience for us... the hawks of the lots were out to get us, but we had a lot of fun. We liked a few cars and think we might be able to manage a payment and sell off Sweetie (the 2001 escort). Keep your fingers crossed.

Happy birthday to my Uncle Daryl.

Busy Busy Bees

Our beautiful friend Christina graduated from UT's Nursing School this last week. With two children and a crazy schedule, she still managed to blow us all away and graduate with honors!! We are all so proud.

Lee has been winding down from a long semester and I have been busy planning an upcoming event for the shelter (along with Impact), as well as partaking in disaster training.

The summer is just beginning and although there are no big plans, I think we will be pretty busy. Summer at the shelter is never slow. And Lee is signed up for lots of great training opportunities for his school. He is also moving classrooms this summer. :) Exciting. I think we may paint some orange walls and he is dreaming up a lab manual too. My little sister turns 21 this year and I know we will be down for a crazy celebration, as well as others here and there I'm sure.

Here's to this week. And surviving this weekend. Bark at the Park.

And the furkids are doing well!




Louise too...

Lately

Someone stopped by our house Saturday night to bash off both mirrors on my car... fantastic! The last thing Lee and I want to spend money on is, my car. Gosh! One mirror was unfixable and had to go to the shop. The other mirror was still holding on by the wires, so it survived. Through us for a loop, that's for sure.
Work has been crazy busy. It is always pretty busy in my position as the semesters end. That's when all the students need volunteer projects and hours. It should settled back down a bit in the next two-four weeks. Been planning for a dog event that will take place in June too. I'm pretty excited about that.
Been helping with some dog classes too, for fun. Sister definitely influenced that aspiration. So I am learning the classes and helping as I can. It's pretty fun and gives me something fun to do, just to do it! I think Lee and I might try agility with Snickers this summer! Maybe!
Our first wedding anniversary is this weekend. :) Yay. I'm excited. I have a kick-ass gift for Lee and I am ready for a weekend of fun, just the two of us.
Next weekend is the Bearkat Relay. Woo Hoo! Get to see old friends and we get to relay for fun! I'm stoked.
Other than that things have been pretty good. Lee is taking his last test soon and will be done with his teaching certification -- yay! And it's almost summer. Still paid and he gets it off! Well deserved. :)
I think that's about all for now... until next time... toodles!

Lee picked up this Spongebob watch when grabbing a quick lunch. He's the best! :) And I got the Patrick watch today. He knows just how to make his lady smile. <3

Happy Anniversary - 25 Years

Happy 25th Anniversary Mom & Dad.
Love you!

Spring Break 2010 - New Orleans or Bust!

At the last minute, Lee and I decided to go to New Orleans. We had saved money from our tax return to use on a vacation and LA was always an option... but became more of an option when SHSU made it to the Big Dance -- Basketball Championship.
We left early on Wednesday (St. Patrick's Day) and returned on Sunday afternoon. Thank goodness for Xavier, he watched the pets. We were hoping to take the dogs with, but hotels weren't as pet friendly as they advertised, and it turned out to be better anyways. Had more time with just my Lee. <3 We went to Bourbon Street, the zoo, the aquarium, the French Quarter, Frenchmen Street and everything in between! I had never been to Louisiana and definitely never have been to New Orleans. It was a blast. There was so much to do and so many things to eat! We spent the most money on parking and food! It was so much fun though. One night we just walked up and down Bourbon Street and another we spent walking down Frenchmen Street enjoying the free music! We did spend one night low key and had dinner and saw Bounty Hunter (which I really enjoyed). All in all, it was a great trip. Lee and I had never traveled solo together to vacation, so that was really nice. We are really thankful to have our "Tommy Boy" (Tom Tom), he helped us around without massive planning or map-questing. Much needed for the both of us.

On another note: Lee finished all of his classes and only has ONE test left between him and his teaching certification! I am so proud of him! :)

Busy Bees

Still keeping up with the project 365... if you are my friend on facebook, you get to see them! :) I'm too lazy to post them everywhere.
Lee and I have been super busy.
Lee is just about finished with his teaching certification. One test and one reflection left. YAY. Almost spring break, he is excited to be off work and class at TAMU. He has been working hard and deserves some time off!
I have been working a ton. I have a great group of volunteers and I feel pretty content with everything there. I got to take today off as some of my comp time. Next week I get to take a few more. Ya!
Lee and I have been planning to take a mini vacation with the dogs for a bit. Super excited. We were hoping to go out of state, but... we are going to pick a few small towns, poke around and be tourists. I'm excited.
I will try to update again soon. :)

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I know, it's been awhile... but we are alive!


It's a celebration -- it has been 5 Years (as of February 1st) that Lee and I have dated. He's the love of my life. My rock. I'm so thankful to have such a great hubby.

Any free moment, we spend cuddling on the couch or with friends. We added a love seat to our furniture collection. So now, when we have friends or family over, they don't have to fight us or the animals to sit down. We have had (and still have) the gaming chairs, they are just hard for people to get up out of. :) I went to the Habitat for Humanity Restore. It was a lot of fun. I got the love seat for $35! Not too bad. We covered it, so it matched our other couch perfectly. Used it tonight with friends over for the super bowl.

I have been catching up on Heroes. Lee has been watching for a while now (they are on their 4th season), and asked if I would catch up, so that it could be a show that we watched together. It's taken me a while, but I made it to the fourth season and now I only have like 10 or so episodes left. :) Then we will catch up on the newest ones together.

Lee took the first test (out of two) for his Texas Teaching Certification. YAY. We should hear back in 2 weeks or so. Lee has been kicking butt with classes and teaching. Some of his students started volunteering at the animal shelter too - it's super cute, they are so excited and they are great volunteers.

Work has been crazy busy lately. Fosters, mobile adoptions and I am constantly training new volunteers. Just a bit much. Hopefully, Lee and I will be able to take that mini vacation for Spring Break. I would love to get away for just a few days - nowhere expensive or with a stocked agenda, just a few days to play and be away.

I am still busy with the Project 365 and I am posting them still on my facebook... just lazy to post them here. Ha ha.

Busy week ahead, planning for Valentine's Day adoptions.

Goals and My 43 Things

When I was in college, I started a goals list on www.43things.com 
It was a lot of fun to see what they were and if I had accomplished them. I scrapped my old list and started new. If you would like to see them or share your list with me, my page is http://www.43things.com/person/sassybearkat

What is 43Things?

43Things is a site that lets you choose some goals for your life and helps you accomplish those goals. Choose from thousands of goals that other people have created or you can create your own goal. Then with the help of other people you can accomplish your goals by reading what others are doing to accomplish their goals or by writing about successes you've has with your own goals. 

By joining in with a group of other people who share your same goals you will be able to get help with your goals. When you have finished a goal or made some progress with one of your goals you can post about it and maybe help someone else who has the same goals you have.

You can search for friends or you can just add people from the goal pages.

See more about What Is 43Things on About.com

Inspiration keeps coming.

I think I have been doing pretty well with the picture a day project. Here are the ones for the last few days :)

You can click the picture to few the full size.

Work has been pretty busy lately and about to get more so with school about to start and the students with a need of community service.

My car, Sweetie, will be getting evaluated on Monday by the Ford inspectors. They need to come look at her and make sure that her FOURTH engine will be under warranty - it's crazy! The guy at Ford called me and said "Sweetie ate another engine..." That is never something you want to hear. But it's easier to take when you know the engine is the only thing covered by warranty. I will be sure to keep you all posted. Really wish Ford would just give us a voucher for a new car, it could be a plea to never work on her again... haha.

Went to one of the mobile adoptions today, it was pretty fun. Then came home and finished the crock pot dinner. Made Italian chicken and potatoes, yum! Rebecca & Rob came over and we ate some dinner, played with the dogs and played Hearts. Not very good at Hearts, actually, I suck. But with practice I'm sure that would be a fun game.

Resting tomorrow. Lee has off Monday, I work - BOO!

Weekend of Laughter

This weekend was a blast!

On Friday my sister came into town. We went to see the Michael Jackson movie "This Is It." Lee went to see "Men Who Stare At Goats," he didn't want to see the MJ movie. Shame on him! :) JK. Sammie didn't really want to see it either, but I was determined to see it whether someone went with me or not. Luckily, I guilt tripped Sammie into it. She went into the movie as a person that disliked MJ and came out loving him. It was fabulous!

Saturday we went to the Aggie Pet Zone open house. It was a lot of fun. That is where the pups are going for XMAS and that's where Gussy goes for playcare. We love it there. We got a tour of what is to come and got to see some of our dog friends. Becca brought Boomer and we brought Gus.


After a while, we headed out to Houston to see Rosemary, Jorge and the baby, Jayden! :) It was so great seeing them. I hadn't seen Jayden since he was born (well technically 1 1/2 or 2 weeks after he was born). He is now 4 months! Time flys!


We headed over to the House of Blues a bit early and I'm glad that we did. We (Lee, Sammie & I) had gotten general admission tickets and it was standing only. So we got a great spot by getting there before others. There were at least 300 people there last night -- a lot more than we thought! It was a great show. The Comedians of Chelsea Lately. The comedians were: Sarah Colonna, Loni Love, Heather McDonald and John Caparulo. All hilarious! My faves on the show are those three women, but John (from Ohio!) was really quite hilarious. John was Lee and Sam's favorite of the night. We got some pictures afterward, which just topped off the night for me. Fabulous time! Can't wait for the next comedy show... Lee and I would like to see more, we enjoy laughing and it's affordable (compared to most concerts!).

Now onto the week and Lee's birthday!! :) Getting excited...

Halloween!

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We took the pups to the Halloween celebration for pictures and goodies. It was a lot of fun, but I know both of them were miserable. They were super cute though. Snickers was a banana and Gus was a [land] shark. It was adorable.
I took Gus to the Aggie Pet Zone Halloween party as well. We won a cake in the cake walk and he got scariest costume. I can't wait for Heather to post those pictures! They are going to be adorable.

Lee and I hosted a Halloween party. Made cookies, punch, Lee hung lights and I decorated the interior. It was really quite nice. I was a little disappointed with the small number of attendees, but it turned out to be a really fun night. We all hung out, drank, ate some cookies and played rock band! I love my friends and am so thankful to all of those that came (whether in person or in spirit).

He's FIFTY!

HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY DAD. LOVE YOU.

Strawberry Fields....Forever

I know, it's been a while. I have just been so busy at work lately that when I get home, I want to relax with my furkids and hubby, not get on the computer.


We had a semi-surprise birthday party for Xavier's #21 birthday last week. It was a lot of fun. We had jello shots and played games. Makes me eager for Halloween!


Sunday-Wednesday this week I went to Corpus Christi for Animal Response Disaster training.

I passed, with a 100%!! YAY. It made me think about not only what we would do at the shelter if there was a disaster, but what we should do at home for ourselves and our pets. It was a good experience, that is for sure. :)

This weekend is Wiener Fest! I'm very excited. This is the big event out in the community for the shelter and this is our first time to attend. Gus is racing in the "Wanna-Be-A-Wiener" race. Hopefully he will run... I see him getting excited to play with the other dogs. Snickers is not racing, because she is too big for the boxes (they are dachshund size).

My sissy got her business website set up (thanks to the help of brother).
Check it out -- http://samanthaspetservices.com/
So proud of her. :)

Walking On Sunshine....OOOooohhh...

It's still raining here (on and off). It feels like we had months where it did not rain, and Mother Nature is playing catch up... It cools the temperature down for a bit. But I'm ready for real fall weather. :)

Salem loves the cool weather because we can open up the windows.


I ordered a new ring.

It stands for equality for marriage. It was $10 to the cause and I am very happy to stand up for all my gay, lesbian and trans-gender friends. :) I believe that everyone, no matter who they love, should be able to be married. So, I am proud to wear my ring. You can get more information from their website here.



This was a picture of the sky from this past weekend. Lee took it from the Target parking lot. The sky was absolutely gorgeous.


Meet Leeroy...

He is a newbie to the animal shelter. We, as staff, love him. He is a young calf, and he is super friendly.
We also have a potbelly pig named, Hamilton. He is also very friendly, but second to Leeroy in cuteness.


Last week, I was having a sorta rough day and my hubby (being his awesome self), decided to get me a little something to cheer me up. No, not flowers -- SpongeBob. h how he knows me so well.

And it's a Halloween story! "SpongeBob SppokyPants"


Congrats to Miss Judy on retiring. <3

sticky notes make me giddy

Ok, time to list all my updates out again... since it has been a while.

• Lee got a job! He is teaching physics at a high school here in town. He is so giddy and excited to have his own classroom. He will make a fabulous teacher. I am so proud of him.
• The weather has FINALLY cooled down. It is in the eighties and the seventies at night. Yay.
• Work has been crazy busy for me, but I am excited for a low key weekend before Lee officially starts teaching on his own.
• Went to Paws in the Park to support Sammie at her first big dog event last weekend. It was pretty exciting. :)
  
• Found a stray dog today - kind of irritated by it though. His owner wasn't very grateful for me finding the little tubster. I was worried that she would get hit by a car there are very busy streets around us... oh well.
  
• Sweetie, my little escort, has been acting up and needs to go to the doctor (Ford)
• Been playing Rock Band like fools when we have some time off with friends, I am the tone deaf vocal queen! -- I stink at the instruments

Things are going well. Pets are crazy like normal. Still raining here.

Gimme Gimme More

Snickers got a new bed from her grandma and grandpa. :) She is very happy. Lee and I were losing space on the bed more and more each night. She went from sleeping like a tiny dog in a ball at the end of our bed to spreading out across the whole bed like a great dane -- that's where I had to say no more puppies in our beds. Snickers sleeps to Lee's side of the bed and GusGus sleeps to my side.


Yesterday (September 16) was my Britney holiday. I had been anticipating this for months!! I ended up taking Sammie. I know Lee would have went, but I know he didn't necessarily want to go. I had sooo much fun! Although we were up semi high, she was still right there!! It was amazing. She played stuff from Baby One More Time... all the way to new songs off her most recent CD, Circus. She even played Breathe On Me - one of my all time faves. She did a cover of Alanis Morisette. Awesome. She did her whole show like a circus. Side acts, flashing lights, fire, smoke and fireworks. I could go on forever. All in all - it was a show of a lifetime. Love it.


Today (September 17) I wore a bald cap, for (most) of the day.

"On September 17, 2009 people will raise money for cancer-related charities by honoring those who battle the disease themselves. A marked departure from classic, individual sponsorship-based fundraisers, participants in Be Bold, Be Bald! will wear a ba...ld cap for a day in exchange for donations. Visit http://beboldbebald.org today to donate (search: Krystle Gervais) Every dollar helps!"

I only ended up raising $25, but I have through the end of September to raise a bit more. My real goal would be $50. Next year I will have a leg up on fundraising. It was a great experience all in all.

Now onto Friday!

Love for a pet

If I Didn't Have a Dog... Or Cat......

I could walk around the yard barefoot in safety.
My house could be carpeted instead of tiled and laminated.

All flat surfaces, clothing, furniture & cars would be free of hair.
When the doorbell rings, it wouldn't sound like a kennel.

When the doorbell rings, I could get to the door without
wading through fuzzy bodies who beat me there.



I could sit on the couch and my bed the way I wanted,
without taking into consideration how much space
Several fur bodies would need to get comfortable.

I would have money, & no guilt to go on a real vacation.

I would not be on a first-name basis with numerous veterinarians, as I put their yet unborn grandkids through college.



The most used words in my vocabulary would not be: out, sit, down, come, no, stay, & leave him/her/it ALONE.

My house would not be cordoned off into zones with
baby gates or barriers.



My house would not look like a day care center,
with toys everywhere.

My pockets would not contain things like poop bags,
treats and an extra leash.

I would no longer have to spell the words B-A-L-L,
F-R-I-S-B-E-E, W-A-L-K,, T-R-E-A-T,, R-I-D-E, G-O



I would not have as many leaves INSIDE my house as outside.

I would not look strangely at people who think having ONE dog/cat ties them down too much.

I'd look forward to spring and the rainy season instead of dreading 'mud' season.



I would not have to answer the question 'Why do you have so many animals?' from people who will never have the joy in their lives of knowing they are loved unconditionally by someone as close to an angel as they will ever get.


How EMPTY my life would be!