And we are live!

by | Tuesday | June 30, 2009 | 15 comments

Woo hoo! I am so excited to have my fancy schmancy awesome new website live! My website designer is probably excited too since this means I am done pestering and asking questions that make it apparent how very little I know about web development.

In honor of this exciting occasion, how about a prize? Comment below with:

1. A story about your pet

2. The coolest feature of this new design

or 3. A good joke (We can always use good jokes.)

I’ll toss all the names in a hat and let the kids draw one at random and I’ll send the Lucky Winner a $25 PetSmart gift card to celebrate this most auspicious occasion!

Filed: Daily Life
  • http://www.redcanuck.com Red

    love it!! It loks fabulous, i especially love the dalmation print background for the comment box, very cute.

    hmmm, a story about my pet. Let’s see. I have 2 cats, Rowan and Fergus, and they both seem to think that my kids chairs are for them to sit in.
    ok, that wasn’t funny at all, i suck :P

  • elephant

    Good jokes I don’t have. How about a dirty animal joke?

    A farmer and his wife were lying in bed one evening. She was knitting and he was reading the latest issue of Animal Husbandry. He looked up from the page and said to her, “Did you know that humans are the only species in which the female achieves orgasm?”
    She looked at him wistfully, smiled, and replied, “Oh yeah? Prove it.”
    He frowned for a moment and said, “OK,” then got up and walked out, leaving his wife with a confused look on her face.
    About half an hour later he returned all tired and sweaty. “Well, the cow and the sheep definitely didn’t have one. But the way that pig squealed, it’s hard to tell!”

  • jacki

    Glad you’re back. Missed your posts.

    Quantus Airlines

    After every flight, pilots fill out a form called a gripe sheet, which
    conveys to the mechanics problems encountered with the aircraft during
    the flight that need repair or correction. The mechanics read and
    correct the problem, and then respond in writing on the lower half of
    the form what remedial action was taken, and the pilot reviews the gripe
    sheets before the next flight. Never let it be said that ground crews
    and engineers lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual logged
    maintenance complaints and problems as submitted by Quantas pilots and
    the solution recorded by maintenance engineers. By the way, Quantas is
    the only major airline that has never had an accident.

    (P = The problem logged by the pilot.)
    (S = The solution and action taken by the mechanics.)

    P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.
    S: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

    P: Test flight OK, except auto-land very rough.
    S: Auto-land not installed on this aircraft.

    P: Something loose in cockpit.
    S: Something tightened in cockpit.

    P: Dead bugs on windshield.
    S: Live bugs on back-order.

    P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute
    descent.
    S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground.

    P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear.
    S: Evidence removed.

    P: DME volume unbelievably loud.
    S: DME volume set to more believable level.

    P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick.
    S: That’s what they’re there for.

    P: IFF inoperative.
    S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode.

    P: Suspected crack in windshield.
    S: Suspect you’re right.

    P: Number 3 engine missing.
    S: Engine found on right wing after brief search.

    P: Aircraft handles funny.
    S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious.

    P: Target radar hums.
    S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics.

    P: Mouse in cockpit.
    S: Cat installed.

    P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget
    pounding on something with a hammer.
    S: Took hammer away from midget.

  • Claire

    I love the new design, great color scheme.

    Jess have you seen the iphone pet first aid application? My husband has it installed and I was curious what you thought of it.

    Dog Haikus

    I love my master
    Thus I perfume myself with
    This long-rotten squirrel

    I lie belly-up
    In the sunshine, happier than
    You ever will be

    How do I love thee?
    The ways are numberless as
    My hairs on the rug

    My human is home!
    I am so ecstatic I have
    Made a puddle

    I am your best friend
    Now, always, and especially
    When you are eating

  • bcats

    what do you get if your cat eat a whole duck? a duckfilledfatypuss! Thats about the only joke I know. Love the new blog. The story about you being the new Doctor and not trusting you made me go apologize to the new Doc at my vets office , she has been a great help to my kitties and me. I glad your post made me go talk to her,she is wonderful . thank you bcat

  • Kim

    Love the new site! I have too many pet stories. I’m in the middle of one now, so good luck to all other alert posters who have the words out there! ;)

  • http://lasttraintoclarksville.com Thea Agnew

    I love your site! Joelle will be starting my site soon! Can’t wait. I am a huge animal lover, so I would love to link to your site. You can read about my animal stories here: http://lasttraintoclarksville.com/2009/02/09/depth-of-our-being/
    I will be checking back with you to see if I can add you to my blogroll.

  • Chile

    Jess!!! It looks wonderful! I love it. I love the little animal print in this comment box. I did the cartoon Emmett (how cute is he?!) And the colors really pop.

    I think you’ve heard all my Blade stories although Cookie has learned a lot of his quirks. This time of year is brutal for Cookie. She’s not scared of fireworks but she wants to attack and eat them. And since we’re on the border of states that allow the illegal fireworks, many rednecks make the 2 hour trek to pick up the big ones. Now I’m guilty of that too BUT I do it on the actual holiday at a decent hour vs all hours of the night during the few weeks leading up to the 4th. Anytime Cookie hears a pop she runs to the windows or back door, leans back on her back paws and howls. Then she breaks into her “grrrr-I’m a Rottie” bark until the noise stops. Then she’ll sit back down and do the closed mouth growl. Well last night was no different. About 10:00 pm the fireworks in the neighborhood started and she went nuts. About a minute later a furniture commercial came on television that has fireworks (noise and graphics) in the background for their latest holiday sale. I’ll be damned if she didn’t leap up, run to the front door, lean back on her legs and let one huge howl up. And she kept going until the commercial was over. At the next commercial break, that same commercial came on again and she was sprawled out on the floor in front of me and luckily she just turned around and watched the tv with the low growl in her throat.

  • msubugvet

    lol jacki…good ones from Qantas!

    Glad to see we’re back in action here :)

    Story about my animal:
    When my cat, Stewie, was a few months old, I was upstairs and he was downstairs playing with another cat. All of a sudden I hear some weird noises coming from downstairs (rustling paper bag sound) and run downstairs to see what the ruckus is. He had the bag stuck to his leg and was freaking out. Ever since then, the sound of a plastic bag or similar sound sends him running. So if i ever find him doing something bad, i can just rustle a plastic bag.

  • Heather

    GREAT site, Jessica! It looks awesome. I have a Pudgy store for your new site…for those who don’t know who Pudgy is, well, he is my bearded dragon lizard. The best beardie around. Not that I am biased, or anything.

    We took him camping to Cuyamaca Rancho this weeend and there was this very pesky squirrel bothering our campsite. Now, my Pudgy loves animals and will lick their noses and snuggle on the couch with them. He’s been known to snuggle under a Christmas tree with a cat a time or two. This time, though, the squirrel got a little too close for comfort and Pudgy decided to rid of him for good. He flared his beared and did his little hiss noise-more like a half sneeze-and the squirrel ran into the wheel well of one of our cars and began squealing. I’ve never heard a squirrel make such a god-awful sound, but it went on for quite some time.

    The squirrel never came back.

  • Jamie

    If I were to have a blog/website, I would want it to look like this. How stinking cute!! I love love love the colors, so vibrant, so wonderful!

    I don’t have any real good animals stories for now. We just celebrated Akira’s (Siberian Husky) 1st birthday on Sunday with doggie cake and party hats! Yes, I got ‘that look’ from a lot of people at work when I showed them some pictures of Akira and Beethoven (Husky/Shepherd mix) chowing down on a bone shaped birthday cake wearing party hats with paws on them. Sigh. lol.

  • http://themoxiegirls.com Joelle

    Yay! And no, silly, you’re welcome to ask me questions all you like, any time. :) I’m happy to help. I made a few little tweaks here for “polish”, but you should be good to go, as they say.

    Thank you again for your business!

  • http://www.pawcurious.com/ Dr. V

    I love all these stories- and the jokes! Bwahaha! I love the Qantas one!!
    Thea- you will love working with Joelle! Of course you can add me to your blogroll, I would be delighted! Off to check out your blog!

    Can I use any more exclamation points in this comment?

  • http://www.3beards.net Lisa

    The new layout looks nice! I love the graphics!

  • http://diyinsanity.blogspot.com Gene

    The new site design is great — worth a visit instead of my usual of reading your posts in Google Reader via RSS.