Here goes

I decided to try this since my Livejournal is now only active when i go to check up on the two pit bull groups i'm on.

Quick summary for y'all curious enough:

My name is Alix and I just made a huge life decision - I decided to agree to moving in with my boyfriend, we got a new place together, and now I have a family. It's small, just him and I and our two 'kids'. :D

You might as well get used to them, their are such a huge and important part of my life that you'll soon prolly get sick of hearing about them unless you're an absolute heart bleeder (as my bf loves to tease me about being) like me when it comes to animals. if i could, i'd go broke but have saved alot of animals. :)

Here's my first baby - I've had her since she was a 3lb 8-week-old pup. She holds a special place in my heart and always will. she changed my outlook on her breed and now i do what i can to fight for her and her kind. Meet Babygirl, my beautiful and silly American Pit Bull Terrier.

This was her at about 3 mo. old.

Her putting up with Mommy's crap for her first Halloween. I'm sure she hated me thoroughly for the indignity of it all. She is a Diva after all.

and a much more recent one taken since we moved last week (i love her pants and that sole freckle on her lil' pink nose!)Last month I was inexplicably drawn to the city pound back home in San Antonio, so i followed my gut. And i found her brother. I knew it the moment i saw his sad little self inside the kennel.

He was known as Abel then and his papers said he was an aussie shepherd mix, approx. 5 months old and had been at the pound a month already. When i asked a worker about him, she told me his number was coming up very shortly. My heart stopped. so i snapped this pic and rushed to the bf - took a lot of convincing and fast talking but ultimately his pic sealed the deal and i was allowed to go adopt him. i went that same day. everything was fine until the worker was looking through my paperwork and saw that i had a dog already and that it was a pit bull. they stopped my process right there and told me i'd have to bring my dog in so they could see that she got on well with Abel. ok, no prob. it took a few days to get off work and i went back. The adoption counselor told me flat out as he came outside to me and Babygirl that he wasn't gonna give me Abel b/c my dog was a pit. i got so MAD! it was ok to euthanize the baby but heaven forbid a loving home adopt him b/c there was a pit bull. so i proceeded to inform the asshat that i loved animals and that i knew the stereotypes that come with owning a pit, but that if i had even a ghost of a feeling that my dog would in any way/shape/form harm another animal that i wouldn't be trying to adopt one. i told him to come closer and feel free to take as long as he wanted with my dog to see she was very gentle and sweet.

FINALLY after 10 mins he allowed Abel to come out to interact. he was scared and it took about an hour before he warmed up to Babygirl and her over exhuberance and loving. they watched and talked and i was told i could adopt him. yay!!!! so i did. we all went home that afternoon and he got a new name - Loki - that came with his new life.

Here he is on his first night home. :D

Now neither of us knows how we went so long without a second dog. He loves his big sister and wishes with all his might he was just like her. He pushes her around and she pushes right back, but he sticks up for her in a heartbeat. He's more of a daddy's boy.. :( but it works out b/c she's SUCH a momma's girl.

i just got a new job at the front desk of a Home Mortgage company. I love it so far. Everyone is so nice here and laid back and so liberal and openminded. so far in austin, more ppl are open to asking me about my dogs first rather than assuming anything about them - in complete opposition to how it was back in SA.



I love my life right now and am so happy i feel like it's a sin.

Currently i am counting down the days until Christmas Eve, when we'll all be going back for my family's dinner and celebration.



New Years Resolutions have already been picked out: Continue eating healthy, start a workout regiment to lose 20-30 lbs, and marry this perfect man:

He cooks, helps clean, loves animals as much as me, has a good steady job, has a college degree, has ambitions, is reliable, is caring and doting, treats me above and beyond, makes me laugh everyday, makes me happy - and loves me just as i am. :D

he's my anchor and is level-headed, most always cool as a cucumber and is rational in his thinking, always led by his mind; the perfect opposite to flighty, whimsical, romantic, hot-headed, passion/heart-ruled impulsive me. aren't i the luckiest?! i praise and thank God every day and night for him; and i thank my lucky stars that i followed the impulse to go buy a cellphone that fateful evening. he asked me out and we've been inseperable ever since. :)

ok, ok... i'll stop ramblilng. i just got carried away talking about my loves. lol.

if i've bored y'all to tears i'm sorry.

God bless and goodnight.