About a week ago, a client was nice enough to pay for my chiweenie to get spayed.

I still need to get my pitbull and poodle neutered and inoculated.  So if anyone out there is reading this and is a veterinarian then please contact me so that we can work something out.

If you take care of both dogs then I will owe you 40 hours of companionship.

If you take care of one dog then I will owe you 20 hours of companionship.

I have had people try to give me more animals and I have declined.  My allergies and finances cannot handle any more animals unless someone wants to buy me a ranch.  LOL!

I hope to hear from you soon.

xoxo,

Mikki Fine
mikkifine4you@gmail.com

http://mikkifine.net

Amazon Gift Card Special! Incall Only. Hwy6N/West Rd.Houston,TX 77095
I had an idea. As many as you know I have just really discovered the benefits of Amazon.com in

December 2011. Ever since then I have been on the website almost every day adding things to my wish list.

Then I had this wonderful idea. What if I offered a special where the client could email me an Amazon

Gift Card and I could subtract from the total of the cost of the session? That is right if you get screened

and set an appointment then email me an Amazon gift card then I would subtract the amount off whatever

session you choose. If you choose a $400 session for 2 hours then you could send $100 Amazon Gift Card

then -$100 could be deducted off of your $400 session. If you choose 1 hour for $200 and send $50

Amazon Gift Card then the $50 gift card will be subtracted from your session.

Amazon Gift Cards can be received before you arrive to your appointment by email or you can bring it

when you arrive to the session. I will verify the card before the session begins.

How do you get screened? Well you can either have at least 5 reviews on a review board (You will need to
pm me from that bored to verify that it is you) OR have at least 5 okays

on Preferred 411 OR go to my website and follow the screening process.

I look forward to meeting you soon.

Sincerely,

Mikki Fine
mikkifine4you@gmail.com

http://mikkifine.net

https://www.preferred411.com/P6656

Handy Man Special!

Hello there my future Handy Man!

I am willing to barter for the following.

1. Lay brand new carpet in my home. I want my living room to have wooden tile and the rest carpet. I have about 1000 square feet to cover.

2. Fresh paint on my walls.

3. New cabinets in my kitchen and bathroom

4. In my kitchen and bathroom, I also want wooden tiling on the floors.

I am willing to give you 30 hour credit of my time free.

If you are the gentleman who can get the job done then please email me at mikkifine4you@gmail.com

Screening is a must so please go to my website. http://mikkifine.net

Options for screening are the following: You can pass screening if you have at least 5 reviews on a Hobbiest Board, OR have at least 5 okays on Preferred 411, OR you can fill out my screening questionnaire than can be found on my website or email me. If you email me you will given an automatic response with questions. Please fill it out and send it to me.

Sincerely,

Mikki Fine

https://www.preferred411.com/P66564

Mayor Annise Parker
Inaugural Address
January 3, 2012

I love this city!

I thank Houstonians for again honoring me with your trust, your hopes. To serve you remains my highest aspiration.

I congratulate our City Controller and our City Council Members. This is a Council representing the amazing diversity of our city, with two new seats to reflect our increasing population. For all our differences, we share the values of faith and family and community. Those values will unite us as colleagues.

I salute, and thank, the women and men who make our city run. I know that the city’s workforce is one of the best anywhere. I see them every day; I know many of them – and I know the commitment they have to doing a good job. A global metropolis like Houston operates 24/7. It is a complex organism that requires intricate coordination and choreographed actions. We rarely notice the smooth workings of this city – how much of it goes right.

But running a city is like riding a bicycle: you keep moving forward or you fall down. We rode long and far during the first term in office, and I am proud of what we accomplished together. But sometimes it helps to put things in perspective.

This August the City of Houston was 175 years old. And we are America’s 4th largest city. Thatss a pretty amazing fact. We are a city that by conventional logic should not be. We were founded at the confluence of two muddy streams meandering through the flat Texas coastal prairie in 1836. It was hot, humid and the land was dotted with ponds of stagnant water where mosquitoes bred in abundance.

The city was rife with yellow fever for the first 60 years of its existence. There were no veins of gold in the earth, and precious little oil or gas. No scenic vistas. No sheltered harbor.

Well the mosquitoes are still here…but today we are home to the largest medical complex in the world, world capital of the petroleum industry, and the largest foreign tonnage port in America.

We pioneered the artificial heart, and revolutionized heart transplants. We are the home of NASA. The first word spoken from the moon was … “Houston.” (And one day the first word spoken from Mars will be “Houston!”)

Everything we have done as a city has been a matter of vision and will, of taking what we have and deciding what we want, setting an impossible goal, and then creating it. Vision, commitment, hard work and a leap of faith.

That’s why Houston, in the middle of the recession, is still the number one job creating city in America and the best place to live, work and raise a family. And that’s why we must do even better in the future.

My number one job for the next two years is to continue to bring more jobs to Houston. We will expand the programs we have already started to stimulate small business with access to loans and training. We will continue the Hire Houston First policy. We will work tirelessly to increase our role as the energy capital of the world and a world leader in the next high tech industrial revolution.

Hard times prompt us to chart the latitude and longitude of who we are. Hard times test our character. The economy still dominates every conversation, and colors everything we do. Too many Houstonians are struggling to find jobs, to make ends meet. Our city workforce has also felt that pain. City employees have been furloughed, and more than 750 were laid off. We are doing more with less.

But …

We did not raise taxes. We did not mortgage our future with debt. We did not compromise public safety. We did not lay off a single firefighter or police officer. Many of our civilian employees stepped up and volunteered additional furlough days to help save the jobs of their colleagues.

We took bold steps to address our aging infrastructure – finally recovering the full cost of this precious asset, emphasizing conservation, and setting aside funds to complete long neglected maintenance. In doing the responsible thing, we unknowingly prepared ourselves to be able to respond to the worst drought in our history.

And I cannot envision voters in any other city in America, in the midst of a recession, doing the right thing, the prudent thing, and creating the funding to invest in critically needed flooding and drainage infrastructure. This is a visionary step akin to that in the 1950′s and 60s which created lakes Conroe and Houston and secured the water rights which sustain us today, or the commitment to set aside land and other incentives to encourage medical institutions to locate together and so lead to the largest medical complex in the world.

As we navigated this city through the toughest economy in generations, I built my administration on 5 pillars, and focused the work of the city around them:

• Jobs and sustainable development,
• Fiscal responsibility,
• Infrastructure,
• Public safety,
• Quality of life.

Those will remain our strengths – there is progress yet to be made on pension security for both the city and our retirees, an independent regional crime lab, phasing out the city jail and progress against homelessness – these are challenges we are committed to address and have already begun.

Two years ago I asked of you three things: I asked for your prayers. I must have had them, for though I knew there would be challenges ahead, those challenges seemed to grow in depth and severity each day. It is telling that the task I had feared would be the hardest, redistricting, was actually one of the easiest and most successful.

I asked for your patience. And I suspect that we tried it at times. But I have always believed in a principled compromise that achieves progress.

And I asked for your perseverance. We rise and fall together. We succeed or fail together.

And you have shown that through your deeds. You have committed your time and energy to Houston. You, the people of Houston, have collectively given more volunteer hours than ever in our history.

When Fast Company magazine selected Houston as the City of the Year for 2011, there was a reference to us as “one of the world’s next great cities”. Houstonians know that future is already here. It is the blessing and curse of Houston to never be satisfied with where it is, to always be reinventing itself. Ours is a city of opportunity and optimism –never stopping at why we can’t do something, but always seeking how we can get it done.

We are a city that knows how to turn potential problems into possibilities.

We dream great dreams, but then make them happen.

Whether you find your strength in God, in family, in friends, or in your own two hands, Houston deserves no less than our shared vision, our firm commitment, our hard work and a continued leap of faith.

Let us greet our future together!

Thank you!

http://www.houstontx.gov/mayor/inauguration2012.html

Not everyone is familiar with Greendot Money Packs.  It can be a bit confusing for a gentleman who is already nervous about visiting an escort for the first time.

It was my first time shopping with Amazon with a gift card.  It was really neat.  I found things for my home, clothing and items for my pets.  It was a great online shopping experience.

Despite the chanting and the plastic tents, Tahrir Square now is a different place than it was during what is known in Egypt as the “18 Days,” back in January and February when protestors overthrew the Mubarak regime.

In Cairo, protestors have called for another massive demonstration in advance of Monday’s parliamentary elections. There are fears of renewed violence come Election Day; one man was killed on Saturday during clashes with Egyptian security services.

This latest phase of Egypt’s revolution has been a lot more violent, protestors say. In just nine days, at least 40 people have been killed and 2,000 more wounded in clashes with security forces. And, as the atmosphere changes, paranoia and sexual violence are on the rise.

“There’s far more pain here,” says Mohammed el-Batagy, a professor at Cairo University. He’s been participating in the demonstrations against military rule. “The square has witnessed orders of magnitude more violence than it had during the 18 days. There is fear, and then there is also infiltrators. They come in to just ruin the whole sit-in.”

He says there is an atmosphere of suspicion toward outsiders this time around, with reason: There are agitators inside the square that el-Batagy claims were sent by the ruling junta.

“Yesterday, like a few were caught in Tahrir,” he says. “And they admitted that they were actually being paid.”

Women Assaulted

Women, in particular, are bearing the brunt of the changing dynamics. CBS correspondent Lara Logan was the victim of a gang sexual assault on the day that former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak fell. Most women who stayed in the square during the 18 days say that sexual violence was rare during that period. Not any more.

“Many of my female friends have been groped or touched or experienced sexual violence in various ways and have hit people, says Mona el-Tahawy, a well known Egyptian journalist and activist.

She was sexually harassed repeatedly by fellow male protestors in the square over the past week, but says her worst sexual assault came at the hands of the Egyptian security services.

Last Wednesday she was caught on the front lines of running street battles with the police. Taking cover, she suddenly found herself alone.

EnlargeAFP/Getty ImagesEgyptian journalist Mona el-Tahawy tweeted this picture of herself on Thursday after she was released from police custody. Tahawy says she was beaten and sexually assaulted by riot police last week.

“I was basically left in this abandoned workshop cornered by four or five riot police,” she says. “They just started beating me with their sticks and that’s how I broke my left arm and broke my right hand. And then they dragged me into the no man’s land. And that’s where they sexually assaulted me.”

She was at their mercy, she says.

“Hands all over my breasts, hands in between my legs, hands going into my trousers as they were beating me,” she says. “It was incredibly traumatic and very frightening, and at one point I fell on the floor and was terrified and thought, ‘If I don’t get up, I’m either going to die or they are going to rape me.’”

“All the time they were calling me a whore and dragging me by my hair,” she says. “The groping and the assault did not stop until someone from the army said, ‘Take her away.’”

She was put in a holding area, and after almost a full day without medical care, she was let go.

More Than A Political Fight

El-Tahawy says being sexually harassed by both protestors and police around the square underscores how much needs to change in Egypt.

“We are also fighting what I call the ‘fourth enemy’ now,” el-Tahawy says. “It’s not just counter-revolution; it’s not just tear gas; it’s not just police brutality – it’s sexual violence.”

“My obsession now with the revolution is we are experiencing a political revolution in Egypt, but we need a cultural and social revolution,” she says. And Tahrir Square is at the center of it.

“Tahrir now has become this cauldron of all the problems in Egypt that we must start fixing now,” el-Tahawy says. “That’s why Tahrir is so important. Tahrir is not a square anymore. Tahrir is not a physical space anymore. Tahrir is a state of mind. Tahrir is a symbol — and not just for Egypt, for the entire world.”

And that’s why, she says, the changing atmosphere in Tahrir Square is so worrying.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142821477/sexual-violence-on-the-rise-in-egypt

Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight but did you know men really don’t mind that? It’s like camping.
Pass this to as many men as you can -
to give them a laugh.
Pass this to as many women as you can -
to give them a bigger laugh.

I first take everyone for a walk so they won’t have an accident in the house.  From the front door we went to the bathroom.  Right away the dogs no what is up.  The chiweenie tries to sneak out but I still have her on the leash.

I grab some towels, take my clothes off and go into the bathroom to prepare.   I then run the warm shower.  I start with the easiest dog which is the poodle.  He does not appreciate it but I know he will feel better after it is over.  He gets this nasty crud around his eyes that can only be removed with soaking in the shower.

Then I move on to the pitbull.  He is more like a clumsy moose with teeth.  He is a little excited at first then he realizes he will be okay when I put my arms around him and cuddle him.  He still has the ant bites I found him with in September.

Then I bathe the chiweenie.   Her humble beginnings were with me and three cats.  She acts like a cat while taking a bath.  She starts to claw at the bathtub and me.  Last time I bathed her she gave me some nasty scratches on the leg.

Ahh it feels good to accomplish bath time with three dogs.  LOL!

I sure hope that I do not get evicted from my apartment.  The landlady told me she needed $600 by today and I did not have it.  Oh well I pray things will get better soon.

I just recently made a friend.  She is from India.  She has lived in the United States for a while but is still a bit naïve about some of the activities that take place.

I keep everything hidden in my home from curious eyes.  You just never know what to expect.  Well I had washed my toy and then put it in the dishwasher for extra sterilization.

I was in the kitchen preparing tea for my friend.  She is a very curious lady.  I am more patient with her because I know she is just curious and wants more knowledge.  She has no intention of making any trouble.

I decided to hand wash some dishes and to set them in the dishwasher for extra cleansing.  Oh Hell.  My friend looks in the dishwasher and says, “What is this…” and I just say, “Ahhhhh, no, don’t”.

She asks what that is and I explain that it is a sex toy.  She does not believe me and said that I am scaring her.  I told her that is what you get for grabbing things you are not supposed to grab.  She said but it was so pretty and I told her that was the reason why my male friend had bought it for me.

We watched some television on hulu then she had to leave to make supper.  I wonder if she will call again.

Love this!!!!!!  

In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs.

After checking with many other zoos across the country,    the depressing news was that there were no tiger  cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning  mother..

Take a look…you won’t believe your  eyes

Now, please tell me one more time … Why can’t the rest of the world get along?