#StreamingSunday: How Reilly Says "Teddy" ("Teddy" Is Her Teddy Bear)

When you have no voice, sometimes licks will do. Ask Reilly.

#StreamingSaturday: Two "Ouchies" (Or Six In Reilly's Case!) and Other Adventures

"And no, Momma. I do not like livestreams!"

PS A livestream with Reilly on "Momma"'s general Facebook page:

#MaltipooMonday: Friends, Camerophobia, and "Camille See, Camille Do"

Camille's human family does call her a little monkey from time to time, by the way, because of how she jumps and whines.

#StreamingSunday: More Of Reilly's Adventures And Other Stuff...Including, Well, What All Puppies Have To Do From Time To Time!

How Reilly Tolerates "Momma"; Plenty of #MaltipooMonday Videos Coming, Etc.

#ThursdayThoughts: How Reilly Helps—And Tests!—"Momma"'s Sanity, and Other Thoughts

PS Absolutely no Reillys were harmed in the making of this video. The Reilly in this video just hates looking at the camera—which can actually exacerbate "Momma"'s OCD/Anxiety when she gently has to turn her little face toward the camera!

#FluffyFriday and #SillySaturday: Livestreaming With Cam

PS: No Cams were harmed in the making of this video. Cam, meanwhile, almost got her "Auntie Nicole" killed just a few minutes before!

#FluffyFriday, #FurryFriday, #FlashbackFriday, and #SentimentalSaturday: Five Years Since...

Onions, Doorbells, and Foodies

Reilly even tried to block "Momma" by giving her kisses when she figured that she might be recording her!



This isn't to mention, as "Momma" may have mentioned before, that Reilly reminded Joyce (Reilly's breeder) that it was time for her to eat one of her afternoon meals (at 4:00 PM) as "Momma" was going home after meeting Reilly (which was on May 3, 2014; so, she needed more to eat back then)!

#ThrowbackThursday: Camille Gets "Auntie Nicole" In Trouble For Not Getting "Mom-Mom" Scratched!

Did "Auntie Nicole" nonetheless get to demonstrate how much Camille loves her "num-nums" and keep "Mom-Mom" from getting scratched (not to mention that "Mimi" let her to hold Cam in the first place)? Yes, she did; thank you very much 😏!

#MaltipooMonday & #MemoryMonday: An Example Of A Typical Week At La Casa de Reily Rosalita

PS Quite a few of the dynamics with which Reilly and Camille have to deal are encompassed within this video alone (and the video was a livestream).

Asking My Readers A Quick Favor Here....Again

Update: New fundraiser here (the last one ended and raised nothing ☹️).  So, #help me #fundraise for @Boogawes to be able to #fund her teacher-certification #education. https://t.co/5JscxZezPv 👩🏽‍🎓🏫📚💵 https://t.co/FS6soKwNn4

— N.V. Mara Czarnecki (@Nickidewbear) August 30, 2018

Commentary: Plainly Abusive Or Not-Entirely-Willingly Abusive?

Truth be told, people like the abusive person in this video may truly love their partners and are nonetheless abusing them and themselves by doing something for which the partners may need to take the hard step of leaving them: refusing to get treatment for mental illnesses if they can get that treatment.

In the video, the abusive person has Alcoholism for which he is clearly not getting treatment, although he can treatment for Alcoholism. Other mental illnesses which unfortunately can effect people to abuse other people include Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia: when people are in the throes of untreated mental illnesses like that, they're not even aware of what they're doing. According to the Mayo Clinic re Bipolar Disorder alone, "Despite the mood extremes, people with bipolar disorder often don't recognize how much their emotional instability disrupts their lives and the lives of their loved ones and don't get the treatment they need.".

Sometimes, then, the abused partners have to leave and say to their abusive partners something like, "I will come back if you seek the mental-health treatment that you need, and I will be fully supportive of you as you undergo the mental-health treatment. I cannot continue to let you hurt me and, ultimately, hurt yourself, and the only way that you can begin to heal yourself and mend the ties that you have cut is to acknowledge that you have a mental illness and get help for yourself."

Just A Friendly, Albe An Unofficial, Reminder From Reilly Rosalita The Maltipoo For Howard County, Maryland Voters

Full disclosures:

1. Reilly was bribed with treats to get her to take the pictures and wear her customly-modified shirt.
2. She did meet now-Executive and -First Lady Kittleman once when she was a very-tiny puppy, since she came home during the time of then-State Senator Kittleman's election campaign.
3. She is as barky as—or perhaps even more barky than—the speech bubble suggests. By the way, the "Always" and "Never" are, as far as "Momma" knows, "Momma"'s ideas for a revised "People, not Politics" slogan—since "Always People, Never Politics" really does describe Executive Kittleman's philosophy and takes the slogan out of the pantheon of understatements.
4. "Momma" downloaded free-for-commercial-use Graviola Font after using free online font-analyzer tools. She then used the Graviola font in this Powerpoint-made reminder card in which she also used Canon® camera-taken and Microsoft Windows® Photo Gallery- and Windows® Photos-enhanced photo.
5. The Early Voting days are on June 14-21, 2018 and October 25-November 1, 2018. "Momma" will be working the polls on some of those days, and on each of the election days 🙂. As far as she knows, Reilly can't come along, though 🙁.
6. "Auntie Nicole" could not get Camille to wear her own Kittleman shirt even for treats—this is why Camille also did not wear a bow for the Normandy card: e.g., she hates wearing anything except for her harness and her leash when she must wear it!

#MaltipooMonday: Is That A Trick Of the Light On Camille, Or Was Reilly On Livestream?

Guess.

Shavu'ot Card From Reilly

We are relaxing after counting the Omer...L'Shavu'ot Tov! [And for believers in Yeshua, receiving the Holy Spirit!]

"A look at a typical Sábado en la casa de Reily Rosalita"

A Special Card To A British-American Couple From Two Fur-mericans

PS "Momma" has no such mazel yet—and Reilly would (probably) love (or at least "Momma" would love Reilly) to be in a wedding!

Why Is "Momma"/"Auntie Nicole" Hiding Behind the Side Of A Chair? Hint: It Has To Do With...

Reilly watching one of Camille's favorite creatures as Camille does her classic bark.

A Modified Copied-and-Pasted Facebook Post On Aging

(And no, you don't have to copy and paste. I'm just modifying this a little as I copy and paste it because it's an albe-painful reminder that those of us under 35 are getting older, too).

To everyone whom has come of age and is only aging more and more every day:

We are going through the next stage of our lives. We are at ages at which we see more and more wrinkles, gray hair, and extra pounds. We think about the fact that quite a few of us were just even 25 seemingly yesterday, and just slightly younger than that just as if it were only a few days before that. Now we're either closer to 35 or further away from 35 on the older side of it than we ever thought that we could be in just a short amount of time, and the 25-and-younger crowd will be just like us one day (😢. You do get that old before you know it, and the worst part is getting old as you get older.).

What we once brought to the table with whatever youth and zest for life we had will become either wisdom, experience, and good hearts that older people are expected to have or the haughtiness, stubbornness, and miserliness of the proverbial old fool—"Better is a poor, wise youth than a foolish old king." We've earned each of our gray hairs for either what we've endured or made others endure, too.

Don't think that aging necessarily means being like a classic or like a fine wine, either. Our exteriors may not be what they once were, and any looks that we do retain will either mean nothing or be like the proverbial "gold ring in a pig's snout" if we deliberately forego having (let alone increasing) spirit, courage and strength in entering and exiting the coming chapters of our lives with grace and dignity; and may we never pride ourselves in what we've endured and accomplished—may we be humbled by and learn from it.

May God "[t]each us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom"—especially since we don't know if we have the rest of today, let alone tomorrow and any days thereafter.

Even if you decide to not copy, paste, and modify this with your age and a picture of you, look at the recent-enough picture that I have posted of my currently-28-years-old self and apply Marley's words to Scrooge to how you yourself are aging:

"Look to me no more. Look, that you may remember what has passed."