The closing date for the Super Pet Award nears, barely one day and the voting will start. Actually there are 14 transmittals what makes me very happy: I didn’t reckon on so many participants. All photos are really very beautiful and you will have a rough ride to decide which one is the best!

Everybody who didn’t take part yet and still wants to be game should do that immediately. As from midnight of July 31rst no more transmittals will be accepted! Corresponding to the closing date today I also got a message from Conrad that the prize for the winner, the little monitor seal, is on it’s way. So it will be here in time for the award’s end and just after the winner is certain and submitted me his or her postal address, it will be sent out by mail.

Behold, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalm 127, 3

Actually I just wanted to hear from my gynaecologist that I’m having an ovarian cyst once again – the last time that was the reason for my period staying away. Well, okay, I had that other thought in mind, but I just repressed it – after all it’s not possible I soliloquized, you can’t conceive that simple, you have to try hard and of course you mustn’t use a contraceptive.

Surprise, surprise: “Congratulations, Mrs. Kranz! You are pregnant!” My jaw dropped. What, where, how, pregnant? But, but, that’s not possible, that just can’t be true!

Well, apparently it is possible, and so now a mini Angi is on the way. Or a mini Tom. The expectant parents first felt a bit overwhelmed. But after having confessed the mishap to the prospective grandparents, we steady get more confident. My Mom gave me all her books about pregnancy and we already have three possible godmothers – my sister, my sister-in-law and my friend Sandra. The Baby is well provided for!

Now I have to 1. quit smoking, 2. move the PC to the living room in order to transform the workroom into a children’s room, and 3. – yeah, get the baby. It’s about the 7th week now, the little one is just a few centimetres small. In March next year then it will be ready at last: The Baby tumbles into the world. Somehow lovely.

Due to current instance – new Harry Potter movie in cinema, the 7th volume will be released soon – I’m recently hearing Harry Potter audio books in the evening when I’m going to sleep. While listening, a few questions came to my mind:

1. Does Butterbeer contain alcohol? If so, why are Hogwarts’ students allowed to drink it?
2. If magician don’t have running water, how do their loos work then?
3. Why did nobody ever recognise that Scabbers was much too old for a rat?
4. Where do magicians buy their food, or do they conjure everything they eat?
5. Who invents sweets which leg it or struggle???
6. Where do Hogwarts’ students go before Hogwarts? If they got to normal basic schools, don’t they attract attention if they have no idea of things like electric light etc.?
7. If Hogwarts’ students only learn calculating, writing and reading during basic school and then no more, aren’t they awfully uneducated then?
8. Do wizard babies also need nappies? If so, where do magicians buy them?
9. Why was there nerver a mean muggel like Dudley Dursley who took photos as evidents and sold that magicians story to The Times for a lot of money?
10. If magicians can charm away all deseases, why are they so elitist and do that only for themselves instead of healing cancer, Aids and hepatitis?

Some time ago I started a poll about pets. Now here is the evaluation:

1. Dog – 61 votes (29 %)
2. Cat – 61 votes (29 %)
3. Horse – 35 votes (16 %)
4. None of them – 30 votes (14 %)
5. Rat – 10 votes (5 %)
6. Guinea pig – 7 votes (3 %)
7. Bunny – 6 votes (3 %)
8. Ornamental fish – 4 votes (2 %)

Hence dog and cat both take first place, the horse takes the second place. Quite many people didn’t find their favourite pet in the poll. I would be happy if those tell me about their favourite pets in a comment here!

And now a little surprise: Charming Prinzzess gave me the idea with her toilet lid contest. We vote our Super Pet! Send me a photo of your pet till 31rst July 2007 to webmaster@angis-blog.de. The prettiest, cutest and best pet photo wins Robyn’s Super-Pet-Award! Apart from the great honor to be the winner, the pet’s master or mistress will get the Award for presenting it on his or her homepage in the form of a fancy graphic and a really great cute monitor seal! I’m looking forward to your transmittals. But note that you can only take part if you live in an EU country.

From 1st August 2007 on then we will vote two weeks long (till 14th August 2007) which picture is the best. Already now I wish good luck to all participants!

And here we have a button you can take and link to this contest:

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.”

Genesis 9,1

Uwe recently provides good content! So I also found the Simpsons Avatar on his page. On the Simpsons Movies’s Homepage you can construct yourself as a Simpson. Just click here and then go to Create Avatar top left.

And here she is, Simpson Angi!

Müller took the biscuit once again and created the most annoying advert of the year, the recent Froop spot. Anew the awefullest child all over Germany, our Kati, propagates misconduct and native-language disability. First she filches her mother’s Froops in order to hand them out to the neighbourhood, then she does again what we all love her for: She foozles some words, in this case because of the “tastity yoghurt”. (Note: The spot is in German, so this is loose translation of what she’s saying.)

Hereby I advocate the final banishment of belittlement of bad behaviour and disregarding of our children’s linguistic development from Germanys commercial television! Get rid of all those Froop-, Kinder Schoko Fresh- and whatever-adverts. No more “Give me your Kinder Schoko Fresh immediately, or I will overthrow your rack”, no more stolen yohurts, and more than ever no tastity ones.

By the way, never before I have eaten a Froop, just as Kinder Schoko Fresh. Not because I don’t think they taste, but because the adverts are so extremely dislikable. Perhaps you should consider that, dear business bosses…

A baton from Uwe which was waiting there a bit longer: The topic is “My most successful articles”. Well, okay. Before I answer I have to consult my stats. The first and second positions are index.php and favicon.ico (although I don’t have one, curious… ) and I think I can dicsount them confidently. Then following:

1. Chobits Pink 1.0 WordPress Theme
2. Language Switcher WordPress Plugin
3. Askme Plugin for WordPress 2.1

That figures

Found this cute seal at Conrad. It can be used as a monitor cleaner as the tummy consists of a kind of wipe. It really works very well and now has its regular place on my monitor, where it’s waiting for the next employment!

If you also want to have the seal, go to Conrad. There are even many different other animals!