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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
4:18 pm	WTF Craziness (dog/hawk related) Okay I just had to post this. It just happened. I swear if it hadn't just happened to me I would never believe it. I live in the city. A very wooded and lake-filled part of the city but the city none-the-less. So we have bald eagles, red-tailed hawks, kestrels and osperys around. But it's a city. A city. Urban area. Well so I had Shortbread out in the front yard to play a little bit since he didn't go pee right away when we got home after our walk. I figured if he played a bit he would end up having to pee. I'm throwing a toy for him to bring back to me and he's running and hopping all around on the long leash(he's only 3 months + 1 day old so of course I don't trust him yet off leash!) having a grand time. Out of nowhere this bird comes swooping down and glides along like two inches off the ground and towards Shorty. I stuck my leg out in front of Shorty and it veered up just high enough to land on my neighbour's doorstep railing. When it perched there I realised IT WAS A FREAKIN' HAWK!!! A. FREAKING. HAWK. WTF!? It was a small hawk but still a hawk tried to prey on the dog. A hawk tried to eat our dog. In the middle of a city. Seriously. And there was no question what it was after because it Stukaed right for Shorty and was like two inches above the ground with it's talons outstretched. Then it sat there on the railing just sizing me up. After a bit it flew back up and circled us three times before buggering off. It was smaller than most hawks but wasn't a kestrel. It was kind of drab and had a long tail with really wide, dark bars. I would say Cooper's hawk but it didn't have bright yellow eyes. So Sharp-shinned hawk? That's my guess. I found this pic of a Sharp-shinned hawk: which looks just like the attemped dog-knapper- maybe a bit more brown and less grey on the shoulders. Yeah. So. Freaky as hell. Shorty wont be going out by himself any time soon. BTW he weighs 3 lbs now so I guess that makes him rabbit sized? The only 'rabbit' we actually have in Nova Scotia is the snow-shoe hare which weigh 2-4 lbs. Current Mood: WTF? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 26th, 2009
4:50 pm	Nevermind- drive 3 was bad. 4 and 5 work fine. No moving of  tiny piece of plastic can save the fujitsu. Grrrr all my Different Drum stuff. :(  That ref and info page I worked so hard on. The only other place I had it was on FurNation and I lost it there when their server died. VERY PISSED. Drive 5 has Napster on it. *L* Wow, old much. ________________________ Ghgsfdhgfshgfsdhfgadekfg2kiuf *head a-splode* Does anyone know off-hand what the jumper settings are to manually set secondary slave on an HD? It is not listening to the cable order. YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR CABLE SELECT? http://unplugg3d.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/how-to-set-jumpers-on-a-hard-disk/ Great pics but no secondary slave. It was fine before as secondary master so what is the freakin' issue now? Garffle. -__-' I just LANed up to the old computer to get Kaza's stuff and my stuff from my old pc that died a horrible motherboard short death and it was going fine until now. Secondary yourself up stupid fujitsu. I would expect this from the Seagate. Not you. And the puppy is being so damn adorable it's distracting. Stop being so adorable. Oh wait he just ate some cat puke. Less adorable. :P Current Mood: FFfhgxfqhdgfqhgd work damn you (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
10:58 am	Stuff My family and I recieved the most amazing card! It was signed by a whole bunch of Ameya's friends(and most of them mine too). It really touched my father. And my Mum- but my father especially. Thank you all so, so much!!! That must have taken a real effort and it was so amazing to recieve! My Mum said: 'you must have really wonderful friends'. And I sure do. Thank you! I have to write a thank on Lilymud as soon as I get feeling better. Had to be in hospital Monday. Started new medication I hate on Tuesday. I can't stand it. Shorty wants to go for his afternoon walk but I have to wait for the doctor at the HI to call with MRI results. They normally take like three months to get the results back and I had my scan Monday evening and here they are with the results this morning. So it's a little nerve wracking. I'm sure it will show the same problem as the CT scan so I'm not really that worried. And here is an adorable puppy picture: Shorty in his hoodie. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
12:19 pm	Shortbread and Schalke- a tale of two puppies                  That's our new little fellow Shortbread aka Shorty being held by Mum. He arrived home Friday night. It's amazing how he's lifted our house out of the pall of sadness it's been under for a year! For the first time since Ameya died we were laughing. Just all sitting around at laughing. Smiling. Instead of this week being torture it's been a joy to start sharing out life with our little fellow. He is a purebred Maltese. We met his Mum, Kiwi and Dad, Brody(who was not an anthropomorphic transgender Electabuzz, sadly) and his brother and sister from the same litter. They are all pure white except Shorty here. But I've read that Apricot is recessive in Maltese so he may stay apricot or he may turn pure white by age 1 or white with apricot ears and/or just one two apricot splotches. Right now he is cream with apricot ears and legs and white toes. Apricot ears are not that common, apricot patches are rarer and if he stays apricot with white toes he'd be a real fluke. His Mum is a showdog from Quebec his dad is just a pet quality dog- but bothw ith excellent health. He was born August 17th (same day as one of my two best friends in the world, Dina. She has had her surgery to remove her lymph nodes and thyroid BTW) and will be between 4-8 lbs fully grown. His other siblings from another little arre all between 5-7 lbs.  And here are pictures of Schalke now that he has opened his eyes. He'll be coming home in early December!! Pics by Peter Archer of Winfarthing.  with Mum Ch. Can/Am. Winfarthing's Cobweb Schalke is one of the liver males. It should be noted that since Schalke was born Schalke04 his much beloved namesake Bundesliga team have not a lost game- in B1 or the DFB cup. He is a German footy good luck puppy. Note: when I was watching French Orange League footy with Shortbread(he watches the telly *L*) he barked at P S-G but not  Lorraine. A+++! Hopefully Schalke will have such good taste. Shorty had to spend last evening at the vet. He had a bad reaction to his inoculations that morning. Stressful day! But they ran all kinds of extra tests and gave him the medicine for the reaction for free. Wonderful vet! Scary day though. Poor Mum cried she was so worried about him. But having a dog is so totally awesome desspite exhaustion. I pull the nightshift and most of the dayshift with him so I've had like one night'ss worth of sleep split up between four nights. And I like my sleep. EN needs the dogolope required sleep of 10 hours or more- but the Shorty is worth it. Imagine in 8 weeks when Schalke arrives and Shortbread is still only  15 weeks old!! o.O'' Caring for Remy as a very old almost blind cat and poor dying Marius as well as Caine whose decided not to burminate this year is a lot of work on top of it and I think that's part of why I'm so tired. Plus my usual cooking and cleaning and rehab. This is my first week in like 3 years of walking without crutches or a cane. So far one day down and I'm sore and hurting but I can walk. Oh man how did I just step in dog poo? I just had you outside. &GUFYDYTRDYFFJG. Ten seconds ago he was outside. He's a ninja pooper! But the vet said because he's only 7 weeks we have another month before we can expect him to be good about 'accidents'. He uses either the lawn or his pee/poo pads about 80% of the time though. And really how much does like a 1lbs dog crap? Not much but enough to get all over my pants I just took out of the dryer because I ha dto put my other pants in wash. Spetzna special forces never see it coming super pooper Shorty. I swear he pees more than I do. And I pee all the damn time. He is a little pee machine. They tested his blood glucose at the vet and it was fine though and no enlarged organs in his belly. So he's just a pee-er. He needs frequent bathroom breaks, like to sleep, watches footy(soccer) and doesn't eat pork. My kind of dog! I wonder what his opinion on Sable Antelopes is? I can't believe he's already wearing his collar and walking with a leash after only 3 1/2 days. He's also sitting by voice command and waking us up with a nudge at night to put him down off the bed to go pee. Smart little guy. Not at all what I expected from a little dog. I hate little dogs. Yappy, stupid, bitey, ugly little dogs. BUT I FREAKIN' ADORE THIS DOG. Best dog EVAH.  Mum got him this collar and it's blue with rhinestones. It's ridculous. I'll have to get a pic when Dad's camera charges.  My camera seems to have died. It was seriously arsed since like 2005 so the fact it hung on as long as it did is pretty damn good. The cats are tolerating Shorty. He and Marius curled up and had a snooze together today. Rem thought he would try and kill him the first night but since then has decided to simply ignore him. I haven't introduced him to Caine yet as I'm a little worried about Caine's tail getting chewed. Caine's bigger than he is right now actually. *L* I might bring Caine down this afternoon for just an hour or so and see how they get along. Oh and I have facebook now. Mosty to keep track of lizard rescue news but please add me if you'd like! It's E.n. Dobson or sableantelope@gmail.com And now back to the saltpuppy mines. Current Mood: bouncy (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
1:14 pm	Goodbye Chalah Poor little Chalah Bear. He developed sudden severe neurological problems and is at the vet's. He's not expected to live and the damage seems to be irreversable. So sad for such a sweet little baby puppy to die so young. His brother and sisters are all doing very well. We were supposed to go pick him up tommorow morning and had everything set up and have been so excited. We wanted to get Mum her puppy before the one year of Ameya's death. Poor little guy. He looks so awful in his newest pics taken a few days ago too- like a very, very sick dog. So no puppy tommorow. Mum, she's heartbroken and Dad and I are disappointed. Thank God Marius is doing a little better and wont have to be put to sleep today. I couldn't handle it. This week sucked. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
1:08 pm	Schalke has been born ^_^ SO EXCITED. JOY OVERLOAD. In ten weeks I will have my PUPPY. Schalke will have 9 brothers and sisters. Big family! He should look like his mum Cobweb. His grandfather, Walk the Line To Normandy("Cash")'s father Normandy Commander("Monty"), you may have seen when he won best of breed at Westminster Kennel Club's 2006 dog show on the telly. He also won best of breed 2005. You can see video of my puppy's grandfather Monty winning the best of breed '06 here: http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/2006/video/breed/ Just select field spaniel in the sporting group. That gives you an idea of what his looks will be. :) (I dunno who makes the WKC's shite music but seriously, you might want to mute it *L*) And in other Schalke news Schalke04 play their mortal enemies Dortmund in the Ruhr Derby today. Oh the drama. They ought to actually win for once in honour of Schalke the puppy. ;) SO EXCITED!! I have to fly up to Ontario at 4 weeks to visit the pups, then at around 10 weeks I should be able to fly up again and bring him home. He's going to be trained in hunting(partridge and phesant- maybe some ducks), tracking, retrieve of object, some of French Ring's skills, as well as obedience trial, field trial and of course Canine Good Citizenship. My first dog of my very own. So. Freakin'. Excited. Current Mood: ecstatic (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
1:37 pm	Yayness! My Uncle is HOME. He's on a lot of meds and wont be able to cut down trees anymore but he's alive. How sad is it that someone almost dying is good news in my family now? But I am so crazy thrilled. He still has to come up to Halifax for a catheter dye test but he should live like ten or fifteen more years. He has the exact same heart problem Ameya had. Updated pic of התחלה חדשה Hatchala Chadasha a.k.a "Chalah Bear" God that's an adorable but retarded little dog. He should be comming home the 3rd. And I didn't name him the Hebrew name, my Mum did oddly enough. And meme Desktop Wallpaper Meme The Rules: ☞ Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper. ☞ Explain in no more than five sentences why you're using that wallpaper! ☞ Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on! Manny Neuer and Mirko Slomka!! Oh Slomka you sexy, sexy man who looks kind of like a Bull Terrier. Please come back and coach Schalke again. Slomka risked his career to bump up Manny from the II side even though they had Frank Rost as their #1. Now Manny is one of the best keepers in Germany.  And Slomka was fired even after Schalke went to the semi's in UEFA. W.T.F. The year after they fired Slomka was pathetic. Now we have Felix Magath. He did so well first few games and now S04 are back to being their crappy selves. BUT I LOVE THEM. I do not love Felix Magth. Look at his douchey scarf. :| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magath2.jpg And we have him until 2013. Replace him with Somka again no one will notice. I swear. *L* Note: Bundesliga=serious business. Not quite as serious business as TLK.org or field spaniels but serious business. I'm sure Felix will do great things for the club but I love my Slomka. And now ManUnited are trying to peft our Neuer from Schalke04 at the next transfer window. They just want him because his nickname is "Manu". Stupid ManU...Arsenal rules! Except that they are not so hot last season nor this one so far. That's okay. Arsenal are just lulling ManUnited into a false sense of security. Yeah. I'm going to keep telling myself that. It sucks though- S04 is already loosing Rafinha at the transfer. Stupid financial problems. Why does poor people be poor? Russian mob, stop cheaping out on Schalke! (Comment on this)
Friday, September 18th, 2009
3:49 pm	Bleh head messed up today. :/ Had another 'episode' the other day. Arms were weak, coudn't see, ears ringing, couldn't speak without trouble or answer questions. Going to see a neurologist again and having another MRI in the next couple weeks. (They're 99% sure it's in the neck since they spotted the screwed up vein on scan. I'll explain after I see this guy and he gives me the details) And have to be in hospital on the 28th. BLEH. It better just be for the day.  In other news: Figure 1: Trickbag, as per later in entry. (don't dance, fight!) What f-list couldn't use more Trickbag? Trickbag may just be one of my favourite things ever. Actually  my eyes, fat ass and spikey hair make me resemble the mighty trickbag. Maybe I'll make that my fursona on TLK.org. Black and white trickbag with sable antelope horns. :P I have so many happy memories of playing Dragon Quest 3 and 4 and Toreneko: The Last Hope with Kaza. ^_^ Note: I won the metababble shield at the casino. How many people have that on their list of life accomplishments? In other other news: ( Wolfsburg @ Schalke ) Current Music: Bundesliga theme (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
9:04 pm	It's like a quiz..bleh can't sleep ( I pefted this from Airguitarzinator ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:50 pm	28 days until a year. I can't believe it. As if somehow a year matters- I'm sorry I can't just get over it because a year went by. I know person-who-I-am-friendly-with was trying to be helpful but....'once a year goes by you'll feel better again'. Actually no, because at a year I don't magically get my twin sister back. Maybe I'm weak or stupid or too attached to Ameya but I'm never going to 'get better'. It doesn't get better because I don't get my sister back. Cried all night of the 13th. Trying to fake happy so it might even out somewhere in the middle did not work. Also this did not help: (random encounter in store) "I haven't seen your sister in ages! She's my favourite girl at the pharmacy- she cares about us so much. How is she?" I almost lied and said she was fine because the truth would just make old lady who loved Ameya sad. So sick the other day. I was at like 95.3 body temperature and 70% oxygen sat. But as soon as my OS went up my temperature jumped up to 101. I still feel lousy. I have to have a shower and try and get some stuff out of the room downstairs(we're turning it into an apartment). I seriously took out a bag of 50+ mangas the otehr day- twelve goddess warriors, dragon quest, mermaid story, ah megami sama, fushugii yuuugi plus Japanese 17 magazines , Tokyo fashion guides, and etc. AND another whole box of Japanese language and Shinto books- like the kami way, shinto gardening, a giant kanji dictionary, kanji flashcards and books on using slang and improving your grammar. I wonder if I can sell that stuff on Halifaxforsale? Or Kijiji? I know someone out there would get a lot of joy out of those things. They just make me sad. There's a giant FY poster too- like huge. There must still be anime geeks out there. I have to cook dinner too and we are three days late getting groceries so I dunno what to make. I had cabbage boiled with trimmings like sausage cassings and etc.  the other day. That was seriously good. Mmmmmm poor. Actually I lost another two pounds this week. So doctor will not be happy- but better than the 11 a week a was loosing before. Maybe I'd eat more if my abdomen wasn't full of tumours. Just throwing that out there medical system. Of course I would have to loose some friggin' mega tanker full of weight to be in any danger. I don't know why I take trades. It stresses me out so badly. Especially when the person is way better than me and no matter what I do it'll be crap. I'm doing one with my friend Killress and I LOVE the character and everything but I can't get anything to look right. Bleh. I think i'm just going to be useless from now until the 13th. Current Mood: blah (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
1:01 pm	Schalke @ Koln So far....  SLIPPERY GERMAN GRASS IS SLIPPERY Why is Kuranyi on the bench, he better have explosive diarreoa or something...seriously Asamoah looks old and fat these days :P He ate all the pies! Manny Neuer cut his hair again :| (Sorry Ameya) And stay in the f'in' box Manny. Are you too good for your home?? Farfan do something other then be expensive please Oh my god,,,,you would NEVER see Slomka wearing those gay-ass retarded glasses that Felix Mufrufrudoofattyfatcoach is wearing. IwantSlomkaback. YELLOW CARDS FOR EVERYONE!!! The assistant official has stunning man boobs.... Koln must have taken lessons at the 'Italian Footballers Institute of  Falling Down and Rolling Around Like a Douche Bag' before this game. NO ONE EVEN TOUCHED YOU. Farfan- congrats on FOUR shitty corners in row. HALF TIME- have to go clean the litter box ----------------- 2nd HALF- Back onnnn!! I am a one manwoman skarfkorp. Why is Kuranyi stil on the bench dcyedfywetdf%GJHFYF*HGHJBBn&bdcjhsvc....? TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! Kobiashviliii!!!! Schalke in the lead 2-1 YEAH!!!! Wedgie pick in front of 40 000 people- classy And again. Someone call the Koln equipment manager to fix undies malfunction. Bordon hates Cappuchino ads. >:( *head explode* why we no get our penalty kick???!!! [Cartman]LAME[/Cartman] Ray Hudson is freaking out. (which is always highly amusing) Holy crap stop giving Farfan the corners. Where's Westermann? Actually where is Westermann? Has Westermann even touched the ball? Ray Hudson is still mad about the not given penalty. Aha Phil Schoen agrees with me about the terminal bollocksness of FIFA rulings lately. Awww someone broke Asamoah. :C There's Westermann- he just grabbed Podolski's crotch. First touch of the game. *L* :P Yay Kuranyi's coming on!  Look at his beautiful hair majestically streaming out behind him.  You cannot contain those tresses with a faggy headband. THEY MUST BE FREE! Ray Hudson is still mad.(see above) Please don't give this to Farfan.....THANK YOU. Bleh wasted chance.... Kick in the kidney, it's good for you. 'He gets a big kiss from Felix'. Awww. (that would not make me want to play better NOW IF IT WAS SLOMKA....)  Argh Koln put Freis on. :| But thank you for missing that embarassingly awfully Freis, appreciate it. Holtby apparently had cocaine and RedBull for breakfast What was that....o.O srly....Schalke.. defense!fail And now you made Manny make his frowny face.  No one wants a frowny Manny. It's like making Hello Kitty frown. You only have five minutes left not to suck...please guys.... This is the best time to tie your shoe, really? Gjfhfjh3ifjh3f4 two minutes..... Nooo 3 minutes added time. *stomach=butterflies* Yay Neuer! (you know who took the chance to promote up teh_awesome Manny even though they already had a good keeper? Slomka.) YES!!!! Schalke jump up to 3rd place!!! Stand up if you Schalker are!!!!! Blau und weiss!!!! And to make it even better Dortmund LOST this week 5-1. HAHAHAH! JOY!!!! Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: Blue And White Are the Colours of my Heart (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
12:53 pm	Untitled document That's what I'm calling Mum's useless-but-adorable puppy for the time being. *L* I just had to post a picture since there were updated pictures: DUKE CHIN! I love Duke chin markings. It weighs less than 2 lbs right now. In other words he is about 2% of a real dog. :P (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
12:45 pm	Random update in blurb form: -Only 2 weeks until Schalke is born. Yay!! I imagine he will crap triple-A grade black opals and D flawless diamonds. (Schalke=expensive) -Mum is also getting a dog. WTF. An adorable but useless little dog. I'm going to look so faggy walking that thing. How am I going to maintain my bulldyke lesbian image? Maybe with the fabulous mullet I am currently sporting.(note: need haircut) -Picking up useless but adorable dog on October 2nd. -Marius is hanging in there. Rem is doing well- still running into things but apparently doesn't seem to care -My white cell count is up like crazy so sucks to that. More health shit to deal with...BLEH! -Talked to the ErinGuitaR on the phone- yay! Gonna go see my Airguitar, gonna go see my Airguitar. *happy* -Started back at grief counselling. I thought I was handling things okay but it kicked me in the ass the last few weeks so back to it. -Took Caine over to the park on his leash the other day. He had a blast! He got to run about and climb trees and chase around dogs and talk reptile smack to an uppity turtle. -Buuut now that it's gotten cooler Caine is getting sleepy for the winter already. I think he's just lazy. He did this two years ago too this early and I freaked out.  But he's just an early burminator. I tried getting him a warmer heat lamp and brighter UV set up this year but now he's just hot and sleepy. -Might get to meet Denise at Reptile Expo! (September 20th- if you're in HRM go!) Super crazy excited about that! -Crap. Just realised Reptile Expo is on Rosh Hashanah. Will now commence feeling guilty- which is appropriate for Rosh Hashanah actually. -Must..stop...taking trades....too lazy to draw them....God I wish I wasn't such a shite artist. Eveyone else stop getting better, or start regressing. I'd appreciate it. KTHNX. I think that's it. ~FINI~ *EDITS* WAIT. Just got surprise form Astrocat in the mail and it's an Endless Night plushie!!!!! Greatest. thing. ever. He even has his blaze and grey inside his ears and everything. Gah...do not deserve niceness. Will get digital camera pics ASAP. Must spred joy of 'Less plushie!!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
8:13 pm	:( http://www.arkive.org/sable-antelope/hippotragus-niger/video-ni00.html One of the sable cows has a snare wire embedded in her neck... For no good reason I take that personally. Like I should have some how been able to keep that from happening to her. Current Mood: enraged (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
1:17 am	Cat advice It's 2 am, can't sleep. Must bake bread tommorow since down to two slices of bread...That requires getting up early. Before it was all rice, no bread, now with Kaza gone it's all bread no rice. It's like rice makes me sad. But I still make...wait why is this italic? I didn't ask for italic. F off italics...I'm clicking the i and the italics are not leaving. Oh  great now italics and under line.  There, jesus christ...okay so I still make homemade soba and they don't make me sad. It's just the rice. I dunno.   Bought dishes for Schalke this afternoon when I went to get Caine bugs since they had spaniel dishes there. Just because he isn't even born yet doesn't mean I can't buy him stuff. I have to get an airline approved crate too. That I do do need in advance. And I have to reply to LJs, I am like a month behind. Okay now on to improtant topic. Kaza's cat Remmy is going blind and I've never had a blind cat so I'm not quite sure how I can make life easier for him. I've started to speak loudly before I touch him since he was getting spooked by reaching out to pet him first and speaking after or during. He's finding his food okay and he's making a little litter box mess but pretty good about aiming. I just find it really sad when he like walks right into my leg or misjudges what he's sitting on and takes a few steps too many and falls off his chair or spot on the chesterfield. Today he was out in the front yard and he made his usual mightly leap to go back inside, which clears the doorstep and most of the hall in one go, but instead of his usual athetic display he smashed into the side of the wall missing the doorway by a good few inches. I felt really badly for him and it makes me wonder what all I can do for him to maybe make his life a little less traumatic. He seems to still have some vision but it appears to be limited quite drastically to one side. He's about 18 years old, an Archangel Island cat or AIC/Siberian cross("Grey Angel") which looks similar to a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelung but with some differences: ie 'lambs wool' along with the usual three type of cat's fur, a V ridge across the paw pads like a fox but not quite as prominent and non-retractable claws which are rather blunt . He's trippled pawed with about 12-15 toes on each foot so clipping his claws is a real pain in the ass. He has toes with claws but no bones in them like claw clipping booby traps.  He was a rescue and was less than a week away from death due to starvation when he was saved and so he has some disgestive problems and also very poor teeth. He has some thyroid problems but his last blood work looked good. He suffers from arthritis and is having some problems with his claws growing crookedly because he's started to walk kind of on his knuckles instead of flat on his feet. He's always had a set in his hips but they are a bit worse these days. Most of his teeth had to be removed because his body leached the calcium from them when he was starving because he was still growing and so they ended up deformed and rotten. He does have some teeth left though but he can only eat wet food and always has since we've had him. He's still spends a lot of time looking for Ameya as they were just about joined at the hip and he's never quite gotten over her being gone. He still waits at the door around the time she would be coming home from work(around 9pm) every night and stays there usually until morning. Sometimes he only waits a few hours these days, however if anything gets moved around that still has her scent on it- like packing up her clothes for donation, he goes right back to waiting. He's actually outlived two owners, poor guy. So that's Rem in a nutshel. If it is cataracts, which would makes sense because of his age, has anyone had their cat's operated on? He's very sensitive to medicine and especially anethesia and freaks about being confined(I would too if I was living a happy life as a young kitty and suddenly my elderly owner is dead and someone locks me in a shed to slowly suffer and die of stravation) even closed doors make him go crazy- and sometimes he panics and screams and attacks the walls or open door even when he has clear access in and out.  So I would hate to inflict a stay at the vet and surgery on him if it's better to just let him learn to cope. I just don't know what's the right thing to do for him and I checked out a few books on caring for a senior cat from the library but they don't specifically deal with blindness. I know most you are pretty well animal experts and I'm hoping someone might have first hand experience with a blind cat. I dogsat a blind dog before but the behaviour wasn't quite the same- I believe she was born blind and so had developed a really solid system of getting around and interacting with the world. Rem is struggling. Oh way off that subject and unimportant bu this is pretty scary acurate: ( That ennegrame quiz thingy ) (Comment on this)
Friday, August 21st, 2009
5:26 pm	EDIT:Oh and I forgot to mention  I added two birds to my 'birds I can see from my house' list- the chirping sparrow and the sora. Also saw a chesnut sided warbler when I was on the southshore. I found a dead one along the highway a few days later so I was able to bring back a wing from it and a yellow warbler from that trip. (Miss Kitty brought the yellow warbler to Gram's doorstep) ------- Ugh, so sad lately. Was doing okay I thought . Now just sad. Stupid absolute finality of death. Give me my sister back. Jerk.... And I been feeling so guilty again over whacking Ameya's head. I know she was already dead when I tried to get her on the floor to do CPR and I know she didn't feel it but it left a weird kind of bruise...mark thingy. I still feel bad about it. Why of all things that's what I can't stop thinking about I have no idea.  I hope I'm not going to be this sad all the way until October 13th. Fucking 13th of October. I hate you. I seriously thought I'd just go jump off the over pass last night. Stupidity. But my puppy. Can't wait to get puppy. Must get past month of horrible sadness first. I should be cooking dinner right now. And I have to make pasta so it'll be dry enough for me to boil it for lasgna tommorow. TVP instead of beef makes it veggie and kosher. Yay for TVP! I love you flakey brown stuff of mystery.    It was like 37 degrees  the other day, without even the humidex. The thermometre said 37. There is no need for the temperature to be over 30. Ever.  And it was so hot at the Victoria General liver/kidney trasnplant department. And I was there for ages. It seems very cruel to me to make the part of the hospital where you know everyone is thristy all the time the hottest place. Then I had to get a needle in my FREAKIN' EYEBALL. Seriously. Not cool man. Although it was literally slightly cooler- aparently they've heard of airflow on that floor. They had these drop-in freezey stuff and I told them 'I have a connective tissue disorder you can't use local anesthetic'. Of course they never believe it, despite the fact that when you have a connective tissue disorder you can't use local anesthetic. Though they did an eye sensation test after the susposed freezing and were like 'oh, it didn't work.' Really? Because I recall us having this conversation twenty minutes ago when I explained to you that when you have certain types of CTD local anesthsia doesn't work. So I not only got the fun of needle in my eyeball I got to enjoy needle in the eyeball with no anesthetic. Extra fun.  Just like everytime I get radio active dye it leaks too much out of the veins and I get a big, hard, lump of radiation burn in my arm. So did Kaza. Everytime. And everytime there's a freak out about it. Learn yourself a book medical system. Just because my rare disease is now an extra rare disease, it just has a number, no name even, is no excuse.   Schalke played a really shyte game this afternoon @Hoffenheim. It was like they contracted rabies on the way there- they were all uncoordinated and aggressive.  Schalke you were so awesome last week vrs Bochum, why now the sucking? I've decided it's because they miss Slomka. Beautiful, sexy, stylish, funny, take them to the UEFA semi's, bump Neuer up from youth team, look like a bull terrier, full of awesome Slomka. Their new coach looks like the fat guy who replaced Grissom. Not hot at all. :| Actually Schalke has gotten a serious case of the uglies this year. You make it hard to love you Schalke, you really do what with the chronic not-giving-a-shit-in-the-second-half disease and the firing of Slomka and the falling off the ugly tree. BUT I DO. Blau und weiss are the colours of my heeeeaaaart!!! Gelsenkirschen represent!(poorly) It has gotten suddenly dark and windy. Must be Bill knocking at the door. Juan was enough Hurricaine for a while, kthnx. Current Music: You say that you don't like us we don't care cuz we're Schalke, Schalke S-0-4! (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
5:56 pm	Neurological ward= do not want  Ended up in hospital Tuesday. I thought I was just going in for an afternoon assesment on Wednesday, but I ended up in really bad shape Tuesday and it was decided not to wait until Wednesday and admit straight into the nuerological care ward, so it turned into a big deal. So I did not get to see Airguitar. :( But I am free now, yay! I was like this close to having to stay another day but MRI today was much improved from CT on Tues. Yay! Because that was not a fun place to be. That is a ward of heartbreak. And nurses spring out of the darkness at like 4 am to shine a flashlight in your pupils. They could just replace the staff with jaguars with mining helmets strapped to their heads. Now I appreciate their whole 'not wanting you to die in the night' philosophy, but it apparentlytheir not wanting you to die technique  needs some revision. Ie: I am deadly allergic to melon, like almost instant anaplyaxsis. I even had a special allergy bracelet and stickers on my file showing my med allergies plus melon in big letters. Today at around 1pm I come back from my long MRI scan and start to dig into lunch when I realise something is very wrong. I stumble out into the hallway(nurse call button did not work :|) and basicaly collapse. So I get a nice epi needle in the thigh and oxygen mask and it's this HUGE big embarassing ordeal with the doctor and nurses coming running and a kurfuffle. Why? There was melon in the lunch. Epic hospital fail. Even if HI is ten bazillion gazillion times nicer than the DGH. But what was the point of the alert bracelet and the whole allergy system? Unless it's just to thin out the ranks a little. But I thought the melon pieces were grapefruit pieces, I didn't look very carefully because my allergy listings was on all the food orders. And it's a ward full of people with brain injuries, I didn't think there was going to be a 'know your fruit or die' test. And in the initial exam one of the residents dislocated my knee cap. Now I have to go get a $200 knee brace. It was like here have some narcotics, forget that we trashed your knee! EDS is always good for freaking the doctors right the fuck out. Things don't do what there supposed to, or stay where they're supposed to be. Oh and this is Schalke04's homepage: http://www.schalke04.de/ In case someone out there reading last post might not have known of the awesomeness of Schalke, as was discussed in previous post before I was abducted to the HI on Dr. Horne's orders. Bundesliga is the best footy in the world, sorry English Premiership. Arsenal I still love you, you will always be my first footy love but Schalke is my soul mate of soccer teams. Even if they've lost 50 years in a row. Winning is for losers. And now I need some rest. I hope I can still sleep without knowing every hour how my pupils are dilating. The left one wasn't dilating at all but then by the next day it was fine. It wasn't leaving lionking.org after all.:P (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
11:47 am	The 8th I am a terrible person. I had another small stroke spell, that's not what makes me a terrible person but it does make my hands shakey and weak again.  Not improtant news just that it's making my inking of Mage's pic slow and crappy(it's an overused pose too, no excuse for that but I did like ten sketches and this is the only one I remotely liked) Okay so here's why I should be ashamed of myself: August 8th is the greatest most AWESOME day ever- it being Schalke opening day. I marked it on the calander as soon as it was announced, and I even drew hearts anbd stars around it- these being  the traditional symbols of my people denoting "luvluv" .  I washed my Schalke scarf, practised my derisive chants("who do you think you are? Innnnter Milan?"), stocked some beer into the fridge. Warmed up my viewing wa by watching some MLS games(I have an entire post to make about MLS actually....*facepalm, or in my case handcompletelymissingfacepalm*). So all was set for the glorious day of August 8th to arrive. I would stand up if I Schalker is- and I are.(standddd up iff you Schalker aaaarrre!!!! Blau and Weis!!! Note: EN may not actually stand up despite being Schalker are) So my Mum kind of sits next to me yesterday all calm with her 'Mum face' on, a sure sign something serious is about to be said. I assumed one of the cats died or something. So she says: "You know the big day is on the 8th". I am relieved that no one/cat is dead and smile and nod and reply: "Yep, we're all going right?" You see the big day was decided back in January it is a sort of mini family reunion and for the first time in years all of my Grandmother's siblings will be together. It's probably the last time honestly, seeing as they are all 80+. My uncle Ray will be there from BC, Uncle Dan was going to come but of course now he's too deep in grief. It's also celebrating someone's 50th anniversary and my Gram's 80th birthday.  So the big day has loomed large in the Lawson/Hupmann  family consciousness for a while now, and roped in us Dobsons too. Now I wondered why Mum was talking so seriously about us going as we had already managed to prod Dad into going but then she sort of pursed her lips and said with great trepidation: "You know that's Schalke opening day right?" I made the this face o.O or maybe this one :| and she was like: "You're going right?" And..... WAIT FOR IT..... I had to think about it.  I had.... to think....about it. Footy team versus loving family. Worst human being ever.  Although I did after a pregnant pause say "Yes of course". Haha. Footy fans, we are crazy. And I have to go to the hospital tommorow. Dr. Horne's orders. It's the HI though so Airguitar if you're around tommorow I might be able to see you! I'll call you after I get poked. I was sad yesterday, but now today I feel cheerful. I have to go buy Caine some bugs in case I get stuck in the hospital and some pants for the big day. And new sneakers since my bottom part has detached from the top part and the soles are worn down to like the bottom of my feet. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: A thousand fires burning in the night are proof that Schalke will never die! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
4:17 am	This is just TLKFAA retardability. I JUSTT HAVE TO COMPLAIN. I can't help it. Must..complain.... Okay so Gothic180 who can't do anything but steal ideas and be offtopic uploads this: http://fanart.lionking.org/piccomments.cgi?AnnieHyena+ButterflionSpeciesSheetSmall.jpg Which I ignored until Toraz played the 'you stole my idea' card. I not knowing this was Gothic180 under 'new name to avoid getting in shit number 281745146532745276' reply with what seems sensible to me. Than idiot180 uploads this: http://fanart.lionking.org/piccomments.cgi?AnnieHyena+Explain2.jpg Perfect example of there being no drama but someone uploading *cry cry* people are picking on meeeee! picture. And people are replying feeling sorry for her. Seriously. SRSLY... How about stop being such a retard? And imagining drama because you ripped a deceased person's species which no one even caused drama about anyways. Dumbass. I just wanted to draw some African animals....I did not want to be sucked back into stupidness. I will finish last pic for Mage and than ignore you again for another two years oh quagmire of bullshit TLKFAA. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
1:04 pm	Mini stroke....that makes it sound cute- like a toy dog I had a yorkipugapoo stroke a couple days ago. I am home and stableble to be left alone short periods now.  I felt  crappy the night before, couldn['t remember words and kept seeing little sparkles of light, really sick to my stoamch feeling and tingly. I went to bed and I woke up, haad a shower and I think I wrote to Air and than I decidedto lay down and pla y Tetris for a little bit. Then it got worse and I was seeing stars and couldn't hear, my head was killing me and my legs wouldn't work. My arms and fingers were tingling and twitching leeike electric shocks. It was freaky my eye was stuck shut and I was drooling on the same side- you can't rally notice it now unlkess I smile. Then it does show a little,. And my eye sort of twitches sometimes and droops back shut but better than it was. Yesterday at noon I still couldn't manage food goes on fork, fork goes in mouth but by last night I was able to eat my steamed cabbage(Mmmmm cabbage) pretty well. Haven't tried eating yet today but my biggest prroblem seems to be holding things- leeike gripping things more than anything, else. And talking is better, not so stuttery now. I'm a about the same as Kaza was towards the end- dropping things, twitchy hands, stuttering, not remembering words. Makes sense, we are identical twins andd this is a genetic thing. I have some pills to try and help with the pain in my headd but not helping much. New brain scan will be done when the one non-ICU Brain scan guy gets back from vacation in like ten days. Theey are so pissed off though- sincee they just did one one the 23rd of June and it costs $$$$$$. NS health system would rather you die than have to9 spend money. They do not like spendding money. Especially if you're even a little fat. Or female. Or or actually have a serious medical probelm. Eeither one of those and you're fucked. My Dad is doing really well though! He actuaaly went fly fishing the other night. So I know he's fine. I can't imagaine how much that hurt though. Probably still does he just doesn't mention it. God I feel shitty...it's like my head is two sizes too smaall, hurts, hurts, hurst and so nauseous. I waqs going to try and go for a short work but I think my project for today will by putting dishes in dishwasher, It takes like an hour. Stop dropping things retard hands! >:| And my folks and I are are right in the midddle of trying to aopt a dog from the gestapo/IRS rescue. Ten thousand forms and interragation under a bare light bulbb in an underground bunker and iff you survive you might someday get a dog. And the moral of this story is: Don't let the blocks get all the way to the top of the screen in Tetris. Or they will kill your fucking brain. Don't mess with MOther Russia's groups of four tiny squares of various shapes and colourss, biotch! Current Mood: Me loose brain? Why I laugh? (11 Comments |Comment on this)