Weeeell, it's a really, REALLY long story. HUGE motherfucking story with family losses, illness, drama, job losses and gains, leaving college, etc.

The family losses actually lead up the my illness which causes me to leave college. In one winter, we lost five - count it! - five pets, one right after another. Oreo and Snowfire (guinea pigs) died ( Read more... )

Well, I just find the nerves to talk about this now, considering it happened on Monday.

It was something that I had expected, being she was seven years old and basically a senior. She had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago and we were told to expect it to affect her within a few days or weeks. Not two years later.
Last Saturday, when I made a ( Read more... )

While we were out getting a few needed things from the store, I saw the TV guide with SVU's Marishka and Chris on the front. I figured why not to take a peek and see what was going on ( Read more... )

Considering I have broken mirrors, have a black cat cross my path multiple times during the day, walked under a ladder, knocked over a salt shaker and stepped on cracks on the sidewalk, no bad luck has fallen on me - unless you're talking about a day plaqued with vet visits for the dog (that's a totally different story. Get to that later).

I'm not ( Read more... )

Eartha and Kronk had another clutch of babies some weeks back and now all four of them are out of the nest. Three of them are the basic gray coloration, except for one who has a white feather and white dot, but the fourth one is unusual...she/he is very light to the point it looks blond.
I have dubbed this one "Blondie", right along with it's ( Read more... )

After close to a week of force feeding, teeth clipping and constant weight watching, Snowfire has his Budda belly back. Not to mention, he's back to his horny houdini ways of trying to break out of his cage and stalking the females....yep! That's him ( Read more... )

Weekend wasn't so bad, except when I noticed that Snowfire, my year old boar, wasn't himself. Wasn't eating, fur didn't look normal, rarely drinking, and drooling.

....drooling? Yeah, my mind tilted 90 degrees when I noticed that. Soooo, googling I went and found something that said back molars could overgrown, cause the mouth to not close, unable ( Read more... )