A bowl of oatmeal with some honey in it to sweeten it! Also some coffee!

I JUST HAD A HOME-MADE BANANA AND BLUEBERRY SMOOTHIE

THANK YOU BOB FOR MAKING THE SMOOTHIE

Bob is a manager again!

You can probably expect updates about this on his myspace, I guess. I am not sure what else to say! We are all pretty excited except the dog, who is pissed because he wants to go outside to pee right now so bye!

...if dogs understood a few simple things:

1. If you sit still, it will be over faster.
          Look, giving you guys baths isn't easy or fun for me, either, but it's something we must both suffer through occasionally.  Thrashing around won't help anything, and it's more likely to get lather and water accidentally splashed into your eyes, which I ( Read more... )

Okay, people, Bob and I are going to Oklahoma for the weekend to visit some buddies and get a much-needed break from work ( Read more... )

Maybe I should start writing about things that still shock me even though I've been an Arkansan for a couple years now.

Things like "Vacation Bible School." I saw "VBS" on a church sign once and Bob explained it to me.

Vacation.

Bible.

School?

No combination of any TWO of those words is ever appropriate, let alone all three.

Thank god! I asked the vet at work to look at him, and it's not a spiderbite. It turns out he either chewed on his foot and made it raw, or stepped on something, and the broken skin was just too inviting to the horrible staph germs that are all around our grody apartment building. So they cleaned and drained his foot and he's on puppy ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't already know, Bob and I have a dog now! His name's Vinnie and even though he's almost full-grown, he's still a puppy.


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I can't say it enough. Spay and neuter your pets, folks.

This is at a vet's office, too.

I can't imagine what it's like to work at the Humane Society or a pound.

I got the kennel helper job! It's... different! 90% of it is work I've done before, but there's still a lot of stuff to learn and get used to. Like the other day, when they had to put down a bunch of strays ( Read more... )