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Anybody here? Bueller?

roaming Mar 02, 2015 21:01

Just checking that just because I've not been paying attention, LIFE on LJ still goes one. I'd like that.

(Plus, dayum, they've changed the way this looks. I'll have to figure out how to do things all over again. Um . . . don't hold your breath.)

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roaming Feb 09, 2015 03:25

One of my fav lazy charities to click on once a day -- and learn something about cats or dogs -- is FREEKIBBLE. Mimi Ausland, a 12 year old girl from Bend, Oregon, wanted to help feed the hungry animals at her local animal shelter. She came up with the idea of freekibble.com for dogs/freekibblekat.com for cats -- with kibble donated by Castor and ( Read more... )

Whining, because they've done studies . . .

roaming Feb 01, 2014 00:22

that show that people in pain perceive the degree to be less when they are instructed to/allowed to curse out loud. Those who were instructed to grin and bear it perceived more pain level. (a/k/a "Troubles shared are troubles halved ( Read more... )

We've paved Paradise, put up a parking lot (Take 2,583)

roaming Jan 27, 2014 22:03

(This is a recurring theme with me. Ignore if you've been this route before ( Read more... )

urban wildlife

I've given up the search for the truth and will now settle for a nice fantasy

roaming Jan 27, 2014 19:51

I'm a hoarder. (I excuse myself with the rationalization that you can see my floor, use the bathroom, there's no keeping of garbage or recycling, etc. And I'm not keeping broken, unuseable things.) And I used to watch the Lifetime series Hoarders. And I identified with their rationalizations for keeping what they kept. I'm not the first to say "One ( Read more... )

hoarding

not really here

roaming Jan 27, 2014 17:33

I read here every month or so. Posting less and less,* not feeling like being public about life and what's going on (no worries, mostly all is well: friends falling apart, but we're fine). Just don't have much oomph for it all lately. S.A.D. Low energy. A bit buffetted by everything thrown at me from all the media to the point of depression and ( Read more... )

We've paved Paradise, put up a (pesticided) parking lot

roaming Sep 13, 2013 23:40

I'm a city grrl, raised in Manhattan, moved to Boston in 1972, Cambridge in 1973, and then Arlington. When I moved to this house in 1990, with a big enclosed yard with lots of native plantings, blocks from more shelter and fresh water sources in a nearby park, I noticed urban wildlife, specifically skunks/raccoons/possums, would show up in the ( Read more... )

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