Jacob is a 4 year old (in mid-June) unfixed male Australian Sheppard, white with a black and a grey spot on his face. His young adult owner left him with her father and he is unable to give Jacob the time and attention he needs. I am trying to help find Jacob his forever home ( Read more... )

Becca and I have been talking about going camping for months. A month or so ago we nailed down this last weekend as a good date. Another friend was supposed to join us but he had to cancel. Maybe just as well, since we didn't look for reservations til the week before. Oops. Every campsite was full! This is May. Camping season doesn't start til June ( Read more... )

Nanook has been acting "weird" since last week's vaccinations, but nothing obvious enough to run screaming back to the vet. Til he stopped eating his dry food three days ago. We went to the pet hospital yesterday. The vet found nothing wrong in a physical exam, and he ate up the wet food she gave him. So today, after still not touching his dry food ( Read more... )

I don't need regrets responses. I don't even care much about RSVPs; that's a logistical tool for the household. But if you do send regrets, you may want to make sure your reasons are in line with whatever plans for the evening you do make, and then post about online where I can see them. So you don't want to go to my last-minute party? Okay, it's ( Read more... )

My birthday is next Thursday. Next week is the week before finals in a quarter that has truly spawned from hell. Since I was 19 I have always done something to celebrate my natal day, usually a party. Last year's didn't go so well for me, because most of my friends weren't able to make it. But it was a shared party so I couldn't go cry and pout in ( Read more... )

The Five Love Languages
My primary love language is probably
Physical Touch
with a secondary love language being
Quality Time.

Complete set of results
Physical Touch: 11Quality Time: 8Receiving Gifts: 5Words of Affirmation: 4Acts of Service: 2

Take the quiz

It's Friday. You know what I want ( Read more... )

The state university system has a writing skills test every newly admitted student has to take to prove minimum writing competency skills. I took the test a couple of weeks ago ( Read more... )

It occurs to me to explain; a thing I rarely do. My life does not suck. My family is wonderful, I have a roof and plenty of food. The basics are covered, for now, mostly. Yes, there is lots of stress where things are not as bountiful as would make life well, not stressful ( Read more... )

This quarter has not been going well. Not scholastically, not financially, not health-wise. My reality is that I am just short of having enough of any one of the needed resources to be able to manage and fix my situation. It is what it is. And I will get through this. But for now, I have to make some (even more) drastic changes. The only social ( Read more... )