Should Sleep, But First . . . !
Filed under: DVDs / Blu-rays, School Daze, The Intarwebs, This and That
Bullet-style update for I am in much need of the sleep thing:
- Thanksgiving was pretty much the norm for me. All I have to say on that.
- Fidelco has a Facebook page! And the Walk for Fidelco is already listed as an event! I added this photo to the page because I’m so unabashedly in love with it. ^_^
- Less in love with the photo on the right of Yara chowing down on her nails, but I must admit it’s convenient having a dog that helps keep her own nails nice and short. I’m not sure which of us loathes the nail cutting drama more.
- I pre-ordered this and I’m beyond excited about this fact.
- My ear hurts. Raechel and I were chatting on the phone for more than two hours! I don’t know how that happened since I’m not really much with the long phone conversations, especially since I used to spend my entire work day on the phone. But apparently we had a lot to say because we quite literally talked the entire charge out of both our phones!
- Jerry emailed me today to let me know he was having some trouble securing a ride for me to the A&T Lions Club’s holiday party and he asked if I knew anyone who might enjoy attending . . . I naturally thought of Ewan McGregor but as (a.) he’s married and (b.) he doesn’t know me, I asked Sarah. Suffice it to say I’m actually just as pleased with this decision: I get a ride and I am now certain to know at least one person. That is, of course, assuming Sarah’s car decides to cooperate. ;-)
- As previously mentioned, next week is super busy for me. I’m still pretty tickled about it.
- That does mean, however, that this weekend shall be solely devoted to finishing my final project for class as I clearly have zero time next week. This would also require the actual starting of said project. . . .
Proper update coming one of these days. Really.
Few Quick Things
(1.) In her continuing efforts to make me always be a liar about her status, Yara decided to eat a full two scoops today for breakfast. Then she spent about an hour pacing around the living room for no apparent reason that I ever determined. Perhaps she knows that I found this priceless gem of photographic outtake-age.
(2.) Out of some stroke of crazy masochism I uploaded photos from here and here to Facebook. [Note to self: No more trying to upload batches of photos to Facebook ever again, kthxbai.] They’re in a pretty random order and not all of the Walk photos are there because Facebook has a 60 image per album limit that I find pointless and annoying. Also, the upload process made me more than a little angry.
(3.) I am now registered for classes for next semester. This is very much an awesome thing. Less awesome is that finals are only weeks away. Gah!
(4.) I’m working on two huge origami projects at the moment. One is a wedding gift that may take me the remaining nine months until the date to finish. The other, I’m hoping, will be ready soon enough to send out with some very festive portraits of a certain GSD. ^_^
That is all.
November 15, 2008
Still working on getting this new design complete. Among the nine hundred little things I tweaked today, I moved my blogroll onto the sidebar again. I think it’s been about four years now that it’s been on the links page, as I haven’t had sidebars in any of the designs since the purple lilacs days. (How many of you remember that, eh?)
Today was pretty lazy, even by my own standards. The plans I had fell through, which worked to my advantage given I was feeling decidedly lazy. I managed to accomplish pretty much nothing all day, except to putter around with this here website. Something I hardly ever get a chance to do these days. Honestly, it wasn’t as fun as I used to find it. Mostly it was frustrating, and I found myself having to walk away from the computer for hours at a time because I would have become so agitated I was fearful I might break things. How I ever sat here and wrote PHP code or painstakingly edited graphic files is beyond me.
Yara was in a crazy mood most of the day. She kept coming over and nuzzling me. Usually that’s an indication that she’s bored or wants some attention or even that she might need a trip outside. But there was nothing for it today, I’d pat her or try and play with her and she’d just walk away and lie down in the kitchen. It was totally random. At one point I’d given her a treat and she didn’t even take it at first, instead she went and got “the octopus” and deposited it in my lap and then she took the biscuit . . . into the kitchen and ate it.
Yara may also have finally gotten full! It took a grand total of nine days from the start of her treatment before she started going back to her old food ways wherein she’s not finishing all that I’ve given her, usually breakfast. I’m not surprised. I’d expected it sooner than that even. She was eating something around seven cups a day.¹ Wednesday and Thursday she begrudgingly finished her breakfast, but yesterday I decided to just give her one scoop in the morning. I did the same today, and she ate both meals without much issue.
And some big news! (Well, for those that don’t follow my Twitter or Facebook updates.) I got a call yesterday from Fidelco and they have informed me they’re going to supply the supplements Yara needs at discount cost (i.e., they’ll obtain the supplements and other treatment she might need via their vet at the reduced, no-markup price they get it and charge me exactly that). Really sensational news so far as I’m concerned. I’m so pleased they’re going to help me out. Robbie’s supposed to call me with all the specifics next week, but all the treatment details will have to wait until after Yara’s check up on the 2nd.
1. This is a rough estimate. The scoop I use to dish out her kibble isn’t a measuring cup like I was using prior to the “add a cup” suggestions. It holds something between 1.5 and 2 cups. And Yara was eating four scoops a day for those initial nine days.
Fun with Fay!
Sarah came over for lunch today and brought her new foster puppy, Fay. As predicted the dogs had a grand time. They were running around so much it was pretty much impossible to take any photos — and when they weren’t I was no where close to the camera. But I did get this cute shot of them playing tug-of-war with one of Yara’s toys.
Sarah described Fay as the “sassiest puppy there is” and she certainly lives up to it. She’s very sweet and affectionate and quite the cuddle buddy, but she’s also very independent. What I noticed most abuot her today was that she is by no means intimidated by other dogs. In fact, she pretty much held nothing back with Yara. Yara didn’t seem to mind, but both Sarah and I commented we wished she’d put the puppy in her place if she didn’t want to play. We eventually had to physically separate them so Yara could have some downtime.
Anyway, most of the afternoon was spent giggling over the dogs playing. Yara was pretty much using her superior size and strength to her advantage by just standing around and letting the puppy pull with all her might. But Fay certainly wasn’t dwarfed in any sense; at one point she leaped squarely on Yara’s back and nearly flung herself into my television! Mostly they just chased each other around my apartment or played keep-away with a toy, but they were hardly as crazy as Yara and Irie were a few weeks ago. Thankfully, we didn’t have any accidents this time and no toys were damaged during this visit. However, one hair clip was sacrificed as a chew toy for the betterment of canine diplomacy.¹
It was a very fun afternoon, but stay tuned because in two weeks they’ll be back to visit and this time Irie’s coming, too!
EDIT: In an effort to remember to check Facebook more often, I’ll be cross-posting images from here into albums there. Sorry for the repetition. ;-)
1. Fay kept climbing on my back and I eventually realized she was trying to get at my hair clip so I let her chew it up while Yara crashed out for a few.
Twitter & Facebook
Finally bit the bullet and added a widget in my sidebar for Twitter updates. I’m woefully sporadic about tweeting, but it is often times a more frequent update process than this blog. Twitter Tools is also sending updates to Twitter on blog posts here and I’ve also added another plugin that is sending updates to Facebook.
Most of the status updates are the same in both places (and other microblogs) since I generally update via Ping.fm, but since they’re the main places I check I figured I’d link everything together.