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So my aunt went to Taiwan for this Christmas, from the 17th to 1st. During that time I am to babysit her golden retriever and stay at her place. Around before Thanksgiving, she wanted me to take Harley, the Greyhound That Is Too Damn Clumsy For His Own Good, over to her place to see how they get along. I dropped him off, left. Two days later I get a call that says he's limping. I thought it was his usual "I stepped weirdly and my foot will hurt for one minute before it fades, but in the meantime I'm gonna whimper like the world is ending." So told her to keep an eye on it and if he's still limping in an hour, I'll take him to the vet. He was still limping, so I went over there and saw that his foot was badly swollen and he couldn't put ANY weight on the foot. Took him to the vet, found out that something had punctured the bottom of his foot, it was badly infected and therefore he had a fever. He was put on antibiotics and it healed and everything was dandy.

Until the 16th when I went over to do the actual babysitting and within the first 15 minutes either my aunt's dog stepped on the same foot and punctured it, or stepped on the foot and reopened the previous wound. Since it was late and Harley didn't even notice it, took him to the vet the next day. It was slightly infected so they gave me more antibiotics, as well as stuff to wipe off his foot and soak it in just to really make sure it heals. Ok. Everything seems fine.

Then today, my babysitting of my sister's two dogs started(sis went to FL, usually parents would babysit, but they also left on vacation. no I didn't know when I accepted babysitting my aunt's dog that I'd also end up babysitting 2 more). Went to my aunt's place, greeted by two excited dogs who definitly needed to use the bathroom. Opened door to backyard and all four dogs charged outside and proceeded to run around like crazy. After awhile, Harley came up to me, all happy and like, "yay!play!" and I noticed that his foot was bleeding--one of his nails looked a little dislodged. Cue me going "ARGH NO!" Then! Then I noticed that another foot was seriously bleeding and when I took a look, it was punctured through.

So took him to the vet and now he's there overnight cause they had to sedate him to clean and put sutures in his feet.

When I got home I had to clean up bloody paw prints from all over the hardwood floors. The deck is still covered though. And my backseat. I ain't cleaning it up today.

My aunt's backyard has a bunch of landscaping stones bordering flower and tree beds and I think the first and last foot injuries were from those.

Tomorrow after I pick up Harley, I'm bringing them to my house. At least I can trust my nice level backyard not to injure my dog. Fuck if I(and Harley) can deal with another trip to the vet.

Bad luck: 9 (since I've gotten him)
Harley: 0

So, those of you who watch cute overload may have already seen the first two. If you haven't seen them, watch them, cause they're hilarious. <3!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-4dF5Lsdxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHZUPJji6w8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPzNl6NKAG0

Kitty has a blog:

http://sisinmaru.blog17.fc2.com

So, my parents run a real estate management company and I'm working for them right now. The Obama campaign here wants to temporarily rent out one of their commercial properties that they're trying to rent out. The owners accepted and they don't even have to pay rent--just utilities.

It makes me happy, even if it ultimately wasn't my decision.

2nd day back in North Carolina--7 mosquitoe bites.

I stepped outside to let Harley use the bathroom. They all happened in that 10 minutes.

Spoke too soon. Only a day and half with no crashing. I don't get my laptop.

/crywhine.

I miss my desktop.

My computer keeps on crashing. It happens randomly. I'm in safe mode with networking capacity right now. I've done a virus scan, system restore, my drivers are all updated. I have no clue what's wrong. The yesterday when it first crashed, I was trying to open my AVG antivirus thing. So I opened safe mode, and did a scan. When it was done and I restarted normally, it was fine. It worked for awhile, but then I started playing wow. Which was fine for 30 minutes or so, and then the computer would..pause, blank out, come back again, and say something like, graphics driver failed but recovered(I didn't get a good look at it). It did that a couple of times before failing and restarting.

That's when I did a system restore. Afterwards it'll still randomly restart. Eventually I updated windows using their program, during which I got a few errors. Like the actual windows updating program had problems. But once I updated it, and restarted windows normally, the computer acted fine. I was able to play wow for awhile, surf the net, etc. Now today, when I just started the computer, tried to use Netscape, it crashed on me. Restarted normally, crashed again.

eta: So it crashes in safe mode too. ARGH. I was trying to run an adware scan, and it was in the process of scanning before it just crashed and restarted. WTF.

95% of the books and tv shows I read/watch, my favorite character dies.

I'm getting tired of it. ARGH.

*curses over the most recent book*

ARGH.

I need to stop liking side characters.

So, I just finished watching the Avatar finale.

I almost cried.

Not because it was sad, but because I loved it so much and it was ending.

Fucking hell.

I'm sure for some of you, everyone and their mom has read about this. I'm gonna post this again, cause everyone and their mom SHOULD know about this.

So based on a poll where 49% of Americans said they believe human life begins at conception, and since some birth control may or may not prevent an fertilized egg from attaching itself to a wall, the HHC is trying to reclassify contraceptives as abortions based on when life begins.

Read More Here.

Some other blogs talking/raging/wtfing about it
here
here
here

Here's an email from the Planned Parenthood I got addressing a different effect:

We have just received news that President Bush is trying to sell-out women's health in the most unbelievable way. Here's how:

The Bush administration is about to release a rule that will make it possible for federal funding that is specifically designed to prevent unintended pregnancy and promote reproductive health to now be used for anything but that.

If it happens, it will be a massive betrayal of women and families, and we must stop it.

A little background on this outrageous situation...

We've known for some time that anti-choice extremists have wanted President Bush to deliver them some sort of "gift" before he leaves office. This rule change is just that gift. And here's what one of the most egregious results could be:

Right now, anti-choice groups run so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" in communities all around the country — often a block or two away from Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers. These facilities look like health centers, but in reality are run by anti-choice zealots who deliver only the reproductive health care options that fit their agenda. No birth control, no abortion — and no choice for women and families who need it.

If this rule takes effect, they're likely to receive a massive influx of our tax dollars to expand their deceptive operations and to attract hundreds of thousands of women who think they'll be getting medical care but instead will receive a large dose of anti-choice ideology.

I believe that tricking women when they are most vulnerable is wrong — and the federal government shouldn't pay people to do it.

It gets worse. The rule would also require entities that receive family planning funding, like Planned Parenthood, to certify that we will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control. Between deceptive "crisis pregnancy centers" delivering woefully incomplete care and legitimate health centers with extremely limited funding, hundreds of thousands of women are at enormous risk.

This is perhaps the most awesome GW summery of the characters and episodes I've read. <3 this show so much.

http://www.geocities.com/me_richter/gundam.htm