Alex's family pet, a 9-year-old German Shepherd girl named Roxy, became suddenly ill last night, and by midnight the decision was made to "put her down ( Read more... )

Hey all.

So, I've written a few times about my dream to move to a farm and become self-sufficient - work on the farm instead of at a job, and produce what I need instead of pay for it with wages. Recently I discovered a way to help me start doing this much sooner - I was writing about it to Pouch, and thought I'd share with a wider audience:

I' ( Read more... )

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Well. Over 3 months since my last post, almost 6 months since my last post of significance... and that was at least partly to say "I'm not dead ( Read more... )

WARNING: The contents of this post are pretty textbook first-year-philosophy-"what's-the-meaning-of-life"-as-seen-through-the-eyes-of-disaffected-youth crap - except I'm 34 years old and I'm still fucking pissed off at the shitty pointlessness (and pointless shittiness) of life, and my ever-thwarted attempts to escape it or at least rise above it ( Read more... )

Your rainbow is shaded red.

What is says about you: You are a passionate person. You appreciate energetic people. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.That was a weird quiz. Many of the options I left blank, because both options were important to me ( Read more... )

This has been a tough... I'd say month, but I feel sorta like this whole year so far has been "less than pleasing". There hasn't been anything huge wrong with it - just lots of little things that have been building up. I have a pretty healthy ego that keeps my self-esteem well-braced, and I'm by no means ready to fall apart - but there are cracks ( Read more... )