Today is my Leah's 4th Birthday! She's been with me for about three and a half years of her life and I'm sure you're all sick to death of the stories of how she rescued me from the ditch, the time I fell and almost passed out from the heat and she ran outside to make sure I was okay, and the other countless stories of how she's made my life amazing ( Read more... )

In Memoriam: Leo, A Yellow Cat ( Read more... )

I think my statement of purpose is done. It's amazing how much less nervous I am now that I'm probably NOT applying to the first choice school. Now I have a new first choice AND a safety school picked out. The safety school I can apply for as soon as I have my recommendation letters taken care of too since it doesn't need the GRE. I also have a GRE ( Read more... )

So. It's sunny and I have nothing else to do. I figured it would be nice to let Indy and Davy (the turtles) come out of their tank and go outside to play on the deck and get some real sunlight that isn't artificial. Indy Turtle was perfectly happy about this new development, while Davy Turtle pulled himself into his shell and sat there doing ( Read more... )

Due to a bunch of issues with Duke trying to be alphadog, marking territory, marking LEAH as his territory and all kinds of other stuff that resulted in them not getting along so well, he wound up going back to the breeder today. More about that later because I do want to capture it when I'm better able to be coherent ( Read more... )

Looks like I'm heading over to Lord Vader's today. He claims they have a "treat" for me. In the next sentence after this, he asked about my dogs so I'm wondering if they've finally, finally made room for something after Lucky who I miss to this day. Knowing them, a "treat" could also be that either Han or Lando needs me to edit their English paper ( Read more... )

New turtle. Definitely DEFINITELY not legal for me to have or for me to have bought here but um ( Read more... )

1. "I kind of want one, I shouldn't...I hear they're hard to take care of ( Read more... )