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Salutations!
Sooo it's 2010!
I am still in Tumwater. I am doing my last Independent Contract with Evergreen for 16 credits. I am volunteering at an Alzheimer's Nursing Home and writing poetry on aging and dying. I was introduced to Sharon Olds through this contract and I totally love her work. She's sooo raw! I also have been reading Ginsberg, a book about conscious living and dying, and I am currently reading a fictional story about Nietzsche and Freud.
Next quarter, I shall have 4 credits to complete before I officially graduate in June! It's crazy how time flies! My sister, 2 nephews, and parents are coming for graduation from Ohio and Wisconsin. It'll be my sister's first time out here which is exciting. I wish I had more than 4 days to show her around...
Harold and I have decided that we're going to break up after we graduate if not before. We both feel like we have lots of things to experience still and we both seem to be going in different directions for the time being. I have options of working in Colorado or Ohio to try and make some money before I try and join the Peace Corps which will be a two year commitment. Harold is looking into traveling, maybe WOOFing (working on Organic Farms) in other countries, he has also got an invitation to Portugal where they are doing this sustainable city experiment over the next few years. He is also applying to Acupuncture schools which is a three year program.
Joplin and Gracie both have tumors :( Joplin's is huge, but she still runs on the wheel and whatnot :) Gracie's has just begun...I feel badly for them but it is hard to realize how this is effecting them, whether or not they are in pain, and what I can do to help. The vet said it would cost at least $150 each plus medication and that they would more than likely rip open the stitches and it could get infected and that more would probably grow back in its place. The alternative is letting them take their course and that the tumors, even though they are probably benign, will kill them be either sucking the nutrients and energy out of their food/them or grow so big that they won't be able to move. :( Leeloo died not too long ago...she was Joplin's twin sister. He death was sudden from a rep. infection. :(
Sage is not on her hyperthyroid medication because although I could afford her medication, I could not afford another blood test to see if we needed to up the dosage...so the vet refused to fill her medicine. Bureaucracy of vet clinics! I knew the medicine was working. Sage gained weight. She wasn't puking. But they want their money. Because we were buying the medicine through a compounding agency and through a different vet that we took the girls to, so I am sure they just wanted to halt us for money we don't have :( So now Sage has not been on her medicine for some time and has dropped weight and pukes more. She also has been having stomach acid problems. She'd been constantly grinding her teeth, especially when eating and her stomach gurggled from across the room! I've been giving her slippery elm with her food and it's been helping. As well as keeping her food elevated.
I wish I could do more to help them. I am currently the only employee at my job and I am not getting enough hours. I only been getting 11 hours a week which has left me roughly 30 $ a month after rent and bills to spend on food and pet food which definitely doesn't cut it! I have been eating entirely into my savings and now I have no money left. My dad sent me $200 a few months ago which I was supposed to send directly to the dentist in Colorado for my wisdom teeth removal last year in which I owed them like $600 and they were threatening to send me to collections...I kept the money though and it saved my temporary ass. I still have to pay the dentist though since my insurance decided not to pay for it. I also owe money from when I got my Pap and STD tests. I am afraid of not being on insurance, but really it hasn't done me very well this last year anyways...refusing to pay for, like, everything. Sooo anyways, hopefully, I'll be getting more hours at work soon since it's going to be getting busier in Spring and my bosses were like, we can't work this much! They spoke about hiring someone else in the future, and I just hope it's not too much of a competition for hours! Because I NEED them!
There's so much more to write, but I have to go make some food and get on the bus because at least today, I am working :)
Hope all is well for everyone.
Sooo it's 2010!
I am still in Tumwater. I am doing my last Independent Contract with Evergreen for 16 credits. I am volunteering at an Alzheimer's Nursing Home and writing poetry on aging and dying. I was introduced to Sharon Olds through this contract and I totally love her work. She's sooo raw! I also have been reading Ginsberg, a book about conscious living and dying, and I am currently reading a fictional story about Nietzsche and Freud.
Next quarter, I shall have 4 credits to complete before I officially graduate in June! It's crazy how time flies! My sister, 2 nephews, and parents are coming for graduation from Ohio and Wisconsin. It'll be my sister's first time out here which is exciting. I wish I had more than 4 days to show her around...
Harold and I have decided that we're going to break up after we graduate if not before. We both feel like we have lots of things to experience still and we both seem to be going in different directions for the time being. I have options of working in Colorado or Ohio to try and make some money before I try and join the Peace Corps which will be a two year commitment. Harold is looking into traveling, maybe WOOFing (working on Organic Farms) in other countries, he has also got an invitation to Portugal where they are doing this sustainable city experiment over the next few years. He is also applying to Acupuncture schools which is a three year program.
Joplin and Gracie both have tumors :( Joplin's is huge, but she still runs on the wheel and whatnot :) Gracie's has just begun...I feel badly for them but it is hard to realize how this is effecting them, whether or not they are in pain, and what I can do to help. The vet said it would cost at least $150 each plus medication and that they would more than likely rip open the stitches and it could get infected and that more would probably grow back in its place. The alternative is letting them take their course and that the tumors, even though they are probably benign, will kill them be either sucking the nutrients and energy out of their food/them or grow so big that they won't be able to move. :( Leeloo died not too long ago...she was Joplin's twin sister. He death was sudden from a rep. infection. :(
Sage is not on her hyperthyroid medication because although I could afford her medication, I could not afford another blood test to see if we needed to up the dosage...so the vet refused to fill her medicine. Bureaucracy of vet clinics! I knew the medicine was working. Sage gained weight. She wasn't puking. But they want their money. Because we were buying the medicine through a compounding agency and through a different vet that we took the girls to, so I am sure they just wanted to halt us for money we don't have :( So now Sage has not been on her medicine for some time and has dropped weight and pukes more. She also has been having stomach acid problems. She'd been constantly grinding her teeth, especially when eating and her stomach gurggled from across the room! I've been giving her slippery elm with her food and it's been helping. As well as keeping her food elevated.
I wish I could do more to help them. I am currently the only employee at my job and I am not getting enough hours. I only been getting 11 hours a week which has left me roughly 30 $ a month after rent and bills to spend on food and pet food which definitely doesn't cut it! I have been eating entirely into my savings and now I have no money left. My dad sent me $200 a few months ago which I was supposed to send directly to the dentist in Colorado for my wisdom teeth removal last year in which I owed them like $600 and they were threatening to send me to collections...I kept the money though and it saved my temporary ass. I still have to pay the dentist though since my insurance decided not to pay for it. I also owe money from when I got my Pap and STD tests. I am afraid of not being on insurance, but really it hasn't done me very well this last year anyways...refusing to pay for, like, everything. Sooo anyways, hopefully, I'll be getting more hours at work soon since it's going to be getting busier in Spring and my bosses were like, we can't work this much! They spoke about hiring someone else in the future, and I just hope it's not too much of a competition for hours! Because I NEED them!
There's so much more to write, but I have to go make some food and get on the bus because at least today, I am working :)
Hope all is well for everyone.