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So you just had a baby, and now you want to dump your loving, lifelong pet at the shelter because of it?
Read this first.

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November 10, 1975, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior; all 29 men aboard were lost. I posted about this before; but someone created a music video about the shipwreck, using actual historical footage and audio clips about the ship and the shipwreck, and I thought it needed to be posted here. (As for the song the video is set to ( Read more... )

In Stephen King's The Stand, there is an experimental virus that escapes from a Super Secret Military Lab [TM] and kills most of the world's population. What makes the virus so nasty is that it continually mutates in its host, changing to counteract the body's defenses against it. Those who were infected but didn't die right away would be sick ( Read more... )

OK, so I had to give in to reality. I got sick. Really sick, this time. As in "miss two days of work" sick. And since I don't have sick pay, that means I missed two days (four shifts!) of pay, as well ( Read more... )

I just can't seem to get well.

I got sick a few weeks back, and I thought I got better... then the next weekend I felt like I was getting a cold... then I felt better....

Now I am really feeling sick. I've had a sore throat developing since Monday; I've been battling sinusitis, congestion, and near-constant drainage & glop; and tonight it's all ( Read more... )

I am tired. Tiiiiirrrrrreeeeeed. Absolutely fucking tired. I didn't get much sleep at all yesterday, and now I am so tired I am actually nauseated.

Four more hours here at work until I can go home....

About halfway through the series of treatments I've been undergoing for the injuries from the accident last April, I began seeing an accupuncturist. Fortunately, I'd overcome my intense needle-squickiness years ago while caring for my ailing old gentleman cat, who had kidney disease and required subdermal saline infusions. (On one hand, needles ( Read more... )

I'm stuck here at work for another two hours, and I have had a migraine for the last eight. In retrospect I could feel it coming on, but the "incipient attack" symptoms seem to have recently changed, so I didn't know this time to try to head it off at the pass. Usually I get a sudden "ear ringing" thing, but this time (and last Friday night too, ( Read more... )

Trouble is, I still don't know just what it is that I did do!

Back in January, I suffered through a really nasty four-day-long allergy attack (although I didn't know at first that that is what it was). I don't know what caused it last time, and I don't know what's causing it this time, either!

( Itchy & scratchy )

I love Persian cats. The old-style ones that actually have a muzzle, not those poor deformed flat-face creatures that are so inexplicably popular these days. Persian cats are beautiful animals, and have a wonderful personality. I once heard them described as "the perfect ornamental cat"; they love to arrange themselves into beautifully artistic ( Read more... )