I'm getting fat
I've gained 10 pounds in I think 3 months, but that's not the focus of this post. In fact, I'm not even sure what the focus of this post is gonna be yet.
I'm going to go donate blood tomorrow, so at least SOMETHING good will come from my couch potatoism.
Oh yeah, I've been worried about my dog.
I got my dog 2.5 years ago, we adopted her (basically as a pup) from the pet adoption center (whoa?! no really?!). Back then it was a good idea, give my mom something else to baby (other than me), have at least one member of the family happy (the dog) when everybody else is cold, indifferent, or unhappy. She brought happiness and spirit to an otherwise dull home.
But now I'm going off to college. Ben moved to Texas with his wife. Ken is staying, but he's never home, and my parents are moving back to Taiwan. And A-Mei has nowhere to go. Ben and my Dad are considering sending her back to the shelter, but there's just something with that that I don't like. My dad was the one that complained about getting an adopted dog, that she's "emotionally scarred", which she shows when she's overly clung to people, not able to accept when people need to leave. But he's completely willing to do it to "abandon" her again because it's more convenient for him that way.
I dunno, I'm being really silly, who's to say that she'd care? A new family, new home, she'd prolly fit right in again in a month or two.
I dunno, I dunno what to do with my dog. My idea would be that when we're gone, Ken should be home more often. Use the dog as leverage to force him to live a more consistent lifestyle, and I could come back to bathe the dog every so often. But that's kind of selfish of me too, forcing this on Ken, just so I can come back to visit my dog. With Ken gone all the time, the dog would be lonely too, she's an extremely social animal, I'm not sure if it'd be better to give her a new family all together.
I'm going to go donate blood tomorrow, so at least SOMETHING good will come from my couch potatoism.
Oh yeah, I've been worried about my dog.
I got my dog 2.5 years ago, we adopted her (basically as a pup) from the pet adoption center (whoa?! no really?!). Back then it was a good idea, give my mom something else to baby (other than me), have at least one member of the family happy (the dog) when everybody else is cold, indifferent, or unhappy. She brought happiness and spirit to an otherwise dull home.
But now I'm going off to college. Ben moved to Texas with his wife. Ken is staying, but he's never home, and my parents are moving back to Taiwan. And A-Mei has nowhere to go. Ben and my Dad are considering sending her back to the shelter, but there's just something with that that I don't like. My dad was the one that complained about getting an adopted dog, that she's "emotionally scarred", which she shows when she's overly clung to people, not able to accept when people need to leave. But he's completely willing to do it to "abandon" her again because it's more convenient for him that way.
I dunno, I'm being really silly, who's to say that she'd care? A new family, new home, she'd prolly fit right in again in a month or two.
I dunno, I dunno what to do with my dog. My idea would be that when we're gone, Ken should be home more often. Use the dog as leverage to force him to live a more consistent lifestyle, and I could come back to bathe the dog every so often. But that's kind of selfish of me too, forcing this on Ken, just so I can come back to visit my dog. With Ken gone all the time, the dog would be lonely too, she's an extremely social animal, I'm not sure if it'd be better to give her a new family all together.