a chance to breathe...

[traveling_storm]

So much to do and no time to do it in... such is the story of my life... ^^

Just finished a 7 day marathon of teacher training up north. It was hard - getting up at 6am, leaving at 7am, arriving at 8:15 and then teaching the same class of teachers - local Chinese English teachers from the district - from 8:30 to 2:30. Even with an hour and a half

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[pyrotechnik]

Why are rescue animals so damn adorable? I'm sitting here with three of them. My dog and cat, and my Dad's cat. Two Siameses and a chow/whippet/ maybe sharpei mix. All abandoned. I'd love to know who abandoned my babies, so I could shove pictures in their faces and go "LOOK! You didn't want them, and I did, and LOOK HOW SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE! AND YOU MISSED IT!!!! HAH!"

.....but that would be rude.

[traveling_storm]

LOL I wanna do the same thing to the two families that tried to adopt Ruthie before me plus the idiots who dumped her in the first place. NEENER NEENER NEENER and all that. ^__^

You hAVE to post a pic of the Chippet/Chowpei thing (I love nonsense portmanteau's) that is your dog. It sounds fascinating!

[pyrotechnik]

I always love to show off my babies.

[traveling_storm]

OMG - is Taj a Himalayan?? Or a Siberian? He's big!

And Belle is a sweetie! LOL definitely ChowPei in the coloring and fur type (is it thicker than it looks?), but those legs are too thin - I'm guessing that would be the whippet part? What an interesting mix!

[pyrotechnik]

Near as we can tell, Taj is just a long haired Siamese male. That's him as a kitten in my user pic. He's now about 15 pounds, and none of it fat.
Belle has pretty dense fur. Not quite a double coat, though. And she has the chow neck ruff and chin and tongue and coloring. Sharpei(maybe) ears. The spitz type curled tail. But the rest? Belongs to either greyhound or whippet type breed. As a puppy, she fit in my hand, and I was so worried because she wasn't getting rolly-polly fat (we had a dachshund before, and she was a butterball puppy). But she was eating as much as she wanted. Then at three months, she sprouts up to my knee. I stopped worrying. ^__^
But yup, both are rescues. I didn't have them in Taiwan, because I was worried they wouldn't survive the flight from Texas in the hot July heat. So they lived with Dad.

[traveling_storm]

They're both gorgeous. ^^ Good choice about Taiwan. :)

Heeeeey - speaking o'dat, Hannah and her sister were up for a day here in Shanghai. ^^ Too bad it was so short but it was good to see her.

What about you? When do you finish again? Are you going back to Taiwan like you planned?

[pyrotechnik]

AWESOME! I wondered if she had managed to get a hold of you. I should be able to do my student teaching by next May, and that is for two semesters. By then, I will have finished all my required courses but the teaching. I may not be teaching again in Taiwan, but my brother is stationed in Okinawa, and I plan to go visit him sometime in 2013 and take him to see Taiwan if he can get the leave. Maybe we could meet up? (But don't plan anything yet, because it all depends on him.) It'll really depend on where I can get a job. Also, I will have the pets, so if there is a plane ride involved, I don't want it to be too long. It's too bad they haven't yet figured out how to turn my truck into a plane. That would make things so much easier, because I could just bundle the pets into the back seat. ^__^
Such is life.

[traveling_storm]

This is where I plug my mandatory 'come to Shanghai' speech. ^^ You can bring your furkids with you. :) But you can also bring them to Japan, so that's cool too. And then I'd have an excuse to come visit you.

Anyway, keep me up-to-date with what you do so we can meet up sometime and catch up!