Don't ya just love a good John Cusack movie?
Especially when it feels like you're watching a reflection of your own life, and even after the challenges and obsticals there's still somehow a very happy ending... Well, I'm off to go spend another night with Ali.

Sometimes I feel almost like parts of my job or life are my personal equivalent of a cross I choose to bear ( Read more... )

Well several of our spirits around the zoo feel much lighter at least for the moment... Ali was acting much more like his normal Chuffle-ufagus Self, we let him out of the holding area for the first time since his surgury last Saturday, and he walked around a bit, pulled at the plywood I'd attached to the entrance of his den box (keep him from ( Read more... )

Here's to Sean & Daris... Congrats! It's about time!

But who's bloody idea was it to have an outdoor wedding in 10 degree weather? Oh wait, I guess that was my suggestion huh? But you didn't have to listen for crying out loud! *laugh*


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Well, Ali is still making slow progress towards feeling tiggeriffic. He may not be bouncing around just yet, but he's at least drinking water again and pees like a champ. Still under 24 hour watch, which I just got home from and need to go build another fire to shake off the chill... I've been reading a great book while I'm sitting out there. ( Read more... )

I love looking at things in ways that make me smile and wonder, and I'm often doing so with simple things like pine needles and pebbles, but too often I let myself forget to apply that same kind of openmindedness and wonder to my entire life, and remind myself that things are not only as they are seen. Of course things ARE as the seem, but it is ( Read more... )

Just got home from work, and it's 12:45 AM I'm frozen to the bone from sitting still and reading while watching and waiting for a tiger to recover from the effects of anestesia. I probably didn't spell that right, but when it's this late, and I'm this cold, I really don't care ( Read more... )

I just found out ten minutes ago that one of my brother-in-laws just died today, of a heart attack ( Read more... )

On my way back to work this morning (at 6 AM because I woke up at 1 after two hours of sleep, and couldn't get back to sleep the rest of the night...) the temp was down to -7 degrees out by Mead!!! And what did I do? I stood still for three hours out in the -7 and slowly rising, and hung up more christmas lights of course! Pretty sure that a ( Read more... )

How cold does it have to be before your blood freezes in your veins? Tonight as I was driving home from work, the temp. reading at the bank said it was -2 F and still dropping I'm sure. My windshield washer fluid (the "non-freezing" variety I might add...) immediately iced over my whole windsheild when it touched the glass, and I had to pull ( Read more... )