Chris (Jon's last room mate at the dorms) has officially moved himself and all of his stuff into the apartment as of this weekend. We keep him in the office now. Moving all of my crap out of the office was RIDICULOUS, and further proved that I need to have a garage sale.

Also, cause I need help deciding...

Poll #1269146
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What should I carve into a Pumpkin this Halloween?

I can't wait for Halloween this year. :D

Tags: halloween, poll
Current Mood: working

For those of you who might not have seen this yet. missmonstermel has two really kickass shirts on Design By Humans! If they aren't voted for, they wont get made and she wont win uber prize monies that she could totally use. I myself hope to buy one of these shirts, so I'd be super cool if you could help them get printed by voting. All you have to do is sign up for an account and vote for both shirts. They don't spam your e-mail, so no worries there. :)

VOTE FOR THE HALLOWEEN SHIRT
and also
VOTE FOR THE MONSTER BATTLE SHIRT!

The Halloween one seriously needs only a few more votes to put it on the top of the list. If everyone who reads this signs up and votes, it would make it. :) So, please help, it's free and supports an awesome artist.

Current Mood: working

The song was stuck in my head and can't believe someone uploaded the video on youtube. I grew up with this on tape... it's still in a box somewhere.



Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. :D

Current Mood: geeky

Got a card in the mail the other day from our veterinarian. It was a sympathy card for Robert. Inside it was a little piece of paper that really made me come to terms with the reality of what comes with choosing to share your heart with animals:

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.

"The Once and Again Prince"
- Irving Townsend

After reading it I finally got a chance to sit down and think about the circumstances of Robert's illness. I had only been given a few short months with him. He was adopted on June 6th and died at the end of August. In that time I spent an insane amount of time worrying about him and so much money in vet bills, that I'm embarrassed to say the amount in my journal. Even though I've got a much better job, the fact of the matter is... I tapped out my emergency funds. I've decided it's time to work on my website a little more and set up the shop.

So far I have the Portfolio's and Card deck's page up with some Wild Cats Cards for sale. I plan on getting the prints page up shortly as well as the paypal checkout cart. Meanwhile if anyone wants anything, I can take orders the not so fancy way, via snailmail or paypal. :) A bunch of stuff is going up on eBay soon as well. I have a lot of STUFF that I just don't need in my life right now.

... despite the crap that Delta put us through in Atlanta. Mom and I ended up getting $100 each toward a future flight of our choice. They originally offered $50, but I bitched till they gave us the maximum. I had seen a guy earlier that morning get a hundred dollars for missing four hours of his key west vacation. So, their offer of fifty seemed unbalanced. Now Mom's writing to the company since she's still outraged and I don't blame her. We've never had any problems with Delta before. Surprise surprise.

I got to see my Grandpa, whom I only met for the first time a couple years ago. He's such a cool guy and I love him to bits. :) The funeral was lovely, despite being a little intimidating. I always feel like I stick out in Catholic churches. As if there's a big neon sign that says "Heathen" pointing at my head.

Now that I'm home I'm totally in a mood to do some arting. I had my nose stuck in The Dinosaur Heresies most of my time in the airports/planes. It made me want to draw a diplodocus with a trunk just to be silly. :p He can have asian tapir markings. Seriously, for being as old as it is, I love this book. Wasn't Bakker working on a new book... that I can't remember the title of? Like, about religion and evolution... or something?

Current Mood: chipper

I'm stuck in the bloody Atlanta Airport. Got here with Mom at 9am, ran to catch our connecting flight only to find out that it left before we even got off our first plane. They had overbooked but sold us the seats anyway.

We got put on standby for a 1pm flight. They ran out of space. We were transfered to a 3pm flight, also as standby. They took a couple of people before telling us that they only had one more space left... so we'd have to split up. We've been running around, getting attitude right and left, and basically wasting our entire day in the damn airport.

By the way... we're trying to get to a funeral. Yeah... they sold us SOLD OUT tickets,when we needed to get to a funeral in Iowa on short notice. My Aunt Cleo passed away (why does it feel like more of my journal entries have been about deaths?). THANK YOU DELTA for a total lack of humanity!

Now we have four hours left and we were told to just sit and wait here. We wanted to skip out so Mom could see the Aquarium, but it's rush hour now. If we had only known that we were going to be shat on since 9 o'clock this morning, we would have skipped the crap and just spent our time at the aquarium in the first place.


CURSE YOU ATLANTA AIRPORT!

Tags: rants
Current Mood: pissed off

I did a little bit of impulse buying today. After years of waiting, www.Dragondust.com was FINALLY available. And now it's mine. :D

Current Mood: ecstatic

It cheer's me in ways that seem to be reversing all the stress damage Pet Supermarket caused. I work at Stratogon Entertainment now. It's a small game company, but I love the people. While I was there yesterday I was introduced to these guys and now I want to introduce them to you. I wish I had HBO, so I could watch their show, but YouTube will suffice for now. :)



I couldn't stop laughing during this one. =^^= I wish it didn't end so abruptly.

Current Mood: cheerful

After weeks of fighting his coccidia and pinworms, Robert... lost the battle.

I found him in his tank Saturday morning, a brown, spotted color that was just... wrong. He was still alive, but moving very slowly and wouldn't open his eyes. I went into panicked-mother-mode while Jon called into work to tell them I would be late. I got the syringe ready with his food all mushed into a paste. I had been feeding him this way for the last few days. He opened his mouth easily for a change, but just wouldn't swallow the food. Once I was out of idea's I felt like a helpless child who just wanted to hand Robert's problems to an adult so they could "make it all better."

I got on the phone with our vet's receptionist and explained Roberts condition. She told me to get him in A.S.A.P. Once he was there the vet took one look at him and had the receptionist take him back into the ER.

Jon and I sat for a long time, waiting to hear what was going on. When she came back, we questioned her like crazy about the medicine and whether or not it could have killed off the good bacteria in his stomach which would explain his lack of appetite. She assured us it wasn't the medicine. We had two choices: Put Robert down, or she could try and hook him up to feeding tubes, a catheter and whatnot to keep him alive. He had a 10% chance to recover. I started crying and she gave us a few minutes to sit with Robert while she went to check his blood work.

When she came back, it was with bad news. His blood work showed total kidney failure... his 10% went to 0%. He was gasping for air as I held him, so the doctor took him quickly into the ER and ended his suffering.

He'll be cremated and his ashes scattered at "Animal Heaven" cemetery.

I lost my yellow betta boy to old age a couple days earlier. Now I feel this horrible gaping void. I need more time to just... morn for them. I don't know what else I can do. I still haven't touched the vivarium or fish tank since they died... maybe moving them to another space will help.

Tags: critters
Current Mood: crushed