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HANFAN

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  1. Aw, poor Mr. Fat. :( That's hilarious that he has totally become a lap cat though after how long?

     

     

    So my pooches are starting to get pretty old, Syd is 12 this spring and Java is 11. Sydney has starting to collapse every couple of months. It's only happened about 4-5 times that I know of, but it's really scary. And it often seems to happen when she gets really excited. Her legs will get wobbly and she'll fall over, her eyes will be open, but she can't focus, and she lays there panting hard for maybe 60 seconds, and then slowly gets back to her feet. She'll often loose control and pee or poop too. When she gets up she takes a few seconds to get her bearings and then she's back to normal and you would never know that she collapsed a couple minutes earlier. It doesn't seem like a regular seizure either, she doesn't really stiffen up and her limbs don't shake. And the vet says there's really nothing they can do for her. Especially, since it's so infrequent and random. :(

     

    So anyway, last night I was putzing around the living room and so Syd laying in the front yard and Java walking around her body and sniffing and licking her. I watched for minute and when I didn't see Sydney moving, I started to get really scared. I ran outside and as soon as I opened the door, Syd jumped up and ran over to me. DON'T SCARE ME LIKE THAT!!!!! I don't like this pet of pet ownership. :(

     

    I'm giving both dogs and Syd especially lots of loving.

  2. lol.

     

    I started "Road to Damietta" by Scott O'Dell. You know the author of "Island of the Blue Dolphins". Interesting read so far. It's about St. Francis of Assisi. Kind of, really it's about a girl who thinks she's in love with him. I must have picked it up at a garage sale or thrift shop a few years ago, but I'd never read it. I think it will be a one read sort of book though. Want to read it when I'm done Icy? Otherwise I'll probably send it to Rachael.

  3. I still need to borrow SS&SM from you Icy. (Abbreviated that looks very, erm, racy? :lol:)

     

    I'm be finishing Lawhead's Pendragon today. I orderd Grail from half.com but still waiting for it to get here so I'm wondering what to read in the meantime. I'm debating between total chick lit or nonfiction. All I've read so far this year is fantasy.

  4. Finished WoT 12 this morning. This was the book written after Robert Jordan died, and surprisingly I think I liked it more than the last few that Jordan had written. :hmm: Maybe it's just the fact that I was ready for a new writing style, by the time I got to it. But he also seemed to stay on track more and tied up some loose ends.

  5. Jeez Shannon, you're whipping through those suckers!

     

    This will probably be TMI for the guys, but I'm only reading while pumping. lol. Shows how much time I actually spend hooked up to that machine. :p If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have any time to read.

  6. How much snow did you get? I think we got about 8-10 inches at our place. Driving in to work was fun, I took the Jeep, kicked it into 4-wheel and had fun plowing through drifts. lol.

     

    And yeah, I think I'll have to come over again soon. ;)

  7. It's not bad at all, it's just not as good as Allende's Zorro.

     

     

    Do you have Zorro or was that a library/borrowed read?

     

    I just started Wheel of Time book 10 last night. I'm hoping to finish 10, 11, and 12 soon. Then I can give the books back to my friend and free up shelf space for my books from storage. I think after I finish these, I might have to read Anne of Green Gables or something way girly. lol. Oh, I haven't read Girl of the Limberlost in years. I think that will be next on my list.

  8. Joe would say, keep her! :lol: Hey, as long as you don't mind her chasing the cats and keeping you up all night barking, sure! ;)

     

    We had coons get in the dog food bin earlier this year too. I now keep a concrete block on top of it, so they can't lift the lid off.

  9. He's adorable Daggy!

     

     

    Java, was trying to prove her worth as a good watchdog earlier this week. On the other hand Sydney, completely ignored the whole thing, which just makes it funnier. Monday morning I woke up to Java doing quite a bit of barking, but I didn't think too much of it. I shushed her, she quieted down, and I started to get ready for work. When I went outside to feed the dogs Sydney sat at "her place" waiting for my to give her the okay to start eating. Java normally does the same thing, but before eating she comes up to me to be petted. This time Java ran to a tree in the corner of the yard and just kept staring up at it. Her ears were pricked attentively towards the tree and she kept circling it. I tried to find what she was looking at and didn't see anything. She normally ignores birds, we don't have squirrels in our neighborhood, and I was rather confused. But, I had to leave for work.

     

    Fast forward to coming home from work. I go outside, sit and play with the dogs for a while before getting supper ready and they act normal. Okay, everything is perfectly normal. A couple hours later, I go out to feed the dogs again. And it's the same situation as in the morning. Sydney sits patiently waiting for her food and Java is back at the tree. This time she just sitting at the base of it staring up. I'm thinking, "Ok, there is DEFINATELY SOMETHING up there. Maybe we do have squirrels after all." Again, I hang out trying to see what Java is looking at and can't see anything. Whatever. So I go inside and start to do a little reading. I'm sitting on the couch with the windows open, right next to the yard, where the dogs are. It's now starting to get dark. And I hear the WEIRDEST NOISE! I can't pinpoint it. So I crawl up on the couch wondering if one of the dogs is asleep and snoring. Java is laying by the dog house, still looking at the tree. WHERE THE NOISE IS COMING FROM! Ok, this is REALLY weird. Joe's taking a shower, and it's now dark, so I grab the strongest flashlight I can find. And start shining it up in the trees, figuring that any animals eyes are going to reflect back at me. Now Java is sitting at the base of the tree again, staring up at it. And I see it! It's a little raccoon. Poor thing had been up there all day. It was a young one and awfully cute, but I don't really want a raccoon around my dogs. I turned the light off, sat on the porch and after a few minutes I could hear it crawling down the tree a bit, but it was rather like a Mexican standoff between the coon and Java. Thankfully the tree is right next to the fence and there's a branch that overhangs the neighbors roof, so I figured it would leave one of those ways. If it was smart. By this time it's time for bed and just as I'm dozing off I hear Java barking again like she had that morning. I figured, ok, the raccoon just ran away. And fell asleep. lol.

  10. The vet told us today that Isis is fat and she wants us to shave another 1/4 cup of food off of what we give her. We were already giving her only 2 cups a day! If she hasn't lost any weight the next time we bring her in, we'll probably have to go with a diet dog food. After that, we'll look into thyroid issues. Poor pooch is going to hate us. She loves food and hates exercise, just like her mommy. :(

     

    What kind of food do you feed her right now? Just curious. Syd's doggy diet seems to be working. She lost about 4 pounds last month. Yay! I usually feed the dogs more in the winter, cause they burn more calories, but I didn't cut back enough this spring when the weather started getting warmer. Major duh on my part.

     

     

    Daggy, I'm so sorry about your guinea pig! :(

     

    And Cita, I hope you cat's surgery goes well!

  11. YEAH, NEIL ****ING GAIMAN!!!

     

    I'd recommend The Sandman series first, but if you don't have that - Neverwhere is a very logical (and good) starting place, although if you want to be all caught up for the Ananzi Boys movie they're apparently making, you may want to start with American Gods so you can go on to Ananzi Boys... although AG is a love-it-or-hate-it book, and I thought Ananzi Boys was his weakest book, so perhaps they're not great introductions :shrug: But something tells me you'd be able to appreciate what he's doing with AG.

     

    As for Midnight Sun - it makes Robert Pattinson's portrayal of Edward in the movie (as well as all of the stuff that was in the movie but not in the book wtf???) make much, much more sense. I liked it well enough, but it stops right before the part I most wanted to see.

     

    As for me... "The Great Panic" section of WWZ was very hard for me to get through, but I'll probably finish WWZ either tonight or tomorrow.

     

    Do you actually have WWZ, Icy, or is it a borrowed copy? Joe was just saying last night that he wants to read it. He heard an interview with the author on NPR a while back and was reminded about it when we were talking about P&P&Z.

  12. You know, I just had a thought. I have to put the Sookie book in a discreet place this weekend. If mom takes one look at the cover and think she failed in my raising. :lol: I love my mom.

     

    I wanted quick reading when I choose the book, so Sookie it was.

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