sigh

i guess i'm going to a baseball game this week.
you know how i said i haven't had many drinks for a while? i think i'm going to need them to be able to tolerate this thing.

i like seth. he's really nice to me and we have similar senses of humor.
we have similar ideas for the future, similar morals, and he's got a generally good head on his shoulders.
but i don't know. i am not sure about it. i guess only time will tell. i already told him i need space. lots and lots of space.

i am addicted to the show rock of love on vh1. it is so ridiculous.

i made some delicious coconut rice tonight.

it snowed a lot tonight. it's still snowing. it will all melt away by the end of the week, though.
thursday it is supposed to be 51 degrees. we might be going to the zoo, but if the ground is dry enough we might have a picnic.

i guess that is all right now.

mucin on the ceiling?

well this was a busy, busy weekend.
i was working non-stop both days from 11-7. last night was anna's birthday so she had everyone go to the cc club, and as it turns out just about every person i've met up here knows anna some way or another.
seth's brother in law works with her so he knows her too.

yesterday i ate like crap. i had a bbq sandwich with mock duck, vegan nacho cheese, onions, and potatoes on it. and fries. AND i drank a pepsi at work.
then after the cc club i had a huuuuge three-berry muffin and an almond latte.

i'm pretty sure i haven't had more than one drink and three beers in about a month up here.
one of the nights in florida i had a few drinks since my friends can drink now, but i don't count that because it was vacation.

mouse has been coming to work with me every day, and every person that sees her dotes on her and coos about how adorable she is.
she is eating it up. like she needed any more spoiling. she loves jen more than me, though. every time jen leaves she cries and cries. doesn't do that for me.

walter is not letting jasper eat right now. he is growling at him.

hunee is so much happier with echo gone.

yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

i was thinking.
should i email andrew and tell him that if he needs to talk about anything, but maybe it's something that he doesn't feel comfortable talking to you guys about, that he can talk to me?
i don't want to overstep my boundaries.

today we are going to the science museum in st. paul.
we are going to see an omni-film about the amazon and then we are seeing an exhibit about the holocaust's experiments on children.
and i guess the rest of the museum is kind of like the imaginarium or something, and seth is excited that i am going there for the first time because every time he goes with someone, it's a person who has already been there and doesn't want to look around the rest of the place.

i have been letting my hair remain curly lately [except for the bangs] and people love it.
people up here love the hell out of natural hair, it seems.

all is well on the midwestern front.

mew meowwww

walter was just being so adorable. i was watching this video with a cat meow, and he came up the couch [where i have my computer] and starting cocking his head back and forth every time it meowed.
as the video continued he started looking for the cat under the couch and finally he jumped on the couch and looked behind the computer and stared at the screen until the video stopped!

my friend lee [jon my ex boyfriend's best friend] was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphona. that sucks. i really, really hope he ends up okay.

hunnee is really happy and calm now that she knows echo isn't around. she's a little annoyed with jasper being around all the time, now, but not to a great extent.

marya's younger son [i think he's fourteen] is in love with echo. he does everything with her and spends all his time with her.

nothing much else is happening around here, to be honest. i wish i had something exicitng to say.

spring is springing

it is almost 50 degrees today, and for the rest of the month it's supposed to stay above 35 during the day! i am starting to see the ground in some areas of my yard.
today i turned off the heat and opened all the windows. it's soooo nice out.
the dogs are loving it. i've had them out a lot today since they haven't been outside for more than 10 minutes at a time for about three months.

i am getting a sore throat. it has been going around work, and now i think i am getting it. it makes *so* much sense that i haven't gotten sick at all throughout the sub-zero temperatures but the minute it starts to get nice out, i get sick.

i think i am going to close my account at tcf bank and open one at a bank that doesn't suck. i hear people complain about it all the time and now i know why. sometimes it doesn't let me withdraw money when i have plenty of funds. sometimes it says my check has gone through when it hasn't yet, and then it charges me overdraft fees. though i go in and complain and they waive them, i shouldn't have to do that.

i'll just go to wells-fargo, i think. they seem good and reliable.

look familiar?

i found this on youtube. this lady set up her camera to catch her dogs:

r.i.p. miss bun-bun

miss bun-bun passed away today.
i found her on her side, and she was still slightly warm and not completely stiff, so she had just died recently.
she had not stopped eating, and it seemed like her belly had food in it, so i think she died of natural causes.
she was a good bunny and will be missed. i am glad i got to save her from euthanasia last year. she was able to live a happy life even with her defective leg.
the ground is frozen so i cannot bury her until springtime, so she is in my freezer.

seth met the dogs today.
seth loves all animals, and even he is highly annoyed by jasper. in his words "jasper needs to live on a farm."
he adores echo, mouse, and hunee, though. and he wants to adore walter, but walter wouldn't go near him yet.

hun and walt went to the vet for their lyme disease booster shot today.
i guess lyme disease is really, really common here, so it is a good idea to vaccinate against it.
heartworm is less common so it isn't necessary to use monthly preventative, but i think i still will to be safe.
hunnee has become quite the friendly social butterfly when she's out in public. walter at least walks on a leash now.

i'm mad.

i want to get rid of jasper. he keeps spraying everywhere.
i'm serious. i can't take it anymore. he fucking sprays all over the place.
i'm so mad.
he never did that in florida.

the curse.

so there's this degreasing shampoo at work that has lots of citrus in it, apparently. i used it on this old greasy thing yesterday and my hands ended up breaking out in blisters. it was just lovely.

hunee got groomed the other day and now her feet are a lot less hairy, so when she goes out they get cold. i have to carry her inside!! you'd think she'd figure out not to walk to the other end of the yard.

there was a dog at work yesterday that was like jasper only really big. and possibly more obnoxious.

i am excited to go back home in a week. i am sure my boyfriend morrissey is going to want to sleep on the air mattress with me.
since i get in late on monday i don't expect you guys to stay awake to come pick me up. i'm sure amanda or mike or marco can come pick me up.

well. i don't have much else to say i guess. see you in a week!

i sense a disturbance in the force...

skammeraasen (4:04:10 PM): r.i.p. kirby
skammeraasen (4:04:20 PM): been 2 years since my childhood hero died
skammeraasen (4:08:32 PM): i should probably pour a 40 out in memory of him

im neat okay (4:10:06 PM): how sad
im neat okay (4:10:11 PM): was he a baseball player?
im neat okay (4:10:20 PM): well i guess so
im neat okay (4:10:21 PM): i mean
im neat okay (4:10:25 PM): i should assume

skammeraasen (4:12:38 PM): was he a baseball player?
skammeraasen (4:12:41 PM): he was an american hero!

im neat okay (4:12:53 PM): an american baseball playing hero?

skammeraasen (4:12:56 PM): he was one of the most beloved people in minnesota history

im neat okay (4:13:04 PM): that played baseball?


you can probably guess which is me and which is seth.
i still don't know who kirby is. i'm guessing a minnesota twin. the only kirby i know of is that big puffy white thing in video games that eats everything.

i shaved hunnee for the first time in about six months. she wasn't too happy but i'm pretty sure she's thankful that she can feel me giving her scratchies now.

i dyed my hair again. just now, so it's still wet, and i don't know how it looks. i figured it hadn't been red in awhile.

only on vh1

so i guess i am finally seeing a person that has drive... or.. ambition... or... whatever you want to call it.

seth already has a degree in business and advertising. he has one more writing class to take this summer and then he will graduate with a degree in history.
he has a job [though i really don't know what he does] and he has a car. he's never been homeless. he doesn't smoke cigarettes. he doesn't drink on a nightly basis.
he is close with his family [mom and dad are divorced but both live in south dakota. he has three sisters and numerous half/step siblings].

his love for animals equals, if not surpasses, mine. he has approximately 2000 pictures of his cat on his computer. just the cat he has now. there's more of former cats and other peoples' dogs and cats.
our feelings on animal rights are just about the same, down to the fact that we both think zoos can be an effective educational tool and acceptable if the habitats large enough and constructed properly.
[most vegans do not agree with zoos in any sense.]

he loves living in minneapolis and plans on staying in the cities for quite a while.

he is on a generic form of prozac and thus is understanding of my issues, though he hasn't shown signs of having any severe mental issues. which means any mental instability he has is mild enough that prozac takes care of it completely. which means there probably won't be any "battle of the crazies" going on.

he is not insecure or needy. he is not touchy/feely/clingy. he doesn't have any deep-rooted "mommy issues". he is not afraid of commitment [just wary, as am i].

we don't worship the ground eachother walks on-- we just have a mutual respect and high thoughts of one another.

but. he loves sports. not in the meathead dudebro sort of sense, but he loves sports. specifically baseball. i thought he was going to have a heart attack when he found out where i used to live [since the twins train in fort myers].
i hate sports. i mean, i fucking hate sports. but i suppose if the good outweighs the fact that he likes sports [which thus far it has] then i can deal with it.


i have met a lot of people up here and my standards have gotten so unbelievably high due to past relationships that i really felt as though it might take years to find someone that meets them.
but pretty much he does, at least from what i've seen. i'm not counting my eggs before they hatch, however.

so yea. seth is not my boyfriend, but i think he might be soon.

my dogs' pallettes are apparently unrefined.

so since i work at petco, i get a really good discount on pet store-specific foods.
beneful healthy harvest [which is what they have been eating since i quit petland] is a grocery brand which means its ingredients aren't very high-quality.
i looked around for a pet store brand that is vegetarian and found natural balance vegetarian formula. the ingredients are really pure and high-quality, and the food is vegan while still providing all the necessary nutrients for dogs.
now as you know, my dogs will eat anything. they do not have sensitive stomachs. whenever i eat, i split my leftovers amongst them. so it's not as though their bellies are unaccustomed to new/rich/hearty/pure foods.
anyway, i gave them this new food. echo refuses to eat it. absolutely refuses. hunnee ate some and proceeded to barf it up ten minutes later.
of course walter eats it because he has become a fucking pig since he doesn't eat around echo anymore. and mouse eats it because it is easier for her to chew [some of her bottom teeth fell out].
so i guess i am going to try a high-quality non-vegan food :( there is a salmon and sweet-potato formula, so that will be my next attempt. if that doesn't work, i will have to find another brand. but i won't feed them anything non-vegetarian except fish and actual bones to chew on. so i will keep you updated.

fyi.

my period started again.
awesome, right?
oh wait, no, that fucking sucks.

in better news, i have a really amazing recipe that i am going to cook for you guys when i am home.

speaking of going home, i am pawning my dogs off on a few different people, essentially. my coworker jen wants to take mouse. seth is going to take hunee. jb said he'd let out the others.

i like my job a whole lot. they like me a whole lot. once i work there long enough i do get commission regardless of whether i start grooming or not. that will be good.
right now i'm just making 7/hr. but if i got commission i'd have made about $120 today.