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pacificpikachuSo, I guess I've been on an unplanned semi-hiatus. It's been so busy around here!
- On Saturday, Ryan and I spent almost the whole day painting my wildlife rehab group's new building! This sounds like a boring chore but it was a lot of fun. Wildlife rehab people are the best people ever. Where else are you going to hear a casual yet incredibly technical discussion on chopping up dead mice for baby great horned owls to consume? Or that you should check between a coyote pup's toes for abscesses when you get them? Or hear about getting attacked by a nest of carpenter ants living in the handle of a bird net when trying to untangle a red-shouldered hawk from netting sixty feet above the ground? Haha. We got about 60% of the painting done, with my brother and I contributing a lot of that. We're doing it again this Saturday, which I'm excited about! I sometimes forget how good it feels to do simple physical work--I feel like it clears my mind a bit and it makes me feel good about putting my time to good use.
- Also on the same day as all the painting, I drove back and forth from Penn Valley three times, once to Lake of the Pines and back, and then to top it all off at 10 PM I ended up driving down to Yuba City and back to pick up some crows and a magpie. I was exhausted by the end of that day, let me tell you. =___=
- Speaking of the crows, they're three baby crows and I've been taking care of them for a few days now. Crows are my favorite birds to rehab, but I soon started noticing some particular yellow crusty areas on them, mostly on their faces but also on their bodies. I took them to the vet today and it turns out they have avian pox. Ughhh. Contagious, ugly little disease. Thankfully this is not a death sentence for them, but it does mean they have to go to another rehabber with very specific parameters (no other birds, can be isolated in a room, doesn't mind giving lots of medication) because I can't risk my parrotlet/lovebird/cockatiels/all my poultry/other rehab birds and I don't have anywhere to isolate them at my mom's house or in my car. So dealing with that has been a bit stressful. Thankfully the healthy fledgling magpie does not seem to have been affected and hopefully won't get it, as he's outside far from the crows. He's perfectly healthy and ADORABLE. Once I find a place for the crows to go and make sure he doesn't develop symptoms, I'm getting another magpie from Linda to keep him company.
- HAVE NOT EVEN STARTED COSTUME, ASIDE FROM ACQUIRING SUPPLIES. GO ME. NINE DAYS LEFT! I'm starting to worry I won't even be able to finish it, but...uh, I think I still probably will? I may be giving my productivity too much credit, but I tend to do well in time crunches. I just need to get some 1/2" foam or a balaclava as a base, and that's basically what's holding me up. I should probably just go do that so I can work on it instead of watching National Geographic channel and playing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon for hours and hours on end.
- Laptop cord died AGAIN, which is the other reason I haven't been updating or commenting. Ryan thankfully fixed it, but I went a few days without it.
- Honey is doing WONDERFUL. She is my dog as opposed to the family's dog (this was one of the conditions my mom gave me when I decided that I needed to keep her), so she's been going with me everywhere and keeping me company. I can't believe how well behaved she is! She just hangs out with me all the time, she's very calm and sweet, and she's a perfect dog for us, too. Of course, Hooch is doing absolutely wonderful as well! I don't know what I did to deserve two absolutely fantastic, adorable, sweet, hilarious Pembroke Welsh Corgis (both rescues, and corgis are extremely hard to find as rescues) that both just fell into my life and fit into our household so incredibly well, but I like to think it's Tia thanking us for adopting her and giving her a good life despite her behavior problems.
For those who don't know, Tia was our foster dog originally. We got her when she was five and a half out of the shelter because her family dumped her there. She was an eighty-pound black lab mix, and she was extremely dog aggressive and prone to running off for impromptu strolls around the neighborhood. She was adopted three times and came back from all three homes for one problem or another, then we had to give her up to another foster home after we had been fostering her for a year because she attacked our landlord's dog. At that point, my mom decided it was time to buy her own house, so we bought our current house and got her back for good, and kept her for the rest of her life. She had her problems but in many ways she was incredibly sweet... She would always sleep on our beds right next to us despite how big she was, and she was that sort of dog where you could sit on her or do whatever to her and she didn't care at all. She had the sweetest face. She always got along with the border collies we had during her lifetime as well (first Lily, and then Hana after that), and they would play together like crazy. My whole family really loved her, issues and all.
- Totally not comprehending that Fanime is right around the corner. AHHH, CAN. NOT. EVEN. UNDERSTAND! It's going to be so amazing. *3*
- Miraculously, SMJ shipped my package in a timely manner! :O I'm shocked, because I was so, so stressed that they would take forever to ship it and then I would have to figure out how to pay for Fanime. I thiiink it's going to be just fine, though (by a hair), and I'm so excited about opening that big ol' package!
- I'm seriously upset that I can't go to the Yoko Kanno concert, though. Seriously. DREAM CONCERT. It's killing me a little bit every time I think about it, because it's exactly the concert that I've always dreamed of going to and I think it's...kind of a once in a lifetime type of concert (with all the artists that are going). ;____; I flirt with the crazy idea of selling off my entire collection to go, but even then I know I couldn't go through with it, who knows if it would be enough, and who knows if I could still get tickets. I think about taking out loans (LOL I didn't even get approved for a student credit card to build up credit because I didn't have enough credit sources O___o;), begging relatives, going door to door crying and attempting to get donations... Ahhh, I'm dying. I would be perfectly happy if I literally just flew to Japan for the concert and then left.Okay, okay, I'd ideally want to go to at least one of the Pokémon Centers, too, but that's beside the point. Don't mind me, I just have to whine about this. It's slowly causing my sanity and life to leak out of me that I probably won't be able to go no matter how crazily I scrabble about.
- PICTURES OF HONEY (and one of Hooch! I kept trying to get more but I've mostly been at Dad's with just Honey and his pictures kept being blurry) SOON, PROMISSSSE. She's so adorable and pretty, I still can't believe I found her in a shelter and got her and-- ♥ She looks quite a bit like Ein, but without the white on her muzzle.
- On Saturday, Ryan and I spent almost the whole day painting my wildlife rehab group's new building! This sounds like a boring chore but it was a lot of fun. Wildlife rehab people are the best people ever. Where else are you going to hear a casual yet incredibly technical discussion on chopping up dead mice for baby great horned owls to consume? Or that you should check between a coyote pup's toes for abscesses when you get them? Or hear about getting attacked by a nest of carpenter ants living in the handle of a bird net when trying to untangle a red-shouldered hawk from netting sixty feet above the ground? Haha. We got about 60% of the painting done, with my brother and I contributing a lot of that. We're doing it again this Saturday, which I'm excited about! I sometimes forget how good it feels to do simple physical work--I feel like it clears my mind a bit and it makes me feel good about putting my time to good use.
- Also on the same day as all the painting, I drove back and forth from Penn Valley three times, once to Lake of the Pines and back, and then to top it all off at 10 PM I ended up driving down to Yuba City and back to pick up some crows and a magpie. I was exhausted by the end of that day, let me tell you. =___=
- Speaking of the crows, they're three baby crows and I've been taking care of them for a few days now. Crows are my favorite birds to rehab, but I soon started noticing some particular yellow crusty areas on them, mostly on their faces but also on their bodies. I took them to the vet today and it turns out they have avian pox. Ughhh. Contagious, ugly little disease. Thankfully this is not a death sentence for them, but it does mean they have to go to another rehabber with very specific parameters (no other birds, can be isolated in a room, doesn't mind giving lots of medication) because I can't risk my parrotlet/lovebird/cockatiels/all my poultry/other rehab birds and I don't have anywhere to isolate them at my mom's house or in my car. So dealing with that has been a bit stressful. Thankfully the healthy fledgling magpie does not seem to have been affected and hopefully won't get it, as he's outside far from the crows. He's perfectly healthy and ADORABLE. Once I find a place for the crows to go and make sure he doesn't develop symptoms, I'm getting another magpie from Linda to keep him company.
- HAVE NOT EVEN STARTED COSTUME, ASIDE FROM ACQUIRING SUPPLIES. GO ME. NINE DAYS LEFT! I'm starting to worry I won't even be able to finish it, but...uh, I think I still probably will? I may be giving my productivity too much credit, but I tend to do well in time crunches. I just need to get some 1/2" foam or a balaclava as a base, and that's basically what's holding me up. I should probably just go do that so I can work on it instead of watching National Geographic channel and playing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon for hours and hours on end.
- Laptop cord died AGAIN, which is the other reason I haven't been updating or commenting. Ryan thankfully fixed it, but I went a few days without it.
- Honey is doing WONDERFUL. She is my dog as opposed to the family's dog (this was one of the conditions my mom gave me when I decided that I needed to keep her), so she's been going with me everywhere and keeping me company. I can't believe how well behaved she is! She just hangs out with me all the time, she's very calm and sweet, and she's a perfect dog for us, too. Of course, Hooch is doing absolutely wonderful as well! I don't know what I did to deserve two absolutely fantastic, adorable, sweet, hilarious Pembroke Welsh Corgis (both rescues, and corgis are extremely hard to find as rescues) that both just fell into my life and fit into our household so incredibly well, but I like to think it's Tia thanking us for adopting her and giving her a good life despite her behavior problems.
For those who don't know, Tia was our foster dog originally. We got her when she was five and a half out of the shelter because her family dumped her there. She was an eighty-pound black lab mix, and she was extremely dog aggressive and prone to running off for impromptu strolls around the neighborhood. She was adopted three times and came back from all three homes for one problem or another, then we had to give her up to another foster home after we had been fostering her for a year because she attacked our landlord's dog. At that point, my mom decided it was time to buy her own house, so we bought our current house and got her back for good, and kept her for the rest of her life. She had her problems but in many ways she was incredibly sweet... She would always sleep on our beds right next to us despite how big she was, and she was that sort of dog where you could sit on her or do whatever to her and she didn't care at all. She had the sweetest face. She always got along with the border collies we had during her lifetime as well (first Lily, and then Hana after that), and they would play together like crazy. My whole family really loved her, issues and all.
- Totally not comprehending that Fanime is right around the corner. AHHH, CAN. NOT. EVEN. UNDERSTAND! It's going to be so amazing. *3*
- Miraculously, SMJ shipped my package in a timely manner! :O I'm shocked, because I was so, so stressed that they would take forever to ship it and then I would have to figure out how to pay for Fanime. I thiiink it's going to be just fine, though (by a hair), and I'm so excited about opening that big ol' package!
- I'm seriously upset that I can't go to the Yoko Kanno concert, though. Seriously. DREAM CONCERT. It's killing me a little bit every time I think about it, because it's exactly the concert that I've always dreamed of going to and I think it's...kind of a once in a lifetime type of concert (with all the artists that are going). ;____; I flirt with the crazy idea of selling off my entire collection to go, but even then I know I couldn't go through with it, who knows if it would be enough, and who knows if I could still get tickets. I think about taking out loans (LOL I didn't even get approved for a student credit card to build up credit because I didn't have enough credit sources O___o;), begging relatives, going door to door crying and attempting to get donations... Ahhh, I'm dying. I would be perfectly happy if I literally just flew to Japan for the concert and then left.
- PICTURES OF HONEY (and one of Hooch! I kept trying to get more but I've mostly been at Dad's with just Honey and his pictures kept being blurry) SOON, PROMISSSSE. She's so adorable and pretty, I still can't believe I found her in a shelter and got her and-- ♥ She looks quite a bit like Ein, but without the white on her muzzle.
