Tuesday, June 29, 2004

u.s.a. is a-o-k

so my friend tracie sent me this website, NYC Fireworks, and it's kewl. go there.

so the other day i was eating dinner at home w/ my mom, dad and brother...and we got on the discussion of monica lewinsky and bill clinton's affair. i was saying how i thought that monica was just being young and stupid in thinking that she could ever have anything more w/ clinton than a sorrid affair. i wasn't saying this as a bad thing, i was just making a point that eveyone has been, is, or will be young and stupid in their lives. love kinda clouds your thinking, maybe she was in love, who knows. as for clinton, we all know why he got involved, b/c he's kind of a horn ball and saw a young intern who was lookin' to score...haha. i still think he was a WAY better president than bush could ever or will ever be, but regardless, back to monica...

my other point was that monica wanted to get involved w/ clinton to help her career in washington since she was an intern. i then said the following; "monica just wanted to get ahead." just say that out loud and think about it. haha. she did get "a head" alright!! we were rolling b/c shit like that comes out of my mouth kinda frequently and it's almost always funny. yeah.

something else...so i was driving home from wegmans tonight and i saw a shephard mix dog walk across the road. i pulled into an old store that is closed w/ a parking lot and called the dog over. she was friendly. i checked her collar for tags, but there was only her state licencing tag. no other identification, like the owner's name, address or phone #. that pissed me off. since it was like 10:30pm, the SPCA which is right down the road from where this dog was wandering, was closed. also, i had forgotten my cell phone at home, so i couldn't call anyone about it. bringing this dog home was not an option, but i would've kept her overnight and taken her to the SPCA in the morning if she would've gotten into my car. she didn't want to though, so she walked away from me. that's the last i saw of her. i felt really bad that i didn't do more. i hope that she makes her way back home and doesn't get hurt on the way. i hate feeling helpless b/c i know that there were things that i could do.

also i'll get up on my soap box for this one. if you have a dog or cat or other pet that can escape, PLEASE put a collar w/ a tag w/ your information on it on the pet. also a rabies vaccination tag on the collar helps too b/c people may be less afraid to approach a stray animal if they know it has been vaccinated. the rabies tag ID # can also be tracked back to an owner by veterinary clinic on the tag. also, if the animal has a tag on w/ the owner's info or a tag saying that the pet had a microchip there is at least someplace that someone who finds the animal can call to help get the pet back to its owners. i got a tag w/ my info on it from an internet site for free! they are cheap if you buy them other places too!

**so please people, if you have pets and you want to give them the best chance of returning home if they are found by an honest person who doesn't want to steal your pet PLEASE buy a collar for them (that fits snug and won't fall off), and put their rabies tag, microchip tag (if they have one) and a tag with the owner's info on it!**

so i'm off of my soap box now...and this post is toast...

Sunday, June 27, 2004

i have seen it all...

this adkins thing has gone way too far...
low carb potatoes

people need to lay off the low carb thing and just eat smaller portions of the foods that they like. low carb products taste like cardboard. also eating all meats and cheeses is soooo bad for you. hello triple bypass! for people that have high cholesterol like myself, the adkins diet is a death sentance. what is even more scary is that it can cause one to have high cholesterol...eekkk.

i have to admit, a few years back, before i knew that my cholesterol was 300, i tried adkins. i felt like i was going to die. i had no energy, so i stopped doing it. the theories behind it are neat, making the body's krebs cycle work for weight loss. using the body's fat instead of the carb sugars for energy. but all of this is garbage because it's not a healthy lifestyle. also, who the hell can stay on this type of regime for life? because for true weight loss and maintence to occur, one must change the way that they eat for life! the whole weight problem in america is because the size of the portions that we all eat are way too big. i'm cutting down on how much i eat and it's been working wonders...and i get to eat carbs! my cholesterol is also down from 300 to 223!

the article is pretty interesting overall though, talking about how carrots have only been orange for like 400 years, and how if they brought back the other carrot colors like red & purple it would add certain nutrients to our diets. you have to be careful w/ the purple carrots though...the purple is water soluable...

Saturday, June 26, 2004


haha!


my 2 degus (chilean squirrels) rocco & vinnie...


me rumping a very strong ram for a blood draw..


my 6 month old cockatiel chico and i


me w/ a piglet named che who i wish was my pet.


i love horses!


me in farm animal lab!


i like this pic...it's from my days at the emergency clinic...this is a sphinx cat named chia.

Friday, June 25, 2004

how true...

Dear Visitor,
Here is your horoscope
for Friday, June 25:

If you're flying solo-style, it's probably because deep down you want to be alone. The right person will find their way into your life when you're ready. If you're coupled up, give your copilot the day off.

Thursday, June 24, 2004

escape

aaww the guy that invented the "escape" key on the computer died today. his name was bob bemer. he was 84.

RIP Bob :(

skydiving...

so yeah on july 3rd i am going skydiving w/ 19 other people. i am very excited! i only know a few of the people that are going, they went to medaille w/ me, the other people are some of their friends and family, so who knows, maybe i'll meet someone.

right...what the hell am i thinking? haha.

so at least the actual skydiving will be fun. we have to get there at 8 am to take a 2 hour class on how to suit up, use the parachute and go over legal stuff and paperwork. then we chill for a bit, have lunch and then we do the jump. my friend megan who has gone skydiving quite a few times said that it is illegal to skydive if you can't see the ground, so if it is cloudy, we can't jump until it clears. if it is good weather though we get to jump from like 15,000 to 20,000 feet! how kewl. i'm so excited!

i have to work 7am-6:30pm tomorrow. not fun. i'm in dog surgery all morning, i get an hour for lunch (thank god) and then i am in dog appointments. what i should mention is that the a/c blower is broken on the dog side of the hospital. (we have seperate buildings for dogs and cats where i work and they are connected in the middle) it is working everywhere else but there. it has been broken for like 3 days and will not be fixed until tuesday or something b/c the part they need is on frickin' back-order. it is stuffy and hot and very smelly on the dog side! i have just been drinking lots of water b/c i have been sweating so much.

anyway... i am happy b/c on friday i work 7am-4pm, but i am in cat surgery all morning until lunch and then i have to go to dog appointments...blah. i do like working w/ dogs way better than working w/ cats, i think it's because i was raised w/ a dog and my mom hates cats so we never had one. my brother is also allergic, but that's beside the point. i like cats, but not so much when they come to the clinic. they get nasty and they have lots of weapons and they always seem to nail me. my arms are all scratched and have scars on them from all of my cat scuffles. i look like a battered woman or a cutter! oh well. so i'll never be a hand or arm model...haha.

it's getting late and i need sleep. Travis is looking at me and in his eyes i can hear his brain saying; "turn off the light bitch, i'm tired and i wanna sleep, NOW!" Travis is my scottie dog, i love him, he is the best guy ever. anyway i think the heat got to my brain today at work and i need some sleep...night...

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

send bush to iraq

what is the deal w/ people being be-headed in iraq lately? the portions of the tapes that they show on tv are so creepy. they remind me of the movie "the ring."

this whole thing sucks. just look at how many of our people have been killed: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/.I cried a little tonight looking at that webpage. i have 2 friends that are in iraq, michelle & amanda. they seem to be doing ok, but anything can happen...

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

warm and fuzzily...

yeah, i know you probably think that i spelled "fuzzy" wrong in the title of this post, but i didn't. i wanted it to read "fuzzily." kind of like how i call my dog "fuzzily wuzzily" all of the time. but anyway what i meant to get at with the post about the cat with the kittens was that it's amazing that on a daily basis i help animals live. it was kewl just to be there, let alone be a part of it.

c-sections are my favorite surgeries to assist in b/c of the way that we as technicians can be in charge of reviving an animal. i love it. but i still want to be a vet so i can do even more :)

Monday, June 21, 2004

life, not my life, theirs...

so i was thinking today about the last night that i worked at the emergency clinic. what i am going to type about happened like 3 weeks or so ago and i don't know why i'm thinking about it now, but i am, so i'll share...

This lady calls and says that this cat that she found as a pregnant stray had 4 kittens earlier that morning and now she has something hanging out of her. I told her that she should bring the cat in b/c it could be a prolapsed uterus. so this woman brings in the cat and her 4 kittens and the cat does in fact have a prolapsed uterus...the whole left uterine horn is hanging out of her body :(

she was pretty stable so about an hour later the doctor went in to remove the uterus, etc, basically to do an OVH...in other words a spay. as we were prepping her for surgery, clipping her and expressing her bladder, etc, a technician felt something in her abdomen. it felt like another kitten! so the dvm went in and sure enough there was a very limp kitten still in its fluid sac. the dvm didn't want to contaminate the abdomen, so she tied off the kitten in its sac and continued on with the OVH. she then cut the kitten free. Kim the technician opened the sac and at first we thought the kitten was dead. we were watching the dvm close up the mom cat and the kitten gasped for air in kim's hands! it was amazing! the kitten ended up surviving and went home with the owner.

oh yeah and another thing, this cat and her 5 kittens really found a great home. the woman who brought them in was all like "money is no object"...and she was happy that she found the cat and that it had kittens. it was wonderful. i guess there still are good people in this world...

Sunday, June 20, 2004

state boards...

my employer is so nice. they gave all 3 of us who were taking the board exam thursday, friday and saturday off, without pay of course.

on thursday i drove with some friends up to syracuse. wait let me re-phrase that, i drove myself in my car while the other girls drove on the same highway (the 90 & 690)in 2 other cars. i have driven there before when i visited syracuse university, so it wasn't that bad. we got to the hotel around 3pm and then took a test run to see where the exam was going to be held. then everyone but me went to the mall, i stayed in the room and slept b/c i was feeling shitty. when all of the girls got back we ordered pizza, breadsticks and cinnasticks from dominoes! then we all fell asleep by 10:30pm b/c there was nothing else to do. plus we had to wake up at 6am the next day.

on friday we all took the national board exam for veterinary technology at the fair grounds. i think i did ok, which kind of scares me. seeing everyone from school was fun. i haven't seen them in a few weeks and i was missing them. now that the exam is over i miss them now. oh well what can you do? i hope that we can all keep in touch, but i already know the drill with that from my canisius days...

Good things that happened lately:
-I walk my dog 2 times a day on days i don't work, since i have no life
-State boards are over
-I quit working at the emergency clinic (although I do miss Katie,
Lynnie, Joe, Kathy G & K, and the DVMs!)
-I lost 3 pounds.
-This post is finally done.

Monday, June 14, 2004

things that make you go hmmmm...

so yeah earlier this summer i was enrolled in organic chemistry @ NU. needless to say, it was one of the worst experiences of my life. so, i withdrew from the school all together. kind of a long story, but i am planning on going to nccc in the fall instead so i am still planning on going to veterinary school, if anyone cares.

well as if working full time and trying to study for this class were not bad enough, my troubles did not end when i withdrew from the college.
there was this guy in the class that always talked to me and made it a point to sit next to me. i just schuged it off and was pleasant towards him being careful not to lead him on, etc. also, before i knew he was kind of weird we exchanged e-mail addresses within a small group of people in the class in case we had questions, etc...

well now he IM's me almost every night and says that we have to get together and that i should visit the class in my spare time. haha. i barely have enough time to scratch my ass and i am going to visit an organic chemistry class for fun?...well to be honest, maybe i would if i liked him in that sort of way, but i don't so i won't be a visitor at that class. so now he has this crazy idea that he is going to take me out next week to celebrate that my board exam is over with. eeekkk. i'm trying to be nice but i don't want to go out w/ him, and i won't.

**ahhh as i'm writing this post he writes this in an IM to me:
Picolo875: I know this sounds stupid and i'm not trying to be persistent, but am I a type of guy you would consider going out with ?

**i just want to say hell no...but i'm trying to be nice...so i say:
Jupiter926: well i am not really looking for anyone right now...i kinda like being single...i like you as a friend though.

**oh man, now he's trying to lay the guilt on:
Picolo875:yeah, lol i get that A LOT, lol. sorry if I scared you. Its just when i first met you I thought you were very nice and really pretty. i had wanted to ask you out because i thought you were very pretty.

anyway...enough of that. i have had my share of guys who didn't like me in the same way that i liked them and i had to deal. everyone does. so i shouldn't feel bad for being honest...it's the way to go.

me & my random thoughts...

so yeah my life is pretty boring. i work full time as a veterinary technician and then i come home to eat and sleep. wow. i can't hold back the excitement. at least now i get to go out once and a while. usually i'm the one standing around while my friends are making connections w/ people they are attracted to. i just don't have the motovation to even talk to guys, and life is short. if i am going to talk to someone or take an interest in them it better be worth it. i'm not going to be in one of those situations again where i date someone for a long time and then it just ends. no way.

so i know lots of people who are gay or lesbian. i think it's a trend today. more people are experimenting and deciding that they like what they are experiencing. some people say that they are born gay/ lesbian and never chose to have the sexual preferences that they do. who knows...maybe it is a factor of genetics. i know people on both sides of the issue.

people are dumb. that is re-affirimed on a daily basis for me at work especially. it was really apparent when i was working at the veterinary emergency clinic but i still see it in private practice. i don't just mean that the pet owners are stupid, some of the employees are too. i know i act stupid sometimes, everyone does, and everyone makes mistakes, but i try not to do it on a regular basis. eeekkk.

so i am reviewing for my veterinary technology state boards that are being held on fri (6/18) in syracuse, and i am getting all of the questions wrong. if i don't pass ( passing is a 75%) i don't have a job anymore, and that also means that i don't have health insurance, but i usually work well under pressure so maybe i'll pass...

Saturday, June 12, 2004

my blog

Yeah this is my blog. I hope that I will have lots to post on here...