My diet has been fairly uninspired lately and when that happens I find myself eating more and more processed foods. Today I went to the library to see if I could find inspiration in some cookbooks there. My library has lots of cookbooks but only a few vegetarian ones. Not all the vegetarian ones can [...]
I had an appointment today for my new business. It was sort of a referral from the clinic I work at a lot. Actually they wanted the vet there to come to their house but the staff rerouted it to me. I (unfortunately?) have lots of ethics so I told them that I wasn’t going [...]
I was just walking by a window that overlooks my front flower beds. I have given up on these beds. For some strange reason such as microclimate or the gods laughing at me, nothing will grow in these beds but huge weeds. Like 5 foot tall weeds of wonderful diversity. For years I’ve tried different [...]
I recently listened to a podcast of The Story featuring Ashley Menger. She did an experiment where she carried all her non-recyclable, non-compostable trash with her for 2 weeks. You can read about it and about other people who are trying this also on her blog. It got me thinking about how far you should [...]
I’ve scheduled enough work to make up for the days that I won’t be working at the one clinic. I was there today and made some reference while talking to the owner about being fired. Him: “You weren’t fired. Me: “If I want to say I was fired, I can say I was fired.” Him: [...]
No sooner had I finished the entry below that states clearly that I am going to be burying myself in a stack of books and only coming out to sew than I went off and had an adventure. I headed to downtown Columbus, parked, and strolled down the street. I stopped in first at the [...]
I am going to be husbandless for most of the next week. What wild and crazy things to do I have planned? Uh, sewing, reading books. Same old stuff. I might spice it up with mad dashes to the mailbox to return Netflix movies so I can get new ones. I’m a wild child. Speaking [...]
Prize’s progesterone level came back way low. Like, not consistent with pregnancy low. So I am giving her oral progesterone for 15 days and then we’ll see what is going on. If she lost the pregnancy we’ll try one more rebreeding. It is getting late in the year for breeding at this point so if [...]
Happy Solstice everyone! I just came in from watching the sunset. That is something that I never take time to do. But tonight I made a small fire in our firepit and sat on the swing and watched the sunset. The birds were all singing and the only other noises were some dogs barking occasionally.
Prize is pregnant!!! I had her checked again this morning because she reacted so violently to the stallion last week. She still doesn’t have a lot of uterine tone so we pulled some blood to check her progesterone levels. If they are low then we may supplement her for a while. Much happy dancing followed…. [...]
I’ve had a blogger account forever to be able to post comments on blogger blogs. I’ve decided to use that account to do a food journal and exercise blog like I did here for a week in May. That really helped me to stick with making healthy food choices. Just writing it down for my [...]
I got fired yesterday. It wasn’t because I went on a murderous rampage through the waiting room or anything fun like that. It wasn’t even because of incompetency on my part. Nothing personal at all. The clinic that I work at three afternoons a week has been really slow. There are two vets there doing [...]
So yesterday I posted about finding out from eBay that I am considered to be a Plus Size Woman. Today I went to a store next door to where I was working and found out that I shrunk. I had been in this store once before but everything I was interested in only came in [...]
I need a dress for a wedding. I was looking to see if they had anything on eBay. I typed “dress 14″ in the search. Guess what the heading was on my results page? Dress size 14, Plus Size Apparel on eBay I told it to kiss my apparently oversized ass. On a related note, [...]
I just looked out my window and saw something in the front pasture. After a few seconds I identified it as a skunk. I thought that was nice because I haven’t seen a lot of skunks around here lately. Then I saw something else by the skunk. It took me a few seconds to ID [...]
For the past month or so I’ve been in the middle of a male midlife crisis/nervous breakdown. The husband has been totally irrational. My first clue that there was anything wrong was when I found myself facing an enraged crazy man demanding that I tell him the truth about my affair. Please, like I’m that [...]
Today I’m having a day that makes me truly question the sanity of a person who owns horses. This morning I had to take Prize back to the breeder. It is 3 hours round trip and in order to make it to work on time I have to be home and showered by 1:00 pm. [...]
From Snowball’s journal – 6:45 AM – Wake up Mom and demand to go outside 6:50 AM – Settle back to sleep. Plan to wake up briefly around 10 followed by a nap until 5-ish. 8:00 AM – Wake up when Mom snaps a collar around my neck. I didn’t even know I still had [...]
Prize isn’t pregnant. She goes back to the breeder on Thursday for another try. Her last heat cycle was wacky but this one seems to be progressing normally so hopefully we’ll have better luck.
I accidently accomplished #56 on my 101 Things in 1001 Days list yesterday – come out as a Pagan to a coworker. We were bored at work so the other vet and I went for a walk. She is Hindu but her child goes to a church school. She asked me if I go to [...]