I Knew It Would Happen!

LOL! I found out a couple of days ago that Jon and Kerry Farriss are expecting another baby. I knew Jon would have another one! HAHA!! I'm so happy for him. I know he is aware that he will be darned near 70 years old when this baby graduates from high school. I also know it's not his fault he got a late start. But oh well! It's his life. I'm glad he found someone he can have a family with myself. I remember a couple of years ago when he and Kerry first got married, I said now he can start having kids. I also remember Devil Doll saying that maybe Jon doesn't want to have kids. I knew she had to be wrong!! Would have been a sin to waste Jon like that, I knew he'd make a wonderful pappy for some kid! He has a lovely little girl now. Maybe this next one will be a boy. One can hope! I hope it's a boy and it grows to be just like Jon! But honestly, it'll probably be another little girl. ;) Oh well! If it is, I'm sure it will be a happy, well-loved and beautiful little girl just like Avani is! I sure do love that name Avani.

Well, I wanted to congratulate Jon on his upcoming addition to his family here for my 300th post. Or is it 400th? It's one of those! I would have posted this sooner, but I was working so hard on my own 30th anniversary special for Mount St. Helens. And as much as I hate to say it, St. Helens is more a part of my life than INXS is. Not that I love INXS less. I mean I grew up around Mount St. Helens, so it's more a part of me. But this is a special occasion. It's kindof a shame that Michael didn't live to see Jon become a father finally. But I still feel he is looking over the rest of the band from above. No one knew Michael like the rest of the band, and if they say Michael would enjoy what they are doing, then he would! No doubt in my mind! Some people resent what INXS are doing now. But I say give them a chance! Ya never know! It could turn out to be great!

Well, in other news, I got my disks for Pinwheel, a show that I used to adore when I was a kid. I'm still trying to capture my youth! But I find these disks very difficult to enjoy! There are only bits and pieces of different cartoons! Some of them cut off in random places, or cut off before the end. I hate that! It's annoying! I'd rather have the whole cartoons! Some of them cut off before they get to the plot, or before I could find out what happens. I tried e-mailing the person I bought the disks from. I mean, I paid $20 for these, and I want whole cartoons!! So far though, this is the only way I can get this series. I wonder how one can request a show on DVD or video? Just as I feared, there was one Paddington Bear skit! I can't stand that bear!! For some reason, I can't put my finger on it, I always thought he was annoying!! So I just fly past that skit. Thank Heaven there is only one. But for the most part, seeing these cartoons and skits again is enjoyable. I would enjoy it so much more if they hadn't skipped or cut off before the endings. Hopefully I will get a response. I just want to know if the originals where she got these from was like that.

St. Helens, 30 Years Later

It's amazing I still remember what I was doing the morning of the eruption. But I do! If I live to be 100 (which is unlikely) I will always remember what we were doing that morning. I remembered I had been hearing on the news, in school and my parents all talking about the mountain erupting, so I knew basically it was going to happen soon. No one knew when though. Even though I was only 6 years old, I knew it was going to happen. Simply because for a couple of months previously, it had been so active in shooting out ash, steam and rocks. It was surely attracting a lot of attention. I never knew it would happen while we were away from our home, and my kitties were still in there. I was the first one among us who noticed the plume of ash from that major eruption as I looked out the window. That was why I begged my ma to take me back so I could get them. Fortunately we had relatives in California, where we fled to. They welcomed us in.

Eventually we did return to Toutle, where we used to live. But then in 2000, we moved out and haven't been back since. We moved instead to this crap town called Lakewood! UGH!! I hated it there! I never wanted out of a town more than I wanted out of that one! That's why we didn't last long there and moved to Olympia a year after. I want to make a few corrections. In the video I said Kelso (where we had breakfast and met some of my ma's friends) was 20 miles from Mount St. Helens. Well, Anna told me that it's much farther away from there than 20 miles. Ah! My coordinates have never been good! But anyway, it was quite a way from the eruption. I do remember there was no sound, just a view of an enormous gray cloud getting bigger and bigger! Then the sight of helicopters surrounding the eruption like mosquitos surrounding a camper! I also know we were lucky to have made it out when we did.

Anyway, here's the videos I created. I even found the video of the Mount St. Helens opera, which first aired on KIRO 7 in Seattle during the 10th anniversary special in 1990. It's good! I like the combination of video and music. The part of the video after the initial eruption, where they show the ash cloud reaching into the sky, that part always gets to me! Makes me think of the apocalypse with that morbid feeling in the music! I had to cut that short because with this video, I already overextended YouTube's 10-minute limit. But I have so much to say about Mount St. Helens. It is a major part of my life. That's why I extended this special of my own over 2 videos. I was shocked that the first part was not deleted by YouTube! It runs for 10 minutes and more than 30 seconds! I couldn't make it any shorter! I took out a lot just to fit what I have on there now. Because of it, I have 2 incomplete videos! Of course I could make a 3rd video! But took me all day yesterday to create these and I wanted to have both of them up on Tube today. Today is after all the day of the eruption's anniversary.

Mount St. Helens is a major part of my being. I even have 3 stories in my collection inspired by Mount St. Helens. Either I wrote them, or I helped to write them. One of these stories even includes INXS, my most favorite band, visiting the mountain. It's a fantasy story! Not meant to be taken as real, as all my stories are. Though some of them are based on some actual events. Like the old saying goes, good fiction is based on facts. But this INXS/Mount St. Helens story is not meant to be taken as real. Though in some cases, I did try to capture the real personalities of the men. In some cases!! I think I made Michael more of a flirt than he actually was! And I know I teased Jon a bit because of him being the youngest member of the band (at the time I wrote the story). But it was supposed to be more funny than real. Well anyway, I was satisfied with the sketches I did. Like the one of Timmy playing his guitar on a pile of rocks from the eruption! hehe! Another story I made involved Mount St. Helens in the Metazoic world. That is IF it will still be active by then! That story too is meant to be nothing more than fantasy. You can surely tell that because I included humans in the story as rehabilitators. LOL! Humans aren't supposed to be in the Metazoic! But again, it makes it a good story. Well, for those who do not take things too seriously!!

Anyway, here's the videos I did for today:

Imaginary Friends

Ever have one of these? I think at one point or another all kids have. I had one as a child. Anyway, I was reading a book of records that I got last year, and there was a man in Wales who had an imaginary friend he tried to sell on ebay, and the top bid got up to $3000! He sold this imaginary friend because he was 26 years old, and felt he had outgrown it. I remember my grandma telling me about my aunt's imaginary friend she had when she was about 4 years old. She named him Bushy. LOL! My ma didn't have an imaginary friend. Ma was born an adult. Because she never had one, I think she didn't understand that I did. She actually used to make fun of me because I had an imaginary friend. But from the time I was 7 years old until I was about 10, I had one. After I turned 10, I found another use for my imaginary friend, I put her in stories. Though if they had had ebay back when I was 10 years old, I might have thought to sell her, just to see what kind of bids I would get! LOL! But heck, if you have an imaginary friend you don't know what else to do with, there's some ideas. I had no choice but to outgrow mine! Ma wouldn't let me carry them over to my teenage years! LOL! So, I kept them all in my stories. That was the best idea I could think of. That way, I could in a sense keep them, without talking to any of them.

I wonder how many writers actually have kept their imaginary friends out there, just not act like they are real people. Instead just keep them in their stories and stuff? Really, it's more than you'd think! I turned my imaginary friend into a real character for my stories. My most recent creations are Davy, because I like animals. Candi, was a character I dreamed up during a nap one day in 1994. I basically based her on myself. I still use her to this day! Gonna have to cut her hair though. LOL! Lisa is a friend of Davy's, but in some ways I base her on myself too. Now, these characters were not real imaginary friends I had, but they would have been if I hadn't discovered that I like imaginary friends better as story book characters. That's actually more fun. Gives them an actual face to put with the name! But what I like doing before I create a story is I like to act them out, think about how I want the events for the story to go, and then write them down. Though I haven't had a story idea in a couple of years! That's a bummer!! But anyway I tend to sometimes act like these characters are real when I am thinking up new story ideas. But this act has allowed me to come up with some amazing stories over the years! Stories that people say they can really relate to.

I am hoping that when we move, I can have an extra room available to go into, sit down and just think about nothing but story ideas! I'd need that! No TV, computer, pictures on the wall, nothing in that room, just a futon maybe to lie down on, and think. I want no distractions whatsoever! I am hoping to move soon out of this tiny apartment, and into a larger one. Hopefully with a third room.

Well, there's my thought for the day. I was reading about this subject and I just thought that was interesting, brought back some rather good memories!

My Groucho

Well, it is almost that time again. The time I celebrate my Groucho's life. It's been 4 years now. That's longer than I got to keep her! She wasn't even 4 years old yet when she died. She'd been through so much in her life. I got her as a breeder, and that is what I did. She even spent some time in BC with a mediocre breeder! I should NEVER have sent her there! I wonder sometimes what it was she did to Groucho, because when Groucho returned, she just wasn't the same dog she was when she was sent there. My guess was that woman kept her outside in a pen, even though I asked her kindly not to!! Groucho was not used to being kept in a pen away from the house and family! She was used to cuddling on the sofa, and in bed, and having the companionship of people. After having Groucho spend 4 months out of her life there, and when she came home, I discovered she just was not her old self, I wanted to track that woman down and kill her!! She did something to Groucho, and I didn't know what! But Groucho was more skittish than I'd ever known her to be, she was scared all the time for the first few months after I got her back, and she never fully recovered from that! And getting her back it's self was difficult. That woman made it difficult! Just asking her how my Groucho was doing each week was hard. Religiously, every week, I would e-mail, or phone, that woman and ask her how Groucho was doing. Usually when I called, I would have to leave a message, but then I would never hear back from her. I had to e-mail her to ask, and even then, she would not respond until I practically threatened to kick her butt!!

Then the big clinker came. I heard from a third party that she was moving to Minnesota, with MY Groucho!! I wrote to her and told her she's not doing anything of the sort!! She gave me the "That's private, personal information" act and added "I don't owe you any explaination for anything!" I told her firmly, "You have my baby! Of course you owe me an explaination!" And I reminded her also that I have a right to check on Groucho whenever I want to to find out how she's doing. Well, I remember when the day finally came to get Groucho back. That woman told me to be at the Walmart in Coeur d' Alene in Idaho at 10 AM the next day and she will send someone to give me back my Groucho. So, in order to get there, we would have to leave that instant so we could be there at that place and time. My ma agreed to take us. It was actually a fun trip, traveling in the night, we told ghost stories and everything. So there was something positive. Well, we stayed at a hotel for the night in Coeur d' Alene, and waited for the hour to come when we had to be at the Walmart to pick up Groucho.

When we did get there, it was about 9 AM, and so I decided to wait. It shouldn't have been long. I almost fully expected that woman, or whomever she would send, to be there on time. I don't know why I expected that, but I did. She's never been reliable to this point!! But I just wanted my baby back, then I could be done with that woman for good!! Believe me, she was NOT the kind of person I'd have wanted to be friends with!! So we waited and waited and waited, 10 AM came and went and no one showed up! Then 11 AM, then 12 PM, then 1 PM, no one! So I started getting worried. We arrived at the Walmart at 9 AM. I began to wonder if they had arrived before then, didn't see us, then turned around and went back home! Ma told me to call her. But I remembered I forgot to pack her number! So we had to call John, who was back home, at his computer, and ask him to get into my account and look up her number. So that is what he did. It was about 1 PM when I called her and asked where the heck she is! She was just about to leave to go somewhere so I was so glad I caught her then! She gave me some crap about how the guy ran into some trouble as he was crossing the border. I didn't believe her really, but she said he should be there at 3 PM. I said OK. So again, I waited and waited. 3 PM came and went and he still hadn't shown up!! I was worried and pissed off!! Finally at about 5 PM ma said she has to head back home because she had to work the next day. I was about to go, saddened and defeated and still without my baby! I was totally sorry by now I had let that woman have her! I had been warned about letting someone I didn't know borrow my girls. And I swore I was NEVER going to do that again!!! The sad part was, it had costed me my favorite girl, my Groucho! Well, just as we were about to leave, a man walked up to ma and he was holding Groucho. Ma called to me, and I saw the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen! My baby was back!!! I ran over to her, I could not get to her fast enough! She was dirty and stunk, but I didn't care. I was so happy to see her again all I wanted to do was hold her tight and never let go. I didn't know when the last time was she'd been bathed. Probably when I took her to that woman!

Well, that was one of several bad experiences I'd had with breeders. It's very tough to get into breeding! Really! Growing up loving animals so much, I thought breeding would be one of the easier hobbies for me to get into, but I was dead wrong!! Show breeders suck when it comes to interacting with newbies! Let me tell you, I know from personal experience, they are the most uninviting people I've ever known!! Then there are the breeders like this one who borrowed Groucho who are dishonest. Let me tell you, if a breeder acts like they have something to hide, they usually do! That's why the whole time I was breeding, I was an open book! Ask me anything, and I would tell you. As long as it wasn't too personal!! But breeding is like a business, even though show breeders will tell you it's not. I think they tell you that so they can use that as an excuse to keep from telling you things you should know about them! I didn't want to know someone's personal life, but I got suspicious when I would ask a breeder something like "how many dogs have you got?" or "How many champions are in this dog's background?" or when breeders hide their names in forums! That's what bischis did! And I wouldn't trust that woman around the corner!! I never liked bischis!! EVER!! I never will either. She made that choice though, not me. And she thought I was picking on her and she was playing like she was a helpless, innocent victim and I was just picking on her for no reason! Believe me, it wasn't for no reason!! I don't start fights like that! When I "pick on" someone, it's for a damn good reason!! She started on me! I didn't even know her. I couldn't have started anything with her. I've been known to misunderstand people sometimes, and when I do, I usually admit it. But when I feel some random stranger is attacking me without any kind of provocation from my end, I will definitely attack back!! And that's what bischis did with me. I'm the kind of person that when I see someone new, or I don't know, I always try to give them a chance. It's a test to see if they are friendly people or not. I don't want to be nasty to someone who could be a potential friend. That's just how I am. But show breeders are not like that. They start off attacking people they don't know. Or in some way they just jump to conclusions. In my experience, usually the wrong conclusions.

Heck, that's why I make a lousy show breeder! I'm too good of a person!! LOL! Ask any show breeder (or better still, go to shows or the Pluba forum and get to know them yourself). When you look at them from the inside out, you notice they don't have a smidgen of the morals that I grew up knowing. In fact, most of them act like the kids you see that grew up neglected, unloved and even bullied. And don't let the fact that they have kids of their own fool you!! That woman who got my Groucho also had children. But you should have seen what Groucho became once I finally got her back from that woman. My poor baby must have been abused in some way because she was never that scared of little noises or of people before I sent her there.

Then there are the commercial breeders and I have also now seen first hand what they do to their dogs. Personality-wise they are no different from show breeders. But they don't take care of their dogs at all. Minnie is a puppymill rescue. She is still scared of people somewhat. She only just started going to my sis. And this progress has been made possible because I let Anna give Minnie the treats now. Minnie needs to start associating Anna with something positive. Then she will start going to her. But she's getting better! Before, she wouldn't let Anna within an ear's shot of her! I had to get her acclimated to me first. She is my dog! Not Anna's. But we are family and I can't have one member of the family afraid of another. Now, Minnie even licks my face, and she wouldn't do that 6 months ago! It's obvious she did not have much contact with people at all.

Well anyway, this is Groucho's Day. Well, in a couple of days. And every year at this time I celebrate her life. This year I did it with a video. It's the one time I really wanted to get serious. I had no idea when she got so sick, how serious it was because I'd had pregnant dogs before that behaved much the same way. It was never a cause for worry. So that's why I didn't take her to the vet that morning. I know I should have, but I didn't. I thought it would pass. It did with other dogs I had. I didn't really panic until I saw this clear, pinkish fluid coming from her behind. I thought though she was maybe miscarrying! That was when I rushed her to the vet. The first vet I went to wouldn't do anything because we didn't have much money. I had to drive 20 miles to another vet in another town just to have her looked at. They gave her something that stopped the fluid loss, and when morning came, I took her to my regular vet and she was barely alive then. They put her on life support. I wanted her to make it out of that so bad! But unfortunately she didn't. I spent 3 days just not eating, all I wanted to do was sleep, and I did a lot of crying. That was the first month. I didn't have anything to cuddle except my plush lemurs. I was a wreck for a long time! And it had lasting consequences too. Most of all, I'm very sensitive to abuse on dogs. Last night on Dr. Phil, he showed this man in an elevator kicking a beautiful little dog (looked like a papillon or a parti-colored pomeranian). And he didn't kick the dog just once, and not like he was just gently pushing the dog with his foot. I mean, he kicked that poor dog several times as hard as he could!! I wanted to get in that elevator with him and kick his butt as hard as I could when I saw that video!! If I had been there, I would have killed him!!!! I'd have kicked his butt, punched him in the belly, kicked him in the nads, and scratch his eyeballs out!!! That video pissed me off that much!!! Any animal abuse pisses me off. (Don't pay attention on YouTube where I said I would kill a cat!! I was just playing with the cat people there!) But I am especially sensitive to attacks on dogs. Most especially, little dogs.

I remember a dog show Anna and I went to in Oregon, she bought Odessa a lead because she wanted to train her for showing. Well, as we were walking over to the papillon ring, Anna tried to get Odessa to walk on the lead, but all Odessa wanted to do was drag her feet. But Anna kept trying to get her to walk anyway. Well, we didn't know it, but this dumb show breeder was watching her and she came over and started accusing Anna of abusing Odessa!! I just looked and saw her there talking to Anna, and Anna looked a little stressed. I asked Anna what was that woman saying, and Anna said she was saying that Odessa was being abused. Well that show breeder was lucky I didn't just tell her to get her stupid ass the fuck away from us and leave us alone!!! Because that was what I felt like saying!! But back then, I had better respect not only for other breeders, but also for someone who was old enough to be my grandma! No matter how unfriendly they seemed to be. I just told her that Anna was NOT abusing Odessa, she was just trying to get her to learn to walk on a lead! Then, without any apologies or any offer to help Anna learn how to teach Odessa to walk the right way on the lead, she just turned her idiot ass around and said "hm. It looks like you're abusing her." and she walked away. People like her is the reason I hate show breeders so much. I was not exactly thrilled to have a member of my family be accused of something like that without any kind of apologies or offer to help fix the problem she thought was bad enough to harass a couple of strangers over. If I had been her, and had enough nerve to go up to someone I don't know and think they were doing something immoral, I would have had the guts to help fix the problem once I found out they were not doing what I thought they were doing. Or at least said "My bad! I thought you were abusing your dog. I'm sorry." But then, like I said, I guess that's what makes me a lousy show breeder. I have better manners than that! I was not even harsh with that woman when I found out she was accusing Anna of abusing Odessa. I wanted to be, but I was not! Call me a not-so-good breeder all you want to! Heck, even call me kooky or loony. I don't care! But don't EVER accuse me of animal abuse!! Not unless you want to go head-to-head with an angry 250-pound latin woman who still mourns her long-lost baby girl. I may abuse people sometimes (mostly just in fun), but I never abuse animals.

Anyway, here's Groucho's video:

G-No G-News Is G-Not Good G-News!

I was doing this all day today on YouTube, I was looking for clips from an old show I used to LOVE when I was a kid!! It was called the Great Space Coaster, it was one of several skit shows created for children. I remember I watched that show for 2 years straight and I loved it!! It wasn't really educational or anything, it was just funny! And that is what I liked. I would give anything in the World to see that series again, but I cannot find it on DVD. That's what I've been trying to do lately is rekindle some old shows that I used to love when I was a kid. Among them, Pinwheel, Dennis the Menace and the Great Space Coaster. The one episode that got me hooked immediately on this show displayed this one skit where this one woman who was regularly on the show, I think her name was Emily, got a letter from a friend about a dog she had, and she sang a song about the letter. The girl had this golden retriever that got very old, and finally passed away and she wrote Emily about it. That was back in 1982 when I saw that episode, I hadn't yet had any pets that passed away back then, but I had had pets before then, and I got attached to them, so I figured how it must have felt to have lost a pet like that. From that moment on, I was hooked on the show! I loved it!! And Emily sang pretty darn good, as did all of them.

Well, as I was searching around today, I found a couple of little snippets of some of the skits. They don't present the whole skit, but they had enough to bring back some fond memories! Among them were clips of a character called Gary the Gnu. I love listening to him! LOL! He's always adding the "G" sound to his "N" words. It's kinda cute! Reminds me of the old Fat Albert cartoon series of the 70s. That character Mushmouth always added the "B" sound before and after his words. But he added it to all his words. Gary the Gnu only added the "G" if the word began with the "N" sound. So to him, "nice" would have been "G-nice", and "now" would have been "G-now". LOL! It's funny!! If only such characters as Elmo could be like that, Sesame Street might be cool once again. But Elmo is not even a real animal. He's just a dumb, make-believe monster, who thinks he's special, but he's not! He just looks like a red person with hair all over his body. Not even a horn or tail to give him personality or character! And he's annoying as the devil!! But even as an adult, as when I was a kid, I loved characters like Goriddle the gorilla, Gary the gnu, even Big Bird!!

It's kinda funny how these skits with gnus have characters who add the "G" sound to "N" words. In reality, the "G" in gnu is supposed to be silent. It's supposed to actually be pronounced like "new". But then if everybody did that on these skits, then the animals would lose their character, cuz that's what makes them cute!! Well, I wish to GOD I could find the Great Space Coaster on DVD, I tried. Even from other fans of the show, maybe doing a possible trade for something I might have. Though I don't have much that you cannot get commercially on DVD. I do have some episodes of Alf and Mama's Family that you cannot get in their original format anymore. Now, all the production companies have is syndicated versions!! That SUCKS!!! I only have a few episodes that are in the original uncut format. They're funny as heck! Original and uncut is ALWAYS, without question, the best way to view these series! These sissy-edited versions of any TV shows don't mean shit!!! You can record them off the TV for free if that's all you want!! Or for St. Helens fans, I have specials from the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th anniversaries of the eruption! Anna said she wants to try and get some for the 30th anniversary. I hope it's good! So far though, NOTHING has beat the 10th anniversary specials! Complete with retro commercials if you like that stuff. I do because it brings back memories. But anyway, you cannot get those anymore. Not many St. Helens fans out there though. I am because well, that's where I grew up! Up until the mountain erupted. Just as well anyway, I have no software to copy these disks! But if someone wanted to do a trade, I'd find a way to copy them! There's copying software out there somewhere.

For the 30th Anniversary Anna and I were going to do something special. We were going to run up to the mountain, look for interesting people and do interviews with them. Should be fun! We want to ask people "Do you remember what you were doing when the mountain exploded?" I do! My ma, sis, me and some friends were at a pancake house having breakfast before church. We didn't hear nothing, nor did we really feel more than a little tremor. But I remember, we were sitting by a window, looking up northeast, and there it was all of a sudden, an enormous ash cloud. We were in Kelso, visiting these friends of the family, which is about 20-25 miles south of the mountain. My father was in Olympia, with his army troup. I panicked because I remembered I left my cat and her kittens at the house! Thankfully they were OK, we rescued them just in time. One of our friends was this big, strapping guy (actually nicknamed "Chubby"), and he went into the house and rescued the cat and kittens. He was my favorite friend, he knew what that cat and her kittens meant to me. That was just moments before part of our backyard was flooded with ash and mud! Didn't reach the house though. We were lucky!

Anyway, enough of that. I wanted to show off one of the videos I found.



This actually also contains the opening theme song, which I also loved as a kid. It was also the closing song. Different video though. But it also shows a few minutes of the first half of the show, with Gary Gnu and Goriddle Gorilla. Goriddle was a practical joker who always played tricks on people. Kinda like the show breeders on Pluba, only a LOT cuter!!! hehe! And he was actually funny. The show breeders only think they're funny. But they're really not. Anyway, enjoy this! I found more:



And here's another gnu song I found, pretty much the same language, adding the "G" sound to "N" words. Only this one remembers to add it to the word "no". For some reason, Gary Gnu on the Great Space Coaster didn't remember to add that! This is actually from the Muppet Show:

I'm About To Bust!!

All week long, I've been having fun with the cat-lovers on YouTube! I love to tease the people who comment on these videos of dogs and cats together. Especially those who are all for the cats. One of my typical responses is to those who always threaten bodily harm to the dogs. This morning one person said on a video of a dog barking at a cat from outside a store window, he said to the poster of the video "I would run you down to the road and stomp on your head and kick that dog to the curb if he harmed that cat!!" Well, I told him that I will go out and kill a cat for every dumbass that threatens to harm a dog! ANY dog!!

Well, I'm about to bust because I would NEVER really do that!!!! And I have to say it. I just like to tease the cat-loving dumbasses who make comments like that on YouTube. Because they're all hypocrites!! All the ones who threaten to harm dogs because they have a fit with a cat. In my experience, the cat is usually the one who starts it by attacking the dog, or invading the dog's territory. Dogs are territorial animals. In the case of that video, the dog and cat were friends apparently, and the dog wanted to play with the cat. But most of the people who make hasty comments like that about harming dogs, they're hypocrites!! Most of them say they don't like dogs because dogs kill people. Hello?? Are they aware of how many MORE people are killed by wild felines?? And the dogs are never to blame. The owners are. Irresponsible owners create monsters. And sometimes, they don't like dogs for the dumbest reasons! Like one person said she liked dogs until one of them broke her pool. WTF??? LOL! You think a cat is any better?? When I got my first cat, I had a water bed, and NEVER get a cat when you have a water bed! I found that out the hard way. That cat constantly tore holes in that water bed. I didn't love him any less, I just learned a lesson not to let him in my bedroom. That's the dumbest reason I've ever heard anyone give for not liking dogs!!! I'm like "Get over it!!"

I can give several reasons for not liking cats myself. I'm well over the water bed thing though! Been over it for years. But I don't like litterboxes. But then my cat always went outside for that. I don't like them scratching and ruining my furniture. But you can always buy a scratching post for that. I don't like fleas (which cats always seem to have). But then you could buy Advantage or Frontline. And cats can kill chihuahuas! Which is something I don't tolerate and I don't want to risk. But of course even that depends on the size and temperament of the cat. But I wouldn't want to risk it.

Anyway, I had to get that off my chest. I don't like telling this to those people on YouTube, I don't want them to know I'm only playing with them. Of course I know all they have to do is look here and see that I'm just playing around with them!! But how many people actually click on the link to this blog from YouTube? Not many, really!! LOL! But it's funnier, and more fun for me, if they think I'm serious! Of course people like my sis Eva, who is just a natural-born cat lover, and leaves dogs alone for the most part, I'm not referring to people like her! I'm only referring to those who threaten to harm dogs on videos because they are barking at a cat. Eva is learning to get along with dogs. She's just never had one of her own before. Especially not a big one like this OE Mastiff she now has. She does kinda still complain because she said this dog's droppings are bigger than a cow's and she is the one who had to pick it up, though now the kids do it because she cannot bend down now that she is preganant again. I told her she should have got a smaller dog. But her hubby would not let a small dog in the house. He never liked smaller dogs! He always sneered at mine. Eva wanted one of my chihuahuas once, or a pomeranian. But no, her hubby wouldn't let her have one. They had to get this monster (which I haven't met yet). I felt bad for Eva though because her cat died this last year. I know how much that kitty meant to her. Shoot! If she ever found out I was telling people I was going to kill a cat she'd probably have my hide!!! Seriously! But no, I don't ever mean it when I say that! I just like teasing the fukwits on YouTube who threaten to harm dogs.

We've Had It!

Yesterday I went with my ma on a road trip to Olympia. She went to try out this new scooter she wanted to purchase off a friend. She liked it BTW. Well, on the way out there, she happened to mention that she had just about had it with this old family friend named Nancy, the one whose husband died last year. If you could call him a husband. He was not really in love with her. He treated her like dirt and made her pay for everything. Well, Nancy wouldn't return ma's calls she has made to her over the months. Apparently, last year, about a month after her husband died, she met another man in the supermarket. And as usual, he's a loser. He has no job, he has no home, he's irresponsible, the one home he did have he shared with a  few other guys and they kicked him out because he didn't give them his share of the rent payment, which was only $100. Ma warned Nancy not to get to serious about this man. She said she wouldn't. But after she'd only known him for about a month, ma believes Nancy invited him to live with her, and that is why she hasn't returned her calls to her. Nancy told ma to have us call her at Thanksgiving, when we went up to have dinner at her place. Well, we tried twice, and she never responded. Didn't think much of it, just figured Nancy was busy having Thanksgiving dinner with her own family. Well, a few months after, Nancy still hadn't called back, but supposedly she was beginning a job. So ma called her again and left a message on her answering system wishing her well on her new job. Nancy still didn't call her back. Well, recently she tried calling Nancy again, and again left a message on her answering system, and ma has not heard from her. So, perhaps that friendship is over.

I didn't tell ma this, but I would be willing to bet my life that Nancy married that jerk. In fact, I would be shocked if she hasn't married him yet. I would be shocked if she didn't marry him after only knowing him for a month, and that is why she never returned ma's calls. She figured if ma found out, she was going to yell at her. So she just dropped the friendship with ma. After hearing what a loser this man is, I hate to even think about Nancy marrying him. But that's how she is! She's so afraid to be alone. That's how she was with Paeng, and I kept urging her not to marry him. Now, I don't care. I figure maybe she just likes immature, irresponsible little boys who are just going to treat her like she's their bitch instead of their wife. Maybe she loves to be thought of as somebody's whore? I don't know. If she does, then we didn't know her as well as we thought we did. But for some reason she turns down perfectly good men, and always takes losers. Different women like different things in a man. Maybe Nancy likes losers? If that's what she likes, then there's nothing we can do to help her. But Nancy collects losers like most people collect costume jewelry or fabergè eggs. You should have seen the men in the past she has been with. One I specifically remember when I was 7 years old she got into a fist-fight with him. It scared me as a child, but one minute all was calm, and I started moving around, walked around the hallway and came back, wasn't gone for more than a few seconds, and when I came back, Nancy and this man were standing in the middle of the living room in a fist fight with each other.

Well, sad as I am that she doesn't want anything to do with us anymore, it's her prerogative. We tried to help her, we tried to make her see her mistakes and help her learn from them. But her eyes are forever closed. I guess we'll have to wait until she's tied to a cement block and found at the bottom of a lake before she learns her lesson. One would have thought she'd have learned to read the warning signs when she had Paeng and couldn't get rid of him. I mean, he tried to kill her twice!! And even before they both got married, even I saw those early warning signs!! I was shocked that she didn't. But then that's Nancy. Her instincts suck. She's a sweetheart of a person, and always was a good friend, but her instincts suck. Either that, or like I said earlier, she just likes losers. Either way, ma is through with her. I don't think we will be hearing from her anymore. And I just hope to high Heaven she is OK. I know two of her previous men have tried to kill, or harm her, in some way. I only hope this one doesn't finally do her in.

Butt-Sniffers

Did you know that there are actually people who like sniffing other peoples' butts?? I didn't know that until I was referred to a video on YouTube where someone was discussing it. And there is also a video that has gone viral of a man in a grocery store going around sniffing other peoples' butts. My only thought on that subject was "How was he able to do that without getting slapped?" Because I'll tell you, if I caught someone doing that to me, I'd slap the shit out of them!!! I don't even like it when dogs do that, much less people. Dogs at least do it for a reason! That's how they identify each other and us. My dogs don't do that to me, mostly because they know who I am. But I see dogs doing that to humans, sometimes it reminds me of why most people don't like dogs! But let me tell you, cats are no better!! The only difference is dogs actually take every opportunity to sniff a person's butt. They'll run up to a person just for the sole reason of sniffing their butt. Especially big dogs. Cats are different. They will only sniff a person's butt if the person sticks it in their face. And cats are gentler about it, whereas dogs are sloppier about it. You can actually hear and feel them poking their noses down there and sniffing. With a cat, you don't even know they're doing it. Not unless you happen to be looking back there. Both species do that because their sense of smell is important to them. That's what they mostly rely on to tell them who ranks higher in the pack. I saw one person say dogs do it because they like the smell of human feces. But that's not really true. Like I said, they sniff in areas we feel they shouldn't because they think we're another dog. To them, that's our calling card.

But what purpose does a human have for sniffing another person's butt? Nothing but their own sexual pleasure! It's weird, I know! Too weird, even for me! And I thought I had seen it all. I was listening to one person's experience with someone like that, and she talked about how when someone goes into a public restroom to urinate, or dump, there's someone who insists on going in there immediately after them just so they can sniff the previous person's leavings. I don't know about others, but I actually hate going to a public restroom, and someone ahead of me has dumped in the handicap restroom (which is usually the only stall I fit well into), and I have to go in immediately after and the smell of their activity still lingers in there! For me, that's a chore! I hate it!! I would avoid it if I could, but if I've been driving for an hour, and I have to wizz really bad when I reach my destination, I cannot help it! And I'd rather wizz on myself than try to cram my fat body into a skinny person's stall in those public restrooms!! Most of the time, I barely fit in those things, and each side of my fat belly is touching the TP roller, and the kotex disposal! EWWWWW!!!!! I HATE THAT!!!! That's why I always use the handicap restroom. If I have to go really bad, and the handicap room is being used, I'll wait! I'll sit down on a chair nearby and wait! That helps sometimes.

Though I have to tell you even the handicap restroom at Safeway in Aberdeen is just as bad. They put the damn toilet right up against the corner. So sometimes I am still touching the damn kotex disposal!! YUK!! And the other day when I had to tinkle, I found the idiot who was in there ahead of me, left some used TP with GOD only knows what in it, on top of the disposal lid! Instead of inside the disposal where it should have been! And I almost touched it!!!! The main reason I totally HATE public restrooms! Not everyone has good manners like I do! If I make a mess, I'm very adamant that I clean it up right away. I always think of the person behind me. Would they want to see used TP on the disposal lid instead of inside the disposal where no one has to look at it? I know I didn't like it. So, if I used TP and didn't chuck it in the toilet, I would put it inside the disposal. That way no one else has to see my business, and no one else risks touching it. Now, how often has anyone taken a dump in public restrooms? That's something I don't feel comfortable doing unless it is at home! LOL! Only in extreme emergencies, which I try to schedule at least once a year.

OK, enough of the toilet rant. LOL!! Some good news, the animated banner for my Metazoic website is almost done. My designer said that his crew has been working on it and it looks pretty good. I can hardly wait! He said it should be done tomorrow. This will be the very first time any of the animals from my site will be seen in actual motion. Hopefully it won't be the last time. I still hope to have some little 10-minute flicks made about some of the more interesting species. But that comes MUCH later on. And that will still only be for members only. But a simple, one-time $10 donation will get anyone into the members section :) As well as give them members-only privileges, like rating and commenting on each animal. That's just one of the features I plan to have in the future (maybe next year).

100 Facebook Friends!

Wow, I never thought I would reach this point. I now have 100 Facebook friends! It's a milestone so I wanted to write about it. I don't even know some of them. But one of my friends has been actively referring me to other people, and if they seem OK, I invite them to become my friend. I figure what the hell. Maybe they'll turn out to be a good friend. I've had some that I started out not knowing at all turn out to be wonderful friends. I like to give everyone a chance, so I ask. That's just me.

Well, as part of my nightly rant, I've gotta say some people I get suggestions about that I wouldn't give the time of day to. Normally, I can take people or leave them. I don't care. I stopped caring about that a long time ago! I'm too busy nowadays anyway to worry about what others are saying or thinking about me behind my back. Besides, observe the golden rule: What others think of me is none of my business! :) That makes life happier. I've actually been practicing that, and it feels good. Just take everything in stride.

I was watching some videos last night about that site called beautifulpeople.com, and I remember back when this blog was still new, I wrote about my feelings about this website. I heard that you have to submit a picture of yourself every month to this site, and the members there decide if you are still pretty enough to stay on that site. I heard last Christmas season, they chucked about 5000 members, simply because those members put on a few pounds over the holidays and the people on the site thought they were "too fat". Those 5000 people should have known better than to join a site like that!! I went back to that site last night to see if they are still functioning. I hadn't been there since I first read that article about them on another person's blogger. Sure enough they are still there! But now, you cannot view any of the members unless you become a member yourself. And you have to be voted in to become a member. Apparently, the members are allowed to make mixed comments about you. Some will say you are ugly and some may not. I would probably be voted out unanimously!! LOL! But all my ego mumbo-jumbo aside, in reality, I ask again, who defines what beauty is? Beauty is really in the eye of the beholder. But I heard in an interview, the owner of that site actually said things like "people in the US and UK are usually too ugly to allow in the site" and "Russian people are not allowed" and then also called all overweight people "fatties" and said "fatties are not allowed". Honestly, screw him! Just the fact that he says things like that (and get this, he's from the UK himself), I wouldn't waste my time even trying to apply to become a member of his site! I think anyone moronic enough to try deserves the pelting they're going to get from the "voting comittee". Because what is beautiful to some may be ugly to others. This is the rule I live by, beauty is only in the eye of the beholder. Just because a person is fat doesn't always mean they are ugly. Look at Queen Latifah. She's overweight, but I think she is a beautiful person. Look at Marilyn Monroe, by today's standards, she would have been considered fat. But she was one of the most beautiful women that ever lived. In contrast, just because a person is thin does not mean they are attractive. I've seen plenty (and I mean PLENTY) of women with good figures, but with a face that would scare Frankenstein! One good example was Tracy, the woman I worked for when I worked at the Puyallup Fair, the rides and concession division. Bodywise she looked fairly OK, though she had no breasts. But then you get to her face, which by any standards was so ugly, it'd make a rattlesnake cringe!

Real beauty comes from within. Now I know there are people out there that are reading that last sentence and thinking "You only say that because you're ugly!" Well, no. I'm not saying that just because I am ugly. I'm saying that because through personal experience, I've seen people who only look at what a person looks like on the outside, and I've gotten to know the overall attitudes of people like that very well. Let me tell you, they are crappy people! They are people I would never want as a friend anyway, so I don't care what they think! A person should only be judged by what is on the inside. I may be ugly by anyone's standards, but it doesn't mean I am a bad person. I can be a person's very best friend if I like them a lot. I'm the kind of friend that would do anything I can for someone. I know reading my blogs makes it hard to believe, but I tend to stand by people I like unconditionally. I can never give anyone much more than friendship. Some people are more demanding in a friendship, like you have to agree with everything they say, or they only like you because you give them things. I'm not like that! The only thing I can promise anyone is that I will give them unconditional friendship. As long as they don't kill puppies, or rape children, or shit talk me or my family, I'll always be loyal. There's a fine-line in the phrase "shit-talk". It depends on if a person is being brutally honest or just being an asshole. Like that guy calling fat people "fatties". While I would agree I am fat, maybe even a "fattie", and I don't care what someone says about me, the fact is that the word "fattie" it's self is rather immature, vulgar, and is a word catering only to people of the lowest intelligence and no moral character. Call me fat all you want, heck! Even call me a "fatty"! I don't care! But if you refer to all fat people in general by the word "fatty", I feel sorry for you! Because you need to grow up!

Scary Thoughts

I just had a scary thought. I don't know if it's true or not, but it is scary. I have been hearing that INXS will not be releasing their new album in the US. If this is true, I wonder if that also means they won't be coming here on the tour? I kinda think so. And if I am right, that could suck!! I'm not sure if I am right, but I have a feeling I am. Speaking of things I am correct about, I don't think that web designer is going to respond to my calls for help that the UMG website is still down, somewhat. It shows up on the screen, but all the data is gone! When you click on the links, it takes you to a screen where nothing shows up. No info, no "buy now" button, no TOS, no nothing! I contacted them twice, and asked them to fix this problem, and no response of any kind and the site is still down. My supervisor and me are getting pissed off. Well, she is getting pissed off at me, and I'm pissed off at my web designer! I don't know what else to do. I paid him a small fortune to give us a web site that we can work with and I get nothing. I'm mad!! I should never have hired him. This pisses me off! But I don't know who I am more angry with, him or myself. Myself because I knew I shouldn't have hired him, he was slow to take action on everything, and he never would get rid of those banners on the side that I kept asking him to get rid of, and he wouldn't even put my logo at the top of the page. At first he kept saying "This is a mockup, when you hire us we will create the site to your satisfaction." Well, I hired him, and he never did do it!!!

I think I scared myself last night watching this program on NatGeo. It was a show about a very rare genetic defect that turns people into zombies basically. They get to a point where they can no longer fall asleep.  They get so tired, they literally konk out from exhaustion. Sounds like a very painful and frustrating way to go. At the beginning, you see this man who is afflicted with the disease rapidly deteriorate. They said with him it started out simply enough, he began to have trouble taking naps, which was something he did daily. And it progressed to not being able to sleep throughout the night. Eventually he was unable to sleep at all. This is a genetic defect that causes some wiring in the brain to malfunction. It's scary, but fortunately it's rare. But 6 months after he stopped sleeping altogether, he lapsed into a coma and died. They showed videos of him when he lapsed into a coma and even then, his body would not let him relax at all. He was still acting like he was awake and just thrashing about like a mad man. I felt very bad for him. I also hoped it wouldn't happen to me. But if our family doesn't have a history of it already, it won't.

In a sense of genetics, I'm essentially a lucky person! I don't even have a history of cancer in my family's background! The worst thing we have in our background is diabetes. While that is bad, it's not as bad as some of the other genetic flaws out there. But that guy, I'm going to have nightmares about him for the rest of my life!! It takes a lot to get me scared by anything on TV or the internet, and I do mean a LOT!!! I'm the only person I know that can even watch The Exorcist and never even flinch! People online have stalked, harassed and phished me, and even threatened to file suit against me, none of that even fazes me! But what I saw last night really scared me! Just to know that there is something out there, even though it's rare, that turns you into a zombie and fixes it to where you can never sleep again, and you cannot do a darn thing about it, it's scary! I almost wish I hadn't watched that program now! LOL! I'm going to have nightmares about it I'm afraid. The show was talking about how prisoners of war are tortured by never being able to sleep, and how painful and exhausting that is, and I think about how that guy at the beginning of the show suffered because he couldn't fall asleep. It's something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy! It was sad, and it's scary! It's a disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) and it is nothing like regular insomnia where you may go for days, even weeks without sleeping, and a few doses of prescription sleeping pills takes care of that. People with FFI go on for months, even as long as a year, without sleeping, until they finally die of exhaustion. Sleeping meds would be useless for them. Yep! That was scary just to know that!

Well, I haven't been blogging because I've been busy. Last night, I noticed that on my Facebook page, I lost 4 friends. I was able to figure out who one of them is, and I felt sad! It was someone I really like. He was such a lovely guy!! I think he deleted his Facebook because I remembered he really had some problems with hackers and spyware because of the apps. Which is why I never participate in FarmVille and all those other apps that all my friends have. But I cannot figure out who the other 3 missing are. Which probably means they were people I had nothing, or very little, to do with. So to those 3 people, So long!! :) But to the one I really will miss, I hope you come back! And please stay away from those Facebook apps! I do and I haven't been hacked since. I got hacked once, and that was more than enough for me!

Bret Michaels

Who the Hell is he? I don't know the dude. Never heard of him in my life. But he's been in the hospital since yesterday with a brain aneurysm. Seems to have a lot of my buddies buzzing about his stable, yet still critical, condition. It's even got a couple of my buddies fighting. Someone said some jokes about Michael hanging himself and I admit that was in bad taste. I think it was said in the heat of battle. Another one said she cares about this Bret Michaels jerk and is dissing Michael Hutchence. Personally, I'm staying out of it. One side, she never did anything to me, the other side I like her a lot. She wants all Hutch fans to delete the other from their friends. I'm just staying out of it. Frankly, I'm no angel either. I like Michael Hutchence a lot, but I have said some things in the past too. Though nothing as bad as making jokes about his death, I'd never do that! I used to get pissed off when I saw others making fun of a thing like that! But a few years ago, when I was into it with another devoted Hutch fan, I admit I may have said some things that were just as distasteful just to piss her off. It was again, the heat of battle. I've since cooled down (a LONG time ago) I don't stay angry for long. Besides, I realized I wasn't angry at her. I was angry at myself. She was just being who she always was (and I knew that all along, that's why I was mad at myself). I simply let my guard down. I've done that too often in my life. That's why then I decided to stop. Somehow though, curiosity always gets in the way! LOL!

Well, I have no idea who this guy is. But really, no one should have to go through an aneurysm. They're painful as wholly hell! I never had one, but I know someone who has, and they're lucky to be alive. In this friend, the vessel in the brain exploded and almost killed this person. Some motor skills were lost forever, but this friend has recovered considerably. I don't want to reveal the person's name or whether they are a man or woman. But fortunately this person has a spouse who helps out a lot. This friend lost a lot of ability to dress themself and a bit more. But all in all, they do OK. I don't know if Bret Michaels will end up that way. I don't know the dude, I really couldn't care less. But as one human being to another, I do hope he gets recovered completely.

Well, I've been trying to get the UMG Productions site back up, I've been constantly trying to contact the original web designer. At first, going through elance, it was hard. Apparently he said they've cooled off their business at elance. As if they were always there to begin with! Trying to contact this guy when I need him is more difficult than trying to pull the teeth from an angry elephant!! I had to go directly to the company's website and contact them there! And he doesn't even respond unless I practically threaten to turn the law on them!! Now, he's saying he wants me to contact the host provider and get them to remove something from a folder. I said "they ain't a-gonna do it!!" They don't feel that's their job. I contacted someone from the host provider last night, and there was an underlying problem they said would be fixed within 45 minutes. I made sure I understood that clearly, and I did. So I relayed it to my web designer. So far, I haven't seen any improvement! So what will happen next? I don't know. I will contact the host provider again and see if they will remove the stuff from this folder. But I don't think so! So will I have to threaten these people with kicking their butt again? I hope not!

Free Speech Lost?

For those who bitch about this blog, and my practicing my rights of free speech, perhaps this story will interest them. I heard last night's episode of South Park was censored for the first time ever. Because it talked about the Muslim religion and made jokes about their leader, Mohammed. So some covenant in NYC that harbors muslims got a hair up their asses and sent death threats to Comedy Central if they didn't bleep out the things SP said about Mohammed. Well, CC took their threats very seriously and did just what they wanted them to do. Now, I cannot blame them for taking the threats seriously as they did, you almost have to in today's world because you have no idea anymore if the threats being made are just words to intimidate or if the person saying them really plans to carry those threats out. Back in the 70s, you could pass those off as just words. But nowadays with more people saying things like that and actually doing them, you're foolish if you don't heed those words carefully. Especially if they are being said by someone you don't know. Instead of bleeping South Park, what CC should have done is phone the FBI. That's what I would have done. A regular police department isn't going to have an internet task force, it's better to report threats like that to the FBI, because they can track down the person who sent those threats right down to their home address.

I'll tell you, if the time ever comes that we lose our rights to free speech, I'm going to be in trouble. Because no one I know personally exercises those rights as much as I do! I've made a few people pissed at me, and even lost some admirers along the way, but this is who I am! I'm not going to change, as I don't think I should have to. Of course I don't go as far as South Park and make fun of people anymore, I've stopped that for the most part. At least I've been trying to. I only say what I believe is true, based on my own personal experiences with that person. Some people change, some don't. Some people don't mind what I say, others do. I can always tell when they do, even though they try to hide it by saying "I don't care what you say!" I don't even mock people anymore because it is so obvious! Well! I do still mock the haters because they are the most fun to mock!! But I do believe myself in the rights of free speech. And I have a tendency to mock myself on many occasions! Which is why I don't think people should take my rantings personally. Think of me as being my own version of South Park. I have my limits, first of all, I have NEVER threatened anyone with death! That's something I won't do. I would never kill anyone. I know it's very wrong. I never say something I wouldn't do. That includes threatening with death or bodily harm. I could just never hurt anyone physically. I'd feel bad for the rest of my life! The worst thing I threaten anyone with is karma, and that's something that just happens, I'm not like some people and just try to make it happen to someone who offends me, by sending an army of friends out to hassle someone who has offended me. I don't believe that's real karma.

To get on that subject, I can tell you what real karma is! When my ma was a younger woman, she worked in a temporary position at a factory that was owned and operated by a very successful business man. Well, while my ma was working there, he worked her very hard! So hard, she began feeling a sharp pain in her abdominal area. She begged the owner to lighten her load by allowing a few other workers to help her out. Well, he just laughed at her and told her to get back to her job. My ma was worked so hard, she finally collapsed, and the owner was still telling her to get back to work, and laughing at her being in pain. Well, needless to say, ma didn't return there to work. That owner was successful, but within a few years after he did that to ma, he lost his factory, his wife, his house, and he wound up on welfare. That was an excellent example of karma! Ma didn't plan that attack on his life, in fact she had nothing to do with it! This was info she got from another person who worked for that guy. It was karma! He got what he deserved for doing that to my ma! Like I said before, karma can be a bitch! That guy went from having millions of dollars to his name, to having absolutely NOTHING!!!

That is an example of real karma. I've seen people, like this one person on the Pluba forums (she knows who she is), make her own karma by sending her friends to hassle people who don't like her. I think people who do that, and call it "karma", are just doing it for their own egotistical purposes because they cannot stand being slammed. But that's not real karma. That's self-made karma. Of course this is just my opinion, to others, karma is karma whether it is "real" or self-made. To them it's the same. But to me, when real karma hits me, I know I will have done something wrong. Which is why I've tried to not do wrong. I recently heard of a man, who was a regular on YouTube, he died about a couple of months ago of a heart attack. He was a great man! But he was younger than me!! I always think it's sad when someone that young dies, especially of a heart attack! I haven't even felt the early signs of a heart attack yet!! It won't happen any time soon! But he was also a good man. I wonder what he did to deserve a fate like that so early in his life. Must have been some kind of punishment for something he did earlier in his life. Though looking at how he was just before he died, any sins he might have created earlier would be hard to believe. He looked like a happy, fun-loving person!

Well, I don't know the man, I don't think I ever spoke with him, I've spoken to so many people in the last year on YouTube! I don't keep track of who they all are! Maybe I have spoken to him, and maybe I haven't I don't know. Some people I have had good experiences with and some have been bad experiences. I remember there was someone who called himself TomPussy. A real dickhead!! The one and only run-in I had with that guy was not at all pleasant! I was responding to a video that had nothing at all to do with him, and he started in on me and calling me names. I informed him that what I said was basically tongue-in-cheek with the person who posted the video and what I said had NOTHING at all to do with him, and I told him to drop dead. I think he did!! LOL! No one has heard from him in about a year. It's been a bit more than a year since I wrote that to him. I was in a bad mood that night anyway. I was just home from a long trip, and after those long trips, I am always in a rotten mood. Now, I warn people via my bulletins, when I am going on a long trip, and I advise them not to get on my bad side! LOL! I snap hard after a long trip! That's because I am tired, and I'm a bear when I am tired. But I usually return to my old self after I've slept for the night. I don't want to say "normal" because nothing on me is normal, and I like it that way :P

Well back to the original subject, this world would be pretty darn bleek if our rights of free speech was taken away. That's about all I have to lean back on anymore. Shoot! I even let others have their way with me, sometimes it's fun to hear people who do not know me, tell others what they think I believe. Most of the time they are wrong, and I know it. I'm too complex for the average person to figure out. Take the people on Pluba for example. Particularly the show breeders. I was told that they laugh at me and make fun of me in PMs because I am so easily misled. Well, what they didn't figure was that I am only easy to mislead on the internet. Because, unless I know better, I always choose to believe what is told to me because I don't know the person. And unlike show breeders online, I choose not to judge and say "I know you're lying!" unless I know for sure they are. But I always said if those people only knew me personally, they would know their assumptions about me being "so easily misled" are wrong. In life, I am actually very jaded. You'd be hard pressed to find someone more suspicious than I am! I have the ability to read facial expressions and voice tones, and I have an innate sense of danger. Though a lot of times, curiosity leads me away from these senses. Well, since discovering this interesting fact about online show breeders, I've decided to use the same instincts online that I've always used in life. For example, back in December, there was someone on YouTube who tried to pull a fast one on me, by saying my friends were non-existant BS. The funny fact was his profile said he was from Iran. But you know what, I found that difficult to believe. I've met people from Iran online, and let me tell you, his english was too perfect to be an Iranian native!! So I told him I didn't believe he was from Iran. To be honest, some of the clues he gave during our little 2-day battle, told me he is connected with the DDM! He sounded just like them!! LOL! So I believe, even to this day, that was who he was! He had to be one of the DDM!!! LOL! People always give those little clues without even knowing it! I don't want to reveal what those clues were, because they are going to help me out should someone else like that decide to hit again! But that goes to show how I pick up on little details like that. So, anyone who has ever thought I am "so easily misled" is fooling themselves. I just chose not to judge a person, or a situation, that I was unsure of or knew nothing about. Perhaps show breeders themselves would benefit from this practice as well. :)

Tree Frog!

No one will believe this. A couple of weeks ago, I ordered some more books from Amazon.com about the care and maintenance of frogs. Since I want to raise tree frogs and dart frogs, I thought it would be good to purchase some books about them and study them. So I got some on order from Amazon.com, which is where I've been getting all my books lately. I don't even go to book stores anymore! I found I can get a better deal at Amazon. So I found these books specifically about dart frogs and tree frogs. I always wait for my response from Amazon to come saying my payment was received, then I wait in anticipation for my books to come. Sometimes it only takes a few days to arrive, sometimes it can take as long as a week. Sometimes longer.

Well, Monday I got one of my books in the mail. It came in a big, white, padded envelope. It was oddly square, about 2 inches thick, and I thought to myself "I don't think I ordered any books that thick!" But then I thought maybe it was packed in a larger box in the envelope or something. But it was awful small! But then my day gecko book was smaller than I expected too. Didn't make it any less enjoyable! So I rushed into the house so I could open up my package and see the goodies I got. I always gather the dogs for such an occasion, they're family, they have a right to rejoice as well! LOL! As I started to tear open the envelope, I noticed there was what looked like an old book inside. At the first instant, I thought "Well that's an unusual looking box!" But then, to my shock and horror, when I pulled this "box" out of the envelope, I realized it wasn't an odd box, but the book it's self. At first I couldn't believe they sent the wrong book!! I double checked in the envelope, thinking maybe it was a bonus book or something and the real book I ordered would be inside. But no. The book I ordered was nowhere in sight! I hoped for a book about the care and maintenance of tree frogs. The green kind, that hop around in trees and go "reebit!" Instead, I got a classic, condensed Reader's Digest book that has a story about a killer named Tree Frog! I've seen these books before. Most used book stores cannot give them away! And people who do have them usually use them for nothing more than to prop up a crooked bed or sofa!

Well, needless to say I was pretty honked off! I thought it was the dealer's idea of a sick joke. So I got even. I left them bad feedback. Of course that was before I had a chance to cool down and think that maybe I need to write to this dealer and tell them in a nice way that I am not satisfied. So that is what I did. It took 3 days, but they finally responded to me and told me they will be sending me a complete refund. I was grateful and wrote them a thank you note. I was so glad I got all my money back, including the shipping. Now I can order the book I want from a dealer who will send it to me.

When I look for a good dealer, I try to check the feedback. This person's feedback was almost impeccable! Almost, but not quite. But then, not many dealers actually have 100% positive feedback! So I look for the number closest to 100% and above a 95%. One has to allow for some imperfections! This dealer has 98% positive feedback. So I thought they would be safe to deal with. I never even imagined they would send me the wrong book! It's never happened to me before. They told me I can keep the book, but I have no use for this kind of a book! They said if I cannot use it to donate it to charity. But like I said before, most places cannot even give these kind of books away. I'd hate to clutter the Salvation Army with a book that will sit on their shelves for many years, only to wind up in the trash or recycling bin anyway. So guess what I did. I cut out the middleman! I put that book in the trash can myself right after I got their message. It's where it belongs now. I got my refund and I am happy!

A Shaved Ape

This is a video I made in response to some jerk who calls himself MobbDeepProduction. I watched his video from beginning to end, and it was a video of him and his dipshit friends making fun of a random fat woman in a restaurant, eating an ice cream cone. The woman didn't even know she was being filmed. She may have known she was being degraded, I don't know. But I strongly doubt she knew she was being filmed. I wrote on his channel and I told him that I hope that woman finds him and sues his ass because he would deserve it. To film someone without their permission and not tell them is wrong. It's a criminal act known as video voyuerism. Besides that the slanderous things they said about that woman. I only put a couple of things in my video, but some of the things they said were cruel. So I gave him a taste of his own medicine, and told him he looks like a shaved ape. Which is really an insult to apes everywhere, and I admit it was cruel of me to say that, but it was cruel of him to poke fun at a woman he knows nothing about! He has no idea why she was fat. And his "skinny" girlfriend was eating a lot more than the fat woman, and with more gusto, and drinking a large soda besides. Yet no one was making fun of her. Why? Most likely because she's not fat. People like him think that just because a woman is fat and eating an ice cream cone and enjoying it, that she must not do anything but eat all day, and that may not be true. But unless you know, for absolute certain, what a person's situation is--not just basing your views on what you've seen in TV shows, or what you think you know--you should not judge them so harshly! People like that should just GTH. Anyway, here is my video:

A New Experience

Well, last night, as you may already be able to see, I changed the background of this blog. I wanted something a little more exciting. Though I noticed that it does take forever to load!! I don't know how to fix that except maybe over time, like when this new Blogger template deal gets out of the BETA stage, it might become faster. I don't know. I didn't think I'd ever know how to call up that template maker. But I figured it out, and decided to change the whole look and feel of this blog. To those who are new to this thing as much as I am, please be patient! I think it looks good myself!

Well, on YouTube, many of you might know this guy who calls himself CopperCab. He's become quite famous for his hot-blooded rants about gingers having souls, and yadda-yadda-yadda. I actually kinda like the boy. He and I have a lot in common. He stands up for what he believes in and is obviously very passionate about it. I tend to be too, but I try now not to let angry passions get in the way. But he needs to fix a few things. He keeps saying how he doesn't care what people say about him. But it is perfectly obvious that the opposite is the truth. If he didn't care, he would not get so pissed off and make videos that constantly tell the haters to f*** off. Most of his videos is about this.

Well, he saw this video of a South Park episode where Cartman is mocking him. It's supposed to appear in the new season, and probably already has. Personally, if it were me, and I was appearing in any way, shape or form on a program that I like (which he did admit he still likes South Park) I would be flattered. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I told him in a situation like that, he has one of 2 choices, he can either sue South Park creators, or he can be flattered that they love him enough to copy him. Personally, I would be flattered. Life is so much easier to live if you can just laugh at yourself and move on! So that's what I do! It beats getting angry at every little thing out there. I found that if you let little things get you angry, you get to be pretty miserable in the end. Like the other day, when this commenter came in here and started blasting me because I don't like Jon Stevens. Do you think for one second I'm going to let a random, anonymous stranger bother me just because I was saying what I felt? If you do, you don't know me at all. I said I only care what my friends and family thinks. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to slam someone because they have a different opinion than mine. But I just want to point out that I will not let the haters get to me. In fact, I was laughing at her post. And I still hate Jon Stevens. :) She's not going to change that no matter how hard she tries or how hard she slams. No one is. This is who I am and how I feel. I don't have to explain anything to anyone. I usually just choose to do so :)

I always accept all comments anyway, no matter how hard they slam me. Just because that's what I feel the comment feature is for. Everyone has a right to say what is on their mind. So many people have come in here saying things to the effect of "You are a joke!" and I just laugh at them! Really, I do! Because they're silly. And that's what makes life so enjoyable. The ability to laugh in the face of things like that. Someone made a video of me once calling it "The Tale of a Stalking Whale". They thought they were going to piss me off. They didn't! In fact, I was flattered. I love whales. On the contrary, their video is what has turned me into this highly confident person that I am now! Whales are beautiful and graceful animals that are highly intelligent. I sure don't take it as an insult when someone calls me a whale. I love it! I'm so confident now thanks to their video, some people think I am being narcissistic. Well, maybe I am to a degree. But it's better than what I was before they made that video about me. :) I was a wreck! Because I had just lost my Groucho and I was really down in the dumps because I missed her so much.

Well, writing has always helped me come to terms with things, and I wrote a couple of stories about Groucho. It helped a lot. Anyway, I know this kid is troubled. Someone I subscribe to has actually spoken with him, and says he has some problems in his life. Though this same person said that slamming him is illegal. I don't know about that, but I do feel it's wrong when adults slam on minors. Just as I feel it's wrong for minors to slam on adults. But when the minor starts it, as they usually do in my experience, they are fair game! I always say they're lucky I'm not their mamma! I'd slap them if I caught them slamming on adults like they do! Boy my sis Eva does on her kids!! She doesn't give a shit that laws have been passed to prevent parents from spanking their kids now! She does it anyway. I've seen her do it. And you won't find any kids today that are better behaved than her's are. Eva's attitude is "I'm the one who carried these kids for 9 months, went through 48 hours of hard labor (and I do mean HARD), and was lying on that table screaming my eyeballs out to bring them into this world, and I'll be damned if the laws are going to tell me how to raise my kids!" LOLOL!! That's what she says all the time!! Gotta love Eva! She means it too. She doesn't spank them all the time though. Only when they need it, and she only gives them one or two swats. I've never even seen her swat them 3 times come to think of it. So, I wouldn't call that abuse like some people do! And Eva is pregnant yet again! Her latest baby is due in July. Ya know I think she was serious about having 20 kids??!! She's got 8 now, and now another one on the way! When is she going to stop is what I want to know. Well, at least she doesn't have to claim this one in this year's census.

How about that census thing? We had to fill one out this year too. I hate that! But I remember working for the 2000 census. It was good money! But the job it's self SUCKED!!! I always ran into some pretty crappy people! One woman was so scary, she made me want to carry my can of pepper spray to work every day! If I had it when she charged at me, I would have sprayed her ass!! Believe me! I felt threatened. She came barreling out of her house screaming and fussing, and waving her arms and then got right up in my face. She was damn lucky I didn't have my spray with me!! So was I because I probably would have got fired then! LOL!! All that just because she didn't want to fill out the long form. I didn't blame her! I mean that long form asked a bunch of dumb questions I couldn't even ask my closest friends! Let alone a stranger! But I would definitely NOT have handled it the way she did! hehe!!