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la_belle_laideDamn, but my allergies are bad this year. Everything is covered in fine, green powder. My eyes are just about to jump on up out of my damn head. And isn't pollen how plants and trees do it? So when you come down to it, it's like you're breathing plant sperm.
Also, I have those three starlings, plus a baby robin. Its nest-mate died this morning and I hope this one can hang on. My neighbor gave these to me yesterday; she handed them to me over the same fence that we used to hand things back and forth over when we were kids. I haven't seen her in probably about twenty years. It was so strange.
Do you realize that ten years ago roundabouts this time of year, Star Wars The Phantom Menace came out? I have been wondering why it's been on my mind so much and how I have the urge to watch that Phantom Menace thing. I guess that's why. :) I saw it so many times in the movie theater when it first came out. The first time I saw it was about a week after my Grandfather died. Jeremy and my friend Rachel went with me to see it. And even though we didn't think it was that great, we all went to the convenience store next to the movie theater and bought two-dollar lightsabers before going home. Then we played Jedi in the parking lot. That afternoon before the movie, Jeremy and I went to the store to buy paper plates, napkins, cups and ice for Grampa's memorial. I remember that exactly because I still have the grocery list in the pocket of the jacket I was wearing. (A black courderoy Bugs Bunny jacket. It was chilly that day.)
After Grampa's memorial, SB and Jo-chan stayed over with me. SB was ten and Jo-chan was six. That night, we pulled out the bed from my sofa, and we all sat down to watch the first Star Wars, with popcorn and stuff like that. Jo-chan hated the part where Palpatine torments Luke with Force-lightning; SB and I explained to her about special effects, and how he wasn't really getting hurt. I have pictures of the lightsaber duels I had with SB the next day in the yard. (I was wearing this huge, black straw hat; the same one I was wearing today while minding the Boychild outdoors.)
SB is twenty now, and Jo-chan is sixteen. Just the other day I went to see her in her school chorus program. She is so beautiful. She surprised me by totally looking like Gillian Anderson with her new haircut.
And my yearly post-concert pic.
Those ten years flew by. Flew. In a blink.
So like I mentioned, today I was helping to mind the Boychild and we gave my dogs a bath (and Grandma's dog, Belle.)
Boychild and Sano, or as he calls him, "Shyyyyano" or when he can't remember his name, "That."
I wonder what it'll be like in ten years, when he is twelve, Jo-chan is twenty six, SB is thirty. Who will still be with me? Who will be gone? (NO ONE, I hope.) Who will be new to me?
"Regardless of warnings, the future doesn't scare me at all!"
Which is total BOLLOCKS. It scares me every single day, especially the "who will be gone?" part. Why can't I just forget about that part for a while, and enjoy stuff as it is now?
Starting tomorrow, I'm doing to do that for sure!
ETA: LOL@ LJ's ten year birthday layout.
IN A BLINK.
ETA2: It's all just too much to remember. Sano and Haku were to the vet's two days ago as I mentioned. Haku's blood test results came back yesterday. Apparently he is so hypothyroid that it barely even registers. This can cause sudden onset seizures, and they didn't check this the first time around when he first began to have them.
I did a little research into this and apparently Salukis have really low thyroid function to begin with; it's in their breed. However, his was .2! A little more research revealed that some lines of Salukis--the ones directly out of the desert--are bred with hypothyroidism on purpose so they don't overheat in the desert. Which does Haku no good because HE'S IN THE GODDAMN NORTHEAST. God, the more I learn about breeding the worse it gets!
Here's a little more stuff I found out with some research. Well first I have kept thinking about how Haku was so slow to clot that day of the first seizure, so much so that they were thinking of giving him a blood transfusion. All of this seemed to click in my head and I googled "hypothyroid clotting" and apparently most dogs who have hypothyroidism are also missing clotting factor VIII, which I just effing learned about in bio.
The progesterone is still a mystery, though. O_O
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Date: 2009-05-23 01:39 am (UTC)I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT MUCH TIME HAS PASSED. Jeez.
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Date: 2009-05-23 02:11 am (UTC)And you know, time sucks. It really just does.
I LOLed at your icon, BTW> ^_^
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Date: 2009-05-23 02:23 am (UTC)I wish I could claim the genius that is the icon, but instead I will laugh at it with you. ;D
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Date: 2009-05-23 05:35 pm (UTC)Haven't been around lately, as was visiting the parents Back East. Ah...I get on the plane as a 32 year-old grown up, get off the plane and I'm 12. Sigh...
Glad you're doing well and that's SO interesting about Haku! The treatment for hypothyroidism is much less invasive than IE, no? If so - huzzah! Josie's been (knock wood) symptomless lately, so we're thinking good thoughts (while keeping it real about her condition) and counting our blessings.
Gorgeous pics, by the way :)
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Date: 2009-05-23 08:05 pm (UTC)I'm not sure if there's too much a difference between the two treatments: both are relatively side-effect free, or at least mild, both are expensive and both are lifetime conditions. Seems like six on one, half a dozen on the other.
Really glad about Josie. Haku is five weeks now. ^_^ (Knock on wood!) Like you, it's something I'll learn to live with and deal with. :)
Thanks for checking out those pics. ^_^
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Date: 2009-05-25 11:35 am (UTC)That's interesting reading the breeding history of Saluki's. Even allowing for removal from habitat we seem to be doing a fine job of messing up evolution and the lives of those creatures tampered with. Something always backfires.
Catch you around.
- PP
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Date: 2009-05-25 02:16 pm (UTC)Yeah, seriously, the things people do to animals goes beyond the "normal" mean things we usually think about in slaughterhouses and whatnot. I've learned so much about animal breeders since I've has Salukis, and even though I love Salukis, I am mad at breeders. :/
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Date: 2009-05-25 03:04 pm (UTC)... sorry.
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Date: 2009-05-25 03:05 pm (UTC)YOU FLATTERER
I want to come over and see the pretty flowers. ;_;
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Date: 2009-05-25 03:33 pm (UTC)Then, come over next weekend if you want! AJ and I could pick you up Friday or somet.