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Quick update
21 May 2009 17:431. Still no new power cord for my laptop. Dar kindly lets me borrow hers, but I don't want to hog it, you know? Between that and the fact that our internet connection is slower than molasses in winter, I seem to spend most of my time online trying to load a simple page and watching my battery drain. Not much of a chance to update at all.
2. My final Immigration packet went off to the central office today. I think we crossed every t and dotted every i and my god they make this a difficult process. They should receive the packet by Monday at the latest, and I hope to have my open visa within a few weeks. Think good thoughts about this, OK, guys?
3. The baby continues to progress. Yay! I think we've settled on Ozzie for a name. He looks like an Ozzie. In other alpaca news, Cinnamon Girl is off her rocker around the moon crazy. Hannibal (our herd sire) is on the other side of the fence from CG and her daughter Ripley. Rip was apparently at the fence trying to get Hannibal's attention. CG goes ballistic with the screaming and the spitting. Then she turns on Ripley, bulldozes her to the ground, and sits on her! Poor Ripley is bleating like crazy; I mean Mom is at least 150 pounds. By the time Dar and I got out there, she had let the poor thing up, but really . . . calm the hell down, CG.
4. Dar had a colonoscopy yesterday. The good news is that they didn't find anything bad, but the bad news is that they didn't find the cause of her internal bleeding, either. And the procedure was hellish for her, because the doctors never believe her when she says that she needs lots more sedation than the usual person. Fortunately there was an anaesthesiologist in the OR, so he called a halt and gave her the added sedation. My poor baby.
5. I inadvertently got into the middle of a cat fight yesterday and got a torn vein in my hand for my troubles. It wasn't as painful as it sounds, but it gushed blood and scared the hell out of me. I thought he'd opened an artery, but happily it was just a vein. Pressure, a cold pack, and an ace bandage took care of it. I need to come up with a new plan, or at least learn to scope out the whole area before I deal with the kitties.
6. The weather turned warm today (80 degrees), so we went hunting for little kiddie wading pools to put in the paddocks. You would not believe how hard it is to find those suckers this year. I'm talking about those little 6" high, 5' wide pools for toddlers to sit in. We looked in five stores before we found them. And then when Dar inflated and filled them, most of the alpacas were all WTF about them. Big colorful round thing! It's going to eat us! Even though we put pools out for them every. single. summer. Only CG plopped herself down and enjoyed a cool soak. I checked a while ago, and a couple of them were using it as a big watering hole :)
7. American Idol. Sigh. I thought I was prepared for Adam to lose, but I was not. Hell, Kris wasn't prepared for Adam to lose. I am not saying that everyone who voted for Kris was a homophobe; Kris had his own fan base, and he got to the Final Two and beat out Gokey on his own power. What I am saying is that there was enough of an orchestrated backlash against Adam to push Kris over the top for a win. This was not some last minute attempt by the Christian Right, either. Kris had earlier given an interview where he made it known that this was a singing contest, and he didn't want religion being brought into it. Fat chance.
I'm sad, and I'm angry - not just for Adam but for myself and every other lesbian/gay/queer/trans who was told once again that there's a solid segment of America that says we're freaks and less-thans. And let's not forget that we're all pedophiles and abominations. Do you know what it's like to walk around knowing that there are people who want you dead for being who you are? Who would beat you to a pulp for being who you are? Who would rape you to "show you what you're missing" if you're a lesbian? I'm not laying all of that on Adam's shoulders to bear; he wasn't our flag bearer: he just wanted to win a singing contest, after all. But still, it took tremendous courage for him to be there, to be as 'scary' as so many obviously thought he was. I wish him every good thing, and I thank him from the bottom of my heart.
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finitejester37 wrote about it much more clearly and eloquently than I have, and she's opened her post for linking. Give it a read.
2. My final Immigration packet went off to the central office today. I think we crossed every t and dotted every i and my god they make this a difficult process. They should receive the packet by Monday at the latest, and I hope to have my open visa within a few weeks. Think good thoughts about this, OK, guys?
3. The baby continues to progress. Yay! I think we've settled on Ozzie for a name. He looks like an Ozzie. In other alpaca news, Cinnamon Girl is off her rocker around the moon crazy. Hannibal (our herd sire) is on the other side of the fence from CG and her daughter Ripley. Rip was apparently at the fence trying to get Hannibal's attention. CG goes ballistic with the screaming and the spitting. Then she turns on Ripley, bulldozes her to the ground, and sits on her! Poor Ripley is bleating like crazy; I mean Mom is at least 150 pounds. By the time Dar and I got out there, she had let the poor thing up, but really . . . calm the hell down, CG.
4. Dar had a colonoscopy yesterday. The good news is that they didn't find anything bad, but the bad news is that they didn't find the cause of her internal bleeding, either. And the procedure was hellish for her, because the doctors never believe her when she says that she needs lots more sedation than the usual person. Fortunately there was an anaesthesiologist in the OR, so he called a halt and gave her the added sedation. My poor baby.
5. I inadvertently got into the middle of a cat fight yesterday and got a torn vein in my hand for my troubles. It wasn't as painful as it sounds, but it gushed blood and scared the hell out of me. I thought he'd opened an artery, but happily it was just a vein. Pressure, a cold pack, and an ace bandage took care of it. I need to come up with a new plan, or at least learn to scope out the whole area before I deal with the kitties.
6. The weather turned warm today (80 degrees), so we went hunting for little kiddie wading pools to put in the paddocks. You would not believe how hard it is to find those suckers this year. I'm talking about those little 6" high, 5' wide pools for toddlers to sit in. We looked in five stores before we found them. And then when Dar inflated and filled them, most of the alpacas were all WTF about them. Big colorful round thing! It's going to eat us! Even though we put pools out for them every. single. summer. Only CG plopped herself down and enjoyed a cool soak. I checked a while ago, and a couple of them were using it as a big watering hole :)
7. American Idol. Sigh. I thought I was prepared for Adam to lose, but I was not. Hell, Kris wasn't prepared for Adam to lose. I am not saying that everyone who voted for Kris was a homophobe; Kris had his own fan base, and he got to the Final Two and beat out Gokey on his own power. What I am saying is that there was enough of an orchestrated backlash against Adam to push Kris over the top for a win. This was not some last minute attempt by the Christian Right, either. Kris had earlier given an interview where he made it known that this was a singing contest, and he didn't want religion being brought into it. Fat chance.
I'm sad, and I'm angry - not just for Adam but for myself and every other lesbian/gay/queer/trans who was told once again that there's a solid segment of America that says we're freaks and less-thans. And let's not forget that we're all pedophiles and abominations. Do you know what it's like to walk around knowing that there are people who want you dead for being who you are? Who would beat you to a pulp for being who you are? Who would rape you to "show you what you're missing" if you're a lesbian? I'm not laying all of that on Adam's shoulders to bear; he wasn't our flag bearer: he just wanted to win a singing contest, after all. But still, it took tremendous courage for him to be there, to be as 'scary' as so many obviously thought he was. I wish him every good thing, and I thank him from the bottom of my heart.
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finitejester37 wrote about it much more clearly and eloquently than I have, and she's opened her post for linking. Give it a read.
