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Yes, we did. I took them in from vets' offices, private people, even the pet store (when people would bring them in there). We took in two litters of Rattus rattus (roof or "black" rats) also (domesticated rats are Rattus norvegicus, also known as sewer or "grey" rats), one from a pet store and one from a vet. At our peak, we had about 115 of them.9:33 a.m. EST, just finishing with the e-mail, and then back to reading!
It's 10:33 a.m. and I'm excited that we finally got some snow!
Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "8:43 AM Taking Sox to the vet to have her put to sleep. I'm devastated and so sad."
So sorry to hear of your loss, Kyle. We had to put down our beloved collie of 14 years a year ago, and we finally got a new puppy in August. You need time to grieve. *hugs*
12:55pm and checking GR after being off awhile. Just signed our 2013 taxes and put it in the mail--getting a nice refund. (Yay!) Reading a lot today. Doing laundry, plan to cook later which will be fun.
Good luck Dan, and great news Janie!
So sorry to hear of your loss, Kyle. We had to put down our beloved collie of 14 years a year ago, and we finally got a new puppy in August. You need time to grieve. *hugs*
12:55pm and checking GR after being off awhile. Just signed our 2013 taxes and put it in the mail--getting a nice refund. (Yay!) Reading a lot today. Doing laundry, plan to cook later which will be fun.
Good luck Dan, and great news Janie!
1:56 p.m. EST Just reading, listening to music. Decided to pop in and leave some notes for my review of this book, update my status, and clear out my e-mail while I am here. I also wanted to see if it was warm enough to go sit outside; the sun looks very inviting, but it's not even 50 degrees and just too chilly. I think it's supposed to warm up next week, we'll see.
Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "8:43 AM Taking Sox to the vet to have her put to sleep. I'm devastated and so sad."just saw this. i am so sorry for your loss. we have a gray tabby named Peanut. (don't ask) she is 6 years old and a polydactyl!!! she is such a little witch and feisty; so i understand. i cannot imagine our life without her. sending love and hugs your way. tell her to keep them in line on The Rainbow Bridge! <3
7:15 p.m, just gone done figuring out how to register and load apps on the LeapPad2 thingy that my dad got my kid for his birthday... Just what he needed, a beginners electronic device to be glued to xDCatching up with this group and others, was going to try and get some other stuff done but I've run out of time...
8:51pm here. Just got done eating sushi for dinner.....spicy tuna....man, it was good!! The date went okay I guess. She was nice but it's not going to turn into anything. Bought some books while I was out. I got World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and 999: Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense. Both books look awesome. Oh, and I bought some music too. I got Rise Against:The Sufferer and the Witness. Rise Against is an awesome band!Well, I think I'm gonna go chill out for the rest of the night. Going to read 11/22/63...I really gotta get moving on that book. LOL
Michelle wrote: "12.25pm feeling very sad :( Just had a phone call from my mum saying that my step-dad's brother was just killed in a car accident. I wish there was something I could do, it makes me feel sick in my..."Oh wow. My condolences to you and the family
Alondra wrote: "Michelle wrote: "12.25pm feeling very sad :( Just had a phone call from my mum saying that my step-dad's brother was just killed in a car accident. I wish there was something I could do, it makes m..."This is rough. You did the right thing.
9:04 Just signed on to GR to catch up on everyone. So many tragic events has happen to the past 24 hours and my condolences to everyone.I am trying to finish the rest of Ghost Road Blues which I underestimated. Looking for to reading the remaining installments.
Also, I've been practicing and tweaking my presentation for my promotion into management ( in a management training program).
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Veronica GL on your presentation.
Veronica wrote: "9:04 Just signed on to GR to catch up on everyone. So many tragic events has happen to the past 24 hours and my condolences to everyone.I am trying to finish the rest of Ghost Road Blues which I ..."
COngrats, Veronica! ... yeah, don't underestimate anything in the Pine Deep series. Don't be so sure of who is twisted and who isn't... i wonder about the mayor :O
10:20pm ET. Looking forward to tomorrow, when I will be here with just my son. He will be playing on his computer and watching the SuperBowl, which means he will leave me along. Will is going to a superbowl party and my daughter will be working... yeah, tomorrow is gonna be goooo-oooodd.
11:20 p.m. EST Just up from a nap and clearing out e-mail before I go back to reading. I managed to read so much more back when I mostly just ignored my e-mail... hehe. I have chocolate-covered-strawberry flavored gas-station cappuccino! Yum. Need it, 'cause it's cold tonight and I'm still groggy from my nap. My husband has plans to go watch the SuperBowl with a friend of his tomorrow, so it'll be like a normal day around here, I guess, with him out and about and me sitting around reading and/or napping.
11:50 pm- just checking into gr before reading some more of the night circus- i really want a caramel apple and some caramel popcorn lolgood luck with your presentation veronica!
12:46 a.m. EST Accidentally got my husband talking Star Wars in which we tried to figure out exactly the progression of Anakin into a child-murderer and couldn't quite fit it into the events of the movies. Our final decision: it made no sense. Also spent some time chatting with the author of the book I'm reading to hash out some ideas about editing it. Anyway, about done clearing out e-mail and then back to reading.
1:17am here. Was reading 11/22/63 and dozed off. With my contacts in too...you're not supposed to sleep with contact lenses in.
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Janie wrote: "12:28AM Just wanted to come in and say good night GR!"Good night, Janie!
2:53 a.m. EST Eep, Dan! No. I once fell asleep with my gas-permeable contacts in. You want to talk about BAD... Oh, my. Anyway, I'm also feeling sleepy, despite only having woke up around 11, so I think I'll be crashing soon, too. NO idea why I'm feeling so sleepy, usually this is my awake time. Just added a bunch of books to my "where my head at" shelf, featuring book covers of romance novels where there are decapitated torsos features... O.O
Katy wrote: "2:53 a.m. EST Eep, Dan! No. I once fell asleep with my gas-permeable contacts in. You want to talk about BAD... Oh, my. Anyway, I'm also feeling sleepy, despite only having woke up around 11, so..."LOL...I've fallen asleep with my contacts in so many times. Not by choice of course, my optometrist did warn me about falling asleep with them in. Luckily nothing has happened when I have done that.
What are "Gas-permeable" conatacts? I only have two pairs of contact lenses; the regular ones I wear every day, and the hand painted yellow and red theatrical ones that I wear on Halloween.
I don't know if they even make gas-permeable contact lenses anymore now that toric lenses are so well designed, but back in the Dark Ages when I was in high school, my astigmatism combined with my high prescription made it impossible for me to have clear vision with soft lenses, and hard lenses... well, they're nasty. So my optometrist put me into gas-permeable lenses, which are sort of inbetween. They're not quite the size of a person's iris, so they tended to pop out quite easily, but and they were quite rigid, so they held their shape and provided clearer vision than a more flexible soft lens. They were SO uncomfortable, and I was always losing the stupid things! I spent several years working as an optician, so I learned a thing or two about contact lenses, in addition to what I already knew from my own use. Anyway, while it is not advisable to sleep even in soft lenses unless they are specifically designed for such, having it happen occasionally is not too big of a problem unless you don't clean them well enough. The thing is that a person's cornea doesn't have any blood vessels directly running into it, and it absorbs oxygen straight from the air, so if you tend to keep them covered up, they will eventually because oxygen deprived, and that's why they say not to sleep in your contacts.
A fun trick for a night on the town is to find someone who works in an optometrist's or ophthalmologist's office and have them pick up some of the dye that they use to test the fit on gas-permeable or hard contact lenses and dye regular contacts with it. They will then glow under black lights, but will not harm your eyes (although your vision may have a weird tint to it until you become accustomed to it). My first ex-husband discovered that after I helped him become an optician, too. We used to do this when we went out to comedy clubs... really amusing.
Anyway, I'll talk your ear off about optical things just like I will about cats or rats or books, so I best sign off now... I think it's time for a nap!
3:12 a.m. EST gonna take a nap, I think.
5am...laying in bed going through my phone because i had another messed up nightmare and cant sleep :( so gr and fb it is for a bit til my body relaxes enough to go back to sleep
1:00pm Just finished my book, my sister and I are going to go down to the RSPCA now. :)
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15:24 pm.Watching Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone on tv.
Karli, sorry to hear that. I hate the type of nightmares that linger on after you wake. Hope you were able to sleep a bit longer. Jordan, good news! Tell us what you bring home!
10:43 a.m. EST Just woke up about 20 minutes ago, feeling much better. But there is this horrible smell I keep smelling--this has happened before. I'm wondering if it is a hallucination, 'cause my husband can never smell it, but it makes me feel really sick to my stomach. It's sort of like a ashtray of cigarette butts caught fire, and sort of like coconut. It's horrible... :*{
Katy, I didn't get anything:( I wanted to take all of them home but the only one my mom said I could have had isn't up for adoption until next month:(
12:30pm ET. Updating some gardening links on Pinterest. I hate clicking on something, just for it to go to someones stupid flickr account!...gggrrr. :/
Katy wrote: "I don't know if they even make gas-permeable contact lenses anymore now that toric lenses are so well designed, but back in the Dark Ages when I was in high school, my astigmatism combined with my ..."Katy, I don't think they make them anymore because I have astigmatism too and the gave me toric lenses. That's a lot of info you've go there. I suppose I'll have to be more careful from now on. That's very interesting about the dye. If I want funny colored eyes though I have my Halloween contacts...LOL.
12:36pm here. Going to go take a shower and then clean my room. I heard that there is a Walking Dead marathon on AMC today, so I'll probably be watching that while I am cleaning.
Dan, I had an experimental pair before I had the gas-permeable lenses; they had a hard middle and soft edges, and were fairly comfortable, but as it turned out, the soft part started shrinking and caused major damage to my cornea, resulting in my having to wear my glasses for several days until they healed. I'm sure you could find gas perms if you really wanted them, but I know the torics are really good now. My last pair of contacts before I had the surgery in 1991 were torics and they worked great. I'm sure the resulting 20+ years has seen major improvements. :-)2:27 p.m. EST just returned from the Outback, where I had the best rib-eye steak I've had in absolute ages! Wish I could have eaten the whole thing, but I haven't been eating much lately so I could only manage about 2/3 of it. Hubby ate the rest, along with two salads and two bowls of their really yummy French Onion soup. He's now sitting here like a python on a rock digesting... :-)
2:30 PM. Finally have internet and cable again after having it out since Friday. They had to come replace the entire box. Still trying to find a book to read. Need to iron clothes for this week. Had a busy day yesterday running around getting stuff done. The Super Bowl will be on, but I am not sure who I am rooting for, but will watch because I like football, or I just might do some reading while my husband watches the game.
4:42 p.m. EST Hubby just left to go watch the Super Bowl at a friend's place, since we don't have TV. I'm taking a break from my book to check e-mail and update my status.Kathryn, if you haven't read any of his stuff, anything by Randy Attwood is awesome. My favorites are Rabbletown: Life in These United Christian States of Holy America and Crazy About You. Glad your internet is back up! I'd hate having it down so long--it's my only connection to the outside!
I have been away for a bit and not felt very chatty due to personal reasons. It is 10:45PM and I had a great day. We got 3 inches of snow last night so my wife and I took my son out to play in the snow for the first time. He had a blast and so did we. It has been a great day and I desperately needed this. Just relaxing with my wife after a fun day.
11:48pm. Just got done watching the Super Bowl..eventhough I'm not really into football...LOL. I'm going to go take a shower and try to get some reading done.
3.22pm - at work... have been on hold for 1/2hr to the phone company! About to be transferred for the fourth time :/
Chris wrote: "I have been away for a bit and not felt very chatty due to personal reasons. It is 10:45PM and I had a great day. We got 3 inches of snow last night so my wife and I took my son out to play in the ..."Sounds like a great day Chris! Hope you're feeling more like yourself again soon :)
It was wonderful. My boy is 3 and we have not had a good snow in a few years so this was the first time he could go out and play. He had so much fun. I hope things improve for me and I get back to myself soon as well. Thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate them.
Hope things turn around, Chris. I absolutely understand about "hermit mode". Last time I did that I would out of touch for 3 years... O.O Hopefully yours does not last that long!2:40 a.m. EST Woke up from a nap when hubby returned from his Super Bowl party about a half hour ago. Just clearing out e-mail before going back to sleep... I have two novellas to edit this week, so it'll be busy!
It's 2:45am and I'm up all night again. News on in the background, I'm glad I have GR to help pass the time. Puppy is curled up asleep next to me. Enjoyed the Super Bowl even though I didn't have a team in the game. Finished my book about an hour ago, it was really good. Can't decide what to read next. Chris, I hope you're feeling more yourself soon. A 3 year-old and snow--sounds wonderful! I often felt my children helped center me when times were tough. Though now we're having so many problems with my adult son, it's a huge source of stress and unhappiness for me. It's hard to know where to turn or what to do...
Hope you all have a great day!
Hope you all have a great day!
3 a.m. EST just about finished clearing out e-mail, listening to Tiger, who is curled up on a box of CDs, snore.
1:05 p.m. EST and just sitting down to start editing, with a little help from my friend Tiger. Maybe this illustration will give you a good idea...[image error]
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Chris glad to see you back! Sounds like to had a great time with your family, that always does the trick to head you in the right direction towards recooperation from whatever is ailing us..
Terri sorry you have another rough night, but yay for GR to always be there if we need it along with a companion and a good book.
Katy that picture is awesome. Can tell the kitty loves you! Hehe. Our Cat Bandit has been laying all over us lately. He has always been a VERY social cat! Will never have another like him thats for sure.
Have a great day today my friends. Will check back in again soon.
Thanks, Janie; Tiger is a very loving and affectionate and downright goofy cat... He is currently down at the foot of the bed in a box of CDs, but not far away. Erasmus is sitting just outside the bedroom with his grumpy fur on but refuses to come in here when the room it "tainted" by Tiger's presence... Silly creatures.3:22 p.m. EST just taking a bit of a break from editing to clear out the e-mail that accumulated, grab the mail outside (part of the reason Tiger abandoned me), and eat some carrots. Nothing much else around here to eat... :-) Back to editing soon!
It's 2:45 PM and I am working the closing shift tonight. Waiting for lunch because I am hungry. I'll be around tonight. Thanks for the kind words from everyone. I have not been myself lately and I am glad I have good friends here who are supportive. Now if I could only get out of this reading funk and back to it.
I hate when I feel that way, Chris, so I also hope you feel better soon.4:15 p.m. EST Listening to the author's albums (he's also a rock singer) while editing, so had paused to send him a note bout how much I'm enjoying the music, and clearing out accumulated e-mail again! it's a never ending task...
6:22 p.m just got done eating some cold hash browns and now I'm catching up on GR before I go dive back into reading The Green Mile
6:35 p.m. EST I'm drooping as much as Tiger, so it's time for a nap, although that means he'll abandon me, since he's not in one of his "sleep curled up on my head" phases. Plus I'll need to braid my hair before I go to sleep or it'll be so tangled it'll take me half an hour just to brush it. But then I'm definitely going to take a nap!
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Thanks, Katy. Really..you used to rescue rats? Interesting.
@Janie...congradulations on the car!