PanthaGirl said:

mexican walking fish? water dragons? i need to start watching Animal Planet more often...

A stray golden retriever ended up on my lawn last night barking for attention. His large size was intimidating but he was harmless, overweight, struggled to walk and seemed to have maybe been struck by a car or person but I couldn't really tell because I didn't want to touch the leg wound. It may have been his hip or arthritis too. I fed him, gave him water, and called the after hours RSPCA and the local council both refused to come and pick him up at that hour (it was 1am) because he wasn't a threat to anyone. I was shocked at their response afterall what is the point of these organisations if they aren't willing to help and assist stray injured animals. I couldn't lift him, he would have weighed over 70kgs so he slept on my porch, I stayed up with him most of the night and then I went to bed for a couple hours and I checked on him at sunrise and he was gone. I haven't been able to get him outta my head. I have a feeling he strayed from an abusive situation because he was extremely overfed and distressed. I drove around the neighbourhood searching for him but with zero results. After this incident my man and I decided today we will look into raising a male Akita and a female Samoyed next year.

PanthaGirl said:

That was sweet of you to take care of that poor dog like that.

psychodelicide said:

Thank U lovely.

I just wanna say: FUCK CORPORATE AMERICA

1sexymf said:

Amen, girl!! I feel the SAME way.

psychodelicide said:

Lol
I recently lost my job and are sooooo done with these corporations. I so do not belong in them, I don't conform to the corporate bullshit most of the time, play the games, etc. I lost mine because of the economy but that make me feel any better. I always hated corporate America from my first job out of college.
I have irons in the fire to start my own shit, just gonna take some time to get it off the ground.

psychodelicide said:

Lol
I recently lost my job and are sooooo done with these corporations. I so do not belong in them, I don't conform to the corporate bullshit most of the time, play the games, etc. I lost mine because of the economy but that make me feel any better. I always hated corporate America from my first job out of college.
I have irons in the fire to start my own shit, just gonna take some time to get it off the ground.

1sexymf said:

I hope you can do it too. Enough of corporate slave drones, yeah?

I inherited these awesome chairs from a storage place. Only problem was they were the wrong colour, so I had the bright idea to stain them to match my other furniture.

omg do I suck at this!!!! I tried doing one only and completely stuffed it up. Worst thing it, while I was in a D.I.Y mode I rushed out and bought a beautiful art deco hall table I've had my eye on. It needs lots of work and now I've discovered that I'm shit at this sort of thing.

I have one patchy chair, five chairs sitting there laughing at me and now I'm worried the table will turn up, see the chairs and run away screaming back to the 1930's where it came from.

Have decided to change DIY to DIL (Do It Later) when my best friend who knows what he's doing turns up.

My mother died in 2003 suddenly (she was hit by a truck).

connorhawke said:

I think this is how people become pack rats. You have all this stuff that "if only" you could fix it or get someone else to fix it or figure out where you can sell it a reasonable price, etc it all would be great. It's the kind of stuff you can't easily get rid of. I could see me keeping this messed up, but yet still beautiful, set of yours for years. Good luck getting the friend to correct the problem.

My mother died in 2003 suddenly (she was hit by a truck) and I had a couple of weeks to move her stuff out of her apartment. I couldn't process the whole thing. Anyway she had this dish set that was her friends (mary would have been about 105 now) mothers but this china has no date on the back and is not perfect in quantity. Anyway part of me just wants to give it to the nearest taker and the other part says "it could be worth alot of money and you could use the money!!!" I would hate to find out that it's worth a few grande when my car isn't. This is the diary of a pack rat, basically.

MEN ARE FUCKING BATSHIT CRAZY.

evenstar3 said:

No.

ultrablue said:

yes. they are. some more than others, but jesus christ. i'll never understand it.

evenstar3 said:

I'm a man and I'm ok.

ultrablue said:

Deadflow3r said:

I'm definitely part of the pack then. Hoefully Marcus will know what to do and the table will become my drinks table!

It's all connected, really. I'm very sorry to hear about your mother as I lost mine two years ago. I have a beautiful Irish green decanter she left me to put my Jameson whiskey in and part of the reason why I grabbed the table was so the decanter would have something worthwhile to sit on and invite people to drink from.....now to find the perfect whiskey glasses!!!!!

Deadflow3r said:

I'm sorry to hear about your mom being hit by a truck and passing away. That must have been awful.

psychodelicide said:

Thanks. She was in the crosswalk infront of,of all places, her church. She was 76 at the time and quite healthy. Unfortunately the guy had a plow attachment on the front of his truck and that's what sealed the deal.

connorhawke said:

Oh no, you reminded me of my mother's other china. Oh yeah, there is more. It's quite pretty and given to her by her Irish mother-in-law. The white china with the green leaves has never been used once to my knowledge but can't let that go either. It's got connections to BOTH my mom and my homely grandemother who everyone said was a saint and funny as hell to boot. She died 7 years before I was born so I can't say. She was very Catholic and very Irish. Drank brews on the front porch and invited the Sisters over for a cold one too.

Anyway my daughter found the set, unpacked it and started playing with it!!! The thing had never been used and was always treated as holy, I just couldn't believe it. Maybe she thought "Oh, just more of Mom's wrapped up pretty junk".
Now I feel like if I don't enjoy some of this stuff it's just going to get broken.