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I love AV Undercover!
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One of my favorites is still Low covering the song Africa.
What a great series, though!
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Knock me down
I get right back up again
Come back stronger than a powered up Pacman
-Kaiser Chiefs, ‘Oh My God’
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I have pneumonia.
Right in the midst of the busy time at work. And this cough? Ugh.
I’m on mess, but they’re taking their sweet time doing anything, let me tell you.
Fuck this.
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I was a huge reader as a kid. I was lost in a world of fantasy and very lonely. Around the time of 6th grade I started looking up out of the books. Even though I am a good reader and continued to read through high school, I pride myself on not being like I was as a kid, drowning away all emotion by focusing on the characters.
My favorite books were the Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White and a Roauld Dahl book called Danny Champion of the World. I reread both these books to my daughter and oh my god the way they echoed the emotional themes of my childhood was so poignant. How writers do that I do not know.
I get what you mean about reading being sometimes an unhealthy emotional escape.
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Trump is president elect, and in about 3 days will be sworn in as president.
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My sweetie is out of town this week, which means on the days that I work (MWF), the dog is home by herself, which she isn’t used to (he works from home). When we first got her, she was pretty okay with being on her own for the day, but with each time he goes out of town, she gets more anxious. F’rinstance, on his last trip she demolished a pair of his shoes that were left in the living room.
Monday I decided to put her in her crate while I was at work, which worked out okay, but I felt really bad about it. So today I figured, I’ll give her the Gorilla toy filled with kibble & treats, and leave the radio on, and make sure there are no shoes lying about, and surely she’ll be fine.
NOPE. I came home to find three bottles of cooking oil (which had been on a low shelf) in the living room, destroyed. Huge puddle of oil on the floor. Huge puddle of oil on the futon. Plus of course it’s tracked everywhere (hooray for hard floors, at least). Oh. My. God. This is so not how I wanted to spend my evening 
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I hope your dog handles cooklng oil for dinner better than mine or your morning may not be much fun either! 
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And then you get to deal with the other “issues” of dogs and vegetable oil…
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Jinx!!
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Yeah, I don’t know how much she actually ingested. When I took her out she unloaded a huge poop that may or may not have been a little extra slippery; trying not to think too much about that! 
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ugh. Yesterday I had to deal with a stolen credit card. Looks like the credit card company sent me a new card to replace an expiring one and someone swiped it out of the mailbox (could have been something else, but we’ve had people going through cars in our neighborhood and the occasional stolen package, so…).
Kinda thought you had to activate it from your home phone or something, but it appears the rules regarding this are a little lax.
Mostly small stuff - McDonald’s, gas stations - but still a pain in the a$$ do deal with and be without a card for a day+
Gotta say the CC company wasn’t too bad… they worked with me to flag the charges I didn’t make and is overnighting a new card to me. But I think the feeling of violation is worse than the one hour or so I had to put in with the CC company.
Now I need to give it a few days and decide if I really want an outdoor security cam or if the feeling of need will subside (related - anyone got ideas/opinions on outdoor security cams? Nest? Something else?)
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FWIW, many dogs are soothed by being in a kennel when no one is home. It’s often scarier to be alone in an entire house/apartment: too big and thus hard to monitor/patrol/protect. Being in a kennel means the dog knows they are “off the clock” from their protective services. It’s instinctive.
You are not torturing your dog if the alternative is, as you’ve seen, that she’s even more terrified when not kenneled.
Also, my daughter found a channel (iTunes, I think) specifically for calming dogs. Don’t ask me to explain it, but our dog seems to like it.
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Yeah, she’s definitely going in the crate until we can do some work with her. I don’t know if she’s scared or just super bored, but obviously nothing is safe from her (bottles of cooking oil, really?). She was super excited to get out of the box when I got home on Monday, but she was fine.
And this morning I realized what the difference probably is. Until just after Thanksgiving, we had the cat, so she wasn’t completely alone. She didn’t start messing with stuff until after the kitty died. Dang. We will definitely have another cat eventually, but not ready to get another one yet 
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That makes perfect sense. I was thinking it was just the fact that now there are no humans there for 3 days a week, but if there was another animal before, that really increases the loneliness factor. I think it might even be a form of grief: where did they go? Why aren’t they coming back?
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“Will these bottles be my friends? … YES!!!”
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