CALLMEATH

Tomorrow I leave to visit my younger sister and her husband in [b]Florida[/b]. I haven't seen Goober (as I affectionately call little sis) since New Year's, so I'm pretty excited. Serenity, aka, CallMeSerenity, will be there which makes it even better. Yes, I really DO love her dearly; we always act mean to each other, it's our way of showing affection. (Happy Serenity?! I admitted it.) The only downside is that I doubt I'll find time to get online very often. A crushing blow to the site, I know, but I'm sure you guys will manage.

STARRBABY

As many of you know, we are housing a stray dog named Clyde. I have renamed him TDD. It stands for That Damn Dog. He came into our home as a puppy. We'd found a pregnant dog, and adopted her. (Don't worry, she's fixed now.) Anyway, Clyde is one of her puppies. We had found homes for all of them, but Clyde's family decided they didn't want him anymore and sent him to the humaine society. They were going to put him to sleep, so my soft hearted husband brought him home. (I said no, but I must have no say in this household.) Anyway, we're trying to find a home for him, and I put up with it. TDD has chewed up over $100 worth of shoes. He fights with our outher dog (his mother) all the time. He barks all night long. Most of all, he's a reminder that my husband doesn't listen to me. Another thing most of you know is that I'm expecting twins soon. There is no way I can keep this dog in my house. I gave my husband a date, and I said if he hasn't found a home for TDD by that date I'm taking him back to the humane society. Well, don't tell my husband, (like you all talk to him on a regular basis,) but I can't take TDD to be killed. It is 2 am here, and I can't sleep, becasue I don't know what I'm going to do. I had every intention of taking him to the humane society, dropping him off, and not looking back. But TDD crawled in my lap yesterday and fell asleep. WHAT IN THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO?!!!!!! We can't keep him. Noone else wants him. I can't sleep, and now the damn thing thinks I'm his mommy. If you think of anyone who would like a dog, have them check out his website. www.directfreight.com/clyde He's fixed and potty trained. Oh, and please please please fix your pets. You don't want someone else going through this crap.

CALLMESERENITY

I don't like where I live. It's this neighborhood full of manufactured houses off a clogged road in a small town. There are no sidewalks, hardly any trees, and I can't walk or ride my bike anywhere, because there's nothing close enough (and I'd get dead. SC drivers are mean to bike riders.) But there is one good thing about my neighborhood. At the end of my street there is a small patch of woods that borders two other neighborhoods. It's probably a 1/2 mile square (well, more trapazoidal, but whatever) of woods. There are several paths that run through it, most of which I traverse on a daily basis. I love to get up in the morning and walk through the woods before I go to work. I love knowing I'm the first person there that day. I love watching the small winged insects rise at my feet as I wake them up from their beds of pine straw. I feel momentarily guilty for disturbing the work of the unfortunate spiders who spent the night building webs across my path. I love the clean smell, especially after a rain. So many creatures live there: rabbits, lizards, birds, squirrels, snakes, small boys with paintguns. I've even seen deer tracks (though I've never seen the deer.) The woods are my sanctuary when I'm having a bad day or overwhelmed by life. I think better when I'm around trees. My thoughts fall into pace with my footsteps. I often think of Mal (to tie this all into Firefly) and how he said that the woods were the only place he could see a clear path. I love my little patch of woods.

STEVETHEPIRATE

I started a thread about this earlier, but I've been so hooked on these that I want to make sure I'm not the only one that's aware of them. Of course, they've been around for a couple years, so I'm probably just WAY behind everyone else ... again. Anyway, www.qwantz.com - great fun. As for the one that I've adopted as my own personal six-frame autobiographical comic strip:

SIMONWHO

But probably wasn't going to get (from the 4th of April): [quote] 1. Christopher Eccleston to issue a statement saying he realised he's made an enormous mistake and is signing up for two more seasons of Doctor Who. 2. Tony Blair to announce the election as being May 5th and every person in Parliament replies "Well, duh!" 3. The new Pope to take the name 'Pope George Ringo' 4. Confident of the new movie's success, Universal announces that work is already underway on Serenity's sequel. 5. Liverpool win the Champions League. 6. The BBC announce the release of the complete 'A Bit of Fry & Laurie' onto DVD. 7. A cure for glaucoma for dogs is released onto the mass market. 8. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is reasonably good. 9. I wake up with Michael Bolton's singing voice (I will use it only for good). 10. Well, there's a £33m rollover jackpot on the Euromillions lottery... [/quote] Number 8 seems to be true (I'm seeing it tomorrow). Incredibly number 5 came true tonight. I mean really incredibly. I mean, the odds must have been staggeringly against it at half time. 3-0 down against one of the best teams in Europe. You just don't score three goals against them. But we did. And then we triumphed. Unbelieveable, it really is. So, two wishes have come true, four have passed (number 2 only sort of came true) so let's see how the other four do. That's not bad really though, making 10 improbable wishes and getting two of them. Basically, I just wanted to celebrate Liverpool's victory tonight. Note for non-football followers (that's football as in the game where you mostly use your foot on the ball, see how that works?) - tonight was the Champions League final, the biggest competition for clubs in the world. Winning this means millions upon millions for my team and they also get to keep the trophy, having won it now five times.