it's been two years

i decided to check on this today. i didn't realize that hadn't updated it in more than two years! i could say a lot of things have happened, but for two years... maybe it's not too much. i don't know. in the last two years:

binky died
i adopted a cat
lost my job
moved in with david
went to berkeley city college for two semesters
adopted a dog

yep. those are the main things. the most current thing is that i will be moving back to oregon this weekend. david and i will be living in my parents garage until we end up somewhere else. i will be reunited with my cats (who went to live with my parents when i moved in with david) and dogs. my new dog will meet my other dogs.

more later.

my binky :(

my new kitty - Kid A

new dog - cally

trying not to be a failure

so i ended up going to david's place on monday, and i ended up staying all the way until friday morning, when i had to leave for work and he had to leave for the airport. so now he's back in oregon and i won't be seeing him again until tuesday or wednesday. which sucks.

i had my meeting with elizabeth and krystal. apparently i have to have all of the cleaning done by noon. that's THREE HOURS to clean up after about THIRTY FIVE rabbits! (not possible.) so now i have to starting going in at 8 instead of 9 (waking up up at 6. yay.) and working super fast. (might need more stimulants.) also, we're changing shifts. i'll be working sunday, monday and tuesday. the shelter is closed on monday, so i don't have to get done by noon, and tuesday is generally less busy than the weekend.

i have to get better or else i'm in trouble. i'm still not very employable, and have nowhere to go if i'm not.

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so i've been wanting to post pictures, and since i am mentioning my work, i might as well share some of the pictures i've taken of some of the bunnies. these were taken in october and november of last year:

nicholas

rachel - adopted

stardust

d'artagnon

temperance - adopted

javelin - adopted

roger - adopted

taylor (left) went home with that cute little netherland dwarf

rain

hans

bunnie and clyde

cyrano

the creepy sand face castle

so on tuesday, tara, my best friend from portland (and stanford), was coming through berkeley in her travels and stopped to spend the day with me. we went to muir beach, which is up in the marin headlands, north of san francisco. we also went out for pizza, stopped at safeway, and then went back to my place for a sleepover. early the next morning, she went to the airport to fly off to hawaii. from there she will get on a boat and spend five weeks doing some sort of ocean research related to her studies. apparently the reefs are turning to acid or something.

it was fun to spend some time with her again, since we hadn't spent much time together in the last four or five years. while at the beach, i took some pictures of course (you may want to click for larger views):

ick. i look bad.

tara looks better, even though the lighting isn't great

cute border collie

yes, there does appear to be a dead bird in the background of this picture of a bird

look at this interesting house, with its many windows for ocean views

there were lots of fancy houses

pretty waves

look, a boat

fishing?

so our sand castle/village endeavor started with this little castle we found that someone else had made:

clearly created with a mold

we moved farther down to wetter sand, and started our creation. somehow, this first building's odd shape and towers ended up looking like some sort of creepy face. i realized this once i made the door that looked like a mouth. i then added some eyes just for fun.

i added some bushes outside this sand building, which only made is creepier.

creepy sand face

tara made an entrance thingy

the dead crab leg was a little disturbing

then tara made this one:

and i made this one:

tara made another building, we added a wall, and i made a bushy/grassy/forresty area

and then i made a mountain

mountain behind the village

we lined the road to the other castle with rocks/boulders

must go through dead crab leg gate to enter or exit

it's a long road to creepy-face village

then, this fluffy dog peed on my mountain

and last but not least, a funny dog action shot:

portland pictures

so i haven't been updating here much. i'm just so busy on the days that i work, and then when i'm at david's place on the other days, i can't use his computer like i use mine. i'm going to try to update more often though. at least once a week.

i have a whole mess of pictures that i want to share, so i'm going to start on that.

here's a couple pictures from my home... good old portland oregon. these were sitting in a folder where i keep my pictures that i have not yet shared with the world. the first two are of david and i, at a park called powell butte. behind us you can see the wonderful mt. hood.

i miss my portland...

i'm holding my dog, bubble, and wearing my special warm jacket that david got me for my birthday

my cute cute david!

this picture is of my two awesome dogs: bubble the pomeranian, and whiley the australian shepherd/american eskimo mix. i haven't seen them in eight months. (they are living with my parents in washington.) i miss them too :(

bubble would lay on whiley like this, and he didn't mind. silly doggies!

my little room

i'm in my little room in berkeley. my little room that is mine because i pay $450 a month for it. it's all i have. the rest of the house is shared with two other people. just this little room is my space.

i try to make it cozy. i have a nice big bed with lots of blankets. it's good for lounging as well as sleeping. i can't lounge there and watch tv though. i don't have a tv. i have a computer that can download tv shows, but i don't have a tv that i can just turn on and flip through the channels to see if there's anything interesting to look at. any people faces that can appear on the screen and make me feel less alone.

i've got lots of pictures on my walls. i have pictures of david, a few pictures of some of my animals, and pictures of places on postcards. the prettiest places of places. i have a rabbit calendar and a switchfoot calendar and a switchfoot poster. i have things to look at on my wall, but they don't move around and don't make me feel less alone.

i keep it nice and warm in here. nice and warm and comfy. i usually have my windows blocked with blankets to keep out the light while i am sleeping and make my little space cave-like. but right now i have one removed so some sunlight can come in here and hopefully make me feel better. but the bars over the window only enhance the isolated feelings.

i have two cats in here. they do help a little bit to make it less lonely.

it's quiet in here. i've been playing music today but that only makes it seem more quiet when i finally get tired of listening to it and turn it off.

i have no reason to feel lonely or down. i work three days a week and visit with david on the other days. but david doesn't want me around so much so now i have to spend more time here. i'm still unalone more often than not, but when i am alone i am just reminded of tortured thoughts that i would rather not think about. i miss my parents. don't know when i'll see them again. it's been three months and that feels like too much. i lived with them for 22 years. now i don't even see them once in three months. and they are not getting younger. david will never be as devoted to me as they are. when they are no longer around, just think how much more alone i will be.

my little room with my barred window

those two are loki (brown) and binky (orange)

lots of pictures on my walls...

david made this long ago, i hung it over my bed

new blog

welcome to my new blog. (whatever that means.) this new, fancy blog is a continuation of this old, musty blog. feel free to look around there if you wish to know more history about me and my life. you can also get to the old blog, and the even older blog, by clicking those "blog generation" links over there to the right.

to learn more about me and my life more quickly, you can click on over to my 100 facts about me page, which is linked over to the left. there you can find out all sorts of random things and look at fun pictures.

even more fun is my spiffy weasel page which you can get to by clicking on that cute little ferret up there on the right.

so take a look around, and come back soon to see my updates and my continuing to blog about my life and whatnot. if you like things like cute baby bunnies, tsunami nightmares and creepy guys handing out flowers at the laundromat, then you surely won't be disappointed!