The dog didn’t give you pinworms.

I heard this all of my life - that my animals would give me worms. Straight from a vet's mouth - that's not how that works. Good to know! 🙂

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Barry G Nicholls  · Anniston, AL

Veterinary parasite tip #2: the dog didn’t give you pinworms.

I sometimes receive reports that a family member told them that their kids got pinworms from the dog. There’s no way this happened because dogs don't get pinworms. Humans get highly contagious pinworms from other humans. Pet rabbits or horses can be infected with pinworms, but even those pinworms are species-specific.

I accidentally left the gas can outside yesterday...

I accidentally left the gas can outside yesterday when I was cutting grass.  Got home to see Storm starting to play with it.  😳  I got in the house and then went outside and grabbed it.  I didn't yell at him or make any fast movements towards him like I was angry (though I did lean down and take the can) - he wasn't doing anything wrong and I wasn't mad - that was 100% my mistake.  But he cowered down and looked SO SAD.  🙁  He broke my heart a little bit.

Carol, do you know if he has been hit before?  Or if he got into things he wasn't supposed to at his old home - did they punish him harshly or yell at him?  Because that just made me too sad.  My heart hurts right now.  I just had to hug him.

Made a 90 on my Trig test!

Made a 90 on my Trig test! My average in there is an 89. I feel encouraged. 😃 Maybe I can make an A yet! 😃 😃 😃

Edited to add:  AND I just finished my graphs - all of which I feel pretty confident about. And they are beautiful! ❤

Shower time!

Shower time!  I surprised myself and cut some grass today.  I think I needed some exercise.  I feel less emotion-y.  Might have to do this more often.  Worth a shot!

When you're a grown ass adult...

When you're a grown ass adult, but have a meltdown the night before because you don't want to go back to school.  And you wake up this morning crying because you dreamed about Biology.

This is my life.  This is my life right now.  😢

Hung with the dogs a few minutes ago.  Took them bones, woohoo!  Faith doesn't care about bones.  She doesn't chew.  But she did box me half to death from excitement and walk between my legs several times as I was picking up in her room.  It's funny when you're so used to a dog walking between your thighs (as though you're riding her - except that she's too short) that you don't even miss a beat anymore.

Faith has been my clown on my darkest days.  She's so weird and goofy and I need that in my life.  I think I'm gonna be spending a lot of time with her to get me through this awful semester.  She's never failed to make me laugh just by being herself.  I'm feeling the love for my precious weirdo right now.  🙂❤

Highlight of my day was seeing friends I rarely get to see.

Highlight of my day was seeing friends I rarely get to see.  I hate that pretty much all of my tribe lives so far away.  All I got here is Shaun and Shadow - and most days that's enough.  But already I'm having anxiety about going back to school Monday and I just wish I had the comfort of more of my friends around me.  Life this semester has been 1% fun and 99% stress.  It's really hard to want to keep going when you hate pretty much everything.

On the bright side I think I get almost a month off between finals and the beginning of the summer semester.  I probably need every second of that time to gather my nerve for Biology 104.  I wish I didn't have to take it, but JSU requires a sequence and I'm not holding myself back by starting over with Chemistry now.  I can't even look forward to the fall semester because I'll be starting Calculus so that's scary, too.  I think this year is just bad, and I don't know what to do.  🙁

Anyone have survival tips for me?  Encouraging words?  I feel as though I'm having a panic right about now.  😢

Ok, well, the kitty cat nails didn't last long.

Ok, well, the kitty cat nails didn't last long.  The collar glequins and bowtie started coming off, so then of course I started picking at them and just had to take all the polish off so that I didn't do actual damage to my nails from picking at them.  I'm the worst about picking.  Once I start it's all over with, so they just had to go.

So I did these last night.  I showed them to my guy today and he was like, "What made you do that?"  He looked truly baffled.  LOL  Honestly, I saw something very similar in a blog and I liked the way it looked, so there you go.  They used totally different colors and no stones, but as you know I can't just leave well enough alone.  LOL

I imagine that I will have the same problem with these as the kitty cat nails because of the stones, but that's ok.  I don't mind doing one last awesome mani before spring break ends.  😃