Calypso, aka Club Soda.

Calypso, aka Club Soda.

Hands down the worst cat. 😂

Vanessa Power is feeling thankful with Blu Stephens.

"This amazing lady right here!! Blu Stephens met me at North Domingo Baca skatepark for a roller skating session in the sunshine today, and ended up being my ambulance and personal assistant for the rest of the afternoon. She drove me to the emergency room, entertained another very, very chatty patient in the waiting room, while I did Lamaze breathing in order not to scream profanities due to the pain in my right shoulder. She even managed to make me laugh at moments when I was holding back tears. She then drove me to Walgreen’s to pick up my pain prescription. Drove me back to the skatepark to pick up my car, followed me back to my apartment, and carried all my skate gear upstairs for me. All without a single complaint. All with the patience of a saint. And now she is on call in case I need a ride to the ortho doctor tomorrow. I am humbled and thankful and will give her a huge hug…..when I can lift my right arm again.

Thanks for being a wonderful human! 

Skate buddies forever!"

I got my roll on today.

I got my roll on today. It's sunny and in the upper 30s. Shockingly, I didn't even need a jacket!  The sun here is AMAZING. As long as there's no freezing wind it feels nice while the sun's out. 

Butt padding and new helmet courtesy of my mom for Christmas. I had on my ear-covering visor and didn't realized how stupidly I was wearing my helmet. You'd think SOMEONE *ahem Shaun* might have pointed it out, but whatever. 😂 I'll make sure it's on better next time.

I had fun. I needed some exercise! ❤️

The business end of Cubba.

The business end of Cubba. You'd think the end with teeth would be more deadly, but the farts that come out of this dog... PHEW!

I don't do New Years resolutions; however...

I don't do New Years resolutions; however, I thought about a thing I'd like to do and realized that today would be the perfect day to start (because the date is easy to remember).

I used to post all of my stuff on MySpace.  Then the world switched to Facebook and so did I (eventually).  I have blogs that are so sadly neglected that I've been meaning to update for literal years.  Facebook didn't make it easy to keep similar content together until you could put text-only in albums but there is still a ton of content that I just wouldn't easily see by going through albums.

Then I thought:  Facebook Memories.  I'm going to slowly but surely update my blogs using Facebook Memories because there is a lot of stuff that I would like to have better organized and I really don't want to lose it should Facebook go the way of MySpace.

So... now I have a thing to do that starts today.  I'm going to put a task reminder in my phone to stay on track.  That means I will update (at least) 11 years worth of content day by day until the end of this year.  I guess I'm a nerd because I am honestly pretty excited.

Haha.  I played myself into having a resolution - on New Years Day. 😂😂😂

My current plan for this blog:

I had such grand plans to update this blog with all of my rescue, rehab, and pet stories.  It's been literal years and I haven't found the time or energy to do it so I've come to the conclusion that it's not going to happen.  I've made the decision to be ok with that.  The way society switches from social media platform to social media platform makes it difficult to keep up and keep everything together.  I simply don't have the energy or willpower to cross-post pictures, videos, and stories repeatedly.

Most of the posts on this blog were saved from MySpace before it became what it is now.  After leaving MySpace I moved over to using Facebook primarily and pretty much neglected blogging.  Facebook has changed a lot over the years and for a long time you could not add posts without photos to albums.  That has changed now, thank goodness, but it means that many of my animal posts would not be easily found.  On the bright side, it is the first day of 2022 and Facebook Memories are now a thing so I will do my very best to check my memories every day this year and cross-post any animal-related posts that I find.  That will be a very slow but steady way to get my animal posts together.

Other than that, the current plan is to buy a domain name sometime in the near future and create a webpage for myself.  Until I get that up and running, here is a list of links to my easily-found animal posts and albums on Facebook:

Foster Kids

Rehab

Forever Kids

Bugs

First accomplishment of the New Year:

First accomplishment of the New Year:  I passed my first ServiceNow Delta exam. 😁