The Closet Extrovert

Phew… I’m back home after spending the day with some friends to escape breathing in poison from the pest control session scheduled by my landlord, thanks to the downstairs neighbor’s flea infestation. All in all, pretty inconvenient, and bad timing with a work deadline looming over me.
I had to prepare by vacuuming the entire […]

It’s not a tumor! Well, it might have been, there’s was no way to know without a biopsy, but it *was* fairly disgusting. When Kerby was about a year old (he’s now 8.5 years old), we had a benign tumor removed from his chest. Over a year ago I noticed some odd bumps under his […]

To balance out all the complaining I’ve done about my neighborhood over the past seven months (I’ve intentionally refrained from posting about the inescapable ice cream truck music), I thought I’d list a few of the positive things about being here (and toss in some relevant haiku as well):

The flowering tree in the front yard […]

Well, ok, it was yesterday, but I was too busy to actually post. Now it’s Earth Day which sounds a lot like “birthday” so I’m getting it all over at once. Besides, it seems appropriate in light of the fact that I spent half of Thursday thinking it was actually Friday. Heh.

Things I liked about […]

Kerby has been doing much better recently. He seems much happier at the new place, and his increased liveliness hopefully means that the new food with glucosamine and chondroitin in it is helping with his joint problems. I felt like giving him a kick in the head today, though.
I didn’t get much sleep last […]

Although rare, occasionally things come together more easily than you planned. I found a new apartment that takes large dogs in a decent enough neighborhood! It’s a 2nd floor two bedroom in an old Victorian building downtown, with hardwood floors and a back porch. No fireplace, unfortunately, but the price was right. It’s also not […]

Oh no, I’m turning into one of those people who send their pet pictures in to local papers. The Spark (the local free weekly paper) put out their Pet Issue yesterday. Now I have proof that Kerby is a cuteness pie. Too bad they didn’t make note of it in the online gallery, too.