estacey
Highlights of Tuesday, 5/17
I had a really long day yesterday. It involved:
- Spending my lunch hour watering plants and feeding worms to an ungrateful lizard.
- Stops at Kinkos, Starbucks, Target, Publix #1, CVS, and Publix #2 after work.
- Fighting with Kitten to get the harness on so SOMEDAY I can let her sit outside, tied up.
Then I got to watch her crawl around the house like, pathetic as you can imagine. She acts like her leg bones liquify when the harness goes on. - Getting by until 10 p.m. on a Slimfast, a bowl of cereal, and a waffle with PB&J. Then I had a big ol' cheesy burrito. :)
- Trying to keep up with the food bowl outside to avoid being cried at by precious and sad homeless kitties.
- A 35-minute run.
- Cleaning my car.
- Driving to three different gas stations to find a vaccuum/car wash that worked.
- Once I found one, having to get out of my car three times to go see what was wrong with the carwash. It was 1 a.m. by this time and I was pretty homesick.
- Not getting home from there until 1:30.
- Having the asshole Kitten dart out the door once I opened it.
- Having the asshole Kitten run around outside like a bunny and then finding an entrance to the CRAWLSPACE UNDER OUR HOUSE.
- Having to sit at the entrance of the crawlspace shaking treat bags for five minutes.
- Eventually penetrating the crawlspace - bare knees on gravel - to sweet-talk her.
- Having her get pissed at me for taking her back in the house. Claws and everything.
- GETTING TO TAKE A SHOWER!!!! :)
- Not getting to lay down until 2:30 a.m.
So yes, I'm tired today.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
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Making a difference
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
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