what i have accomplished since work: - two previous blog posts - happy hour with the pictured ladies. 1.5 beers - food run at whole foods - pick-up of oreo from home, where i tried to let kitten see that oreo was leaving by holding oreo's carrier up to kitten's face. oreo hissed and batted at the carrier door. kitten jumped back and ran away. typical. - drop-off of oreo at animal aid, accompanied by massive amounts of guilt and affection; i'll see her tomorrow, and then bring her to petsmart during my volunteering shift to put her up for adoption. the animal aid people are so good to me - much love to a little adoptable dog named taco at the shelter. i smelled like dog afterwards, but it was worth it - wal*mart to buy stray cats' food and cheap toys for the petsmart cats, where i was literally one of three white folks in the whole store - amusement in the hair products aisle at a sign that read: PLEASE DO NOT OPEN HAIR! yes! - feeding of strays, with a stern warning to the mamacat there that she had better not THINK of getting knocked up again - she's getting fixed hopefully next week - this blog post. for which i am sure you are grateful. ;)
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!
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!"
