I always buy Sebastian a little ball - or three - any time I go to the Target pets section, or the pet store, or the dollar store. For example, earlier this week I got him two little mousies from Pet Supermarket. Tonight I got him three tiny balls from the dollar store, along with a big plush squeaker.
I don't know where the hell all these balls go.. I'm kinda scared to look behind the furniture.. but it sure is fun for the first hour or so after I get home, watching Sebastian go crazy trying to fit three balls in his mouth and then bouncing another one at him. He drops them all and tries to catch the one I bounced, then all of a sudden seems to realize what he's done and tries spazzily to get the original balls back.
Right now he's whining because one of them got pushed under the couch. Ahhhhh, dogs.
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!"
