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49th Post – The Final Post

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:03:33 GMT

Wow, I did it! We did it! We lasted twenty-four hours, now we can sleep. I don't know what else to say, I'm running on fumes right now.

If any of you guys want to friend me I'll be over on my brienakiaccount. I probably won't be posting for a bit, I think I'm all post out.

Great now I'm too excited to sleep!

48th Post -- Saying my thanks now.

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:29:27 GMT

Today I wasn’t only blogging to help animals but to help myself. Posting on blogs and conversing with people has been a very hard thing for me to do. Social anxiety made it near impossible to interact with any one. Finally this past January I was able to get on some depression anxiety medication and I started to feel normal. I stopped worrying about what people thought of me.

I want to make a thank you post to all the people who’ve been so nice today. I threw myself into the blogathon head first with really no plan other then to help the Animal Humane Society and become more sociable. I think I’ve done fairly well, I’ve made more posts then I ever have, but most of all I commented freely on peoples blogs which was something I was terrified to do just last year.

For me there was no backing out of this, so all I could do is go forward. Lack of sleep has left my brain… dumb? Uh oh, I’m losing my vocabulary. Really all I want to say is thank you to all of you who’ve commented and friended me.

47th Post -- 3 Ferrets Pics

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:10:48 GMT

Is it over yet? I'm so tired...

This is Fubuki he was my goofy boy. He was such a clown.

Risky and Minx were my very first ferrets.

Risky was this tiny little thing that loved to ride around in the pocket of my hoodie. She would come find me and try and crawl up my leg just to get in my pocket.

Minx was also a tiny little thing barely weighing a pound.

Minx and Risy passed away last year and Fubuki passed away last May. I miss them all so much, it was very hard not having a ferret like Risky constantly seek your attention, no Minx to baby, or Fu to follow you around. But I know there will be something I miss about each of my ferrets when another passes.

46th Post -- Joey and Sylvester together forever

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:31:45 GMT

Only a few more posts to go. Yay!

Sylvester absolutely loves Joe, out of everyone in the house Sylvester loves Joe.

Here's a quick pic of Joey with his Hedgie.

Joey puts up with a lot. He is just the gentlest dog, even when Lenne (ferret) is nipping at his feet he will tipptoe around her so he doesn't squish her.

45th post -- I lied another cute dog

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:02:46 GMT

This time the dog's mine, this is Marcellus, our Australian Shepherd.

44th Post -- The most adorable dogs

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:44:05 GMT

I was debating on whether I should post this or not, mostly because they're not my dogs, but these two are the freakin cutest dogs that I have ever seen.

This is Layla, I let her out on the weekdays for my neighbor.

She has the squeakie I got her for Christmas.

And this cutie is Rickie, I believe he's around thirteen. Sometimes he's over with Layla.

These pictures don't do him justice. He is adorable.

And this is Kate who was to busy to get her picture taken.

43rd Post -- Sylvester

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:02:58 GMT

And here are some pictures of Sylvester.

Edit: Fixed spelling errors.

42nd Post -- My Kitty Buddy

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:35:40 GMT

Here some pictures.

41st post -- Ho Hum...

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:04:22 GMT

I finally got some ideas for post but I don't have enough brain power right now to actually type them up... I'm guessing a lot of people are feeling like that now. Only a few more hours!

40th post -- My Bookshelves

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:41:26 GMT

I have close to 300 hundred graphic novels.

I tried to organize my books but there just wasn't enough space.

My Middle Earth books, a few comics and fantasy books.

More books stacked on top.

And here we have my writing books, which now take up space on my bed.

And more. This is no where near the amount of books we have. Unfortunately besides my room we only have one other shelf so most our books end up in tubs. I wish we had room for more shelves.

39th Post - Only five more hours!

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:59:02 GMT

I'm running out of things to post! I have topics but I just feel to tired to think. My spelling is starting to suck, and I'm not working well with spellcheck right now. Since I don't even know what I'm trying to say. I just got to hang in there for ten more posts, just ten more and it's over with...

How are you guys doing? Starting to slow down?

38th Post -- What are you reading? What are you going to read?

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:37:42 GMT

Here's what I'm currently reading:

How to Read a Book, Let your Body Interpret your Dreams and the Artist's Way
and here's what I'm starting after I finish those ones.

A History of Women and The Bookseller of Kabul. I hope to start these soon but it taking me a little while sense Artist's Way is a 12 week course.

37th Post -- It's Only Natural

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:14:17 GMT

p.26 in Room to Write By Bonni Goldberg

Write about an aspect of nature, either human or environmental, that intrigues you. Or, spend one page on both senses of nature and then connect the two.

I wrote this over a year ago.

The most interesting thing I find about nature is murder. Well, not murder exactly only humans murder or do they? A dog will eat it’s young if hungry and there’s no food to be found. An immature rabbit will chew hers to death if she was too young to care for them. A lion will kill cubs that aren’t his. So they are capable of killing but not of murdering why? Animals do not have a sense of right and wrong, they have no moral code. Yet even then they do not kill without reason or what they think is reason. A cat will naturally catch a mouse that it won’t eat but will leave on your bed, why? Why does it do this? Instinct but why do they continue to have an instinct that is useless to them. Why do we have instincts that are useless to us?

Surely in the entire world there have been animals that kill without reason or maybe we give them a reason when there is none. A hungry dog eating her young is reasonable, especially when she is tied up. But then why do people say “what made this dog go against nature and eat its young?” The dog did not go AGAINST nature it went with nature. A dog has no sense of what is right and wrong, it was hungry she couldn’t feed her babies so she ate them. Now she can live to have more babies that will thrive. Nature is survival of the fittest and with no food those puppies wouldn’t be fit at all.

Why do people insist on giving animals human attributes? My dog does this because he’s lonely. Your dog does that because it’s a DOG. It behaves how a dog behaves. Dogs are pack animals and they need people, not only for social but for the hierarchy. A dog needs to know where it stands if it doesn’t, it assumes it’s boss and the dog does what he wants.

I do not assume to know all about dogs and nor can I blame these people to much as I was one of them. I gave a guinea pig a heart attack because at the age of 4 I thought the guinea pig would have fun on a trampoline, like I did. I would not think this would give her a heart attack as I did not know what one was but I was smart enough to know that I needed to watch my feet so as not to squish her.

I then have to look at all the times I assumed my pets would be happy if I gave them things I was happy with. For Runner, my hamster, I built with pop cans a jungle gym for him to play on. This was useless as he did not play nor did he ever use my pop can gym. But how I thought he would love it as I would of loved things to climb on like that. Even long before the pop can gym I was putting my toys in the guinea pig cage, I cannot remember this but I have seen the picture I can already assume I was doing this because I thought they would be happier with toys.

Then I look at how many times I say I love you to my pets and how useless it really is, as they don’t understand it. But I’ll continue to say it because it makes me feel better to know I do love them. Someday if they are able to understand, then they will know they were very much loved.

I can't remember where I heard this either on the discovery or National Geographic channel, some dolphins actually kill for fun! I couldn't believe it when I heard that, I love dolphins.

36th Post -- Computer Trouble

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:38:51 GMT

My computers being difficult so I need to reboot. I'll post a little later.

35th Post -- I'll be here next year

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 06:01:35 GMT

We're not even done yet and I'm already planning on doing this next year. I'm disappointed that I did not put much effort or thought into this, as I should have. So I'm hoping next year to actually have more content and to be more active in my charity.

Volunteering at the local human society would be the way to go. The only reason I haven't is I don't have a driver license. But I will be rectifying that soon so I will have no excuse not to go help out. I only worry that I’ll end up adopting the ferrets that come in or an older dog.

I’ll be working next year on better graphics, better promotion, and better posts. Well as my Mom says, ‘Now you know what to expect.’ And now I expect it to not be as easy as it looks. Post every 30 minutes for 24 hours? Sure no problem. It couldn’t be that hard. Oh now I know better.

34th Post -- Hugo and Hubert Part 4

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:40:36 GMT

Hugo and Hubert have been really active today, I wonder if they’re getting used to me. If anything they’re used to Buddy sitting over their cage watching for them to pop out. The mice don’t seem to mind him that much, coming out to sniff him. Buddy keeps trying to tip the cage over.

Anyway here are some pictures of Hugo and Hubert in a tub while I cleaned their cage. And no I don’t know which ones which.

33rd Post -- Writing is Hard

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:12:34 GMT

Writing is hard, I acknowledge this and the fact that getting your mind to concentrate on writing is also difficult. Have I ever struck a balance with anything? Not all the time but with drawing. It’s like jump rope the first few jumps you get the rhythm and if all goes well you just feel it. You know when that rope hits the ground and you feel yourself in tune with the rope and nothing else. But then you get tired and soon you can’t jump as high and you lose the rhythm, that feeling, that high, even though it has gone you know you’ll get it back after all once you know how to jump rope it doesn’t take you long to get back into the swing of things.

That’s how I get with drawing and I believe I’ll get that way with writing. It’s all in that rhythm. That gorgeous, lush rhythm. You just have to feel it but it takes a little bit to get into it. So with writing I have to remember the first few minutes may be uneasy but if you keep writing you’ll find that rhythm.

That writer’s high is great. I can’t remember a time when I got it, as it’s been a while sense I’ve written anything worthwhile but I know how it feels and can’t wait to feel it again.

I want to write because I don’t know, the rhythm maybe. The feeling I get when I seem to place the words and sentences just right and it feels good. Knowing that when I write something down it’s there and one last thing for me to have to think about again. Now if I could only begin writing stories, then maybe I would feel grand. But I feel happy when I reread some of my older pieces. I have evolved and I’m always improving.

32nd Post -- How are you?

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:39:59 GMT

How's every one doing? Good I hope! I'm doing great for someone who got
less then four hours of sleep last night. I'm still somewhat coherent, that's
all that matters... I know I'm going to look back over
my posts after a good nights sleep and wonder 'What the hell was I thinking?'.

Do you guys do anything else besides writing your next post?
I find myself making friendship bracelets. It's easy and mindless,
something to keep my brain from frying out with trying to think up topics.

Here's my current work,

almost done!

31st Post -- Beds I've Slept in

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:06:36 GMT

Beds I have slept in.

There really are many different kinds of beds in the world and so many different types of sheets and comforters. My current bed is actually a pretty good size. With a royal purple bedding. With industrial stripes of darker and lighter purples for the pillow covers and top of the comforter. The back of the comforter is two dark purples in a circle and flower like pattern. The sheet is striped with erratic stripes in those stripes. I always sleep on this fuzzy blanket I got from Pier 1, I always curl up in it although lately it’s been too hot so I don’t right now. I also have two fuzzy pillows like the blanket.

My old comforter was purple and white, mostly a stripe like pattern with a purple back. The ferrets have now inherited the blanket. The oldest comforter I remember is a white one with big roses on it.

I had my own bedroom once at Grandma and Grandpa’s house, but it is now Eric’s. Although they always say it’s for any one who wants to use it. I know they say that to not alienate me but I have to think it is Eric’s room, that’s his room no one else’s. So later I began to sleep in the big living room. On the pull out couch. Unfortunately it was flat and uncomfortable with the metal bar going across the middle. I’m glad I’m old enough to not have to go to their house any more to stay. I was so pissed the last time. I believe I had a fight with Mom.

I’ve slept at the cabin in both the beds and the couch. Some days in the twin bedroom room, the beds would be apart and other they’d be together. I generally slept on the top. I would climb up using the footboard. There was no ladder. Eric and me loved to play in the twin bedroom. I broke a window once or Eric did by throwing tinker toy when we were fighting with the tinker weapons. Right a way I had a us go out and tell Grandpa just as he was coming up the stairs on the deck.

I slept in the bigger bed when I was upset and wanted to go home. I would often get home sick and Grandpa would come out and sit with me for a while, he did this too at his house when I’d get home sick. We’d go sit in his big EZ Boy chair and watch TV. I slept on the couch at the cabin once, when Amy my Mom’s friend, came up. She began snoring at night and I couldn’t sleep so I did something I had never done because I hated doing it, I went out and slept on the couch. It was flat and uncomfortable, not to mention it smelt funny, seeing how old it was, with the ugly 70’s yellow colors and flowers. I felt bad because I didn’t want to insult Amy. I stayed up hoping Mom would notice I left the room.

Sleeping in public is something I hate. I hate knowing any one can see me when I’m not awake. I hated sleeping in the living room at Grandma and Grandpas for that reason. I was scared someone would come in see that I’m awake and leave the door open. Which happened sometimes. And then Eric would come in. I just wanted a few minutes of alone time, which I don’t get there because there is no room that I can shut myself in. So I’d fake sleep for a while longer. Which brings me to another thing I hate, being the last one up or having someone up before me. I loathe that. At Grandma and Grandpa’s it always happened. It always leaves me feeling out of sync.

Another bed was the first and only time I slept over at Izzy’s. I absolutely hated it. I cried most the night. Wondering if I could just sneak home and go to bed. I remember Jennifer coming by I wonder if she noticed I was crying, if she did she didn’t say anything.

I slept on the couch at home a lot. Usually during the summer, when it was hot and the only rooms that had AC were Mom’s room and the Living Room. My bedroom became the living room for quite a few months. I even had an air mattress for a while which Joey also slept on. I slept on Eric’s little mattress up in Mom’s room sometimes. I slept in Mom’s bed a lot too. Generally during, you guess it, the summer.

Other beds, hotel beds, no actually I had a couch… I slept on a freaken’ fold out couch for my vacation, awesome. I also hated it too as I was out in the open, with a window inside the building with only a shear curtain. I also slept at Allen and Sheryl’s house, in their guest bedroom. It sucked because everybody was upstairs and I was by myself… At least I was by myself, and not sleeping out in the open.

30th Post -- Five minutes on Windows

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:35:59 GMT

Five minutes on Windows

Windows are nice. I always loved looking out my window in my old room. I could see who was here at any time, which is nice, when I don’t want to visit with any one. I especially liked the view at night with the light post, its where a lot of my dreams ended at that light post in the night. I always wanted to paint it but now since they put the privacy fence up it’s different or it could be the fact I don’t look out that window much any more. I can’t really think of any memories involving windows, me and Eric broke one as you know. I got a scar from one. I was climbing through the window from the porch to the dining room one time, I had done it many times before, and some how this nail that was bent so it could keep that big glass panel on during the winter, caught my arm and took a big chunk out of my flesh. I’m must have been going through the window to fast or lost my balance, I don’t remember or my shirt got caught. Now the scar has faded no one would notice it now. I’m kind of disappointed in that. I kind of like my smaller scars.

29th Post -- What books I like

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:08:13 GMT

This is from my private journal because I forgot to write something, oops.

August 3, 2006 Thursday

I love books. I love buying them and then not reading them. But then I worry I will never read them. I don’t really have a favorite genre. I’m still like reading my child hood books such as Boxcar Children, Ramona and that Vampire Series for teenage girls. I haven’t read to many what I consider adult books. I thought I was well read but looking at my shelf I’ve only started getting books. Although only in the past year have I been making a little money. When I was at school, I got most books I read from the school library, although I stopped getting them at the library by the last few years because they changed the system and you had to know your number and I forgot mine and I was scared to go ask what it was, because sometimes the librarian wasn’t nice. So by then I started reading the runaway series by V.C.Andrews and The Gate to Women’s Country.

I went threw so many books, accelerated reader proved it, around 200 hundred points that’s a lot considering I probably read mostly between four and seven point books. I remember this one series with a boy in one book he ate dog food, and there was this dog who got lost and they gave it a bath in lavender.

But now my taste run towards the self-help telling me it’s okay I can learn. I have books on writing, so many books on writing, in fact that’s where I got the topic to write about books from. Then of course there are my many How to Draw Manga books which I have not used in a while. I’ve been too depressed to draw. Motivational books. Manga, I have close to 300 manga books, they range from romance to horror. My current favorites are Monster, Deathnote, NANA, Angel Sanctuary, Petshop of Horrors. Oh and I finally got the last Sailor Moon book. I have the complete collection. Dragon Head is another really good one, I can’t wait for the next one in the series comes out, I’m really excited to know what happens in it, I have up to the third one, ending with a possible mud slide in a world that might be the apocalypse. I want to know if it was the apocalypse. I started Dragon Ball, I haven’t seen DBZ in a while so I thought I’d read the manga. I saw that the DBZ manga started in the middle of something so I decided just to start with the first in the series Dragon Ball.

XXXholic, I’m kind of hoping Watanuki and Domeki get together, there so cute together. Oh and in NANA, I hope both the Nanas get together too. I find I am a shipper. I like finding partners for the characters, especially if there canon, there the pairings I can’t see breaking up.

I also enjoy essay books. I really like David Sedaris books those are the books I can really remember who the author is. I usually never remember the author. I also seem to enjoy what I think are economic psychology books. Blink, the Tipping Point, Freakonomics, I really like those books except the last one I find is too short but it was like 20% off so 30% off all together. I have quite a number of FBI, CIA, Police and armed forces books, I actually got them for research and now I read them for fun, although I haven’t read many books lately just for entertainment. I really should I think it makes me depressed that I don’t read just for entertainment, I’m trying to have books teach me when some of these books aren’t for teaching.

28th Post -- Ferrets!

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:29:41 GMT

The Ferret Room. Looking much cleaner than it actually is. I don't know which one of you is pooping on the molding but I will find you!

My loopy girl, Galadriel.

My chubby Tokyo, who like's to sleep sitting up.

My Scaredy cat Desha.

Ittey Bitey Baby.

The youngest Watanuki.

Eowyn, this is pretty much the best shot I can get out of her.

Osaka our arm bitter.

Lenne, this was taken after she figured out how to jump the plexi glass and escape.

Little Fred.

My current oldest and moodiest Kuma!

27th Post -- Are unexpected gifts better than expected ones?

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:06:11 GMT

I wanted to post a bunch of pictures of my ferrets but I'm to lazy to upload the pictures. Maybe next post.

Are unexpected gifts better than expected ones? Should we do away with one or the other?

I love an unexpected gift, I love an unexpected gift that is expected. But I hate unexpective gifts that are expected but are really just wishful thing. I don't know how many days I think my Mom will bring home a new ferrets. Will she? Probably not, but it would be a nice surprize.

I would do away with expected gifts if I had to because unexpected gifts are so much better.

26th Post -- Confessions of a former bad owner

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:43:21 GMT

I love animals very much, a lot more than most people. I hate hearing stories about people abusing animals. And I regret that in the past I was a bad pet owner. When I was young I was not taught that animals are not human there for they do not like human things. From a very early age I was putting toys in the guinea pig cage and trying to play with them like I would a friend. One of my most horrible mistakes as a preschooler was thinking a guinea pig would like to bounce on the trampoline, that did not go over so well. While I was aware that I could hurt her if I stepped on her, I was not aware they could have heart attacks. Poor thing must of had a horrible last minute of life.

While that was bad I don't think it was bad as ignorance I had with my guinea pigs when I was older. Not only did they live in an aquarium, they also had pine chips for bedding, this caused them respiratory problems but at the time I didn't know. I also was lazy cleaning their aquarium leading to them having fecal matter caked on their feet. I can't even begin to image how horrible it was for them. Years later, after their passing, I found a book on guinea pigs. And I realized I did everything wrong that could be wrong for them.

Now in life I know enough to do research on an animal before I get it, like I did with the ferrets. I read ferrets for Dummies Cover to cover and took notes. While ferrets are not guinea pigs, I will never let them live like those two guinea pigs did.

One day I hope to prove I can take care of guinea pigs, when I do I'll make sure I do everything right and care for them the way they're meant to be cared for. And I hope Emma, Rose, Pumpkin Seed and Swirl can forgive me. I miss having guinea pigs squeal when I bring treats, it was a nice sound knowing they were happy for a little bit.

25th Post -- NaNoWriMo

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:09:31 GMT

Only 12 more hours to go.

How many of you have done NaNoWriMo? I've been wanting to do it for a few years but I would always forget about it till about the middle of November. Hopefully this year I'll be able to join... If I don't forget, of course. : )