More freaks than I care to acknowledge

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1)      While I understand that the park’s onsite geologist may not be an animal expert, ferrets are not rodents and saying as much makes me think you need some more basic education.  A likely analogy would be me calling water or oil a fossilized rock! I mean, they both come from the ground, right?

2)      This is just another example of why pet stores should not be selling any kind of animal.  And I want to know what cashier let this person walk out with this assortment of animals? None of these things should be sold at the same time! Their habitats are totally different and the likelihood that the person who bought this weird assortment of animals would have four very distinct habitats set up is highly unlikely.  Hopefully they will ask the local Petco to see if a clerk recalls selling these animals and we can determine who the individual is that did this is.

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Reptilian Checkup: Callisto goes back to the vet

For those that witnessed Joyce’s fretting over Callisto’s mouth, I took him back to the vet today.  Apparently I just worry a lot.  Vet said Callisto’s abscess DOES NOT appear to be back, but for a good measure we are going to dose him for another 30 days with meds to ensure it does not come back.

And something is really wrong with my bathroom scale: today Callisto weight in at 4.85 Kg (10.69lbs); he was 4.9Kg the last time (10.8lbs).  He’s pre-shed and needs to eat once he sheds so that might explain the small weight loss difference.

 

 

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No more nonsense!

After working on taxes all last night and today I finally got the scary number down from above the 30k mark (an obvious mistake, but it took me a while to track it down) to a manageable near $1,000. I’ve taken the day off from my day job tomorrow and I’m going to try to get it closer to last years amount of $650. Wish me luck!

And in 2014, I take back my life. No more sales, no more running a business other than just teaching dance. 2014 will be the year of “No more of this nonsense!”

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Contented

Fed the snakes tonight. All cages are clean. Life is good.

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Cake, or Death, and Taxes

Forgot my breakfast cake at home this morning, so I had it for dinner instead. Worked on taxes and got in another nearly thousand dollars worth of deductions entered. Slowly but sure, the cake will get eaten, the taxes will get done, and death approaches.

Hum. That became weirdly morbid……

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Acceptance of my needs

Saw this in a friend’s post, and while I’m applying it to something very different and much more closer to home, it still holds true:

Thich N. Hanh says, “Without mud, you cannot have lotus flowers.”

I woke up this morning in some physical discomfort thinking “My body is screaming for some Yoga.” One more sign that I need to make time to work on myself. It’s far past time for this lotus flower to focus on herself and leave the mud behind.

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Vegan Vader

Order 44!

She shall have cake! Happy birthday to me!

 

Recipe for this awesome egg-less cake is here:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/eggless-chocolate-cake-ii/

 

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GROSSNESS or what happens when you try to take shortcuts

I usually feed the snakes in their strike bins for a variety of reasons. But everyone once in a great while I either get rushed or by the time I get home from my two jobs I run out of time and end up feeding them in their cages. This happened this week due to an overbooked weekend and I didn’t want to make the snakes wait a whole week to eat so I feed them during the week when I was really too rushed to be able to do it properly. Although I removed all hides and usually remove the water dishes, this week I ended up with a couple of issues that I know were directly tied to feeding in their cages, so I won’t be lazy or try to take shortcuts again for a long time.

This time the grossness was a prey item that I _thought_ had been eaten, but I discovered yesterday that it had not. I had been smelling something funky for the past day or so, but my Tuesday – Thursday schedule is so crazy that I didn’t have to time to really investigate. I looked for poo, but didn’t see any and could not figure out if a cat had been naughty or what else the small was from. Well, come Saturday morning I had enough of it and got out the super bright flashlight to investigate (all my cages are lit, but sometimes the black cages make it hard to see corners unless everything comes out). That was when I discovered the prey item. I know the snake had grabbed it, but apparently the Monty (female BP) decided she was not interested and left it in her cage.

So gross! The only thing worse I have ever smelled was regurgitated rat. And this was a pretty close second.

Lesson learned. All snakes get fed in their strike boxes. If that means waiting an extra week so I can do it _right_ then so be it.

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So overwhelmed right now.

Deep breaths and take one thing at a time.

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Seeing more clearly

I read this article today and it reminded me that I need to write out what I’m feeling so that my brain is not so cluttered.

I’m really not sure what more to do. Some of our classes are doing really well, others are not. It’s looking more and more like we will be closing our doors after December. I’ve gone through a variety of emotions about this and while I’m still sad at this thought, I’m not feeling hopeless or debilitated by it. It might just be time for something new.

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