Available for Adoption: Athena, female boa

Posted on July 28, 2013 by perlgurl

See all the fosters here If you are interested in adopting this animal, please contact Joyce.

This is Athena, a female boa constrictor that was dropped at the shelter in March of 2013. Due to the combined efforts of Jamie, Iris and Joyce, she, along with the other two that were dropped off at the same time, we pulled from the shelter within 24 hours of being surrendered. She is now being fostered and needs a new home!
Athena and Jamie

She is a very nice snake, enjoys being handled. Eats frozen pre-killed prey items.
my face

She is a very large snake and as such, she needs to go to a home with two adults willing to handle her or a home with adults and teen children.
Outside!

Want to help support Athena’s care with a donation? Any amount will help!





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Update on Callisto

Posted on July 23, 2013 by perlgurl

Callisto is home and back in his enclosure. Dr. Neville commented over and over what a “nice snake” Callisto is and when it was time to show me how to do the antibiotics shots, he even said that Callisto was “…such a nice snake. Boas are typically nice, but he is like the Golden Retriever of boas!”


His procedure ended up costing $403.30 and thus far I have received $190 in donations. Thanks so very, very much!

I’ll leave the paypal link up on his page here until I have met the total amount of his procedure fees, so if you see it, that means I can still use some funds to help cover the cost.

This is a photo of his abscess:

I did not get one from yesterday prior to his procedure, but the abscess was about the same size as it was a week ago. His face looks far more symmetrical today and I’m sure his pain is a lot less without all the infection pushing in the side of his face and jaw.

Can we go home now please?

I swear the whole time we waited for checkout he really just wanted a cuddle, as much as a snake can cuddle.

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Available for adoption: Callisto, male boa

Posted on July 22, 2013 by perlgurl

See all the fosters here If you are interested in adopting this animal, please contact Joyce.

This is Callisto, a male boa constrictor that was dropped at the shelter in March of 2013. Due to the combined efforts of Jamie, Iris and Joyce, he, along with the other two that were dropped off at the same time, we pulled from the shelter within 24 hours of being surrendered. He is now being fostered and needs a new home!

Callisto had a funny bump on the side of his nose when he arrived at his foster home and it has turned into an abscess. He is getting a procedure done to clean it out, but the procedure is estimated at $425 and we could use any amount you can donate to help fund this.

Want to help support Callisto’s procedure with a donation? Any amount will help!





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Home Projects Summer 2013

Posted on July 21, 2013 by perlgurl

Just trying to keep track of what seems like an insane amount of things we need to do in our short summer:

INDOORS:
– paint cupboards white
– paint front door blue
– paint living room wall orange
– man cave: add shelving, unpack collectibles and rearrange
– washer and dryer stands, plus washroom area
– glue dining room chairs

OUTDOORS:
– remove fencing and posts from wall
– gardening
– flower box by dance room window

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Terrible noise

Posted on July 19, 2013 by perlgurl

Today I learned how to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It sounds HORRIBLE.

But I can’t stop smiling since I finally signed up for a lesson like I’ve been wanting to for a couple years now. Currently taking “ Violin and Fiddle for Absolute Beginners” through the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.

Next week I’m sure I will make that fiddling song the teacher plans for us to learn sound equally terrible .

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Bites from snakes

Posted on July 16, 2013 by perlgurl

The longer I have snakes, the more I get bit. Was trying to move the little boa from strike box to his tank and he bit me not once, but four times!

The longer I have snakes, the less I worry about getting bit. 🙂

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Not a great start to the day

Posted on July 10, 2013 by perlgurl

Shitty way to start the day, getting a “PARKING TICKET” when there was no problem with my parking. While they claim to be the “nicer” parking authority, the Fairbanks Parking Authority still seems to think it is their place to ticket people whose vehicle registration is out of date, but they get to profit from it and make my day start out SHITTY.

I was in the studio for MAYBE 10 minutes. Dropped off some equipment and came out to find him at the tail of my car with his booklet out and writing up a ticket.

Once I’m done being angry, I’ll be thankful, because this is just one more reason for me to say “I’m done.” Done with the stress of trying to run my own business. Done with dealing with the lack of parking and the harassment that the Fairbanks Parking Authority gives to me and my customers.

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Confusion

Posted on June 22, 2013 by perlgurl

More commonly than not I tend to know what I want to do about a situation right away, whether it is a decision related to personal or professional side of my life. When I don’t know, I agonize over it. I think about all the pitfalls of going down one route and then I usually build false hope thinking about what could become. I am at this point with the studio. I cannot make a living running just the studio and I am finding it very fulfilling to try to work a 30-hour a week job plus run the studio. I love teaching, but all the other work that goes into the studio is just overwhelming.

Then I read articles like this and get even more confused: http://rebeccabrightly.com/dance-spaces/

I’ve thought about how much my life will change if I close the studio. And the circumstances that led me to open it in the first place still exist, specifically a lack of places to rent that provided consistent space and time for my classes to be held.

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And yet the world goes one without me

Posted on June 3, 2013 by perlgurl

Day three of the plague from the Comic Book store. I called in sick to my day job and I’m calling in sick to my own place of business. What do I tell the boss? “That I am too sick to go to work and I want to stay home and rest?” I didn’t have any guilt doing this for my day job, why do I feel guilty for doing for my studio?

Fortunately there is only one class tonight and I’m not teaching it, so life really will go one while I rest at home. Which of course means laboring over budget spreadsheets for the studio.

Maybe I need a nap first……

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Noisy small things

Posted on June 2, 2013 by perlgurl

Today I am really missing our old next-door neighbors who had three little boys that preferred to make lots of noise BANGING, but they were LOVELY compared to our new neighbors who have the two little girls that spend most of their time outdoors shrieking at the tops of their tiny, high-pitched lungs.

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