Aww, poor doggie.

Whatcha doing with your hair, Dana? Gonna go punk?

It's like camp for women, where I can learn stuff like orienteering or shotgun or archery or birdwatching or dutch oven cooking. It's all set up so you can learn in a non-threatening environment stuff that might be a male-dominated field otherwise. There's even like a workshop where you learn stuff like using the bathroom in the woods and one where they talk about gear marketed to women, like figuring out if they just made an item pink and called it women's or if it has real features that are helpful, like backpacks fitted to a female body.

That sounds awesome.

the priest who asked us all to pray for Benedict our Pope actually did an eyeroll as he said the words.

Dude. I figure the Pope needs LOTS of prayer right now. Though possibly not in the way he and certain members of his...um...cabinet? think he does. I think he needs lots of prayer to do the right thing. To help him understand that he did the wrong thing. To help him hear God, since apparently he's ...not been doing so well with that. etc. etc. To help him in the future, cause I'm not feeling his heavenly future. And on and on. I figure the Pope and his cronies are in GREAT need of prayer. It's just not the "Excuse us from the shit people are raining down on us" prayer they want.

3&1/2 hour car ride+ dog + gastrointestinal upset sounds like a recipe for horror!

Liese, that sounds fabulous. You'll have a blast.

Loki just took out a fly mid-air with a single paw swipe. I don't know who was more surprised.

I like sitting out on MY back deck with the cats, eating dinner and just enjoying the sunset.

That sounds awesome.

Doesn't it? I am seriously amped for it. I haven't heard yet which of the workshops I signed up for I'm going to get. I loved every one of my sixteen options and I'll only get to do four! So in my head I keep going, "ooh, I hope it's still water paddling! no, birding! no, fly tying!"

Dana, that was a fun quiz, but I cannot rock it like you--I had to guess on several, and got 13/16.

I M little scared about that quiz, Dana, because I got 16 out of 16, and didn't even have to play more than a quarter of the clip. I need to have a job that included knowing a lot of musicals.

I would not want to spend 3.5 hours in a car with a dog that had intestinal woes.

A high school in Alabama punished students for dress code violations at prom (i.e., dresses that showed too much skin) by paddling them. [link]

I rocked it, Dana-style. I assume Dana also sang the lyrics following each selection in a loud voice, as my DH and I did.

3&1/2 hour car ride+ dog + gastrointestinal upset sounds like a recipe for horror!

I would not want to spend 3.5 hours in a car with a dog that had intestinal woes.

He didn't get breakfast, because we knew we might be taking him to the vet today, and didn't want to risk nastiness in the car. And we got lucky; there was no badness in the car.

The vet tech let us see the worm eggs under the microscope! (Seriously, it was cool, but only because they were eggs and not anything wiggly.)