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California Gov Schwarzenegger seems to think taking pets to the vet is a luxury. Evidently the Governor feels that one way to raise money for the state in these times is to create a 9% veterinary services tax.

Vet medication and other products are already subject to sales tax, but the Governor wants to add a separate tax on services -- classifying veterinary care a luxury item.In addition to pet owners, this will decimate rescues already struggling to pay vet bills.

For many pets and strays, it's literally a death sentence. Please take 15 seconds to stop this NOW. You can call the Governor's automated line any time, follow prompts to note your opposition, and it will take less than 15 seconds... You don't even have to talk to anyone.

Simply: 1) Call the Governor's office at 916-445-2841

2) Select your language choice. Press "1" for English.

3) Press "5"

4) Press "1" to select the issue of extending the sales tax to veterinary
services.

5) Press "2" to "OPPOSE" the Veterinary Services Tax proposal.

________________________________________________________

I did call this number and all the prompts were correct. But listen and make sure you are indeed choosing the right options.
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This is always the way...

I order my textbooks online and I actually have plenty of time before I need them. So no big rush at all right now. They show up in, like, 2 or 3 days.

When I order them with some time available, but not much... and need them pretty much ASAP... they take 10+ days to show up.

Dammit Murphey.

Thank goodness some people/women have their heads on straight:

http://fakingitlive.blogspot.com/2008/09/to-support-or-not-to-support-that-is.html

(It's a thoughtful, well articulated piece about Palin and basically how just because she has the XX chromosome does not automatically mean that all fellow XX's holders need ((blindly)) to support her. Most of the comments are decent too.)

Sometimes when you think all is lost on humanity something like this story comes along.

Cat survives journey on a spare tire for 75 miles.

I wish I had 16 kaquillion dollars to give to the man for saying that he canceled his meetings to take the cat home. OMG. My heart just melted over that statement.

Oh this is so sad. Thankfully not tragic... but sad. So I thought I would pass on the news.

A dog toy causes harm to the poor dog.

(The update on the doggie is at the top, and you have to scroll down to see what happened to the dog because of the chew toy. And if for some reason my link goes bad, google "The Chai Story." That's the name of the blog.)

I've always hated how bad pet toys out there can be. If I had my way I would love to make pet-friendly, low-danger toys and highly nutritious, non-bad-filler foods for all animals. I'm sick of the way our poor critters get treated like 10th class citizens.

I LOVE British humor humour. :-) :-)
Check out these reviews about a pen!

Or try this link that goes straight to the reviews.

People who wear pedometers walk an average of 2000 more steps than people who don't wear them.

Ummmm...


How the heck do they know this when the non-ped wearing people... aren't being clocked?

I'd like to say hi and welcome to new LJ friends. If only it were this easy in real life, huh? I always feel silly going to communities and basically whoring myself out, but I always come away knowing more wonderful people. So it's worth it.

I'd also like to say one reason I don't have too many public entries, like I kind of wanted, is because I usually use Semagic. And it's being testy to me. Once I write something, if I change my options to Public, it still won't post public. It'll default to Friends Only no matter what I do. Maybe I ought to get a newer version of it.
I've just been meaning to say something about that for awhile now, seeing as I have such a pitiful amount of public entries. ;-)

Okey, well, I'm going to end this exciting entry because I'd better scoot to the grocery store.
Ta!

Heh.

Do you ever get the urge to pee and think "Not again?"

I'm just way too lazy to get up to go pee. It feels like I do that all day long. Sheesh.

(Because I drink lots of water and tea, nothing's wrong with me.)

I love my ferrets. It is SO cute to see Lukey curled up with Mordecai.

Luke is a tiny little ferret, he's had a rough start as a baby. Mordecai went through hell earlier this year with a ton of surgeries. Mordecai also lost his brother over a year ago, Zeek. (I miss my Zeeky baby *cry*) So a few months ago we finally decided to combine households, after having Luke and Apollo in one cage and Mordecai in another.

I was worried about personality interaction, but wow. Luke and Mordecai totally took to each other. Luke's so tiny and Mordy is a good 3 times bigger than him... but they make it work. Luke is always curled up on him like Mordy is a big pillow.

Anyways. It makes me so happy to see my boys snuggled up together. Apollo kinda likes to be more on his own, but they'll all curl up from time to time as well.

I had to give a presentation today. Group thing. And surprisingly... I was not nervous. It was awesome. However, our group thing was supposed to last 1.25 an hour and we only lasted .75. Ooooops. I wonder how that'll affect our grade. It's hard to gauge these things sometimes. Oh one funny thing was a member of my group played something from You Tube and the user who put the video up was named "onebigbong" or something like that.

Coolio.
Thanks to my dear LJ friends (thanks celestialsight!) here is the song that was in my head. Hey There Delilah And I knew there had to have been an H in the name, my brain wasn't working last night.
I swear I've only heard it once or twice and yet it suddenly got stuck in my head last night. I probably heard it on some TV show since I don't listen to the radio at all. (stupid commercials.)

PS
Permit me to brag about one thing, since I don't have much to brag about these days. My astronomy teacher told me twice today that he is so impressed with my grade in the class.

Alrighty then... So I've decided to jump in feet first with the seasonal decorations around here. Thought it would be good to do it while I'm kind of in the mood. The end of the year is so very quickly approaching.

I have to prepare my silly little presentation for my Lit class. Ugh. Not looking forward to this at all. Stupid presentations.

I haven't touched math in a long time. But I'm doing that for a reason. Because if I were doing it now, I would panic about the early sections simply because I did them "so long ago." Even if I go back and simply review them, my mind still panics on me. I've been really stressed out this semester. So I'm leaving all 12 sections of homework that I have to do over my Thanksgiving holiday break. The test is 1.5 weeks from now. I really think this is best. I have Tommy's phone number in case I'm seriously stuck and need some tutoring, plus we don't take the test the Monday after Thanksgiving, that is a review day. The test is the Wednesday after Thanksgiving break. Anyways. I'm boring myself.

I have to get down to Wild Oats and pick out a nice tofu thing for me for Thanksgiving. Probably not Tofurkey... I did try that once and didn't really like it, but Wild Oats seems to have some other decent stuff.

I bought a nice new memory foam topper for our bed from online. I cannot wait for it to arrive. Ryan and I want to buy a new bed when we finally move out on our own, and that probably won't happen until 2010 at least. (after I graduate college.) So for now we have to make this mattress more bearable.

I really didn't have much to say, but I didn't think I was going to be this boring!

This tutoring job will look excellent on resumes and transcripts. This tutoring job will look excellent on resumes and transcripts. This tutoring job... (gotta get myself in a better frame of mind about it.)
I don't necessarily hate it actually. But I hate my long days on Wednesdays. And I still hate the fear I have when a student asks a question and I can't answer it.
I also don't like the atmosphere at this campus in which I do all my math. It's just full of young, rich teenagers. Has that vibe. I just don't like it... don't feel comfortable in it... Nuts. :-(

I'm going to have to babble here about my Lit paper this weekend. I need to be able to just brainstorm with possible feedback ideas. I think that'll help me immensely. It's a pain in the ass trying to flush out an idea. And my teacher wants us to really explore and expand the idea to exhaustion. (she said she has formalist training.)

Dammit. I give up. I really thought I had other things to say, but I'm stuck. So fine. Enough for now then.

I think... I might try making my blog more public than it is. I'm finally feeling more comfortable about doing that.
And I think it might end up being something like 80% public, 20% friends only.

Let's see what happens! Maybe if I feel kooky I'll make it 81.213% public. Or 77.06% public. Ooooh. Aaaaaah.

We washed and "waxed" my car today. Only I learned a nice lesson from my dad about the difference between polish and actual wax. :-( Nuts. I love my car, I want to give it all kinds of TLC. My shoulders and arms are killing me right now though.

I may as well say this... I had great encounters with nice people today. It was amazing. People who were considerate of others around them. Even some children who were taught to be that way too. I know. I had to check my pulse as well. ;-) But seriously, it was quite a night to be out on the town. Ryan even wore one of his finest "hole-y" shirts. ;-)

Well, I'm still getting kinda used to this publicity thing. No pictures please.
Anyways, I better attend to another ferret's ears. Man. First Mordecai and now Luke is having problems with his ears. Same thing as Mordecai I think. I don't know what is going on!!! I don't know what I can do for them. We're trying all that we can do. Silly animals. And Mordecai still has his ear problems, but we've got it mostly under control.
(it's itchy ears, Mordy was diagnosed with a yeast infection in his ears awhile ago. The vet gave us some ear drops, and some buttmunch somehow threw the bottle away. *glares at my husband* He claims he didn't do it, but he must have. ANYWAYS...)
BTW, ferrets detest having their ears cleaned, or anything to do with their ears. It's a fuss beyond words.

ETA: GRRRR to Semagic. Stupid Semagic, behave you mortal fool!
PS. The icon for mood is beyond crazy looking. Wow.