My good friends at Menopause Online also know about that nasty drug: What's Wrong With Premarin?

I had no idea that Hormone Replacement Therapy for women in menopause involved Premarin, a 56 year old drug made from the urine of pregnant mares. There's an entire industry that revolves around getting horses pregnant, collecting their pee and selling it to drug companies. The 'byproducts' of this are horses, who are either left in the cold to die or slaughtered. What kind of shit is that and why would anyone knowingly want to put horse piss into their body? Read more about it but it's not pretty. This world is seriously fucked up.

A poem for Alice, from our friend Casey who is headed this way
Alice, please get better
We want to meet you soon.
We want you hale and hearty
So you can greet us with a big ARROOOOOOOO

So, Alice, please get better
We're coming to your town
We want to see you healthy
And running all around.

The poor guy who owns the Survivor.com domain tells his story. Even though I visited Television City and had a great time, some of those people at CBS are fuckers for not helping the guy out with a banner ad.

In honor of tonight's Survivor episode, let me take you back to the year 2000, to a time when my hair was red.

Another long night with Alice started when we came home and she was breathing hard, like it took her whole body to get a breath. We waited with her to see if it would improve and eventually wound up at the emergency vet, where x-rays confirmed that she has aspiration pneumonia for the second time in a year. They wanted to keep her overnight but with a cost estimate of $344-$750, we figured that we could slap her on her back to get the fluid up ourselves. It was a new vet for us, closer to our new house and Alice was NOT comfortable there. We figured if we could get her through the night with minimal discomfort, she'd be better off at our regular vet's in the morning.

The vet is worried, like, why has this happened more than once, it's not supposed to be a recurring thing, so we're going to look into that and in the meantime, our backyard project of ripping up the weeds posing as grass in our backyard and replacing it with sod that we can keep short enough that she'll be less interested in eating it will be bumped up to this weekend. Though my mom pointed out that 'having someone come in and do that is expensive.' Yes, Mom, that's why we're that somoene.

She was feeling much better by this morning and hopefully the Baytril will work it's magic for her once again. She's spending today in the wing she paid for at our regular vet's office.

I need your help. My hockey team is nameless and I'm trying to come up with some really good ones. Got any suggestions for me?

Someone sitting near me is explaining something to some who must not be getting it. No less than 8 times in the last 30 seconds have I heard "edit means edit!" In case you were wondering.

In case I didn't mention it, which I don't think I did.... Remember the beagle/pointer mix who was unceremoniously dumped at the shelter after 10 years with a family? I scrambled to place our other (less endearing) foster beagle, Chester, and visited the shelter to tell them that if his time ran out, I'd take Bagel. Naturally, Bagel suckered me as I walked away from his kennel and I took him home with me last week. Since then we've placed Chester and had Bagel neutered. He's the nicest dog ever.

In other news, my cohort in rescue is out of town so I'm getting a lot more emails and phone calls than usual. It's amazing how much people expect me to know and be able to do. Today's emails include 2 about dogs we don't have in rescue, dogs I've never heard of, with such detail as this:

I was wondering about the sacramento Ca puppy. can you tell me more info?? There is no puppy

Or this:

I AM IN SACRAMENTO AND INTERESTED IN THE FEMALE BEAGLE AT THE SHELTER. PLEASE SEND ME MORE INFO WHEN POSSIBLE. This dog could be the dog in Tracy, but since our website lists a number of female dogs in shelters, how am I supposed to know???

Another family has an agressive dog and wanted to tell me all about his agressiveness but not take my advice about how to correct it. Well, shit, if you're not going to listen, don't call me. I could always bill them for my time, which is the one thing you can't write off.

Finally, the truth is revealed about the Chia Head, ChiaPineTree explains all mysteries, thanks to Kevin. Nice work!

Oh ye Citizens of Denver, I offer you Jesus of the Week 2001.

On Sunday, I gave up and told the shelter where the pit bull I'd hit was staying that I was officially out of options, that they should let him go. I cried for him and asked Ellie to look out for him. I guess she was, but not in the way I'd thought. I got a call from the rescue group associated with the shelter this morning -- he's alive and in foster care with one of the shelter employees! He'll be starting treatment for his broken leg this week.

Sometimes you do get a miracle.

While I know the guy in the last post, it was this page I was hunting for, the timeless classic: White And Suburban Pimp.

I know this guy: GOP Candidate - Shawn Haybron.

Being blonde opens up a whole different world than before, when I was a brownish/reddish head. First off, men notice me now. I'm still chubby but for some reason the blonde-ness makes that okay. A nice man at Disneyland told me the fireworks were just for me and then last Friday, a hippie-looking punk at my local gas station made lame small talk about the weather and the weekend (all the while I'm waiting for him to ask for bus fare). He caps off his lame diatribe by asking what I'm doing this weekend ("housework" was my snappy retort) then delivering the big bang -- he'd like to spend time with me this weekend and could he have my number? I squwaked out loud NO! and sped off.

When I told Andrea about this encounter and how he wanted my number, she only said 'why?' That's how un-wise we both are in the ways of being picked up.

You must see this! Fart within the matrix. Thanks Brig.

All you swingers our there looking for a love connection, here's your place, The Friendship Express - The Swingers Connection !!!

A possible Snoopy video game? How sweet would that be? Infogrames snags Peanuts