Woo Space!

So May of 2012 gave us two wonderful spacey things my cell phone camera was ill-equiped to catch.


A Supermoon



And an Annular Eclipse



Science!

Charity Dog Walk.

We finally got to do the charity dog walk.

And once again, Ivy came home with tons of loot!

D'ja ever have One of Those Moments?

You know the kind.. Not the horrible someone has died kind, but the less traumatic ones. The sort where something has happened. Something you weren't really happy about, but you seemed to cope with ok. Maybe you even wondered why everyone else makes such a big deal about it.

Eventually it wanders off to the back of your mind, and you forget it even happened.

Then you're just going about life.. let's say, taking a shower, and suddenly THERE IT IS! With no idea what brought it into your mind, you stop everything, and just stand there thinking:
HOLY CRAP, I'M FORTY!!
HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN?!

Yeah... that just happened.

Aaand, I'm sick again!

Nothing for two years, and then I have two colds in as many months‽

I don't even know...

Not happy.

Another Mad Cow.

The fact that another case of mad cow disease just happened to show up in a random test, should tell us a lot. The average dairy cow's life span isn't all that long. We've known how to avoid giving cows this disease for quite some time, you know... like not grinding up dead cows and feeding them to other cows. But suddenly another case appears? Makes you think people are more interested in money than the welfare of animals.. or even other humans!

I love the internet..

There are so many things in the world you would never get to see otherwise.

Or hear:

I'm just going to stay in bed and moan.

When I had my tonsils out, and went vegan, I started noticing that I didn't get sick near as often as the rest of my family. After that revelation, I started making a note of when I did get sick. The last time was two years and two months ago. That's not to say I haven't had other health problems... those seem easy enough for me to come by. But the common cold? Not so much. Even now, with the worst sore throat I've had since my tonsils were removed, it's nothing like it used to be. And I'm convinced that if I hadn't been under so much stress already, coping with work, other health issues, and car troubles, I wouldn't have caught this cold either.

But I did... *sigh*