February LOVE-Fest: Day 24: Love of Animals

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I haven't done a proper News & Views in several weeks so here goes.

1. We got a couple of inches of snow Sunday night. I was terrified Monday morning but I made it to jazz man in one piece and it melted enough for me to take Indian lady to physical therapy. Also, in the middle of making myself sick about whether I was going to survive my commute, my body decided it would be a great time to start menstruating. WHAT?!

2. On the heels of spikedluv's death, one of the members of my meditation circle died on Friday. She had had several rounds of chemo AND remission over the years but two weeks ago went into the hospital with severe dehydration (c-diff) and never rallied. She had a tremendous amount of energy (she was 70) and 5 young grandchildren. An amazing person.

So I am feeling my mortality. Nobody knows how much time we have, do we? I feel more urgency about some things. I want to see BTS perform in August and I want to get to 221B Baker Street as soon as I can. Also, given my work (home care for the elderly) I am sensitive to quality of life and what that means to me.

3. Speaking of quality of life, I signed up for another weight loss program (not Weight Watchers, which I've tried THREE times and not Noom, which I did once). I am not going to describe it, because I just started like 20 minutes ago but it isn't a drug (and a British lady runs it so I like her voice, this is important to me). No judgement, but those drugs scare me. We'll see how it goes.

4. Annoying things. Air force guy's family didn't cancel my session today so I drove out there suspecting they'd gone to chemo...and I was right. The door was locked. And granddaughter told me to go home. Then I talked to my sister and she insisted on mis-using pronouns for someone in a story she was telling, finally tell me (after I corrected her five times) that 'they' was plural and to use it singularly was arrogant. The co-worker my sister was talking about went MISSING. Sheesh.

5. Boys are switching from winter sports to spring sports this week and next. Winter running to track and indoor soccer to outdoor soccer. Let's hope Mother Nature cooperates.

6. I got to run outside today at the lake because of cancelled session. Yay. Now I am headed to my Alzheimer lady.

March is coming very soon!

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1. first love
2. friendship
3. love of nature
4. passion
5. soulmates
6. unrequited love
7. lust
8. love of the game
9. devotion
10. love of food
11. polyamory
12. long distance love
13. lovesickness
14. romantic love
15. love of place
16. marriage
17. love of order and method
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape

24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

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Day 24: love of animals

I have known for a long time I am missing the gene (or synapses) that allows me to connect with pets but I do love animals (and wish them the best, wherever they are). And I love this series: how about frog making a valentine for toady?

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Comments

[merrileemakes]

I really want to start quoting Chaucer to people who spew out grammar rules as an excuse for using someone's pronouns. Because the only constant about the English language is that it changes and Chaucer is almost unintelligible but it's still English.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Right. At the core of it is 'this person isn't like me and I don't understand how they are so I am going to disrespect them, disregard them, or misinterpret them completely, purposefully, and obnoxiously.' And if my sister is an example of this person's work environment, then it's probably not helping the situation. Like, she mentioned the 'they' pronouns at the beginning of the story and continued not to use them (sometimes calling them 'it'). *rolls eyes and gives up correcting HER and gets off the phone as quickly as possible*

[spiralicious]

I cannot deal with people who try to excuse not using they as a singular pronoun by citing "proper grammar" or "proper English." It's like first of all, merrileemakes entire example, and second of all, they has a singular pronoun has been in constant use in the English language since sometime in the 1400s (I think. I used to know the actual date, but I'm doing this on the fly and could be way off, but it's a long assed time regardless) And most native English speakers use it unconsciously that way all the time. They just want to be hateful about something they don't understand.

It also really grinds my gears when people don't cancel when they know they aren't going to be there. It's so disrespectful. I've got a friend with dementia I help out on Mondays. Her whole family is well aware of our schedule and calls me when they need me to do extra things for her, but they second they roll into town to visit and decide to go do something when I'm supposed to be there, it's "oops we forgot you'd be showing up." Assuming they even answer my call, when I'm trying to find out what's going on. So very frustrating.

Good luck with all of the things.

<3 Frog and Toad.

[thatjustwontbreak]

Cute frogs! I also do not care for pets and it seems to be rather unique trait.

Good luck with #3!