Something Fun About Me

Guess what everybody? Today is my 26th BIRTHDAY!!! I will be expecting a card from each and every one of you in a week's time. I prefer cash over personal checks. Since today is my b-day I am going to share something about myself that you probably didn't know.

I have a giraffe obsession. Why you ask? Why not? They are a cool looking animal. It all started somewhere in my teens. I always joked that I wanted a pony for my birthday or Christmas. One year I thought I would be funny and ask for a giraffe. Well I got one. No, not a real one but that would have been awesome. I think it was a stuffed animal or something.

From this Christmas on I received something giraffe orientated every year, up until a few years ago when my mom couldn't find anything else giraffe related. It was a humorous tradition and I still have most of the stuff I got.
Here is the list.

• A Toys R Us Geoffrey stuffed animal that talks. My dog attacked its voice box one day so it doesn't work anymore.
• One of the first toys I got was a plastic mechanical giraffe that walked when you flipped it's tail up. Again my dog attacked this and broke it.
• An African wooden giraffe mask, that my brother sat on and broke in half. I glued it back together.
• A plastic giraffe mask that can be used for Halloween or costume party.
• A beanie baby giraffe named Twigs.
  
• A key chain giraffe. All it's fur is gone. Its pretty worn but it's still on my keys.
• A ceramic giraffe side table.
• Four plastic giraffe figurines.
  
• Giraffe picture frame.
• My background on my ipod is a giraffe
• I have a cute cartoon giraffe in my phone.
  
• I am following a blog called The Giraffability of Digressions. Giraffablility is my new favorite word.

I think that's all I have giraffe related. The only thing I don't have is giraffe clothing. I should at least have some giraffe boxers.

Here are some cool facts about giraffes that you might not have known.

• They have 17 inch black tongues
• They can lick their own ears.
• They have no vocal chords.
• They're necks have the same amount of bones as a human neck.
• They cannot swim
• They can kill a lion with one swift kick.
• When a baby giraffe is born is has to fall 6 feet.
• They have 4 stomach compartments.
• They are one of the few species of mammal to perceive color.
• Both sexes have horns, although the horns of a female are smaller.
• They can go longer without water than camels.
• They can run up to 35 mph (56 kph).
• They sleep about 1.9 hours per day.
• Like human fingerprints, each giraffe's coat is unique

I have never seen one up close before. They are always at a distance at the zoo. I went through the safari at Six Flags last year but the giraffes were being shy and were too far away to really get a good look. Is it legal to have one as a pet?

Amazing how strong motherhood can be...

In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy,
the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size,
they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger , after recovering from the delivery , suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only ' orphans ' that could be found quickly, were a litter of weaning pigs... The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops ?

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Now, please tell me one more time ...

Why can't the rest of the world get along ?

Shit Happens

I should of wrote this post on Monday but it's not time sensitive so I don't care that much. The reason I say this is because something happened over last weekend that should of sparked this post right away. I'll show you some pics first and you can imagine what could of happened.....

So my fiance Nicole and I were driving up to see my buddy Jon in Syracuse last Friday. We were about 75 miles away from his house on the Thruway around 6 o'clock with a decent amount of traffic around us. When out of nowhere there were 3 deer just chilling in the road like someone just dropped them off there. We were going 65 mph in the right lane so there wasn't much time to stop. We slammed on the brakes and swerved left (which in retrospect was probably a bad idea if there had been another car in the left lane.) Obviously we hit one of the damn things, we clipped it's ass and it did about $2000 worth of damage to Nicole's CR-V. I don't know what happened to the deer. He's probably in a wheel chair now with a broken coccyx (tail bone) and dislocated legs. I hope Bambi's cousin has health insurance.

I have no idea how we ended up hitting Bambi's cousin seeing how there were cars behind and in front of us and we were in the right lane. These deer were walking from the left side of the road and somehow maneuvered through traffic right in front of us. I think some guy with a tractor trailer is dropping off deer on the highway at random points, dude if you are reading this, you are an ASSHOLE!! The only good news is that the car was still drivable minus a headlight and part of the bumper.

A trooper stopped to help us and he was definitely related to Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle. He was dumb and didn't know what to do. He asked us if we wanted a police report. We asked him if we needed one and he said that he didn't know. What a jackass!

The kicker is we had just come from Mavis for 4 new tires and an alignment and now the car is going to be in the body shop for almost a month. Luckily there is collision on the car and Nicole gets to drive a 2009 Camry rental. That car is a smooth ride.

Deer are unavoidable, you are better off gunning for them and fucking them up as much as possible for being in your way. I have hit 3 in my life with 3 different vehicles. I'm going for the record. Anyone hit more than me?

In memory of a fallen pet

I know that most of the stuff I write about on here is meant to be humorous or slightly controversial but sometimes things happen and I have to show my human side. A few days ago our family dog Bud got hit by a car and got killed, he was 11. We had him as a pet for 10 years.

The odd thing was that he disappeared after a daily walk. He rarely ran away and was never gone for a long time. He had arthritis in his back legs and didn't stray very far away from the house. We searched around our house, in the woods and along side the road for about 3 hours on Wednesday night and did not find him. We got a call on Thursday from our neighbor that someone had found Bud right down the road. He got hit and managed to drag himself off the road.

I was more choked up than I thought I would be and I did shed some tears for him. It is tough losing a pet especially one you have had for awhile. We have always had lots of pets. I counted and this is the 10th pet we have lost, 6 dogs and 4 cats.
He was a very good dog, very well behaved. He never did anything wrong, he barely barked. I remember one time he got locked in the garage for 2 days and didn't go to the bathroom. He didn't have much longer to live but he didn't deserve the way he went. We still are puzzled why he was near the road in the first place, it was very unlike him. He will be missed by a lot of people.

RIP Bud.

Sarah Mclachlan needs your help

Has anybody seen that ASPCA neglected animal commercial with Sarah McLachlan? It makes me want to go out and adopt a few cats and dogs. I've seen the commercial a few times before but every time it gets me a little choked up. The faces on those animals are so sad and adorable at the same time. It made me want to go pet my pussy cat.

I also get a little sad when I see the one about saving the polar bears. I'm not sure what they actually use the money for. Polar bears are going to be extinct soon, make a donation!!

My mother can't even watch those commercials. She has a soft spot for animals. She is always taking in other people's pets that they can't take care of anymore. In our house we have 9 cats and 3 dogs plus some goldfish and frogs. It's our own little petting zoo. Admission is only $3 but to use the bathroom will cost you $10, $1 per sheet of TP. Also pet at your own risk.