Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Some photos and one of the cute little chipmunks I saved!

I've spent way way way too long tonight going over half of my pictures from the weekend, and now it's midnight and I'm soooooooooooo tired. I managed to get up this morning at 4:30 a.m. Michigan time, I slept for most of the train ride back to Chicago but after the first hour I had someone sitting next to me so I couldn't lay down. I'm really really sleepy now!

James and Emma are soooooooo happy to have me home!!!! And I'm soooooooooo happy to be home with them!!!!! They've been alternately doing their excited little runs and trots around the place, and cuddling and purring and getting cheek rubs and belly rubs. And they are just so incredibly cute - I swear, every little thing they do is just perfectly and heavenly adorable, from their little expressions to their little profiles to their little paws to their little excited trots and how fast their little legs move, to the look they get on their faces when they're getting hard little cheek rubs! Everything - yes every little thing about them is so cute and sweet and so incredibly perfect, I just want to hold and kiss them all the time tonight!

Oh and my bedframe arrived! One box got here last Friday and The German brought it up. And the other box - the big one with the actual headboard and footboard - was here today. But I still haven't brought it upstairs because once I got up here I didn't feel like leaving again to lug the huge box up, and I didn't want James and Emmalove to think I was leaving.

Ugh, I can't think of or remember anything else right now. Oh wait - one thing! I put a new little thing in my sidebar and it's the Love Quote of the Day! It changes every day and I'm so excited about it! I borrowed the idea from CeeCi, because she always finds the coolest things!!! (And she has the Nature Quote of the Day on her site - and I've just discovered that she has a whole new template for her blog - I'm behind in my reading her blog about a week now (well since last Thursday I think, or maybe Friday) so tomorrow I need to catch up and read all of her wonderful words! And that reminds me, I've been getting really antsy and tired of my template so I really want to start looking for and/or sort of designing a new one.)

Okay, now some photos!!

My grandpa fishing - I just loved the clouds that day!

Very cool closeup of a little bluegill - aren't the colors and fins and shape amazing!

Seagulls on a dock under clouds and sun

Rays of light from above

And now, we come to my little chipmunk story. When I helped my dad carry the kayak up the side of the cottage, I saw this little guy in a trap. My dad said the doctor neighbor (who doesn't go up to the cottage too often during the year) told him that chipmunks are getting into his walls and/or attic and doing damage, so he always has the trap out for them. I coo-ed at the adorable little guy and when I asked, my dad said he thought the doctor drove somewhere and released the little chipmunks there.

After we finished the kayak, I went back down and took some pictures of him, and then went inside to show my mom how cute he was. She told me that the doctor, after catching these cute babies in his traps, walks the trap down to the lake and drowns the little chipmunks!!!!! She's seen him do it before! Can you fucking believe someone would be so evil???!!! I was and still am completely livid at the idea of this assface purposefully drowning innocent little creatures who have no way out. I really feel my heartrate increase so much and I get hot just at the fucking thought of it!!! I wish I could give that guy a piece of my mind, but I'd be so angry that I would just be blustering and blubbering about.

So anyway, I went back out and released my little chipmunk muse. And later that evening, I saw the trap had been set again and soon after I saw that it was closed, so I released the second little guy - and they are soooooo cute when they get loose! They run so quickly and so jerkily to their freedom!!!

All day yesterday I kept a constant eye on the trap to see whether the evil doctor had reset it. And then this morning at 5 a.m., while my dad was still in the shower (because he wouldn't approve), I stole the trap, put it in a paper bag and took it on the train with me (I couldn't leave it in my parents' garbage in case the guy would check through neighbors' garbage cans). It's still at work, actually, because I couldn't bring myself to completely throw it out yet. But I did take a picture of it in its bag right before I left this evening. I had put some paper towel in with it just to hide it a little and maybe reduce the clinking - so that's what all the white is. I'm so happy to have thwarted the evil doctor's murderous intentions and saved some wonderful, sweet and adorable little chipmunks' lives!!!

He's so cute, looking right at me!

Zooming in on his adorable little face!

And finally, the stolen trap! I feel like I should do an evil laugh now, a-la Dr. Evil, but the murderous bastard who tortures cute chipmunks has already taken that character. But I've stolen his trap, so I feel like a heroine!!!!! :)

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

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Written by Caterpillar :: 9/06/2006 12:11:00 AM :: ::


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♥ I think that the most beautiful women I've ever met are the ones that know who they are, have stories to tell, ideas to share, wisdom to impart and love the skin they're in. No one can love us as we love ourselves. No one can take away our beauty and our dignity when we own those things. To me confident=beautiful. :: CeeCi

♥ I'd been feeling a little blue (for no particular reason) when I began thinking about things like attention, age and body image. Suddenly, it washed over me. I see people looking at me and I see them reacting. I began thinking about the times I notice the attention and realized its the days I'm strutting, the days I'm open and holding my head up. This got me to thinking further. How I perceive myself is what I show to others...People don't realize it, but they show the world everything about themselves in the way they move and act, in the words they say and the way they say them. A little confidence can lead to a lot of confidence. :: CeeCi

♥ When we believe in ourselves the world is an entirely different place and our place in it feels right and happy and healthy. :: CeeCi

♥ Remember that something incredibly wonderful is always possible!

♥ There are moments that are wonderful, if you let them be.

♥ Being distrustful put me in a very lonely place, a place filled with doubt and hypervigilance. I'm grateful I've learned to trust again, because in learning to do it, I learned to trust myself. :: CeeCi

♥ We're all a work in progress. I believe we will be until the day our lives end. Why fight it? I love the changes I experience. Some are certainly easier and more enjoyable than others, yet I wouldn't stop the process for any thing in the world. :: CeeCi

♥ We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss the chance to see a rainbow on the way :: Gloria Gaither

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♥ Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow :: Mary Anne Radmacher

♥ Just live in the moment, the moment you're in. Don't live two days from now. Don't live two hours in advance. Live now. And appreciate what you have now. Don't go any further. You have this moment. This second. Breathe it. Enjoy it. Live in it. :: Open Eyes

♥ Leap, and the net will appear.

♥ I've learnt that when we express our deepest feelings, even though we may stammer or be unable to find the right words, it always pays. It pays to be authentic.

♥ There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness :: Carl Jung

♥ I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, myth is more potent than history, dreams are more powerful than facts, hope always triumphs over experience, laughter is the cure for grief, love is stronger than death :: Robert Fulghum

♥ You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. :: Ethel Barrymore

♥ Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. :: Carl Jung

♥ I will try to be as honest as I can with myself. That is all that is required of me. I'll keep admitting and opening my hidden box of fears, hurts and insecurities, again and again, until I know each one of them by their first name. :: Anu

♥ It struck me that there is amazing beauty everywhere. Does it matter where you are or who we're encountering? There is magic all around us. The fact that we're alive, the fact that we're living in this place and time. The fact that we've met the people we've met, all of it, every bit of it, only contributes to the wonder that is life. :: CeeCi

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♥ Half of doing anything is believing that you can.

♥ Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that he can subsequently open the door through which he wants us to go. :: Catherine Marshall

♥ Even if it burns a little low at times, the secret of life is to always keep the flame of hope alive.

♥ The three grand essentials of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

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♥ Don't let the approval of others determine your belief in yourself.

♥ When it's all said and done, when all the opinions have been uttered, preached, shouted, and shared, there is only one thing we can do: From this moment on...love.

♥ When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing. :: Christina Baldwin

♥ You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

♥ Be the change you wish to see in the world... :: Gandhi

♥ Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

♥ We each have only a limited amount of time here. We have to do more with it - pay attention, explore, be open to all of life. Because we have only one chance, we have to make life seem longer than it really is. :: Viggo Mortensen

♥ Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. :: Cadet Maxim

♥ Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore! Dream! Discover!

♥ What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? :: Unknown

♥ To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. :: David Viscott, M.D

♥ Right now it feels like:...no dream will ever remain unfulfilled...no desire will ever remain unanswered...no tear goes unnoticed and no effort wasted...the hills are alive and so are we...each moment is fresh and waiting to happen...and there will be garbage like situations all around...but it is upto us to light mud lamps in it...and glow in our own acceptance and appreciations... :: Anu

♥ I struggle with not feeling like I'm good enough at times. Usually, its because I'm pushing it too hard and have depleted my reserve. Yet, I know without a shadow of a doubt that no matter how heavy or thin, how young or old I appear to others it's what I feel on the inside that glows through. If I could give every person on this planet just one gift it would be the unwavering knowledge that they are beautiful and worthy of every good thing the universe holds. :: CeeCi

♥ It's easier to buy into the negative things we conjure about ourselves than the positive things. Knowing that is the first step towards changing the thoughts that keep us unhappy. With time moving forward, why stay trapped in the past? All we have is right here and right now, I intend to make the most of it! :: CeeCi