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thought i would spice up my blog for valentine's day. i love the pink craziness for the short month. i am going to post some pictures of the crazy decorations from my neighborhood. the people around here totally get into front window decorating. i thought it would only be for xmas...but then down came the tinsel and up went the pink colored tinsel. yay!

p.o.d.

i ♥ national geographic's picture of the day. always something new and pretty to look at. and often they are of animals. love it. (although, if you look at my pictures, my cows at the zoo are way cuter!)

grateful for graffiti

hahahaha. oh i love when my roomie sends me
funny stuff! is graffiti still a crime if it makes the sign better and hilarious?

i want...

cardboard robot: i think it's about time we get buck hunter pro uniforms and start a league. not sure i like the fur at all. otherwise i would get it fore shore. haha. the zipper pull is a bullet!

duckpin v. candlepin bowling

fact: a perfect game has never been bowled in the history of duckpins.

well, i gave it my best shot, and came away with a personal best score of 72 or something, taking a solid second place in one game. pretty much what happens is this: you get a ball that's about the size of a softball, grapefruit, shotput, etc. they weigh about four pounds, so bigger than bruce's head. there are no holes in the ball, so you just palm it and roll it towards the pins. there are ten pins, but short and cute! (see picture, please.) so no matter how hard you wing that little ball, you can only really take out so many at a time. buuuut... you get three balls per frame! yay!
it's very simliar to candlepin bowling which i have played every summer when we visit family in massachusetts. only candlepin pins are taller and straight! (see picture, please.)

bottom line: tons of fun!! the place we went was oh so trendy, had awesome food, wasn't a fan of the bowling rates hourly instead of per game, though. i ♥ the fact that duckpins are a baltimore thing too, i feel like a member of an exclusive club. haha


p.s. fact: this was one of babe ruth's favorite sports

survival tip #1

haha. thanks ML, for the link!

for all of you who dream of going to africa one day like me, here you go! how to survive an ostrich attack.

i actually worked with ostrichs in denver. her name was omlette, and she was quite sweet. we could go in her pen with her and with the male, named hamlet. she was totally facinated by the small holes on my belt. so i would be walking up to her, and BAM she'd bend down and peck my belt hard enough to nearly knock me over. it was a bit terrifying, especially in the summer months, with all the exposed skin on my legs and arms. although i guess a bruise from an ostrich pinch is better than being disemboweled by their sharp nails.

half man half tree

boo for TLC for incorrectly naming the show "half man half tree." it should have been called "horrible! don't watch this!" because, like sarah said, it was a train wreck; we couldn't look away. i didn't want to post a picture of the tree hands/feet on my pretty blog, so if you're curious, look
here.

and now i can't ever eat raisins again (not that i did before). and even though i am a bit of a hippy tree hugger, it might be a while until i can look a tree in the eyes again.

some people really do read it for the articles

a braile version of playboy. i was browsing marielle's blog which led me to start browsing taryn simon's webiste. very shocking and powerful pictures, for various reasons. check them out. i'm so happy to have friends who know so much about cool art and where to find it! thanks guys!

organ donor, voter, and citizen of maryland

it is official: i'm a maryland resident as of 12:15 this afternoon! i already have a maryland plate on my car, and i just got a new driver's license, which i actually like the picture on. even if i wanted to move now, the fact i'd have to take another pic for a license makes it not worth it! ;)

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the farmyard

i had another wonderful day at work. ms. bella the (formerly) evil hog is doing so well with me! i have gotten udder balm on her little feet every day for a couple weeks straight. woo-hoo. and she is recognizing the bridge, which means when i blow my whistle, she knows to look for her reinforcer (lettuce, grapes, sweet potato, etc.) so now the training gets to start! i am pumped.

a few pictures of my other farmyard pals:



brenna, a dexter cow. her and bailey, her half-brother, are super cool, love to lick shoes and fleece jackets that have hay dust on them, and walk better than my dogs on leashes.







lambert and droopy, 2.0 jacob's sheep. the ones who had mysterious color-changing pee that i mentioned earlier.







lloyd (white) and harry (brown). miniature donkeys. they are small.

happy 08

happy new years!! our NYE cocktail party was a total success. everyone looked great all dressed up, the house really came together thanks to my lovely roomie and her friends, and the food was delish (the meatballs, we decided, were made better by accidentally addding 10 times the bacon i was supposed to). i always forget how close our house is to the water, but we got to watch the harbour fireworks show from our deck...while playing with sparklers! can't beat that!!


and then i dragged myself to work bright and early this morning. and had another crazy day. the sheep's urine has been turning red once out of the sheep. at first i thought they were peeing blood, but it's normal color coming out, and only turns red in the air. weird! so hopefully the vets figure out that little mystery. then i had to catch the turkey to clip her wings, take skin scrapings, and clear her nose of dried mucus. i weighed the goats, and got to walk the cows around the zoo for a bit too. i love my job.