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Endo appointment this morning. In the waiting waiting waiting room. I do like my endocrinologist though. He's an easygoing type; we just chit chat for a bit about how my life managing blood sugars and a million other things is going. He asks if I need any prescriptions refilled then writes them up without complaint then we both commiserate at how insurance companies suck. We talk about my new Dexcom which he hadn't seen before. He understands that I've been doing this for 24 years and doesn't bother me with questions like why I think my sugar was high after dinner two weeks ago like others do. We continue our chit chat about what's new in the diabetes world as he draws up my sample for my bloodwork, then he says see you in 3 months and he's out. Two days from now I'll get my a1c result in the mail. My meter is down to 168 average...here's hoping my a1c is finally down a bit!
Young pretty couple having fun outdoors with paintings. Handsome guy embracing his girlfriend and they both are laughing and enjoying. Guys smiling
Medusa is a talkative, social girl who likes to follow her people around. This 5-year-old, 15 pound sweetie is at Lollypop Farm for a third time through no fault of her own. She was found and her owner did not come to claim her.
Medusa has lived with small children and cats, and one of her previous owners described her as "easygoing." As easygoing as she is, though, that doesn't extend to dogs! Medusa would prefer a canine-free household, please!
This pretty kitty hopes to find a loving forever home soon! Come meet Medusa today -- she'd love to meet you!
Hair: ETD - Chel in Elika's Brown
Skin: Redgrave - Hana pale
Eyes: Poetic Colors - Easter Lilac (from Bunny Hop hunt)
Sweater: Surf Co. - Couture Sweater in moss
Tee: Magi Take - Japanese Tee Aranami Wave Brown
Shorts: So Many Styles - Cute Shorts in khaki (free)
Sneakers: Magi Take - Sports Sneaker in green
Bag: Surf Co. - Croissant Bag in natural
Visor: Mezzo - Sun Visor in pink
Pose 1: Pididdle - The Quiet Things
Pose 2: Twosome - Easygoing
Pose 3: Penny Dreadful Arcade - Regina Spektor 1
This is my cousin David Jay, sleeping with his sister and his neice. He's a rescue pilot in Tanzania, and is pretty much the easygoing free-spirited well-tanned sort that you would expect for the job. It was inspirational, after continually being dipped by the ankle into sociopolitical projects, to see him and his brother running around and doing their thing.
Zodiac sign note cards. Back of card printed with: Libra, September 23 - October 22, Diplomatic, Romantic, Charming and Easygoing. Find this product at cardrave.com
A man works the street in downtown San Franciso, employing his easygoing charm and good-natured humour to attract passersby.
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Surfing was a big part of the culture, not just in the area local to where we stayed, but in all of Australia and New Zealand. It goes hand in hand with the atmosphere there, relaxed and easygoing. It was a constant reminder to me that stress is often a choice and sometimes, when things get overwhelming, it's all right to just chill out and go "catch a wave".
after several hectic days in the labyrinthine city of fès, we spent an afternoon and overnight in Sefrou, 20 kilometres south east, before hitching a ride out to the desert. A mountain town which once had populations of Arabians, Jewish and Berber. easygoing and friendly, we soon gained a number of young men trying to get us to see the sights, although we would insist that yes, we were just wandering and looking. the first of these men got it, and wished us good journey, although we all hoped to share tea or coffee later.
that evening, we ran into him and his friend, and drank coffee into the evening with fascinating conversation, including his retelling of the speilberg di caprio film 'catch me if you can'.
i liked sefrou.
Wow what a crazy month this has been! When I was in the hospital, being hooked up to Pitocin to give birth to Annika, I received a phone call that I needed to answer. It was from a property manager offering us the perfect house for our family. We had been actively searching for the past year or so, and we finally found the house that fit our strict requirements (takes pets, big enough for us all, quiet street, good schools, yard, etc.). So I answered the phone in the hospital and said, "yes, we'll take it!"
A month later we moved. Much different moving with two kids, one of which is a newborn, than it was when we were in our early 20's. I stayed at the new house, unpacking while solo parenting, while Ian ran trips back to the old house to finish up all those pesky last "few" things that needed doing. Then, Ian went back to work, leaving me to unpack while caring for our children. To say we were busy during this time is an understatement.
We are so lucky that Annika is such an easygoing baby. She just hangs out, watching the chaotic family she was born into, fussing when she's hungry or needs a diaper change. Who would ever get bored when there is a three-ring circus entertaining you constantly.
We also are so excited to be spending time with our visiting family, Sean and Lesya on home leave from Croatia. Best of all, they brought Annika's twin 5 month old cousins Solomiya and Felix. We've been having so much fun with them, including a trip to the country fair!
Joseph Strasser
1913
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Joseph Strasser came to Japan on June 1893 as the valet of Prof. Raphael von Koeber (1848-1923), when he was about seventeen. Strasser had worked as a waiter at Koeber's favorite restaurant in Munich, Bavaria, and his father was the manager of the restaurant.
Because Koeber never went back to Munich after all, his valet (later housekeeper) also was never to return home again. After spending twenty years in Japan, he shot himself on 9 September 1913 at Koeber's house in Tokyo. In his sorrow, Koeber canceled his lecture at Tokyo Imperial University for two weeks.
It is said that Strasser was easygoing, and cheerful man, speaking fluent Japanese. Some said he had been a man of rustic manners and led a dissipated life, sometimes called himself the son of Koeber. Actually, Koeber was a second father to him.
Incidentally, Koeber converted from Russian Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism in 1899. While the Roman Catholic Church refused a suicide's funeral, that was a Deacon Dmitry of his former church, who performed a funeral service for Strasser. This Russian deacon had continued a good friendship with an apostatized professor.
Strasser, who remained single all his life just like his master, now sleeps in the front of his former master's grave at Zoshigaya, far away from his homeland.
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雑司ケ谷霊園／東京都豊島区
撮影：河野利彦（2015/01）
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He's an awesome dog.
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Back from Key West and Florida.
We flew into Miami and drove down to Key West. On the way back, I wanted to stop and visit with John Dacey of Business Cycles, a cult fixed gear figure and shop of sorts.
So many people reference Business Cycles and the hard work that John Dacey puts into providing a lot of information out there on the web.
I consider him to be one of the best, a very humble and easygoing man who was kind to let us into the store and bother him with my fanboy antics.
He's the Miami's equivalent of Marcus Moore of Yojimbo's here in Chicago.
Bhutan life. Bhutanese children are reasonably bilingual (read, write, understand and speak) from the second grade on up. This is more than can be said for most other nations' seven-year-olds.
Editor's note: Bert's story is adapted from an article in our Spring 2008 newsletter told by Beth Ash and Vicki Huneke, roommates who rescued and cared for Bert for many months before he came to Home for Life® in January 2008.
Bert, originally named Buck, is a Saint Bernard, estimated to be four years old. He spent the first four years of his life on a farm, as on outside dog, with little to no attention. When the farmer got tired of having him around, he placed an ad in the paper to find the dog a better home.
A friend of ours responded to the ad and took pity on the sad looking Saint Bernard, who was found tied up outside with the cows of the farm, sharing silage with them, knee-deep in manure. His coat was matted and dull, and he was slightly underweight. Our friend took the dog with the intention of giving him a better life in their rural home.
This new home had several other dogs besides Bert, all of whom lived in the house. To avoid any confrontations with the pre-existing pets, Bert was left to live outside, away from the house, in a dog kennel made of an old chicken coop. His care was left solely in the hands of a 16 year old girl. While the first few days in his new home may have provided Bert some long-needed attention, he was soon forgotten, and his condition grew worse.
We saw Bert at this new home about a month after he arrived. His 16 year old caregiver was given a demonstration on grooming, and a lecture on its importance. She was also told how Bert needed more attention as well as a much better food than he had been getting. Despite our admonitions, Bert was left in the hands of the teenager, with no supervision or guidance from any responsible adult.
On August 31, 2007, after Bert had been in his new home for about 4 months, we received a phone call from a mutual friend, "You need to go get this dog!" We were told that Bert was thin and very weak. Rushing over, we confronted his owners, and told them we would either come and get the dog immediately or call the sheriff. They agreed to let us take him.
We never would have imagined that Bert would be even worse off than when we had seen him last. But, through his matted coat, touching him made it quite obvious that he was literally SKIN AND BONES! We lifted him to his feet and headed for the truck, but Bert could only walk 50 feet before collapsing.
We got Bert home and tried to feed him but he was too weak to eat. It was Labor Day weekend, and we could not get him to a vet until Tuesday, so we did our best to provide him with nursing care, and keep him alive, until then. We fed him water from a syringe and after a while he was able to eat a few bites of hamburger and bread.
First thing Tuesday morning, we brought Bert to the vet. He could not walk, so we made a sling out of a towel to carry him in. In the back of the clinic, the vets and the vet technicians went to work, checking Bert's teeth, cutting out the mats in his fur, and checking him for heartworm, Lyme disease, and everything else imaginable. They took x-rays and hospitalized him on IV fluids.
By the following morning, Bert was starting to feel a little more alert, though still not well. The barium enema he had been given the previous day had not passed, so with his protein dropping, he underwent emergency surgery to see if there was a block in his intestinal tract. During surgery, the vet took kidney samples to check for cancer, found no blockage in the intestines, but did discover that his pancreas was virtually nonexistent. Bert was immediately started on a pancreatic enzyme powder to help him digest his food. The mystery of his terrible weight loss was solved. After a couple more days at the vet hospital, Bert returned home with us and the recovery process began with three meals a day of prescription food and the pancreatic enzyme.
In the first two weeks back with us, Bert gained about 15 pounds. Once he began to regain his health, though far from completely rehabilitated, he was well enough to go to the dog groomers. Once professionally groomed, he was a beautiful dog.
After a couple of months, Bert was feeling great, but we were unable to find him a new home. Potential adopters passed him by because of his size, heavy coat, and expensive special medical needs. In addition to the pancreatic condition, Bert was showing signs of early-onset arthritis in his hips and hind legs. Eventually, he would also need medicine for stiffness and pain. He might also need physical therapy to stay mobile.
With all of Bert's food and medication expenses coming out of our own pockets, the financial burden was starting to take a terrible toll. We were faced with the decision of whether or not to euthanize Bert. We had grown to love Bert very much, but we already had a large family of animals of our own and a low income. The decision was made and Bert was scheduled to be put down.
The day before Bert's euthanasia appointment, we got word from a friend at the vet clinic that the clinic would donate the food and enzyme for 2–3 weeks to buy him some more time. Bert would get another chance. He continued to live with us and continued gaining weight, finally switching over to non-prescription food and reaching 95 pounds, a real milestone for him—45 pounds more than he weighed when we rescued him six months before. Now all he needed was a home.
Along with the clinic staff, we hoped that Bert's relaxed, open nature would at last attract an adopter. The clinic and staff worked with us to try to find a good match for him. They networked with friends and fellow animal lovers. People heard about Bert's plight and helped to put up posters in the downtown skyways of the metropolitan Twin Cities.
People who saw the posters in downtown St. Paul included some Home for Life® supporters. They contacted Home For Life®, and Bert finally got the break we had all hoped and dreamed of for him. If nobody would take Bert, they asked, would the sanctuary offer him a home? At Home for Life®, Bert would be able to live out the rest of his days surrounded by other special-needs animals, in the care of people who would provide for all his needs and give him lots of love and attention.
On a cold day in late January, we packed up Bert's things and said our goodbyes to this beautiful dog. Bert arrived at the sanctuary, assured of a home for life where he would never face abandonment and hunger again. It was an emotional end to our journey with this big teddy bear, but to him it was just the beginning of a new life.
Postscript:
Bert represents a first for Home For Life® in one way: although many big dogs live at the sanctuary, we have never had a giant breed before. Even our largest dogs look svelte and petite next Bert!
Bert's size might be intimidating, but he has such a gentle and humble nature, and he shows such palpable relief and gratitude for the care he receives, that our staff finds him easygoing and
compliant.
Bert and Penny lounging in the grass
Roommates Bert and Penny rest together after a good summer romp. More: Bert enjoys a run | back to initial picture
Bert has a hammock and couch reserved for his own use. True to his heritage as a mountain dog of the Swiss Alps, he loves the snow. He enjoys trotting along in the meadows after a fresh snowfall, totally unfazed by the cold and wind.
To make Bert more comfortable and forestall the worst effects of his arthritis, Bert attends water therapy in the warm water pool at K9 Hydrotherapy in St. Louis Park, MN. He rooms with Penny, a dainty pitbull/border collie mix who is about his age and less than half his size.
Home For Life® has a tradition of naming dogs after cats who have passed on and vice versa. Out of respect, we never name a cat or dog after a member of the same species who has gone before them. Bert carries on this tradition by bearing the name of our beloved Bert, a very large tabby and white male cat with severe diabetes who lived at Home for Life® for many years.
Bhutan life.
Bhutanese children are reasonably bilingual (read, write, understand and speak) from the second grade on up. This is more than can be said for most other nations' seven-year-olds.
Bhutan life.
The colorful characters are to tell the audience what the audience is likely to meet in the afterlife so that, when it happens, they won't be afraid.
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Alexandra tiene 7 años y es una niña muy querida, ella recibe y da mucho amor, es muy activa y todo le gusta y le interesa, por eso ella es una verdadera princesa.
Alexandra is seven years old and she is a lovely girl. She gives and gets back a lot of love. She is very easygoing and she likes and is interested in everything. That’s why she is a Real Princes.
Today was a lot of fun; a friend and I went golfing with his dad early this morning, and got a good 18 holes in before noon (I've posted some pics). It was a difficult course, but was lots of fun to play because of the easygoing attitude we all had. I find when I'm relaxed and out there to have fun, I do a whole lot better anyway!
Being in the Australian sun all day gets you tired very quickly, especially when you haven't had a whole lot of water :P So I took a little nap, and then got a little bit of exercise in the lap pool then lounged in the sun some more hahaha Some of you are rolling your eyes now, I know. But give it a week, and I'll have my nose deep in schoolwork, and won't have so many of these types of pictures and stories! So, I'm definitely enjoying it while I can.