Tuesday, April 27, 2004

   Spider...He is our Hero!

Ana is our fearless spider slayer and on some occasions sitter. I was going to type this entire tale out in story form, but I am way to lazy, so you all get the grade school play version of the Ana spider sitting story. What can I say, it is late and I am tired. The Players: John, The observer/spider saver Brynner, The cat chaser. Harrison, Overweight orange tabby cat. Heston, Well, Heston is Heston. He's our other dog. Spider, The big brown fuzzy spider. and of course Ana Ng, the Siamese Spider Slayer...er...Sitter. The Stage: Living Room The Scene: Ana is by the scratching post/house. John is sitting on the couch. Brynner and Heston are laying down by the couch. Harrison and Spider are on their way into the living room. The Drama Unfolds: Harrison chases Spider into living room towards scratching post. Dogs who are in living room jump up to see what Harrison is doing. Run across room. Spider changes directions, heads towards couch where dogs were. Ana runs out at dogs, screaming, swats at their faces since they invaded her personal space. Harrison runs back out of living room to avoid dogs. Exit stage left. Spider changes directions again, goes towards scratching post. Dogs leave room to avoid Ana's attack. Follow Harrison. Exit stage left. Ana goes back towards scratching post. Ana sits on top of big fuzzy spider. John picks Ana up off Spider puts her on top of scratching post/house. Spider runs to middle of living room. Dazed and confused. John picks up Spider and puts him outside. Exit stage right. Ana sits on top of her scratching post finally happy to be alone in the living room. The End. And you might ask where I was when all of this was going on? I was in the bedroom taking a nap. Hey, Pandas eat and sleep, that is what they do. At least John got a good laugh out of it! Anyone who got the They Might Be Giant's song reference for my subject line, you get a gold star for the day! For you who didn't, here is the little spider ditty for the day! The song is from Apollo 18 and is titled...Spider! Spider He is our hero Spider Get rid of Spider Step on spider Spider We love you spider I promise not to kill you Spider Spider We love you spider Spider Get rid of Spider Must stop Spider He is our hero On a side note, Ana really does like killing, no, let me change that...she really enjoys torturing spiders and then killing them. His particular spider John thinks she just didn't see it since she was just so irritated by the dogs running around. If she would have seen it she would have played with it to death...literally! It's late, I will add more later. Night all!

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Monday, April 26, 2004

   Angry...yet happy....I am confused.

So I started out my day at work by getting yelled at by Mr. Creepy Shoe Guy. I call my boss's hubby Dan and he called the guy. Dan calls me back and said "He's a jerk." So he dealt with that loon so I won't have too. Dan is the coolest guy in the world today! So I am a bit angry at getting yelled at by a loon. I hate getting yelled at when you are trying to help someone. I felt my anxiety level rising and I still have that bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. I just makes me want to scream!!! Like the sign says, BEWARE OF PANDA BEAR!! Grrrr!! But on the other hand I am happy since I got to work today and decided I would mess with my intro. I went in and deleted the URL again and typed it in AGAIN just to see if it would work. And it did! Why it worked this time and not the million times before, I don't know. But I am not going to change it again! A very special thanks to Baron Samedi for all of his help in trying to figure my intro. Be sure to go to his site and get his page in the top 50!! ~_^ On a funny note, last night Brynner was running around the house like the fool he is and he ran at top speed right out the sliding glass door screen!! The door pops out, frame and all, and flies about 8 feet into the yard! Totally freaked Bun Bun out and he promptly ran into the bathroom to hide. Whenever Brynner was a pup and he would get in trouble, he would have a "time out" in the bathroom. So to this day, if he thinks he did something wrong he will go, tail between his legs, into the bathroom and hide. LOL I know, I know, this is suppose to be Ana's little soiree. It is! Even if you haven't been to one of those crazy parties I am sure you have seen some movie where the house gets trashed! Let's just think of Brynner as that guy who gets wasted that messes up the house. It's not a good party until something gets broken!

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Ana Ng's Siamese Soiree!!

Let's start off Ana's party with her song. Ana Ng by They Might Be Giants Make a hole with a gun perpendicular To the name of this town in a desk-top globe Exit wound in a foreign nation Showing the home of the one this was written for My apartment looks upside down from there Water spirals the wrong way out the sink And her voice is a backwards record It's like a whirlpool and it never ends Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you All alone at the '64 World's Fair Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl after all" Who was at the DuPont Pavilion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there? Or the time when the storm tangled up the wire To the horn on the pole at the bus depot And in the back of the edge of hearing These are the words the voice was repeating: Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge: "I don't want the world, I just want your half" They don't need me here, and I know you're there (don't need me) Where the world goes by like the humid air (world goes by) And it sticks like a broken record Everything sticks like a broken record Everything sticks until it goes away (it goes home) And the truth is, we don't know anything (don't know) Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you. Ana Ng is my 9 year old Siamese cat. She rules the house with an iron paw. Put it this way, Brynner is afraid of her. If she is sitting in the middle of the room he will walk around her in a big arc so she can't attack him! There have been times when she has come running out of the bedroom, screaming like a banshee, swats at his feet while he is standing in the living room, then runs away. I think just knowing he is there annoys her. Be afraid, be very afraid. She is more evil than Bun Bun's gas! @_@ As long as you do what she says, it will be ok. So in other words, you better be here for every single day of her little soiree or she will be angry. We definately don't want that! Now, let us all bask in the glory of her image......

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Sunday, April 25, 2004

   Well I have learned my lesson.

I finally wrote a note to Adam about the weird margins on my intro and he fixed it. So I went in to edit it and type in my actual intro. Guess what, it reverted back to the weird margin and the image won't show up again. So I just put the jpg of the image intro I am going to use til the end of time. I feel bad because I had to write back to Adam again. I swear, I am going to drive him batty! I promise, if my image shows up I will never mess with my intro ever again!

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   What would give Brynner such awful gas?!

Let's examine what would have caused the unholy gas unleashed by my darling pup. Every since he was just a Baby Bun he was not shy about food. He wasn't afraid of taking food from bigger dogs. This we believe comes from Bun Bun being one of twelve in a litter of pups. He had to be a bit more "aggressive" or he wouldn't have anything to eat! As he got to be a bit older he grew bigger and stronger. During the winter he pack on a few more pounds and weighs around 100lbs. In the summer he slims down to an athletic 90lbs. He needs lots of protein in his diet to maintain that muscular build! We buy his dog food 50lbs at a time. Usually we have to get a new bag about every 3 weeks. We do supplement his food with treats so he doesn't decide to eat something inappropriate. Well, that wraps up the Official Brynner Appreciation Weekend! Hooray! But wait, there is more! As of Monday, Panda's Place on myO will be party central for Ana Ng's Siamese Soiree!!! Be here or you won't be here since you will be somewhere other than here...in fact, you will be there! Oh, this is getting to confusing, just make sure you are here to join the shindig!

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Saturday, April 24, 2004

   Bun Bun can kill you with gas!

Brynner may looks sweet (well, besides the pic in My Photo section) but he is truly evil. This dog can produce killer gas! Let me tell you a wonderful story..... A couple of years ago John and I were gassed out of our bedroom by Brynner. At first we didn't know it was him. John crawled under the house at 11:30 pm to make sure there wasn't a broken sewer pipe! It really was that bad. Bun Bun was having some serious gassy problems. The next morning I took him to work with me. (See the name tag, it is me at work!) After some X-rays, exam, lab work and him passing more gas he was on his way to a bloat case. (Me in the lab area of the vet clinic!) This happens with large dogs. I won't bore you with the medical part of it, I will leave it as bad gas that can turn into a life threating condition. (Here I am at the check out desk!) That day when I was leaving I was up at the reception area with Brynner and visiting with all my co-workers. Bun Bun lets loose the worst gas attack unleashed on mankind...ever! Satan wouldn't even do something this bad! Needless to say everyone ran, except for my best friend Jen. When everyone ran, she was stuck at the reception desk just as the front door opened! A client was coming into the office! I took off with Brynner out the back door. Poor, poor Jen. She is up at the reception desk, by herself, with this cloud of foul smelling gas. Red in the face she tells the client a dog who has just left was gassy and it wasn't her. Mind you, the client just came in from outside and knows that no one just left. I escaped out the back employee entrance. I am sure that client didn't believe her!! All of our co-workers were cracking up over that, and still do when it is brought up. God love her, Jen is still my best friend. Nothing bonds a friendship like really stinky dog gas.

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   Brynner is not a life saving dog.

As you can clearly see by this picture above that Brynner is not a St. Bernard. He will not rescue you if you are in need. Not that John is in need of rescue but it just looks funny that Brynner doesn't even seem to notice him out in the lake. What a good dog. In honor of the Official Brynner Appreciation Weekend (observed only on Panda's myO site) I will be posting pictures of our special pup! Ok, enough about Bun Bun, moving on to more important issues! Right now Baron Samedi is very close to getting his site on the front page (top 50) myOtaku sites. Everyone go visit his site and help him get on page 1!! Go now!! Well, it is getting late for me, I think I am going to call it a night. Thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings. I will see you all around the boards!

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Friday, April 23, 2004

   Here's Bun-Bun!

See, he really is a little angel! I am finally on my weekend. Thank goodness! Now I can spend the rest of it trying to update myO and my personal website. I am going to be doing a big update on my personal website. I am changing the layout and adding new links. It will be so nice to get stuff updated finally! Now, about Brynner. He is just a mixed breed dog I adopted from the Humane Society. His mom was killed by a rancher before he knew she had a litter of 12 puppies behind his barn. Brynner was the "pick of the litter". He was the biggest and most outgoing. When I saw him I knew he was going home with me. When he was a pup he was about 10 lbs....he is now 90lbs. That is one thing when you are adopting a mixed breed pound puppy, you have no idea what you are getting! He is a total kick in the pants. He knows the names of his toys and will get them on command and loves to play fetch and go swimming in the lake. If you ask him "Who's in the tub?" he will run into the bathroom and jump in the bathtub and stay there until you say "Brynner is in the tub!". Then he will jump out and wag his tail happily. He's a good boy. If you ask him to make the "metal face" he will bare his teeth for you. It looks vicious, but he is playing. He really is just a big teddy bear. If you put something in the doorway to a room he is in, he will not go by it. He is very good about boundaries. If we have guests over we usually put him in the back of the house with only a small table lamp on the floor...which he won't walk over. It is kinda funny to see a big dog being held back by a lamp. Anyway, I better get the other picture of him uploaded to "My Picture". I really want to get your reponses on that great picture! :P

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   Rainy day.....

It is really cold and grey outside today. Very gloomy. It just makes me want to go home, put on my flannel panda jammies, make a hot cup of cocoa and curl up on the couch...perhaps with my dogs sitting next to me. Maybe I will change my picture to feature my pets. Put them up for a week at a time. That would be nice. I love my pets. Brynner is a pound puppy. Best guess as to what he is would be Rottweiler/Chow Chow Mix. He has lost some weight and only weighs 90 lbs now. Which, is more than my mom weighs! LOL My dog weighs more than my mother! There is something very comforting about having a big dog with you. If you want strangers to keep their distance, you need a big dog! Just wait til I post the picture of him in here....you will just love him! :evil grin: He really is a sweet dog, he just, well, you will see. Ok, now the rain has really started to pour and the wind is picking up. Eeeewwww! I forgot my coat today too! This morning when I left the house the sun was shining...go figure this would be my luck. :P I think I am going to try to resize my intro pic and see if maybe the size of the picture itself has anything to do with it. I might try to post a smaller image and see if there is any difference. I know they changed it to 600 characters, but does that change anything with images? Or I could just wait to see what everyone else has to say. :shrugs: I should just give up and go with some text intro in a very long thin post. LOL Oh, looks like I get to puppy sit this weekend! Dog party at my house! My dogs love puppies so it is fun. Last time this pup stayed over they all ran around the yard until they all just pooped out and fell asleep. I swear, nothing looks more relaxing then a dog sleeping. zzzzzz

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   My site is making me think evil thoughts....

I finally got sick of looking at my site last night so I went to bed. Unfortunately I had one of those mundane dreams that could have really been happening. I was dreaming that I was sitting at my computer still trying to figure out what was wrong with my Intro. So when I woke up this morning I felt like I hadn't taken a break from it at all! Now I feel mental exausted. On top of that I might not be going to Sakura-con. My hubby has to work the entire weekend. I don't want to go by myself so I might just skip it this year. Plus this just means I will have more money for Anime Expo this summer. Oh bother. At least it is Friday. Of course it looks like the majority of members here are Aussies (or is there another term you like to go by?) so you are ahead of me! How can I ever get ahead when I am a day behind all of you!! I am thinking about changing my photo on myO. I have this really funny one of my dog I was thinking about putting up. Plus, you guys don't want to stare at my cheesy grin all the time! I think everyone will like it. I think I will change it when I get home tonight. His name is Brynner, after Yul Brynner. I also call him Bun-Bun, Bear Buns, Boo, Boo Bear, and just a mix of all those words. It's the pet names for my pet....that seems kinda weird. Oh well. It is 8:29am here and I think I am going to check out the boards now. If someone has a suggestion on fixing my Intro let me know before I go on a killer Panda rampage through the streets of my hometown!! @_@

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