Recent Posts
"Oderint Dum Metuant" Discover the joys of the Five Day Meat Test!
Height: 5'-7" HW: 449 SW: 392 GW: 179 CW: 220
*DS with Dr. Ara Keshishian on 08/06/13* SW: 231 CW: 131 GW: 119 * Check out My YouTube Channel: AmysDSJourney *
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
Now that I'm caught up I finally looked and can comment. Joffrey made me want to vomit and think "someone just kill him now" every time I saw him. He was awful. I almost yelled out "yes!" when he died, but just smiled.
Now I just look forward to knowing who did it. Maybe it was Tyrion, but I don't think so. I hope he finds his way out of taking the blame. We shall see.
Excellent video addressing the problem of bullying.
But like Laurie said, it can easily get out of hand, and people don't like to put themselves in danger whatever their reaction is. What if there is a gun involved? Or a gang doing it?
But that's why the bad guys often win, because other people don't get involved. The bullies make themselves feel powerful by beating up on someone more vulnerable. Abusees often become abusers.
I think educating re: bullying and how to handle it by reporting it and getting help needs to begin very young. But even among the very young, everyone hates a tattler.
A dilemma.
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly." Richard Bach
"Support fosters your growth. If you are getting enough of the right support, you will experience a major transformation in yourself. You will discover a sense of empowerment and peace you have never before experienced. You will come to believe you can overcome your challenges and find some joy in this world." Katie Jay
Ha! I had a German shepherd once who took almost a year for one of his ears to stand up all the way. I was kind of sad when it did, he looked so cute with one floppy ear.
A friend of mine was into Dobermans at one point, and the breeder he used to work with used to use tampons (the kinds with paper tubes) as the supports for puppies when they had their ears cropped. (Note: I hate cropping/docking of any kind, but it was a thing that happened and I didn't and don't support it.)
Surgery: RNY on 12/18/2013 with Jay M. Snow, MD "Don't mistake my kindness for weakness." - Robert Herjavec, quoting Al Capone
The funny thing is, sometimes the ears don't stand up on their own and need a little help! When that's the case, you need to take part of a toilet paper tube and attach it to their ears with athletic tape for a day or two to help "train" the ears... we did that with our puppy and he looked so sad, so we drew a little crown on the tape and called him "King Lloyd," LOL!
Sparklekitty / Julie / Nerdy Little Secret (#42)
Roller derby - cycling - triathlon
VSG 2013, RNY conversion 2019 due to GERD. Trendweight here!
I love Henri!
"I'm surrounded by morons." Poor angsty kitty!
Surgery: RNY on 12/18/2013 with Jay M. Snow, MD "Don't mistake my kindness for weakness." - Robert Herjavec, quoting Al Capone
Yep. The scientific term for it is "neoteny". 
The ears kill me...OMG THE EARS!!!
Surgery: RNY on 12/18/2013 with Jay M. Snow, MD "Don't mistake my kindness for weakness." - Robert Herjavec, quoting Al Capone
I absolutely LOVE Corgis :) I worked my way through college in an animal hospital and one of our owners had a Corgi named Woogie (rhymes with "boogie"). I was so tempted to steal that dog on more than one occasion!! In the time that I worked there we only ever had one corgi puppy come in, but it got away from its owner and we had to chase it down in the back of the hospital! Those little 4" legs were FAST!! No wonder they're such great herders!!
VSG 7/1/13 with Dr. Jack Rutledge 28 y/o female - 5'10" - HW: 298 - GW: 174 - SW: 290 (-8) - M1: 262 (-28) - M2: 247 (-15) - M3: 235 (-12) - M4: 228 (-7 ~First Stall: almost 2 wks~) - M5: 218 (-10) - M6: 209 (-9) - M7: 199 (-10) Onederland on 1/31 - M8: 196 (-3) 100 lb total loss on 2/2 - M9: 192.6 (-3.4) - M10: 188.6 (-4) - M11: 182 (-6.6) - M12: 175.6 (-6.4) - M13: 173.8 (-1.8) CW (7/8/15): 167 - GOAL reached in 1 Year and 25 Days! - TOTAL WL - 131 lbs
