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Just want to chime in and say thank you thread. I had a terrible day yesterday feeling more depressed/anxious than usual and this thread made me feel better this morning, even if it is for a short while. 
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Choco1980 posted:reminds me of my friend bosco: Happy? No. Bosco is.... displeased.
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Dec 23, 2014 16:04
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My parents mostly just give me a bunch of money on Christmas and my birthday, because they're upper-middle class and I live on disability social security, which due to not keeping up with inflation leaves nothing leftover for luxuries. This year, my baby sister turned 8, and discovered Santa Claus wasn't real. I guess she got some money from my parents too, because this year under the tree there's several rectangular boxes that make lego noises when you shake them that have my name on them. They all say "From Santa" in sloppy handwriting.
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Dec 23, 2014 17:33
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TheSmilingJackal posted:Happy? No. Bosco is.... displeased. hehe, like I said, you can't see it well in the photo, but Bosco has a permanent scowling underbite. From what I'm told he survived a hit and run to end up like that, and is otherwise perfectly healthy. Even in the best of moods, that's how he looks.
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Dec 23, 2014 20:47
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Gorilla Salad posted:I had a wonderful moment today when I went into the break room and the Japanese news was just finishing. Yeah the Japanese are nuts for them, even more than me. The zoos brought them over in the 60s and billed them as "the animal that likes hot springs as much as we do". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOcVBJIod8A BattleMaster has a new favorite as of 23:34 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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Dec 23, 2014 23:32
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Not a picture, but a story that still makes me pretty drat happy despite it happening a couple weeks ago. On November 15, I was in a really bad car accident. My femur on my right side broke through the back of the hip joint, breaking the pelvis and the hip itself in an "s" shape. I had two procedures. The first one was done in the trauma bay, which was to pull my right leg out of my hip and keep it in place until I could have a proper surgery a few days later. The second was to get the skeletal traction out and to put two rows of plates and screws in my hip and pelvis area. I've been out of work since the accident, since I physically cannot walk, let alone do my job. I had some personal time saved up, but not enough to cover the entire 6 months I'll be out of work, and even then, it's still too soon to tell if I'm able to do my job once I get back. I've already used up all of my sick time and FMLA after I injured my left knee over the summer. I have the paperwork to apply for long term disability, since that seems to be my only hope at this point. About a week after I was discharged from the hospital, I get a letter in the mail from work. My coworkers donated almost two weeks of their paid personal time to me. Like... they gave up their vacation time, just so I could use it. The donations are confidential, so I have no idea who to thank. I know it's not much in the long run, but It still makes me tear up from their generosity.
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Dec 23, 2014 23:56
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That's cool they did that for you. I also broke my pelvis a few years ago - my teen brothers' church youth group all pooled money together for me to help with my bills. It's really cool when people reach out to help you. Sounds like your break was worse than mine (mine was totally my pelvis, my legs were actually fine). If you ever want to bitch about hip problems, PT, surgeries, or lack of mobility issues, feel free to pm or email me at my username at gmail. Hang in there.
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Dec 24, 2014 00:01
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Miz Kriss posted:Not a picture, but a story that still makes me pretty drat happy despite it happening a couple weeks ago. It's always kinda sweet to hear about these stories. In Massachusetts, it takes an act of the state legislature to set up a sick bank for state employees (we probably should have a system that does it), and it's always a little heartwarming that so many departments and agencies go through the process of getting them passed and set up so that they can help out their coworkers.11 See, e.g., 2014 Mass. Acts ch. 384, available at https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2014/Chapter384.
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Dec 24, 2014 00:06
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DrBouvenstein posted:Take a look at this jerk-rear end tortoise: "Stop that, Mr. Simpson."
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Aww! The angle makes it look like she pressed open the bars to pose. I just had my new baby rats delivered today!  Little rats are SO LITTLE. 
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Dec 24, 2014 08:47
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When I was a kid I had a hamster that chewed the bars of its cage. Nothing unusual there, most rodents I've owned have done similar, even when they have plenty of other things available to gnaw on. This hamster though, she chewed in only one corner, on only two bars. She chewed those bars for a year or more, and we thought nothing of it until the morning I came downstairs and found those two, thin, weakened bars pushed wide enough apart for a hamster's head (and therefore a whole hamster) to fit through. She was in a dark corner, cheerfully eating the carpet.
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Dec 24, 2014 16:18
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goatface posted:When I was a kid I had a hamster that chewed the bars of its cage. Nothing unusual there, most rodents I've owned have done similar, even when they have plenty of other things available to gnaw on. Do they ever  https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=734413836654896Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chkZq1309T8 BattleMaster has a new favorite as of 16:52 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Dec 24, 2014 16:49
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This picture makes me nervous, since as a kid, I found one of my hamsters one morning, having tried to escape through the wires high up in the cage, getting caught and choking. 
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Dec 24, 2014 18:35
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BattleMaster posted:Do they ever Capys sound like they're shooting space lasers.
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Dec 24, 2014 18:45
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If HR Giger had invented the rabbit
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♪ Jingity jing (Chrp chrp chrp chrp) / It's Dan the Capybara! / Jingity jing (Chrp chrp chrp chrp) / The Christmas Capybara! ♪
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Dec 24, 2014 21:55
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Holy poo poo I don't think I realized just how big Capys were before until this.
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Dec 24, 2014 22:12
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EVG posted:Aww! The angle makes it look like she pressed open the bars to pose. I just had my new baby rats delivered today! Awww! I love those little snugglebugs! Do they have names yet?
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Dec 24, 2014 23:08
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"Come on, seriously?" That's a peanut butter filled bone he got about 5 minutes ago. Henry also pushed Seb away from his meatloaf/bacon juice covered dinner tonight, such a pushover.
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Dec 25, 2014 00:35
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goatface posted:When I was a kid I had a hamster that chewed the bars of its cage. Nothing unusual there, most rodents I've owned have done similar, even when they have plenty of other things available to gnaw on. This hamster though, she chewed in only one corner, on only two bars. She chewed those bars for a year or more, and we thought nothing of it until the morning I came downstairs and found those two, thin, weakened bars pushed wide enough apart for a hamster's head (and therefore a whole hamster) to fit through. Mys sister's old hamster just squeezed through the bars instead. It escaped several times and made a little pile of seeds and crap in the corner of the bathroom.
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Violet_Sky posted:Awww! I love those little snugglebugs! Do they have names yet? They came with the names "Cookie" and "Pixel", but I am thinking Donna Noble and Sara Jane Smith, because our other two rats are Amelia Pond and Rose Tyler. (Could go with Martha or Clara, but they never really grew on me.)
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Dec 25, 2014 03:42
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My friend brought a surprise guest to our Christmas party. 
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Dec 25, 2014 05:11
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Here is a fatty fat marmot eating a cracker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=681jBBjRyq8
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Dec 25, 2014 08:36
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Gorgolflox posted:Very exciting. Cute tankbabby
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Hummingbird mother is a good mother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA_2Z9ff3HQ
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Moon Potato posted:Hummingbird mother is a good mother. Hummingbirds always worry me because their little metabolisms work so fast they're pretty much perpetually on the brink of starvation.  Put your hummingbird feeders out, folks.
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Dec 25, 2014 19:25
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 My cousin and her husband got a puppy!
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Dec 26, 2014 08:45
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Oh, they got a good puppy. I can tell.
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Dec 26, 2014 09:34
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I haven't seen that many family pet Christmas pictures this year oh noooo. Here's a festive snake who is upside-down.  
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Nightmare Zone posted:I haven't seen that many family pet Christmas pictures this year oh noooo. being next to so many just-slightly-warm lightbulbs must be like heaven for the little guy. I mean, he's got a face and everything
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off_kilter posted:Here is a fatty fat marmot eating a cracker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJgtoiErtOY
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