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Originally posted by [info]beckyh2112 at Project Save Annabelle (otherwise known as I need help)
Originally posted by [info]pixie117 at Project Save Annabelle (otherwise known as I need help)
The Story

Cut for animal injury )

Help Needed

I hate asking for any help, but this girl is my baby. Anyone who knows me knows that this dog is my world. I talk about her nonstop, I take her everywhere I go. I make sure she has the best possible life I can give her, and I go without in order to give it to her.

I have had a rough few years and she's been able to bring me so much joy. I seriously can't imagine life without my giant beast of a dog. She's a cuddle buddy who loves nothing more than being loved on by a human. She doesn't have a mean bone in her body and adores everyone she meets.



(This is a photo from a month or so ago. She's snuggling in bed with Kevin on a Sunday like we do every Sunday until this last one shook us all up.)

If you know of any charities that would donate to the vet on behalf of Annabelle to get her the services we need, please let me know. I am researching it a bit, and doing my best to find help that I can get right away. This all happened so fast and needs to be treated fast. If you know of a vet in the Orange County, CA area that would take payments or help me out, that would work great too. I just need it quick.

Knowing I can save her if I just had the money... I have to at least try. I have to at least ask.

Don't feel any obligation whatsoever, especially if you have helped me in the past with anything whatsoever. I don't want to be greedy or pushy. Several people have asked to help me with the vet bills and I am passing this along because I can't deny that I need help. If you can't help financially, but want to help out somehow, then feel free to pass this along. Pass it along anywhere you can think of, I don't mind.

Anything. Any little bit will help here. Even your thoughts and prayers mean the world to me since I believe in the power of positive energy. So keep those coming as well. Or just pass it on even. Maybe someone out there can help me in a way I never would have thought of on my own. You just never know.

Thanks everyone. I will try to make sure everyone gets at least a personalized "thank you" card if I get your address (so please consider leaving that. I may include a photo of Annabelle once she's healthy once more). I am more than willing to repay the favor in any way I possibly can. Never hesitate to ask.

For more about Annabelle, here's a video and a public post I wrote up about her. You can see that she really is a terrific dog and I love her so much.

http://pixie117.livejournal.com/616200.html







If the link doesn't work, my paypal e-mail address is kristenrericha@gmail.com. Apparently people are having issues there. I apologize for that :/


 
 
weirdlet
22 May 2012 @ 02:27 pm
More on Princess Aksinya and her adventures with 'Prince' Shaan.

So, I need to figure out what these two actually get up to.  What are the stakes in their adventures?  And more importantly, why the hell is Aksinya's family willing/all fired up to get her out of the palace?

It's got something to do with the spirits, I think.  The fact that she's actually really pretty good at what she does with the family magics, to the point where she could perhaps make bargains of her own with some of the older, deeper, creepier ancestral monsters- how do you prevent your sub-chiefs from clamoring for war you don't want, if your daughter could actually raise up a kraken?  How do you excuse not using a member of the royal family to the fullest extent of their potential abilities?

Marry her off to a foreign barbarian and ritually/magically cut ties with her from the family magic, of course.  She'll still be able to scry a bit, sure- make water-drops dance along her fingers like a pickpocket with a coin.  But she won't be able to summon the sea-wolf, or the thunder-cliff horses, nor guide great fleets through ice or traverse the deep-sea waters and ask questions of the ancient things there.

There will be no blood-dark water-priestess at the head of a relentless army, bringing the sea and its creatures to salt the earth wherever she goes.

Huh- so that makes Aksinya our resident Prophesized Evil McGuffin, it would seem.  And her fiance may think this is a nasty trick that got played on her people, to fob off an assassin-baiting, god-troubling mage-hobbled witch on them- but she also likes Aksinya, a lot.  Certainly Shaan doesn't want to take the expedient route and kill her or hand her over- not only would that be an idiot's move for someone who doesn't want a conquering army devouring her folk, but it would be absolutely dishonorable not to protect her friend and partner.  There were words spoken.  She made a promise

So it's the open road for them.
 
 
weirdlet
07 May 2012 @ 04:07 am
Often, the mixes I make for my roleplaying characters form organically as I play them- forcing the process tends to end badly.  But for some of them, I hear a little bit and I want to hear more- even if I don't know what those songs will be yet.


Let me tell you about my character... )


The only song I've got going right now is Snake Handlin' Man, off Seven is the Number by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer.
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weirdlet
06 May 2012 @ 10:38 pm
1.  Stitching up lining of fur vest
    -Whenever I can, in between things.
2.  PlastiDip on foam sword
    -two days from now when glue is aaall cured.
3.  Tabards for the Blackstone Brigade
    -before next NERO Chicago event, but since that's up in the air until Steve gets his zoning permits straightened out, let's call it two weeks before the next big event that the Brigade might attend in force.
4.  Multi-figure commission
    -before July is loose deadline, so let's try getting sketches done before the end of May.

Today is May 6th.  This coming weekend is NERO Highborn, so I'll be running tavern and baking bread all weekend- this week, Mom needs help before re-inspection, so whatever she puts on the list gets done.  Tuesday noon, post-op follow up visit with the doctor.

Dividing time into chunks, it helps get things done....
 
 
weirdlet
04 May 2012 @ 02:43 pm
Flailing all over The Avengers now.  Need more.  Also, still reeeeally want Banned From Asgard now.
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weirdlet
27 April 2012 @ 08:01 pm
So yeah, I had those bilateral ovarian cysts cored out.  Abnormal cells that could have been cancerous if they'd been let go- but weren't now, although the full pathology report will come out next week.

I would never have known about these if it weren't for the insurance ending and me scurrying to get everything checked out.

I still have the good ovarian flesh left, I'm not in a whole lot of pain (laproscopic!  yay!) and I kinda Matrixed a bullet there.  So, I may be missing the premiere of The Avengers and a NERO game, but I'm pretty happy.  And I have kitties swarming me.  Also the option of lovely lovely drugs but not the need, which is always a good thing.
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weirdlet
16 April 2012 @ 11:50 pm
People have this amazing ability to make my life better.  I may be going in for a second opinion on cyst-removal on my birthday, but what's waiting for me after is worth it.
 
 
weirdlet
07 April 2012 @ 12:11 am
Get a busy month of gaming and opportunity and visits with friends you haven't seen in ages planned out, and then they tell you they gotta take out cysts and that you're looking at 2-4 weeks recovery time.  At least it sounds like it could be an explanation for the gallbladder-symptoms-with-a-clean-gallbladder-on-two-separate-ultrasounds thing, because endometriosis can get everywhere.

Just- could I for once get a chance to plan things out without all my careful orchestrations being tossed into the air?
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weirdlet
24 March 2012 @ 12:26 am
Watching now.  Squeeing hard.  Thinking Korra's life looks a little lonely so far, even if she's got the brash attitude to carry it off.


Edit- Bwahaha... "Don't bring my mother into this-!" )


I NEED MORE!!!
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weirdlet
Lord above and gods below, I do get to a point where I hate tenants.

Let me clarify.  My mother owns the building, I am household minion, and we have an inspection tomorrow.  We're also living hand to mouth and the mortgage sucks up the rest, not an uncommon story these days- so we do our best to address complaints as they come and deal with things in appropriate order of priority.


Cut for squick and bitching... )



...I'm gonna go get me one of those chocolate lava-cakes I found in the frozen section today.  I deserve it after the work I put in today.

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