I noticed a while ago that one of my boars, Swirly, had an eye weeping a sort of cloudy fluid. His eye looked fine aside from that (no obvious poke injuries, hay seeds, protrusion or anything), and I know that their eyes do naturally produce discharge that they use to help groom themselves, so I thought nothing of it. But it didn't really go away. Sometimes his eye looks completely fine, and sometimes it's all watery and weepy, but you can tell it has been weeping even when it looks alright because there's always dried up white muck in the fur around his eye. Other than the discharge he seems completely fine; he not behaving abnormally, or holding his eye closed or anything like that.

Last time I had a pig who got a hay seed in her eye it didn't look like this at all. You could see straight away when you looked at her eye that something was wrong, and it never looked fine like Swirly's sometimes does. And it obviously bothered her, because she'd keep her eye closed. I would have thought maybe Swirly had just accidentally poked his eye on the hay, but it's been a few days and it hasn't gone away.

I'm going to the vet as soon as possible (maybe tonight) but I'm wondering, is there anything else it could be other than a piece of hay stuck behind his eye, or a poke injury? I've read the Guinea Lynx page on eye conditions, and it doesn't really indicate any other possibilities based on his symptoms.

I saw this in today's paper and just HAD to post it here. :-)

seeing this image reminded me a little snippet from a conversation i had years ago:

"so i say to him, i say, 'he's just trying to get into his gay pants!'"

"... what do 'gay pants' even look like?"

"pink, and tight, honey. pink, and tight."

i share this with you, dear reader, because i think it's funny.

Last week, I bought myself a slow cooker, finally. I've tested it out with a stew-thing, and it was delicious. So yesterday, in a fit of "ooh, I can cook other things!" and after reading some pork-related posts in here, I picked up a nice pork roast, a package of cranberries (because I hate canned cranberry sauce, so I figured I could make my own), a can of apple pie filling, and some BBQ sauce. And I have mushrooms, onions, potatoes, rice, celery, and carrots. What would you guys recommend I do with this? It doesn't have to be a roast, I can slice up the meat into porkchop-shaped pieces if that helps, or possibly turn it all into some sort of pulled pork... thing?

my cat is snoring! he is funny. he is a super loud purrer, too. ( I am talking about Puddin'; he is a tuxedo cat. we have 3 other cats, plus also 2 dogs).

I am sick. I have been sick for about a week. sucks, because I missed my last 4 days of clinicals. I am in school. I am working on my masters.

OK wait, let me back up a little. in July, Glenn and I moved back to the bay area. we are living in santa rosa. we moved here so I could do the clinical portion of my master's degree and finish school. I have been working as a student nurse midwife at women's health and birth center. it has been super fab! I have got to learn lots about all the stuff i studied these past 2 years. I have delivered 9 babies. anyway, I was to be here at the birth center through the end of this month, but I got sick last week,. so I missed my last 4 days in clinic, plus I am also missing out on births. sucks. so I have been working on getting in all my written work for school. slowly slowly getting there! I have a couple more small assignments to work on, and one huuuuuge paper. I am going to be starting at another clinical site in mid december to early january - probably early january, so i will get to take a break once that last paper is done, which will likely be 18 december (when it is due). but maybe earlier. anyway. so I am going to this new site in January, and am PLANNING to be done by the end of february. i was planning to be done be the end of the year, but that is not happening.

tomorrow is thanksgiving; we are going to Lyon's, whoo!! Glenn has never been to a Lyon's. I haven't been to one in years, so I am pretty excited.

anyway, I just want to be not sick anymore. and i want to go out to the city, go clubbing. and I want to be done with school. even when I'm done, there is still more, but maybe i will explain that another time.

so it looks like we are going to move to burlingame in march, if my plan works, WHOO!! YAY!!

Hello all,

I think this is my first time posting here but I could use some help for a couple of recipes.

There's a pub up the street from me here that makes this amazing pea soup but the guy won't tell me the recipe because it's a family secret. It's a pea soup that is deliciously creamy and green. I have yet to find another pea soup that is green!! Can anyone help with a recipe?

Second recipe I'm looking for is a celery soup. My Canadian living magazine has one but it's made in a sauce/soup pot which as a student I don't exactly have access too (thank you multi purpose crock pot) anyone have a recipe for that?

And finally I am looking for a good winter stew. The last time I made stew it came out awful, so a good and EASY recipe would be greatly appreciated! I actually want boyfriend to eat it this time!!!

the GM at my cafe said this today, and it sent my mind reeling with possibilities.

as soon as she said it, i exclaimed, "that would be a GREAT first line to a story!"

i told her i'd start writing it today, and i have, i started two, actually. i will plug away on them for the next couple of days (i'm being quite generous here), and have some finished work some time on friday.

i realize this is too good, and too fun, and too inspiring not to share.

SO

i challenge you, dear reader, to join me.

write a short story opening with the words:

"i have yogurt in my purse"

go crazy, do whatever you want. make it funny, make it weird, make it sexy, make it sad, just make it.

submit your work by... oh, 8pm this friday. of course, if you finish sooner, GREAT, no need to wait till the deadline.

if the finished work fits into LJ's comment length cut-off, post it here. if not, post it to your own journal, or email it to me at: missmeeks77 at gmail, and i will post the stories in an entry saturday morning.

are you in?

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errr...

i dreamed that i was living in my parent's hometown in a flat with 3 other people. one girl moved out, to be replaced by this guy who is the spitting image of sergeant hatred. without asking me, he immediately rearranged my bedroom and then borrowed my skateboard to go to some stupid local football game. i also found a hidden tibetan monastery (in CT???) inside a beautiful series of caverns - but then realized the back of it connected to a mall.

wtf?

also - if anyone has any experience with repairing corrupted firmware on hard drives, please comment - i lost a .5tb drive the other day and would appreciate any comments or suggestions to recovering it. thanks!

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my piggy was sleeping and he started to twitch a few times. he was definitely sleeping. is it normal?