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My internet connection at work is still sporadic. Our network must have been hit pretty hard.

Now that I've finished my antibiotics, I think I'm getting sick again. What am I going to do? I can't just go back to the doctor. "Um, this medicine didn't work, give me something else." :P

Do you guys know my friend Jenn? She's living in Australia and is really cool. I just got caught up with her blog and wanted to give her a plug, since she rocks my socks.

Gandalf did Pilates this morning. I'm not kidding! One of the first movements is the roll-up, which is basically going to a sitting position from a lying-down position. Gandalf flopped onto the rug with us when we started our workout. When it was time for the roll-up, he laid on his back with his paws over his head, and when we sat up, he sat up too. When we laid back down, he did too. He did it three or four times. I was laughing so hard I could hardly do the exercise. I told about it at lunch and no one believed me, but I swear it's true.

Two random trip things I forgot:
1. One day while we were driving, my mother and I spotted a furry, cute, flattish animal scurrying around on the side of the road. My mother insisted it was a platypus. I had to convince her that platypuses (platypi?) are not indigenous to North America, but once I saw it I agreed that it sort of looked like one. I wanted to get a picture of it, but it ran away. Later I figured out that the "Michigan platypus" (as we called it) was actually a beaver. I'm so smart.
2. I learned from a radio commercial that no place in Michigan is further than six miles from a lake or river. I thought that was neat. There's your useless fact for the day.

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Date: 2003-09-03 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anulyra.livejournal.com
It might have been a woodchuck. We have lots of those.

Image

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Date: 2003-09-03 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] admael.livejournal.com
I've never seen a beaver up close before... cool. :-) I've seen armadillos pretty close, though. Those are spiffy.

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Date: 2003-09-03 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chestnutcurls.livejournal.com
Yeah, that was it! :D Thanks. You guys have a lot of small furry animals. It's fun. My experience is so limited, the furthest I could get was, "Well, it's too big to be a squirrel."

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Date: 2003-09-03 01:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chestnutcurls.livejournal.com
:) Yeah, they are.

Hey, I have band practice tonight from 7:30 to 8:30. If you happen to be around the sanctuary at those times, come say hello. :)

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Date: 2003-09-03 01:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moredetails.livejournal.com
I love seeing animals in the wild! That's so cool that woodchucks live there.. how much cheese could a wood cheese cheese?

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Date: 2003-09-03 02:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seekinghim.livejournal.com
ahh, yes, we have *lots* of those, as well. I always call them "groundhogs" though :)


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Date: 2003-09-03 02:49 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2003-09-03 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocomilkbanana.livejournal.com
Michigan is awesome! That's where I lived, basically, all my life for 15/16 years before moving to Tennessee. That was a shameless plug for the only hockey team that rules! Anyway, it sounds like you enjoyed your trip. May I ask where you visited?

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Date: 2003-09-03 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dirtbird.livejournal.com
I think I did a thorough analysis on that a while ago.... let me see.

Here!

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Date: 2003-09-03 07:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] my-everafter.livejournal.com
Your posts always lift my spirits! Anyways...You should try to catch Gandalf on video tape and then send it in to America's funniest videos- or whatever! Or you could just make it into an mpeg so that you can post it on the internet. Then maybe people would believe you because a cat doing pilates is pretty far fetched! heehee! (Don't worry, I believe you!!!)

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Date: 2003-09-03 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nikichick4.livejournal.com
Your cat is too funny! haha

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Date: 2003-09-04 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chestnutcurls.livejournal.com
Hey, fun! We were in the Detroit area...our hotel was in Auburn Hills.

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Date: 2003-09-04 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chestnutcurls.livejournal.com
:) Thanks! Yeah, I have often wished I could record him. He does the weirdest things.

LOL

Date: 2003-09-04 06:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] contradictions.livejournal.com
That post was hilarious! Between your dog doing pilates and the platybeavichuck (it has much more dramatic impact if you say it out-loud, btw...especially around a bunch of other people...and let me know if they lau, er, how they like the name ;o) ).

Hmm...that was a sentence fragment, thanks to that long parenthetical. My Engrish skills have totally faded since simultaneously not taking any more English classes and getting heavily involved in Internet chatting ;o)

Oh, and I wanted to mention a funny animal misnaming event in my life. I was in elementary school and waiting for my bus with my mom out at the entrance to our subdivision. There's a canal there, and I look in and see this thing swimming. I asked my mom what kind of fish swims with its head out of the water. She saw it, laughed, and told me it was an otter! Ever since then, we will see an otter and call it a fish with its head out of the water! HAHAHAHA! Umm...ok...guess you had to be there ;o)

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Date: 2003-09-04 07:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocomilkbanana.livejournal.com
I lived in Dearborn Heights, which is a suburb of Detroit. Well, I am glad to hear that you had such a good time - even w/the Michigan platypus! :) I'd love to go back and visit. I've sworn up and down that the next time the Wings wing the Cup, I am going for the parade :) There's absolutely nothing like it.

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Date: 2003-09-04 07:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chestnutcurls.livejournal.com
LOL...

That reminds me of a time when my siblings and I were at the lake and my brother brushed against my leg by accident, and yelled, "Ooo, a fish!" A few minutes later it happened again and he was like, "There it was again!" Then I figured it out. It was hilarious. To this day I'll bump into him in the water and yell, "Hey, a fish!"

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Date: 2003-09-04 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] contradictions.livejournal.com
LOL! Murky water can be so fun ;o)

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Date: 2003-09-04 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeffholton.livejournal.com
When Gandalf reaches his weight goal, let us all know, k?

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