http://jessicainprogress.com For the Love of Fuck Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:09:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you might know from reading Miss Doxie, dachshunds are contagious.  In fact, if Miss Doxie lived a little further south in Georgia and did not have so many teeth, I might think she was a distant in-law. It started with Cinnamon, a little wiener dog some friend foisted upon Tom ... http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/09/28/dachshunds-r-us/ I really wanted to work that into the title of a mass email I sent out today. Please excuse the picture quality - it's a print screen from the podcast we did for the sanctuary on my hair cut.  This is the closest I've come to admitting my real identity on ... http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/09/26/it-was-20-inches/ "Who left this glass right here so I would think it's my margarita?  Because I just swigged straight tequila." "Oppsies." http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/09/25/the-darker-side-of-fundraising/ So...our dog has heartworms. Heartworms are a parasite - a worm no less - that are usually transmitted by mosquitoes.  There are many, many, easy-to-use monthly prevention treatments that you can give your dog so it does not get heartworms. Left untreated, heartworms will kill an animal. Let me back up a bit... I ... http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/09/23/heartache-to-heartworm/ 1)  While I have fed the cats every night, I've not cleaned a cage since last Friday because my "part time job" has been so hectic.  I am huffing from climbing the stairs to the condo from lack of exercise. 2)  We found out the dog has heart worms. 3)  Tom's out ... http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/09/18/the-shitty-week-list/ TG:  How's things at the sanctuary? Me:  My co-worker just brought me a baggie of intern hair.  Does that sum it up? http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/09/16/its-not-all-glamour-and-tiger-shit/ It's just a disconnect. I'm disconnected from what I used to write about - the people, the situations, the decisions. I'm also physically disconnected.  While I may turn on the computer at home for a little Solitaire downtime, if I open a browser I inevitably end up at my work email, or ... http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/09/15/connect/ As in, "back into the". It's been on my mind to try and find ways to write more.  I miss it, and I think it misses me. So I wrote a little post that I'll finish in the next day or so.  But I thought I'd shine up the place for its ... http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/09/14/fray/ While I wish I could sit down and tell you exactly what's on my mind - how crazy, exciting, frustrating, exhausting my day-to-day has become - I can't. It's not because I want to keep things private (although I do) or that I can't find the time (although I can't).  It's that ... http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/07/27/its-never-whats-on-my-mind/ This weekend will be our one year anniversary.  While I'm sure I can wax poetic about love, etc., all I can think is thank goodness it's a reason to take the weekend off. For the third time since I've started officially working for the sanctuary, GM has gone traveling for work. ... http://jessicainprogress.com/2008/07/09/coming-down/