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Neutering Pets

There are so many unwanted unloved abused animals that are homeless … dumped on country roads or on city streets or just outright murdered by people that got tired of them or dumped off in Kill Shelters … it breaks my heart and makes me fighting mad at the same time when I hear someone talking about how they want to have puppies or kittens. Having a pet is a responsibility … if you cannot care for it any longer … the saddest and hardest thing to do is to take it to a shelter knowing it is a death sentence for the animal … but better a humane death than slow starvation or death by car or true wild animal out in a world where it is not able to survive. Neuter your pet … DO NOT ADD TO THE KILL LIST!!!!!

Against:

Violence Against Women

Men beating up women makes me want to lock the guy up in a basement somewhere and then turn a firehose flood water on and watch them try not to drown as the room slowly fills up with water floor to ceiling. Generally … they are twice the woman’s size physically while having a pea sized brain if any at all. Get counseling to like yourself and not have to hurt the women in your life. No matter what happened in your past – no matter who may have hurt you – you have no right to punch out women or girls.

Stop the circle of violence and turn it into a circle of wellness and hope for a better future for us all.

STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BEFORE IT BEGINS!!!!

What influences me? What influences my choices?

How something looks or how I feel about a subject or person influences me in my analysis of what might be the best option to choose when I have a choice. If I am repelled by a choice … i.e., cooked spinach vs crunchy lettuce salads … the crunchy salad wins with me every time … I cannot get past the slimy look of cooked spinach let alone find out how it tastes.

If I do not realize something is slimy … i.e., the first (and only) time I ate breaded cooked okra … I am willing to try something to find out if I like the taste or not … I found it very slimy and yucky … my family likes it

Liver … I love liver and onions … my grandmother made it every once in awhile when I was a kid and I loved it then and I still do … many times when I go to Luby’s (a local buffet) – I order it … yummy … my kids detest it and my grandson won’t even try it because he does not like how it looks.

What influences from circumstances in daily life send my life in unexpected directions?

I bought my house last year … lost my job … got a contract assignment … became unemployed again in January and am still looking for another job … now I will be trying to sell the house and have to move in with my daughter until I get a job again … whenever that might be … my plan when I bought the house was for me not to have to move again til I was quite ancient or maybe even dead.

I am starting to pack getting ready to move right now … everyone knows how much fun packing and moving is not and anyone who has Rheumatoid Arthritis knows exaclty how painful it can be … so … I am going to be seriously downsizing with this move … I am only keeping the bare essentials … clothes & shoes …. photo albums … paintings & assorted artwork … bed & dresser & chairs & kitchen utensils type stuff … most of the books ae already gone so I do not have to worry about packing those again … sigh … I had not planned ot downsize any further at this time … but life happened … out goes much more … stuff … and it is nearing time to move yet again … sigh … change is not bad … but it is painful some times … Miss Sugar Plum just got used to the yard being hers … and now she has to give it up.