Artamisian’s blog

  No-one has to reply to this or even read it actually, just need to write it down....

 Had some bad news today, my oldest friend(we've known each other since we were 8) contacted me to tell me her older brother had died. He was only a couple years older than us. He had a bad accident 5yrs ago resulting in a severe head injury and fractured back so he was on lots of meds for epilepsy and pain and stuff. He had not long since moved back home after getting divorced when his mum found him dead one morning. They ruled accidental death due to the level of drugs in his system simply causing him to stop breathing. It's possible he accidentally overdosed due to a severe headache he'd had for 2 days, but we'll never know.

 To made things worse for them, since his death his ex-wife won't let them see his daughter! My friend has managed to see her once but her mum or other brother can't get to. Right now I wanna give her a hug but she lives in New England and my arms aren't long enough.so this will have to do. She says the only good thing to come out of it is that it's made her re-evaluate her life and she realises she has to make a few changes.

 There has been tons of upheaval in my SL community too this last week, hopefully it will settle down soon. But I do know I need to broaden my horizons on there a little. Having said that, my friends news has made me realise my addiction to SL is very trivial in the scheme of things and that I need to live more in the real world instead of running from it.. not that I want to loose my SL friends of course.

  Sorry to be depressing,but I'm sad for my friend and I'm missing a SL friend who's away..

That got your attention didn't it. Just had to share this story with you, a six week old piglet that was afraid to walk in the mud! Her breeders reckon she has mysophobia..a fear of dirt. When the rest of the litter went out to play in the mud she refused to move. But when they moved her to a dry patch she was fine, so they had special green wellingtons made for her, and now she loves to run in the mud. I kid you not..

Just a happy story to end my working week,that and my 8 day holiday started 1 hour ago Yaaaay!!! Been a very busy orthopaedic week this last week, 4 ops in total. thankfully all successful so far and my little noodle dog came in for a check -up today and she is doing fantastic! already starting to use her repaired leg and happy in her foster home.

So that's workover for a little while, so more time for 2L! watch out guys i'll be there more. Also planning to catch up with my fav programs, yay Supernatural is back on after the whole writers strike break! and generally chilling out!

I am so MAD!!!!!!!! I hate that mad cow that lives in the flat below me!!  Following on from the cutting down of half my tree, the latest in a long line of problems, the local authority sent someone round to talk to me about it, so we had a chat about all the rubbish she does that makes my life hell and he agreed she had no right to cut the tree when he saw where it was etc. 

So they're gonna come talk to her and try and sort it out. Well somehow I don't think that is going to work if this evening is anything to go by. I'd arranged for someone to come round to discuss getting my slightly unruly garden back into shape and I chucked in this throw away line about my mad neighbour cutting my tree so I wanted it taking out and whoops she heard. OMG, she opened her window and proceded to tear me to shreds about the state of my garden and how I supposedly complain about her to other people? and stupid stuff like me not closing the gate!!

For a start I hardly ever see any of my other neighbours cos I'm always at work, so who I'm supposed to have complained to I don't know. And I obviously don't close the gate on purpose!! The woman just hates me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know whether to hit something, scream or just kill myself. Thank god I'm already on anti-depressents and know how to meditate to calm down..... so now I have to phone the case worker again tomorrow to report this incident. Worse thing is, my mum is threatening to come and sort her out, how pathetic does that make me look?  She's a fiery one my mum.....gotta love her for it. Told her she is not allowed to as the authority are dealing with it.

I'll keep you posted guys......

want to know what's good about my job? ...

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This tiny little girl is 755/5/6/08 aka Noodle, a 12week old staffordshire bull terrier cross. She was brought into us last week by the local police after she was nearly hit by a car, she was out on her own even though she was wearing a collar. When we examined her we found she had a swollen right hind leg, so we x-rayed her and found not a new injury but one that was at least 2 weeks old! Her knee had been broken in 2 places and was healing out of place, leaving her unable to use her leg, she also had a fracture in her pelvis but that was healing okay. We think some b*****d has kicked her and left her injury untended, then whether she got out and got lost or was thrown out we don't know.....

So what's so good about this? Well today we fixed her leg!!! As she couldn't use it the only other option was to amputate it, but our orthopaedic surgeon managed to persuade our boss to let us try to fix it( free of charge too!!). It took 11/2 hrs and involved bone chisels,pins and wires. Her post op x-rays look good and although it's not perfect we think we have 85-90% movement in it. Hopefully this will help her chances of being rehomed when it's time. We can only wait and see.....  So now we just give her lots of love and cuddles...

 Well, my root canal treatment finally got started this week. At last!! Had the old filling drilled out, the tooth cleaned and dressed and a temp filling put in. It's taken 3 days for it to settle and yesterday it hurt more than it did before, but today it's better. I go for the full root canal/nerve extraction thing in august...

 As for the black dog, well that's following me around and yapping in my ear. Most people get happy when it's summer but not me, oh no, come june & the count down to my birthday and there it is, just waiting to make me wonder what the point of it all is. Another year just the same as the last, job I'm not happy in, zero personnal life and some stuff we're doing in SL is making my demons rattle their cage, so all in all not a good time at the moment.

 Then as if my mood isn't dark enough my mad freak of a neighbour cut half my eucalyptus tree down yesterday when I was out!!!! I admit my garden needs work but to do that without saying anything to me...I am sooo mad!! Well, that's the last straw, official complaint going into the local authority about it and tons of other stuff she does. Thing is, she has a hedge that is growing over my fence but I'm not allowed to touch that!! how does that work? aaargh she makes me want to scream!!!

 How often do you get to meet someone you admire, someone who influences you so much? Well on Thursday we got to do just that when Storm came to Immanion Island to dedicate our Nayati. This was a visit long in the planning and eagerly awaited by all of us but especially by Sinji who has been teaching the deharan system for a while. Immanion island and the Wraethtu group mean alot to him and Storm's visit must surely have vindicated all the time that he and the other council members dedicate to it.

 The actual ceremony was short but very nice and the newly unveiled plaque is lovely. Storm also got a tour of our island as I don't think she has seen it before? Dalia and I managed to contain our excitement and were able to talk to her like normal people(or at least I hope we did) I'm sure Sinji would have told us if we were being dorks!

The other great thing about Thursday? We finally got our new residential island, yay!! Much fun was had trying to terraform it! Hope it's looking okay now, I don't think landscape supervision is one of my strong points. Hope to see lots of familier faces now that they'll somewhere to live.

This probably going to be mainly a SL blog, but I'm probably going to need to vent about work occasionally too. I'm a veterinary nurse and that gets pretty stressful at times, what with awkward veterinarians and difficult animal owners.It has some good stuff to, like the 4 hour surgury to repair a dogs' broken shoulder blade, pretty awesome orthopaedic surgury I can tell you.

I am a complete bookworm and have read books on all sorts( in fact the only stuff I don't read is soppy romance!). I have been accused of having a liberary instead of a living room by various people! Love music, just about any kind apart from; dance and r&b. Fav tv shows include DrWho( I'm British what can I say), supernatural etc.

As for SL what can I say, I've met some great people and hope to get to know you all much better. Special mention to Cru,Spikey,Dalia,Paulo,Sin and infact all of you who have opened your arms and welcomed me.