My Retainer Lisp

About two months ago I got really sick with the flu that knocked me out for five days straight. While I was sick in bed, I of course had my trusty lab at my side sleeping next to me. One night I asked my mother to bring me down a slice of bread and some jello so that perhaps I could eat something since I hadn't eaten in 24 hours. I took my retainers out and placed them on the plate and ate about two small bites of bread before falling asleep because even though I was extremely hungry, I was even more tired. My dog, who loves any type of food, slept by my side the entire night without once getting up to try and eat the food still on the plate by my bed. However at around 4 in the morning I got up with the need to hurl, yet again. I jumped up and ran straight for the bathroom. After sitting next to the toilet for half an hour, I made my way back to my room to find the plate tipped over and all the food gone with one of my retainers sitting on the floor next to the plate. The retainer for my top teeth was no where near the plate and I instantly guessed that it was with the jello and bread that had been on the plate before my expedition to the bathroom, they were all in my dog's stomach. I yelled my dogs name and he looked up at me from his innocent looking spot on my bed, acting like he didn't know why I was mad at him. I searched around on the floor, because I simply couldn't believe that he had eaten my whole retainer. I found my top retainer just a few inches under my bed and sighed in relief. Unfortunately as I checked it for damages, I found that it had in fact been half chewed up by my silly dog. Since I was sick, I just picked up my retainers, put them on my dresser, and went back to bed, my dog still laying on the soft blankets without a care in the world. Once I got feeling better, I told my parents about my retainer and asked if it would be possible to get a new one. My dad told me to just clean it off and keep using it, so after soaking it in denture cleaner and brushing it multiple times, it was good as new, except for the chewed half of my top retainer. Because it doesn't exactly fit perfectly on my teeth any more, I now talk with a lisp when I wear my retainers at night. A fact that has me and my roommate laughing hysterically some nights as we try to talk about the days events. Dogs . . . ya gotta love 'em.

Frog Lab . . . The Wild Times

So I work/volunteer in a frog lab. I take care of frogs a couple times a week changing their water and feeding them etc. The frogs are a bit jumpy as is to be expected because it is in their nature, but so far I had never had one get away before this eventful thursday. I go into the lab as usual to take care of them. This week though, has been different from the beginning. On monday this other lab started moving all of their equipment into our small room which is already over crowded with equipment. Because of this said equipment being moved into the room there is now only a walkway around a big desk for free walking space in the room. On the afore mentioned thursday I go into the lab to find about five other people already at their specified equipment in the small overly crowded room. After getting annoyed in my head about their stuff being on my desk space, I go to work getting the frog bins onto the cart to change the water. I get all the water changed for the frogs and as I go to pick up a frog to move it from one bin to another it makes a great leap and slips out of my hands, falling, falling, down to the hard floor below. I let out an "oh no!" as it jumps and slids around on the floor. All the people now turn to see what's going on as I bolt for the frog. Because the frog is so slippery though, I just can't catch it. By this point, everyone else in the room is laughing at me while I'm still chasing the frog around. Each time I catch it, it slips out of my hands and I continue running after it. Finally I capture the slippery beast, run to the sink to rinse her off, and then run back to the bins and dump her in. It was pretty intense, and embarassing with all these people just laughing at me. I admit that I laughed too because let's face it, that whole scene was hilarious.

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Polar Bear Mom and Babies

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Obsessed with Animals? . . . Maybe a Little Bit

So today I got a pintrist account. I spent about three hours looking at the different subjects of random life wasters. I probably spent 2 1/2 hours looking at the pet section, the other 1/2 hour I looked at other things. They just weren't as exciting as the pets. And there are quite a few other subjects for enjoyment. I just kept going back to the pets. What can I say, a cute puppy or beautiful horse just never gets old.

Cool Boxer/Wrestler (something like that) Guy

So I read this article and I thought this guy was super cool. Yeah. And can I just say, how would you like to be chased by him. Scary. Look at him. Go ahead. Yeah I'd be afraid.

UFC’s Nick Ring rushes to rescue of couple being mugged in Calgary

By Kevin Iole | Cagewriter – 5 hours ago

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UFC middleweight Nick Ring helped a couple being beaten up in Calgary (Getty)A group of Calgary teenagers picked the wrong time to start a fight. UFC middleweight Nick Ring, who will meet Court McGee on July 21 at UFC 149 in Calgary, witnessed a group of teens beating up two people who were waiting at a bus stop in the 9600 block of MacLeod Trail in the city.

Ring jumped out of his car, checked on the victims and then helped run down several of the suspects. Calgary police arrested three juveniles and charged them with common assault. Their names weren't released, but they were a 17-year-old boy, a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl. Sgt. Kevin Brookwell, a spokesman for the Calgary police, said a fourth male juvenile is being sought for questioning and could also face arrest.
The victims were both 17, a boy and a girl. The boy was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries and released.
"I saw these little punk cowards picking on defenseless people and I knew they needed to come to justice," Ring told Cagewriter.
Nick Ring fights Court McGee at UFC 149 (Getty)Ring had just finished a yoga class and had gone to Starbucks for a coffee when he said he noticed a group of what he believed were 10 people beating up on a young couple and robbing them. He said he saw the group run off with the woman's backpack after beating the couple up.
He pulled over, checked on the victims, then got back in his car and chased the assailants. When he got near them, he jumped out of the car and chased on foot. A bystander, whose name was not released, also gave chase and held down one of the alleged assailants as Ring called police.

I especially like this part.

Ring called the pack of kids who assaulted the couple "hoodlums" and said they showed no courage.
"They look they think they came right from a rap video," Ring said. "They watch too many movies and they obviously think they're a lot tougher than they are. They think it's OK to rob people, apparently, but it's not. This was a situation where they were just punks, and not very tough people. No one with an ounce of bravery would consider any such actions.
"I wasn't afraid of one of them. They were wannabe gangsters and they needed to be dealt with."

Say it brother!

Ring said he didn't know the name of the other person who came to the victims' aid. He said that man did most of the work in subduing the assailants.
"I hope he comes forward and gets the proper credit, because he took some pretty heroic actions," he said.
Brookwell said he did not have the name of the person who assisted Ring. He said common assault is the lowest-level crime.
"I think what they'll look at here is a conditional discharged in which the [suspects] get a stern warning, some community [service] time and the admonishment to be good for a certain period," Brookwell said.
Brookwell said that while there may have been more persons at the bus stop where the assault occurred, "the best information we have in front of us right now is that there were five involved and could be a sixth."

Man so pretty much this guy is one of my heros because not only did he go after some 'hoodlums' but he also exercised great self restraint by not beating them up. Nice. I wish we were friends.

Sweet Turkey Wad = Me

Last week at work a few of my co-workers decided I was a sweet (as in nice or kind) turkey wad (as in jokster, tease, goofball etc.). I don't know how that combination fits at all but the more I think about it, the more I feel that adequately describes me.