Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Some questions, a little American Idol talk, some dog food tips and the always enjoyable coprophagia
When you’re getting your paycheck, do you like to know the exact date you’ll be getting it or is okay with you if it’s any time within a seven day period? Am I the odd duck who likes to know exactly what day the direct deposit or wire will show up? And, if you don’t care, does that mean that you won the lottery or you got Andruw Jones contract with the Dodgers of $36.2 million over two years. I think that if I got paid $1,000,000 a month or say, got direct deposit of $500k every two weeks, I’d probably have enough savings that if a couple of payments were later than usual, it wouldn’t matter. Well, unless my house payment was $500k and due 10 days after the last game of the pay period and all of my savings had been donated to a variety of people & businesses...and I was starting my rainy day savings account again from scratch. So then, I suppose I’d need to know exactly when that $500k was going to be in my bank account, so the down payment check I wrote for my first house payment (you should see the cool house you can get with a $500k down payment) didn’t bounce, right?
I haven’t purchased an album since the last P!nk cd that was released last April. But yesterday, I was feeling wild and reckless, so I bought the Blake Lewis “Audio Day Dream” album directly from my iPod. If I still cared about music like I did when I was a youngster, buying Mp3s online would be way too easy and tempting. But, I don’t, so that’s good. I like music, but I like Rhapsody, which lets me listen to any album or song, but I don’t own anything. It just saves me having another thing to gather dust.
So yeah, Blake’s album is pretty catchy, wholly unlike Jordin Sparks’ extremely boring album. She has a decent voice, but the songs are snoozers. I was going to say that generally I don’t like the American Idol contestant albums, but I have Kelly Clarkson’s two cds and Kimberley Locke’s cd (zzzz, and religious, so extra zzzzzz - I think it was like half price or something, and had one good catchy song...the one I’d heard before I bought the cd), and I listen to Carrie Underwood’s music all the time. I also like the Daughtry album. But Ruben, Clay, Fantasia (though I thought she was fabulous on the show), Bo, Taylor, Katherine (I expected to like it, but thought it was rather average), Elliott, and all of the other top tenners who tried to capitalize on the show...did nothing for me.
Anyway, if you liked Blake on AI, you’ll really like his album. If you have no idea who he is, click on his fancy schmancy picture up there and listen to some song snippets. If you like any of what you hear, I promise that you’ll like the whole album. Plus, it has lotsa songs - kind of like getting a book that has lotsa pages. You feel like you got a better deal.
Cricket is still feeling kind of lousy - I can tell that she’s in pain. She has almost all the signs of pancreatitis. The special fancy prescription food we had to get for her is Eukanuba low-residue food and is filled with crap. I can’t believe how much they charge for it, when they use meat by-products and corn grits. So, not only does it cost as much as the really excellent human grade ingredients of foods like Merrick & Fromm, but I can’t let Phoenix lick Cricket’s bowl when she’s done (which Phoenix enjoys very much, even when there’s nothing left in the bowl), because she’s allergic to corn. These aren’t the exact ingredients on Cricket’s cans, but this answer at Yahoo Answers does a really terrific job of describing the veterinary prescription diets. I’m only whining about six cans of food though - if Cricket needs to stay on a low-residue diet, we’ll find a new food for her. The big problem is that when the food isn’t the raw food that she & Phoenix have been doing so well on for the past six months or so, or a food that looks like people food (chunks of meat, chunks of vegetables, visible other ingredients like blueberries, apples, carrots, and peas), like the Merrick & Dick Van Patten (giggle) Eatables, she eats her own poop. So, we can’t feed her anything that looks like paste or mush or anything that you wouldn’t look at and think, “Hmmm, that looks & smells really good, I wonder how it tastes?”, because we all suffer in various ways from that final result. Blech. So, if your dog is eating its own poop, try changing its diet to better food. Their bodies use up all the nutrients, so there’s nothing tasty left in their poop, so they leave it alone. None of the other stuff worked for Cricket - not Forbid, not hot sauce, not meat tenderizer, and not gagging, begging, and pleading for her to stop it, stop it right now.
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It’s true, coprophagia is a very enjoyable and underutilized topic for blogging. Matilda (my dog who died four years ago) would eat her own vomit if we didn’t get her away from it fast enough, but I never saw her eat poop. Interesting advice about the diet content. I know rabbits eat their poop out of necessity because they don’t get enough nutrition first time around. I didn’t know it was common among other animals.
Nancy on 12/09 at 06:02 AM -
Yup. Emma was into coprophagia as well (so much better than saying she liked to eat her own shit, don’t you think?). They say it is only female dogs that do it - a way of covering up their scent and stopping predators from finding their litters, or something.
laurie on 12/09 at 08:34 AM -
I can now see my paychecks online, and I know exactly when they are going to be deposited. It is actually a very cool new development. They no longer give out paper checks to people that get direct deposit, which I think is brilliant.
You know I do like Kelly, and I have to say that I LOVED Fantasia on the show, but have not heard anything from her after it. I still play some YouTube videos of hers from the show. Fantasia was the best singer ever to come from AI in my opinion. She was awesome. Too bad that you think her songs now are not as good. Very disappointing.
on 12/09 at 08:59 PM
