He Set My House On Fire Once I Added Him To My Game

IIIII LOVE BONNETHEADS!!!! Hands down my favourite hammerhead

One of the coolest facts to me is that they are actually omnivorous (citation attached)!!! Like??? They EAT. SEAGRASS. SHARKS THAT EAT SEAGRASS!!!

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Bonnethead Shark

Take a journey of discovery through the world’s largest ocean at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.

Daily fish fact #797

Bonnethead shark!

Their shovel-shaped cephalofoil (or hammer) is a distinguishing feature among hammerhead sharks, and sharks overall. They use cerebrospinal fluid in chemical communication, letting other bonnetheads know they are in the area!

- Heat lightning on a drive home from work. No rain, just lightning

- Beautiful rainstorms. They wash out the pollen for like a day. Not long, but makes me feel more tolerable

- Tornadoes? Crazy shit. There was a day the sky turned black in the afternoon

- The skid marks on the country road where someone took a joyride. Swerving, even did donuts. Appeared while I was gone, probably in the middle of the night. Doesn’t look like anyone got hurt

- The therapy llamas down the road had babies!!

- The buds of crops sticking through the farm fields

- The other day my family got a box full of like 40+ ears of sweet corn from a stranger. This isn’t even the first time this has happened. We had to get rid of (give away) so much corn

- Whirlpools in flooded creeks

- Air quality alerts. The place I used to live was so consistently smoggy that changes in the air quality were never really announced, nor a big deal

- People riding bikes! Walking dogs! Enjoying the day

- So remember the bridge I mentioned before where the war protestors were? Anyways sometimes there are also Trump supporters on that bridge, but that’s besides the point. Because TODAY (06/11) I saw an old man dressed in red with a Santa hat on and he was just. Flexing??? Like what??

- Two people using FaceTime and sign language

- Tractors twice the size of semis coming down the road

Things I Like Here.

So I moved from my childhood state a few years ago and I’ve been struggling with adjusting ever since, largely because of the drastic negative change in my social life. But life is beautiful, so I wanted to make a list of things I’ve seen since moving here that I couldn’t get back home! You have to appreciate the little things in life. I’m gonna periodically add more as I see them

- “The Oven Bus” which is just a bus with a brick chimney in it. I wanna know what’s going on in there so badly

- All of the sunsets here are beautiful without fail. Don’t matter what time they happen, even if it’s at 4, it’s beautiful. There’s so many colours in them

- The sign I drive past on the way to work that says “WALTZ IS FOR MURDERING THE UNBORN.” I don’t agree with it but it’s fucking hilarious to see, because it’s in the middle of nowhere

- Related, since we live out in the country now, the pro-life religious bulletins that have the most CGI looking babies on them. Like that baby is not real. Honey

- I almost got into an accident once because there are so many dogs down a 55 MPH road that I just kept looking at the dogs

- The church that has six doors outside on their lawn that say “GOD’S DOORS ARE OPEN TO ALL”

- The church that has a progress flag on its flag post and a BLM flag flying under it. I went there once and it’s full of old people. They were so kind. I want to go back there again

- The kind lady at the Chinese takeout restaurant down the road from us who stayed when the restaurant was empty so I could pick up my order. I wanted my brother to get it but he bailed last minute

- The grocery store down the street that my family has wildly different pronunciations of. It’s within walking distance. I’ve never had that before

- The man today who accidentally bought two tickets for himself. Instead of refunding one, he wanted to give away the other one for free

- The mall Santa I see around Christmas time when he’s on his break. Just walking around. High socks and shorts with a Christmas theme, he’s great

- The little girl yesterday who told me she would get a dog and a fish. When I asked her what she would name the dog, she said “Rainbow Pup”

- The parents who use they/them to refer to me. Even though I personally don’t use those pronouns and don’t like them when they’re used in reference to me, it’s a sign of progress

- The little girl whose parents I sold an annual pass to. I’ve seen her four times. She recognizes me each time and runs to give me a hug

- The toddler who tried to hand me her half-eaten cinnamon-dusted timbit when I asked her for a high five

- The kind people at KwikTrip who never look like they don’t want to be there

- My supervisor who shrieks whenever he walks by me because that’s how I greet people so he’s started greeting me like that as well. He’s an absolute truck of a man who looks like Thor

Today it is Monday, August 26, 2024. At 17:28 CST, Crosby was put down.

He died in the arms of my dad and I.

A year or so ago, he suffered an injury to his spine. We never really figured out what it was, or at least I didn’t, but his back legs began to atrophy. Over time, his ability to walk decreased steadily until we had to use a harness to move him around.

The past few days, he hasn’t been eating anything. We’ve tried feeding him chicken, cheese, popcorn, chips, dog treats, anything to try and get him to eat. Nothing worked. He drank water slowly, and occasionally ate crushed ice cubes. He was laying around all day, and we’ve had to change his positions for him. He was skin and bones, his spine, ribs, hips, and skull visible through his fur. His nose was dry for several days. On Saturday I got the news that this might be my last weekend with him. He had become so miserable and there was nothing we could do. The car ride to the vet, I held him in my lap so he could look out the open window because he was too weak to support himself.

He was an amazing dog. We got him when I was in second grade, and he’s lived about twelve long years. He was a rescue from a shelter where I used to live, we got him because he was insistent on following me even though he was terrified whenever I looked at him. Despite this, he was such an affectionate and caring dog.

We never knew his breed. The DNA gave us husky, coon hound, and poodle, though he looks more like a black lab and a Great Dane mixed together. His black fur became dotted with browns as he grew up, the white T-shape on his chest reminding us of our last dog, Touchdown, who passed shortly before we got him. He met our other dog at the time, Fumble, though they didn’t know each other very long.

I grew up with Crosby. He’d always paw at us whenever he wanted to be pet more. He’d howl and yell whenever we did. He wasn’t the best with other dogs, and it took him a second to warm up to people, but he would lean on your leg once he got used to you. He’d stand by the table as we ate dinner, his eyes always trained on the food we sometimes dropped. He used to hop our four-foot fence without so much as a running start. His legs were so long and he loved to run. He’d kiss you even after you asked him to stop. He loved the snow and would even try and eat it when there was hardly any on the ground. He loved my dad so so much.

I want to thank the Lord for giving me such an amazing companion for so long. I pray that he feels fulfilled and happy with his life, and that he knows how much we love him. I pray that he will be free of his pain as he leaves. I pray that when he gets to heaven, Fumble will introduce him to Touchdown, and he can finally meet the dog that was taken from us so suddenly by cancer. I pray he will be able to run as much as he wants and bark at all the other dogs up there and he might finally be able to socialize.

I’m so thankful for him. I will miss him.

At least I know that his fur will always be knit into my clothes, no matter how much I try to wash it out.

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Anon what does this mean

the verticals vs the horizontals is tomorrow

Hands down the funniest thing anyone has ever said to me

How has nobody thought of mad scientist Phillip Graves yet like

Think of the possibilities

4 and 26?

WOOOOO HI FISH HI FISH HIIIII

4. Any aquariums on your bucket list you’d like to visit?

I think Monterey Bay and the Georgia aquarium!!! I also wanna visit the SeaLife in New Zealand, that’s the largest one in the world and I wanna check out what’s going on over there.

26. Favourite aquatic mythological creature?

I am SUCH a sea serpent girlie. Sea Beast (the movie) did NOT help that. Idk!!! Big water dragon lookin thing… ough

Sometimes I think I’m a bad person, and then I remember that there’s a baby stingray very happy to see me whenever I walk by

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