Ariel: Mastitis and Melanoma

I'm posting this to inform everyone who loves Ariel that she is sick right now. Not only that but her melanomas are become malignant. When I say malignant, I mean they are becoming active and she is more than likely going to become ill from cancer in a year and will have to be euthanized. I bawled all weekend because when I first went out to see her on Saturday I could tell that she wasn't feeling well and I found a new melanoma on her belly that had never been there before. Not only that but her other melanomas are bigger and softer now. They use to be small and hard as stones which meant that they were benign.

Along with her melanomas apparently becoming malignant she has Mastitis which is an infection of the mammary gland in mares. A.K.A her left teat is swollen and hurts like heck and was the cause of her not feeling well. Strangely, only mares who have had a foal recently or in the past get mastitis and Ariel has NEVER had a foal. I inquired as to why she got such an infection and the vet said that no one really knows why. I've come to the conclusion that all my pets like to get rare infections and disease just to stress me out. *sigh* My weekend failed.

In this pic you can see that her left teet is swollen. She also has a lump on her belly (note: not the melanoma) that is part of the infection.

Treating mastitis involves antibiotics that have to mixed into her feed along with milking out the pus from her teat two to three times a day. Let me tell you something, trying to squeeze pus out of a mares teat when it hurts like hell results in almost getting your face impaled with a hoof. Yeah, Ariel NEVER kicks at people and she very rarely kicks at other horses so when she tried to plant her hoof into my face I had to go get Michelle. She ended up looping a rope around Ariel's left front leg and hobbling her to keep her from being able to kick me. I sympathized with Ariel because I understand completely that it hurts.

In this picture you can see her milk vein which is usually only this obvious in prenant mares but since she has mastitis the infection is backing up causing it to show quite well.

The melanomas have not completely attacked her yet but eventually they will. I thought some of you guys should have a heads up so that when and if I have to euthanize her you'll all know why. I'm extremely depressed right now. I'm tired of all my pets dying of some sort of cancer. Its just not fair.

Love,

~Fruitbat~

Bring It On!!!

For the past few days my room mate, who I'll refer to as Anan, and myself have been having an air-conditioner battle with our suite mates who like to have it way to freakin' cold! As in 65 to 68 degrees.

Okay, I love cold. Like LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!! BUT, there is a BIG difference between artificial cold and natural cold. I like the latter. Don't get me wrong I do like to have it cool inside when its hot outside but when its cold outside at night and early in the morning I don't. Most sane people would agree.

Well this morning was the last straw. Anan and me woke up to the temperature inside 68 while the temp outside was even lower than that. We were freezing and shivering and extremely angry. I went straight into the living room and shot it up to 75 degrees in hopes that they would wake up sweating. Then Anan turned on her music with surround sound and played a heavy metal song followed by country that literally vibrated the walls and floor. Now I understand that it was pretty awful of us to do that and I have no excuse for it aside from revenge for all the times they've woken us up with their music and now freezing temperatures. I do admit that it was wrong.


The rest of the day we played the auto or manual battle with the air. I wanted it on Auto seeing in how that would keep the air from running twenty-four-seven but ON NO how dare I! My two suite mates kept putting it back on manual and turning it down to 68 so I was like, fine. Then if you want it on manual it's staying on 70. Well, that didn't work.

I ended up going and buying a heater and covering up the air vent even better with a towel. Unfortunately, it is still cold. We're both going to have to go talk to them and come up with some sort of compromise. We can't continue this silent feud *sigh* They just can't take hints.


The pics are of our dorm room. My side only. I also posted some pictures of the air vent that I covered in our dorm.


Love,


~Fruit Bat~

Livid

"Heaven holds no sorrow like love to anger turned, and Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."

Don't know who said it, but they were right on the money.

Don't suppose I mentioned it, but I'm in the Honors program at this particular university. Don't suppose I mentioned it, but I've been shoved into a cruddy little "mentor group" and we're being forced to pretend we all like each otherand we're going to have a competition with the other teams. My mentor, whom I normally have no problem with, said as a treat to us, we would have team shirts. Whoopdeefrickendoo. And, in the spirit of maybe actually trying to interact with people I took it upon myself to come up with a design.

Let me say this now, if I wanted to, I could be an art major, with very little problem.

So I DESIGNED an image, I worked at it, I researched on how our mascot, FLYING FREAKING PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS appeared in the original song, so I could know how to draw them. I struggled with making them as asthetically pleasing as possible while retaining the one-eye rule. I colored them with PRISMACOLOR. Those things are a dollar a pencil! I worried about the color scheme and making the purples noticably different from each other.

I turned in my design, my mentor liked it a lot, praised it and such. Made me feel like, 'hey, maybe this IS my group too!'

And at the meeting tonight, "my group" decided not to have t-shirts. FAN-FREAKING-TASTIC.

Oh, everyone said it was soo nice. It was a 'good picture' just a bit too 'anime-ish.'

I don't mind saying that I'm very angry right now. I don't deny that anime has had a profound influence on my art over the past seven years. But I've been working, with every picture I've drawn for FIVE YEARS to remove the influences. And I'd like to see how they make a monster look cute.

Ugh, all I want to do now, is curl up in bed and eat a cookie. I've taped my fox to the door already- I just don't care anymore if my roomate puts up hers or not.

Fear not, concerned or non-concerned readers. I shall be fine. Things will look better when I'm not so angry.

Random Quote of the day,

"We're supposed to talk about Procrastination."

"Can we do it later?"

Running in Circles

Somehow, that just seems appropriate. School is all about running in circles, after all- I have a circut of classes and a time in which to get to them, it's like track, without the uniforms.

Anyway, rumor has it that I'm going home next weekend. To say that I'm anxious to do so is a vast understatement. Being from such a big family, it royally sucks to not see them. It's good that I have fruit bat over here to hang out with though.

Anyway, Anyway.

Today I got a call from my youngest little sister- I shall refer to her as... youngest little sister. Asking my permsission for the family to get a new dog. Let me explain this. I've wanted a dog of my own since I was four- a german shepard, to be exact. The last dog we got was supposed to be a german shepard, wound up being a mutt, and is no higher than my knee- plus he got really attached to my oldest younger sister, Squirt. So he's not my pet. They wanted to make sure that it was all right with me before going and getting this dog- they saw her picture in the paper and ten minutes later decided she was coming home with them. She's a white Great Pyranese, formerly known as Snowbird, now known as Belle. Squirt sent me a picture, she's beautiful, so I sanction the name of Belle. I also know that at some point I will get my own dog, so i'm not mad. I'll get to meet Belle this weekend!

Some of you are probably wondering about the picture I included today- or not, but as this is my post, I'll tell you anyway. That would be a picture of the Battousai and Kaoru, drawn by an artist on deviant art (look up Battousai, 2nd or 3rd page) and colored by me this morning. In paint. A process which took... about four hours. The seiries is Rurouni Kenshin, and I highly recommend it. The Manga is better, of course, but the anime is fairly awesome up till the filler episodes.

Also also, in an amusing far off to the side note, my roomate came in at three last night, I woke up and looked at my clock, and thought it was THREE IN THE AFTERNOON. I was so panicked, "how can this be? I'm still sleepy!" I nearly cracked myself up and missed the chance to go back to sleep!

Messy, Messy, Messy! *tsk,tsk*

Okay, so as you all know I'm in a dorm. To be exact an apartment that's on campus and I share with three other girls. There are two rooms; two girls to a room. Well, you know how at your own homes you usually all pitch in and help keep everything clean? Yeah..that doesn't really happen here and for a neat and clean freak such as myself I can't stand it! I have been attempting to keep things clean and in order but since no one wants to help I refuse to do it now. I have basically been waiting for things to pile up enough that they realize, OH! Maybe we should clean our stuff up! What a profound idea!

Anyways, it finally worked. heh...they cleaned up most of their mess last night and did some of their dishes cuz they had none left. HAHA! So funny! My room mate cleaned up her room too! It was amazing! I can see the floor on her side of the room! They even took out the trash since I hadn't done it for them. It amuses me so very much!!! :D

I pray that they keep on top of it. But I doubt it.

On a lighter note, HALLOWEEN IS COMING SOON!!!! Well,...in about a month and a half but still, ITS COMING ITS COMING!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yesterday I went and bought a Halloween blanket that's black and has ghosts on it saying "Boo!" I also bought candy corn and a mit for the oven that's in the shape of a pumpkin! I also visted the store over here that is nothing but Halloween stuff; Spirit Halloween! It was AWESOME!!!

Love,

~Fruitbat~

Picture Problem

Since I live in a dorm, I have a roommate. It's just one of those natural things, like, since I went swimming, I got wet. It just is, you don't have to know more than that. Anyway, she's a good roomate, she doesn't make a mess anywhere, she's very nice... all that stuff. Since I felt bad because she decorated our door a little (when you walk down the hall everyone has signs or whiteboards on their doors,) I decided to contribute in that special way that I can. So I drew 2 pictures, one for her, one for me, to go on the door. Hers is a pittbull puppy, mine is a fox reading a book. Problem is, she likes her puppy so much she's scared someone will steal it, and thus, won't put it on the door. *Sigh* That means I can't put MINE on the door. I don't really want to make her another one,

1. I don't have any more paper.

2. Even if I did, I used PRISMACOLORS to color the first image. Those things are a dollar a pencil. No way am I wasting them by mass producing an (admittedly cute) puppy.

So as of right now, our door is somewhat boring. When it could be awesome.

Home It Is!!! YAY!!!

Okay, so I had not planned on going home. I mean I wanted to but decide that it would be better if I didn't. That was until my mom called and informed me that my Granny wanted to head back to Austin and wanted to know if I would like to join her. Of course I said yes. Being at college away from your family and close friends sucks! After my first, last, and only class today I am heading over to my Granny and Papa's to pick up my Granny and then we are off! Yeah!!!!!

I should start packing...

Love,

~Fruit Bat~