It appears TV.com is on the fritz again. I can't log in and it keeps telling me to clear my cookies, but I did that and it's still not working. Darn you, TV.com. Darn you.

Also, my internet is on the fritz! I can't get on for more than a few minutes when I'm at home. It's really annoying, especially since we bought a new wireless router that was supposed to be stronger than our old one. Not so much, apparently.

I was in the bathroom this morning about 4 am, washing my hands and getting ready to hop back in bed, when I started feeling nauseous. At first I thought I caught the flu that's going around, but after a couple minutes of feeling like I was about to throw up I started getting unbelievably dizzy. I couldn't really see anything, I couldn't hear anything other than the ringing in my ears, and I was shaking like crazy. When I tried to move I felt like I was underwater and every movement took so much effort. I sank down and curled up on my bathroom floor, too afraid to move for fear I might fall and break something. It took about 15 minutes for my symptoms to finally clear up, but I was still afraid to move. Dad came out of my parent's room to see if I was okay. I went back to bed and slept for a couple more hours, then woke up feeling okay. I hate it when I get anxiety attacks, but I can usually stop them if I feel them coming on. That is, if I'm conscious. I've never had one wake me up before. It was bizarre and I really hope it doesn't happen again tonight. I think I'm worried about school and work and the dog show and getting everything ready for the dog show. It's a lot of work! Plus, I was just told last night that I would have to be on a few more live news segments than I had to do last year. Last year was just the one, and I was a nervous wreck for that one. This year I have to do 5 about the dog show and about the ways to get your dog ready for the dog show. So thinking about that makes me panic. I feel like I've been fighting another attack all day. The weird feeling goes away when my mind is occupied.

Oh! I went to the driving range on Sunday for the first time in like 4 years. Who knew I'd be this out of shape? All my muscles hurt on Monday and I'm still sore today. I think I might've damaged my wrist - it hurts to bend and it's not really getting better. But golfing was fun! I wasn't great, but it was fun! Hah..

How are you all?

And in case you don't remember what I'm talking about when I talk about the dog show, go here: www.uacdogshow.com. I'm going to take pictures at this year's event, so I'll post a few after the dog show!

Over the past few days (well, today and yesterday) I've seen a couple things online that I just can't believe.

1. This story proves just how disrespectful and ignorant the liberal media in our country truly is. If the parents of the dead (not just dead - injured and bloody) Marine respectfully ask you not to publish the photos that show their son as he's dying, then you don't publish the photos no matter how much of an impact you believe they'll have.

2. This video illustrates just what's wrong with this presidency. "I pledge to be a servant to our president, Barak Obama." What is that!? As our president, he's supposed to be a servant to the people. It doesn't work the other way around. We are not supposed to serve him. Very few things are able to shock me anymore, but this is definitely one of them.

3. Vick has been allowed back into the NFL completely about a month or so earlier than he was supposed to. Just further proof that the rich and famous get off easy.

I do take some pleasure in the fact that the media (at least, Yahoo news stories) are starting to use less and less attractive pictures of Obama in their publications. Once the president starts making controversial decisions, their attractiveness to the general public starts to drop like a rock.

Well, Vick signed with the Eagles. And I, for one, am very angry. Who would sign this guy? Seriously. He killed dogs. KILLED DOGS! He beat them and trained them to be aggressive, and if they didn't "perform" he executed them or abandoned them. Yeah, he served almost two years in jail. That's not nearly as much as he deserves, though. He should've been beaten, mauled by the dogs he tortured, or thrown into a pit with lions and tiger and various other ferocious animals. He doesn't deserve to have a career after what he did.

And the whole thing with PETA? Well, don't even get me started on PETA. They're a horrible "organization" that shouldn't even exist, let alone get funded by idiots (and no offense to any of you who've given to PETA; how were you supposed to know the truth?). It's a left-wing, hippy, nut-job organization: "We all need to live in harmony with each other, with the animals. We shouldn't eat the animals. We should hug them and care for them and cuddle the monkeys who'd like to scratch our eyes out!" Yep. Nut-jobs. EDIT: Here's the link I forgot to include about PETA's hypocrisy. Click here.

I'd like to hear your thoughts - all of them. Whether you agree or disagree with me, please share. I'd like to get a feel for how other people view this idiot and his new, more famous career.

No, I'm not talking about kids. Not talking about humans either. I'm talking about raccoons. Little nocturnal devils that sneak into your garden and eat all your ripe tomatoes and drink your hummingbird water. The little rabies-carrying freaks that knock down your tomato plants and brush off the unripened tomatoes so that they'll never ripen and you'll never get to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Those thieving little brats who climb into your garbage can and pull everything out and scatter it all over your yard, then eat your tomatoes and leave smashed bits and seeds behind.

Yes, those creatures.

We came home after a week of camping (very good time, by the way; more on this later) to find our garden ransacked. Our first instinct was to blame it on the neighbor kids, until we remembered that kids don't much like vegetables and it would be a waste of time for them to come over and take every ripe tomato off the plant. Then we thought squirrels were behind it, until we realized that squirrels would much rather grab one juicy tomato and carry it off into a tree to eat it, rather than just eating a few bites and mashing the rest into a pulp. Then we remembered our raccoon problem from a few years back. One of our neighbors trapped a bunch of raccoons a few years ago and took them accross town and set them free. Well, sadly, he passed away about a month ago, and it seems the raccoons found this out and came back. And now we're doing everything we can think of to get rid of them. Dad rigged up a motion sensor light last night, but that didn't do anything. We bought some sort of spray today and sprayed out tomatoes with it, and hopefully this will do the trick. If not, I'm tempted to buy a BB gun and sit outside all night to BB the little buggers in the rear. Or, I could use Dad's slingshot, if I could figure out how to aim it. Apparently it's illegal to kill the little freaks.

I'll leave you with this last thought: Can you beleive we live in a country where it's illegal to kill these thieving mammals, but perfectly acceptable to allow a mother to murder her unborn child? Something about this seems wrong. Very, very wrong.

Well, all of the kittens are still healthy and happy. Except one. Poor little Cooper still has conjunctivitis, and it's worse, so I drove him to the shelter today for a check up and more meds. He got a stronger version of the eye gel the other kitties have been on for 10 days. Tomorrow is their last day of meds! They finish the oral antibiotic (clavimox) and their eye gel (erythromyacin?) tomorrow morning. Poor Cooper has 10 more days, starting tomorrow morning. Poor little guy. He has to be quarantined in the downstairs bathroom, so he's all alone. He looked so sad when I left...

I'm really pissed right now, but I'm pretty sure I'd be shunned or yelled at or forever lose a couple friends if I posted why. *shrug* People. Who needs 'em?

TV.com isn't letting me post or see blogs (unless they're from 2006...), so I'm posting from Gamespot. Much better postability, I have to say. It's kind of like the old TV.com, like before they changed it to resemble Hulu (at least it looks like Hulu to me..)

Sorry for the short blog, but it's a full moon, and my faith in humanity is dwindling down to almost nothing.