Shadee’s Blog

I’ve been noticing a new trend lately.
Everything seems to be “anti-bacterial” now.

Dish washing liquid, other cleaning supplies and even normal soap. All claiming to kill 99% of bacteria. What’s with this insanely clean-freakish behavior? I can see how you’d want to be cautious and thoroughly clean things like cutting boards and such, to prevent getting dangerous things like salmonella poisoning. But for absolutely everything else as well?

To be honest I think there’s such a thing as being “too” clean. There are bacteria living in your intestines without which you wouldn’t even be able to survive. Will these formulas affect those bacteria in the long run as well if you keep ingesting tiny bits of it from your “clean” spoons and forks? And don’t you need your body to deal with a certain amount of dirt and bacteria to keep it alert and maintain a healthy immune system in case you have to deal with more serious infections and diseases in the future?
I really do think it weakens your health if you shield your body from every single bacteria found in a normal house.
Unless you want to live like those poor kids of Michael Jackson’s, in a bubble with mouth rags, unable to ever go anywhere “contaminated” (IE normal).

Another scary thing I saw on TV the other day was a commercial for a lawn poison for people who don’t want any bugs in their lawn. What the hell?! It’s outside… it’s grass… it’s nature… bugs… are nature… THERE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE FUCKING BUGS IN YOUR LAWN YOU FUCKING MORONS!!! FILL YOUR BACK YARD WITH FUCKING CONCRETE IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE WAY THE REST OF THE PLANET WORKS YOU FREAKS!!!!
I’m sorry for the outburst, but that’s just beyond idiocy.

Did I miss something? Are these people aliens who are allergic to earth bacteria or something?…. (OMFG TRIPODS halp!!!1)
I don’t get it. I’ve eaten plenty of food off the ground when I was a kid. If there’s a bit of sand on it you either wipe it off or just run it under the faucet for a few seconds if that makes you feel better… Or if you don’t mind a bit of crunch ya just stick it right back in your gullet, sand ‘n all

A bit of dirt doesn’t hurt, it helps toughen up your immune system.
And I’m pretty sure it’s a hell of a lot healthier than the crap they put into those anti-bacterial formulas.

-Dee.

I was doodling away randomly on the couch and decided that I wanted to use the Phoenix sketch I came up with as another Sharpie marker experiment. I managed to finish it but only barely. High on Sharpie fumes :S

Unfortunately my scanner has gone completely senile and is now coughing up colors that aren’t on the actual paper at all. So I used my digital camera to take a snapshot instead and did my best to adjust the colors to get them as close to the original as I could in Photoshop.

Not a masterpiece by any means but it was fun to mess around with a new scribble style
The paper version looks kinda interesting when held up to the light. All glowy and bright. Might have to do something with that.

Image resized to fit my Blog. The original is here.

-Dee.

Much faster than I expected.

I left for a bit because I wanted to read the last Harry Potter book which arrived on our doorstep Saturday.
The reason I wanted to make sure to stay away from any public on-line places for it was because it seems to have become a sport for assholes to ruin the ending for people by spamming it anywhere they can.
So that was my reason

Anyway, I finished it and enjoyed it a lot.
I was definitely right about certain things I was expecting. And I’m glad I was

So that’s all. Catcha laters!

-Dee.

Probably for about a week or so. I’ll explain when I get back.
It’s nothing bad though, so no need to get worried
Anyway, it means I won’t be logging on to Deviant Art, IRC or WoW for a while.
I will still check my e-mail though, so if you really do desperately need to contact me you can reach me via mail.

Catcha later!

-Dee.

Tuesday morning my mom-in-law called up to ask me to come with her on a camping trip with her camper. It was kind of sudden and kind of soon (she wanted to leave Wednesday) but I thought WTH, why not
We ended up leaving Thursday instead though, because they predicted nasty weather for Wednesday. We went to Camp Taylor which also houses the Lakota Wolf Preserve.

It was a lot of fun. The weather was awesome the entire time and we did a bunch of fun stuff. Lots of hiking, paddle boating, miniature golfing, eating camping food and of course we went on the wolf watch tour.

The wolves were behind double fencing unfortunately. I managed to bypass the first one by putting the camera lens through the holes but unfortunately there’s no way around getting the second fence in the shot, unless you pay a shit load of money for a special photography tour which I didn’t want. If I want pretty and perfect wolf pics I’ll go find ‘em for free on the net
It was awesome to be that close to them though. And what was even more amazing was that one of the packs in the back of the park started howling during the tour, and of course all of the others ended up joining in.
It was such an amazing experience to literally be surrounded by wolf howls that it’s hard to describe.
That evening when we were back at our camp site about half a mile away we could actually still hear them in the distance every now and then.

Mord joined us up there to spend the day today (Saturday). And we hiked back up to the preserve. Not for a tour because it was too late for that but just to see if we could spot the wolves from the outside. We only saw a few of them though so we’ll definitely have to go back there some time and get him on one of the proper tours as well.

So yeah I took a bunch of pics of various things but my feet are hurting so bad right now lol and I’m tired as hell, so all I really want to do is crash out and take a long nap. So all I’ll give you for now is the goofiest pic of all. This wolf was thrown a treat and was licking his lips. I somehow managed to capture the silliest frame of it lol. So here ya go (Resized to be small enough to fit the blog because the original is huge).

So in short, awesome trip but it’s good to be home.

-Dee zzz.

[EDIT] I’m attempting to edit out the entire fence in this pic using photoshop. So far so good. I’ll upload the fenceless version when it’s ready [/EDIT]