The first post ever!

So, this is my first post on this blog.  I'm currently unemployed and therefore have a LOT of free time on my hands, and this seems to be what happens when I have too much free time.

I guess I can start by telling you a little bit about myself.  I'm 29 years old (I can feel 30 hovering over me like a vulture.  A vulture.)  I live in a city that's frozen solid pretty much 8 months of the year.  I'm sure there will be at least one or two following posts about how much I hate the cold, because I really, really do.  I hate the cold with the fury of a thousand suns.  In fact, I'd rather be in the middle of the fury of a thousand suns, because at least then I wouldn't be so freaking cold.  My landlord is a cheapskate and refuses to turn the furnaces on until November 1st every year, so in the meantime we are all left to our own devices if it gets cold before then, like it always does.


I have two dogs, Jagger and Radar.  They are shelties, and are grandson and grandfather.  Jagger is 10 months old.  Radar is 10 years old.  Radar is a pretty normal dog.  Jagger is a weirdo.  He likes to sleep splayed out on his back, which is weird if you're a dog, I guess.  I once came home to him with his nose inextricably trapped in one of my dirty socks.

I also have two cats, Tango and Samba.  They are about 3 months apart in age, both are orange.  Tango is, again, a pretty normal cat.  Samba is...yeah.  He's a special snowflake.  He's too smart for his own good and is the most efficient stuff-wrecker I have ever come across.  He's also madly nosy, and right now he has half his whiskers singed off because he doesn't seem to have the instinct that normal, non-retarded animals have to stay away from fire.  He stuck his face in a candle and burned off some of his whiskers.  Don't worry, he's fine.  A little crispy, but fine.

I started this blog because, as I said, I have a LOT of free time on my hands just now.  Also, I'm a total freak magnet.  Crazy people seem to just appear out of the woodwork when I leave my apartment and venture out into public, so I thought this might be a nice place to share some of those stories, too.