Friday.

Sweet blissful Friday.

This was a long week.

So sick to my stomach.

Bellie hurts. Head hurts. Need sleep.

Past few days I've been having a lot of bellie issues.

My bed was nice last night.

Went over my mom's last night. It was Charlie's birthday. Gave him a funnie card and "Dodgeball". He'd never heard of it, but I think he'll like it.

Took care of Steph & Tim's kids. I'm sleeping over there tonight. Gonna ask Janete to stop by. Being in someone else's huge townhouse alone is kinda creepie.

I wanna go home.

I don't want to be here today.

I'm just doing inventory on envelopes for tax season. Then I have to pull all hundred and whatever tax files, refile them, remove the 2002 file, and add a 2004.

My life.

So thrilling.

No wonder I want to throw myself off a roof.

Cause it's Friday.

fridayfiver

1. What's your opinion on snow?
It's beautiful. I hate driving in it.

2. Have you ever built a snowman?
Of course.

3. Do you do any winter time sports?
Sleeping and snuggling.

4. When's the last time you had a snowball fight?
A year or so ago

5. What's the most snow you've ever gotten in a single storm?
What, Blizzard of 96? 3 feet? I know, it's wusy compared to you upstaters :)

Like I'd ever shut up.

Who's been commenting in your journal?

( damn this is long )

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I love this!!!



NAIROBI (AFP) - A baby-hippopotamus that survived the tsumani waves on the Kenyan coast has formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise, in an animal facility in the port city of Mombasa, officials said.

The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsumani waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.

"It is incredible. A-less-than-a-year-old hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a 'mother'," ecologist Paula Kahumbu, who is in charge of Lafarge Park, told AFP.

"After it was swept and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatised. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately, it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together," the ecologist added.

"The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it follows its mother. If somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother," Kahumbu added.

"The hippo is a young baby, he was left at a very tender age and by nature, hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years," he explained.

In 2002, a barren Kenyan lioness made several attempts to play mother to baby antelopes, one of which ended with a rival lion making a meal out of the calf, and the others when rangers separated the animals.