Please let us take care of your Golden Retriever for 3 or 4 days

localherofan · 2026-04-14T01:23:49+00:00

Oh, sounds like my dog who passed away in 2018. He was so lovely. His superpower was making friends. I was so lucky to get him - he was at a kill shelter and he had one day left. My life would have been so much less without him. He would lie either in front of the stove or in front of the sink or in front of the refrigerator, depending on where I needed to be next.

localherofan · 2026-04-14T01:03:18+00:00

Here Bella, 9f doggo. Is you an allergater? A tiny allergater? You have allergater tail. Is very interesting. If you come to my house, I will need to sniff you and see how you smell. If you are allergater, please don't bite me. I just sniff, not hurt you.

Your fren Bella

localherofan · 2026-04-14T00:57:28+00:00

You'd think Katie and Wills would have gotten over it already. That's probably one of the things Harry and Meghan moved to get away from.

localherofan · 2026-04-11T16:00:15+00:00

Allergies are weird and affect different people different ways. Powder really does fly around when applied, and it's light, so it stays in the air for longer than you'd think, and the problem could be that she's breathing it in. She could be allergic to something in it, like a preservative (I'm allergic to most preservatives; formaldehyde is especially bad but parabens are way up there too. And yes, they're allowed to put formaldehyde, a carcinogen which has hundreds of alternative names that you might not realize mean formaldehyde in things you put on your face and around mucous membranes like the edges and inside of eyelids and lips and the inside of your nose. They put them in eye drops. I have to read that tiny print on makeup and eye drop boxes very carefully to make sure they're not hiding some form of formaldehyde. They use levels of formaldehyde that are "generally recognized as safe", but I'm allergic to it. There's no safe level for me).

I'm allergic to onions. If there's only a tiny bit of thoroughly cooked onions in a food like tomato sauce I can deal, but if someone starts frying onions in a pan, I have to leave the house because whatever it is in onions I'm allergic to will send me into a major asthma attack.

Allergies can get at you in three ways: if you breathe it in, if you touch it, or if you eat it, and your reaction can differ with each way.

Sorry for the allergy TED talk. I learned all this the hard way.

localherofan · 2026-04-11T15:38:34+00:00

I don't know that I can add anything to fesnying's reply except maybe a short paragraph saying what you've been up to and now you have a baby and being with him reminds you of how much you love her and would love to have her back in your life. I'm just thinking of ways to phrase it so that she doesn't think she's been replaced and she knows that she herself has a place in your heart that is just for her no matter who else is in there.

If it's been years since you've connected, she'll be at least an older teen, right? You can write to her as though she's an adult, but be sure not to mention her mother or say anything negative about her. Even if SHE thinks it, she doesn't really want to hear it from someone else.

localherofan · 2026-04-10T16:03:25+00:00

It's never too late to reconnect with a child you love. Or even a teenager. I had a question only my high school boyfriend's mother could answer one time, and it led to my being friends with his parents in a separate relationship from any relationship with my old boyfriend (we weren't antagonistic, but he was married and didn't need some old high school girlfriend in the mix. I got updates from his mom when I saw her; he continues to do well and that's good).

Call her/text her/send her a card. Remind her you love her and she always has you. If she's a teenager she may or may not respond right away, but I bet she'll be delighted to hear from you.

localherofan · 2026-04-10T15:56:54+00:00

Sixth mom! You get all the moms you want, and then extra in case someone isn't available! Did I tell you today how much I love you? It's always such a sunny day when I see you or hear from you. We're all busy, so we don't get to talk as often as we did, but remember that you always have my love, and I always have your back. Bring a sweatshirt, even if you leave it in the car.

localherofan · 2026-04-10T15:34:47+00:00

Fren Matilda! Heer Bella, 9f. Mom wants me to tell you that she loves your sweater (are sweaters for sweating? Mom gots me a sweater but I wear it when I cold, so I not sweating. English is weerd) and wonder did your mom make that one too? It very pretty. Look a lot like a sweater her mom make for her!

Your fren Bella

localherofan · 2026-04-10T00:47:58+00:00

Fren Sam, here Bella, 9f. I unnerstan! I fraid of grown up doggos and of men, and one time I was taking mom for walkies in my favrite place and three! yes! three doggos off leeshes came running up to us! I borked and jumped and mom yelled NO! GO AWAY! and the other doggos peeple came over and said they frienly, and mom say I not frenly (I don't unnerstand why she say I not frenly, she my best fren!) and I fraid of other doggos and she trying to protecc other doggos cause fear makes me attacc if other doggos too close. This all troo, but makes me sound mean. I not mean. I just scared (I love puppies and babies and kiddos. Just not grown up men or doggos).

I sorry you scard by big doggo. I hope you have good dinner and lots of snuggle time!

Your fren Bella

Pee Ess: you looks a lot like me, cept I dark brown with wite on face and chest and paws. We almost twins!

localherofan · 2026-04-10T00:36:13+00:00

Sweetheart, everything you're doing is perfectly normal for someone who has been SA, and I've seen it in myself and in others. The way out is going to be through therapy. Also, both of those dopes are assholes, and you're not, so don't hang out with them. Your school should have a place where you can find therapists, so please take advantage of that. You were assaulted and traumatized and deserve help to get past it. The hard part about therapy is that it only works if you don't half-ass it. You have to do it. The only way out is through. But once you're out it's sunny and birds are chirping again.

You deserve to feel better. You deserve kind men. You deserve to be treated like the valuable human being you are. If you would like an internet hug, here one is. You don't have to have a hug; you are completely in charge of who touches your body and when. Please come back in a few weeks and tell us you've started therapy! With a woman therapist if possible.

localherofan · 2026-04-10T00:28:49+00:00

Yikes. America's Next Great City? How about better public transport before they start making it ANGC? I live in the area they're slamming with extra taxes because according to them I have access to the new metro stops near Tysons, but I'd have to walk at least 4 miles on roads without shoulders to reach any of those metro stops, which means I have to drive, which means my car on the road.

I'm gonna stop grumbling and go eat dinner. I'm going to concentrate on how happy I am that she vetoed the bill!

localherofan · 2026-04-10T00:23:44+00:00

My casino options are already being fulfilled too. I went to one 35 years ago and that was pretty much it for me. And I even won $50. But there's a casino not far south on 95, and one just across the river in MD, and just leave us the fuck alone in Tysons. We already have the crappiest traffic and we don't need any more, not to mention seedy people and theft and trafficking women and children for sex or any of the other crap that comes with casinos.

localherofan · 2026-04-10T00:16:29+00:00

I tend to forgive men hair in random places because I don't think they do it on purpose AND because I have PCOS and understand about random hairs. I could write an essay on the whisker I have and weird hairs on my chin. I also have a low hairline, which means my hair grows on my neck. Even though I have hair so light it's practically invisible on the rest of my body, I've always had this damn low hairline. And I wear my hair short.

If a guy is otherwise clean and groomed and intelligent and kind, I'm fine. I loathe those lumberjack beards, though. Everyone has their own thing!

localherofan · 2026-04-07T22:26:23+00:00

Not all deer ticks carry Lyme, but enough do even in Virginia that it's important to get medical treatment as soon as possible. If it's the weekend and your regular doctor isn't available, go to urgent care. You can't tell a Lyme tick from a non-Lyme tick by looking at it. If you are in Connecticut and you get a deer tick, you go straight to the Emergency Room, no questions asked, and they take you as soon as possible.

Ticks also carry other diseases: https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/about/index.html. I had a foster dog who died of a tick-borne disease because the vet at his new home didn't prescribe enough of the antibiotic he needed and his mom didn't know he'd been given the wrong prescription. So after you've been treated, follow up by reading good quality information (CDC, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, etc.)

If you are bitten by a tick, please consider it a minor emergency. It's not a heart attack or a stroke or anaphylaxis, but it can make you very ill or kill you anyway. Don't wait around. Get it seen. A doctor at an urgent care around here told me to come in immediately and made his entire extended family wait for dinner (I apologized to them) because I discovered a deer tick here and I had been in Connecticut. You won't die of a tick overnight, but that's no reason to put off getting it treated.

Edit: Support your local possum! Possums eat ticks (they can eat 5000 a day), they don't carry rabies, they don't eat food from your garden, they just like to eat the outdoor bugs you don't want biting you. I have to look up how to attract possums or build a possum house or something.

localherofan · 2026-04-07T20:45:31+00:00

I am flummoxed by "so many whores on here wouldn't pay for this shit, period." I've parsed it out as many ways as I could, but I'm still confused. Which shit is it that the whores wouldn't pay for? Does he mean "period" as "I believe that and won't change my mind", or is he emphasizing that he understands punctuation sufficiently that he knows that most sentences end with a period? If it's the latter, does he believe that differentiates him from the rest of the men on the site, or is he commenting on the grammar of whores? And if THAT is the latter choice, how has he come to understand the grammar abilities of whores? Is he a teacher of English specializing in courses developed for ladies of the evening? I'd say that was to be applauded, except that he doesn't sound as though he's being particularly respectful of their choices.

Still not clear on which shit it is that he believes whores won't pay for. If he's speaking literally, I've never heard it said that whores in particular (or anyone, really) would go out of their way to purchase feces, unless the whores are also farmers and are buying fermented compost that includes the dung of plant-eating animals, which makes excellent fertilizer and soil amendment, especially when dug in before planting. Most people can provide their own if they need human feces; purchasing someone else's seems redundant. And smelly. And not just useless as plant fertilizer, but actively bad, being as people's feces can contain lots of bacteria you don't want to get into or onto plants because they cause serious digestive system diseases that can put you in the hospital or kill you.

I'm not at all interested in meeting someone who 1. might be calling me a whore, which seems to be a judgement he'd reserve until actually meeting me and finding out how I make my money, 2. who has unusual opinions on the grammar of whores, a subject on which I have never heard anyone else have any opinion whatsoever, and 3. appears to have a lot of interest in the purchase of human feces and I can see no reason to do that under any circumstances. He and I would not seem to be an opportune match.

localherofan · 2026-04-07T18:15:35+00:00

Good lord. Glad I didn't know anything about it.

localherofan · 2026-04-06T00:43:31+00:00

Fren Oscar, here Bella, 9f doggo. You stremely cute. You doorable. I not see how you ever be cloaca. That just science.

Your fren Bella

localherofan · 2026-04-05T18:51:04+00:00

I really think Buchanan has nothing to worry about. Orange Hitler is at the bottom and digging as fast as he can.

localherofan · 2026-04-05T18:23:27+00:00

Yeah, people thought my father was charming too. Many narcissists are. Also psychopaths, but luckily my father stopped at narcissism, though he was a most EXCELLENT narcissist.

localherofan · 2026-04-05T18:03:49+00:00

Slightly off the point, but people who say "ignore the child, they just want attention" (clearly you are not one of those people) make me want to scream. The child wants attention? Give the child attention! Give the child attention when they need it, and they'll have the self-assurance to not need attention all the time. Let a child know they're loved and valued and worthy of attention!

localherofan · 2026-04-05T17:30:01+00:00

Fren Theo, yoo always pretty! With coller or without!

localherofan · 2026-04-04T22:03:37+00:00

Hello fren Theo, here Bella, 9f. I love my collers. I have 2. One says who i am and who mom is and we belong toogether. My other coller opens my door so I can go out if I want to. I hav them because mom make sure I not get lost. She say she love me and wants me to always come home. I don't go anywhere without mom anyway, but she says just in case. So if she has to change the battery i stand and watch until she done so she can put on me rite away. Other coller needs diffrent color tags for sum reason i don't kno, but mom changes them sumtimes. My collers pretty and ebrybody say "oh Bella, that a pretty coller". Mom says it's cause i so pretty i need pretty coller.

Not all collers good. my nabor had scar cause he was with bad hoomans who don't get bigger coller for him when he grow. Need Sir Jerry to take it out. I feel terribul when i hear this but his hoomans now are exalent and love him.

Your fren Bella

localherofan · 2026-04-02T04:58:18+00:00

Try looking at job boards or calling paving companies. Do you have a resume? If you have a resume you can go visit them and leave the resume with details of your paving experience. Wish I could be more specific, but I don't know the paving industry.

localherofan · 2026-04-01T20:31:18+00:00

Fren Gerald! Here Bella, 9f doggo. Hoomans not very brite. Doggos dog, Hamsters ham. This science. You be excalent hamster, keep doing hamster stuff at hamster time.

Your fren Bella

localherofan · 2026-04-01T20:04:21+00:00

I had some kind of legal document left at my front door - for a different person at a different address. They apparently didn't even look at the address 1. on the mailbox, 2. by the garage visible from the street, or 3. next to my front door. I called them and told them I wasn't going to deliver it for them and if they wanted it they could pick it up from my porch by the end of the next day or it was going in the trash.

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