Re-Homing

I've been giving a  lot  little bit of thought to re-homing and the things I've re-homed in my life.  When I was younger, I would take hundreds of members of my bead collection and re-home them in our living room carpet.  Mom didn't like that much.  When I was a little older than that, my sister (three at the time) re-homed our pet gerbil Zoomer from his snug-as-a-bug cage and onto our living room carpet.  Mom liked that re-homing much, much less.

When I was in high school, I don't remember re-homing much of anything, but in college--ah, yes--those were my serious re-homing days.  I re-homed a lost or homeless puppy about once a month.  If ever anyone found a stray puppy on their way home from class, they called me.  If they didn't want the puppy they'd just bought, they called me.  If they took in one of my stray puppy friends and found they couldn't keep it, they called me.  I must have re-homed several doggies in my college days and most of them are still with their adopted "furever" parents.  On a tangent, I would love to win the lottery (and I mean millions) so I could build a greyhound retirement center.  I'd let them run, or swim, or lie around and just eat all day long (have you ever seen how skinny a greyhound is?!)

Most recently, I re-homed my not-so-old old DSLR camera and I hope that the new owner will love and cherish her as much as I did.  I'm so ready to get out and play with my new camera some more since the weather is (finally!) warming up.  We reached (get this!) 60+ degrees today!  Hallelujah, baby!  My deer-friends (remember them?) are on their way back out to play at dusk now so maybe tonight I can snap a few photos of them before they run back into the woods like this guy!

A friend of mine posed a question on facebook for her facebook friends to answer.  It is on whether or not when you get the "you-don't-like-me" vibe from someone you should shake it off and let it go, or confront the person so as to understand/smooth things over.  I definitely vote that if you're getting the cold shoulder, or the "stinkeye" from someone that you should ask what the problem is.  A lot of the time I think that it is so easy for people to get the wrong impression about another person, to read things into actions, expressions, words, looks.  It is simple to think the worst or to interpret things that people do incorrectly, so I think that outright asking someone, "Hey--did I do something to actually merit that nasty look, or are you just having a bad day?" is wise to do.  Since the answer is either A) "I'm just having a bad day," or, B)"Yes, you did___/Yes, you said ___/Yes, remember a zillion years ago when ___ happened?" 

I think we womenfolk are more likely to hold grudges on the smaller things in life (possibly because menfolk sometimes fail to notice/fail to care about the smaller incidents) because we are an intuitive bunch of, well, womenfolk.  It is so easy to misread someone's words or actions or looks that it is no wonder sometimes we get a bad feeling from people.   But yeah, to make a short story long, it got me thinking about how petty most of the grudges we hold against other people really are.  People aren't perfect and often times it is just a misconception.  Silly!

My friend from work and her family (remember when I took her kids' pictures?) are going to Disneyworld this coming weekend and next week.  And I'm considering stowing away in the back of her SUV to accompany them.  I could use some cheering up in general, and I think that a visit to the Mouse House would really help.