Bake It Till You Cake It

February 3rd, 2019

Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday.

28/1 2019

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Good goat times today. happy silly goaties. I found out that the new goats don’t actuallly hae names yet. That surprises me. I don’t think I will get to name them. But I do hope they get names soon. If for nothing else than so I can get better filenames than 190128_newgoats1.jpg, 190128_newgoats2.jpg etc. (NSPAA date format for lyfe)
There are some dominance games going on. Especially between Mia and the lil not-mamma. She’s the biggest of the new ones, I guess she was probably boss at the old place. Mia is very keen on showing her that in this hood, Mia is boss. There’s some grunting and snorting and humping going on. Lil not-mamma is taking it pretty chill. She seems to be ahead of Milo and Sky in the hierarchy, for now at least. We’ll see how it all goes. They just have to get used to each other and settle the hierarchy.
The lil boy is so darn cute. I love sitting with him. I wish he had a little playmate, but ok his mother is almost kid-sized anyway haha. And he’s got me.
I keep hoping Mio will poke her head around the corner. It’s strange not having her here. It still seems like she just went inside for a rest or something. That she’ll be right out. Sigh.
But at least all the new goats are a good distraction. Good goat squad.
28/1 2019

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Uncle and his boys.

28/1 2019

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My brother came home from the hospital today. I am surprised they let him go that quickly, but that must be a good sign. Fingers crossed that everything will go well with the the kidney. Science, it’s a heck of thing.
28/1 2019

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Mia is helpfully inspecting the camera for defects and/or treats.

28/1 2019

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That sit for today. I am tired. Going to go dream fishing in the great river. If I catch a funny i’ll be sure to blog it on my flotsamstergram. See you tomorrow with a bucket of bait.
28/1 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Yogi Day.

29/1 2019

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Milo and Sky got a little tired of the newbies…
It’s funny, I would have thought Milo and Sky would be more dominant, since they’re on their own home turf. But the newbies, especially the lil not-mamma, seem to a little stronger. Everyone is still getting used to the new order of things, though. Hopefully they will all gel into one big, happy goat circus.

29/1 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump day, with a grandma bonus.

30/1 2019

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If you’re not slurping then you’re not doing it right.
Ah, I love soup.
30/1 2019

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The newbies are getting a lot of attention, of course. But I’m still loving on the oldfurs. Both Milo (pictured) and Sky still fit in my lap.

30/1 2019

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Our goats, in the middle of our house.

30/1 2019

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Ten months ago I uploaded two short clips of Justin Timberlake on SNL, doing a soup song/dance, to my alt youtube channel. One of them has more than 15,000 views. The other one has 0. Literally “Views: None”. I find that pretty amusing.
I guess “Soup there it is” ranks higer in the search algorithm than “Souperdoup”.
Most of the other videos on that channel have between 1 and 30 views. Hope I get that phat ad revenue soon!
30/1 2019

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Heading to the bed. I have been having a hard time getting into the dreamscape lately. I’ve had good dreams, but not those long deep journeys with semi-lucid trances. Maybe it’s because the nights are cold now. Or maybe it’s all the things that have been going on with goats and family, maybe the balance is off. There’s still a blanket of sadness over my head. Maybe I just need to sleep harder. I’ll go try. Don’t wait up.
30/1 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Ping and Fuzzy from 2016.

31/1 2019

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I am feeling pretty sad and depressed. Deploy goats. Send in the goof troop.

31/1 2019

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Out of soup. Probably need to up the dosage of my antideppers
1/2 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Magnethe from 2005.

1/2 2019

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Inanimate Carbon Rod 2020

1/2 2019

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Shadow is still a fine looking gentleman of the horse variety. Vividly so.

1/2 2019

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Sir Milo de Fluffington, knight of the round belly.

1/2 2019

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Things I appreciate:
When your screenshots of hilarious memes, deep thoughts, and provocative politics don’t have the colour-scheme of black text on white background.
Fun fact: I can manipulate the colours and fonts of the text you post, but I can’t do that if it’s a screenshot.
Okay, I know most of the screenshots posted originate from Other People From Elsewhere. But if you ever find yourself making a screenshot that you want to go viral… consider that a white background is problematic for a lot of visually impaired people.
1/2 2019

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Meanwhile, in heaven

1/2 2019

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Shutting down for today. Let the mind off the hook. Not catching any fish anyway. Need better bait. A net that isn’t open in both ends. A pole that isn’t frozen, a globe that doesn’t stop spinning. A champagne supernova in disguise. Row row row your bloat gently down the stream of consciousness.
See you tomorrow, typeface.
1/2 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Vanilje from 2006.

2/2 2019

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Did anyone see the report from Punxsutawney Phil? I’m still not convinced it was a good idea for Trump to appoint him as his senior climate advisor, but ok.
2/2 2019

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goatlog

2/2 2019

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I hate to sound like a broken record, but hi I’m a broken record.
No, wait. I meant to say. I wish I had more soup.
2/2 2019

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Think goat thoughts

3/2 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

3/2 2019

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Brb, playing Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galax.
link: hgttg online
3/2 2019

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Almost a Popcorn-style crackerface.

3/2 2019

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You know that thing when you do something you feel is right, but then later you regret it and feel bad?
No, I’m sure I’m the only one who’s ever tried that.
3/2 2019

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Think more goat thoughts

3/2 2019

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Okay, well I am tuning out for today. I’m feeling pretty sad and depressed. I’m okay when I manage to distract myself but then.. it follows. Me around.
Just gotta force myself back into a rhythm. Exercise and goats. Make it till spring. Now I’m going to go sleep, because in dreams everything is magic and okay. Gonna go sleep. Till spring? Who knows.
3/2 2019

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That’s all for now.


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Kidney Kid

January 28th, 2019

Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.

21/1 2019

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Good goat times today. Good to be back. Good goats. Everyone seems to be doing okay. I kept hoping I would find grandma standing in her corner, somehow. Defying logic. But it’s comforting to be back with the others.
21/1 2019

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Missed you

21/1 2019

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Milo’s got his favourite spot back.
I am off to the bedland now. I actually have something I need to tell you guys. I’ve been keeping a secret… but this one is a nice one. I’ll tell you tomorrow.
Always end on a cliffhanger, says Milo.

21/1 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Yogi Day everyone.

22/1 2019

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So, about that secret…
Some of you guessed we might have a new goat. Well, not quite.
We have three.
Yes, three new residents in the goat house.
They actually arrived a few days before Mio passed. I just… didn’t have the capacity to talk about them. You know? I didn’t have the mental bandwidth. The sadness of Mio’s impending passing was just to overpowering, there wasn’t room for the happiness of new goat friends. So I didn’t talk about. I hope you understand.
On the day Mio passed I said that afterwards I went out and spent time with Mia and the littles. Well, those littles included these 3 ones. I haven’t had a chance to properly talk to staff about it, so I don’t know their names yet. But from what Alice told me beforehand, I believe the two bigger ladies are siblings of Milo and Sky. They were living at another playground, but that place is phasing out the animal part of their playground. So we have taken them in. And one of the girls was pregnant. A tiny, little baby boy. I think he can’t have been much more than a week old in this photo, which is from last week. So little and so cute. And so full of baby-goat energy. Even when you’re desperately sad it’s still impossible not to smile at a baby goat bouncing around.
After Mio had passed I spent a good deal of time sitting with the baby boy in my lap. One old life leaves and another young one enters the world. Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind…
Obviously they are not replacements for Mio. You couldn’t just replace Mio. And even if you add all 3 up I don’t think they’d outweigh grandma…
But it will certainly be something to help steer the mind in positive directions.
And what a circus it will be when spring comes and I take them out of the pen. One big princess Mia and 5 little dwarves. That’s going to be a sight.

22/1 2019

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Bit smitten

22/1 2019

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Here is Milo and Sky on the left and the newbies on the right. The new girls have sort of white stripes down the sides of their face, that’s the main way I have of telling them apart. Once they start moving around… it’s like that game where the hustler puts a ball under one cup and then starts switching all the cups around. It’s just one big blur of goats.

22/1 2019

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It must be, love
link: baby boy bleats video
22/1 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy hump day everyone.

23/1 2019

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Hey, remember when I had soup? that was awesome.
Anyway, yesterday I managed to start exercising again. It’s been almost a coouple of months I think. Not fun getting started again, but I know I just have to get back into the routine. It’s like starting from scratch, but it’ll get easier. And there is a part of me that loves exercising. Riding that bike with an audiobook and music, getting into the groove. If my legs weren’t toast i’d get up and have another session right now. But I gotta pace myself at first. But hopefully this is the first step in getting back to a better shape. Chasing all those goats around will probably help too.
23/1 2019

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This is the before picture. In a few months I’ll be smaller and the baby will be bigger.
Probably.

23/1 2019

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It’s been a rollercoaster couple of days. It’s been lovely introducing you all to the new goats. Sharing the happiness. While I’m still holding on to a great sadness. It’s a weird thing to have the two counterparts sharing the same mental space.
It would be a lie to say I’m feeling great. But I’ll try to focus on the happy things and the future.
For now, I’m going to focus my face in a pillow and sleep for a long time. Cheers.
23/1 2019

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Well, just got some huge news. My brother was called to hospital this morning. They have a kidney for him. I didn’t even think he was on the list yet, there’s been a lot of problems with the dialysis systems and infections and stuff. But it’s been determined that he’s a match for the kidney and as I understand it he will be going into surgery in a few of hours. I gather it will all take a while, I’m not sure I’ll get more news today. But that is certainly a great surprise. I hope you’ll all send him positive thoughts. Hopefully the surgery will go as planned and the kidney will be functional and not rejected and all that. He’s been through so much with this, it would be wonderful if things got easier now. All my fingers are crossed.
24/1 2019

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Who the fu.. SE CURITY!

24/1 2019

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A little update on my brother. I don’t know a lot, but it sounds like surgery went according to plan. He’s in recovery and since it’s late night now I won’t know more until tomorrow. But so far so good. Thank you for all the good thoughts.
24/1 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bruce, Clark and Mio from 2015.

25/1 2019

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Another little update on my brother. There was some concern that there might be some niternal bleeding, so they kept him in recovery longer than anticipated. But it seems that’s no longer a concern. And his liver numbers (which I believe is the correct medical term, and I AM after all a fully licensed medical doctor, and a fellow human who is not a bot even though I keep failing your captchas) seem to be improving. Which hopefully is a sign that the new kidney is already starting to work. We can hope. But so far so good. He should be in the hospital for about a week, if all keeps going well. Again, thank you all for the kindnesses.
25/1 2019

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And here’s a little goat content too. Lil mama and lil boy.

25/1 2019

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Hey, Milo. This is the platform where I usually give Mia a serving of pumpkin seeds. Used to be too high for the littles, but Milo got up to check for leftovers.

25/1 2019

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Okay, I am shutting it down for today. I am quite spent. There has been so much going on. My dad and my brother’s health, Mio’s passing, the new goats. I exercised for the second time, and while it feels good I also feel sore now. Mind and body. Like I’m Wile E Coyote and I just ran into fake tunnel that the road runner painted on a cliffside. Meep Meep. Hope everyone out there is doing well. Love you like a pot of soup on Saturday.
25/1 2019

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Peanut from 2015.

26/1 2019

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Peter and Lasse, once upon a time.

26/1 2019

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I am off to have soup with the folks. This was planned to be a family dinner, but of course Peter will not be able to make it now. So it will just be me and my parents. We’ll just have to have soup again when he gets out of the hospital. The more soup the better, that’s what I say. See you all later.
26/1 2019

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Back home from my parents’ place. With a belly, and the fridge, full of soup. It would have been nice if my brother could have been there, but on second thought it is much nicer that he is in the hospital with a new kidney. Soup is fairly easy to come by, kidneys not so much. Everything still going according to plan, let’s hope it stays that way.
26/1 2019

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Found a great Danish podcast about dubbing. Normally I am against dubbing. But I do have a lot of great memories of cartoons and puppet shows with Danish voices. Since there’s a fairly limited pool of Danish voice actors, especially back then, you kinda have to imagine if all your childhood cartoon memories had those few voices. Those voices become REALLY powerful with nostalgia. Beautiful memories of fraggles and muppets and disney characters and Asterix and Obelix and on and on. Back when there was ONE tv channel and it didn’t start broadcasting until 2 pm. I wonder if kids today would even believe that. Today there’s 24/7 everythingallthetime
JEG HAR KRAFTEN
26/1 2019

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Trying to play it cool, hoping the human picks up the “I’d like to be served now, please” vibe.

27/1 2019

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.

27/1 2019

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That’s all for this time.


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