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A life in threes
Category: humor
January 16, 2019
Of scheming cats…and Gods.
Some say that Odin and Loki are schemers.
Re: They may be schemers but Their schemes may be serving to make you a better person.
In my experience, They are a lot like those cats from Icanhas.cheezburger.com/lolcats
But rather than just being ‘in ur room doin olympix’ –
Odin: “im in ur life tryin to influence ur choices”
Meanwhile, Loki
“im in ur life remindin u to enjoy.”
And really…you can’t fault Them for that, can you? ❤
July 17, 2017
Month for Loki, Seventeenth: The lesson, in brief.
Today I made an offering to Loki
and received this odd little bit of synchronicity:
From Gravity Falls’ Mabel, of all places.
Point taken, Sir. ❤
October 31, 2016
An amusing coincidence.
In case you did not know – a few weeks ago, my family got a new dog: a Dalmatian puppy.
We named him Phineas.
He has beautiful blue eyes, doesn’t he?
He is incredibly sweet-tempered and probably the calmest Dalmatian we’ve ever owned (and V and I have had 5 other Dals over the last 25 years)
And yet, what’s new for us is that it turns out that Phineas is 100% deaf.
While deafness in Dalmatians is a rather common occurrence – something like 30% of Dals have some level of hearing loss/deafness – we have never had a deaf Dal ourselves.
So, as you might imagine, I have been doing research on how to train a deaf dog.
We’ve begun to learn sign language. We’ve invested in a vibrating collar.
And my latest goal has been to find a local dog training program/facility that can assist us in training our wonderfully calm, incredibly intelligent puppy – who just happens to be deaf.
While it would seem that there are plenty of trainers and facilities that offer specialized training for deaf dogs in California or Louisiana, there seems to be a dearth of actual trainers/facilities offering basic obedience training that encompasses deaf dogs in Central Florida.
Well, after many calls and emails and running around, I was excited to have finally heard back from a *local* training facility this morning.
So while V was checking through the website this evening
-and reading the customer reviews –
he found this review at the top of the list:
Tabitha ******* ***** —5 star
I wanted to wait until our dogs settled in before giving my review….
Before we took Loki and Odin to [name of dog training facility], they were showing aggressive behaviors towards other animals, especially dogs, they were awful on leashes, and when someone came over they were jumping all over them.
They boarded and trained for three weeks… While at boarding Loki took to other dogs very well, he loves playing in a pack of dogs… Odin is now tolerant of dogs-he does great one-on-one but doesn’t care for a group of dogs. . They have some more work to do … but are so much better than they were. [W]hen I come in the door they are calmly waiting in their “place” until I call them out, and they don’t jump when they get to me.
I am so glad we took them to [training facility], it’s the best decision we could have made. Thank you so much for taking the time to work with [Loki and Odin]!
~~~
I just had to laugh…
Especially at the description of Loki and Odin being awful on leashes or jumping all over people who visit them.
I was also amused at the description of their personalities-
how Loki is sociable
but
Odin is only now tolerant of others, and does better one-on-one
LOL
Though I could have told Tabitha that working with Loki and Odin requires a lot of patience
…but it’s always worth taking the time to work with Loki and Odin.
😀
July 28, 2015
Month for Loki, Day 28: A bit of Lokean levity
Two years or so ago, I was in a Facebook group named The Lokean League of Very Bad People.
The group is unfortunately gone now, but I remember that -towards the end – some of the more active members of LLoVBP engaged in many verbal sparring matches with that particularly vocal folkish Heathen group, The Odinic Right.*
Here is a ‘letter’ that was forwarded by a former member of LLoVBP some time ago:
“Credit for this one goes to Mikki Fraser and Lagaria Farmer.
If you like it copy, paste, and pass it on!
Dear Odinic Rite,
It is imperative that I get this message to you as quickly as possible. There may be no more time left for me, but you and all the others still have a chance! Recently, I was fortuitous enough to capture a member of the Lokean League of Very Bad People, and after hours of gruesome torture, was able to extract a confession. However, just before the scoundrel bit into their cyanide cap, they sprayed me with a neurotoxin. It smelled like peaches, and I’m not sure what it does yet, but I’m sure I must only have minutes left before it takes effect. Not only is the LLVBP planning a dastardly scheme that involves teapots (the ravings of this lunatic were hard to make out) it turns out that the Dark Lord Loki HIMSELF has been behind nearly every global catastrophe that has plagued mankind.
This is what I was able to learn:
Loki is the father of the Jewish race
Loki was the man on the grassy knoll
Loki is the leader of Al Qaeda
Loki hid dinosaur bones all over the world to make people doubt the Eddas
Loki was the hunter who shot Bambi’s mother
Loki and Sauron may actually be the same individual, AND he can simply walk into Mordor
Loki is the head of the Illuminati
Loki turns baby Dalmatians into coats
Loki was Joseph Stalin’s mentor
Rasputin was Loki’s avatar
Loki gave birth to Napoleon’s horse
Loki invented condoms to exterminate the white race
Loki is responsible for the “mud” races, and may also be Obama himself
Loki side-swiped Princess Diana’s car
Loki ejected Amelia Earhart out of her plane
Loki kidnapped the Lindbergh baby
Loki blew up the Hindenburg
Loki was the captain of the Titanic AND the Exxon Valdez
Loki broke up the Beatles
Loki stole the Ark of the Covenant
Loki whipped up Hurricane Katrina
Loki is the puppet master behind the Democratic party
Loki created all deadly spiders, and hides them in people’s showers
Loki reverts cured gays
Loki started Occupy Wall street
Loki programmed the Y2K virus
Loki was Mary Queen of Scott’s lesbian lover
This rabbit hole goes so much deeper than we thought, and you have to warn the others before it’s too late! And don’t forget that…. That… cough… cough… what’s happening to me? I have the sudden… urge to… have sex with a man! No! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
~~~
*I am not going to link to the Odinic Rite group, but a quick search of Google would school you on their folkish (read: overwhelmingly racist) belief system.
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