Primates show off their kids, pony express train, dog fosters raccoons, actors adopt co-stars, and whale hug
Watch new mom and gorilla bond over their babies at Boston zoo
Boston.com, via AJ, Phed's Mom, & Ed C.
'Lady' and the Very Nice Lady
11 Actors Who Took Home Their Animal Co-Stars
Mental Floss, via NTMTOM
If loving you is wrong, whale, I don't wanna be right whale.
Watch as two North Atlantic right whales do a ‘hug’ in Cape Cod Bay
Cape Cod Times, via Elizabeth G.
And finally: Attaaaaaaaaack!
On second thought, run away! Run awaaaaaay! (via Murray C.)
Interspecies Mommy & Me class?
Whales hug? Who knew?
PS, I got my second Pfizer shot last night. My arm hurts a bit this morning but it’s not nearly as bad as it was after the first shot. I woke up with a slight headache, but that’s not unusual (my room gets kind of stuffy sometimes) and it went away shortly after I got up so I don’t think it was from the shot. Other than that, so far I feel fine.
(My brother got his second Moderna yesterday, and he said his arm hurt within a few hours and he had a temp of 100 overnight but it went back to normal this morning.)
Huzzah!
I wasn’t consciously worried about the rona most of the time (except, like, when someone would cough) but it’s weird how now that I’m fully shot I feel like there’s this dark psychic energy I just don’t have to deal with anymore.
Hopefully in two weeks I will feel the same.
I’ve gotten a lot less anxious in places like the grocery store compared to last spring (which was really bad) but it will be nice to know I have an extra layer of protection.
I read some comments somewhere that there are things the person can do to minimize the arm pain, like pinching the skin slightly or something like that. I didn’t notice but I wonder of this nurse did that and that’s why it doesn’t hurt as much. This feels more like later on the second day last time. I did feel the needle itself more this time, but she didn’t put a bandaid on it and I can’t even tell where it went in. (Last time I could see the needle mark for a bit, and the bandaid glue left red marks for days, but that’s just my pale sensitive skin.)
Just checked my temp for the hell of it. 97.5, which is totally within normal for me (and the thermometer might not be totally accurate but it is at least consistent).
I had a similar experience. I didn’t realize what fear I really had until it was gone. Two weeks after my second shot – Huzzah!
I think I know what you mean, though I have a very different way of describing it. I still feel cautious, but I no longer feel terrified. And my depression has lifted. (I hadn’t even realized just how bad it had gotten till it dissipated.)
YES! It’s like a weight has been lifted. And I don’t get panicky and anxious when people get too close to me in stores.
That’s great news!
Tomorrow, I’ll be 2 weeks past my second shot. When that cloud lifts, it really lifts. I’m dining out with friends this Saturday, and since we’ll all be vaccine-protected, we agreed that we can hug.
Of course I’ll wear my mask when I’m not eating, even if I don’t have to. Baby steps to manage my fear.
The gorilla Mom wanting to touch the human baby! So moving! She really looked like she was relating to the human Mom.
My heart was breaking. I wanted the human mom to lift her hand to the gorilla’s mom against the glass. Although it did occur to me that maybe the gorilla was doing that to minimize reflection on her side of the glass. That was indeed a moving encounter.
Yeah for everyone who has had shots. I’m a month past my 2nd shot and I feel much freer to mingle with people then a few months back. Even went to 2 birthday parties last weekend that included some people I didn’t know and I felt relatively comfortable not having my mask on around them. My brain isn’t screaming “Stranger Danger” as much anymore.
Links are great today. Can you imagine the look on people’s face on the train as the ponies clopped past?? And last video reminded me of a cartoon come to life. Ima finally gonna get that dang cat. Oh crap, it has pointy bits!!!!!
I went into my neighbor’s house. TWICE. We were both fully vaxed. It was so nice. We talked about cleaning products. 🙂