Hang in there Shauny. I saw your first entry. Just 'cause your mom and sister look like they're doing OK doesn't mean that they are. We all fall apart when bad things happen. You are not alone.

I wish I could be more eloquent here, but what I really want to say is that you should feel free to write whatever you want and don't worry if it's good, bad or self-indulgent. We're not here to critique you. And if somebody does write a judgemental email, tell 'em to go take a hike.
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Sorry hon.

There's a guy who walks a dog in my back lane and it looks a lot like Harry. It runs around ahead of him like mad and into my yard if the gate's open; then it'll come right up to me and bark like the devil.

If it comes inside my place when I've left the door open I'm going to boot it outside I think. Anyway it reminds me of Harry (not that I would've kicked *him*).

Shauny: As a guy who tore down three or so years of material, I know the feeling. But it's not nearly as bad as you think it is. Keep on truckin'.

the real harry is clearly in a league of his own... an upright tail wagging... nose in the dirt... he's saying to the whole world.. 'Hey look at me, I'm havin' an excellent time!!' :c)
whereas the pathetic pseudo imitation mutt... has no tail, bollocks or anything much to speak of!!! :c)

look to your strengths Shauny, don't let the b****rds drag you down!!

of course it's not as bad. i am merely exagerrating for effect!!!

Well, maybe he had a brother. Did pseudoHarry have a tail, or is he meek? Harry couldn't have been called meek.

PS do you want to make a balcony herb garden? :)

perhaps harry has a doppelganger - well, it would seem so! very cute.

you write whatever crazy insane things you want if it helps you, and then delete them if that helps you, too.

you take care, shauny.
xx

Shauny, I'm a family therapist who points out the obvious, so here we go. You have solved your own issue with your latest entry. This is not about a pseudoharry or the real harry. It is about a pseudoShauny and the real Shauny. You must, on occasion, think of yourself as a PseudoShauny instead of the real Shauny. Let the pseudoShauny speak/write in place of the real Shauny from time to time.

... perhaps pseudoHarry is yet another genetic accident which involves splicing the "Harry" genes with the hell bovines ...

... kinda reminds me of the infamous minotaur .... mwahaha ...

hmmm... i think if youd had pseudo harry instead.. well you wouldnt have been able to catch him when he was off the lead as hes not got a doggy-handle (tail) to grab him with..
mums next door neighbour has a dog like the pic.. he's calledpatch and barks all the time except when i throw him bits of corned beef from mums fridge.. oh .. was that meant for tea?? uhoh....

hey scotland won at football!! yay!!

*thinking lots about you*

ps.. just write whatever.. get it out your system to all your friends here

Praps Hazza and Psuedohazza are aliens, sent to Earth to destroy the scourge of couch covers and their evil minions, the cushions.

I'm worrying about you, Shauny. Can't stop me. Just stay well and all that.

Oh Shauny, you've made my day.

HAHAHAHAHAHA! I kill me. Because Harry. He's all, dirty and stuff.

I'm going to hide under a rock again. Don't mind me.

I liked a book called 'Harry the Dirty Dog' when I was young. Was your Harry named after him?

Is HTML OK here? You have no preview so I couldn't test it. There's a picture of the Harry I remember here.

I like the idea of a Harry "doppelganger".

Perhaps this version came out with a brain?

hehe

I think it's more likely that the dogs that accidentally had Harry, had another lot.

Hang in there. Life goes up and down for everyone. You just tend to forget that when you're not feeling well.

I do find it oddly amusing that the english language doesn't have a real word for "doppelganger" and has to borrow from german, when there is a word for "eloping". Very, very amusing. (Stop looking at me funny, it is!)

But Elise, the English language is made out of bits of other languages :o) 'doppleganger' just happens to be unusually unbastardised. Anyway...

Shauny, you're allowed to be not doing so well at the moment. You're allowed to fall to pieces if you need to. And how public you make it or private you keep it is up to you - it's your grief, after all. My thoughts are still with you.

And yes, it does look a bit like Harry, but more a sort of cheap, synthetic version. The Dalmatian daubs have clearly been crudely applied, and the white just isn't that creamy-white of Harry. Generally, PseudoHarry just looks cheaply put together, while the real Harry is clearly a wacky dog of quality.

Or maybe it's just different lighting conditions.

Crazy Canberra inbreeding, I tells ya.

SJ! Oh my God! Hooray! Hooray! SJ has returned!

Come on Shauny. Throw us a bone...or even a pseudoBone

Holy hell? SJ is back? Emails sent asunder into an ether divide, words languishing amidst an eternal nothingness, no one there but anonymity, a Perl script perhaps? Going back to Cobol, running upon a Unix terminal for years, Ethernet plugged in, not even a power-loss will kill the machine, walled in by inept contractors, overlooked by the IT people who sketched a networking diagram, long since laid off.

But no! Here is SJ! It might be her here in the hilt, need to buy her a beer in person one of these days -- (Shauny too once, but not now; she has complained anew about these comment pastiches; she may even delete this comment! She will have to earn her way back into my heart in toto! An easy task. I am a forgiving sap.) -- to offer an incoherent ode through a weblog comment base, hoping that it will be greeted anew not by the sounds of silence, minus Paul and Art, but by a nonsequitur sentence that has no bearing on the following questions: 1. Did she finish the novel? 2. How in sam hill is she doing? 3. Grad school?

ED BABY- I know this isn't the time OR place for this, but Me and Shauny are like this *bangs two Barbies together*: 1. Got to very last chapter, and then wussed out. 2. Pretty good. Blog come back soon. 3. Yes, grad school is happening RIGHT NOW (class in 40 minutes).
Freaked out, unplugged puter, and went into hiding for six months. Sorry, but stay-at-home Mummys don't have that much to say. They finally let me out of the house...

SJ: Thanks for the brief update. When you get a regular email address again, will keep this convo going. Sounds like things are super on your end. Good to hear from you.

I saw another PsuedoHarry at Lanyon the other day. Only it was more blue, and looked more like PsuedoHarry than Harry. So it's a PsuedoPsuedoHarry. That seemed funny in my head.