Today was a bad day and I just need to vent. Sometimes we all just need to vent to someone and this is my "someone". Some people vent to others and receive sound advise, words of wisdom, or perhaps just an understanding ear. Me? I rely on myself and my writing to ground me. Maybe Friday the 13th really is a cursed day. Maybe I'm just emotional right now. I'll be brief as I hadn't planned on writing today. What set this horrible day in motion is that my dog had to go to the vet today. We discovered Tuesday that Dante's brow above his left eye had swollen quite a bit and we thought that he and our other dog, Moses, had gotten a little rough. His face continued to swell and we knew that he had been bitten by something. It turns out he was bitten by some sort of spider, but the vet had thought it was a snake at first. We are so lucky that Dante didn't die. Thank God he's young and healthy. Relationships with pets are strange. You never really realize how much they mean to you until they are gone. Here are my beautiful boys (Dante on the left with the white patch and Moses on the right:

And here is a computer painting I did of them:

These computer paintings have become one of my favorite hobbies. I do them on an internet site. I started doing them a few months ago and I'm addicted. I hadn't done any in a while because I couldn't get into the site, but now that I'm back online, I'm doing a bunch. I love my boys. Aren't they cute? Even if they're blue....