Day One

Hello all! Well, I’ve finally done it. I’ve switched blog hosting sites. I’ve been thinking about doing it for a while. I have moved from Xanga to MySpace. But one after another, those websites and their popularity have fizzled out. It’s a shame that FaceBook doesn’t have a blog site. Anyway, I figure that Blogspot/Blogger won’t die anytime soon because some major blogs are hosted on it. I also figure that the new year is a good time to make changes. Hopefully, I can drum up some increased interest in my goings on and maybe end up with a book deal and/or movie, ala Julie and Julia.

I suppose I should introduce myself. My name is Leslie Pope. I’m 27. I am a mixed animal veterinarian so technically, I am Dr. Leslie Pope or Leslie Pope, D.V.M., which ever you prefer. I live in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, which is a town of about 18000 people in south central PA. It’s near Harrisburg and lays on I-81 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Carlisle isn’t a bad town. It has a Target, Kohl’s and Old Navy but not much else.  I work in Carlisle as well as in a vet clinic in Newville, which is just west of here.

I live with my fiancé, Joe, in a three bedroom duplex which alternates between being too small (pretty much all of the time) and being too big (when I have to clean, which is also all the time). Our neighborhood is quiet and supervised by the elderly couple across the street, Stan and Lil.

Joe and I are both from Missouri; he’s from St. Joseph in the Northwest part of the state and I’m from DeSoto just south of St. Louis. We moved out here after I graduated from vet school at the University of Missouri in Columbia in May 2010. I also earned a BS there in animal science in December 2004. Joe works in Newville at a warehouse for Office Depot.  We’ve been together for just over five years and have been engaged since May. We’re planning a wedding for March 2012 to be held back in Missouri.

We have lots of pets as you might expect a vet to have. Three dogs-Mary, a 3 year old Briard mix that we adopted from a research lab at MU when she was 9 months old, Riley, a 4 year old corgi that I’ve had since she was a little pup and Sadie, a two year old corgi that we adopted in April. They all get along rather well. Sadie is actually asleep on my arm as I type. We have a rabbit that I’ve had for several years. His name is Lil Teddy Kellerman; he’s a Netherland Dwarf and a bit of a jerk. Then there’s Bess Truman, the cat. She’s a three year old domestic long hair that we got from the humane society to replace perhaps the most wonderful cat ever, Roosevelt. Bess hates the dogs and likes to sleep on my pillow. Needless to say our house is constantly and forever full of fur.

I pretty much don’t do anything. I like reading (I just got a Nook for Christmas from Joe!), writing, cooking and watching TV. I spend an inordinately large amount of time in front of the TV doing nothing. Most of the time you can find my laptop on my lap overheating because I’m on Facebook playing FarmTown. I  know, pathetic.

I guess that’s pretty much me.

So my plans for this blog include bringing over old blogs from both Xanga and MySpace in a vain effort to entertain you. I hope you enjoy and leave lots of encouraging comments. And then come to see my movie when they make one of me.  

[EDIT: Watch for my assorted old blogs as they get added on day by day. Of course, there's some major issues going on with MySpace. Fuck!]