He seemed pretty quiet and lethargic, but we were told that he was a puppy, and we all know that puppies chew. We knew he wasn’t crate-trained, and we planned to practice a two-week de-stress, which would require that he stay separate from the rest of our animals. When I finally got Kingston safeuly into our home, we were at a loss as to where to put him. But when you are on emergency time, you aren’t exactly setting yourself up for success. Of course there wasn’t much thought involved… I needed to do whatever I could to assist him. I was contacted by someone who knew of his abuse, but couldn’t help or get him the medical care he needed. Some of you may remember that nothing about Kingston’s arrival was planned. Couple that with the fact that this pup is planned as only a temporary addition to your family, and you can understand why things get so complicated. And it’s not just the property damage, the expense, or the grumpy husband… it’s also the awareness that just your absence sends this animal into a state of sheer panic. If you’ve never dealt with a dog who had issues with separation anxiety, then count your shimmery, shiny, (undamaged) lucky stars because it is NOT fun, not for anyone involved. We can’t say for sure the origin of this issue, but panic he does, and our house suffers most for it.
Perhaps he had some sort of constant companionship where he lived previously, or maybe he just thinks we are so fantastic that the thought of being apart from us sends him into a panic. It is no secret that Kingston has dealt with separation anxiety since he first came to live in the AFM5 household. So you’ll have to take your pick among anger, despair, and insanity.…and not lose your marbles (or your spouse) in the process! (Scroll to the bottom if you don’t care to read about our experience, and would rather check out our list of tips!) Lately, the expression has been shortened to simply “losing it.” But, just to confuse things, “losing it” also can mean losing one’s temper. An imaginative theory, but there’s no evidence to support it. The idea was that the expression arose from the loss of the artworks by the Greeks, or their subsequent loss at sea when the ship transporting them sank. These sculptures were taken from Athens by Lord Elgin in 1806. One theory suggests that “losing one’s mind” derives from the Elgin Marbles.
In the mid-1800s, “marbles” was also used to mean “personal effects,” or “stuff,” which derived from the French word meubles, meaning “furniture.” It’s easy to see how that could be expanded to mean “mind furniture.” Bogart’s performance was so good that many people have assumed the film to be the source of the phrase. The 1954 film, The Caine Mutiny, linked insanity with marbles when Humphrey Bogart showed his character, the demented Lieutenant Commander Queeg, in court and under stress, restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls. Jones as Gallia’s candidate, but got his marbles mixed and did as much for the institution of which he is the noted head as he did for his candidate.” Davis, of Rio Grande college, was selected to present J. This transition to the “losing one’s mind” meaning is shown in the Ohio newspaper The Portsmouth Times, which reported a story in April 1898 that referred to marbles as a synonym for mental capacity: “Prof. It’s a small step from “anger and despair” to the wider meaning of doing something “stupid or senseless.” All the early citations convey the sense of loss and the consequent reaction to it, but by 1927, the “loss of sanity” meaning had won over “anger and despair.” Louis Globe-Democrat of August 1886: “He has roamed the block all morning like a boy who had lost his marbles.” An early citation of this figurative usage is found in the St. To play was always to run the risk of losing all one’s marbles and the result might easily be anger, frustration, and despair. This American phrase arose in the late 1800s, probably from the game of marbles, which was common at the time.
In any case, your mind isn’t functioning as it should. When you lose your marbles, you’ve lost your mind, or gone insane, or part of your brain is missing.