| (no subject) |
[Dec. 4th, 2009|04:26 am] |
Blah. I've completely lost motivation to update my livejournal and keep up with friends list and such.. sorry guys :C. I cant even say I've been busy.. I've just been.. lazy!
This little thing has been taking up a fair amount of my time, though. She's a baby wild mouse that I've been hand raising. Her name is 'Rattus' because the person who originally found her (half eaten by their cat :/) thought she was a rat so found my website and filled out a surrender form for her! The above picture is pretty old now.. taken a week after I first got her.
This one is from tonight:
N'awww.. she's so big now! I'm waaaay attached to her and am going to miss her heaps, but I've decided to give her up to a mate of mine who keeps heaps of mice so she'll have friends. I know fuck all about mice really and until I met this little girl I hated them.. I'm more of a rat person! But yeah, I think she'll be better off with someone a little more mouse knowledgeable. I've been super dedicated and have done a damn good job of hand raising her, though! It was so tricky and not at all like hand raising puppies, kittens or possums.. it was good to learn how to feed something so itty bitty! She couldn't have been more than two weeks old when I first got her because her eyes were shut.. she's now atleast five weeks old and is going strong! :)
Uhhmm.. what else? Well.. heaps of shit, really.. but nothing I feel like posting in a public entry so maybe I'll make an emo private one and have a whinge later.
Blaaah Christmas.. stop eating all my money. :( |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|08:04 pm] |
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/870774/boy-5-kills-alligator-20-times-his-size
Reading this made me feel sad.. am I the only one?
""What we thought was massive was a [3m] alligator, and this one just dwarfs the [3m] ... it's just so massive and prehistoric looking." So, you're proud of your little bogan son for killing something that had probably been 50 - 100 years in the making?! Fucking good call. God some people are so.. scummy.
Anyyyyyyyway. That is all :( |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Sep. 16th, 2009|05:35 pm] |
Wheeeee.. we got to spend five days in Adelaide. It was fricking great, we got to catch up with lots of people and had a fun but very busy time.. and I'm going back on Friday, woo! I would usually have to work.. but I specially booked time off for Alexias 21st =]. Ben is displeased that he has to stay here alone.. but he'll get over it. =p
Also, I was so fucking stoked to catch this coming home late on Saturday night:
I love that song and found seeing the behind the scenes of the video so interesting! I love the creative director guy.. he seems so passionate about his weird robot animals lol. They are kind of cool, I wish I was a kid back in those days to have seen them! |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Sep. 8th, 2009|08:08 am] |
=D
o__o
Raiden: :>
Fable: >:/
Lol, I love them!
I have nothing exciting to report. We're going to Adelaide this weekend though.. thank god! :> I'm more than slightly excited for the show.
And now.. for another boring 10 hour day at work! =/ |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Aug. 30th, 2009|10:04 am] |
Lol, I just love this creepy motherfucker. He's more likely to give children nightmares than put them to sleep.. what with the big souless eyes and dodgy dishwashing glove hands hahaha. He comes on everynight at 7:30 and is supposed to send the children to bed.. the song creeps me out hardcore. lol
Blah. I have literally ~nothing~ to do today and no one to go and do nothing with either.. D:. I'm siiiicck of Pirie.. it has some good points and some great people, but after all thats happened I just want to go home asap. Easter next year cant come fast enough!
Oh and.. this is random.. but Mum was looking through Jesss papers the other night.. and apparently shes' actually TEN (well, turning ten in October!) not seven or eight like we thought! Old dog is olddd.. I shall throw her a big party for living a decade. =D |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Aug. 19th, 2009|05:56 pm] |
Sheikh and Raiden snuggling together!
BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW LOOK AT HOW CUTE HE IS!!!!!111 He's settled in with Sheikh and Fable really well.. they all seem to be good mates. Fable is occasionally too rough when I let them out for a run.. but he always stops when I clap/yell at him lol.
I think we're just going to settle on the name Raiden for him.. it's what we've been calling him for the last two days and although I initially didn't like it.. it's just sort ot stuck and I now cant picture calling him anything else lol. Ah well! It's kinda cute I guess.. :). I decided not too buy another one.. despite the fact that he could squish out the bars of the big cage if he wanted.. he seems to choose not too or doesn't realise that he can.. so.. I've just been putting them all in the old cage when we go out for long periods of time just in case. That cage is really only big enough for two fully grown rats.. but they dont seem to mind being put in there for a few hours (all they ever do when they're not out with us is sleep anyway! haha).. I think splitting them up and leaving one alone would be meaner :(. He will soon be big enough to live in the big cage full time though.. I reckon three weeks at the most :).
There is always room for one more :)! There's actually five different hammocks in the big cage.. but noooo they all have to squish into the smallest one available. haha
Just now I was patting fable on the back.. kind of massaging him with my finger nails because I know he looooves it.. and he wagged his tail! I dont mean he just twitched it a bit.. he fully wagged it back and forth really hard! I didn't even know rats could move their tails that well haha. At first I thought maybe I was somehow hurting him from my nails and stopped.. but he moved toward my hand and licked my fingers so I started again.. and he swished his tail around again and boggled his eyes at me (eye boggling = extreme happiness in rat language, lol)! It was soooo cute.. I'm thinking it must be a muscle reaction.. sort of like when you scratch a dog on the side and they start scratching with their own back leg lol. Aww fabes.. I'm so glad he's friendly now.. he was a bit of bitey cunt when I first bought him lol.
On another non rat related note.. I blacked out at work this morning. It was embarassing and not very fun :(. I think it's because I hardly slept last night (We watched Diary of the Dead and it made me scared and hyperactive ;().. but I just went out the back and had a sip of water and felt fine after a few moments of sitting down.. so I came back out and finished my shift! I'm a trooper :p. |
|
|
| New baby! |
[Aug. 18th, 2009|01:22 am] |
Lol, I have.. no will power. I was powerless to resist this adorable little boy who crawled up my shirt and bruxed in my face earlier today at the pirie petshop. He is just.. soo cute <3.
He is so small though.. too small for the gigantic cage that Sheikh and Fable now live in (it has big bar spacing :/).. so.. he is in their smaller old cage until he gets a bit fatter =p. I'm thinking I'll probably have to go back to the store and buy him a friend tommorrow because that may take a few weeks.. WHAT A SHAME! ehehehheh. It's chill.. Sheikh and Fables cage can hold 10 rats.. I think four will be a nice number. =)
he has a purty back marking. ;]
I love his colour.. he be so pretty. =)
Anddd this is Fable.. inspecting his ballsack. Charming. lol |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Aug. 12th, 2009|08:35 pm] |
I really love this advert. It inspired me enough to donate some money.. but WWF website was being ghey and kept crashing out on me. Fail :c. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Aug. 6th, 2009|10:10 am] |
Lol I've been getting underpaid the entire time I've worked at coles. Ben noticed that something was amiss when I worked a fuckton of extra hours and barely got paid more than usual for it and went in there and got it sorted.. and it turns out that all this time I've been paying double tax! Some dumbass at my old store ticked the wrong box in some paperwork (the one that says coles is my secondary job! wtffff) and it meant that the whole time I've been working for coles I've been paying double the tax I should have been! Explains my freaking huuuuge tax return. Yay for having extra money every week from now on! :D :D.
Baaahh Im going into work today even though it was supposed to be my day off. That's the downfall of working at the same store as Ben.. I'm always their first port of call when they get a sicky because they can just wander over to the deli and ask Ben if I can work.. and of course he ALWAYS says yes. Sucks bah :/. I do have tommorrow off, so I really have no right at all to complain! I'm always whinging about being alone and being bored.. atleast if I'm at work I have *something* to do.
jdfjkldjf Sheikhs skin condition that I thought I'd cured has come back with force.. he looks really uncomfortable and cant stop scratching and is losing hair. I found a vet clinic in Port Augusta that I can take him too which is good. I dont know what's wrong with him.. I still think it's possibly mites, but I did put him on ivermectin and it didn't seem to make it any better. I think I'll try revolution this time because that's a really broad spectrum anti parasitic. It really does confuse me that Fable has literally no symptoms.. allergy? I dont knowww.. I really wish we had a microscope so I could take a skin scraping myself and know for sure. Fingers crossed this doesn't cost a billion dollars >_<.
Baahhh time to go and walk to work! with mah umbrelllaaa 'cause it's hella sunny today!
bai!x |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Aug. 5th, 2009|03:33 pm] |
This article was on the 3rd page (I think.. it was somewhere close to the front, pretty much right as you open the paper) of the advertiser the other day.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,,25844309-5006301,00.html
I wasn't really offended by it or anything.. but it made me feel kind of uncomfortable. Since when did attractiveness become so generalised? I didn't think it was possible to make a generalisation about something that everyone has a different opinion on. I'm more than aware of the fact that I fall into the "plainer counterpart" minority of Australian women.. does this mean that people are going to judge my daughter (if I ever have one!) because her mother was fat and not the text book version of attractive? I think I'm over analysing it.. but I just found it so weird that it was practically front page news. Whatever happened to having a beautiful mind? I guess that's worthless these days.
Blah.. I should go clean or something. I've done nothing but laze around on the couch alllll day. :/ |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Aug. 3rd, 2009|05:03 pm] |
I'm so devo.. our camera had an unfortunate run in with a sink full of water over the weekend and is now fucked. It was my fault, really.. I had my hand bag sitting on the bathroom counter next to the sink and Ben accidentally knocked it and fell over spewing the entire contents into the sink.. which included my precious camera ;_;. It shouldn't have been in there in the first place, I didn't even realise it was in there. Gah ;c. I totally wish it was my phone.. my phone was insured for accidental damage even from water and we could have got another by claiming.. siigh. It wasn't an amazing camera or anything, just a point and click digital.. but it took nice pictures and I'll miss it. Hopefully we can get a new one soonish! I love taking photos :C. Im thinking about taking it to a camera shop to see if they can fix it though.. because it still *kind of* works.. it turns on and you still access all the pictures, it's just like the lense/photo taking part of it is fucked. It was taking photos fine right after it happened.. but then stopped working a few hours later. sigh. :/
This is the last photo I took with it.. the flash was on and it totally shouldn't have looked like this so I'm guessing the lense is heaps water logged. Lol at seedy brett in the background! ughh Im so mad at myself. :<
Aside from that little incident.. our fly by trip to Adelaide was good :3. We had a good night for mister mohawks birthday at all the usual haunts. We even made it down early enough on Friday night to go to Alexias gathering where they were doing.. strange things.. that I wont mention here in case someone of importance is looking O__o. But that was a nice chilled way to end our trip down.. driving that far straight after working 9 hours is heaps tiring for Benji!
I wont be doing the cupcake day at work anymore.. :{. Someone else got in and asked the day before I was going too. I'm somewhat shattered.. I was so pumped and excited to do it and bought all of this awesome cake decorating stuff.. my cupcakes were going to be freaking rad! The person that's doing them isn't even making the cakes.. the bakery at work is! urghhh makes me sad :c. Ahh welll.. another time maybe.. my newly purchased cupcake tools wont go to waste, though.. I'll just bake cupcakes randomly for everyone who comes over! hahaharrrrrr.
We're going to hire a treadmill tommorrow! Exciting stuff :D :D. I'm hoping it'll really motivate to get off my ass and lose the stacks of kilos I've put on since moving to pirie and MORE! :D |
|
|
| loooooooong babbling entry. watch out. :/ |
[Jul. 21st, 2009|12:31 am] |
Gah. I really want a rabbit.. it's getting so hard to resist! I spazz so hard when I see people with them or see them in petshops.. I just adore them :'{. I'm going to resist it though because I know buying one would be a bad idea and that we dont have the right set up for a rabbit (There's no grass in our backyard!). It's enough trouble getting the rats and Jess in the car to transfer between Adelaide and pirie.. a rabbit would just complicate that even more lol. They're just sooo cute.. I miss the rabbits I had growing up so badly :{.
Gah. I cant wait until we have our own house.. I have so many plans! I cant stop looking at places to buy even though we cant buy a house for atleast another year.. why do I do this to myself!? blaaah. I got all excited because we spoke to a company (homestart? I cant remember) who said they'd approve us for a loan when we're ready (even though we dont have much saved up! They said they could approve us for a bigger loan if we have more saved up.. exciting :D :D :D). It's just crappy because we dont know where we'll be work wise when we come back.. ben has a fair idea of where he'll get sent back too but I'll probably just get flung wherever there's room.. so there's no point in buying a house now :{.
We're definitely not going to live in the city because a) it's pretty expensive and b) we want land! An acre atleast. I'm going to have a billion dogs and ben has a billion cars so.. it all has to fit somewhere lol. There's these really amazing houses with stables and stuff on big blocks in places like the shitty end of Gawler, Mallala, Virginia.. y'know places that aren't really that far away from the city but can still be considered 'rural' that just make me drool my tits off because they'd be so perfect for having several dogs.. I so hope there's some houses like that left when we come to buy! Ben and his Dad said that they'd build me some pens and nice little shelters for my dogs and paint them pretty colours which is awesome.. but these stables are just so cool! I'm going to have a 'rabbit garden'.. like a little place all fenced off and enclosed just for my rabbits with lots of plants and prettiness.. it will be beautiful. :3
We went to the zoo today with Bens Mum. It was extra fun! I was a bit miffed at ben because he told me he put the camera on charge but forgot or some crap so we didn't really get many photos.. all of the awesome animals were out today too, it was such a shame. The tiger was even swimming in his big pond that you can see into like an aquarium! It was so cool :). Half of the fricking zoo is closed down for the pandas though.. I kind of dont reccomend going until that's all finished because I felt kind of ripped off and it seemed like we only walked through half of the zoo.. I dont know, we may have just missed some of it.. but there seemed to be closed signs and dead ends at ever turn! It was still fun though :). I was trying to find the ferrets to take a photo of for charlie.. but they had replaced them with RATS which was kind of exciting for me :}. They were adorable <3. And I totally rescued an escaped Pottaroo.. some stupid kid let it out of the petting zoo and all the parents were standing around flipping out about it and trying to herd it back into the pen.. but it was just sitting there looking heaps fat and lazy so I picked it up and carried it like a big fat rabbit back to it's home lol. I think they thought it was going to bite but because I did a bit of work with Pottaroos when I did v nursing placement I knew it would be insanely docile and lazy lol. He was so cute, I cuddled him :3.
We had a pretty good night in town! Lots of people that dont usually come out with us came and it made things really fun :). I tried pretty hard to persuade everyone to try some new places instead of just going to the same shitholes every week by starting the night at the direct opposite end of town.. but they all ended up making the treck from the end of Hindley to the end of Rundle (A very long walk, let me assure you!) to return to our favourite dark little hole. Some people moaned about it but no one went home and everyone had fun at shotz anyway. Ben and I ended up piking pretty early (it was about 3:30 that we headed to HJs.. which may seem late to some but is insanely early for us). My feet were killing from me from the amazing but painful shoes I was wearing and Ben was sick with a chest infection and pretty wasted lol. We also came into town heaps early which is weird for us and it made me extra tired becase Im fat and lazy. We had a great night though, gosh I miss living here.. ;[. Turns out we're coming back in two weeks for sarahs Brads birthday which is awesome because we had planned not to come back for a while due to other committments.. but Ben worked it out. Yay :3.
Dad took me to see Bruno! I'm kind of indifferent about it. I was the same with Borat.. I just dont think it's my thing. I found parts of it funny but it's probably not something I'll ever watch again. I think overall I found Borat more funny.. I think Borat is also alot more offensive.. but whatever, I'm glad I saw it and saw it with my Dad :). He thought it was pretty hilarious lol.
I finally got to go shopping at city chic. Lol, I love that place! I'm a size MEDIUM (and even a small in some of the stuff I bought! wow haha) by their standards.. it just seems so weird and when I washed the dresses I bought from there Dad hung them up in Miks wardrobe because he thought they were hers because the tag said small. Funny stuff haha..they're still like massive it's just their sizing goes like XS = 14 S = 16 M = 18, so on and so forth lol Mum bought me this cute little denim dress.. I really like it! I'm not generally a fan of denim but this dress is okay, it's cute :3.
Anyway. Im out of random stuff to write.. sorry for boring anyone who happened to read this far! lol
<3 xoxox |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|07:16 pm] |
WHeee333! Ben finally got off his ass and installed the security cameras at our house. We've had some 'issues' with security lately and managed to pick up a few cameras and system relatively cheap off of ebay.. so now we can see/record everything that goes on around the perimeter of our house. It makes me feel heaps better about going to Adelaide.. Ive always worried about the house and stuff while we were away. But now we can just come home and watch the tapes if there's been anything vandalized! yay :). Lol I also like the way that I can look on the camera to see who it is at the door.. totally saves me getting off my ass if it's just a door to door person =p.
Lol if I catch those kids harassing Jess through the fence Im totally burning the footage to dvds and putting it in their parents letter boxes! hahahaha that would teach them =p.
We are leavinggg sooooon. We probably wont be in Adelaide until around midnight.. erk! But that's okay, because I want to sleep in extra late tommorrow to be fresh as a daisy for our big night out in town tommorrow night! Hell yesssss :).
Sorry about my entries.. I feel kind of crazy for writing so many about stuff that's meaningless to everyone else? I'm shit at LJ because my life is boring. lol |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|02:40 pm] |
Yaaaaaaaay! My package for the RSPCA cupcake day came today :). I'm going bake a billion cupcakes and put them on the staff table at work (On my super awesome cupcake towers that Ben just bought be two more of! Yay :)) with an honesty box and hope people buy them :p.
If you live in Australia and love to bake you should definitely do it! (I'm looking at YOU Charlie =p)
http://www.rspcacupcakeday.com.au |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|03:35 pm] |
Wow.. I know so many people who have tested positive to swine flu now! It's a bit scary. I almost dont want to go to adelaide because it seems like everyone there fucking has it!
Do you know anyone that has it!? Are they feeling like they're going to die? One of my friends is CONVINCED she's actually going to die from it.. scary! :/
I dont want to go to workkkkkkkk even if its only for four hours. ughhhhhh :/ |
|
|
| random babble, this post is about nothing. |
[Jul. 14th, 2009|07:08 pm] |
|
So I've spent all week whining about what an annoying piece of shit my iphone is via status updates/screeching at Ben.. and now the damn thing is broken. Karma's a bitch! It just wont charge anymore, le sigh. Ben says it doesn't matter because it's still under warranty.. but I now officially hate the damn thing. Sure it's got some awesome features and for a while I found it handy and really liked it.. but the suck far out weighs the win in the long run and I just want itunes to fucking work. Ohhhhhhh well.. Im sure I'll feel better about it when it gets fixed. I'm lucky to have it, really.. Im just behaving like a freaking princess. >_<
It has been soooo cold and rainy in Pirie for the last few days. This morning there was ice in our backyard! Im seriously waiting for snow lol. Places near us like Peterborough and Jamestown sometimes get a LITTLE BIT of snow.. I wish we'd get some :D. Our pavers get this weird sleet/icy surface to them and Jess cant walk on it.. it's pretty funny. She totally fell over the other day while going to bark at some kids and I laughed.. poor dog lol.
Shit. The phone rang and I walked away and forgot what I was going to say AGAIN.. I suck. Have some photos!
These were from the last time we went to Adelaide I think? I found them on the camera the other day after forgetting we even took the camera to adelaide.. silly silly. There were heaps of these, but these ones were the first to catch my attention..
<3
I like this photo because it makes no sense. Whos finger is that anyway? Could be brads, I reckon!
Lollllllllll Ben and Brad love each other!
aahah <3 <3 <3 .
:)
It's raining again. Soo loud. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jul. 3rd, 2009|08:55 pm] |
Oh my god..? Im officially going to be a fat gross fuck for the rest of my life.
I bought a packet of peanut mms because they're Bens favourite and they were on special.. I opened them and decided to just have one or two while waiting for him too come home. BUT I ATE THE WHOLE FREAKING PACKET!!!11111 I didn't even know I was doing it, they just dissapeared into my cavernous black hole stomach and I didn't even feel it. Ugh.. I feel bad and guilty about it so I've hidden the packet so he'll never know.. lol. I failfailfailfail. I think I must have been really hungry.. I've been managing to eat really healthy lately with massive gaps between meals.. I guess my body just took it's revenge. :C
We're not going to sadelaide this weekend even though it's our weekend off. Makes me saaaaaad.. but we have a house inspection on monday and the garden needs sorting out. Let us hope it doesn't rain all fucking weekend D:.
Lol Sheikh just was sleeping ontop of the monitor and he just rolled off. There's nothing like seeing a rat look clumsy, it just looks so weird.. haha. |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 26th, 2009|05:54 pm] |
R.I.P, Michael Jackson.
I know things got kind of shady towards the end of your life.. but thanks for making my childhood brighter with your wonderful music, it's what I'll always remember you for.
This has always been my favourite MJ song because it's about his pet rat :D.
Also.. I bought my parents/sister a couple of michael jackson DVDs that I found randomly when we were in Adelaide a few days ago. The whole family had this big conversation about how awesome his music is but how fucked up he is for like an hour and we reminisced about when Mik and I were little and we used to spend hours dancing too MJ.. weird! |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|05:51 pm] |
Hmm. I really need to get out of my box and start listening too some new music! I feel like I've been listening to the same old shit for yeaaaars. So.. someone tell me what's worth a listen out there lately! Whats your favourite album at the moment? My tastes can be pretty selective but right now I just feel like listening to new stuff so just tell me what YOU think is good :).
Lol Benji bought me Zoo Tycoon 2 (it's a computer game!) and I love it :D. I get bored with computer games sooo easily because I just cant focus on one for thing for that long.. but I really like this one and have been playing it aaaallll day. Which is bad I guess.. but.. it's not like I have anything else of great importance to do! I always feel bad about sitting on the computer all day regardless of what Im doing, though.. something about doing it just seems sooo sluggish and lazy. I'm going to make up for it tommorrow by finishing a couple of sewing projects I've had going for weeks now and taking my big fat ass that is ever increasing size for a jog around the block :D.
We were in Adelaide again last weekend and had a rad time! Lol I like the way that going to Adelaide has become a novelty.. it all seems a bit sad haha. It really is a novelty compared to Pirie, though.. I mean this place is okay if you're in your eighties.. but there really aint much going on here and I find myself constantly bored and LUSTING to be with my friends. It just sucks not being able to see them whenever I want too D:. Adelaide was fun, though.. we went to town, caught up with both sides of the fam and did a bit of shopping.. it was nice :). We totally should have thought things over better and planned a town outing for Bens birthday with all of his friends.. but we be stupid so poor Ben didn't see any of his friends for his birthday at all.. we ran out of time :(. Oh well.. next time!
Hmm.. I think I might wander down to centro for a bit of a shop at KMART since it's late night shopping and Benji is at work.. ughhhhhh this place needs some fucking shops! They built a jeanswest which isn't too bad though.. :). |
|
|
| (no subject) |
[Jun. 10th, 2009|11:18 am] |
Phone photos of my most recent sadelaide trip because I feel like sharing. I'm a douche for forgetting my camera. Iphone cameras aren't too bad though I guess :3.
( click! ) |
|
|
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
just_skitch's journal
