- = Thursday, November 01, 2007 = -

Mah Pets on Halloween

My first halloween on my own... except I wasn't exactly alone.

I have *counts* four pets now. And I thought they all should celebrate halloween with me.

A side note... trick or treaters don't, apparently, climb stairs for candy. :( I'll have to buy less candy next year... like only some for myself. What in the world am I going to do with all of this? Yikes.

Above you will find my red Siamese Fighting Fish, Article, and his bowl mate, Oliver, a Black Kuhli Loach. They ate only orange and black food today, and shared their area with ghosts and delicious halloween M&Ms.

Cinnamon and Buster were dressed up tonight seen here sitting on the couch by the witch I failed to hang up. The ghost and tombstones were enough out there. She would have been overkill... so she hung out on the couch.

Buster is sporting a Ghost Buster costume. Haha. This boy is getting scary skinny and if I don't find their nail clippers soon, I'm going to have to buy a new one. Look how long those nails are! Yeesh.

Here is my best girl in a dressy, spooky spider costume. I very regrettably had to cut Cinnamon's ears the other day. The hair just kept on growing and growing... and then I didn't brush it for couple of weeks. Oops. When I got done cutting the mats out, it was so mangled, I had to go on and do the whole thing.

Currently: Listening to some random person's myspace page. I don't even know how I found her, but her music collection is terrif!

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- = Thursday, April 26, 2007 = -

Just Cruising Along

Went on a cruise. Had some fun. What better way is there to bore you with the details than showing ya' pictures? So here they are. :P Oh, and blogger decided to cut out on me so three pictures will be linked to instead of displayed. *kicks blogger*

This is our upgraded stateroom. Got a window view. We were stuck in Galveston for two days as they replaced a huge engine part, so the trip to Progresso was canceled. Anywho, that got us a twenty percent refund, an upgraded stateroom, and 50 bucks put on our charge cards to spend on the ship (which is basically the entirety of the tips they automatically charge ya' for). So this is our state room ocean view. It was a nice sized room, and we enjoyed it.


They made little towel animals for us each night. Above is a bear, and below is a pig. I promptly took each animal and put it on the shelf below our tv, and put headphones on them. Our animals have got to listen to some tunes, ya' know.


Oh, and here's a view out of our window. It was pretty low, so the surf sprayed it a bit. Kathy and I would sit each night staring at the waves hitting the ship hypnotized. Especially during the rough parts. 7 and 8 feet waves are pretty entertaining.


The most popular area of the ship was the main Lido deck. It had two pools, one with a slide, a jacuzzi, live music, a bar, tons of tables, two food buffets, and lounge chairs. It was also the main thoroughfare for the lunch rooms at the rear of the Lido deck and a good way to get to the pools on the quieter Veranda deck which was one deck up and behind the big engine tail thing sticking up. We hung out more on the Veranda deck reading books and laying out. And when we got back early from Cozumel, we had the pools and jacuzzi there all to ourselves. Fun stuff. So anyways, this is what you see coming out onto the deck from the forward and main end of the ship, and this is what you see turning around. You come in through the middle glass doors there, and the bar is on the right. My second favorite stop, actually.

Every night round' about desert time the waiters would perform silly songs and dances for us. This was our last night and them singing the funniest song yet.


We went to Cozumel. Docked on the cheap side of the island. Prices weren't cheap, they just got to park there for free, which sucked for us because the good shops were all the way on the other side of the island. Here's an outside view of the dock area, and you can see lots of leftover damage from the hurricane. The dock is messed up there and the rubble in the middle used to be a hotel. Still pretty there, though.


We shopped down there some.


Should've shopped way down there. Here's some more picks of the island coming towards us.






Oh, and here's a pic of a sunken boat that was parked at the broken dock we're parked at. You can just make it out under the water. A few times the waves settled enough I could see the seats and everything on it very clearly. It's down a ways... pretty deep there, even though it looks close. I'm looking down about ten stories of the ship, we're parked on top of that boat safely, and I could move down the rails a good distance without it moving much. Hehe. There was also a sunken plane nearby but we couldn't find it.



And that's it, folks. More stuff happened, but I didn't take pictures of it. Prolly won't remember it for long. Oh wells.

Currently: Yawning.

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- = Thursday, March 29, 2007 = -

Apartmas!

Hehe. So here is my apartment.

You enter into my apartment by the door just right of this pic. Where the wall curves there. When I first moved in, all I had was my puppies. They're still there, but now I have some furniture. I don't have it decorated the way I want or all the furniture that I want, so I'll take a pic of it then... when I do. :P And that large window thing is a sliding glass door that leads to a roomy balcony.


After you enter the apartment, to your immediate left is a view of the kitchen and dining room. This is the before (like the dog food there? :P) and after shots of that. I LOVE this furniture. White washed and so pretty. And soon I'll have tons of cranberry glass inside those cabinets. Hehe.



Looking straight on from the entrance is a small hallway. You can just see the curve of it to the right of the dining room in the before shot. On the left is a bathroom, on the right is my office (see previous post) and straight ahead leads to my huge bedroom. Hehe.

So here is the before and after shots of my bathroom.



And here be the bedroom. That's a before shot. I have some chairs in there now, but I still don't have all my bedroom furniture. So I'll show you that later, too.


I hope you enjoyed the tour. :D

Currently: Drooling

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Deskmas!

This here is the big magnificent desk I built and I'm durn proud of it. :D

Step one: Unpack contents of box.



Step two: Start building it.



Step three: Build it some more.



Step four: Don't forget to build the hutch.



Step five: Enjoy!


That computer on the left is my brothers'. I'm keeping it until he moves somewhere where he doesn't get the door kicked in every other week. >_<

More pics to come!

Currently: Pixelating

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- = Friday, May 19, 2006 = -

This Week in Nature...

We will be talking about the twenty three or so ant colonies living in my front yard. Every day I meet and greet with these little dudes while trying to keep two curious chihuahuas from getting into trouble.

Course' we have some ant poison on the coffee table waiting to be spread about the yard, but this reporter has been sick all week... and in no mood to do anything but hurry along the business of her companions.

An ant bed by a fence.What makes these dudes so interesting is the shape of their homes. They create a crater like bed around a central tunnel. It's hard to see from this picture, but the sides actually fold over like an ocean wave. After a storm, it really is something to see... as several tall precarious structures dot the yard.

An ant bed in a yard.
Each bed surrounds a wide central tunnel. During the day there isn't much activity, but when rush hour rolls around, you can see tons of ants entering and exiting.

A closeup of four ants on an ant bed.
They have tiny, pale, red brown bodies and seem to favor the shamrock leaves as their burden of choice. There are tons of ant species but these dudes seem new to our neighborhood. Most of our ants in past years come in three varieties; The fire ants which are killed off quickly, early in the season; The little brown ants that build their homes in cracks, instead of beds, and generally go unnoticed; And the little black ants that build massive beds, about one every seven houses apart.

I really do need to get that poison out. Kill em' off. I've almost grown attached, though. But no, I'll not be holding any funerals. :P

Currently: Hacking and coughing.

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- = Wednesday, May 17, 2006 = -

Its a Me!!!!

I think I'm getting better at this artistic thing... looky! I drew mah self.

This little diddy is the best self cartoonage I've ever drawn. One new lesson learned... stop trying to hide that big chin of mine! Cartoonists AMPLIFY the quirks... not hide them. V_V So... I'm all happy. I learned a new trick.


I think anyone who has seen me... known me... etcetera... can attest to this being me. :D I'm a wearer of hairbands and I do lubb my Christmas PJs. And this particular top says alot about me. Am I a good girl, or a rude a... er, person.

Yep... proud and excited... and a little dorky I be.

Currently: Multi-chat-tasking.

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- = Saturday, April 22, 2006 = -

Hehe

Wanna' see Momma?

Here ya' go...



How do you like them apples? *coughimlamecough*

Currently: ebaying

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- = Friday, September 30, 2005 = -

So, Um...

Been trying to post stupid stuff here for a couple of days, but something would always happen and it wouldn't go through.

That can be annoying as when I feel like saying something stupid, well, let's just move on.



Here is something cute to liven up this dreadful (my new favorite word) post. Where is the inspiration? Please! Someone give me a word, a phrase, anything. I'll take it and run.

Er, maybe I should just go to bed.

Weight: 185lbs

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- = Saturday, September 24, 2005 = -

Guess Who!!

I finally figured out who these two are.


They are Thomas and Emma Sanford. That would be my, uh, great great grandparents.

Weight: 185lbs

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- = Thursday, September 08, 2005 = -

SpyGirls

I know it is a bit heavy at the moment, but how do you like my first animation?

Yep, this is the real reason I got paint shop pro.



Weight: 185lbs

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Kung-Fu Fighting... They Were Fast As Lightning!

I love this book!

I found it in my uncle's stuff. The whole book consists of hundreds of pictures of this guy standing exactly the same but with his arms in differnt positions. I can do the quick flip and see him in action. The funny thing is that in every picture he has the same dull non-expressive expression on his face but the cover has got him being, um, super expressive. Er... whatever.


On a side note, I added the confirmation word step in the comments section to reduce auto spam. Please tell me if this gets too annoying and I'll take it off. I've resisted adding it for awhile because I usually don't get any spam. Today I found two.

Weight: 185lbs

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- = Wednesday, September 07, 2005 = -

Paint Shop Pro

Woo Hoo. I finally got Paint Shop Pro! I've been wanting it for a while now.

Now I can do stupid stuff like this!




They are tiles. Not really what I had in mind for the use of this great program, but I went a bit crazy on my first day.

Weight: 185lbs (Don't know why I'm still posting this. I haven't checked in weeks.)

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- = Thursday, August 25, 2005 = -

Cinnamon

Here are some pics to be enjoyed while I try to come up with something interesting to say.

Cin can be SO evil, but Buster doesn't mind a bit.

And she can be cute or incredibly ugly after a bath... depending on who you ask.

Awwwww... Cin kissing Jo. What could be cuter?

Weight: 185lbs

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- = Wednesday, July 27, 2005 = -

Jodacious

Dad came by this weekend and had a garage sale in our back drive.

I got to hang with Jody all day which was nice. Jody fell in love with Cinnamon and forced Dad to come back yesterday to visit her again.


Weight: 185lbs

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- = Monday, March 07, 2005 = -

Reptiles

I, again, have nothing but pictures to talk about. Woo hoo.

These guys are my brother's reptiles. He has more, but the others were camera shy. I'd love to show ya'll the red tail boa cuz' that snake is just so beautiful. I love him. He was shedding, though. Yuk!

This guy is a ball python. He's a good starter snake if you ever want to get one. We've had him since he was a baby, less than a foot.
This is a picture of a ball python.

These babies are, um, red eared snappers, I think. I forget. They've grown quite a bit. There are five in all.
This is a picture of red eared snapping turtle.

Awwwww... He's my favorite. He's a dragon something or other. I've got tons of pictures of him. He loves to pose. His favorite snacks are pears and meal worms.
This is a picture of a dragon something lizard.

And that, hopefully, is all the pictures I will force on ya'll for a while. Yeppers. Mm hmmm.

Weight: 176lbs

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- = Sunday, March 06, 2005 = -

Boredome And Pictures... An Explosive Mix... Or Not... Whatever.

I guess I don't really need permission to take a picture. Haha.

Here is the brother being somewhat of a butthead, but whatever.

Very green, I think.

And here is Mom kissing Buster.


Yeah, I should probably keep my pics to myself, but I have nothing else to do so... um, yeah. There ya' go. I'm so bored! ::caugh::

Weight: 176lbs

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