3 posts tagged “kitty”
I've had an interesting sort of weekend. After the ridiculousness of Friday, I went to a friend's birthday party on Saturday night... ended up uh... drinking a lot. But it was really fun. This morning hurt.
Haven't decided what to use at today's 365 photo. Took a couple but didn't really like how they turned out, so we'll see.
This is Friday's photo, or rather, photo series.... I couldn't decide which one I liked best. Votes???:
I took a picture of the DS because 60% of the crappiness of the day centered around it basically I think. And Kitty looked angry at it, which I thought was funny, and appropriate... and other times she was just kinda squishing it, which also seemed appropriate, or sniffing it suspiciously... again, appropriate.
This is Saturday's photo:
This is me... after I got home from my friend's party.. at 3ish in the morning I think (I hadn't gone to bed yet, so I considered this Saturday, even though it was after midnight). I was going to take some photos at the party, but forgot my camera at home. argh. The hat belongs to my roommate. The picture is blurry. It's appropriate. lol Couldn't hold my hand steady, and it's basically as clear as my vision was :P I think it represents the day well.. lol
So, I decided after all to use this pic as today's pic. It's my friend, the birthday girl. This is her birthday tiara... hahaha
I'm thinking of making a separate blog for my 365 photos. Dunno why... it's what I do. lol Maybe so I can share them with people without them getting access to my whole blog. We'll see. I'll let you know. lol
Off to watch more Heroes now before bed.
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~ Emile Zola
Do you have a pet? What kind of pet do you own, and why did you choose it?
Submitted by Brendz.
HAH
I think I already made that clear, but I don't think I've put them all in one post or explained why I 'choose' each of them.
In order of appearance in my life, we have Kitty, which you can view various pictures of in the video to the right (which I've posted in the past here).
She appeared in my life 5 years ago. For some reason, I really wanted a cat, so I went to the animal shelter and they had SOOOOO many. It was really hard to decide. I probably should have held off and waited for a cat to 'choose me', or something grand like that, but no, I'm shallow, and choose her because damnit she was cute and had polka dots on her belly. I love her more than I love most of the people in my life. lol She is cute and cuddly, and bitchy when she wants to be, and somewhat anti social. Kinda like me. :P
Next we have Speck and Dusty. They're my dwarf hamsters. I've had them since last October, so I suppose in dwarf hamster years, they're getting old now. That makes me sad. They're so damn cute too. I choose them, um, also because of the cuteness I suppose. I wanted a little fuzzy creature and every time I was at the pet store it was harder and harder to move on without one. One day I finally said 'damnit, I'm getting some!'. I actually drove across town twice (took an
Anyways. They're really fun and cute. They now have two cages actually that connect to each other with a tube so they have some extra room. The other cage is blue and purple and green (in case they're feeling masculine, they can hang out there). I thought of their names on the way home from the pet store with them. Speck is the white one with the markings ('specks?' :P) and Dusty is the brown one. I think the names are fitting. These pics are from when I first got them, but they haven't changed much. ;)
Then we have fishies. They have no names. I had an aquarium a few years ago, with some awesome fish in it... but when my boyfriend at the time and I broke up he got it. I'm pretty sure he just left it behind somewhere, which kinda pisses me off because I had to get a new one for myself and he pretty much just threw the old one away. But whatever. I'm not sure I'll keep the fish after I move anyway, but they're kinda neat. I have more than what's in the pic, but fish are hard to photograph. lol I try not to get attached to fish. The really neat ones don't seem to last long. lol
As for why I chose them, I suppose because I like aquariums, even though they're a lot of work. They're calming and pretty. The type of fish I chose were for 'beginners' and I chose them for their ability to get along with each other. The ones in the tank now I believe I got some time last winter. I don't remember exactly when.
Finally of course we have Spencer. We got him this April and he's been pretty freaken neat. :) I wanted to get a dog again for a long time, and living in a townhouse, instead of an apartment, made me finally feel like I had some room. Sadly though, we have to move back into an apartment, and I don't think it's fair to have large dogs in apartments, so he's going to be staying at my parents house. They have LOTS of room, and another dog that he'll be able to play with. I'm glad I'll still get to see him. We chose him because of his appearance and demeanour. He seemed pretty mellow (for a puppy), and has proven to be very intelligent, and very friendly, if not occasionally a pain in the butt. :P Rather than reposting pics, I direct you to all my previous posts tagged Spencer. If you don't feel like filtering through all those you can just check out the one of me introducing him and announcing that we got him here. Ahh memories.
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~ Anatole France
My first 'embed' project. lol A video of Spencer playing. He doesn't quite 'get' the whole fetch thing, but I'm not surprised. We've been focusing on a few things at a time so as not to overwhelm him. Namely leash habits, SIT, and outside habits of course. So, it's nice that he kinda gets the 'idea' of fetch without us actually having taught him anything about it yet. :)
Scott, Annak and Jasper (my brother, sister in law and nephew) met Spencer this evening. It went well! He was quiet and thankfully had just eaten and 'gone outside' before they arrived, so it was good timing. Mostly he was just curious. He sat for Scott to get a treat. :) He's getting good at that. They seemed happy with him, which is good. I hadn't officially told them we'd got a dog so it was a bit of a surprise. haha They gave me warning that they were coming over, which was nice because I had a chance to 'Oust' the room and vacuum and stuff so everything looked nice. lol Thankfully I had just washed one of the blankets we had in the living room so Jasper had something to roll around on. haha.. man that kid is so funny. He makes awesome facial expressions now. :) Scott joked to that Spencer was Jasper's cousin. lol In a way it feels that way, but isn't that how it's supposed to be?
Spencer had another car ride today. He really doesn't like them. lol We bought a new harness which keeps him up on the seat a little better. The other thing I had was just a little restraint, but didn't work well because he was able to get on the floor and try to hide. No good. Anyways, once we were actually AT the store, he had a grand time saying 'hello' to a bunch of other dogs there. Dogs are so cute. I wish I could get a little shih-poo (yeah, I said it) because I honestly think they can be ADORABLE, if not a bit 'old lady' ish, but I could never put up with the excess energy and yipping that small dogs tend to do in general. I know they're not ALL like that, but come on now... :P I like my big mellow fellow. :) Speaking of mellow, he's had like 3 naps today. I wonder if we should wake him up more so that he's more likely to sleep through the night? He went on a 1/2 hr walk today, plus the store adventure (which took 2 hrs in total), and two other 10 min walks, plus about 15 mins of play time (like in video), so I think he's tired. heh. Geez, I HOPE he's tired. lol
Anyways, we're taking the advice of Amanda, and he's outside right now for a bit of a run around, play and 'go' time. From the sounds I hear now of Chris saying 'good boy' repeatedly, it sounds like he did his 'duty'. :) Score one for the humanoids.
Tomorrow is Monday, so Chris will be at work, and I'll be home w/ Spencer myself for the day. I'm a bit nervous... heh. We bought a couple books today, including Housetraining for Dummies and Puppy Raising & Training Diary for Dummies, because we're Dummies really. I'm definitely going to start tracking when he eats, goes outside, does anything, etc. in the diary. I kind of want to just keep him over night without waking up to see how he does tonight, but I'm nervous. :\ I don't want a stinky set back that we could have avoided.
My cat has been doing ok. She ventures downstairs for a minute or so at a time, but mostly spends it all upstairs now. I hate that. :( I miss her. We try to spend as much time as we can with her too, but it'll take some adjusting for all of us I think. We don't 'forget' that she's there or anything, we're just also needed to keep track of how Spencer's doing. It's rough tackling both 'kids'.
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~ Lamartine
