Big, fat...

Big, fat "Happy Birthday" to Shadow!  My "little" boy (who's been bigger than me for years!) is 15 today.  All of you who knew him when he was just a baby... commence with the feeling old!  😂😂😂

My goodness.

My goodness.  I have never had a group of gerbils that didn't get along before, but officially all of the girls now live separately.  Melon made it clear when I bought Whitey and Tamari for her that she didn't want friends and I guess that's understandable since she'd lived alone for so long by the time she came to me.  But Whitey and Tamari have lived together since the pet store... and we've had them for (I'm guessing) about a year now.  Things have been fine all of this time - there have been some small scuffles and play-fighting, but that's normal. Today when we checked on them, though, Tamari's back end was bloody and chewed up.  She is not looking good.  🙁

Since she was so bloody I thought I should wash her wounds.  I did that and she bit the hell out of my thumb.  I haven't been bitten like that since I bought Testiclees (my first gerbil who I chose because he bit me and dangled).  Poor Tamari was also dangling from my thumb over the sink and it hurt.  But she clearly doesn't feel well and I know that bathing them is stressful so I understand.  I'm not mad at her.

Right now she's resting in her own home - where no one can hurt her.  I Googled what to do for an injured gerbil and there is not a lot of information out there, unfortunately.  I know that they are pretty resilient so I'm hoping we got to her before she was hurt too badly.  I'll post an update tomorrow.  I'm REALLY hoping that she hangs in there.  She's Shadow's gerbil and it would SUPER SUCK to have her die on his birthday.  I mean, obviously I don't want her to die at all, but the timing could make it harder on my son.  🙁

I left my house tonight and what did I get?

I left my house tonight and what did I get?  Tea. Coming out of my nose.

I came THISCLOSE to spitting it out in Dawn's purse.  She got lucky.  😂😂😂

Thanks a lot, Jonathon, for trying to kill me.  😛

I've had a hard time writing today.

I've had a hard time writing today.  I finished my rough draft for English (finally!), but it took hours.  I think it's because I am home and it's all cluttery and in need of cleaning and my brain doesn't work as well when things are like that.  Maybe I should have done housework before homework.  😂

For realz, though, I started on about 5 different topics, but then scrapped it usually at a page or so in.  I just couldn't.  I don't know.  It just wasn't working.  Also, I feel kind of barfy.  I took Zofran for that earlier, but I think I'll have to take another soon.  This is the kind of day I'm having.

Anyway.  I've got dinner plans so I'm gonna put on a new pair of sweat pants and leave.  Be jealous of how fancy I am.  😂😃

Tomorrow I think I will do homework first and housework second.

I think I am basically useless tonight.  I feel pretty wiped out from the week and I'm about to have to take my weekly dose of meth(otrexate) so I'm probably gonna crash out - and that will just be the end of that.  Maybe Shaun is up for our weekly Wal-Mart trip before I'm down for the count.  If you are, lovie, come get me soon, ok?

Tomorrow I think I will do homework first and housework second.  It's not like I'm a total mess over here, but you know you always want to get things all spiffy for when people are coming around.  I think I am judged especially harshly because I have a house full of animals so it's like people see some random animal hair somewhere and feel justified going "Aha!  I knew you were nasty!"  😂

Anyway.  I haven't had time to work on my database at all this week.  🙁  That's a bummer, but I started on Access in class Thursday so maybe that will make it easier than me just feeling it out as I go when I finally get back to it.  Probably next week or maybe even next weekend.  DANG.  Seems like forever away.

I think at this point I'm just rambling.  I'm gonna go now.  If you see me lurking around the Internet tomorrow tell me to get off of here and be productive.  I have a "To Do" list a million miles long this weekend.

❤

So I went in Sally's and they have re-done their polish wall and it looks amazing.

So I went in Sally's and they have re-done their polish wall and it looks amazing. The have swatches of all of the polishes and you can hold your finger under there and see how it looks on you (which, btw, I didn't realize until Dara pointed that out). My one complaint, though, is how up high some of the polishes are. I can reach them to see them, but the swatches don't move so I can't see those. I had to get Shaun to pick me up so I could see! 😂 Thank goodness he's so big and strong! 😃

Shaun is the best ever.

Shaun is the best ever. He gave me his old Shaker pencil from high school. I've never had one of those before! I'm about to use it in Algebra class. 😃

Also, he gave me a super fancy mouse because mine isn't working that great lately. It's one he bought for himself but never really used. It's so tiny that it looks weird in his hand. I bet it will be perfect for me and my midget digits. 😂