Shadee’s Blog

I love the faces she makes when she’s eating yogurt. She usually gets to clean out what’s left in the tiny plastic containers after we’ve had the mini yogurts but last week we finished a big one so it was a Sophie feast

^’,,’^ BLAH! Yogurt vampire!

-Dee.

It amuses me how my brain works sometimes (well, most of the time :P).
I’m such a worrywart and I always over complicate things ahead of time which usually (well almost always :P) results in a lot of wasted energy.

Our cluster mailboxes got replaced a few days ago. We didn’t receive a new key so we couldn’t get to our mail. So over the weekend (when there wasn’t anything I could do about it anyway) I was wondering who to contact to get the new key.

Here’s a general description of my thought process:

“I should probably call the local post office first.”

“They’ll probably only give us one key too. We have two now. I wonder if the hardware stores even make duplicates of keys that are smaller than house keys…”

So this morning I decided to start off by calling the local post office, which went like this:

Me: “Hi our community’s mailboxes just got replaced. I was wondering who I need to contact to get a hold of the new key.”

Post office worker: “Oh yeah it’s here, you can come pick it up.”

Me: “Oh… ok that’s great thanks!”

…

Went over there, guy came out with the new keys (that’s right, keys, they made us 3 copies) and all of our mail including a package we were expecting. Cause obviously they’re smarter than I gave them credit for and kept the mail there until I came to pick up the key I asked if it was still the same box number, guy said “yup” so I thanked him and went on my way.

I’m such a nutbag.
I laugh at it in hindsight, but I know I’m going to do it again anyway cause that’s just the way I work unfortunately :/

*sigh*

-Dee(railed)

After having chased the snake with my camera yesterday I wasn’t expecting to see it again but this morning when I looked out of our front window I found that it had come back, had woven itself through our porch railing and was staring right at me lol.

So I guess our porch is it’s home now.

I took a whole bunch of shots, also did a panorama attempt where I took a 3 section close up and stitched it together. Didn’t spend too much time on making the background seamless, the snake’s the interesting part anyway.

So here’s the panorama and a close up of the face.

-Dee.

Found this guy on our doorstep after coming home from a visit to a wildlife reserve.

After I took some shots he actually found a hole to slither into under one of the steps (which I’m not too sure I like lol). Caught him outside again a bit later on and found out why they call these Northern Black Racers because my God did it move! Luckily (if I identified it properly that is) it’s a constrictor so it’s nothing to worry about even if it does bite. But judging by it’s behavior so far it’ll get the hell out of your way before you can even get close to it so that’s cool.

Figures right? No luck when you’re out at a wildlife reserve looking for something good, it finds you instead.

-Dee.

(btw, not a great shot quality wise but the subjects are amusing )

Yes.

Last night I went to give Stumpy some fresh water when I noticed something… odd.

I’ve already mentioned before how he tends to throw temper tantrums whenever I don’t put things into his enclosure exactly the way he likes them, or if I give him the wrong kind of food. He just thrashes the place and throws everything around. He turns his little coconut cave upside down, digs up the little plastic trees and drags them around, up turns his food dishes, stuff like that.

Not last night.

His food dishes are little half shells. He used to have just one, but back when I ordered some new things for him they sent me another one with a free food sample. And I decided to put that one in too and use it for the new treats I got him, that way it wouldn’t get all nasty and mixed up in his regular food. One of the new things I got him are little dried fruit bites. I’ve always given him bits of fresh fruit and still do but he really seems to love the new processed fruity bits.

So anyway, when I opened his enclosure I noticed that he hadn’t turned anything upside down. But he’d actually taken the new food dish with content and placed it exactly on top of the other one lol. Didn’t look like he spilled anything either. They were perfectly lined up. one on top of the other so you couldn’t even see the old dish anymore. So that was a pretty freaking amazing thing for a hermit crab to do XD

I wonder if he’s trying to tell me that he prefers the new stuff over the old stuff and would like some moar of that and less of teh other plz…

-Dee.

Hahah, I knew not many people would ever get my silly choice of name for one of my WoW characters (Warlock named Juliansands). But today for the first time a stranger walking by me got it.

Of course it still took someone with a profession like that to pick up on it

The silliness of it amused me

-Dee.

It seems that the combination of Twitter and Facebook have kinda made it so that my blog doesn’t really get as much attention as it used to. And I don’t mean from people, I mean from me because I just don’t feel the need to write long journal entries when Twitter allows me to update people about the condition of my stool every 10 mins

So, I guess I um..

Well I don’t have any news really

Nutshell recap then?

* Saw Star Trek, loved it.
* Working on my game idea, never gonna happen.
* Got my hands on the Odd Hours paperback, finally.
* Going nuts waiting for Mass Effect 2.
* Successfully upgraded PC hardware and running Vista for the first time, liking it so far.
* Been cleaning out the guest room because we’re going to have a guest next month

And that’s pretty much it.
I might start using the blog for mad storyline ramblings for the game idea I have but we’ll see.

-Dee.

That’s right. Going to get some new hardware. Mainboard, CPU, video card and HDD. So it’ll be a major overhauling. I’ll be gutting my case and putting in the new stuff when it gets here (which should be today) and then a fresh install of the Vista ultimate I’ve been saving for this occasion

So anyway, depending on how smoothly everything goes I might be off-line for a while. Hopefully not too long but you know how it goes sometimes. So wish me luck

Hope there will be much glee and very little cursing today.

-Dee.

For the past few weeks Sophie’s been incredibly obsessed with several spots in the little natural stone wall in our back yard. She keeps seeing something in and around the cracks and has been running towards it and just been standing there, either with her nose pressed up against it or just staring at it, ears perked, waiting for something to come out again.

We shortened her lead a few times to snap her out of it. I don’t mind her exploring a bit, but there can be some things with a nasty bite in there too so I didn’t want her to poke around in there too much.

Today I finally heard what she heard, so I got curious as well. I went over and kept quiet and still for a while. Heard some more rustling and then a big ol’ five-lined skink (not skunk, skink) popped out from between the stones. Then about a minute after it had disappeared again a smaller and lighter colored one popped up for a bit of sunbathing. I’d gotten my camera in the mean time so I took some shots.

The sunbathing front leg position was really silly looking and it amused me. So I’ll post that one here. It kinda makes it look like a bit of a liztard.

So mystery solved. Sophie’s not nuts. She really did see something.
Well, she’s still nuts, just less than we thought

-Dee.