Tails’ Blography

Started this weekend with a poker evening with Kelly & Morgan (our friends/neighbours) and some of their friends, which was great fun. Michael went and got out the booze, so the night was mixed with wine, poker and shooters of tequila, peach schnapps, and some Women’s Revenge shots, which is only the best shooter out there! Many people find themselves liking the aftertaste, if you can get through swallowing it first

I think I was third out or somewhere around there, which left me time to drink my wine and just relax. Michael actually stayed in for quite a while, but the evening was won by Morgan’s brother, with Kelly coming in second. For a Friday night, the evening ended somewhat early, but I ended up staying up at home until 4am playing computer games

As for today, its been spent making food, playing computer games, and watching The Amazing Race reruns (just finished Season 1 and have now jumped to Season 5). I had cous-cous, feta and olives for lunch and then made chicken stir-fry with some veggies, chicken, spices, and soy-sauce. It turned out great! Michael doesnt eat stir-fry so he had baked potato, with chicken & mayo topping and some grated cheese, which he liked

Tomorrow will be spent sewing hammocks. I love making hammocks for the rats of SA, but never again will I take custom sized hammocks. Its just such a pain, and I’m not a professional seamstress so it takes me a while to get all the measurements correct so it takes three times longer than normal, and the regular hammocks take long enough as it is. Still, I took the order because the person who ordered it is nice, and she’s given me a decent amount of time to get them done. Although the material shops have been out of stock for a while of the bolts I need, so the wait was inevitable.

Will also be cleaning the rats’ cage tomorrow, and you’ll be happy to know the rats have been eating well again I measured out their food, and they’ve had a portion of cous-cous, and bits of my stir-fry (which they didnt really like, but at least they didnt throw it at me like they’ve done in the past).

Xeon’s getting so thin now, which generally happens to rats over 2, but she still amazes me with her strength. She just feels so fragile but still so strong at the same time, and she climbs right up the side of the cage to let me know she wants Out lol I love her. Orlith’s been really sweet today and even curled up to sleep a little next to me on the couch

I think thats all for now…though I’m sure I’m forgetting something

Went to Viia’s last night for dinner, and we ended up having (not quite enough) pasta, broccoli and mushroom sauce. The food was great (thanks, Viia!) and the waffles were perfect too (only cos I folded the eggwhites so nicely of course ). The waffles took us like two hours to make because Viia cant talk and measure ingredients at the same time haha good times! We also watched Liar Liar, which is still a favourite movie of mine, despite its age (“Well, that’s because you’ve got big jugs. I mean your boobs are huge. I mean, I wanna squeeze ‘em. Mama!”). The evening ended with discussions on which would you rather have, crabs, or craps? If you’re reading this, maybe drop me a comment as to which you would rather have I think I decided, if it were for longer than 2 hours, I’d prefer crabs thank you…craps would be rather inconvenient in public…

Work was uneventful…same old, same old. Watch out for a virus named “burrito.exe”…its a pain to get rid of! And always back up your data!

Spent a lot of today weeding the lawn in the sun, since the weather has brightened up for a little. All this rain we’ve been having has got me down and I dont like it Give me summer n sun any day!

Orlith is in heat this evening, though I suspect its from the boy smells on my jersey from last night, where Inky Pinky Ponky (real name, Pinky) fell asleep in my arms *soppy face* Hehe I’m being such a mean mom, teasing her. Its just so funny to see the ears vibrate (yes, female rats in heat, vibrate….I dont know why, but they do haha). Speaking of my rats, I really need to bring home the scale so I can weigh out their food mix. They have no food tonight, though dont worry, I’m not starving them, they have the food I eat I also have to take them to the vet soon, I do believe they have mites They’re itching badly Such a pain, but I love em (the rats, not the mites)…

The other day I promised photos of the pine trees that had fallen over, and I managed to snap a quick few with my cellphone.

I apologise for the bad quality, the sun was extra bright and my cellphone couldnt handle it very well lol.

The one tree cracked the jungle-gym but only slightly. Another tree fell over and landed on the tennis court fence. The fence managed to stay up, and the tree is still resting there.

And finally, I was looking through my cellphone photos and I found this one of Fey and Linux.

Probably my two closest rats. Linux was my Heart Rat, the one that crawls into your heart a little deeper than the rest, and Fey was close second. She left me far too young, only almost 6 months old, and I miss her every day

I’m off to bath, then off to bed to read a little, since I got no reading done last night after getting home at 1am lol!

PS: Thanks to all those who’ve left comments already! How exciting

Just a quick note before I dash off to bed regarding comments.

Please leave me comments if you read my blog. Doesnt have to be regularly, or even more than once, but one comment to know if people are reading my blog would be nice

For those who dont know how, at the bottom of each post “0 comments” (or possibly 0 being replaced by the number of comments already posted). Click on that and a pop up window will appear. This is where you write your comment.

Then you do the following (not sure which order it appears in):

Type out the security word as you see it (usually something arb like QfhYnn)
Select “User/URL” as your identity. There just fill in your name/alias and possibly a link to your own blog should you have one and then press Publish Your Comment

I will be notified and asked to approve it and then it’ll appear on my page for all to see

Thanks and I look forward to the occasional comment!

PS: If I got some of the instructions/wording incorrect, I do apologise. I cant see my blog the way the average user does and I’m not able to view it on a different computer right now.

Ok so today was rather boring, except for the fact I found R900 in my pocket. Ok let me first say I dont normally carry around that kinda cash…I should be so lucky!

But today, I did the totally outlandish thing of Thinking Ahead.

I knew we were running low on groceries and wanted to go shopping after work, so I scrounged around for some cash left over from last month’s pay (I was expecting around R300 or so). I found some, grabbed it and left. I’m not too sure what made me do it, but some time this afternoon I pulled out the money from my pocket (to count it, perhaps, and make sure I didnt lose any) only to see four R200 notes and a R100…..O_o!! Woot! *happy dance*

However, this has caused me some ill-ease as now I’m left wondering what bill was left unpaid last month….

Anyway, tonight is Chicken Tuesday (named so because I always make my chicken dish on a Tuesday…tre original!). Actually, if I may digress somewhat, I’m quite proud of my chicken dish. Its simply chicken seasoned and roasted in the oven, with roasted potatoes (or rice, not roasted, just served with gravy), and a veg of some sort (usually peas & corn, or gem squash or Country Mix) but its MY dish that I figured out to make all on my own. Its not a recipe handed down, or one I saw in a magazine, I made it, I tested it, and my boyfriend loves it

Ok, back on topic, tonight is Chicken Tuesday and I love using the triangle sachets of Lime & Garlic seasoning which also has a touch of ginger and chilli. Lately (and by lately I mean the past few months), however, they havent been stocking it in the shops, which has made me very, very sad
I mentioned this to my mother while waiting around watching her make dinner, and she produced a (rather wornout-looking) half empty packet of Lime&Garlicseasoningwhichalsohasatouchofgingerandchilli! Awesome!! I took it home and while seasoning the chicken (boyfriend got the Peri-Peri flavour) I handled it like gold. Unfortunately, due to it’s age, it was all lumpy and covered all of the underside of the chicken thigh but its ok, what a delicious thigh it’ll be!

As a final note, in my last post (or should I say first post?) I mentioned I was confused about “Ribeye”. Well, thanks to my good friend AntiThesis, I found out the following:

Ribeye

A bad motherfucker. The biggest trick daddy of them all. A
dude always surrounded by the highest class trim. A hoss.

My friend Patrick is a real ol’ ribeye; that dude knows
how to party and score chicks with the best of the playas. That ribeye beat the
shit out of a dude for just looking at this trim.

Hmm, I guess you learn something new every day. Anywho, thanks for reading!

PS: The heavy winds we’ve had blew over some really tall pine trees (roots even pulled right out of the ground) so I’m going to try get photos of them tomorrow for you guys to see….

Welcome to my blog! I’ve been meaning to start this blog for a while now, but wanted to wait until I had a certain bit of news under my belt. After much thought (and a little procrastination), I decided to start it earlier (watch this space for my News ).

Let’s see…over the past few days I’ve been reading other people’s blogs, and its all been rather interesting. The plain idea of putting key-to-monitor on almost every aspect of one’s life for all to read fascinates me. I try not delude myself into thinking that anyone would find my blog entertaining, but I guess someone out there might be interested. Its also a way for me to keep my writing skills sharp (I’ve always wanted to write a book, but unfortately Enid Blyton got there first with The Famous Five, so blogging will have to suffice).

I’ve been thinking about what to put in my blog, and found myself thinking “hmm, that’s something for the blog” at various points in my day. In fact, just two days ago I was putting some washing on before going to dry my hair (a process which for me is rather time consuming, as I’m sure to mention more than once in this whole blog), thinking about somewhat interesting things to put into this Upcoming Blog of mine, when whilst drying my hair I realised I forgot to put the washing machine’s drainage pipe into the sink and that I had put it to rinse & spin….I leapt up from my Drying Post (shouting “shit shit shit!”) to the bedroom door, only to almost step in a puddle of water that had flooded into the passage from the kitchen…WHOOPS! My boyfriend heard this, and jumped up to come and scold me for such negligence (whilst helping me mop up the mess). After much mopping (and giggling on my part) we…sorry, I, since my boyf quickly gave up helping, got the mess under control, and hey, at least my kitchen and passage floors are nice and clean…..

So that was when I decided to officially start my blog: I had something interesting to start with!

In other news, my birthday passed recently (making me a whole quarter of a century old…err…young!) and I had planted the seed that I’d like monetary gifts should one feel inclined to give, as I was trying to save up for a FHIHeat Platform Flat-Iron which I was able to order on Friday. It arrived today so I am a very happy girlie-girl. All the more poorer for it…but poorer with Great Hair

I guess that’s all for now (actually, lots of stories to tell are spinning through my head at the moment, but they can wait for a dry spell day when I have nothing to add).

I’m still deciding how to end each post….I’ve seen people end it with “Ribeye” (still not sure what that is…a name? a word?), or “Cheerio” but everything seems to cheesy. I guess maybe “Toodles”? Nah….I know!

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