Tails’ Blography

So after showing you pics of my making flapjacks, its only fair I show you the results

Making flapjacks for the rats’ photoshoot this morning! Yum yum! Added bonus is living close to the ‘rents so when you realise you only have 1 egg and no baking powder, its a quick trip over to borrow some!

Of course, I had to make for me too

Meet Vignette and Iso, my two new rat babies! Their names took forever to choose but eventually these were the two names decided on. Both are photography related as I try go with themes relevant to my life at the current time of aquiring new babies, and I couldnt think of anything Asus related at this time.

So Iso was one of the first names that popped into my head, and I like it because it sounds nothing like a normal name. Iso was taken from ISO which is film speed in relation to photography. She’s a Burmese Self.

Next is Vignette. This is pronounced Vin-yet and relates to the dark (or white, in some gaudy cases) corners that one sees on photos, either done purposefully in post processing or done by a lens adapter or lens hood (usually on a wide angle lens).

Wirenth has not been as horrible to them as Orly was to her and Ramoth, but she’s doing her fair share of nipping and kicking which is difficult to watch, but is natural. Rule of thumb, no blood, no foul. However I do keep the spray bottle well filled and Wormy does get her fair share of spritzes. At the moment, if I have the all on the couch together, they’re fine but if I put the girls in Wormy’s house, she hunts them down and bites them. So now they’re all in the babies’ house together, which is not Wormy’s territory so she’s behaving…for now. At the moment, the worst she’s doing is giving me doe eyes to let her out of this cage thats “not big enough to swing a cat, mom!” Poor thing looks so claustrophobic.

Anyway, without further ado! Tons of pics!

Meet Vignette and Iso!

Iso – this pic rocks in high res!

Fishing for rats! I almost caught one!

Almost caught another!

Wormy showing em who’s Top Rat around here

Peeping over the couch: Vignette, Iso and Wirenth

It’s Iso!

It’s Vignette!

Later, when the girls were all tuckered out, this is where Iso thought was a nice place to sleep…in the food bowl!

And Wormy slept on the couch with me just behind my legs…

And then moved on to my waistline, legs a-danglin’

Behbeh rat feet!!

And finally, I gave em a chicken bone and I thought this was a very cute face to photograph…

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Life has been so hectic lately, my new job draws near as the New Year approaches…and my poor Orlith has been so very sick with Head Tilt, but by the grace of God has pulled through! It’s been a very stressful festive season for me as I’ve been nursing her back to health with Baytril for the infection and Prednisone for the swelling of her one eye (from the infection underneath it). She also stopped eating for a while, so it was mashed potatoes, pronutro and rice for dinner and breakfast: all soft things to help keep her nourished.

On top of that, I went away for a much needed weekend (pics later) and V kept my babies for me while I was away. When I went to collect them, on the way home Orly suffered from heat stroke and after a frantic drive at 100km all the way (please dont let me have any speeding fines!) and a frantic phonecall, the bf had a bowl of tepid water at the ready when I got home. After an hour or two of keeping her in water, syringing Energade into her mouth for rehydration, she finally recovered but the head tilt was so pronounced and she couldnt even keep herself upright and kept falling over. It was so scary to watch and I felt so helpless, all I could do was cry and pray that she’d recover.

There are also two litters I’ve put myself down for next year, the mom is a wheaten burmese and the dad is a black eyed cream. They’ll be ready for adoption at the end of Jan. The next litter is due at the end of Dec, and are Husky rats, like my Ramoth was. I’m still indecisive about this litter, as I’m not sure if I’m ready for another Husky just yet, but I’ll see how I feel next year.

Christmas is almost here and I still have much to do. A few gifts left to buy, and then everything needs wrapping! I dont know what happened this year, but normally by now I’m done with gift buying and wrapping. Hell, usually I’m done by Dec 5th! Ah well, hopefully all will be done in time and I will destress soon.

And finally, my car repairs have been approved by the offender’s insurance, and my Bluebetty will be getting repaired soon. Yay! I was in another minor car accident the other day when someone drove into the back of me in bumper-to-bumper traffic. My bumper is dented and I had a bit of whiplash but I honestly have no time or energy to claim on their insurance. The guy was very nice about it though, and his car needs more work than mine, which he said he was happy about since it was his fault.

And that’s about it. Hopefully I’ll make another post before or on Christmas Day, but if I dont, please have a wonderful and safe Christmas!!

Wow. Thats all I can say. What a truly memorable night! Kickass, raucous, wild fun! Ahh the memories!

Let me try explain how it all went down…

The night started at my best friend’s (V) restaurant. She was waitressing and I arrived just after 9pm, after having dinner with the bf at a friend’s house, to wait for her to finish. While she worked, I sat at the bar chatting with the bartender (J) whilst enjoying a SoCo & Lime. There was live music played by a guy from Paraguay, who at the end of the night felt my ass before he left! Cheeky! Apparently he’s into V though hehe. So I danced, had another SoCo&Lime, and eventually the restaurant quietened down and then eventually it was closing time. Myself, V, and another girl (Ju) hung around at the bar drinking with 5 other guys (N, R, A, D and J) who work there. V started the night in style with a quadruple vodka & lime haha! Jokes were being made by the guys of our girls night meekly consisting of Skittles and rats at V’s place, until word got out that I had three vibrators, a set of benwa balls, lingerie and anal beads in the boot of my car (long story, was a gift from someone and I brought it with to show V)! Of course, many questions ensued but V and I kept everyone guessing. The anal beads were the topic of conversation at various points in the night, and even still the next morning!

So, it was organised that J was to be our designated driver (so us girls could drink and not worry about being arrested for DUI), and that he would stay the night with us (he doesnt have a car anymore). Of course, since one guy was allowed to come with, all the guys wanted to. So we all moved off to play pool at Poole Lounge (they have cocktails – wanted to complete another one of my 101 in 1001’s, alas, no cocktails and more guys than girls…so it doesnt really count), but when we got there, they were calling last round and closing up. So the guys and Ju had a game of pool, while V and I lay on the couch chatting. Then when PLounge closed we moved off to Stones.

Stones was rather empty, which was fine by us, so I bought a round of drinks, and paid the deposit for the white ball and chalk. This brought on the longest game of pool in V and my history! While I was wracking up, two random guys came up and challenged us to a game. We awkwardly agreed and carried on our “practise round”. The one guy looked SO much like Gérard Depardieu from My Father the Hero! Every five min, one of the Creepy Guys came up to loom over our pool table. Of course, V and I were very put off our game by this, and had to keep assuring them it was still our “practise round” and that we “didnt know why” it was taking so long. Eventually, they recalled their challenge and kind of left us alone. V won (I forgot she used to have a pool table lol) and we joined the guys for hubbly that R produced out of nowhere. Unluckily, the hubbly wasnt drawing properly, so we ended up dancing on the stripper poles they have on their dance floor haha. This was great fun, and the guys had a great time watching 3 girls fumble around on a pole together haha. V did an awesome running-leaping-and-spinning move which resulted in a bruised knee! Haha it was awesome! Then last rounds were called so we down our drinks and left.

Having nowhere to go, since it was around 3am (I think…), we followed the guys back to the restaurant for some booze on our way to Ju’s and V and I needed to pee so badly! We were waiting around for the manager, R, to arrive and V seriously considered peeing outside Cash Convertors! Luckily R arrived and we dashed inside to pee like civilised people! When we arrived at Ju’s, we played some music, smoked some hubbly (haha V saw R walking around with the hubbly, and thought he’d stolen it from Stones, but turns out, it was his own one which he brought to Stones). It apparently was spiked, which I found out after I smoked it, which made perfect sense since I couldnt stop laughing at everything. Though that could have been the booze and good company too, who knows. So we hung around Ju’s place, laying on her spare bed and couch, and V and I played around passing ice from one another and eating chocolate from the same piece which the guys found amusing. They’re so easy to entertain *rolls eyes* lol.

Tramp stamps (aka hickeys) were done on various people, I got one on my shoulder, and in amongst all the raucousness some accidental nipple licking took place. I cant say more on that topic, on request of the recipient haha.

Eventually Ju kicked us out at 6am, so we all departed to our places of rest…we knew J was staying the night with us since he was our driver, but somehow N landed up coming with as well haha. So we got back to V’s, got changed into our pjs, and hung around in V’s spare bedroom since we couldnt figure out who would sleep where, so we just all sommer slept together. The guys were perfect gentlemen and even with a LOT of playful teasing, they behaved (of course they kicked themselves the next morning haha damn morals)! We went to sleep at 8 only to wake up at 9 to take the guys back to work. Was weird waking up to someone’s tattoos staring at me haha

After we dropped them off, we went home to make flapjacks and as a thank you, brought some flapjacks back to the restaurant for the guys. While we were there, one of the regulars bought us some SoCo & Lime and we sat til around 3 rehashing the night’s events…ahhh good times!!