[for my own reference] 10/1/2002 3:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

Things I want to buy for Sarah and myself, for Hanukkah:

* Eight Nights of Fun

* Star-Topped Branched Menorah

* Drizzled Blue & White Chanukkah Candles

* Star and Draydel Gel Candles

* Ten Jewish Fun Books

   

[today] 10/1/2002 7:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

The most productive thing I did today was to make a purple tassle. That's kinda sad. Even more pathetic, I was rather proud of myself for having made a a purple tassle.

Also, I accidentally broke Mr Pushy, my favourite mechanical pencil. Bah.

   

Comments:
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/1/2002 7:53:35 PM

What are you going to attach the tassle to? I presume it's not a booby-tassle or anything like that ;)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/1/2002 8:02:52 PM

I thought I would tie it 'round Rusty's penis, since I only have one tassle (and two boobies, fortunately). ;)
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/1/2002 8:16:51 PM

shiiiney tassle

Condolences on the loss of Mr Pushy. I can relate; I've never named my pencil but I've had it 20 years. (Ever since I swiped it from my dad. {g})
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/1/2002 8:29:49 PM

Oh man, my father works for the IRS, and he used to get the coolest mechanical pencils from work. I almost wish I was still on speaking terms with the bastard, just so I could steal his pencils...
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/1/2002 10:18:39 PM

Re:
my father works for the IRS, and he used to get the coolest mechanical pencils from work

So that's where my tax dollars went!

The pencil I swiped from my dad is just a regular old-fashioned 5mm black Pentel.

And rumor has it, that one of the first unofficial things a new person in our office learns, is to not touch my pencil. I think that's good advice.

[a cool link from my mom] 10/1/2002 8:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

Being Jewish in Today's World - a free course from Barnes & Noble University!

   

[dinner] 10/2/2002 12:35:00 AM

purple_stardust

Pasta and broccoli in alfredo sauce. Reese's Cups. Regular Pepsi.

   

[primal scream] 10/2/2002 11:30:00 AM

purple_stardust

I obviously need to do one of three things:

Get pregnant again, or

Get a hysterectomy, or

Get a sex change.

Have I mentioned how much I hate cramps? /whine

   

Comments:
From: [info]grimkitten_
Date: 10/2/2002 1:08:13 PM

you could always go on the depo shot for birth control. You don't really have a period anymore, or not much of one anyway. YAY, I can't wait to get on it.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/2/2002 2:21:44 PM

Really? Are there a lot of side effects?
From: [info]grimkitten_
Date: 10/2/2002 2:53:12 PM

not sure, I havn't really looked into it in depth. One of my LJ friends is on it though and it sounds fantabulous to me, plus it's 99% effective! :)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/2/2002 2:55:26 PM

it's 99% effective!

Wow, that would be really handy if I actually had a sex life! LOL
From: [info]grimkitten_
Date: 10/2/2002 3:14:22 PM

Re:
*snickers*

well, plastic boyfriends are 100% effective. Both problems solved! ;)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/2/2002 4:22:51 PM

Yeah, they're quieter too, and don't watch football. Hmmm... =D
From: [info]instantclarity
Date: 10/2/2002 10:10:59 PM

One of my friends got a really gross rash on her arms and legs using depo, but I think the percentage of women who experience side effects is small.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/3/2002 6:41:39 PM

Thanks! I get all paranoid when it comes to taking hormones (like I need any more, lol), so this is good to know!

[kvetching] 10/2/2002 1:35:00 PM

purple_stardust

I do not like this pencil. It is functional, but it is no Mr Pushy.

   

[awww] 10/2/2002 6:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

Rusty was doing a property survey at a nursery today, and picked up two big round garden stones for me. One has a family of owls, and the other is a kitty cat. Now I need to figure out something good to do with them...

   

[kitten update] 10/2/2002 9:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

Our industrious kittens are out in the kitchen right now, attacking a rogue icecube that I dropped earlier. After several attempted escapes on the icecube's part, they have managed to wrestle it to the ground and are now gnawing it to pieces. We are grateful to have such brave kittens to protect us from the savage icecubes.

   

amusing 10/2/2002 9:35:00 PM

purple_stardust

"Taffy continues to improve and Truffles has made some progress towards tolorating human contact."

---Donnell, describing two rats that she recently got from LILA.

   

Comments:
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/2/2002 11:01:08 PM

I laughed wickedly, Sean asked me what I was laughing about, and I found I couldn't explain it fully.

Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/2/2002 11:30:39 PM

I know, Sandy and I have been laughing mercilessly for several days now. I will probably go to hell for this, and yet I don't care. I'm not even sure what tickles me more; stupid Donnell running all the way to Virginia for these rats, or Lila being taken down a notch by having her supposedly superior rats bitched about in a public forum.

I would almost feel sorry for Donnell, were she not such a hypocritical, babbling, incoherant jackass anyway.
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/2/2002 11:40:24 PM

My first impulse was to say that they deserve each other...

[dinner] 10/2/2002 11:45:00 PM

purple_stardust

White chedder mac and cheese with shredded Sargento 4-cheese Mexican mix. Reese's Cups. Regular Pepsi. I am a very happy camper.

   

Comments:
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/3/2002 9:27:21 AM

dinner
Mmmm, have you ever tried "Annie's" white cheddar mac n cheese? It's all natural and has tons of flavour. I made grilled cheese sandwiches last night with sliced cheddar cheese. Had a yummy salad with black olives, sliced almonds, chinese noodles, romaine lettuce and ken's italian dressing. Then I had a bowl of Life for dessert. lol
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/3/2002 9:47:34 AM

Re: dinner
Annie's is AWESOME. I always buy Kraft because it turns out really well in the nuker-machine.

Your dinner sounds tasty, as per usual! Grilled cheese is one of my all-time favourite foods, and even that salad sounds really good if you left out the yucky lettuce... =)

[eek! new rats!] 10/3/2002 11:30:00 AM

purple_stardust

It looks like I will be getting new rats for Hanukkah! Joell found a breeder who has a light-coloured hairless boy for me, as well as a blue self dumbo. I'm so excited!

   

[dog grooming] 10/3/2002 3:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

[info]instantclarity, meet [info]rattyluv. You two are the only ones (besides me) who can see this post. Joell is interested in becoming a professional dog groomer. Tara, do you have any good advice for her? Anything she should know?

*** ATTENTION TARA ***
   

Comments:
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/4/2002 9:30:54 AM

dog grooming
Hi Tara, it's really nice to meet you. Renee has told me a bit about you, and it sounds like we have alot in common. Sometimes the amount Renee and I have in common scares me. lol I'm going to be out of a job in 6 months, and have always been interested in dog grooming, but never had the time to take the course, and I think in NY you have to be certified to become a groomer. I am also in the process of starting up a home-based pet bakery, and am hoping to make some extra cash doing that.
From: [info]instantclarity
Date: 10/5/2002 6:35:00 PM

Re: dog grooming
Hi there, sorry I took so long to find and respond to this post, hehe.

I'm not sure how certification works in other states. Here in Oregon, there is no real regulation--feasibly, anyone could become a groomer, but I think that most groomers and grooming salons think it is a good idea to have some kind of certification or apprentice training. I'd be interested if you find out what the policies in your state are!

The first thing that I would recommend is finding a grooming shop to work in as a bather, or even a receptionist or anything to get you around the action. Most places don't requre formal training for bathers, and teach you the basics. (I started at my grooming shop as a part-time receptionist, then eventually learned bathing and light trimming, and now I'm the business manager/apprentice/lackey heheh... I'll be gone for four months next year at grooming school, and then coming back).

That way you know for sure if you like the job before paying thousands for school. I don't doubt that you love dogs and animals, but it's worth checking out some of the other aspects of the job. Personally, I'll tell you that it is the best job; I love it! :)

If you have any questions or anything, feel free to reply here or at my journal. Good luck!
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/8/2002 12:38:19 PM

Re: dog grooming
Oooh great advice!! That makes so much sense to me. Thank you very much Tara.

[trading spaces] 10/3/2002 4:55:00 PM

purple_stardust

My new favourite designer is Doug Wilson. I'm not sure if I like his designs, but his nose is adorable. Good hair, too. And at least he didn't paint anything red.

   

Comments:
From: [info]jacquez
Date: 10/3/2002 5:57:36 PM

yeah, but doug's an asshole who throws hissyfits for no reason!

he drives me nuts!

he's not as bad as Hildi (aka Satan), though.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/3/2002 6:33:59 PM

Hildi, ugh. She's really pretty, and I want to like her, but she lost me when she started gluing straw on the walls.
From: [info]closertofine
Date: 10/3/2002 6:14:39 PM

Oh I don't like Doug! If Doug decorates your room and you say "Anything is fine but I hate pink" then your entire room will be pink. My favorite is Vern. And Frank.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/3/2002 6:37:50 PM

Yeah, there is that. Isn't Doug the one that made the lady cry?

I really like Genevieve for taking the interests and priorities of the homeowners into account. She made the coolest table one time; part of it was high for the adults and the other part was real low, for the couple's toddler. She also took one of the kid's fingerpaintings and had it printed on their dishes. I also like what she does with people's photos...
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/3/2002 6:52:03 PM

Genevieve is my favorite -- she really listens to what the homeowners want and like, and then she designs rooms according to that. Plus, no two rooms ever look alike. If I were on the show, I'd want Genevieve to do my house.

Then I like Vern, because his rooms look very pretty, but at the same time they're basically all the same room.

Hilde is a freak. She glued HAY TO A WALL in a house which had toddlers. And then she glued brown felt to the walls in a house which had five cats. Yeah. Oh. And then there was the time she divided a room up into quadrants, and painted them pink and grey. Including the fireplace. Onto which she glued broken glass.

<shudder>

Laurie comes off as a complete control freak. You can see it! You know she wanted to fly off the handle and scream at the homeowners! Her rooms end up looking pretty, though.

But hands down, no contest, the WORST designer is Doug. He's an asshole, he likes to pick fights, his rooms are completely against anything that the homeowners might want, oh, and then there was the time he went into someone's home, asked what all their junk was, and threw it all in the trash can. He's designed some nice rooms, but ugh, what a jerk.

<kill>

What is it with the designers and their bizarre desire to cover up every window in the room with giant draps, anyway?

Yes. I watch Trading Spaces too much.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/3/2002 7:05:16 PM

I agree about Genevieve, entirely, and I like Laurie too. Vern's rooms bore me, but he is Rusty's favourite. Hilde is DEFINATELY a freak, and I HATED the hay - that was so completely hideous, not to mention impractical. I missed the felt episode, but that sounds like Hilde. This was the first episode that I ever really watched with Doug, but Rusty said that Doug messed up a woman's fireplace and made her cry!

What about Frank, you never mentioned him? Frank is odd - I like his thought processes, but not his colour schemes. He uses too much colour, IMO. Rusty really likes him, too. My favourites are Genevieve and Laurie... of course, I think I may have a crush on Laurie, so I could be biased. ;)
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/3/2002 7:26:35 PM

I like Frank as a person; he seems like a really nice guy and a friendly designer UNLIKE DOUG WHO MADE SOMEONE CRY. The woman said, "We like traditional designs and do not touch the fireplace." So what did he make but an ultramodern room with a completely covered (he compromised and made a cover for it out of wood) fireplace! She cried, and the husband said that all he saw was a whole bunch of firewood.

Anyway, Frank, I like him, but his rooms are always so Wild West mixed with down-home country which is really not my thing at all. Too... eh.

How can you have a crush on Laurie? She's so mean! She always takes away the ceiling fans!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/3/2002 7:47:28 PM

Re Frank: Agreed. I *hate* the country look. Did you see the green and yellow "good cup of tea" room? That is the epitome of all I despise. I do admire his vision, his tastes and mine are wildly different.

As for Laurie, I don't have a ceiling fan, so I'm not worried about it. ;)
From: [info]thanny
Date: 10/4/2002 12:33:45 AM

oh i definitely dig doug... and he is gorgeous! he reminds me of a roman empire. great profile.

i like his designs a lot of the time, but sometimes he goes off the wall. my favs are vern, laurie, and gen.

but i won't lie... i usually watch for ty....;0)

(oh and that straw room was fucking awful. what in the world was she thinking??? if hilde or frank showed up at my house, i don't think i'd answer the door.)
From: [info]thanny
Date: 10/4/2002 12:35:21 AM

empire make that 'emperor'. it's late. i'm seething with dsl frustration.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/4/2002 11:13:44 AM

S'okay, I'm usually seething from lack-of-DSL frustration, so I guess it evens out. ;)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/4/2002 11:12:40 AM

Rusty and I were talking about that earlier; which designers we wouldn't let in the house! We also wondered how they pick the designers that they use; I notice that Hilde and Doug aren't on nearly as much as the others. Maybe Hilde scheduled for as many shows as the other designers, but when she shows up, the homeowners cancel! LOL

[animal alert] 10/3/2002 7:40:00 PM

purple_stardust

Help the manatees! Or, if you prefer, help the wolves!

   

[dinner] 10/4/2002 12:55:00 AM

purple_stardust

Fish cakes. Mac and cheese. Italian cream cake. Regular Coke.

   

[birthday wishes] 10/4/2002 9:10:00 AM

purple_stardust

   

Comments:
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/4/2002 9:24:06 AM

Balloons!
YAY!
Balloons!

<bounce>

[mail call] 10/4/2002 11:30:00 AM

purple_stardust

I got my new Zippo lighter! Also some electric bill or gas bill or something, but that doesn't interest me. I got my new lighter, hooray! . . . *click, snap* *click, snap*

   

[quiz du jour] 10/4/2002 7:45:00 PM

purple_stardust


   

Comments:
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/5/2002 10:04:13 PM

Stupid people apparently piss me off too. Who knew?!?

[and also] 10/4/2002 7:55:00 PM

purple_stardust

   

[translation, please?] 10/4/2002 8:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

Attention, British people! Okay, so Rusty and I were watching a television show from England, and they kept referring to the highway as "the slick road" ... so what we want to know is, why do you call it that?

   

Comments:
From: [info]gypsydance
Date: 10/4/2002 11:34:52 PM

You might have misheard it... according to my British fiance, it's "slip road" which is, more or less, an exit or entrance ramp. You're "slipping" onto the motorway, which is why it's called that.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 3:18:37 AM

Thank you!!! And thank YOU, Dave!
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/5/2002 8:34:42 AM

*laughs* Just what I was going to say! I think you call them 'off-ramps'. 'Slick road' sounds cool though, like it's reaaally fast :)

[dinner] 10/4/2002 10:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

Fishlets (gefilte). Cheese. Three kinds of pickles. Olives. Regular Coke.

   

[shining force stats] 10/4/2002 11:00:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

{ Prompt -> Runefaust }

Maxx (hero) - 15 - Chaos Breaker & Power Ring
Mae (paladin) - 12 - Halberd / Power Spear
Earnest (paladin) - 12 - Valkrie / Power Spear
Anri (wizard) - 12 - Guardian Staff
Alef (wizard) - 10 - Demon Rod
Tao (wizard) - 12 - Guardian Staff
Domingo (magic squid) - 32 - N/A
Khris (vicar) - 21 - Holy Staff & Speed Ring
Torasu (vicar) - 5 - Holy Staff & Mobility Ring
Diane (bow master) - 12 - Assault Shell
Bleu (great dragon) - 15 - N/A
Zylo (wolf baron) - 12 - N/A

   

[just because you're paranoid...] 10/5/2002 10:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Rusty has been suspiciously nice to me yesterday and today. I have to go to Baltimore MD this weekend, and he told me to wait until Sunday so he could take me, he didn't want me to go by myself. He was all snuggley last night (I slept in bed for the first time all week), and unusually demonstrative this morning. I wonder what he's up to? Oh well, I have the car today, so I'm a happy camper.

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/5/2002 11:11:04 AM

I wish my husband would catch some of that...I swear, it's amazing that our son was even born.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 11:16:10 AM

LMAO!!! Well, the only reason that our daughter was born, was that I had charts and graphs and these things HAD to be done at certain times (I was specifically trying to have a girl). Left to chance, we never would have gotten around to it. We would have been in our 60's, sitting around saying, "ya know, we ought to have a kid some day..." as we flipped through TV channels.
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/5/2002 11:26:04 AM

Hee! Well, we didn't do the chart thing, I just kinda always knew when would be the right time to rape him. If you don't mind, I'm gonna jump your bones now because I do believe I'm ovulating. He was wanting to have a child, but when it came down to it he wanted to play like I took advantage of him. Oh well...I had fun.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 11:40:38 AM

If you don't mind, I'm gonna jump your bones now because I do believe I'm ovulating.

Oh, I know, trying to concieve is fraught with such romantic lines - "Look, I'm ovulating NOW, so get in here, dammit!" and my personal favourite, "I don't care if you're ready, the egg IS, so move your ass!"

[fish talk] 10/5/2002 10:45:00 AM

purple_stardust

My goldfish are acting sickly - Oskar is lethargic and Einstein has something weird going on with his wen. I don't know if some sort of parasite is to blame, or if the water quality's gone bad, but I need to do something, and fast. I will start with a radical water change, and add salt and Biozyme. Maybe I should change one of the filter cartridges and replace the zeolite, too. Ugh.

If anything happens to these (really freaking expensive) fish, I swear I am going to just get a couple of comets and give up on the orandas entirely.

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/5/2002 11:08:50 AM

My fish are acting strange right now too...but I think they are cold. The water temperature is at 68, and usually it is higher...so I dunno. They are just sitting there at the bottom of the tank. They were active before their breakfast though; they were trying to get my attention then.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 11:12:18 AM

I think they *will* get sluggish (barring food, of course) when their temperature drops. That could be part of the problem here; it was SO hot, and I always had the AC cranked, and then it got really cool, so I didn't use the AC, and now it's hot again, so I'm running the AC again. Maybe I will raise the temp in the tank and see if that helps...
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/5/2002 3:01:35 PM

Mine are acting strange. Rourkey has dropsy really badly and is in quarantine, he's being treated with a new anti-bacterial treatment. The others are missing Rourke and Moz, so they're moping about, and I said to Florissa (at the GF message board) last night that I was giving up, and just keeping the comets and bettas, and then one of my comets died! He was fine at 11pm, by midnight he was dead. I don't understand why because the water is fine, and they have no contact with anything used in the tank where Rourke got sick. *cries* Must be something in the air.

What's wrong with Einstein's wen?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 5:10:49 PM

I have no idea - it looks like there is a big red blister underneath it. It's better this morning than it was last night; last night it looked really gross.

I am far more worried about Oskar now. He just lays on the bottom of the tank and looks miserable. when he does move, he doesn't seem to have a lot of control. He doesn't want to eat. I am feeding medicated fish food ATM, but things don't look good. :(

I hope Rourke is feeling better soon! Is dropsy contagious?
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/5/2002 5:43:43 PM

Re:
*sigh* Everyone's fishies seem to be ill. The bacteria that causes dropsy is very contagious, it will wipe out everything if it's not treated. I hope your two don't have pseudomonas or aeromonas (or another type of bacterial infection) . Symptoms are head wounds, listlessness, weight-loss or bloating, unexplained deaths, inability to stay upright. Maybe you'd better get some Maracyn and Maracyn 2? Can't get it here, which is why I got this #9 stuff. I have no idea if it's working, but he's still alive so I suppose it must be.

Good luck!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 6:15:59 PM

I hope they don't have those things either, they sound nasty! Is the Maracyn and Maracyn 2 safe? I have heard that some medicines are worse than the problems, and the one time I tried to treat for ich, that held true. Einstein definately seems to have the head wound thing going on, and Oskar is beyond listless... :(
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/5/2002 6:48:03 PM

Re:
Sometimes the meds can be worse. Rourke's tail is fraying because of the anti-bac. stuff, poor guy. Apart from looking gross he seems happy, so I don't want to euthanase him.

According to the people on the gf board, Maracyn & M2 are the best treatment for really serious stuff, or an injection from the vet.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 7:27:24 PM

I bought a bottle of Maracyde (made by the same people but more economical). The tablets would have been so expensive! They were $5 per box of 8 tablets, and it said to give one tablet per ten gallons of water (that's 5 tablets, in my case) for five days. To use both products, would have cost me $40, which I just can't afford right now.
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/6/2002 10:36:57 AM

Re:
Ouch! And to think that people think that goldies are ideal pets if you can't afford a dog or cat!

How are Oskar and Einstein doing today?
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/6/2002 10:42:18 AM

Re:
Damn, should've checked my friends page before I replied. sorry to hear about Oskar.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/6/2002 2:11:03 PM

No worries. I knew by last night night that he was a goner. Poor Oskar. :(

Einstein looks a lot better, however! You can barely see where the red blisters were, so hopefully the water change will help, and the Maracyde will kill off any sort of icky parasite that might be lurking in there.

[water quality] 10/5/2002 1:10:00 PM

purple_stardust

PH - 7.6
Ammonia - trace
Nitrite - 0.25 ppm
Nitrate - 20-40 ppm

   

[isp hell] 10/5/2002 1:55:00 PM

purple_stardust

I downloaded Juno again, just to see if I could stand the annoyance. It IS very annoying, but it's also free. I am going to use it for a while and see if I can stand it, and if I can, I'll drop AOL entirely. I use my @ziggabella.com email addies through Outlook Express anyway (because I hate AOL's email program), and I use Internet Explorer instead of the AOL browser, so really the only reason I have AOL is for the actual connection. If I can connect for free with someone else, why not.

   

[amusing] 10/5/2002 5:35:00 PM

purple_stardust


Look what [info]paraxeni found! Obviously, I have to have this. For Sarah, of course. There was a Bag of Plagues too, but I think I'll pass on that one...
   

Comments:
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/5/2002 6:45:19 PM

Nooo, Bag of Plagues, Bag of Plagues!! Sarah will thank you one day. :)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 7:14:52 PM

I would actually get the bag of plagues, except I'm terribly creeped out by the idea of grasshoppers, even in stuffed form. The other three plagues wouldn't bother me so much...
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/6/2002 10:38:59 AM

Re:
Scared of grasshoppers? They do look quite creepy I suppose... OK, swap the furry locust for a beanie baby, I mean.. Sarah doesn't know that there wasn't a plague of pastel bears!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/6/2002 2:07:27 PM

LMAO!!! I like the way you think! Yes, the great pastel bear plague of 295 BCE...

Rusty wants to know if they also have Plague-Doh...?
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/5/2002 7:03:54 PM

I must have a matzah ball!!!

YS
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 7:18:18 PM

ME TOO! I mean, Sarah too. Not like *I* (responsable adult that I am) would play with a silly toy like that.

::: casually throws magazine over Slinky :::

[trading spaces - random thoughts - part one] 10/5/2002 9:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

* Doug IS an asshole... but I still like his nose.
* Frank is wearing red Converse hi-tops!
* If anyone ever painted zebra stripes on my walls, I would kill them dead.
* Brown ceiling = very bad. Stars on the ceiling = very cool.
* I really like Frank's star ceiling, but not the overall room - too weird.
* These tacky people actually like the zebra room.

{ Pennsylvania: Gorski Lane }

   

Comments:
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/5/2002 11:09:26 PM

I thought the brown ceiling was sort of a purple-brown. Which only made it that much more hideous. But, I did a 180 when I was the stars. Wheee! I want a star ceiling like that.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/5/2002 11:20:32 PM

We're re-watching it right now, and you're right, it IS purplish. And hideous. But DAMN it looks good in the end! Frank flips me out, the way he can visualise how these things will look.

I *want* that ceiling...
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/6/2002 9:51:24 AM

Re:
Frank flips me out, the way he can visualise how these things will look.

At that would be why he's a paid decorator, and I have beige walls. {g}
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/6/2002 2:02:52 PM

LOL! Good point. That would also explain why I have panelling and grungey old carpet.
From: [info]closertofine
Date: 10/7/2002 8:12:34 PM

Did you see Vern's "Planes Trains & Automobiles" room (for a little boy) Sunday afternoon? It was sooo cute! I actually didn't see the show, just the end, but I want to have a child just so I can have a cute room.

[trading spaces - random thoughts - part two] 10/5/2002 10:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

* Vern is going all out for this toddler's room!
* Edward seriously needs to lose that accent.
* Ewww, Edward's paint looks like vomit.
* Vern's race car bed is so cool. That kid will love it.
* I like Edward's windows, but the overall room is too much.
* Vern's train track on the ceiling is so freaking cool!

{ Long Island: Dover Court }

   

[tlc footnote] 10/5/2002 11:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

My G-d, we've turned into design whores. We used to be news whores, but then TLC sucked us in. We watched the two new episodes of Trading Spaces, then watched While You Were Out, and now we're watching the reruns of the two new episodes of Trading Spaces, again! We need professional help.

And now I want to paint my bedroom ceiling with navy blue paint and silver stars.

   

Comments:
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/6/2002 10:25:49 AM

I'm a home improvement junkie, myself.
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/6/2002 10:52:53 AM

Trading Spaces is the same as our 'Changing Rooms'. As much as I hate, loathe and despise that programme, if I accidentally catch even a few seconds of it I have to watch to the bitter end! I must confess that I really love it when the 'victims' hate the way their rooms turn out, and cry or scream, muhahahah. Also, it's not really the ordinary people that get to choose what happens, they usually have some vile, impractical design scheme foisted on them by one of the..shall we say 'eccentric' designers.

The best home design programme we have here is called 'Home On Their Own' where kids from a family get to redesign the inside of their family home. The parents are shipped off for a few days, and the children get to do whatever they want, with the help of designers, engineers etc. One brother and sister turned their bedroom into the forest scene from 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe'. There was a permanent snowfall in the room, a lifesize lion, frosted trees, lampposts, and they had to get into their room through a wardrobe full of fur coats!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/6/2002 2:01:40 PM

OMG, Home On Their Own sounds SO COOL! That would be terrifying for the parents - I can only imagine the Pokemon and X-Men themes that my older kids would conjur up. Still, I wouldn't mind having the LWW room, minus the fur coats... =D

[dinner] 10/6/2002 12:55:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Homemade matzoh balls. Mandlen crackers. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/6/2002 1:12:13 AM

Homemade matzah balls?

Homemade matzah balls?

Homemade matzah balls?

:::falling down on the ground wishing he was eating homemade matzah balls...mmmmm, matzah balls:::

YS
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/6/2002 1:58:32 PM

LOL! This is only my second batch (I usually buy the canned as I'm not much of a cook), but they turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself! :)

[rip] 10/6/2002 7:45:00 AM

purple_stardust

Oskar is dead.

   

Comments:
From: [info]driftwood
Date: 10/6/2002 9:47:33 AM

Aw, poor thing. Sorry to hear that!
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/6/2002 10:41:26 AM

*hugs* Poor Oskar, poor you too.
From: [info]clarice
Date: 10/6/2002 10:11:39 PM

I'm so sorry... he was such a pretty fish...

[road trip] 10/6/2002 2:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

We drove down to Baltimore MD and dropped off two rats left over from the Snow x Beatrix litter. The girl seemed to be very happy with them, even though they're not little babies anymore. I'm glad they'll be getting a good home.

We thought about running over to Delaware, or stopping into the Baltimore Inner Harbor, but decided to come home instead. And now we're here.

   

[rat news] 10/6/2002 7:55:00 PM

purple_stardust

PS Bleu and ZBR Beatrix are in the breeding cage together. This will be an interesting litter: all blue, some dumbo, some rex, and some double rex (double rex have no real hair, just random patches of fuzz). This will be my last litter for a while; I plan to take an indefinate break and evaluate my lines.

   

Comments:
From: [info]jacquez
Date: 10/6/2002 8:47:53 PM

Can I make *big eyes* at you for a dumbo or rex from this litter? I'd love to have another of your rats - I'm still madly in love with Josephine. :)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/6/2002 9:03:05 PM

Sure. :) I'll let you know what they are as soon as I can tell, and you can have first dibs. Fortunately, the people wanting boys outnumbers the ones wanting girls, for a change. Besides, I like it when they go to people who I know will take good care of them. :)
From: [info]instantclarity
Date: 10/6/2002 9:25:51 PM

Awwwwwwww, I wanta blue rex....

[rip] 10/6/2002 10:00:00 PM

purple_stardust


Magic 8.15.2000 - 10.6.2002

Magic, my sweet and beautiful fawn rex dumbo girl, died in my arms this evening.

Magic and her sister Mischief were my first dumbo rats. I was so excited to get them, that when I woke up in labour on the day I was to pick them up, on 9.23.2000, that I tried to convince my mom to take me to get them anyway (almost two hours away) - I wanted my dumbos now, dammit! I gave birth to my human girl a few hours later, and had to wait until the next weekend to get my dumbo girls. They turned out to be well worth the wait, and became my sweetest babies as they grew up.

Mischief died a few weeks ago, and Magic clearly missed her sister, co-conspiritor, and best friend. They were the last of the original M-Rats.
   

Comments:
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/7/2002 7:25:32 AM

I'm so sorry.
From: [info]arkady
Date: 10/7/2002 9:26:58 AM

Just over two years...awww. :-(

*hugs*
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/7/2002 9:31:30 AM

*hugs* This is not your month is it? Sorry to hear about Magic.
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/7/2002 10:16:40 AM

rip
Awww I'm so sorry that she's gone. I know how much you loved those girls. It sucks that they don't live longer.
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/7/2002 3:39:47 PM

Awws *huggles*

[but where are the spiders?] 10/6/2002 11:35:00 PM

purple_stardust



   

Comments:
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/7/2002 9:29:32 AM

Spiders? EEK!

[dinner] 10/7/2002 12:15:00 AM

purple_stardust

Cheese sub. Mozzerella sticks. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[local news] 10/7/2002 10:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Last week, a sniper shot and killed five people in the Washington DC area. This morning, a 13-year-old boy was shot in front of his school - same scenerio; the shot came out of nowhere, and nobody saw a thing. People are fucking nuts.

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/7/2002 10:24:59 AM

Omigosh..no, not another one, and a child?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/7/2002 10:29:58 AM

Yep. :(

I don't know what's wrong with people.
From: [info]soknivesout
Date: 10/16/2002 3:02:56 PM

do you breed rats?
or do you know of anyone who does in the wisconsin area?

[baffling] 10/7/2002 10:30:00 AM

purple_stardust

It never ceases to amaze me how people will blindly listen to those in positions of authority, without evaluating the situation for themselves...

Case in point #1 - when the first WTC tower was hit, those people were on their way out, and the powers-that-be told them to go back to their offices. They did. My ass would have been in New Jersey by the time the second plane hit.

Case in point #2 - these fools in Montgomery County MD have told parents to just leave their kids in school, don't pick 'em up early. Umm, NO. Can you imagine those poor kids, trapped inside a school where one of their classmates has just been SHOT? I don't think so. Those kids need to go home.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/7/2002 10:40:45 AM

Amen!

YS
From: [info]angel_renewed
Date: 10/7/2002 10:58:16 AM

Baaaa
There is a sheep mentality that kicks in. It's startling the extent schools will go to in order to maintain the 'nothing to see here folks' status quo. When I was in High School, a teacher was shot on a Sunday afternoon while interrupting a robbery (the idiots tried to drag the safe out). We were told it was 'perfectly safe' to go back to school on Monday even though they hadn't caught the perp and thought they might STILL BE IN THE BUILDING. Needless to say, I did NOT go in on Monday and got a detention for an unexcused absence.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/7/2002 11:04:57 AM

Re: Baaaa
That's absolutely, stunningly, mind-bogglingly insane. :\
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/7/2002 11:51:42 AM

A fire alarm went off in a school building last week. They have a tendency to do this in this building, and the teacher wasn't planning on leaving. She said, "If anyone wants to leave, you can go, but if you want to stay here, we're going to keep having class."

I left the building, and I went home. No way I'm staying in a building where the fire alarm is going off, even if it's just a drill!

Even worse, there were a whole bunch of people standing around by the elevator!

I guess maybe those people in the buildings were really confused and afraid and didn't know what to do and thought they might lose their jobs if they left and figured, a plane flying into a building, how could that happen again?

Still, Jersey.

People are crazy. No way my kid would be staying in a school where someone was shot
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/7/2002 5:22:20 PM

Definately Jersey. As for the kids, can you imagine? Because you know they know just enough to freak em out, but not what's really going on. I would yank my kids out of school as soon as I heard, even if I had to knock over a nun to do it.
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/7/2002 1:06:54 PM

There was a fire in the basement at a place I worked at several years ago. We were up on the 11th floor, and so used to false alarms that we didn't believe it and leave the building until the receptionist made an announcement.

But-- a plane flies into a building (yours or one very near by, it makes little difference), that's a difficult thing to ignore!

I'd've taken the stairs and still been on the ground by the time the second plane hit.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/7/2002 5:24:17 PM

Definately. Even if I thougt it was just an accident, even if I didn't think that the building would ultimately collapse - a plane hits the building, and I am outta there.
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/7/2002 1:19:58 PM

Yeah...as soon as I read that, I was thinking, "Gosh...I'd be picking up my kid, what are they going to do...try and stop me?" They have to carry me out first. You'd see me on the news, Mother gets dragged away from the school...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/7/2002 6:00:46 PM

I hear ya! It seemed like they were being pretty understanding, but still, to even ASK a parent to leave their kid there, is nuts.

[and another thing] 10/7/2002 11:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

I also don't understand the mentality behind these shootings. I mean, I can understand wanting to shoot someone. But if I did decide to act on it, if I decided that I wanted to shoot someone enough that I was willing to risk spending the rest of my life in prison - you can damn well be sure that I would choose someone that I really didn't like. I just don't understand the motivation behind shooting people at random. I could see shooting a hateful parent, an ex-lover, even an obnoxious driver - but why some anonymous woman at a craft store? People are so fucked up...

   

Comments:
From: [info]arkady
Date: 10/7/2002 11:21:02 AM

I'd say it's a deliberate attempt to cause fear; and it's probably turning out pretty successful right now. After all, with some sniper rifles (I'm thinking the Barrett Light-50 here), you could pick someone off from a mile away. The whole point seems to be that it is totally random, and so no-one in Washington can be sure that they won't be the next target. Pretty soon, you get a local populace that's paralysed by fear and don't dare set foot outside their own homes. As a fear tactic, it's very effective.
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/7/2002 1:13:49 PM

I always forget which word it is, sociopath or psychopath. The second one, I think. They basically have no perception of other living beings as anything but moving, 3-dimensional set dressing. So,

"Gee, it might be fun to go shoot a moving target."

Weird-ass creepy. And as far as I've ever heard, they can't be cured.
From: [info]arkady
Date: 10/7/2002 7:27:02 PM

Actually, sociopath is the American term, psychopath the UK one. Two names for the same condition. However, "psychopath" unfortunately has a long history of misuse, so in this day and age sociopath is a more accurate term.

[ooh, aah] 10/8/2002 1:30:00 AM

purple_stardust

{ Fireworks! }

   

Comments:
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/8/2002 8:55:31 AM

fireworks
That is so friggin cool. I played with it for a really long time. lol

[dinner] 10/8/2002 12:55:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |DVD - Pink Floyd - The Wall]

Four-cheese quesadilla. Refried beans with cheese. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[today] 10/7/2002 11:30:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |DVD - Pink Floyd - The Wall]

I talked to Roscoe. He told me he was going to stop dealing because he was out looking last weekend and ended up doing a bunch of coke. Whatever.

Adelphia turned off the cable, again, because I neglected to pay the bill, again. Arrrgh. Note to self: pay the cable bill before they turn it off. Yeah. I thought Rusty would be pissed, but he was surprisingly cool, probably because he realises that he's even more of an airhead than I am, and that we'd have no utilities, were it not for my half-assed attempt at household organisation. Scary, isn't it?

M-o-o-n, that spells cable bill.

Life is weird without cable. I spent the remainder of the daytime hours, hitting refresh at wjla.com, because G-d forbid I miss the news. I also notice that I have no concept of time without the television. This amused me until I remembered the scene in I Am Sam, when his neighbour told him how to remember when to feed the baby, based on the Nick-at-Night schedule.

This evening, we watched a Winnie-the Pooh DVD with Sarah, and then The Deep End of the Ocean after she'd gone to bed. It was an obvious tear-jerker, but I liked it anyway. Except now I have become insanely paranoid, and I plan to nail Sarah's bedroom windows shut tomorrow morning.

But now it is time for dinner and the Shining Force! :)

   

[zbr zootie frootie] 10/8/2002 2:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

   

Comments:
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/8/2002 3:31:34 PM

aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Can't Stand The Cuteness.....
Stop Torturing Me. lol
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 12:25:27 AM

Re: aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
LOL! I won't stop torturing you until I've lured you back into the world of rats...
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/9/2002 9:06:33 AM

Re: aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Very tricky lol

From: [info]cellio
Date: 10/8/2002 3:52:19 PM

That is very cute.
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/8/2002 4:12:55 PM

My mind and heart just imploded under the onslaught of cuteness. That is, without doubt, one of the most gorgeous things on the face of the planet!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/8/2002 7:00:28 PM

LOL! Thanks! Maybe that should be my new tagline... Ziggabella ratlets will make you implode! =D
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/8/2002 7:13:20 PM

Re:
No, because someone will sue you if they don't implode. One of the perils of living in the Litigation Nation I'm afraid! Hey... maybe this new sniper-y business will make the US so dangerous that UK immigration would accept an asylum claim? :)
From: [info]gypsydance
Date: 10/8/2002 7:59:34 PM

Or we could ship them over to the UK as weapons, and the Brits could flee here to seek asylum...

would make the wedding plans a lot smoother. :P
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/8/2002 9:17:33 PM

Re:
Weapons you say? Now you've got my attention!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/8/2002 10:41:30 PM

Yeah! I'm all for running away from home... destination: UK! =D
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/8/2002 4:51:42 PM

What an adorable face!

And again with the eency little toesies.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/8/2002 10:48:37 PM

I know! Those widdle hands and feet just slay me! :)
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/8/2002 6:05:19 PM

awws! what a cutie pie!
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/8/2002 6:28:19 PM

I want one. As soon as I'm living somewhere that will allow it, expect a phone call.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/8/2002 10:35:46 PM

Indeed! Everyone needs a rat!
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/9/2002 12:12:00 AM

Re:
I saw a ferret once that was white, but not actually albino so it still had black eyes (and a dusting of gray on it's back that looked silver). I was wondering if that sort of coloring exists in rats?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 12:23:57 AM

There are "BEW" (black-eyed white) rats, but I'm not sure that there are silver-tipped rats. There IS a "chinchilla" colour - I've not seen one IRL, but I imagine that it's similer to the silvery ferrets (my mom has one of those).
From: [info]arkady
Date: 10/8/2002 6:51:33 PM

Awww! Major cuteness!

I am soooo looking forward to little Veloria-babies...fingers crossed that this time, everything goes right!!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/8/2002 6:58:01 PM

MY fingers are definately crossed! She's such a pretty little thing; she reminds me of my first rex, Macy. How much longer?
From: [info]arkady
Date: 10/9/2002 8:47:31 AM

Not long now; she's due on the 24th. I took delivery of the new nursery tank today - a nice big Rody Cavy cage, too small for a cavy IMHO, but just perfect for a mother with a litter of growing babies! I still have about 3kg of EMP in the cupboard, and I've ordered more Lactol. Most importantly, Veloria herself is looking very fit and well; she's put on about 45 grams weight in the past week!! The vet has been notified of the expected due date, too - just in case vet assistance becomes required.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 12:47:51 PM

Oh good! Veloria is from Sue at Pendragon, isn't she?
From: [info]arkady
Date: 10/9/2002 5:10:23 PM

No; she's an Alpha Centauri rat from Estelle Sandford, as are most of my rats - including her late aunt Velveteen. I've never, to the best of my knowledge, had a Pendragon rat but Pendragon's Forgetmenot, Ivor and Ajax (all Russian Blue) are all in Veloria's lineage so the babies will carry a little Pendragon blood too; it's from them that any potential Russian Blues will come. There's not a huge percentage chance of Russian Blue, as there isn't any in Mercury's side of the family - but you never know. Fingers crossed...

And in case you're wondering - yes, I'm keeping any Russian Blues I get! LOL!

[television woes] 10/8/2002 5:05:00 PM

purple_stardust

So. Since I didn't pay the cable bill, I am stuck with two channels: PBS and the local NBC affiliate. I remember now why I watch ABC. Feh.

   

[jewish jeopardy] 10/8/2002 7:45:00 PM

purple_stardust

And the answer was: Kol Nidre is recited on the eve of this Jewish Holiday. And I got it right! Neener, neener. It's a shame Alex isn't in charge of conversions...

   

[kübelwagen!] 10/8/2002 10:00:00 PM

purple_stardust



   

Comments:
From: [info]allmyvoices
Date: 10/9/2002 7:00:26 AM

That is the kewlest looking car!!!!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 1:16:47 PM

Isn't it though! I could get a fixer-upper for about $2000, but unfortunately, I don't have $2000, and if I did, I don't have a place to fix one up. But someday...
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/9/2002 1:18:25 PM

I want one too!!!!!

[so freaking cool] 10/8/2002 11:25:00 PM

purple_stardust

Discovered by [info]copperpoint:

Kamuniak the dysfunctional lioness has forfeited another meal by adopting her fifth baby oryx this year, an aberration of nature which has baffled wildlife experts...

Read the story!

   

[the latest meme] 10/8/2002 11:50:00 PM

purple_stardust

STUFF:

01. [Spell your name backwards]: Eener.
02. [Where do you live?]: In my own head.
03. [Describe yourself in 4 words]: I would rather not.
04. [Who is your worst enemy?]: Myself.
05. [If you could have any animal for a pet, what would it be?]: An orangutan named Jeeves. Whenever someone asked me something, I would tell them to ask Jeeves.
06. [What is the latest you've ever stayed up]: I have been known to stay awake for several days at a time. Of course, I was young and chemically enhanced at the time.
07. [Ever been to Belgium?]: Nope.
08. [What's your favorite coin?]: British ones!

DESCRIBE YOUR:

09. [Wallet]: I don't have one. I have a black leather checkbook with a celtic dragon design on the front. Coins, cash, and magic plastic cards are thrown loose into a pocket in my purse. I am a disorganized mess.
10. [Hairbrush]: Black Scruni dryer brush, Purple Scrunci paddle brush, round brush from Claire's. Some others too. I like hairbrushes.
11. [Toothbrush]: Purple Oral-B.
12. [Jewelry worn daily]: Gold Star of David on gold chain, gold band, diamond ring, sapphire ring, ruby ring, emerald ring, silver mercy band, seed bead bracelet in shades of purple, sometimes gold charm bracelet, nine gold ball earrings in various sizes, one gold circular barbell in left helix, purple curved barbell in navel.
13. [Pillow cover]: Sage green jersey on bed, purple cheneille on sofa.
14. [Blanket]: Hunter green jersey on bed, green and purple flowered throw blanket on sofa. I love my blanket, it is my special friend.
15. [Coffee cup]: Ziggabella Rattery mug.
16. [Sunglasses]: Cheap ones from K-Mart.
17. [Underwear]: Rarely worn Calvin Klein briefs.
18. [Shoes]: Converse Chuck Taylors, hi and lo, in black, white, and purple.

WHAT/WHO (is/are):

29. [In my mouth]: Camel cigarette.
30. [In my head]: Nothing much.
31. [Wishing]: For a purple Volkswagon Thing.
32. [After this]: Pizza, eventually.
33. [Talking to]: Myself.
34. [Eating]: Nothing, yet. Pizza has been ordered.
35. [Do you like candles]: Yes, very much so!
36. [Do you like hot wax]: It's sort of integral to the candles.
37. [Do you like incense]: I have no sense of smell, so incense is rather lost on me.
38. [Do you like the taste of blood]: It's okay.
39. [Fetishes]: British accents.
40. [If you could get away with it and murder anyone, who and for what reason?]: My father; so I could have his house and build my goldfish pond and paint my star ceiling and convert his old bedroom into my new rat room and restore the Volkswagon Thing that I will be able to afford when I have his money. Mwahahaha.
41. [Person you wish you could be with right now]: David Bowie.
42. [What/Who is next to you]: Rats and cats.
43. [What do you want done with your body when you die]: I want to be cremated and shipped to England, and sprinkled on a rocky coast.
44. [Do you believe in love]: Sometimes.
45. [Do you believe in soul mates]: Sometimes.
46. [Do you believe in love at first sight]: No.
47. [Do you believe in Heaven]: It depends on your definition.
48. [Do you believe in forgiveness]: I don't actually understand the concept.
49. [Do you believe in God]: Yes.
50. [What's something that you wish people would understand]: That animals DO have feelings and personalities, and humans are not the only sentient beings.
51. [What's something you wish you could understand better]: Hebrew.
52. [What's one thing you want to make happen for tomorrow]: Money.

   

[dinner] 10/9/2002 1:00:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Domino's thin-crust anchovy pizza. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[for yosef] 10/9/2002 12:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

   

Comments:
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/9/2002 1:10:31 PM

psst! what does it say?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 1:11:15 PM

Happy Birthday Topi! :)
From: [info]cellio
Date: 10/9/2002 1:26:03 PM

Ah. I was trying to read it as Hebrew words rather than transliteration, and it tripped me up. :-)
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/9/2002 3:00:13 PM

Re:
oh! cool...! (who's topi?)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 3:05:29 PM

He's Topi! And it's his birthday!
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/9/2002 3:17:26 PM

Re:
OK! well Happy B-day Topi!
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/9/2002 9:46:44 PM

COOL!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

That is so cool! I too was trying to read it as Hebrew Hebrew...hahhahahaha...now it makes perfect sense!

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!

YS =)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/10/2002 12:46:46 AM

Re: COOL!!!!!!!!
You're quite welcome... I hope it was a good one! :)

[argh] 10/9/2002 11:45:00 AM

purple_stardust

I swear, I think my aquarium is cursed. I noticed the heater light had been on a lot lately, which makes sense, since it has been chilly here for the past few days. I went over to check the temperature, and it was off the charts! I mean, it was warm enough that I would swim in there, and for goldfish, that's way too warm. Needless to say, I've unplugged the heater! The fish seem fine, except for Garfunkel II, who has a very bad case of dropsy. This sucks; that was a really expensive heater, to be malfunctioning so soon. I hope my fishies will be okay...

   

Comments:
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/9/2002 11:57:41 AM

Bloody hell! I think we're under a similar curse. I got a phonecall to say my grandad has had a heart attack and a stroke, and him and my nan are stuck in Spain. She's had to find somewhere to stay (it was right at the end of their holiday). Aaaargh!

Are you going to get the heater replaced? How is GarfII doing? Rourkey's eyes have gone down to almost normal size, and I think he's less swollen. He's still quite fat, but even when he's looking 'thinner' he seems sort of...stretched, so I can't really tell. Argh!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 12:44:45 PM

Oh jeez, how awful about your grandfather! I hope he'll be okay!

I don't know about the heater, I don't even know what's wrong with it. As for GarfII, she's pretty badly pineconed. It's weird though, because sometimes she swims perfectly normally (you'd never know there was somehing wrong) and other times she floats upside down at the surface (to the point that I've thought she was dead).

I don't know what to do. I have been using the Maracyde, and feeding medicated food, but I don't have a spare tank to Q her. I hope the other fish don't get it. :(
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/9/2002 1:42:01 PM

Re:
Poor Garfunkel :( I don't have a Q-tank either, Mr Rourkeyfush is in a plastic bucket I got for 77p! I've put an airstone, and a box-filter in it, and he's doing much better. He's getting impatient now though, like when you've been sick in bed and you just want to get up and go out. He was fully 'pineconed' but that #9 stuff seems to be helping, and I've put some epsom salts in there too. He still looks weird, but he's recognisably a fish now, and not a football with fins!

I've heard nothing else about my granddad, so I'm assuming no news is good news. It sucks though. Escaping from Auschwitz-Birkenau, working so hard to make a new life here, only to get two types of cancer, Alzheimers and have a heart attack & stroke all in the same year! He's a fighter, I'm sure he won't give up easily.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 1:57:48 PM

Wow. He really IS a survivor! Perhaps (if it's okay with you) I could get all my Jewish friends together to say one big prayer for him? If anyone deserves a break, it's him!

Would the maracyde keep my other fish from getting the dropsy, do you think?
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/9/2002 2:09:42 PM

Re:
Yeah thanks, he needs all the prayers he can get! *hugs*

I would try treating the main tank with a half-dose of Maracyde if I were you, I've been doing that with the #9. I'd be devastated if anything else happened!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 2:29:29 PM

I posted about him in JBCs and in the weirdjews communities, so he's in the collective thoughts of about 150 Jews now! He (and you and your nana!) are certainly in mine. {hugs}
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/9/2002 1:07:56 PM

I had a heater do that to me once... except... it cooked my fish... what a way to go...yuk!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 1:14:19 PM

Poor fishies! I have no doubt that these fish would have been cooked too, had I not noticed it when I did. The temperature wouldn't even register on the thermometer (it goes to 88f), and the glass was warm to the touch. I hope they'll be okay! :(
From: [info]allmyvoices
Date: 10/9/2002 2:30:53 PM

I always wanted to do an aquarium, but they are so complicated and hard to keep so that they're healthy for the fish. I did do goldfish bowls. I got really close to my goldfish and my bettas and to Billy, my newt, who used to like to be the referee during backgammon games (its one of those things where you had to be there, I guess).
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 2:36:19 PM

Ooh, I never had a newt! I am thinking about getting a leopard ghecko, when I have less bettas. I have nine now, five males and four females, and they take up a lot of room. Thé bettas are okay, but I think the goldfish have a lot more personality.

[finally!] 10/9/2002 1:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

The cable is back on! There's still nothing of any account to watch, but at least I can see the crap that IS on, clearly. And I know what time it is now.

   

Comments:
From: [info]allmyvoices
Date: 10/9/2002 2:15:47 PM

I don't watch much tv, but when cable tv goes on the fritz, I get totally irritated.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 2:32:08 PM

That's the sad thing - I bitch and whine and freak when I don't have it, but when it IS on, I don't pay a bit of attention to it! LOL
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/9/2002 2:58:18 PM

lol! I wouldn't know what day it is if it weren't for school...

[a quiz] 10/9/2002 3:00:00 PM

purple_stardust



What Is Your True Aura Colour?
brought to you by Quizilla
   

Comments:
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/9/2002 3:07:32 PM

I'm violent!

"Violets are the inspirational visionaries, leaders and teachers who are here to help save the planet. Most Violets feel drawn to educate the masses, to inspire higher ideals, to improve the quality of life on the planet, or to help save people, animals and the environment."

Oooh!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 3:12:01 PM

Oooh, not fair! I wanted to be purple (or violet)! :-P

[she comes in colours everywhere] 10/9/2002 3:15:00 PM

purple_stardust


Hey, I want to save the animals! I just don't want to deal with the people to do it...
   

[blech] 10/9/2002 4:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

Ewww, one of Rusty's puddle fish (the red female) died. I wonder if I'm the only person who feels the need to flush the toilet at least three times when disposing of a dead fish, lest they come back to surprise me when I go to the bathroom...?

   

Comments:
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/9/2002 5:04:31 PM

I usually flush once for fish and about 5 times for a dead roach... I certainly dont want that surprizing me...

[filtered post] 10/9/2002 5:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

[info]paraxeni - someone in the community asks:

"Traditionally, when someone is sick, we take his hebrew name and his mother's hebrew name to say a special prayer for them. Can you give us those names? If you don't know the hebrew names, regular names will do fine, too."

Is that something that you're comfortable divulging?

   

Comments:
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/9/2002 5:40:38 PM

No problem. His name is Peter Humeniuk. Strangely enough I'm not sure if he was Jewish or Polish Catholic, I think he just lived in the area where the ghetto was. It's not something we talk about, y'know?

I really appreciate it, thanks.

xxx
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/9/2002 8:25:58 PM

Gotcha. :)

[dinner] 10/9/2002 9:05:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Steak and chedder sub with mustard. French fries. Coffee cakes. Regular Coke.

   

[the insomnia report] 10/10/2002 12:15:00 AM

purple_stardust

I went to bed at 11pm. It didn't work, and now I am back. Apparently, it is impossible to sleep without Reese's Cups in one's stomach.

   

[news] 10/10/2002 7:55:00 AM

purple_stardust

There's been another shooting, this time in Manassas VA. It's getting a bit too close for me - Manassas is somewhere that I go on a semi-regular basis. If I get my tongue pierced, it will be in Manassas. My mom's SO lives in Manassas. My first breeder rats came from Manassas. I meet rat adoptors regularly in Manassas. Blech.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/10/2002 8:33:51 AM

The coward will be caught...the problem is that we don't know when since he's not just focusing on one place. And we also have to worry about copycat freaks.

SUCKS!

YS
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/10/2002 11:50:07 AM

Yeah, eventually he will get cocky and do something stupid. I just wonder how many idiots will follow in his footsteps before that happens.
From: [info]thanny
Date: 10/10/2002 11:25:14 AM

ahhh not virginia! sucky. well at least i gassed up my cars yesterday :0|
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/10/2002 11:47:55 AM

Yeah. If you have any jigsaw puzzles, I would seriously consider starting them... :\
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/10/2002 6:13:32 PM

Eek. Please practice ducking, or something.

BTW, after you get your tongue pierced it'll be at least 3 days before you can say 'blech' properly.
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/10/2002 7:48:16 PM

My mom lives in Manassas too. My husband asked me if the shooter was my stepdad. Har, har. But no, if they did flip, it would be my mom...and she would definitley have a reason for her targets.

I wouldn't doubt that someone might take this opportunity to get some revenge to make it look like the shooter.

[the morning] 10/10/2002 11:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Rusty woke me up way too early. At least he didn't hold a hot cup off coffee on my bare arse this time - he did when I had to get up early on Sunday! I can't really blame him; I AM dreadfully difficult to awaken (1).

I went to the post office and bank. Nothing exciting to say there. It was raining, which I love when I'm at home, but not so much when I'm driving in that car with its crappy tires. POS-car has cruise control. I did not know this. I resisted the urge to stop at Petsmart and go ghecko-shopping.

Came home in time to catch David Bowie on Regis. He sang a song from his new CD Heathen, and then Changes. He is looking mighty fine these days! He has the sexiest teeth on the planet, and I *want* him. /swoon

Footnotes:

(1) - I sleep like a rock. I am also a pathological liar in my sleep. I used to tell my mother all sorts of excuses - I'm picking up crayons, I'm curling my hair, etcetera - to the point that she used to torture me awake. Once, she rattled a metal nail file between my teeth - which probably explains my aversion to metal utensils (2).

(2) - I don't even own metal utensils; I only eat with plastic utensils. I can eat with metal utensils, if I absolutely have to, but when I do, I have to curl my lips back over my teeth so there's no chance of the metal hitting my teeth. I can't even stand the sound of metal clinking on other peoples' teeth.

   

[decisions, ack!] 10/10/2002 12:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

I need to order new checks. The problem is, I can't decide what I want. Checks Unlimited has Seseme Street checks, most of which are cute. They also have Autumn Leaf checks, which I like the concept of, but these particular designs are kinda boring. What I would really like is just purple checks, maybe marbled. Alas, the only ones I've found like that, have other colours in the book. Maybe I will get checks from PETA; they have one designed by Berkeley "Bloom County" Breathed. It looks like this place has other animal rights designs, as well. I just don't know.

   

[we have a decision...] 10/10/2002 12:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

* Plain purple marbled checks (the colours match my website)

* Rat design from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Dammit. I suck at making decisions. I think I will get the plain purple checks, and just a set of address labels from the PCRM. I like that rat face.

   

Comments:
From: [info]thanny
Date: 10/10/2002 2:37:16 PM

i'm such a checks whore, which is sad because most of my bills are directly billed to my credit card.

i've had the scooby doo ones, some other comic ones, now i have the sesame street ones, and i'm about to buy the new curious george ones!!

i really wanted spongebob, but i can't pass up curious george.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/10/2002 3:03:04 PM

Same here, lol. I pay most of my bills at one of those bill-paying places, and I use my credit/debit card when shopping. I almost never write checks, it's taken me almost two years to use this box! Still, they come in such cool designs, I want them. They need to sell checks by the book, instead of the box!
From: [info]instantclarity
Date: 10/10/2002 10:32:22 PM

Get the hemp checkbook cover with the rat face! It rules!

[oops] 10/10/2002 7:25:00 PM

purple_stardust

When I got back this morning, I left the lights on in the POS-car, and the battery went dead. I had to get Roscoe and Eric over here to jumpstart it, which was unfortunate, because then they stood around talking to us. Bah.

Coming up: must-see TV on NBC, and something yummy from Anthony's Domino's.

   

[ooh, goth-in-a-box!] 10/10/2002 7:50:00 PM

purple_stardust


what box do you get put in?
   

[this evening] 10/10/2002 9:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I'm taking an online course - Being Jewish In Today's World - through Barnes & Noble University. I read through the first lesson today, will go through and take notes tomorrow. It's pretty basic, but interesting, and the instructor - Goldy Safirstein - seems cool. I hope that I will actually retain some of this stuff!

   

Comments:
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/11/2002 9:15:21 AM

Oh cool, good luck with it. Have fun too.
From: [info]slow_like_honey
Date: 10/11/2002 1:01:54 PM

I signed up for the course too :D

[dinner] 10/10/2002 11:30:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Domino's thin-crust extra cheese pizza. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[smashing!] 10/11/2002 9:15:00 AM

purple_stardust


I am 67.5% British, just like
Sir Elton John!
Roots in the UK, the rest of your hair is in the US.

Take the Brit Quiz !
www.darrenlondon.tripod.com/britquiz1.htm
   

[random tv stuff] 10/11/2002 10:25:00 AM

purple_stardust

* Jonathan Jackson is such a cute little thing. If he were about ten years older and not such a devout Christian, I would want to have my way with him. /pervy grin

* The new (post-Whoopi) Hollywood Squares is absolutely awful. I mean really, Burt Reynolds? Todd Bridges??? Eww. The only "celebrity" on here that isn't an absolute embarrassment, is Adam West, and that's questionable.

* There's been another shooting, at another gas station. This makes ten.

   

Comments:
From: [info]allmyvoices
Date: 10/11/2002 11:34:22 AM

Its so scary and sad. All these people dying because of a sick person or people.
From: [info]closertofine
Date: 10/11/2002 5:52:41 PM

Ah! He used to be on General Hospital. He was kidnapped and a year later he returned but it was a different actor. The movie looks really interesting - I want to see it.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/11/2002 9:27:27 PM

I *loved* him as Lucky. When Jacob Young took over, I wished that someone would kidnap HIM. Blech. We watched JJ in Deep End of the Ocean; that was really good. I want to see him in Insomnia, too.

[is seethiness a word?] 10/11/2002 10:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Rusty took the damn car, even though I told him that *I* needed the damn car because I had to go to the damn store. We're low on milk, and I have one diaper (plus the one she's wearing) to last Sarah until he gets home this evening, and if she shits in that one diaper, I swear he will be having it for his damn dinner. Grrr...

You're right, Yosef - evil IS coming, and it is me. If you don't believe me, just give Rusty a call after I've gotten hold of him tonight.

   

[discovered by johno] 10/11/2002 10:50:00 AM

purple_stardust



Fund-Raiser Drops Nimoy As Speaker
Thu Oct 10,10:26 AM ET

SEATTLE (AP) - The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle has dropped Leonard Nimoy (news) from its Oct. 23 fund-raiser because of images in the former "Star Trek" star's art photography book of naked and partially dressed women, some with Jewish ritual items.

Federation director Barry Goren withdrew the invitation Wednesday in an "unpleasant" conversation, Nimoy told The Seattle Times for an article published Thursday.

The umbrella Jewish community group, which has about 4,500 regular donors, could not afford to jeopardize the annual fund-raiser, which produced about $10 million last year, Goren said.

After receiving "some expressions of concern" — he would not say how many — "I brought it to my leadership," Goren said.

"I think it's pretty self-explanatory," he said." If you were running a charity fund-raising dinner and there were going to be images of naked women or naked women with Jewish ritual objects draped on them, that might be offensive to some folks."

Comedian Al Franken, author of "Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations," has been booked as a replacement, Goren said.

Nimoy said he was shocked.

"It may be an anomaly. I hope it is. We have not had this kind of reaction anyplace else," he said.

The cover for Nimoy's book, "Shekhina," shows a woman with her left arm wrapped in phylacteries, a prayer accessory men traditionally wear, and her right breast visible through a translucent garment.

The work is entirely "reverential," said Nimoy, 71, a Jew who grew up in an Orthodox household and is now Reform.

"It's a photographic essay on the subject of the Shekhina, which is the feminine presence of God, the feminine aspect of divinity," he said. "This is not some figure that is a foggy mist in a cloud somewhere. I have depicted her as being a flesh-and-blood woman."

Some of his black-and-white photos are on display at the Skirball Cultural Center, a Jewish display and performing arts complex in Los Angeles, and the museum of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Reform Judaism's clergy training academy in New York.

"His evocations of spirit and flesh, prayer, gathering and embrace form a visual portal through which one may encounter this spiritual presence," the New York museum's Web site says.

For traditionalists, "there's no question that some of these issues could be considered transgressive," Nimoy said, but he maintained that federation officials knew about the photographs when they invited him in July.

Goren said Nimoy was asked "not to talk about his book but to talk about his 'Jewish journey,' a speech he has given in Jewish organizations before," although copies of the book were to have been available for sale.

Nimoy said he offered to negotiate with the federation on which images would be used in his slide show, but no agreement was reached and the talks collapsed Wednesday.
___

On the Web:

Nimoy's photography: http://www.leonardnimoyphotography.com/

Images from the book: http://www.fal.net/lnp/sacrednudes.html

Jewish Federation: http://www.jewishinseattle.org

{ Yahoo! News }

   

Comments:
From: [info]marlowe1
Date: 10/11/2002 11:52:13 AM

that's ironic
Over in WeirdJews I described my last three years of trying to take on all the Jewish Modesty laws as a way of hiding form the world.

I also said something about sick of being Spock.

I guess Spock is also sick of being Spock.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/11/2002 9:31:38 PM

Re: that's ironic
Yeah. I wasn't offended by the photos, but I was a bit taken aback.

I was also surprised to find that he'd gone from Orthodox to Reform! I wonder how common that is?

[the rest of the day] 10/11/2002 9:00:00 PM

purple_stardust





Rusty came home at noon because of the rain, and we went to Hagerstown MD. We stopped at Target, where he bought me a Soft 'n Silly Eeyore, and I bought a much-needed new purple vellux blanket for our bed. Next we stopped at Borders, where I bought Everyman's Talmud for my online class, and then at Petsmart, where they had no leopard geckos, so I did not buy one. We came home for a while, and then went out to dinner at El Ranchero. Overall, we had a very enjoyable day together!

   

[rip] 10/11/2002 5:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

Garfunkel II has died of dropsy. I give up on keeping orandas. Feh.

   

[shocking, I know] 10/11/2002 11:45:00 PM

purple_stardust


Just How Weird Are You?
   

[dinner] 10/12/2002 2:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Cheese quesadillas. A refried bean taco. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

Comments:
From: [info]allmyvoices
Date: 10/12/2002 3:17:49 AM

A perfect meal. I think I'll head down into town to the Mexican restaurant for dinner tonight. They make awesome enchiladas.

:)

[a must-have for geckos] 10/12/2002 11:15:00 AM

purple_stardust

ZooMed Feeding Tongs - Saves your finger from nips and keeps the food cleaner. More importantly, you don't have to actually touch their creepy wiggley dinners.

   

[can o' crickets!] 10/12/2002 11:30:00 AM

purple_stardust

This is amazing. Someone has actually figured out a way to charge five bucks for a can of dead crickets. Capitolism and human laziness is an amazing combination.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/12/2002 11:58:14 AM

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA These farm-raised crickets are prepared using a unique cooking process HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that locks in the flavor and freshness HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA and softens the exoskeleton for easier digestibility. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA OH GROSS HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

YS
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/12/2002 3:02:41 PM

Re: AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA! I know! On the other hand, if I had a gecko, and it was that or catch live crickets, I would probably buy canned crickets. Still, ewww.

[grrr] 10/12/2002 12:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I am so bored/pissed/annoyed. Rusty was supposed to have today off, but when I woke up, he (and the car!) was gone. He left a message on the phone saying that he had gone into the office to send the other two guys out, but one of them hadn't shown up, so he was going to work with the other one. I'm so sick of this.

   

Comments:
From: [info]allmyvoices
Date: 10/12/2002 3:39:31 PM

sweetp went into work this morning and I was stircrazy, too.

[extremely filtered post] 10/12/2002 2:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I need to rant. Gina (driftwood) is REALLY getting on my nerves. At first I was just sick of her whining about how much her life sucks - she's like, 19 - she has no idea how much life sucks. But now I am REALLY pissed at her. I drove all the way to Philly and gave her a rat - now that rat has a lump in his throat, and she just keeps whining to me about how sorry she is, but seems unwilling to DO anything to help him. She just keeps whining that G-d is taking away everything she loves (one of her older rats died, and she broke up with her cheesy boyfriend, waah). Ugh.

   

Comments:
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/12/2002 3:30:27 PM

I'm assuming they have SDA?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/12/2002 3:44:59 PM

I have no idea. That's what it *sounds* like, but it's hard to get a straight answer out of her. She said his breathing is laboured and he seems lethargic, plus she just got that rat (Neil) from the petstore about a week ago, which would be consistant with SDA.

On the other hand, her other rat (Miles) is fine. She says the lump is in the middle of his throat, not on one side, so I thought it might be an abcess. She says she doesn't see a scab on it, but that the lump is small (not visable, only noticable by touch), and hasn't grown since she noticed it. The only thing that I could think of besides SDA or an absess, is cancer, but he's much too young (six months) for that to really be likely.

Whatever it is, he needs a vet, but apparently there are none in Philidelphia. /rolls eyes
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/12/2002 6:18:11 PM

<head explodes>
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/14/2002 9:22:33 AM

lumps
Well the lumps don't have to be on one side or the other, they can be one in the center. My guess is that she brought home a virus when she got Neil. I sent you an email last week, probably spelled the damn eeyore wrong. It was before you told me how to spell it. I had mentioned that she got that petstore rat, and said that I was just waiting for something bad to happen.

[introductions are in order] 10/12/2002 10:35:00 PM

purple_stardust


Meet The Gecko. He is called The Gecko because he has no permanent name yet. Until he does, feel free to refer to him by his nickname, All Laurie's Fault. Yeah. I bought a gecko, and he needs a name. I am torn between something stuffy and British, something Jewish, or Fred (he came from Frederick MD). He (or she) is a very small gecko - the reptile department punk guessed less than two months old. He doesn't seem to mind being handled, and he has already eaten three crickets!
   

Comments:
From: [info]blairmaru
Date: 10/12/2002 10:38:01 PM

cuuuuuuuute! Dave's mom has a golden gecko named Cleo. One of her iguanas is Fred(rica), though.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/12/2002 10:41:03 PM

Oooh, golden gecko, that sounds pretty!

Fred would be good, actually. S/he's too young to sex now; so if he turned out to be a boy, he could be Frederick, and if he turns out to be a girl, he can be Fredricka! =D
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/12/2002 10:52:57 PM

Definately Fred. Fred is an excellent name for a Gecko.

Actually, Fred is an excellent name for anything.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/12/2002 11:00:02 PM

Heh. Kinda like when I was a kid, and used to name everything "Herman"... XD
From: [info]blairmaru
Date: 10/13/2002 9:06:16 AM

Herman was my grandpa's name!
From: [info]borracho
Date: 10/13/2002 12:10:55 PM

I have stared at his face and his name is Otto.

Otto is his name.

Now, thank me for telling you.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/13/2002 5:05:23 PM

He DOES look like an Otto, doesn't he? Hmmm... I will try that out. Thank you for telling me! :)
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/14/2002 9:03:38 PM

Bonzo or Socrates

[retarded post of the day] 10/12/2002 11:10:00 PM

purple_stardust

Awww... my lizard made a poopie! /giggles maniacally and falls over

   

Comments:
From: [info]slow_like_honey
Date: 10/12/2002 11:12:49 PM

Girl you are a trip :p *giggles*
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/12/2002 11:24:19 PM

I need help. LOL

[dinner] 10/13/2002 12:30:00 AM

purple_stardust

Triscuits. Chedder cheese dip. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[heavily filtered post] 10/13/2002 12:35:00 AM

purple_stardust

Oh. My. G-d. Gina's latest post:

ATTENTION to those of you on my friends list

(Yes, you, all my entries are friends-only)

You have exactly 24 hours to reply to this post and tell me that you give a flying fuck about me. If you do not reply to this post, then I will know how you feel and remove you.

I refuse to respond to that post.

   

[to whom it may concern:] 10/13/2002 12:40:00 AM

purple_stardust

Personally, I do not respond well to ultimatums.

   

Comments:
From: [info]driftwood
Date: 10/13/2002 3:57:56 AM

Hm.
From: [info]driftwood
Date: 10/16/2002 11:28:33 AM

By the way, if this was directed to that poast I made a few days ago (whining for people to respond or else), I am sorry about that, I said so in the following post. I was feeling stupid and mean. I don't want you to be upset with me.

If it wasn't directed towards me: 'my bad'. Ha.

[today] 10/13/2002 3:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

I finally gave in and ordered the other Judaism book that I needed; I couldn't find it locally. I also ordered a gecko book! And I ordered two new DVDs - Immortal Beloved and Amadeus. We've already seen them, but they're two of our favourites.

And then I went grocery shopping, yuck. I also stopped at the local hell hole pet store and bought some more stuff for The Gecko; a better heat lamp, a prettier water dish, and his special vitamin dust. I also bought fifty mealworms and a potato - and now I have a mealworm farm! They're so gross, but not so annoyingly bouncy as the crickets. He hasn't eaten one yet, only crickets, so I hope he likes them.

Rusty is watching We Were Soldiers. It's probably not a bad movie, but it bugs the shit out of me because when they talk, they mumble, but then when they show the actual war scenes, it's blaring. I understand that war is louder than people talking, but there needs to be some moderation. The volume needs to be turned well up to hear them speak, but in the next scene, it's loud enough to raise the dead.

   

[yucky] 10/13/2002 5:45:00 PM

purple_stardust

Gecko Ranch advises:

When selecting your mealworms, be sure to choose "soft" ones that are not in the shedding process. Feel the mealworms in your culture at various growth stages to get an idea of what "soft" and "hard" mealworm skin is like.

Umm, NO.

   

Comments:
From: [info]allmyvoices
Date: 10/13/2002 7:13:49 PM

yup, definitely no. Who's the little guy in your user icon? He's a cutie. Very photogenic.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/13/2002 7:19:35 PM

Thanks! That's Otto, the new gecko! I like this photo better: http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=madnessie&itemid=346005 :)
From: [info]instantclarity
Date: 10/14/2002 3:01:34 AM

Mealworms are so gross. I used to have a hedgehog named Bean who ate mealworms, and crickets. I don't think I could do that again.
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/14/2002 9:13:53 AM

They're just bugs. They're really not that bad.

[television woes] 10/13/2002 10:05:00 PM

purple_stardust

I cannot believe that we're missing The Practice, in order to watch Trading Spaces.

   

[new clique] 10/13/2002 10:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

   

[meet our future] 10/13/2002 10:55:00 PM

purple_stardust

It is a disturbing thing, that this person will soon be unleashed on society. He first came to my attention when he apparantly picked people interested in Judaism at random, and left anti-semetic remarks in their journals. At least, that's what he did in MY journal. I promptly deleted the comment, banned him from ever commenting in my journal again, and switched my journal to friends-only. Not that I'm paranoid for my safety, I just don't like to give the freaks a free outlet for their hatefulness. Anyway, I see that he hasn't grown any more enlightened since then.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/13/2002 11:11:51 PM

This guy is why I encourage birth control in public schools.

YS
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/14/2002 12:51:48 AM

Definately. And his parents should be surgically altered, lest they raise any more spawn like this.
From: [info]gypsydance
Date: 10/14/2002 1:59:22 AM

He mentioned something about his 18th birthday coming up... anyone else picturing a fat, pimply, pasty-faced geek with coke-bottle glasses who gets beat up on a regular basis (when he's not too busy playing D&D with his other pals like this "Dave" person - who just may be his homosexual lover)?
From: [info]marlowe1
Date: 10/15/2002 9:46:02 AM

I always thought it was strange that my second cousin was so pro-life when she had the demon children.

Then again the demon children grew up to be pretty good people. Well, for my relatives.

Besides anti-semitism is just G-d's way of keeping Jews Jewish.
From: [info]marlowe1
Date: 10/15/2002 9:49:59 AM

He's a strange one. Talking about going to temple with his boyfriend and then doing the obligatory 'Hitler's birthdya is coming' statement to get a rise.

Still - a welcome relief from the Israel bashers who all think themselves good people.

[gecko-riffic] 10/13/2002 11:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

Okay, one more post about The Gecko, and then I promise I'll shup up about geckos (and associated crickets and mealworms and lizard poopie) for a while.

He has eaten six crickets in the 24 hours that I've had him! I showed him a mealworm today (he's never eaten anything but small crickets), but he was not interested. I may have over-dusted it with the vitamin powder though, or he may have still been full of crickets, so I will try again tomorrow. I hope he'll eat them, otherwise, what am I going to do with a friggen mealworm farm? Ewww.

Most online sources that I've seen, say that the baby leopard geckos don't like to be handled. This one doesn't rush to be picked up like the rats do, but he doesn't seem to object too much, and he seems pretty calm once he's out.

I got his tank all set up! It is a 10-gallon aquarium with Calci-Sand, a stone water dish, and a half-log hidey cave. I got a better heat lamp (I was using a small desk lamp at first) and the blue (day-time) and red (night-time) bulbs.

Geckos are nocturnal, and can tolerate cooler nights. For extra-cold nights, there is a special red bulb, and the lizard thinks it's night-time, so they get heat without screwing with their little internal clocks. I don't know if I will regularly heat his tank at night (my thermostat is set within his comfort range anyway), but I have the red bulb on now, because I want to sleep on the sofa and see what he does tonight!

/me is much amused with the new gecko.

   

[pathasia] 10/14/2002 12:25:00 AM

purple_stardust

Pathasia (Pa-THAY-shah). Noun. The act of being pathetic. Yes, I made it up myself.I like to make up words, okay? Sometimes real words just don't cover it.

Anyway, I just realised how much reading my journal is like reading transcripts of Wild Kingdom. I don't know whether I should be amused or disturbed by this fact.

We hope that you'll join us tomorrow, when Renee attempts to wrangle nine savage ratlets whilst relocating them to their new habitats! Will she be successful, or will they manage to get the better of her? Stay tuned!

I am the Queen of Pathasia, please bow appropriately.

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/14/2002 8:39:24 AM

Heh..one can never get enough of wild kingdom...
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/15/2002 10:38:21 AM

Can I be the Princess of Pathasia? I mean, I've got turtles, fish, and geckos in the dining room, crickets in the living room, more turtles in the basement, turtles, rats, and a chameleon in my bedroom, even more turtles and spiders in the back room, not to mention mealworms in the dining room and earthworms in the kitchen and the fridge.

Everywhere you go in here, there's another living thing! I wanna be Pathasia royalty too. =P

[like the wild thornberries!] 10/14/2002 12:45:00 AM

purple_stardust

Speaking of animal show journals, meet [info]bioclaire... she has all sorts of beasties!

   

Comments:
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/14/2002 1:25:02 AM

whee! ^^; they are kind of my life... every once in a while you get something about me, lol.

[dinner] 10/14/2002 2:00:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Papa John's cheese sticks with cheese and pizza sauces. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[lila is making my head spin] 10/14/2002 9:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

If megacolon is bonded to white spotting then you should be able to cleanly remove it from a blood line by removing all the white spotting. But if it's separate and needs white spotting to set it off and you remove all the white spotting you won't remove the megacolon, but rather surpress it.

That means that five generations down the line if someone tries to breed in a white spotted rat (that has no history of MC) you could get MC babies all over again. In both cases the line has no more MC, but only in one case is it really gone for good.

/me boggles.

   

[movie news] 10/14/2002 10:30:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |DVD - K-Pax]

K-Pax is not nearly so fun and light-hearted as it appeared in the trailers. Geez.

   

Comments:
From: [info]slow_like_honey
Date: 10/14/2002 10:51:16 PM

I love K-Pax :D
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/14/2002 11:46:58 PM

Yeah, I really enjoyed it, will probably buy the DVD when the price drops. It wasn't nearly as "light" as the previews implied, though. For a while there, it was pretty damned dark! Wow. I really like Kevin Spacey.

[news] 10/14/2002 11:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Another shooting. At least it sounds like they have more to go on now.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/15/2002 12:23:12 AM

Crazy...Hashem's curse be upon him or them.

[dinner] 10/15/2002 12:05:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

LQ baked fish and chedder shells. Cheese sandwich. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[dc area shootings] 10/15/2002 12:45:00 AM

purple_stardust

Oh my G-d, they've shut down that whole section of the beltway and they're stopping every car. Traffic is backed up for miles. Maybe they're really onto something this time; this is the most coverage that I've seen them get after a shooting. I can see I'm going to be up watching the news all night. Dammit.

   

[big lizard in my backyard] 10/15/2002 2:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

I *really* want to name The Gecko "Jesus". The thought was amuses me terribly.

Jesus ate a mealworm today!

What would Jesus do?

Jesus stuck his tongue out at me!

Unfortunately, I'm afraid it would offend the X-tians on my friends list...

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/15/2002 3:34:44 PM

You could name the gecko Yeshua? Haysus?

YS
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/15/2002 3:58:48 PM

I wouldn't be offended, I'd think "Hey, that lizard must be a Chicano!" Anyway, I bet loads of people in the Middle-East are called Jesus! Can I just say that you have a knack for picking uber-cute pets, he is so sweet. You're killing me with these pretty aminals.
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/15/2002 6:57:08 PM

I've always subscribed to the philosophy of "Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke." But I understand how you wouldn't want to offend your friends.

How about Moses? I think he could be a Moses. Or Rosco.
From: [info]borracho
Date: 10/15/2002 8:13:19 PM

I think I told you his name is OTTO!!!!!

[dinner] 10/16/2002 12:10:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Mac and cheese with shredded four-cheese mix. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[lizard stuff] 10/16/2002 11:25:00 AM

purple_stardust

I hope my copy of The Leopard Gecko Manual arrives soon! I want to see what it says; I keep getting conflicting information on the internet. Like, on how often (and how much!) to feed them, for example. And whether to dust the prey every time, or every other time. Also, I am supposed to put a piece of wet moss in there, I think to help The Gecko shed, but I'm not sure what kind of moss, and if I'm supposed to stick it in his cave, or on it. I hope he'll be okay until I can figure it out!

I also need some decorating ideas; his tank is so boring! He only has his water dish and his hidey cave... he needs STUFF. Maybe I will get him a rock, or a piece of driftwood to sit on. Or some plants - Laurie, are there any non-prickley succulants that would be safe to plant in there? I think some live plants would be nice.

Rusty (who did not want The Gecko) is already saying that his tank is too small (it's not), and that he needs a 125-gallon tank with a tree to climb. Unfortunately, leopard geckos are not much for climbing, but he means well.

   

Comments:
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/18/2002 10:44:55 PM

There are lots and lots of non-prickly succulents -- crassula, sanseveria, peperomia, stapelia, aloe, huernia...

Some links!

http://www.cactus-mall.com/
http://www.delectus.agava.ru/
http://www.succulents.net/
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/cacti_and_succulents

Succulents are the best. =D
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/18/2002 10:51:24 PM

Have you planted live plants in your gecko tanks before? I guess since they're carnivorous lizards, poisonous plants are not an issue? I think I should start some Lithops (Living Stones) for him! He needs decor, dammit. His cage looks boring for him. He needs... STUFF.
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/18/2002 11:01:57 PM

Trust me, they don't care about anything that doesn't move. They don't even notice insects unless the bugs are running around. They're definitely not going to care about the plants. =)

I have no plants in my tanks, but that's mostly because I'd need bigger tanks since I'd have to put down a soil substrate and it's easier to just have sand.

You should make Rusty buy a 125 gallon tank, and fill it with plants and tiny geckos. That would rule.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/18/2002 11:06:14 PM

I'd need bigger tanks since I'd have to put down a soil substrate and it's easier to just have sand.

Could you plant the succulents in small pots, and then bury the pots in the sand? That's what *I* was going to do, anyway...

[a ren and stimpy moment] 10/16/2002 2:55:00 PM

purple_stardust

Gritty Kitty ain't so pretty, but it's really thick
It fills my cat box oh so snug, it always does the trick
I like to rub it on my toes and squish and squish and squish
It ne'er offends my tender nose, like a smelly fish
Its texture is a joy to me, it's just as smooth as silk
It makes my little whiskers twitch, it stays crunchy even in milk
I may not be the president, I may not be the pope
But as long as I have Gritty Kitty, I shall never mope.

/me giggles like a fool.

   

[dinner] 10/17/2002 12:05:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Cheese sandwich. Goldfish crackers. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[...] 10/17/2002 8:35:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |MP3 - Faith Hill - Cry]

Could you cry a little, lie just a little
Pretend that you're feeling a little more pain
I gave now I'm wanting something in return
So cry just a little for me.

--Faith Hill, Cry

   

[two rats by vincent van gogh] 10/17/2002 10:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

   

Comments:
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/17/2002 11:04:30 AM

Please tell me they're not nibbling on a severed ear.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/17/2002 11:08:35 AM

Nah, I think it's just a severed piece of bread. XD
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/17/2002 11:33:23 AM

Re:
I knew that. Really.
From: [info]jacquez
Date: 10/17/2002 12:22:09 PM

oooh. i have a new desktop background....

[soup of the day] 10/17/2002 10:55:00 AM

purple_stardust

So I bought a Can o' Crickets for The Gecko. On the side, it warns: "not for human consumption" ...which is a bummer, because I'm really hungry. /gags.

And Barnes & Noble emailed me to let me know that they would be shipping my gecko book late (hopefully today). Dammit. I want my friggen book NOW.

   

Comments:
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/17/2002 1:58:05 PM

lol, my two gecko babies hate those canned crickets! they walk over, lick, and give this look, "What the hell are you trying to feed me?!" and go back to sleeping in their hide out.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/17/2002 2:07:40 PM

Mine gave me that look too, but he did eventually eat it. Of course, every time I use the vitamin/calcium powder, he acts like I'm trying to poison him. They must not dust the bugs at Petsmart.
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/17/2002 6:57:54 PM

Re:
My argentine horned frog used to give me that look too, about the calcium powder. Animals are so amusing! And so picky.

[reason to stay home #469] 10/17/2002 6:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

I had to drop off DVDs at the rental place, so I stopped at Sheetz to pick up a few things. For those of you not on the US east coast, Sheetz is a convenience store, like 7-11 but way better. It must have been Bad 80's Hair Night at Sheetz, because I saw both a woman with a mullet AND a guy with a rat-tail.

Anyway, I was standing in line with my stuff, and the creepy little Mullet Woman pointed to the can of cat food that I put on the counter, and asked me how much I was paying for it. I said 79 cents, or something.

Her response: "I got cats too, and I ain't paying no 79 cents for a can of cat food." Then she proceeded to tell me how much canned cat food cost at the supermarket, as if I had never been to one.

I said "Well, that just goes to show you how much I hate going to the supermarket." I left off "...because at the supermarket, there are even MORE mullet-wearing grammar-impaired freaks like you!"

People completely freak me out.

   

Comments:
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/17/2002 7:46:15 PM

lol!

[version 1.2.1.1 - woo hoo!] 10/17/2002 10:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

   

10/17/2002 10:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

This is only a test.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   

[zbr zootie frootie] 10/17/2002 11:45:00 PM

purple_stardust



Like any other only child, Zootie is a touched spoiled. :)


ZBR Zootie Frootie


Zootie loves his mac and cheese.


But it makes his face dirty!


Zootie is special. I can tell.
   

Comments:
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/17/2002 11:56:10 PM

I am reminded of the Giant Hamster episode of Invader Zim.
From: [info]instantclarity
Date: 10/18/2002 12:09:23 AM

AHHHHHH CUUUUUUUUTE!!!! :::head explodes:::
From: [info]closertofine
Date: 10/18/2002 8:57:58 AM

Awwwwwww!! I love the last picture especially.
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/18/2002 9:48:04 AM

*Passes out*


(that'll teach me to mix flu meds with ratlet pics!)

I'm running out of words for 'cute' here :)
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/18/2002 10:05:25 PM

I know where you live.

So if one day you wake up and zootie frootie is just gone,

well...
uh...
i wouldn't know anything about that...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/18/2002 10:45:50 PM

Hey! Everyone is after the Zootie! Even my own mother tried to put him in her pocket! I think I need an alarm system...
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/18/2002 10:47:36 PM

Hey!

I, uh, I don't know anything about that.

I'm not gonna kidnap that cutie.

Uh... right!

I'm trustworthy!
From: [info]samuraikitty
Date: 10/19/2002 10:21:28 PM

Oh my GODS that is the cutest rat EVER. He is going on my desktop at work. I need some happy cute joy.

[dinner] 10/18/2002 12:30:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Papa John's cheese pizza. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[ugh] 10/18/2002 11:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Apparently, there ARE limits to how many Reese's Cups you should eat at one time.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/18/2002 11:40:21 AM

Oh my!

YS
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/18/2002 1:27:59 PM

How many is too many? You're so brave, doing this 'scientific' research on behalf of humankind!!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/18/2002 4:00:53 PM

Thank you, I try to do my part for humanity.

And in anser to your question, five seems to be the limit. Six is definately over the line, anyway. LOL
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/18/2002 6:12:25 PM

Do you mean the small fun sized ones, or the regular ones that come two to a pack?

And who made up that fun sized crap anyway? For me, a FUN candy bar would be one the size of my head.

Mmmmm. Candy.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/18/2002 9:14:47 PM

The full-sized ones, of course! I don't waste my time with miniature candy, fun or not. Head-sized Reese's Cups, now THAT would be fun! XD
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/18/2002 10:05:57 PM

Mmmm... giant candy...

<drool>

[shocking] 10/18/2002 9:10:00 PM

purple_stardust

   

Comments:
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/18/2002 9:23:10 PM

That's what I got too. I was hoping for something more... uh... me.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/18/2002 9:24:11 PM

Sadly, this is pretty accurate for me! =\
From: [info]driftwood
Date: 10/18/2002 9:49:16 PM

That about sums up Borderline. No fun, but now I have to take this test, as I am curious if too will be Borderline...

[a note] 10/18/2002 9:45:00 PM

purple_stardust

In an ongoing effort to bring useful knowledge to my friends, I am going to test the Reese's Cup / upset stomach ratio again tonight, on the chance that previous results could have been contaminated by other factors (viral entities, too much coffee, etcetera). Although such repetitive experiments are costly, time-consuming, and sometimes painful for me, I will continue to test my findings, in order to bring chocolate clarity to you. I do it because I care. /me wipes away a tear

   

Comments:
From: [info]grimkitten_
Date: 10/18/2002 11:06:19 PM

It's nice to know you only think of us. *sigh* Whatta pal! ;P
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/19/2002 9:02:39 AM

*sniffle*

So.... brave.

[cool!] 10/18/2002 11:20:00 PM

purple_stardust

I went to the bookshelf to look for a book about terrariums. Obviously forgotten by me, I have quite a reptile section! I found some goodies...

* Digest for the Successful Terrarium

* All About Lizards

* Lizards in the Terrarium

They're still not as cool as The Leopard Gecko Manual, but maybe they will tide me over until it arrives. The Gecko needs decor, dammit!

   

Comments:
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/19/2002 12:06:30 AM

Say, I forgot to ask: Did you enjoy The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents?
You should IM me sometime.
my SN is phqurx
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/19/2002 4:20:26 PM

I haven't read it yet! I had been reading Judaism books, but now that you reminded me, this would be a good book to read in bed (since I like to read something before I go to sleep, but would prefer something that I'm not trying to take notes for). Heh. This would be perfect!

[dinner] 10/19/2002 1:05:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

TV dinner - fish, mac and cheese, broccoli. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[an update] 10/19/2002 4:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

For the record, eight Reese's Cups cause even more intestinal discord than six Reese's Cups do. Of course, anyone who eats eight Reese's Cups in one sitting, probably deserves intestinal discord. Ahh, the things I do in the name of science...

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/19/2002 5:34:37 PM

I have been known to eat them in mass quantities myself.

As I was explaining to the husband the other day, I find myself suppressing the desire to gorge myself with certain items. (It was twinkies at this particular time.) I decided to blame my stepmom (you know, she's the cause of all things bad ;o)...if she hadn't put us on a 'daily ration', I probably wouldn't be this bad off. He was rolling his eyes by this time...

But yeah, part of me is like, "There is no one here to tell me that I can't do this...I can eat the whole box if I want! I love being an adult!"
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/19/2002 6:34:12 PM

I like to blame Rusty: if I weren't so complacent, I wouldn't be stuffing my face like this. Yeah. That's the ticket.
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/19/2002 6:11:39 PM

OK, let's say a hypothetical LJer was recommending a second hypothetical LJer for a Nobel Prize for this sort of research... would it be classed as Chemistry or Biology? ;)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/19/2002 10:06:32 PM

I'm thinking Biology. On the other hand, I've always thought that enough chocolate could bring about world peace...
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/19/2002 10:12:25 PM

Re:
I'd better.. I mean, H-LJer 1 should probably enter #2 in every category then :) You're an inspiration to us all!

[today] 10/19/2002 6:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

We took two of the ratlets down to Manassas VA to meet their new parents. One of them already has two of my Siamese babies, and the other girl seemed really cool too. It was kind of weird going to Manassas; the Petco where we met is right across the road from the Sunoco station where one of the sniper shootings took place.

Afterwards, I went into Petco to see if they had my leopard gecko book, which Barnes & Noble still hasn't shipped. They didn't, but I did buy The Leopard Gecko: An Owners Guide and The Guide to Owning a Leopard Gecko. New books, hooray!

   

[news] 10/19/2002 11:35:00 PM

purple_stardust

There's been another shooting, this time in Ashford VA. Oy vey.

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/20/2002 10:37:10 AM

They really need to comb the rental cars/vehicles.

[dinner] 10/20/2002 1:45:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Macaroni and cheese with tunafish. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

Comments:
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/20/2002 2:22:54 AM

*laughing* You know, a friend of mine here at school also eats tuna with her mac and cheese. I have never heard of that combination before I met her. You make #2! Its hard to think its actually yummy... :O (I haven't tried it yet, it's scary.)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/20/2002 5:03:54 PM

Haha! I usually prefer it without, but I had leftovers that I'd made for Rusty a few nights ago. I usually just make it with extra CHEESE! =D
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/20/2002 5:52:57 PM

Re:
:D Cheese is so yummy

[today] 10/20/2002 9:35:00 PM

purple_stardust

We drove to Harrisburg PA to meet another ratlet adoptor. The ratlet in question was the little hooded boy, and I was really sad to see him go. I'm glad I kept the baby I did, the one who looks like Brutus, but I'm a sucker for hoodeds anyway, and this little guy was really sweet. I hope she takes good care of him.

And then we stopped at Petsmart, where I bought The Leopard Gecko Manual, and some more mealworms. Yesterday, I bought him a piece of driftwood, so now I want to buy some succulents and make his tank prettier. I also had an idea on how to make a really cool hidey cave; perhaps I will start on that tomorrow.

On the drive home, we had a spirited discussion about religion and politics and how to fix the world. I'm starting to think that Rusty is Jewish, and just doesn't know it.

I ordered subs and stuff from Anthony's. The delivery guy saw the Papa John's boxes in the trash, and teased me about that. I told him that it was just one night and that it didn't mean anything, but I don't think he believed me.

And now we're watching CNN - they might have a lead on the sniper investigation.

   

[father and son] 10/20/2002 10:00:00 PM

purple_stardust


FRR Zippy Zoot and ZBR Zootie Frootie
   

Comments:
From: [info]driftwood
Date: 10/20/2002 11:55:08 PM

Cuteness times two!
From: [info]arkady
Date: 10/21/2002 3:52:24 AM

Awww. Dad looks so proud of his cute little son! I do wonder if Mercury will be half as interested in his sons....

Heh. Most ratty pregnancies being 22-24 days, by this time tomorrow Veloria could have started producing babies!!
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/21/2002 4:50:46 AM

Sooo coot...
Ooohh...the little one & I just love looking at these. I'll have to show him this one when he wakes up.

[random meme] 10/20/2002 11:35:00 PM

purple_stardust

[ Current Mood ] Mellow.
[ Current Music ] Fox News Channel.
[ Current Taste ] Soda and cigarettes.
[ Current Make-up ] None, I never wear make-up.
[ Current Clothes ] Pink cotton nighgown, pink cheneille robe.
[ Current Hair ] Would-be bangs pulled back in a butterfly clip.
[ Current Annoyance ] Laurie Dhue and her colligen implants.
[ Current Smell ] I have no sense of smell.
[ Current Thing ] I want a purple Thing.
[ Current Desktop Picture ] Autumn leaves.
[ Current Favorite Artist ] David Bowie, always.
[ Current Favorite Group ] Pink Floyd and The Cure.
[ Current Book you're reading] The Leopard Gecko Manuel.
[ Current CD in Player] Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon.
[ Current DVD in Player] None, the last was K-Pax.
[ Current Color of Toenails ] Toenail-coloured.
[ Current Worry ] Don't worry. Be happy.
[ Current Refreshment ] Heh.

   

[dinner] 10/21/2002 12:15:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Steak and cheese sub w/mustard. Mozzerella sticks. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[sniper investigation] 10/21/2002 9:50:00 AM

purple_stardust

Police have cordoned off a major intersection near where the city of Richmond meets Henrico County. According to media at the site, police surrounded a white van at a gas station and arrested a man sitting in the van a short time ago. --wjla.com

   

[the gecko] 10/21/2002 1:45:00 PM

purple_stardust

I am starting to think that getting The Gecko was a bad idea. He doesn't seem to like it here; he doesn't eat very much, and I have never seen him drink from his water dish, only a few times when I've misted the wall. Also, he doesn't seem very active. I am wondering if I should try to find a better home for him... :(

   

Comments:
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/21/2002 2:20:59 PM

Aww, don't say that. They aren't very active, at least from what I can tell. During the day they sleep, and during the night they come out, check things outs (slowly, btw...) and then go back to sleep.

From my experience (which is nothing to be taken seriously, I gather because these are my first two geckos), they don't drink often. I've never seen ours drink from the water bowl either.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/21/2002 3:55:13 PM

well, that makes me feel some better, thanks. How much do yours eat?
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/21/2002 6:59:00 PM

Re:
:( a lot. we get them 10 small crickets and they eat most of them within one evening.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/21/2002 9:00:41 PM

Shit. Mine doesn't eat nearly that much, only 2-3 crickets or mealworms per day. :(
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/22/2002 12:47:49 AM

Re:
Maybe ours are just pigs? :/ Ask around, or read the gecko book or something?

I wish I could help more.
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/21/2002 10:43:27 PM

They don't really do much... They kinda sit around all day. But mine do eat anything I put in with them, very enthusiastically. Might he be feeling unwell, or perhaps suffering from parasites, or maybe it's too cold, or not used to the new surroundings yet?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/21/2002 11:15:29 PM

I don't know about the parasites; what are the symptoms? From the books I've read, geckos seem a lot like rats - the symptoms of everything are lethargy and loss of appetite.

I guess it *could* be too cold... during the day I use a 100w basking light, and at night he gets a 60w red bulb. The thermometer is at the other end of the tank, and it usually reads 85f during the day, 75f at night, on the cooler end.

I don't know enough about them to know what is considered lethargic. He lays under his log for most of the day. When I put in the red bulb, he comes out and sleeps on the sand on that end. Once in a while he walks around the tank, but not much.

I just don't know what do do. He hasn't eaten much since he gakked up that white pod. He doesn't like mealworms at all, nor the canned crickets. I put the last two live crickets in there this morning, but I don't know for sure if he's eaten them or if they're hiding.

I am going out tomorrow to get more live crickets, but if he won't eat them, I don't know what else to do. If he doesn't start eating *something* soon, I'm going to have to take him back to Petsmart. I can't just let him starve. :*(
From: [info]bioclaire
Date: 10/22/2002 2:15:40 AM

Our geckos HATE canned crickets.

Also, I was under the impression that geckos had to be at 90 degrees during the day? And around 80 during the night...? Is that too hot? O_O
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/25/2002 3:02:32 PM

Re:
Is he starting to settle in now? It seems like you're happier with him now, and his tank is all set up. He's cute. =)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/25/2002 4:35:13 PM

I was always happy with HIM; I was just freaking out, thinking that I was killing him or something. But yeah, he's doing great, eating lots of crickets and prowling around his tank. :)

[terrible horrible nogood verybad day] 10/21/2002 11:45:00 PM

purple_stardust

My gecko isn't eating properly.

One of my older dumbo girls (Mollie) died.

I am even more cynical than usual this evening.

This evening, I was compelled to scream and curse and mutilate a box of mac and cheese because the stupid push-in flap wouldn't push in. There is now dry macaroni and pink chenielle fluff all over my kitchen floor, and what's more, I do not care.

I want to bite someone, and not in the happy-kinky-fun way, either. Grrr...

   

[netscape] 10/22/2002 12:25:00 AM

purple_stardust

I used to use Netscape Communicator. By about version 5.0, it started to crash a lot more often, and I switched to IE and Outlook Express. But today, just for shits and giggles, I downloaded Netscape 7.0. So far, I am still not impressed.

   

Comments:
From: [info]cellio
Date: 10/22/2002 9:56:22 AM

I switched from Netscape 6.2 to Mozilla and reliability went way up. If you like the Netscape feel in general, you might try that. (Netscape was based on Mozilla, but Netscape 6.2 was based on an older, buggier version than the current Mozilla. I haven't seen Netscape 7.0.)

[thawing] 10/22/2002 12:50:00 AM

purple_stardust

Note to self: don't forget that there is a package of chicken in the microwave!

   

[dinner] 10/22/2002 2:05:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Kraft white chedder macaroni and cheese. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[news] 10/22/2002 11:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

I woke up to find there had been another shooting, this time a 40-year-old bus driver in Montgomery County. I was telling Jonah the other day, the thing that I find interesting about this case is, the media has reduced these victims to a/s/l. They get a name, age, location, maybe an occupation, but that's about it. I was thinking 9-11, and how the media gave us personal details about a lot of the victims, we were made to feel that we knew them. With these victims, the media tells us nothing about them. There are as anonymous to us as they are to the shooter. I wonder if this is a deliberate move, or if the media (and the public) has just become that jaded.

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/22/2002 1:35:00 PM

Yeah...I was wondering that too. Who are these people? What did they enjoy; what were their aspirations? And is it possible for them to interview someone who knew these people?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/22/2002 9:59:49 PM

EXACTLY. They talked about the one woman (Linda Franklin) surviving breast cancer (how sad is that), but that's about it. :(

[birthday reminders] 10/22/2002 3:10:00 PM

purple_stardust

Since Live Journal hasn't been sending birthday reminders, I was very happy when Stephanie found birthdayalarm.com. Please enter your name and/or username and birthdate, so I can wish you a happy birthday at the appropriate time. Coolness!

   

[exercise] 10/22/2002 5:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I started using the Ab Slide again. I did it every other day the last few times, so I wouldn't be too sore at first to use it at all, which is what happened last time - but now I am going to try to do it every day, 30 reps per day, to start. Bah.

   

[the noshing gecko] 10/22/2002 9:25:00 PM

purple_stardust

Leopard geckos have two staple food possibilities: mealworms and crickets. I thought mealworms would be a good choice, being easy to breed, and more importantly, easy to catch. Both are gross, but at least the mealworms won't try to jump on my hand. I don't have to touch them. But anyway, those are the two options.

Except, my gecko is defective, and hates mealworms. I thought he was sick, because he refused to eat. But it wasn't that he refused to eat, it was that he refused to eat mealworms. I put five or six live crickets in there and he ate them all.

Spoiled lizard. Now what the hell am I doing to do with this mealworm farm???

   

Comments:
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/22/2002 9:29:20 PM

Buy a new pet that will eat them ;)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/22/2002 9:56:28 PM

A lot of help YOU are! LOL
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/22/2002 10:54:36 PM

Re:
Like a different lizard. Or maybe a small monkey of some sort.
From: [info]tues
Date: 10/22/2002 11:03:16 PM

I once had an iguana that had a huge appetite for crickets. we used to keep them little bugs in a clear plastic aquarium with a hinged lid. one day I went in to check on the crickets and found that the lid had flipped open somehow. that was one of the scariest days of my life!

... I can still hear their ominous chriping in the dark corners of my house. my only hope is that all the noise is only in my mind! ^_~
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/22/2002 11:40:42 PM

LOL! Yeah, that's another reason I was hoping he'd like the mealworms... I am seriously ooged out by crickets!!! The baby ones are creepy but not completely horrifying, but those black ones, EWW. They're like bigger, blacker, crunchier cockroaches, and unlike cockroaches, they'll jump at you! I honestly can't sleep if I know they're in the house.


Maybe I can ween him over to mealworms as he gets older...
From: [info]arkady
Date: 10/23/2002 7:59:00 AM

Feed them to the rats. They'll love them!

[authentic indian name generator] 10/22/2002 10:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

<< http://www.aspalta.cbc.ca/deaddog_asp/ain.asp >>

If I use Renee Snyder, I am Mary Regimented Pinecone.
If I use the name I was born with, I am Gracie Happy Slammer!
If I use all of my married names, I am Marie Gentle Singer.

But...

If I use my chosen Hebrew name, I am... Annabelle Unsweetened Loon !!! =)

   

Comments:
From: [info]copperpoint
Date: 10/22/2002 10:52:27 PM

Happy Slammer sounds dirty...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/22/2002 11:47:39 PM

Or drunk and disorderly. =D

[dinner] 10/23/2002 1:00:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Steak and cheese sub. Mozzerella sticks. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[fear me] 10/23/2002 6:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

I have a cold. What's worse, Rusty has a cold. I would rather have ten colds, than put up with his moaning about one. So I think I am going to have to have him put to sleep.

I am certifiably crabby. He spilled a glass of soda last night, near the old 19" television set that we recently replaced. That wasn't so bad, but the TV was in the way of my cleaning up the soda, so I picked it up and hurled it out the door.

   

[sniper investigation] 10/23/2002 8:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

Oh my. The FBI is grid-searching a yard in Tacoma WA for ballistics evidence in connection with the MD/DC/VA sniper shootings. Very interesting...

   

Comments:
From: [info]clarice
Date: 10/23/2002 10:39:39 PM

Western Washington! Home of all the World's Greatest Serial Killers! (why, I think my own school has graduated most of them.)

[oh no!] 10/23/2002 9:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

Beware!

   

[serial killers] 10/23/2002 10:15:00 PM

purple_stardust

I love crimelibrary.com.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/23/2002 10:32:43 PM

This site rocks! Thanks so much!

YS
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/23/2002 10:37:04 PM

I love that site, I could (and have!) read it for hours!

[woot!] 10/23/2002 11:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I would like to welcome [info]pinkteabag to my friends list... I met her in the community - she has a really cute New Zealand forest gecko named Twinkie! Also, her boyfriend has the funniest username ever. Welcome to my journal! :)

   

Comments:
From: [info]pinkteabag
Date: 10/23/2002 11:45:46 PM

hehe
I also have a forest gecko named oreo, shes a little cutie too. Ill have to get some photos of her. As well as 3 ornata skinks (including my baby Sid..hes SOO adorable) and 4 shore skinks.. :)
welll when I say "I" I mean "we" me and dan [info]jesusgecko hehe

thankyou for the wonderful welcome :)
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/24/2002 11:27:12 AM

gecko
Did you name that poor gecko yet?? I've been waiting to hear what it is, but you haven't said a word about it. I can't bear the cuteness of his face.

[dinner] 10/23/2002 11:15:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |TV - Fox News Channel]

Fish sticks. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[morning news] 10/24/2002 7:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Oooh, they arrested two guys last night near Frederick MD (where I got The Gecko, btw). They've been playing it pretty close to the vest, but I'm pretty sure that they think they're responsible for the DC area sniper shootings, or at least know who is.

   

[errands] 10/24/2002 1:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I went to the post office and bank... got my checkbook balanced for the first time since October 1st. My stupid bank started charging a fee for using another bank's ATM machine, in addition to the fee that the other bank charges, so it was a mess.

And then I stopped at Petsmart and bought more creepy crickets for The Gecko, as well as a bigger hidey log, some moss, and a jar of some sort of calcium-fortified gelatinous crap that is supposed to hydrate the obviously retarded crickets so that they don't drown in real water. I wanted cricket food, but they didn't have any.

So I came home, where I have been watching the news. I was hoping Moose would have something more to say about the sniper investigation, but not yet. It looks like the two guys that they arrested last night ARE the sniper(s). I really hope they give us some idea of their motives; they don't fit the typical serial killer profile.

I'm hungry, and there's no food in the house. Well, okay, so there IS technically food in the house, but it's all gross and stupid and not what I want to eat.

   

[gecko decor] 10/24/2002 10:00:00 PM

purple_stardust


I stapled moss to the underside of his new hiding log and misted it. I also stole one of the goldfishes' big smooth rocks and scrubbed and boiled it, and put it in the gecko tank, in case he wants to bask. I bought a big piece of driftwood last weekend, I soaked it in weak tea to darken it just a tad, and added that. I even used the tweezers to make little zen garden paths. I know, I need help.

I want to get another (non-corner) water dish, as the stupid crickets keep wedging themselves between the bowl and the wall, and hiding. I also want to put up a backdrop of some sort, given all the goldfish aquarium cords and tubing that hang behind the tank. And I still want to add a few live plants. As soon as I do these things, I think it will be just as I want it to look. Except for one thing...

Now that we've recreated this natural desert environment, we want to get two miniature pink plastic flamingos to stick in tothe sand. THEN it will be perfect. =)
   

Comments:
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/24/2002 10:27:05 PM

He looks like a bold little thing, standing on his driftwood! BTW, what's his name?

two miniature pink plastic flamingos to stick in tothe sand

You *will* post a picture of this, right?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/24/2002 11:17:21 PM

He *is* bold, and he looks like he thinks himself quite the little stud! Unfortunately, I have still not decided on his name... And you KNOW I will be posting a picture! =)
From: [info]pinkteabag
Date: 10/24/2002 11:29:34 PM

jesus! :P
haha
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/25/2002 5:45:21 AM

Re:
he thinks himself quite the little stud

Then you'd better not tell him that I think he's cute. Don't want him getting a swelled head or anything. {g}
From: [info]pinkteabag
Date: 10/24/2002 10:27:32 PM

its just beautiful
:)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/24/2002 11:18:42 PM

Thanks! I am really getting into this gecko-keeping; decorating his home is a lot of fun! :)
From: [info]pinkteabag
Date: 10/24/2002 11:28:57 PM

Its better than a dollhouse :P
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/25/2002 1:15:32 PM

It looks great. =)

[to do] 10/24/2002 11:00:00 PM

purple_stardust



I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during the dinner hour. But that doesn't make it any more pleasant. Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed "Three Little Words" based on his brief experience in a telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time.

The three little words are "Hold on, please." Saying this while putting down your phone and walking off instead of hanging up immediately would make each telemarketing call so time consuming those boiler rooms would grind to a halt. When you eventually hear the phone company's beep beep beep tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. This might be one of those articles you'll want to e-mail to your friends.

When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the payment. Let them throw the stuff away. Think globally; act locally. When you get those pre-approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes! Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express, or a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their application back! Just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can send it back empty if you want, just to keep 'em guessing!

Let's turn this e-mail into a chain letter! Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting all their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get junk mail, and best of all...THEY'RE paying for it! Twice!

Let's support our postal service. They say e-mail is cutting into their business and that's why they need to keep increasing postage. We can help! Pass this along to all your friends and maybe we could get enough business for the post office that they will not have to raise rates in 2004.

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/25/2002 1:16:23 AM

no kidding!
From: [info]cellio
Date: 10/25/2002 10:54:15 AM

That's great!

It would be easier to pass this on to some of my friends if this were a public posting. (Or is this anonymous, rather than your words? I just didn't want to pass it on without your name attached to it if you wrote it.)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/25/2002 1:10:47 PM

It's just an anonymous email that I recieved; you're welcome to post it in your own journal or forward it as email. :)

[dinner] 10/25/2002 12:15:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Papa John's cheese sticks w/ cheese and pizza sauces. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

Comments:
From: [info]pinkteabag
Date: 10/25/2002 12:18:35 AM

what are reese's cups?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/25/2002 7:05:37 AM

Reese's cups are candy - yummy chocolate covered peanut butter! :)

http://www.hersheys.com/products/reese.shtml

[extremely filtered post] 10/25/2002 10:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

For a while now, I have had a goofy little crush on Jonah - he's only 23, but he's smart and funny and Jewish, and until his recent "respectable" haircut, he had the most excellent "Jewfro". Last night, I dreamed he came to my house and one thing led to another and... egad. I should be ashamed of myself! I am a dirty old woman.

   

[today] 10/25/2002 10:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I went to Lowe's and bought fun things: cable ties for third Martins R-680 rat cage, a small jade plant for the gecko, and purple electrical tape for ME! Tee hee.

In other news, I am starting to think that I have bronchitis again.

   

Comments:
From: [info]mysticpenguin
Date: 10/25/2002 10:32:06 PM

Yew, bronchitis. That's no fun.

I've been meaning to say how cool it is that you have a gecko. I wanna gecko. I was going to get one to take to Athens with me until the bloody housing service came back with their fish-only policy. Grrr.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/25/2002 10:39:20 PM

Ohh, that sucks! I wonder why, geckos don't really do anything more than fish... in fact, you could argue that geckos are BETTER apartment pets, since there's no hazard of sloshing icky fish water all over the floor whilst cleaning the tank!

[this amuses me] 10/25/2002 10:30:00 PM

purple_stardust


what fucked version of hello kitty are you?
   

[dinner] 10/25/2002 11:30:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Steak and chedder sub. Mozzerella sticks. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[bored] 10/26/2002 12:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

Ugh. I went to bed last night at about 2pm. At about 4pm, my daughter was crying, and Rusty, in his infinate wisdom, got her up instead of changing her diaper and giving her a bottle and putting her back to bed. So there we are, 4am, and my daughter is patting me on the shoulder with the "mommy up, mommy up" talk. Argh.

I put her back to bed, and made a 5am trip to the supermarket. Came back and took a nap, and then started dehydrating fruits and veggies for the rats' food mix.

And now I'm bored. I bought some temporary purple hair colour yesterday, but I haven't tried it yet, as I feel a nap coming on. I feel like I should eat, since I saved half of my sub from last night, but I'm too trifling to go heat it up. Bah.

   

[fuku tisu] 10/26/2002 7:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

   

[trading spaces - philadelphia: east avenue] 10/26/2002 8:55:00 PM

purple_stardust

Will Hilde never learn, that if you set furniture out in your yard, it will rain? Also, her colours are wretched, and that big giant face on the wall is just freaking disturbing. Yikes. Frank did a sorta-neat purpley room for this episode.

   

Comments:
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/26/2002 9:39:22 PM

I haven't seen tonight's ep yet, but I'm *convinced* that the homeowners 'helping' Hilde in the first ruined-furniture ep ruined that furniture on purpose. I mean, did you see the look of horror on the guy's face when Hilde got the new furniture then told him that they'd be painting *it*? (Then she whipped out some slip covers in the same blinding color. Not so bad, since slip covers can be *removed*.)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 4:04:31 PM

LOL! I thought the same thing! I can't blame 'em either, that colour was AWFUL! And if they were MY slipcovers, I would remove them and then BURN them...
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/28/2002 4:47:33 PM

Re:
Actually, I think I would have burned the whole room. That circus tent wasn't just silly, it was a fire hazard waiting to happen.

[trading spaces - virginia: gentle heights court] 10/26/2002 9:55:00 PM

purple_stardust

Kia is positively deadful. Her rooms are loud and garrish and creepy. I do not like her at all. Her last room look like a grave site, and this one looks like a funeral parlour! However, I do like Hilde's kiddie camp-out room for a little boy.

   

Comments:
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/27/2002 12:58:13 PM

I'm just now watching this ep and what's cracking me up is:

Wife getting Master Bedroom: I don't want anything seven veils, or anything ethnic.

[cut to Kia's team]

Kia: And here's the majaraja inspired wallpaper trim.

[cut back to WgMB]

WgMB: If they build a bedframe I hope they remember I'm under 5ft tall.

[Cut to Kia and Ty]

Kia: And here's the bed hanging from chains.

[etc through color choices, WgMB not wanting wallpaper...]
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 4:07:40 PM

That was sooooo funny! And when the woman saw it she was "oh I love it" and then ran though everything they did "except this" and "except that" ... of course, I thought she was one of those people (much like myself) that is really too picky to be on a show like TS.
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/28/2002 4:50:48 PM

Re:
I couldn't decide if they brought in a look-a-like to play WgMB in the final scene, or just gave her some really fun drugs.

Except for the bed (Augh! Fear of heights!), I liked the room. Esp the funky columns.

Someone needs to shoot me if I ever sign up to be on that show. Picky, high-maintenance, obsessive-compulsive types with delusions of style should *not* be on that show. Except maybe just as a buddy to someone getting a room done--then I hope we get Doug so I can try to out-OCD him.
From: [info]thanny
Date: 10/27/2002 6:36:06 PM

yeah... i had some hope for her. i like her personality waaay over hilde's, but her rooms... eep. i did like the fabrics she had in that episode, but the rest of it... a little too much. i never thought i'd see the day when i liked something of hilde's more!! (altho that lichtenstein 'self portrait' was dreadful... i give those girls a week before it's painted over. i wish they'd do 'a year later' shows or something, to see what sticks).

OH TO THINK TY WAS ONLY A FEW MILES FROM MAH HEART.
:0((((((((((
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 4:12:35 PM

I know, they should give us advance notice, so we can all run over and stare at Ty.

I told Rusty about your "a year later" idea, and we agree, that would be SO COOL! I bet a lot of people say they love the rooms and then change them immediately. And some of them, even though they might look really cool, are hugely immpractical for real people to live there.

That portrait thing was NASTY; I liked that one woman's comment about it looking at her. I do NOT want to be in a room with a huge face LOOKING at me!
From: [info]closertofine
Date: 10/27/2002 7:29:46 PM

I loved the camp out room. I want to spend the night! My nephew would love it.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 4:13:16 PM

My boys would too! We want to do a theme room for Sarah now...

[new game] 10/26/2002 10:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

Let's play a new game! It's called "Guess What Lurks Between Renee's Boobs?" If you guessed a cute baby rat, you're right! You win... a look at the little boob lurker!

   

Comments:
From: [info]instantclarity
Date: 10/26/2002 11:54:53 PM

Ahh hahah, that's so cute. I love how baby rats do that.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 3:59:40 PM

Me too! And this one does it an awful lot; he's always lurking between my boobs (ouch!) or in my sleeve. Spoiled little bugger. :)
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/27/2002 8:44:59 AM

I've never seen 'smug and comfy' expressed in so few whiskers!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 3:58:19 PM

LOL! Zootie is DEFINATELY smug, and pretty spoiled, too! :)
From: [info]driftwood
Date: 10/27/2002 9:22:48 AM

Oh, cute!

*dies*
From: [info]thanny
Date: 10/27/2002 6:33:01 PM

tee hee! that little nose! those little fingers and fingernails! he/she looks like a little wizard.

there's something about rodents that i just love.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 3:57:31 PM

They DO have little wizard hands, don't they? I'd never noticed that before...
From: [info]wampithesilver
Date: 10/28/2002 3:42:05 PM

awwws! what a cutie!

[dinner] 10/27/2002 12:25:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 1]

Crab cakes with tarter sauce. Goldfish Crackers. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

Comments:
From: [info]katarina42
Date: 10/27/2002 1:20:52 AM

When you eat Goldfish Crackers, do you ever get the feeling that your fish are giving you dirty looks from the aquarium?

Or is it just me? ;)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/27/2002 9:54:42 AM

LOL! Actually, I HAVE thought of that! It isn't helped by that twisted little jingle that Pepperidge Farms uses for their commercial - "the healthy snack that smiles back until you bite their heads off" ...how sick is THAT?

[today] 10/27/2002 7:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

We drove to Manassas VA to drop off another pair of ratlets. The woman who adopted them (Kathryne) seemed very nice and eager to get her babies... she's asked a million questions about their care. I think they'll have a really good home with her.

I still have two girls left - need to find a home for them this week.

Anyway, we took the scenic route home; that was interesting - dinosaurs and dead Indians... I took photos, but am too trifling to post them just now.

And we stopped to visit my grandmother. She's in the hospital again, compression fracture in her back. What to know what she did? Nothing. Apparantly when you get to that age, things just break and fall apart. Hope I die before I get old.

   

[shining force two] 10/27/2002 11:30:00 PM

purple_stardust

I finished Shining Force 1 last night, and now I'm on to Shining Force 2! Hooray!

   

[dinner] 10/28/2002 12:05:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 2]

Papa John's cheese sticks w/ cheese and pizza sauces. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[10.28.95] 10/28/2002 8:00:00 AM

purple_stardust

Rusty and I have now been together for seven years. Seven very long years.

   

Comments:
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/28/2002 12:06:12 PM

Happy Anniversary?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 3:53:46 PM

Thanks, I think? ;)
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/28/2002 6:43:04 PM

No, well done, really! Many more years to come I hope.
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/28/2002 12:28:39 PM

And let me be the very first (or second, whatever) person to congratulate you on your long years of not killing each other!

Look, I'm even throwing confetti!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 3:54:52 PM

Thanks! It IS commendable... on both of our parts, I'm sure!
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/28/2002 1:55:19 PM

Here's to another 7 years of bliss!

YS
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/28/2002 3:55:33 PM

Thanks! :)

[birthday wishes] 10/28/2002 8:45:00 AM

purple_stardust

Happy Birthday Gina!!!
   

Comments:
From: [info]driftwood
Date: 10/28/2002 12:25:21 PM

Aw, thank you! :)

[today] 10/28/2002 5:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I paid the phone bill and bought some groceries. I stopped at the local pet store and bought another (non-corner) water dish for the gecko, so that the stupid crickets can't hide behind it. I (finally) mailed a package to Joell.

On the way home, I stopped at a farmers market and bought all these pumpkins and gourds! I am going to take the seeds out of the pumpkins and dehydrate them for the rats. I want to make a hookah out of the green goose gourd.

And that's about it. My life is unbelievably dull.

   

[adhd] 10/28/2002 8:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

This is so me: http://www.chadd.org/fs/fs7.htm.

Or as my mother says... "Where the average "normal" person does well to be aware of ONE thing, ADHD people are bombarded by multiple simultaneous stimuli. The "normal" person hears one conversation at a time, while the ADHD person hears the conversation, and the car going by outside, and the crash in the next room, and OTHER people's conversations, and what's on the tv or radio, and what's in their heads ALL AT THE SAME TIME."

And this, my friends, is Y Renee Kan't Read.

   

[prison break] 10/28/2002 7:45:00 PM

purple_stardust



How sad is this. All of poor little Brutoo's brothers had been adopted, and he was all alone in his cage, except for grumpy old Zorro, who never wanted to play. I couldn't take him staring pitifully at me anymore, so he is now in the Big Boy cage. Awww.....
   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/28/2002 8:50:23 PM

Oooh that is sooo sad..it must take a lot of restraint not to love 'em to death.
From: [info]driftwood
Date: 10/28/2002 11:02:20 PM

I understand, look at that face! So sad, you bad mommie you :)

I like when you go in the room and they throw themselves against the cage for you to feed them when you just did a half hour ago and they still have food in their dish.

That's cute.

[dinner] 10/28/2002 11:15:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 2]

Pasta alfredo with broccoli. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

[suicide] 10/29/2002 10:30:00 AM

purple_stardust



how would you commit suicide?

This is probably accurate for me. Of all the possibilities, it seems like the best way to go. I would be too paranoid to shoot myself, as with my luck, I would do it wrong and end up a living vegetable, and I couldn't deal with the suffocation involved with asphyxiation, drowning, or hanging. Overdosing would be a possibility, but from personal experience I have found that my inhumanly high drug tolerance makes this one damn near impossible. I think I would OD and then slit my wrists. Yeah.
   

Comments:
From: [info]cellio
Date: 10/29/2002 11:17:10 AM

hanging
If you suffocate from hanging, you're doing it wrong. The trick is to choose height and knot placement to break the neck.

Geez, the mind boggles at the amount of useless trivia tucked away in there... :-)
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/29/2002 11:19:57 AM

Re: hanging
Good to know... I think? You've obviously read "Hanging For Dummies". ;)
From: [info]catmoran
Date: 10/29/2002 12:40:53 PM

Nonono. Find enough drugs for the OD. The wrists thing is a lot more difficult than you'd think. Now I've squicked myself...

[woe] 10/29/2002 8:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

Dinner-time is coming, and I have NO Reese's Cups. This is not good.

   

Comments:
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/29/2002 8:27:50 PM

Oh no!! Send someone out to the shops!

From: [info]artmomz
Date: 10/29/2002 8:46:18 PM

yeah...no kidding, before she gets the jitters and starts typing lik dis dskjf#$@2!!!
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 10/29/2002 8:57:46 PM

Re:
No-one will be safe! She'll make the sniper look like a pissed-off toddler. Somebody... HELP!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/29/2002 9:19:22 PM

ALRIGHT! That's about enough out of you two! You make it sound like some kind of a howling maniac is I don't get chocolate! Well I won't! I am a normal adult human being, and I can certainly live for one night without Reese's Cups!

/polishing her shiny new Miracle Blade knives...
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/29/2002 9:29:47 PM

I am a normal adult human being

<rolls about laughing hysterically>

:D
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/29/2002 9:51:19 PM

Hey! YOU better be especially nice to me... I know where YOU live! I will come to your house and leave rats! I've done it before and I'll do it again!

/sinister laugh
From: [info]muridae
Date: 10/30/2002 12:05:35 PM

So, wait... if I'm mean to you, I get rats out of it?

<pokepokepokes you until you cry!>

How can I possibly lose here?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/30/2002 3:02:20 PM

Hmmm. I think my brilliant plan has somehow gone awry...

[a dicussion with my mother] 10/29/2002 9:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

Me: I hate to say it, but politically, I am turning into my father.

Mom: Well, yeah, I've seen signs of that for some time. Just please don't share... I've already had about 17 lifetime's worth! I, personally, am still - and probably always will be - one of those "goddamn bleeding heart liberals".

Me: Rusty says to tell you, he says "Good for you!" ... I say, you're obviously a communist.

Mom: Ah, middle age - the time when your waist gets wider, and your mind gets narrower...

Me: Bite me, you socialist hippie.

This amused us terribly. I guess you'd have to know my father to truly appreciate that, but if you did know him, it would be hysterical. Trust me.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/29/2002 9:05:10 PM

Ah! I see I will soon have a fellow politically conservative Jew.

Yes, conservative life rules.

YS
From: [info]cellio
Date: 10/30/2002 9:57:48 AM

There are a few of us out there. (I'm actually libertarian, but that's a heck of a lot closer to conservative than to the American mainstream Jewish leaning toward the far left.)

[dinner] 10/30/2002 12:45:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 2]

Pepperoni calzone (I know, I suck). Mozzerella sticks. Regular Coke.

   

Comments:
From: [info]topi
Date: 10/30/2002 12:56:13 AM

I'm sure that it was imitation soy-pepperoni.

YS
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 10/30/2002 3:12:42 PM

LOL! That would be nice, huh? Hey, if they can make kosher Bacon Bits, I don't see why kosher "pepperoni" would be such a stretch...

[this morning] 10/30/2002 3:00:00 PM

purple_stardust

I drove to Frederick MD to meet Sandy. She is borrowing my Siamese rat Stellaluna to breed. We went to the Harlan warehouse and bought Sanichips (bedding) for the rats. I stopped at Petsmart to buy more crickets for the gecko, and then made it back to Martinsburg in time for a hair appointment. I just got a trim (about an inch), but Rhonda says I'm one more haircut away from having it all one length. Hooray! And then I came home and now I have a headache. Bah.

   

[a timely announcement] 10/30/2002 9:45:00 PM

purple_stardust

Pumpkin guts are really freakin' gross. Thank you, please drive through.

   

[dinner] 10/30/2002 11:55:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 2]

Canned matzoh ball soup. Kosher oyster crackers. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.

   

Comments:
From: [info]rattyluv
Date: 10/31/2002 10:17:59 AM

mmmmm I LOVE matzoh ball soup. THAT is what I should have had for dinner, being sick and all. sheesh

10/31/2002 8:00:00 AM

purple_stardust



   

Comments:
From: [info]tues
Date: 10/31/2002 10:44:25 PM

aw!!! rats come in such adorable sizes!!!

[dinner] 10/31/2002 11:55:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Music |ROM - Shining Force 2]

Steak and chedder sub w/ mustard. Mozzerella sticks. Reese's Cups. Regular Coke.