[today] 7/1/2004 5:25:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |headachey]
[Current Music |tv - abc news]

* mail mortgage check
* stop and get groceries
* goto petsmart and target
* clear off dining room table
* load and run dishwasher
* test water parameters
* make spagetti sauce

Went to Petsmart to look for a pen for Bunnicula, but they didn't have them in the right size, so I just got her another bag of timothy hay - she goes through that stuff! I also stopped at Target and bought food and water bowls for my grandmother's cats, since they'll be sequestered for a while. Poor kitties, I hope they'll adjust okay to their new home, and their new house-mates.

And then I took the kids to Toys R Us today. Yesterday was Steven's birthday (14!), and I gave him money, so of course he had to spend that. Chris had some money too, so they each got stuff for themselves as well as purple Matchbox cars for their little sister. I got SimCity 2000 and a snifty little case for my GBA, because well, I don't want to grow up. I'm a Toys R Us kid.

In other news, my frogspawn has split into two heads, hooray!

   

[change of plans] 7/2/2004 11:45:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |annoyed]
[Current Music |tv - kiddie shows on pbs]

It turns out, my uncle gave my grandmother's cats to a friend of hers. I'm sure Helen will give them a good home, though I'm none too thrilled with my uncle for making that decision without consulting with my mother or me. There's one more cat - an outside one - that I'd love to have, but she's basically feral, so I have my doubts about catching her. She's a long-haired orange female, and absolutely gorgeous. Still, I may see if we can bribe her, or something...

   

Comments:
From: [info]closertofine
Date: 7/2/2004 7:58:18 PM

Roscoe's future wife!

[update] 7/9/2004 2:15:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |tired]
[Current Music |tv - abc soaps]

Wow, it's been ages since I updated. Last weekend, we visited Rusty's parents. It wasn't too bad, mostly because there was no football on, and all his obnoxious brothers weren't around. Still, it's sooooo boring up there, and I really have nothing in common with those people. Bah.

I've been letting Bunnicula out to free-range in the evenings and I think she might be getting friendlier, at least she doesn't bite us quite so often. I finally got my bunny book in the mail yesterday, so I'm hoping that will help me understand and thwart some of her bad behaviour.

I really need to get some of this stuff done...

   

Comments:
From: [info]muridae
Date: 7/12/2004 12:02:55 PM

How did I miss this entry? I was wondering where you were and missing you, and all along you had updated. Also, do you still use the same screen name on AIM? Whenever I go on, you're not there, and it makes me sad.

I thought the bunny was a boy? Did you get another bunny as a companion for the bitey one and I missed it?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/12/2004 12:15:44 PM

I do not know how you missed this entry. I guess you just weren't paying attention. =P

I do still use the same screen name; I just always forget to log on. I am blonde that way. I also leave the phone unplugged for days at a time. And then I wonder why nobody ever talks to me.

The bunny... it WAS supposed to be a boy, but now we think it's a girl for three reasons:

a) she has no testicles.
b) she has a dewlap, which usually sign of girliness.
c) she appears to have had a false pregnancy, nest-building and all that.

Damn mystery rabbit.

[this week] 7/12/2004 11:25:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |ambitious]
[Current Music |tv - seseme street]

* organise beads and put into new containers
* work on sorting / moving craft supplies upstairs
* pick up former contents of desk from floor, put away
* finish jigsaw puzzle so i can get it off the table
* sort and organise sarah's downstairs toys

   

Comments:
From: [info]sunshyncat
Date: 7/12/2004 12:32:02 PM

I just need to get the finished jigsaw puzzle off the table. I think we wanted to frame it when we abandoned it there a couple months ago...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/12/2004 12:49:13 PM

I have a *really* bad habit of starting them and them losing interest. I finally finished this one though, and hung it in my daughters bedroom. :)

[bunny stuff] 7/16/2004 1:15:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |tired]
[Current Music |tv - abc soaps]

We went to Petsmart yesterday and bought a playpen that hooks onto Bunnicula's cage. Her regular cage is pretty small, so this gives her more room to move and play (and terrorise the cats), but she still can't chew on cords or pee on the bed, so we're all happy with it.

In other news, Ms Bunny has an appointment to be spayed on August 2.

   

Comments:
From: [info]buuunnnnnny
Date: 7/16/2004 2:29:04 PM

Oh she IS a girl! Yay, I was right! *glee*
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/16/2004 2:38:07 PM

Well, I *think* so... aside from the dewlap and lack of testicles, last weekend she appeared to have a false pregnancy with much hair-pulling and nest-building. :\
From: [info]death_eater_m
Date: 7/16/2004 6:16:56 PM

My female does that all the time. If you get them fixed when they're really young; it tends to go away...
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 7/16/2004 2:43:25 PM

Ahhh...okay, that's explains a lot.

Is she getting any nicer?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/16/2004 2:54:34 PM

Yeah, she's doing a lot better! She still nips us occasionally when she's out and about, but not hard, and she doesn't lunge at me if I touch her stuff, like she used to. :)
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 7/16/2004 3:36:42 PM

Omigosh...that's so funny! I didn't know bunnies got protective over their things. But looking at her picture, I can just see it too...
From: [info]allmyvoices
Date: 7/16/2004 2:49:30 PM

i let my bunny (she died a year or so ago) roam the spare room and she destroyed so much stuff. i wish i'd done a playpen or something.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/16/2004 2:57:06 PM

Yeah, they're great. Not that we have such valuable stuff (or that we keep what we do have on the floor, lol), but I am more worried about her chewing on cords and cables (we DO have a ton of those). Plus it's easier to get her into her cage when we have to leave or go to bed.
From: [info]titancia
Date: 7/16/2004 5:42:00 PM

Oooh, I like that exercise pen!! We need to get the guinea pigs something like that.

[shopping spree] 7/16/2004 3:25:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |excited]
[Current Music |tv - abc soaps]

I ordered some goodies for the new tank today...

* HOB Refugium

From Florida Pets:

* 1 tiny urchin
* 5 micro stars
* 1 common star
* 1 Portion o' Pods

I can't wait! I can't wait! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce!

EDIT: I ordered goodies from RAG-gers too:

* 25 Nassarius Vibex snails and
* Chaetomorpha with 1 pound live sand

   

Comments:
From: [info]titancia
Date: 7/16/2004 5:36:01 PM

*squee!!* Mini stars!!

[today] 7/18/2004 3:25:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |headachey]
[Current Music |cd - james taylor]

We went to the LFS in Winchester and bought a pretty clove polyp coral, plus another snail. Afterwards, we stopped at Walmart, where Rusty bought me new glasses frames (I've broken the old ones umpteen times), as well as the Monty Python and the Holy Grail DVD. Cool!

Coming up later today: Mike's Hard Lemonade, baskets for brains, and Bunny Ka-bobs.

   

[random lyrics] 7/18/2004 8:45:00 PM

purple_stardust


And all the roads we walk along are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don't know how

Because maybe you're gonna be the one who saves me
And after all, you're my wonderwall

---Oasis, Wonderwall

   

[announcement] 7/19/2004 9:35:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |mushy]
[Current Music |tv - abc stuff]

The bunny has been much sweeter lately, and shall henceforth be known as Beatrix.

   

Comments:
From: [info]clarice
Date: 7/19/2004 11:14:01 PM

she'll get deathly hormonal if you don't yoink her uterus out.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/19/2004 11:19:51 PM

She already has her hormonal moments (I think she's about a year old)... but fortunately she has a uterus-yoinking appointment for August 2. :)
From: [info]clarice
Date: 7/19/2004 11:26:46 PM

oh good... hormonal rabbits get just awful... and then they get crotchetier and crotchetier as they get older. Not fun.

[oolong] 7/20/2004 11:55:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |puzzled]
[Current Music |tv - kiddie shows on pbs]


There is a guy who has a whole website devoted to photos of his bunny with things on its head. At first I thought they were different bunnies, and people had sent them in, but no, they're all the same bunny, a strange little guy named Oolong. What I wonder now is, why? Why would the bunny just sit still and let some fool pile things on his head? Is the bunny lethargic? On drugs? Does he suffer from low self esteem? Japanese rabbits must be more complacent than their American counterparts, because Beatrix would bite my arm off if I tried such things.
   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 7/20/2004 12:12:05 PM

I wonder how many pictures he has...it seems to be difficult to quit stop clicking the link for the next bunny picture... O.o
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/20/2004 12:14:13 PM

I know... I was there for damn near an hour last night, and was STILL getting new pics. Did you see the one yet where he has what appears to be three votive candles balanced on his head? I really think that bunny is on 'ludes...
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 7/20/2004 12:15:57 PM

No, I didn't see that one...now I have to go back...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/20/2004 12:18:49 PM

Sorry... it's like Disney World, you can't see it all in one day.
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 7/20/2004 12:14:15 PM

*giggles* oooh...it's a multiple choice comment.

Which word would you rather throw out in the above comment:

(a) quit
(b) stop

Dang it LJ, I still need my edit comment feature...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/20/2004 12:18:01 PM

LOL! It's okay, you were distracted by the bunnies. :)
From: [info]death_eater_m
Date: 7/20/2004 12:20:26 PM

He has bunches. There is an lj community devoted to this little guy! "Pancakebunny"

Oolong actually died, but what a sweet little guy he was! :) My bunny lets me do most anything to him. He just has a 'chill out' disposition.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/20/2004 12:23:59 PM

Braggart. My bunny would disembowel me if I tried such nonsense. Of course, I can't really say I'd blame her...

And great, now I have to go look at this community. Another day, shot all to hell by the bunnies.
From: [info]death_eater_m
Date: 7/20/2004 12:26:17 PM

hahaha. my whole life is taken up by my two. I'll have to post the Oolong-ish photos I've taken of MINE! :D
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/20/2004 12:30:27 PM

You SHOULD!!! I'm a sucker for bunny pics.
From: [info]titancia
Date: 7/20/2004 2:18:56 PM

*sniff, sniff* I'm sad the bunny died...I've seen the site before. The pictures of the dead bunny are kind of sad.
But that bunny is frickin' adorable!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/20/2004 3:24:01 PM

It IS sad... poor Oolong. The guy has a new bunny now, I don't know if he's as patient as Oolong was, though.
From: [info]titancia
Date: 7/20/2004 3:44:32 PM

Aww, how sweet!! I didn't know he got a new bunny!!
I guess if they bunny isn't patient now, he'll have to learn to be. :P
From: [info]sjcarpediem
Date: 7/20/2004 3:53:26 PM

if you read the website, you'd know that it was just a personality quirk of the late Oolong. He enjoyed balancing things on his head... //shrug
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/20/2004 4:09:38 PM

Yeah, I saw that... what I wonder is a) WHY?!? and b) how did this guy come to find this out? I mean, I have a lot of pets, and it's just never occured to me to try to put stuff on their heads to see if they'd tolerate it.

[for my own reference] 7/21/2004 11:55:00 AM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |tired]
[Current Music |tv - kiddie shows on pbs]

Corals: A Quick Reference Guide and
Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide

   

[today] 7/24/2004 5:00:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |hot and tired]
[Current Music |cd - psychedelic furs]

We had the memorial service for my grandmother; it wasn't too bad, considering. The service was as un-christy as possible, considering we did have her favourite pastor do it, and it was outside, and relatively short. My mom showed up with the lesbian posse, which was odd, but I showed up with two men (Rusty and my ex-husband), so I guess it all evened out.

The worst part was afterwards when various people - some related to me, most I didn't know - tried to hug me. I really need a shirt that says "Don't Touch Me".

   

[bunny, part deux] 7/24/2004 5:15:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |hot and tired]
[Current Music |cd - psychedelic furs ]



We stopped at the petstore for bunny food, and ended up with another bunny. Meet Baxter, a little grey french lop. We had actually intended to wait until Bea was spayed (next week) but this little guy was so sweet and so perfect, we went ahead and got him, and will just keep them seperate until she is fixed and healed. Beatrix has seen him but seems altogether uninterested, so I'm hoping that she won't maul the poor little guy when they DO finally meet.
   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 7/25/2004 9:36:44 AM

What a cute little guy...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/26/2004 3:10:23 PM

Thanks, he's so sweet, too. :)
From: [info]cellio
Date: 7/25/2004 10:51:09 PM

How cute! I hope the integration goes smoothly.
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/26/2004 3:10:00 PM

Thanks, me too!
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 7/26/2004 11:16:40 AM

Bunnylicious! If Bea is anything like Herbert J Buns she probably doesn't even believe she's a bunny, so Baxter may be safe!
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/26/2004 3:09:42 PM

Hahah... no, I don't think she does. I think she thinks she's a dog, actually...
From: [info]paraxeni
Date: 7/30/2004 12:56:03 PM

Yep mine thinks he's a dog too!
From: [info]death_eater_m
Date: 7/26/2004 1:32:09 PM

whoa. hangon..
It's great that there's a new addition to the family, but you don't want to toss them together full time right away. For the first few meetings, you want to put them into a neutral place (I tend to use the bathtub), because rabbits are very territorial. Especially with this one being so young... Please be careful when trying to combine bunnies when one is used to being alone...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/26/2004 3:09:08 PM

Re: whoa. hangon..
Oh, I didn't mean right away! Right now their cages are close together so that they can see/smell each other, after Bea's surgery I will start with the brief-and-neutral intros. I will probably use the playpen tho, since I would have to carry them (Bea HATES being carried) upstairs to the bathroom.

[random acts of cuteness] 7/26/2004 8:35:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |smitten]
[Current Music |ps2 - dragon warrior 7]

   

Comments:
From: [info]artmomz
Date: 7/27/2004 9:10:31 AM

I'm not sure what I like the most about this picture...the ears, the nose, the feet...
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/27/2004 9:30:29 AM

I think it's the nose... BUT - you should see this bunny's FEET! He has the biggest, fuzziest feet EVER. He's like, the clydesdale of bunnies.
From: [info]cellio
Date: 7/27/2004 11:56:49 AM

Does that mean the same thing on bunnies as it does on dogs and cats (that he's going to get much bigger)? How old is this guy?
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/27/2004 12:07:48 PM

I'm not really sure if there's any corrolation with the feet size, but french lops usually average about ten pounds. Baxter is just a baby. A freakishly CUTE baby. :)
From: [info]death_eater_m
Date: 7/27/2004 2:23:46 PM

That's gonna be a biiiiig bunny.. I had a 15 pounder and I let him run around the house. Used to scare the hell out of the cats!

Absolutely adorable! Aww.. Aren't new babies sweet? I want to hear the pitter patter of little feet, but I think Zevi'd kill me if I got another one.
From: [info]buuunnnnnny
Date: 7/27/2004 11:07:59 AM

Ohhh, SOOOOO cute! He's so little and grey and floppy! Adorable! :D
From: [info]purple_stardust
Date: 7/27/2004 12:10:09 PM

He IS! The bunny is absurdly cute, and I'm having trouble accomplishing anything with him in the room.

"Dinner? How can you expect me to fix dinner when I have this cute widdle bunny to stare at?!?" =)

[for the python fans] 7/27/2004 8:15:00 PM

purple_stardust
[Current Mood |amused]
[Current Music |tv - democratic convention]

   

Comments:
From: [info]jvmatucha
Date: 7/27/2004 8:22:14 PM

Oh no! Vorpal bunny!
From: [info]grimkitten_
Date: 7/28/2004 1:14:28 PM

THAT'S NO ORDINARY RABBIT!!!