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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

ugh.

I had to clip the guinea pigs toenails tonight.

I hate doing that, but not as much as I would hate paying someone to do it for me.

edited to add...can you tell I had no time and no ideas for blogging tonight?

5 comments:

Da Ripper2:39 PM
This NaBloPoMo thing is a pain, huh?

I've managed to post once this month.

No cookie for me.
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Julie6:34 PM
Yeah. It's a pain, but I also like to think of it as a challenge.

Plus it's a replacement for MLW, since it's all I/P flamewars currently.
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Tasina11:32 PM
I was going to ask why you would clip ....but....no....don't tell me.

I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow. I'm thankful to have a new blog to read daily!!! :)
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Julie11:56 PM
Well, Tasina, if you don't clip them...let's just says it's not pretty.

It could be worse, I guess, I read in a guinea pig manual (wow, was I bored if I was reading that) that you can actually use toenail clippers if their teeth get too long. I make sure the stupid things have lots of stuff to chew on -- guinea pigs teeth grow continuously and if they can't gnaw and wear them down, it is bad. My guinea pigs always have an assortment of gnawables.

And thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving to you (enjoy your meal on Friday!) And I also am very glad to have a new blog to read, especially since my friend da ripper only manages one blog entry every six weeks...
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Donna8:22 PM
I'm doing good to be able to trim the cats' claws... I'm not really sure about the guinea pigs. But you do what you have to. Clipping the teeth might just be above and beyond, though.
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Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.