inspiration for my rough week... love this song. i just always forget that it totally applies to my life.

Slow down, you crazy child.
You're so ambitious for a juvenile.
But then if you're so smart, tell me why are you still so afraid?
Where's the fire? What's the hurry about?
You better cool it off before you burn it out.
You got so much to do and only so many hours in a day.

Don't you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want or you can just get old?
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through.
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Slow down, you're doing fine.
You can't be everything you wanna be before your time,
Although it's so romantic on the borderline tonight, tonight.
Too bad, but it's the life you lead.
You're so ahead of yourself that you forgot what you need.
Though you can see when you're wrong,
You know, you can't always see when you're right, you're right.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride,
But don't you know that only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Slow down, you crazy child.
Take the phone off the hook and disappear for a while.
It's all right you can afford to lose a day or two.
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?

Don't you know that when the truth is told
That you can get what you want or you can just get old?
You're gonna kick off before you even get halfway through.
Why don't you realize Vienna waits for you?
When will you realize Vienna waits for you?




-Vienna, Billy Joel
(played in 13 Going On 30 ... I knew you would remember it from somewhere :] )

long time no see.

ok so it's not like you could do anything about the fact that i wasn't posting. deal with it.
i mean, it's just em and louise reading this anyways, right? mmk.
well college has been interesting. for the most part i hate it. lots of stuff has been happening since college started. had a job. lost it. lost all my friends to college. had two good friends still here that are past the college stage. just lost one of them. long story. not blog worthy. but anyways, i still have emmy here at UTC that i've known since 1st grade (yeah we are that legit... we've been friends for almost 12 years... i started going to BR in January of 1st grade and she was my "buddy")... so it's nice to have her here. not that we have lost track of one another or anything, we've always been friends, but it was hard over the years. she moved to maine in 2nd grade and then moved back January of 4th grade. we were never in the same class though. then she went to baylor and i went to gps.. so it was hard to find time to hang out. we both had our own lives. but our moms are bff's and have been good friends since emmy and i became friends. we went up to maine at some point when they lived up there and they came down here constantly since both of their families (her moms parents and her dads parents and her cousin) live here. SO it's been nice to have lunch with her 2-3 times a week, dinner occasionally, have our favorite class together (sociology of the family), study for that class together, and hopefully continue to take early childhood education classes with her.... cross our fingers!
anyways, other than classes and my job that i had, i didnt really do anything.. except join a sorority! haha pysched you out there didnt i?! yep, im a chi omega pledge. its fun. lots of stuff to do. lots of people to meet. just a lot going on. met tons of nice people through it. but im just gonna touch on two of my newfound friends. both are in my pledge class (means they went through rush when i did and such).
one is susanna. shes awesome. shes totally normal. we hang out before new member meetings, usually get there an hour early so we can sit outside the chi o house in the rocking chairs and basically catch one another up on how our week has been and what we did that weekend. we hope to make it a legit tradition. because even though we see each other every tuesday and thursday in our 8am english class, we hardly have enough time to talk! so we just plan on having our "rocking chair time" together each week.
second is my friend megan. she was in my pi chi group (rush group). shes awesome. also normal. she has a twin. we like to do a lot of the same things just like me and susanna. shes in the sociology of the family class with emmy too. megan is just chill and down to earth. shes up for anything just like susanna. every once in a while we grab lunch together. just depends.

so i have met people that im friends with and stuff. it just took foreverrrr it seemed like. college happens fast. there are a ton of changes all at once. like you move out of your home, start all these college classes (trust me, they are different... i wouldn't say harder, but just totally different than any high school class). the workload is different. its quick and lots of it, but you have a little longer to do it. it takes awhile to get used to it. im still not used to it. carole told me it will take time. and lots of it. bummer right?

this is my second all nighter im pulling this year.. and the first one was on sunday night.. so 2 in one week.... yeah. i was up for over 36 hours last time. i didnt really have a huge crash or anything, i just slept like a little babbyyy on monday night. it was great. this time i will at least get the weekend to rest over. which is always a positive. well, im going to continue cleaning my room like i was doing before i got SOOO sidetracked and typed up a freaking storm on here. did i mention i just wrote a 7 page research paper in the past few hours? yeah finally took my adderall and then took a 2 hour nap (it has to kick in somehow) and woke up at like 1:15am and started to force myself to do it. naturally it sucked at first, but i edited that out. i didn't think it was gonna be 7 pages.. was more aiming for like 4 pages, but it happens. haha i had literally done NO work on it the past 2 weeks... awful student, i know. but it got done. and i think it was actually pretty good. i had to read a ton before i could write it, so its intense. on sunday night when i stayed up, i wrote a 5 page paper for western humanities, wrote a 2 page paper for english (which is the same class i just wrote the 7 page paper for), and did ALL my math homework from the past 2 weeks... its hard math. it may be called elementary and middle school math, but we have an engineer in our class who is taking all the math courses... and he is struggling with it. because its not about the answer or anything, those are easy to get... its the method. like you leave out one tiny detail of the problem and you miss the whole problem. which is like 3-4 points out of only 50 points. yeah there are only like 20 problems on each test because they take SOOO long to do. it's ridiculous. and i have an awful teacher. she doesnt give homework back that she grades for correctness until after we take the test.... how are we suppose to learn?! most ridiculous thing everr.. just saying. we got our ch 1 and ch 2 hw that we turned in almost 3 weeks ago back on tuesday. yeah thanks.

OKAY  NOW  IM  REALLY  LEAVING.
still have so much to do.......
mucho love.
abby

ps- collier the mouse is gone. more on that later

If you won/were given $20 million dollars (total like with taxes and all that stuff removed already).... what would you spend it on? Who would you give money to? Who would you not give money to? What would you do with it all?!

If I won $20 million dollars I would...
buy a new car: a 2010 or 2011 black Mercedes Benz GL 350 series
http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/explore/overview/class-GL/model-GL350BTC

buy a house at my favorite place in the whole world, Bald Head Island.

buy my mom a little car to drive around town in rather than driving around in her honker of a car

get my dad a new laptop and update all his technology (aka get him a good iPod for running, give him marathon money so he could travel and run in all his 50 states like he wants to do, update my dads running wardrobe)

help my parents move to wherever they wanna build a house

find THE BEST cancer doctor in the whole world for my grandma and fly with her to make sure she's in perfect health....   since writing this post my grandma has passed away from the effects of her chemotherapy :[

pay for my cousin Caitlins beauty school tuition and help her with some of her rent payments and stuff

give my cousin some money for graduate school

tell my brother I will help him with travel expenses when he wants to travel for school stuff

go and travel all over with my cousin Caitlin... New York, Australia, Italy, London, Paris, Rome, etc... we would have fun!!

get Taylor Swift to come over to hang out with me, Caitlin, and Emma...... JUST our family. No randoms or whatever.... like a total intimate time. It would be fun.

Take me and Caitlin to go see Lil Wayne and have him serenade her and then get backstage passes

buy property for my future

invest a bunch of money so it gains interest

spoil my little L's .... Ella and Molly would have such nice clothes ALL the time as would Max and Whitman.... I would make sure Ms. Debbie wouldn't have to work to get her kids through and stuff, get portraits of my girlies done, probably give the L's some money so they could get a better car for Griffin and pay off their debt they used to have. I would basically do whatever I had to do to make them comfortable and stuff.

I would still go to college and get my teaching degree so I could teach... but I would probably find somewhere to teach where I could just do part time and what not for a flexible sched.

give each of my cousins like $50,000 (yeah I have like 4 cousins on one side and 3 on the other side)

buy my cousin Tyler and my cousin Stephanie each a new car  since writing this post my cousin stephanies car broke down completely. then Tyler got a new car so he gave her his old car. problem temporarily solved, but i would still probably buy stephanie a new car.

give my grandparents on my dads side like $100,000 or whatever they needed so they could live perfectly and get everything they've earned.. they worked so hard when my dad was little so my dad and uncle could go to college and such... they just like really deserve it. That way they could each get whatever they wanted and travel a bunch and donate to their church. And I would probably give them whatever money my grandfather needed to send his older brother to a better nursing home because I think they have had some issues and such.

go on a family vacation with each side of my family... somewhere good

take my only REAL blood aunt (my Aunt Joni) on a vacation somewhere so we could bond and hang out... she likes to travel

give my godmother like $50,000 or something to do with whatever she pleases.... she's not stupid, I have faith she would make good decisions

give my dads brother some money

I would indulge on my jacket hoarding... I just love jackets

I would travel a bunch.

I would still babysit because it is super fun, but I would prob not babysit as much... and chop out the people I don't like babysitting for.

I would find out my exact heritage.

I would get laser eye surgery for my brother.

travel with people... not just anyone, but people that i like.

donate money to our humane society

hire a personal assistant/organizer... hell i need one. i am so dysfunctional. its sad. that way i could get more things done.

get the new iphone.

build my own dream house.. it would be awesome. wanna know what i would put in it? a craft room, a play room for whenever the L's visit, a pool, a jacket room (for all my jacket hoarding), and a few super awesome bedrooms... like straight from magazines and tv shows. like the ones you see and you are like I WANT THAT. like the ones with towel warming drawers in the bathrooms. yeah. with a mac in each bedroom on the perfect desk.

i hate when stores discontinue things... especially when it is your mices' favorite treats........ totally inconvenient

so as of like 2 weeks ago.. i am a high school graduate of girls preparatory school. which is cool.

I think I mentioned it but I might have forgotten... I got my iPad 2. It's awesome. But that was random. My car is still broken. It's at the shop. Waiting for 3 days for them to even LOOK at it. Which is silly because I'm sure it's something easy to fix. Anyways I have a lot to do this weekend and week and most cannot be done without a car.
I have one exam to study for.... english.

GRRRRRRRRR

something is wrong with my car. i'm angry. because it's my last week of high school and I can't even drive my own car around to all the fun activities. my car is leaking something. but tomorrow is May Day at school and I have SOOO many things to do not including my mother. like getting my nails and toes done, then going to see a movie with danielle at 9. PLUS on thursday we are doing something fun as a class then spending the night at johannas house.... I even bought a sleeping bag.... but now I'm going to have to have my mom take me to all this stuff, which really sucks. and my parents are acting like it's no big deal but it really is. it's my last week at my school and I don't want to be driven around by my parents. so in general, i'm pissed. and my plans for this weekend include more than sitting at home stuck with my parents.. where is the fun in that?!

currently in the middle of a tornado... nbd

sitting here with everything to do and i'm bored

so many things i need to accomplish. May Day was moved from tomorrow (wednesday aptil 27) to friday, april 29....... uhhh i have to get a hair appt and a make up appt moved. get my nails done and get my flowers prepared. im not this kind of person or anything, im not used to getting my nails done and stuff. thats just really weird for me. im not saying i dont enjoy the pampering, but its def not a norm for me.
sigh.

alsooooo.... I applied for a summer job at my normal camp. got lead position like i wanted. but now i have some choices to make. i was offered some babysitting days this summer for a family that i like. i can easily miss the first week of camp, but she also wants me a couple fridays. which is the difficult thing. i know what i want to do, but i dont know what i should do. like camp is guaranteed work. but babysitting really isnt. i want to have my cake and eat it tooo...... WHY MUST LIFE BE SOO DIFFICULT!

yesterday was my 18th birthday. it was actually pretty decent. well the night part was, not the morning and stuff.... but dinner and such was. the L's came to dinner with my parents, Keely, and myself.

sorry sorry sorry

at some point this week I will have time. but in essence, yesterday sucked.
my eye is swollen. don't know why. it's weird. been swollen since sunday night. still swollen mid day on Tuesday. got the girls some cute clothes from target cause i felt bad for Ms Debbie cause they just went on a budget but target got a bunch of cute clothes in and they are all pretty cheap. so cute and adorable. i got them each 3 outfits. so adorable. awaiting a surprise present from someone..... i hate surprises. just FYI. they freak me out. nbd. bell is ringing!

people piss me off sometimes. Like is it really necessary for people to be so rude sometimes. like be nice. being mean takes a lot more work.

im in a really bad mood today. like really

seriously!? three papers and a test AND my media arts project due between now and next wednesday.... TOO BAD. SOO SAD.

so the rain was too much... crashing at the M's tonight... hung out with C Bear tonight. Took some cute pictures. had loads of fun. she will be excited to see me in the morning.

why must it rain so hard?

college

so my parents weren't at all enthusiastic about me getting into tennessee. legitimately.
Ellen and Ms Debbie were more excited about me getting in.... like seriously, the people I babysit for were more excited than my own parents... Ms Debbie sent like a dozen smiley faces on text and Ellen told me congrats and asked what I was doing to celebrate.... which was nothing.

on a happier note, I helped at a silent auction last night at my school to help fund UNICEFS Pakistan Flood Relief.... the goal was to raise $5,000.... ehh kinda a stretch





made over $9,000!!!!!! yeah just selling student services (babysitting, tutoring, art classes, etc), local art pieces, original art pieces from non locals, student art, a handmade dress made by one of our own (an 8th grader Madison Waldrope from Malyse Design.... look her up, shes really talented... heres her website : designsbymalyse.com
shes been in Cosmo, New York Times, and Chattanooga's CityScope)

I got in! YAY!!

uhhhhh the middle schoolers are taking over our hallway... like reallyyyy.... almost got trampled.

TORNADO WARNING... no really

yeah there was a tornado at gps yesterday.... thank goodness I wasn't at school. i was at home :]

today in general was a disaster... and it's only 8:45 when I am writing this. actually im just basing this on one single incident.

SD stumbled upon this wonderful picture today.... I find it rather amusing

N.Y.C.

So I was sitting in English... and Mrs. Gahan told us that she is moving with her husband and baby, Will, to NYC for her husband to go to grad school.
I don't know what it was about it, but it seemed right. She was saying that they were debating whether or not to go, but then they decided to do so because that's what they teach (they are both English teachers)... Which is totally true. All through school years, your teachers tell you to go for your dreams and stuff, but do they ever show that thats the philosophy in life that they follow? No. They are all talk. And they stay in their hometown and teach. So go you Mrs. Gahan!
On another note, that really makes me want to go to New York City. Maybe I will start saving money :]

Mrs B and her lovely girls

so i think im just going to wait on the ereader. maybe they will get better by the time i get one.. i just cant decide right now... we will see where this takes me. who knows.
I'm picking up kate and lydia today for mrs b... from 3:30-7ish. Should be fun. I think we are going to hit up a park, get icees, and then grab pizza at Pizza Cha Cha. Its a new pizza place downtown by yellow deli. Ive had it before and will be having it again on Wednesday for a chapel talk. but it's sooo delicious. I think the twins will love it. oh yeah, kate and lyd are identical twins. they are sooo sweet just like their mommy :] she's a 3rd grade teacher and her first year teaching right out of college was taught at my elementary school in 3rd grade..... when i was in 3rd grade. its weird because i remember when she got pregnant with twin girls, and then they came to camp. STRANGE.

Kate, myself, and Lydia (left to right)

hmmm

so I'm still in this Nook Color vs Kindle debate... but now I dont know about Kindle regular or Kindle with 3G..... gah. Part of me is with each of them.. why am I so bad at making decisions? I have never been good at making decisions. Ever. not once in my life have I been able to make a decision without pondering it for hours, days, weeks, months... it's ridiculous
what do i dooooo

Kindle or Nook Color?

had C all day yesterday from when I picked her up early from school until 8 when I got her to bed. twas awesome. we went to the pet store and played with mice, went to her surprise destination and got to pick something out, went to the park for an hour and a half, had dinner at the country club, went to her house, put her to bed. we had a ball. and she made me like 4 pictures at school :].
today i am picking up the pedifors for the girls 1st bday, getting the supplies to make their gift, going to the A's house and babysitting, going home, making the girls gifts, going to bed.
waking up early on Sunday morning, driving to the L's up on the mountain (pedifors in hand), hanging out with shelly and helping with the kiddos, girls baptism, girls bday party, home.

I wanna know who is reading this... just comment and say who you are so I know who you are? thanks

so this is not going to be a 365. it's just not happening. lets face it, sometimes i feel like im just putting words on the paper rather than really thinking about what im actually writing about. which is stupid. so there. i will write when i want to.

Ok so big thought for Abby to ponder..... to join a sorority next year or not?! Don't know for sure.... idk. I have been told to Rush and then decide after that, but I feel like I should get a better feel for if I even wanna do it anyways beforehand. ughhhh

aghh my stomach hurts. real bad. But I got my watch fitted. Feels great. ok thats it for now.

Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day !!!!!!!

I had a lovely Valentine's Day myself. Woke up feeling kinda blue since my bags were still missing. But I was still excited about going to the L's. I was not however excited about cleaning my room beforehand.... then I opened my door from my room and almost tripped on something sitting there. It was a Valentine's Day gift. My parents used to get my brother and I Valentine's Day gifts when we were little, but it was usually candy or something like that. But this was something different.. I had no idea. Opened it up, and I found a watch!!!!!!! A watch similar to one that my mommy had gotten when she was in Nashville a while back. Her's of course is old lady looking, mine of course is younger looking. It's made by Fossil and it is soooo cool. Hopefully I will be going to Hamilton Place sometime this week to get it fixed to my abnormally sized wrist because right now it's like falling off my arm. But I love it. And my mom said she didn't get it with the diamond things in it like hers has because the girl that was working there and helped them (my parents) pick it out said she didn't think they looked that good on the one I got (which I looked up the one online with the diamonds around the edges and I agree). It may however look good on someone else, but definitely not me. I'm a simpler kind of person. Much simpler.

To end on a lighter note, I showed Max my watch and he was like "who gave you that cheap watch?" haha not so much my friend... it's only like the coolest watch ever. I just laughed and told his cousin, Shelly. She laughed. Electronically, of course. BAHAH
Okay well that's the end of my random, pointless post for tonight. Oh and above is a picture of my new watch :]

lost

eh disney.
and then I left my souvenir bag containing all my souvenirs in it AND my toiletries bag on the luggage rack above our heads on the bus when I left.... so I texted Mr T our headmaster about it and he said he checked all the nooks and crannies of the whole bus (including both luggage racks) and he didn't see anything... AWESOME. He was like yeah someone probably picked it up by mistake. Love this. No one has seen or noticed anything yet. Cool. I'm pissed. I had all my souvenirs to give to people in there. And my jeans. Like is this real life?

ON MY WAY TO DISNEY WORLLDDD

Pretty much amazing. On the bus as we speak.... yeah it has free WiFi on the bus... straight up. Found out Disney has character PillowPets. I have only heard of 3 though... eeyore, tigger, and Pluto.... but Eeyore is the cutest...

roses roses

yeah they delivered the habitat roses on everyones lockers today. funny thing is... more than half of them will remain in the same spot until the end of the year. all dead and crusty. NAST. just got a printer added to my mac :] a printer at school. which is good. ya know? but they couldn't fix my iPhones connectibility to my gps email. pretty shawicked if ya ask me. I'm so bored. stuck at school until I do my history of civil rights.... the classs..... ahhhhhh then I need to rush home to pack for Disney. i have until like 6. ok well before that cause I have to drive to their house. so like 5:15. greeaaaaaaaatttttt. have not done any preparation or anything yet. awesome. don't even know what I should pack. I'm so stupid. maybe I'll make my packing list on here:::::
3 wicking shirts for the parks
2 pairs of workout pants
2 pairs of shorts
2 PJ pants
2 t-shirts for sleeping
7 pairs of underwear
5 bras
7 pairs of cool socks
tennis shoes
shower shoes
pop tarts
cheez-its/goldfish
Camelback
Tinkerbelle terv and mickey terv

ughhhhh I am leaving for Disney tomorrow. Forgot to pack. EFFFF. Yeah I'm babysitting tonight until like 9-9:30ish.......... gah I am an awful planner.. Gahh I'm so stupid.

you. say.

all my life ive been good. but now, woahhhhh what the hell! what what what What the helllllllll


sigh. tonight has been diffycult. procrastination station....... like that's where I am at... i'm just so excited about this weekend....... babysitting on friday and saturday night and then next tuesday night....

then leave for Disney. straight up bitchin.

cannot believe this happened..... is this real life?

So like 10 minutes ago, I was sitting in a study room in the library writing a History of Civil Rights listening to some music. Just chillin. The music wasn't loud or anything. Just like listening loud. Like just enough. Now mind you we have clear sound proof windows separating two of the rooms so people can see what you are doing in them. Anyways, I walked into the room next to me to ask them how to spell dissintegrate (which I still don't know how to spell). And literally the door was opened for the time it took me to walk out of the door and shut it.... and I'm standing in the room next to my room talking to Annie, Margaret, and Adelaide. When out of NO WHERE this girl appears in my study room and starts touching something on my laptop.... we are like just stared at her. WHO THE HELL DOES THAT?! That is not okay with me. You don't walk into someone else's room and do that.... NOT ACCEPTABLE. Then Adelaide and Annie were like, dude, it was not that loud. So I went into my room again and turned it back on.............. oh yeah, she came back. Stomping in. 

"You seriously need to turn your music off because I can hear it out there.."

"Uh it's really not that loud."

"YES IT IS! You need to buy yourself some headphones!"

That's pretty much a recap of what just happened. I'm still in shock as of right now. Considering I'm a senior and she's a junior.... and that's not socially acceptable to walk in and mess with someone else's computer. She is going to get hurt when she gets to college. Because I'm an understanding person,  but that was not okay. Plus I don't know that girl. Like literally never met her in my life. It would have been one thing to walk in here and politely say "hey, I'm really sorry to bother you... but I'm trying to study for my US History test and I can hear your music out there... would you mind turning it down? thanks!"

I feel bad for her.... she's gonna have a rough time dealing with customers and people in general if she can't even figure out a nice way to ask someone she doesn't know to turn down their music.....

really sorry. Been somewhat busy... but not into the internet that much. Like haven't been on FB or on here...... sad.
I'm really enjoying hanging out with Carole. It's fun to have someone other than GPS people to talk to and other than Ms Debbie cause she's so busy with her kids. And Carole and I can just hang out.

On another note, just heard of some stealings on GPS campus..... makes me worried. I feel uncomfortable leaving my stuff. They stole her jacket, keys, and I think her phone. Jordan just ran by and told everyone..... oh Jordan. Gotta love her. But Carole tells me that the real world is nothing like GPS, so I guess I should start getting used to not being able to leave all my stuff laying around.

Ms Debbie is at school today :]

I'm so happy. Cause I can hang out with her during the school day :]
And we have the basketball game to go to tonight for Camp Night. Pretty awesome.
Then tomorrow I am picking up Claire from school and babysitting her or taking her to her parents office (don't really know yet).... then babysitting her tomorrow night. Which is going to be super fun. Because Claire and I always have fun. Always. We will probably build something. I think we will grab Krystal for a snack/dinner once I pick her up from school. We did that last Friday.

COW

tired tired tired. I'll explain tonight.
Valerie says HEY BLOG WORLD WHAT UP KIIIIDDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Valerie is so weird. She's eating some kind of wheat mush.... sorry creme of wheat. NASTY as ALL get OUT. Blair likes COW too... COW being creme of wheat. Val is confused.

Ew done

Precious Ella Marie

My Ella Bella Baby smiles for the camera when I say "SAY CHEESE"..... she does it..... LOVE HER!
Such a party girl... I cannot WAIT till she gets older.. she is going to have her father wrapped around her tiny little finger... And she already knows I can't say no to her. I mean the second she starts crying I rush to her side and rescue her from whatever discomfort she's in. Such a doll. I love her so much. No matter how bad of a situation I'm in, Ella's face can always cheer me up. She is just so full of love. I'm so happy she is here on this Earth and I thank God every day for the choice her mom made. What a true blessing she is the L family. I'm happy they didn't follow some of their other relatives advice in letting someone else adopt her because Ella definitely completes their family. She is a very lucky little girl to be blessed with such loving, understanding parents who care so much about her. Both her grandma on her mom's side, who lives with them, and her other grandparents love her to pieces. And she also has the worlds greatest big brother (most of the time) and the sweetest little big brother. And her "big" (I am using this term very lightly considering they are 7 weeks apart) sister will always have her back when she gets bigger. They will be a great team when they grow up.
I'm just so happy I got to meet Ms Debbie through camp and therefore meet Ella. This school year has been, extremely tough, should I say. And having unconditional love from Ella has been nice. Because no matter what I did/do wrong, no matter what mistakes I made/make, Ella doesn't care. She just giggles and drools :]]]

cute pictures: number 1

Ella and I snappin photos on Saturday

Molly and her kitteh :]

Ella goofin around

Ella's first set of pigtails :]

Princess Molly on her 1st Birthday :]

Molly laughing in the car

Whitman waiting for dinner at 5 Guys

Whitman giving me an electronic hug :]

Max and his SUPER cool new glasses. I think he looks pretty spiffy, don't you?

My new mouse habitat... yeah I built that fort for my micies. I need to take out that plastic tub, but I need to put the food and water on something so they don't mess it up. Any suggestions?

And that's Collier chillin in the cage... she is in there by herself for now because both Anniston AND Heidi think it's fun to beat up a baby. They are together in the smaller cage. They know better.

Sorry. Been super busy. Spent the whole weekend with the L's. It was great. I'll post pictures later once I get them on my computer.

dear blog

Fail

today was a busy day!

I had lunch with the L's at IHOP, went to the blue Walmart with the L's, killed time with the L's, then had dinner with the L's! Twas fun. Tomorrow I'm going to their house so Ms Debbie can help me get organized for school and write my Berry college application/essay.
Got home at like 7. Cleaned the micies cage then tried to introduce reintroduce ( 3rd time is the charm :]]]]]]]]]]]] )Anniston to baby Collier. Fail. I did everything I was suppose to do too; I thoroughly cleaned the cage with bleach, vinegar water solution by Windex, AND water with baking soda (kills all the odors). Soaked all the plastic stuff in steaming hot water with dish washing detergent. Gave them new socks to borrow in, gave them PLENTY of places to sleep separately and/or together... then I put pure vanilla extract on each mouses bottom and chest so everyone would smell the same when introduced (worked at first then it failed).
Collier really did try this time.. she raised up saying in mouse language "My life is completely in your hands! Please don't kill me! I'm a baby! PLEASEE!!!!" Anniston accepted that at first then she started bullying again. So I took her out of the situation. If she's going to be mean, then she has to leave the fun cage. So she is. Collier is loving being in the "big" cage. Heidi is sooo sweet to Collier. It's adorable. She accepts her and let's her into the hut. Not just any hut though. It's the the the hut.
Now I'm watching them in the cage.... Heidi is actually eating and drinking. I think Anniston was abusive to her. She is like stuffing her face. Poor kid. No wonder she flies out of my hands every time I touch her...
I don't know what I'm gonna do. Sigh. I guess I'll just have to wait and see how this all works out.

"Emily will ace Wells' exam if he agrees to do a relay race for the GyPsieS"

sorry about not blogging yesterday. It wasn't a good day to wear white if that means anything..... twice. I fell asleep at 9pm on the couch downstairs. Tragic. I would have froze if my two little dachshunds weren't asleep with me. Tragic.
Anyhow, I'm tired. Real tired. Munchin on some ice. Have been ALL day long.
I really need to start saving money for Disney. Like really do. I have like $40 saved. It's in like 2 weeks. I need like $300. WHAT A FAIL! I desperately need to babysit it up these next couple weekends. Too bad I didn't save more of what I earned over Christmas break.... EHHHH WHY AM I RETARDED AND NOT SAVE?!!!!!!!?!!??!!!!???????

I need mouse owner advice.

Seriously.
Anniston still beats up Collier. It's making me worried they won't ever get along. I just hold them in separate hands and let them sniff each other for like 5 minutes a day so they can get ready for their real introduction. Annistons behavior is NOT very promising.

UGHHHHH

Trapeze and Hammocks

So tonight, I did this class with my neighbor.. if this tells you anything about it's location regarding safety, it's close to McCallie and last night a man was chased down by another man carrying a hammer. Yeah a little freaky.

Anyways, I had so much fun. It's super hard to explain. I'm going to try and find some pictures and videos tomorrow but I am SOOOOOOO sore right now and I am going to be sore for another day or two (okay probably more like 3 or 4). But it's awesome. I got to stretch out my back and core muscles. I don't think I'm gonna do the trapeze part anymore though. I think I might do a different class that's all hammock. The trapeze has really thick ropes that kinda rip your skin off. A tiny bit painful. And my armpits hurt. In one of the moves we did, you like out your armpit through or something. I don't know. I don't know much about this stuff yet. So when you see me walking through the halls tomorrow limping the whole way, don't make fun of me. I was dangling upside down for 5 minutes straight tonight and probably left some of the blood in my cranium :]

LEGEN... wait for it.... DARY

Yeah I just How I Met Your Mother quoted that one.... waz up.

Mmk. So todays been pretty boring. Nothing exciting really. Basically just hung around the house, took the dogs for a walk with my mom.

Played with my micies. Collier is SOO tiny. It's ridiculous. Everyone has had a turn in the mouse ball tonight. Collier went first. She was so confused. She had it for the longest I think... Only because I knew she wouldn't figure it out for a long time. Which was correct. Then Anniston had her turn. She was in there the whole time I took a bath. She was rolling around the whole time. I was trying to watch How I Met Your Mother on my laptop, but it was difficult. Now Heidi is in the ball in the bathroom while I do my blog updating and Facebook checking. This is also her first time, so I think I might let her stay in there for a long time so she can figure it out and all. Ughh sometimes I hate this little wheel thing that's in their cage. They run on it CONSTANTLY. Last night around 3:30 or so, I woke up because they were being so loud so I took out the wheel. It was driving me up a wall. Maybe I should try spraying some WD40 on it or something because it wasn't this loud when I got it. I swear. I can't wait till Collier can move into the big cage with the big girls. She's currently in the Critter Cage placed in the 10 gallon with them so they can get used to her smell and she theirs. I tried to introduce them yesterday when I first got her... but it didn't end well. Anniston like tackled the poor baby and there was a lot of squeaking involved.  Poor baby Collier. She's merely a baby mouse. Today I let Anniston see Collier while in my hands (both in my hands). Anniston reached across the air and smacked Collier in the face. Collier immediately started crying of course. Poor kid. I cuddled her and scolded Anniston. We tried like 5 minutes later Anniston didn't try and hurt her.

Ok I hope it's not bad to put lotion round your ear cause mine was itching.

Anyways. Reference to Emily's blog, a lovely quote that I have enjoyed for many years... and have this on DVD...

For what it's worth: it's never too late, or in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

There's no time limit, stop whenever you want.

You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.

We can make the best or the worst of it.

I hope you make the best of it.

And I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life you're proud of.

If you find that you're not, i hope you have the strength to start all over again.

-Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I got my MAY DAY dress yesterday!!!

Yep. Made a stop at Monica's Bridal.
Lovely lovely. They actually keep track of all the dresses everyone buys and they don't sell the same dress twice :] which is cool because you don't want to have the same dress as someone else in your grade has.. a complete NO NO!
Anyways, I pulled out maybe like 8 or so dresses. First this really pretty blue one with flowers on the top, then this other blue one with a twist tie in the front, then the others I don't remember.
I tried on the twist tie blue one first. It was okay, but nothing to go crazy about. Then I tried on the flower on......

My mom and I both knew that it was the one. But I tried on the other like 6 dresses. But nothing compared. We fell in love. And Monica's really isn't that expensive. If you haven't found your dress yet, I would definitely check it out. Anyways, here's a picture of the dress. And then a picture of me in it. I got it in Glacier blue.

Ok nevermind, the website won't let me save the image :[. Here is the link
http://www.billlevkoff.com/style/bridesmaid-dress/676#

Here I am at Monica's wearing it. Sorry for the decent quality. My mommy took it with her phone:

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So now all we have to do is.... well everything else.

Schedule hair, make up, nails, order flowers, shoes, jewelry, dress fitting, get my dress approved.....

oh and schedule a pre hair and pre makeup so we know that we like what we are doing for the actual May Day....

Oh I forgot that I found these pictures of Anniston earlier

Anniston loves to hide in my sleeve. She really likes to nap there.

I found her sleeping like this....

And sleeping like this.....

My favorite.... I mean, how much more precious can you get...

Oh you know, just hanging...

Me and Anniston :]

Introducing... baby Collier!

Yep. I got a baby mouse to add to the family :].
Anniston was pi$$3d that I got another mouse. She actually attacked baby Collier but I intervined and saved the poor baby. I ran to PetCare Warehouse and asked for advice. No worries. It is all being solved right now. Collier is in the tiny carrier IN the big cage. I'll take a picture later.

ice is a meltin

I apologize. I am too tired to post anything. But school wasn't really all that bad. It was short.
Then I picked up Claire from school, we went to Krystal for a snack, we went to her house, played for a while until her mom and dad got home, hopped in the car, drove them to the airport, almost left the airport, realized I left my iPhone at their house, ran inside, turns out she thought she left her cell phone at the house, their flight was cancelled anyways, they had to reschedule for 7:15pm anyways, so she hopped back in my car, we went back to their house, found both cell phones (hers ended up being in her backpack she had with her, but we ended up turning off some of the lights and such), went back to the airport, dropped her off, came home, ate some chili and Fritos, curled up in bed, made hot chocolate, curled back up in bed, watched How I Met Your Mother Season 3, and here I am.
Summary of my day. OH and Emily and I are babysitting the L's tomorrow night!!! WHOOO HOOO!
Ella can now shake her head when she doesn't want to do something, and Molly is getting beat up/bullied by my Ella. hahahahaha

Keychains

I started making the little plastic keychains today since I'm so bored. So I went to Hobby Lobby and found a craft. Yeah I walked into Hobby Lobby not knowing what I was going to purchase.... what the h*** was I thinking... that's never a good idea. And we all know it. Oh well, I didn't leave with a bill of more than $20... so I'm safe. This craft is easy for kids to do, so maybe some of the older kids I babysit can do it. Hopefully... I'll try and post a picture of the keychain, but here is the gist of it....

Okay that's what it looks like except I don't have clear colors. I am going to get some tomorrow. It would be more fun with clear. I have neon colors and primary colors... but get this, the primary colors doesn't come with the color red. Yeah not there... That's like a basic primary color... just saying...

Anyhow, I'm making Ellen (Claires mom) one right now, so I gotta get back to it. I wanna give it to her before she leaves for Utah tomorrow!

Peace! I'm out for the night, I have school tomorrow then I'm babysitting for Bear!!!

Yesterdays post was a lie

We didn't have school today. Nor will we tomorrow. I am going to go insane. NOT KIDDING. Who would have thought you could be so bored and miserable and not be in school. Social. Interaction. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Like my goodness, is this craziness really nec.

Although I am kinda enjoying this like open warm bed thing. I like being able to curl up in my bed/nest of blankets.... filled with pillows and down comforters. It's kinda comforting.

As you can CLEARLY see... I am quite cozy in my nest. I'm sure you can see where I fit in, correct? Okay maybe not. I go into the little corner.... right in front of the square pillow. It all works out very nicely. I rest my back on the square pillow, and clutch Morris the Moose under my right arm.

Snow Day Ends.

Too bad we have school tomorrow. Can you say depressing?!

Snow Day?!

Six inches of snow?! Really now? This isn't happening... little dogs are hating it. Big dogs... LOVING IT!

What a good lad...

Basically did nothing the whole day. Woke up, got dressed, watched some TV on my parents new little TV, put on makeup, took Puff the dog out, went to church at 12:15pm, saw Meghan from afar, didn't know anyone else, watched the little girl in front of me do her Disney Princess workbook upside down for 3 pages (haha), left early from church right after communion, went to the Public House for brunch with my parents, had a super cool waiter who looks kinda like Em's dad, turns out he has some Latin descent and what not, ate a REALLY good meal (4 buttermilk pancakes which I only ate 3 with help from both my parents but mainly my mom, warm maple syrup, butter, 3 pieces of the most delicious, thick bacon ever, 2 cheese biscuits, and 1 bowl of macaroni and cheese.... OH all with the most natural glass of freshly squeezed lemonade!), came home, walked Sadie at the Greenway, got really cold at the Greenway, Sadie shivered after she stepped on ice and it broke and she fell into the puddle, rushed back to the car, drove home, wrote my Christmas thank you cards (super late, I know. Don't hate. At least they got written), ran to Petcare Warehouse with Anniston in my pocket to get a mouse ball for her, they were out so we had to go to PetSmart, got weird stares, gave weird stares back, dropped by TJ Maxx so I could use the restroom, faked looking around so I didn't look weird just running to the bathroom, came home.

That was a really long sentence. Much like the one they put in the bottom of our yearbook last year that connected everyone. Weird.

Anyways, now I'm sitting at home. About to read some The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare for Mrs. Gahans English class. Woot woot! That's basically all I have for homework this weekend. Now that I have Trigonometry and Statistics out of the way, I don't have as much busy work to do each night. Plus we probably won't even have school tomorrow, and possibly not even Tuesday if we are lucky!! Super cool, right?!

TODAYYYYY

So today was super busy and I just got home (left the house at 7:15am and just got home at like 11:30pm).... had to go to Saturday school this morning but it really wasn't that bad because we had Mr. Cook. Plus K Fish and Julia H were there. So it wasn't bad at all. Then I went straight to the L's to help them pack and stuff. I was there until 5pm. But around 12/1ish, precious Claire's mother, Ellen, texted me to see if I could babysit. She has had a lot going on in her life as has Ms Debbie, so I agreed to come babysit Claire tonight. Minus the fact that I was super tired upon arriving at their house, Claire was super fun. She was so energetic tonight. I love it when kids are excited that you are there babysitting them. It's so adorable. Plus I really enjoy babysitting Claire and the L's, so today was a good day. Well I wasn't really babysitting the L's today, but I was at their house like I always am. I just love being around them. OH! Guess what I learned about today?! Geocaching (sp!?)... Claire and her parents do it. They are all over the world. Crazy stuff. I know. But next time they hit up my area of town, they're gonna text me. Claire and I are gonna hit up some Geocaching spots. Yeah, that cool.

Oh and tonight, Claire was convinced that I was moving in with her because her dad was like
"how would you feel if we turned that room upstairs opposite of your room into Abby's room, Claire?" and Claire was like "YEAH!"

Then later in the night Claire was like, "So are you really gonna move in with me?"

And I was like, "no." Then she put on her sad face. I was like, why are you so adorable. Like seriously. I will totally move in with you Claire. Just stop with the sad face, you're bringing me down! Love her. And her parents are super cool. They keep saying they are old, but I really don't think they are. Like maybe early 30's.... that's what I'm thinking. But I keep forgetting that they had careers before they had Claire... But they don't look old. Anyways, tonight Claire mentioned that her parents are cool. I asked her why, she just said that's how they are. It was completely and fully adorable. She also says she doesn't want to get married, but instead she wants to live with her parents forever. She then told me that I should never get married and instead just come live with her (this kid has an obsession with me coming and living with her.. I think she wants an older sister?!). I said that I want to have kids and stuff. She just kinda stared at me. I said, well I wanna have 5 kids. Maybe you could babysit for me. Then she opened up to my idea. Haha love the Bear.

Alright. I gotta go to bed. But first I need to put Anniston back in her cage :\

Anyone wanna make a donation to the Abby jacket fund so I can get said pull over I mentioned earlier?


Anyone... really? It could be an early b-day gift or something?! really.. or a late Christmas gift?! yeah this is how desperate I am getting....

Feeling kinda down today. Not really for any specific reason. But just because. I don't really know why. Nothing really traumatic happened or anything. I just, I don't know. I mean, it was actually a pretty good day. If the L's come off the mountain to the mall or something, I might go give them an extra hand. We will see. I found a jacket I want though. At first I didn't really like them because everyone in the world has them... but now I kinda want one. They are super soft and super warm. I'm kinda warming up to the jacket.  I am still a North Face kid (only because that was what EVERYONE had in middle school and I just love the North Face...) but they don't make anything similar to this jacket/pull over. Here it is....

Anniston in my pocket

Yeah she's just chilling in my shirt pocket. She is so cool. And really nervous. All. The. Time. No joke. I mean, God love her. But really?! Must we shake 24/7? Now she's up my sleeve again. Cool Anniston. Anyways. I really think I am enjoying my new English class. Like this really could be a good semester... I mean I already knew that both of my History classes with Mr. Cook would be awesome, just because of his teaching style. And I love Mrs. Gahan (I had her sophomore year), but I didn't know how she would do this class. Since it's her first year with senior English AND she only has this one class. It's completely different than Mr. Wells class though, that's for sure. Like literally, she apologized in class for saying a cuss word. I was like, you are too cute. I mean she was describing a character who was most definitely the word she said and there really was no way to describe it other than using that word. But it was just funny because Mr. Wells cussed in class literally all the time. And I really don't know much about my media arts class yet, mainly because I've only been to one class though. I accidentally skipped the 2nd class.. no really. I did. I have never had an A period class all throughout high school, and this is my first time actually having one. So I just sorta forgot about it. It was really embarrassing. And I felt super bad.
Musical auditions on Monday!? WHHHHAAAATTT?! super pumped... who else is pumped here?
Oh so I was at TJ Maxx earlier tonight. Got a Columbia jacket originally $75... I got it for $25! I feel so accomplished. It looks super comfy. It's one of those like weekend jackets that you wear around the house on Saturdays and Sundays. Not the type you would wear to a party. Really relaxing looking. I think I'm gonna wear it tomorrow to Winter One Acts though. HA take that system. I also saw a raincoat when I was there, but I'm sorta kinda broke so I can't get it. Kinda bumming, right? Yeah I agree. It's super cute. It's not a brand name, but it looks like it serves its purpose. It's only $25 too. I just really don't have that kind of money right now. I need that kind of money right now though. Maybe I'll hit up McKays tomorrow and trade in some of my DS games for cash. That could help, right? Gah I hope so. I really need some money right now.

alright it's cool

so i wont be doing proper capitalization for this post. Anniston is in my left arm of my uniform right now, fast asleep. shes so cute. i absolutely love her. how can one not love a pet mouse?! shes so soft and cuddly but full of energy at the same time. only negative is that she poops pretty often (although its not that difficult to clean up considering its completely stuck together and dries within minutes) and pees like once an hour (usually while in my hands... never fails). but i can deal with that. shes so adorable, how can i not. its like with a baby. gah she is sooo tired. i love how she nests into my sleeve in order to fall asleep. i absolutely love this moment. like pause, file, save as.... no joke. shes asleep in my sleeve next to my body heat on a temperpedic mattress topper..
oh did i mention that she can walk across my iphone screen or the trackpad on my mac and move the mouse and/or click on things?! so. freaking.adorable.
i took some pictures with her earlier.

eh, all this cuddling is making me miss the L's. i kinda want some molly cuddles. she seems to be the best snuggler out of the whole bunch. i mean, although ella is my baby, my best bud.... molly and i have a different kind of bond. she tolerates me sometimes. but other times i think she thinks i'm pretty cool. like at the CDM new years party... she thought the world of me and not once did she whine about wanting to be with her mom or dad. it was nice to have her full attention even thought Ms Debbie was cllearly in arms reach. i think Ms Debbie was a tiny bit relieved that molly would let me hold her for such a long time even with Ms Debbie right there. molls even gave me huge smiles at ihop the other day and at walmart when i wasn't holding her AND at the aquarium she giggled and smiled at me everytime we made eye contact :] loveeeee

Anniston and I are now bonding... now I can hold her :]

I'm pretty much obsessed with her.

I like this one the most...

I like this one second best...

short and sweet is my beat today

Almost had a huge wreck on the S curves today. Not my fault though. The girl was halfway over in my lane over the double yellow lines... RIDICULOUS! I was like what are you doing?! Thank goodness I was able to swerve into the lane next to me. Otherwise she would have definitely totaled my car and probably severely injured me. Like no joke. It would have been really bad. I probably would have had to go to the hospital for many hours. It could have even killed me. Isn't it weird how stuff like this happen like  so many times throughout your life and you think about them?! Like I could have died. Or broken a bone. Crazy.

For dinner, we went to Rain. A Thai restaurant off of Shallowford Road. It was delicious. And I brought home my leftovers, which will provide me with like 3 more meals. Huge portions. That's all for now. I'm really tired and it's like almost 9:45pm. Gahh, I'm out!

Possible Ferret Names

Boys:

Ryder

Satchel.

Cruz

Brady

Murphy

Leon

Sadler

Shepherd

Asher.

Girls:

Rowan

Willow

Sadler.

Stella

Shiloh

Harlow.

Scout

Blakely

Leila

Kate

Girls: Sadler and Harlow

Boys: Satchel and Asher

G/B: Asher and Harlow/Sadler and Satchel

So any opinions?

Boring Boring BORING!

At school right now. Bored. Sigh. Nothing to do. The only class I've had so far has been Media Arts. I don't have any academic classes until next.. world religions. So I'm just kinda waiting. Haha why must it take so long. Mk, back later.

9 week old puppy

Short post. Our pet sitter, Amy, came over to drop off Puff the Pom. Brought over this little chiwuawua (I have no idea how to spell this and I am too lazy considering it is 10:30 pm and I have had a long day... so deal with it. I mean, you wanna see the pup don't you?!) pup she is watching. LITERALLY the cutest thing ever. I could eat him. He has puppy breath ;)

Amy thinks he should get a cowboy hat. I agree.

Like seriously. Can you say adorable?!

He kept falling asleep on me.. so adorable

Me and the baby

Okay that really is it for today.

night before school

yeah.. this is my 3rd post of the day. and yeah, I'm awful at moderation. Like one day  barely post anything and the next day I post like 3 things. It's all about how my day is working out for me.

ANYHOO. Emily and I just had a lengthy one hour conversation on Skype. twas delightful. Then we both got really bored of each other. Haha. But she looked at the Ferret website with me. Wanna see what we picked?
http://www.ferret.com/item/ferret-nation-habitat-model-141/630303/

It's like $150, but I wouldn't ever have to buy another ferret cage. I mean it's quality. Plus I will most likely be living in tight quarters when I have my ferrets. So this just seems logical. I was going to get the one that's $200 and it's like taller (it's like double the space), but when talking to Em she urged me to not do it. I'm kinda leaning towards the cheaper one because I totally see her point. Like I think they will be fine. Plus, $50 is a lot of money. That's like 5 hours babysitting. I figure it will be around $500 I will need to START my ferret stuff. Like I need $130 per ferret (and I will need to get two... so they will each have a friend)... which equals out to be like close to $300 with tax. Then $150 for the cage (which I will have to order online since they don't have any where I live). Which comes to about $500. That's not even calculating in food, toys, litter, vet bills, etc. But it's a good start. Plus it's not like I will be getting my ferrets at the beginning of the fall. I mean, I kinda want to get settled in and stuff before I get my ferrets. To make sure that they fit into my schedule and everything. I don't want to get them just for me, I mean, they are alive and stuff. They have feelings, needs, and everything. I have to make sure I have enough money to provide for them.

Dang it. I was gonna check and see how much ferret food costs at my local pet store today... shucks. I'll have to go back and ask Tara what kind she rec. I feel like she would know. If you haven't noticed, I want the best for my rodent friends :]

Oh ps-- did you know that your ferrets can sleep with you in your bed? I mean, as long as you don't roll over on them and crush them of course. haha

Anniston and Heidi... and my love for ferrets

So I figure I should probably tell you guys that I have mice. And then introduce you to them. I have two wonderful mice, Anniston and Heidi. They are totes presh. I adore them. Heidi is smaller than Anniston and slightly insane. Every time I try to hold her and cuddle like I do with Anniston like every other day, Heidi launches out of my hand and flies across the room to run free (which by the way scares the H-E- double L out of me because I have  5 dogs and a mouse would be a fun toy... but only for a few seconds. So it's too difficult to play with her. But Anniston is just a doll. She will curl up in my hand and sniff around while I give her treats. She also doesn't mind as much when I put my hand in their cage. She is much more personable. Here are some pictures:

This is Anniston. The friendly mouse.

The micies, just hanging out together.

(Heidi on the left and Anniston on the right)

Heidi chilling in the toilet paper tube. Ps- if you ever have any of these that you don't need, feel free to give them to me.... I can never have enough!

Oh my gosh, I JUST packed all their food for the next month. You see, I give them fresh food every other day. And I fill these things up every once in a while. I used to only have a weeks worth of containers, but today I got another pack of them (thank God... they don't have any more and I got the last pack of 5 and another pack with just tops and one container which I needed desperately because my other tops for my treats went MIA) at the Dollar Tree. I cannot find them anywhere else. They are the perfect size and they are so colorful. I just love them. Anyways, I have to make sure that my mice have a balanced, yet varying diet. So I fill up half the container with food, then I put in 5 types of treats. It's a really complicated process. I am so picky about what my mice eat. When we get our organic veggies from our shared crop thing in the spring, summer, and fall... I like to put them on an all organic diet of beans and other small snippets of organic stuff to supplement their treat intake, but once we stop getting the organic stuff, they have to eat the packaged stuff. Too bad they can't be all organic all the time. They really love the green beans and lettuce fresh from the farm. Anniston especially loves the yellow beans. They sorta look like green beans, except they are yellow. Yellow beans?!

It's kinda sad to think about the fact that my mice have a better life than some people in the world, but I just can't stand to think of feeding my mice anything different. I mean, I want them to have the best possible life. Oh did I mention that when I was at the pet store today I spent $35 on mice stuff. Gah, I need a life. I was born to be a mother. But in my defense I had to get them more bedding (yeah they've been using the same bag of bedding since October. Wow, one bag lasts a long time. And they actually aren't even done with it, I just figured I should go ahead and get it while I was at the store. But the bag only costed like $8. And I mean it lasts like 3 months. So I don't feel like it's really that much. But I do always go over on their treats. I had to refill up on like 4 out of 5 of their treats. A little ridiculous, I know. Oh and I had to get them more food, and then the wonderful pet store worker (Tara, she is so sweet and she has been working at our local pet store since I can remember... which is like 7+ years) asked me if I needed any more chew sticks. And I got them some when I first got them, but they didn't really chew on them. Instead they just peed on them. So I figured they didn't like them. But she showed me the kind she gets her rats. So I picked up a pack of those. Put one of the variety pack pieces in the cage with them.... THEY WENT CRAZY. I was so happy I got the chew sticks. They looked tickled to chew on them. It made me feel good. 

Oh the reason why I even got my mice was because I didn't want them to get eaten by snakes. I'm such a   freak. Like seriously, there are like BILLIONS of mice in the world and somehow I feel like getting two will help. Oh well. I love them. I mean, it's two mice that didn't get eaten. right?

I want ferrets though. So I figure if I can keep two mice alive for their 2 year life spans, I can manage two ferrets. I held one at the pet store today. I have a slight obsession with them. I am just counting down the days when I can obtain my own. I need to start thinking of names for them. I don't know if I want a girl and a boy, two girls, or two boys. I guess I'll have to wait and see what Pet Care Warehouse has when I'm ready to purchase. They have the best ferrets. Swear. They have Marshall Ferrets. Which are the best kind. They are spayed/neutered before they are shipped, de-scented, socialized at a young aged, and checked for diseases. And they are babies when they are shipped. They are basically like pure bred ferrets with good backgrounds. They don't have as many health problems as other ferrets purchased at other stores. And they are super sweet. Oh and the common misconception that ferrets are evil, stinky, and bite everything is wrong. You are supposed to clean their cage daily. Not every other day, not once a week... NO! It's once a day. Morons who don't do that are liars. HA. ok so they probably aren't liars, someone probably just gave them wrong care instructions. GRR. My ferrets are going to have clean cages. And fresh food every other day like they are suppose to have. And 4 hours of human play each day. They are soo cute. And I am going to get them the best cage. With a lock and key of course (ferrets are very sneaky and slinky and can figure out how to undo a cage without a lock.... the sneaky part of ferrets is true). Gah I want a ferret sooo sooo desperately bad. I cannot wait till I can get them little ferret sweaters and play with them. Ok. That's all the rambling I have for now.