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Elphie is 8! That's so crazy!



Her birthday request was "no more puppy." Unfortunately for her, that's not going to happen.

Husker apparently is secretly a carnivore. Every time I give her a treat, Elphie comes for hers, since they are in pretty much the same container. And every time I give Elphie her treats, Husker comes over and eats one of them.

Guess she wants some protein.

Elphie of course won't touch the guinea pig treat.

Finally I have pictures of the piggy to share, hurrah!

This actually turned out to be quite a bit of work getting them posted here because all uploaders suddenly decided to hate me. But hey, I've finally started to break away from Photobucket which is nice because it SUCKS.

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Husker is now in her more permanent spot, on my kitchen table. I don't really use it for eating much, it just sort of holds dirty dishes. So now it has a guinea pig instead. The main reason for the move is because I was finding the bathroom a bit colder than the rest of the apartment which isn't good for small animals, I would think.

Obviously this means she and Elphie have now sort of met. Elphie was very good about it, just taking a look at her then backing off. I'm hoping she remembers Sam's piggies. Husker hasn't done too much but she was beginning to get settled before so hopefully she'll be able to continue to adapt just fine.

Still don't have my camera back but I just found Stepfanie on Facebook so I can harass her there! Pictures will come the minute I can get them because Husker is very cute.

My parents just left for the cottage. I'm off to work in about an hour though so really not much time to catch up on internet life.

I do however want to celebrate my brand new digital camera! It's an early Christmas present and I'm very excited about it. I was using a camera I got from Bruce but it's really too big and complicated for what I want so now I have a point-and-click that can easily fit in my purse.

Also Marian has suggested that my new ottoman might be the source of the bug that is attacking Elphie, which makes sense since it is new and she likes to sit on it. I'm really hoping that it is fleas and not bedbugs. Because that would really suck, ESPECIALLY since the ottoman is now filled with my costumes.

However I just had a mysterious insect on my hand and looking at pictures I think it was more likely a flea than a bed bug. Unfortunately it jumped away before I got a good look.

Edit: Just pulled all the costumes out and I didn't see any bugs in there at all, so at very least there aren't too many of them. The bug from before definitely wasn't a bed bug so I'm hoping it was indeed on of the fleas that just came in through the window screen or something, since there are a fair number of feral cats in the area and yeah...best explanation I can think of. Will continue to assume fleas, which means I want to clean out the front rooms of my apartment ASAP.

I realized last night at work that Elphaba's birthday is in July. I thought it might even be today, but alas it seems to have been on the 11th. Sorry for forgetting, Elphie!

So, today is busy because I need to go to the bank and get in touch with my potential insurance broker and I also plan on buying some books at the Hairy Tarantula while I'm at it (because I can). Also I still have dishes that need to be cleaned, though I got through a lot of them yesterday.

Busy busy busy.

Edit: Well, I now have renter's insurance, hurrah. I also...have absolutely no energy left. And so the book buying and banking shall have to wait a bit longer. But I only have two shifts until my day off and I might have time before then to do it as well.