Monthly Archives: December 2006

Goodbye little friend

I adopted Cup­cake from a local breeder in Sep­tem­ber. I saw her cream-colored fur and lit­tle tan stripe and just fell in love. She was named after the vanilla cup­cakes I was fond of mak­ing at the time.

Her sis­ter and room­mate Truf­fle is on the upper right of the same pic­ture, but I didn’t

Christmas Friends

Cup­cake and Mag­gie on Christ­mas Day. No mat­ter how many pic­tures I have of my pets, it never seems like enough, so I asked my dad to help do a photo ses­sion with Mag­gie and Cup­cake.
His cam­era is much nicer than mine, but I don’t have room in my bud­get for a new one.

And you thought the Iraq conflict was mirth-free and agonizingly slow.

Barney’s “hol­i­day” video was a heck of a lot fun­nier with voiceover by Jason Jones as Bar­ney. (The Daily Show cut of the video is help­fully sup­plied far­ther down on the blog entry.)
I won­der what kinds of meet­ings Bar­ney really wanders into.

Baroooooo!

NOOOOO. First Cup­cake, now this?
Kumanoko Puffy Baby­Bear is a Flickr star and with­out a doubt the cutest Syr­ian ham­ster ever born.

Petit gâteau

Cup­cake is sick again, and it looks to be more seri­ous than last time. I’ve been feed­ing her med­i­cine and water and Pedi­alyte and actual food for over 12 hours now, with no sign of her get­ting bet­ter.
I’m frus­trated. I know that she’s the smaller and weaker of the two, always has been, and that

Adventures in Commerce

ZOMG. I love the “pets have jobs” thing. I won­der if the guinea pigs still kill the Sims if they don’t clean the cage every day. The “guinea pig” in the orig­i­nal Sims was really the size of a ham­ster.
I went to the mall (Colonie Cen­ter; it has a full 24-hour post

Cakelet

Cup­cake is very sick. She’s weak, and shaky, and I don’t know what might be wrong with her. My guess from what I’ve heard from other dia­betic ham­ster own­ers is some sort of dia­betic shock or high sugar.
I got some Pedi­alyte and fenu­greek into her (which can­cel each other out, I guess) but she’s

Eddies in the time-space continuum.” “Is he really?”

So at some point in the early morning-ish, I changed the time that my alarm was to go off. Appar­ently, I changed the cur­rent time by half an hour in the process. One of my snooze alarms went off, and I looked at the clock, saw that it was 8:45, and pan­icked.

Remember the time we got jacked up on morphine and jammed all night?”

This is the most fun you’ll have on YouTube all year.