Monthly Archives: February 2008

Sleeping

I’ve had some amaz­ing hiber­nat­ing bills on Where’s George lately.
This one wan­dered around upstate NY for a bit, and then hid some­where (where?!) for almost six years before some­one entered it again.
This one I stamped dur­ing Christ­mas break from my sopho­more year of col­lege, and then it resur­faced more than seven years later in the next

My grandfather would be either proud or horrified

I love Lent.  Even when I’m not both­er­ing with Catholi­cism in other ways, I observe (“cel­e­brate” isn’t the right word) Lent.  Since I don’t nor­mally eat meat, on Fri­days I don’t eat dairy or eggs.  I call it Vegan Fri­day.  It’s enough of a chal­lenge that it proves to me I would be very bad

80s childhood quiz

…taken from my friend Katie. This is long. Make popcorn.

Hamsformation

 

These two pic­tures were taken about a week and a half apart.  In the first pic­ture, Zachie is a lit­tle shorter than my thumb, and in the sec­ond, he’s perched over my whole hand.  I love his big chubby baby stom­ach in the first pic­ture.
I’m try­ing to decide who I want to stay with me–I’ve

Ladybug

My dad put a pic­ture of Lady, my child­hood dog, up on Flickr for the pet heaven pool.  Wasn’t she pretty?  he wasn’t friendly, and she never liked me very much, but she was a good dog.  She could take her­self out to the bath­room, which is a skill more dogs need to learn.  I

Hugs!

I got this Valentine’s card in the mail from my par­ents. Peo­ple know me so well! And now I want to get these.
The ham­sters have decided to have a full-on freak­out, so I sep­a­rated the boys and girls today. When I was sex­ing them, I noticed that every­one is

Traffic advisory

Dear City of Albany,
I drove home in an awful mess. Please think about plow­ing the streets even­tu­ally before the morn­ing com­mute. But also, in a city of stu­dents where there are plenty of peo­ple on the roads after 10 pm, you might want to at least plow the main thor­ough­fares through the city.
No love,
Lau­rie and Isis

Chessie

Here’s my new friend Chester. He’s going to be stay­ing here at Chez Ham­ster after the other babies are adopted out.…well, assum­ing that they do all get adopted out. The mas­ter album of ham­sterba­bies pho­tos is here. I’ve taken a lot of pic­tures, because they grow so fast and I will

Tresses

I hate my hair.
 

 
Just sayin’.

First one gone

Bye, Mag­gie Jr.! You are a very spe­cial and adorable lit­tle girl, and I named you after my best friend. You have nice new par­ents and I’m sure you’ll have a happy life. Here are my favorite pic­tures of you.