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10/26/2000 Oy.. Busy couple of weeks. Good news: Bella's still alive and kicking. ^_^ Bad news: I had to increase my medication. :Þ So instead of taking 20 mg a day, I going to start taking 30. I still have a few more days on the old dosage, though, so I don't know yet how much this will help. Ever since school started and the stress started piling on again, I've been having trouble staying.. erm.. positive? And I've been much more tired lately, which is always a warning sign for me. So. Hopefully I'll feel better soon, or at least a little less manic-depressive. You'd think I was on drugs or something the way I've been swinging lately...I've been trying to work on some new designs for several sites for weeks, and I've been totally stuck. I finally had a break-through, though, so my visitors can expect new layouts at Aino Jinja and Tsukino Jinja come November 1. Those will both stick around till about February or so. I'm trying to control my creative bursts by going seasonal. ^_^ Wish me luck. Listening to: Nothing 'cause I'm at school.. And about to take a test on MS Visual C++. Oh joy and happiness. posted 1:51 PM / post 10/10/2000 Thank you! That's the strange thing, though. I always made sure they had food and water, there was nothing around the cage for them to chew on (except the plastic siding we put on to keep them from kicking out cedar, but that's much too hard for them to chew up), and.. Oh, wait. Our thermostat is always set on 78 during the summer. That couldn't be it? I thought I read somewhere that 78 was okay for guinea pigs... I think I'll have to look that up and doublecheck. My new one seems to be doing fine, but since the cold weather moved in last week, we've had the temperature in the house at about 65-70 at any given time. Thanks! Maybe now I can figure out why the poor things died.I'm glad my father isn't the only one with a bad sense for names.. Although the scary part is that he insists that she told him her name was Hortense. I mean, of course, he's joking, but still.. It's kind of disturbing. I decided to name her Bella, but so far, I'm the only one who seems to call her that. Dad uses Hortense and Mom says "that furry critter." *sigh* They never learn. I can't believe your dad kept a hedgehog. I mean, we've had some odd pets.. Like minnows, a ferret, dozens of gerbils, and some hamsters.. But a hedgehog? ^_^ I'm more partial to the cute, furry creatures than ones that poke you with quills. Of course, there was my dad who always did want some miniature goats in our backyard to keep the grass trimmed... Listening to: Nothing, 'cause I'm in school. :Þ posted 2:35 PM / post 10/2/2000 New design. Hope ya like! ^_^ And there are new blogs in my list of dailies.Listening to: Everything You Want by Vertical Horizon. posted 10:27 PM / post 10/1/2000 I bought a new guinea pig last night. Let's all hope that the third really is the charm because I don't particularly want to bury another one any time soon. Besides, I'm running out of places in our tiny excuse of a backyard.. Not to mention I'm running out of different colors to buy. ^_^ This one is, I'm pretty sure, a girl. She's a beautiful dark brown color with white markings on her head and a little ways along her back. I haven't come up with a name yet.. But dad's taken to calling her Hortense. Isn't that lovely? *shudder*I took last Friday off after these last hellish two weeks. Would you believe that at 11:30 that morning, my phone started ringing; it rang three separate times before the caller decided to leave a message. It was Mary and Anna Belle from French class calling to tell me that Prof was going to give me a 0 for the French questions we were supposed to turn in that day. I was furious. I don't much blame them; either they were asked to call me, or more likely they heard Prof complaining and wanted to warn me. But, my God! It's one thing for him to complain and make fun of us when we're absent; he does that anyway. But actually telling them I was getting a zero for that work because I hadn't turned it in on my sick day? I don't think so. I wanted mom to write me a note to give him that said there had been a death in the family, or something. That would've shut him up. But.. Ergh! That ruined the entire damn day for me! All that day and Saturday I kept slipping deeper and deeper into my old, "I'm depressed, let me hide" way of thinking.. I had to have a cryfest with mom on Saturday afternoon before I felt any better. Now I'm just mad. I want to tell him off in class tomorrow.. How do you say, "Bite me!" in French? Anybody? Have I said, "Ergh!" yet? *breathes in and out deeply* Okay.. Detach.. So. Homecoming was this weekend. And I managed to continue my unbroken record of not attending for the fourth and last year in a row. Yay me. Before I forget.. I had the strangest dream last night.. It involved several of the characters from Friends and a grocery store.. But that's about all I remember. I need to get one of those dream interpretation books.. Listening to: Ice Cream by Sarah McLachlan. posted 9:16 PM / post |