Tails’ Blography

I havent uploaded photos of my girls lately, so I thought I’d quickly do that. Hope you enjoy them!

So I havent updated my blog in a while. Do I feel bad? Kind of. I more feel bad for neglecting something that used to be so special to me. After a while, it lost its appeal and became somewhat of a chore, though I’m not too sure how, nor how to fix it. But do not fear, I wont bore you with the sordid details. Instead, I’ll catch you up on the latest news.

Firstly, I have a new addition to my Mischief (fyi, that’s the collective noun for a group of rats). A new behbeh Black-Based Roan Husky Dumbo girl! Going with my photography-themed names to match Iso and Vignette, I named her Macro, which is apt since she’s still very tiny! She’s already starting to get her husky coat, so I suspect she’s a fast- or medium-fader, whereas Ramoth was a slow-fader, and never fully came into her Husky coat (though she was still beautiful!).

Macro

I also got scratched on the inside (yes, inside!) of my upper eyelid by a cat in our apartment block. The cat was meowing for aaages so I went to investigate why, and while I was inspecting the fat cat’s stomach (thought she might be preggers and in trouble), she casually (and not at all aggressively!) waved out her paw and her claw caught me as I blinked, creating a scratch inside from the middle to the bottom of my upper eyelid. It’s all complicated to explain via text, but long story short, the cat was fine and was just lonely (this I figured out when she proceeded to wander around my flat inspecting everything with a lot of, now softer, meowing). I went to the doc, had my eye checked out (apparently in his 40 years of practice, he’s never come across a scratch on the inside of the eyelid haha), was prescribed some ointment to use and was booked off work for the next two days (couldnt drive, etc with my eye all greased up). Thank God, literally, that it missed my eye, as that could have been a whole lot worse.

I missed Wormy’s 1st birthday (yes, I’ve beaten myself up about this a lot already! :,( sigh) so I threw her a belated birthday party and made mini rat-sized flapjacks for them to feast on. Of course, being the nutter that I am, I also broke out the party hats…no wait, party hat, since the other hats string had stretched too much. Iso didnt care for the hat and quickly took it off, and Macro was just too small for it to stay on. Wormy’s 2nd birthday will be on the 9th Sept, and the other older girls will celebrate their’s in Dec, so keep an eye out for more birthday pics later in the year!

Wormy and Macro

Vignette (Fig)

One of the few photos I got with Iso wearing the hat

And finally, we celebrated my sister’s 30th birthday on the 31st May, and had her party last night (she was writing her final Chef’s exam on the 1st June, so we decided to have her party after she was done). It was a fun party, with great music and company, as well as delicious food consisting of 6 different soups (all made by my sister): chicken veloute, spicy tom yum, cream of mushroom, vichyssoise (potato & leek), cream of tomato (specifically for my bf, as this is the only soup he really enjoys!), and butternut and orange. There were platters of meat, as well as cheese and crackers, and of course dessert which were tartlets of chocolate (made by meee!) and of lemon curd, topped with whipped cream and sprinkles. Yum! In other news, I’m now down to 52.2kgs (from 55.8!) and I’m loving it!!

The Pimp Cup

Buying drinks at the bar

My man, smokin’ the hubbly

Me, also celebrating my new weight of 52.2kgs!

Meet Vignette and Iso, my two new rat babies! Their names took forever to choose but eventually these were the two names decided on. Both are photography related as I try go with themes relevant to my life at the current time of aquiring new babies, and I couldnt think of anything Asus related at this time.

So Iso was one of the first names that popped into my head, and I like it because it sounds nothing like a normal name. Iso was taken from ISO which is film speed in relation to photography. She’s a Burmese Self.

Next is Vignette. This is pronounced Vin-yet and relates to the dark (or white, in some gaudy cases) corners that one sees on photos, either done purposefully in post processing or done by a lens adapter or lens hood (usually on a wide angle lens).

Wirenth has not been as horrible to them as Orly was to her and Ramoth, but she’s doing her fair share of nipping and kicking which is difficult to watch, but is natural. Rule of thumb, no blood, no foul. However I do keep the spray bottle well filled and Wormy does get her fair share of spritzes. At the moment, if I have the all on the couch together, they’re fine but if I put the girls in Wormy’s house, she hunts them down and bites them. So now they’re all in the babies’ house together, which is not Wormy’s territory so she’s behaving…for now. At the moment, the worst she’s doing is giving me doe eyes to let her out of this cage thats “not big enough to swing a cat, mom!” Poor thing looks so claustrophobic.

Anyway, without further ado! Tons of pics!

Meet Vignette and Iso!

Iso – this pic rocks in high res!

Fishing for rats! I almost caught one!

Almost caught another!

Wormy showing em who’s Top Rat around here

Peeping over the couch: Vignette, Iso and Wirenth

It’s Iso!

It’s Vignette!

Later, when the girls were all tuckered out, this is where Iso thought was a nice place to sleep…in the food bowl!

And Wormy slept on the couch with me just behind my legs…

And then moved on to my waistline, legs a-danglin’

Behbeh rat feet!!

And finally, I gave em a chicken bone and I thought this was a very cute face to photograph…

I hope everyone had a safe and funfilled New Years Eve. I spent mine at my flat, with my bf, best friend, and J. We had a braai, drank a bit, and just had a good time. After dinner we started making some shooters in the kitchen, Liquid Cocaine was our drink of choice, and on a whim I brought out my black light/UV light and we had some fun with my Neon shot glasses and UV Pen. We drew silly things on our faces and laughed so hard!

Eventually we moved out onto my patio under the Blue Moon and watched the cars go by. After seeing so many security company cars go by, we decided to turn it into a drinking game. Drink a shot for every security car you see.

Needless to say after we had our shots at the ready, no security cars were to be seen! So after waiting for a loooong time, we decided to drink for any car we saw! This helped hehe. We even saw someone get pulled over by a police car (this was worthy of two shots!).

Midnight was counted down and while we wished each other, the sounds of fireworks could be heard in the distance and people were cheering in the street. In fact, some people we couldnt see called out, to no one in particular, “Happy New Year!” and we all called back the same, to which they replied with a “Whoop whoop!” so the cheer was infectuous. Our neighbour brought his kid outside to shout Happy New Year and they blew their whistles and noise makers, so I ran inside and got a noise maker too (one of my Nano toys hehe) and the night was filled with squawking and shweeeee’ing and laughter.

At 3am another family came home and made their way past my flat and we wished them and while most of the group went on to their own flat, a very friendly German man stayed with us to chat so we poured him a shot of Woman’s Revenge and one for ourselves and toasted the New Year.

It was a relaxed party, and spent with people I love which was perfect. And so, 2010 is here, new beginnings, a fresh start, and all that jazz.

May 2010 be YOUR year. The year good things happen and may it be prosperous for you and yours. Happy New Year!

Chillaxing waiting for the braai to be ready

The Vegetarian “drooling” over the meat haha

Me!

Nom nom nom!

Our table ready and waiting (with the rattles in the background hehe)

“Liquid Cocaine” or “Smurfettes” or “Trashy Smurf”

The “tattoo” I gave V haha

Jay’s creepy eyes I drew on his eyelids haha!

Our shots of Woman’s Revenge hehe

So the shoot was today and it was a gorgeous day for it! Too hot in fact, and we all just about melted into a puddle of mush…luckily we managed to get some awesome shots before that happened!

Eskii was awesome, and took the time to explain this whole emo/indie culture of which I’m so unfamiliar with. I was unsure at first, as was he about the modelling, but by working together we soon got the hang of it and we have the photos to prove it!

There were one or two shots I requested for my own creative benefit, like the hand shots (you’ll know which ones when you see ‘em) and there was one where there is a spiderweb in the shot, but its hard to tell so I didnt upload it.

Please do comment since, well, this is a blography after all :P Good and bad comments, I want to hear what you think!