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Phoebe and the Magic Almond

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 at 1:29 am

I’m trying to study and I hear “klak klak klak”. I ignore it. Minutes later, more “Klak klak klak klak”. It seems weird, the noise seems to be at random times, for random amounts of time, no pattern. This occurs for about 6 minutes. Finally, unable to concentrate, I go over to the hamster cage. I roll their wheels. Silence. I move the plastics away from the wheels. I sit back down. “Klak klak klak”. WTF is that noise?

I go study the cage and hamsters, to see what they’re doing and I see Phoebe running with a giant almond in her mouth. Running in the wheel. Apparently she’d been doing this for 10 minutes, carrying this almond around in her mouth. I watch as she runs with it and the almond slowly falls out of her mouth as she runs. It falls, trips her up, and she goes tumbling. This happened for a few minutes before I finally decided to take a video of the hilarity. Unfortunately, in the video, she only tumbles around a couple of times. Still, it was pretty funny….



Sadly, we had to separate the hamsters. Phoebe was picking on Monica first, and then Rachel. But when she scuffled with Rachel, there was blood :( Bite marks and blood on Rachel…so we had to separate them. We put Monica and Rachel inside a cage (*giggle* living together, just like in the show!) and Phoebe, Chandler, and Joey in one cage. Occasionally, we throw Chandler in Monica and Rachel’s cage for a threesome. Chandler is very friendly and gets along with everyone…we don’t want to move Joey as she’s partially blind so we don’t want to mess with her familiar surroundings.

It really sucks that we have been forced to separate the 5 hamsters, it’s all Phoebe’s fault :( The nicest hamster I’ve possibly ever had also turns out to be one of the meanest to the other hammies :( Bite marks and blood on Rachel but Phoebe has never bitten me once EVER. Even Chandler’s nibbled at me. Very sad….like your kid turned out to be retarded. Or evil. :S

It’s easily predictable. Phoebe has red eyes. Like the devil! She’s also pure white, the perfect disguise. But I know Phoebe’s really good, we just happened to pick up Phoebe’s twin sister, Ursula. What are the chances!? They’re twins!?

Chronicle of flu (for future reference)

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 at 11:15 pm

Wow, I’m such a nerd. I wanted to chronicle the symptoms on my sickness….for future reference.

I had written it all down (after I was sick as I had absolutely no energy to do it during) but it’s wasn’t very easy to read that way.
….Not that this chart is easier :/

I wanted to note that
1. I got chills 3 times as my temperature increased. For the second and third chills, I remember my body cooling off, sweating for no reason other than to kool off from its set point of 39.2 C.
2. I did not have any sore throat throughout this entire sickness, which is really weird.
3. I was really sick for a good 3 full days, where the first 1.5 days were pretty much entirely spent in bed, 36/37 hours….sleeping with socks, and a sweater, and 2 heavy blankets.

This flu hit at the best, and worst possible time:
Best because: work wasn’t really affected. Nothing was really affected. I had planned on playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time or studying for these days and the fact that I couldn’t isn’t a big loss.
Worst because: it was during the best time for relaxing…also, I had to stay home during New Year’s Eve. Also, I left my PS3 at work so it meant: no PS3 gaming, no watching any DVDs, no watching any Blu-Rays, not being able to watch anything on the big TV (and lay on the couch, vegetable like…). I basically just lay in bed for most of these 3 days as my thoughts ran away with me.

WTB#3 – January 2011 Edition

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011 at 9:39 pm

Things I’m expecting in January – Total $176.99


Street Fighter Ultimate Edition 2 (Hardcover)
$126.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Purchased Dec 31, 2010
Purchased over Udon Store
Nendoroid – Petit: Death Note – Series 1 and Series 2
$52.00 – Price I Paid (total)
Purchased Dec 11, 2010
Purchased over eBay

Things I received in December – Total $827.77 – holy sh!t, the difference of what I thought I’d spent at the beginning of Dec and what I actually spent was $700


Initial D: Extreme Stage [PS3]
$48.80 – Price I Paid
Purchased Dec 13, 2010
Received Dec 29, 2010
Purchased over Play-Asia.com
Adam Hughes – Catwoman Statue
$106 – Price I Paid
Purchased Dec 27, 2010
Purchased at Cyber City Comix
Gundam 00 – Wang Liu Mei #A
$9.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Purchased Dec 11, 2010
Received Dec 30, 2010
Purchased over eBay
Kotobukiya DC Comics: Batgirl Bishoujo Statue
$72.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Purchased Dec 8, 2010
Received Dec 23, 2010
Purchased over Kotobukiya
Kotobukiya Marvel Comics: Emma Frost Bishoujo Statue
$72.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Purchased Dec 23, 2010
Received Dec 23, 2010
Purchased over Kotobukiya
Otacool Books 1-3
$116.07 – Price I Paid (total)
Purchased Dec 8, 2010
Received Dec 16, 2010
Purchased over Amazon.ca
D-arts WarGreymon
$53.97 – Price I Paid (total)
Purchased Dec 12, 2010
Received Dec 18, 2010
Purchased over Hobby Search
Ferrari Wireless GT Cockpit 430 Scuderia Edition for PS3 or PC
$225.99 – Price I Paid (total)
Received Dec 14, 2010
Purchased Dec 11, 2010
Purchased over Dell
Gran Turismo 5 Collector’s Edition
$120.97 – Price I Paid (total)
Received Dec 2, 2010
Purchased over Amazon.com

Accomplishments #3 – January 2011 Edition

Saturday, January 1st, 2011 at 9:18 pm
What I accomplished in December

Shows / Movies
Re-watched Slam Dunk (anime 101 eps)

Books & Manga
Finish second Dark Angel novel (260~ pages)
Finish third Dark Angel novel (260~ pages)
Finish Death Note: Another Note story (176~ pages)

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Gaming
Have Street Fighter Tournament at work
Play GT5 at work

Web Development and Design

Other
Christmas Shopping, whew!

Notes
Not much done this month, the sickness took me out about 4-5 days in total using the time i had dedicated towards Zelda. Ah well. I got a lot of good reading this month, I guess that’s my main accomplishment this month.

What I want to accomplish in January

Shows / Movies

Books & Manga

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Gaming
Finish Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)

Web Development and Design
Finish my ASP.NET 3.5 book
Start my CSS book
Start my (other) CSS book

Other

Notes
My focus this month is my CSS book and Zelda. That’s it. I’ve been procrastinating both for so long. I’ve cleared my plate and I’m ready to start fresh on these two items.