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Another post of "oh hey I logged in" whee.

So I am apparently doing that not eating thing again. Where I don't quuuite remember what I ate yesterday in the "I think I just had an apple and some crackers WHOOPS" sort of way. So now I feel like @_@ and want to just sleeeeep.

WEEK AND A HALF TIL WORK STARTS OH GOD MAKE IT BE HERE SOONER @_@

12 days into the month and Kristen hasn't been here at all and thus, hasn't packed at all. Granted, she didn't really UNpack the entire time she was here so most of her books and DVDs are still in boxes but.. We have no idea when she's moving out. @_@ Or who we're getting in her place when she goes. @_@ But! Sennet is finally making progress on the loan for the year of rent she owes us! *flop*

And I now no longer have a hamster. Panda died sometime yesterday. Sennet buried her in the yard last night.

I don't really feel much regarding her, though. When Shou died, I was a wreck, sobbing my eyes out for hours. He was my first pet, after all. I sniffled when Jumpy died, and I think since then, I've been expecting Panda to join her.

Hamsters really don't make good pets. Panda was I think 2 years old. Shou was 3. It goes by far too quickly. And we didn't play with them much because we were always worried they'd jump out of our hands and hide under the sofa or get lost in the apartment.

I dunno. There's been talk of maybe getting guinea pig [and jokes about the name to give it if it's a squeaky/whiny one. Especially if it's a ginger.] but I dunno. Maybe we're just better off not having a pet for now.

Man. I have got to start eating right. Doesn't do me ANY good to have iron levels if I do this crap to myself. @_@

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I'm sorry to hear about your pet. Guinea pigs make lovely pets, I had one for four years myself.

The longer life span and the fact that they really can't wiggle into cracks and under the couch and vanish are also big pluses. I'm just not sure if I want to get another right now. May stop at the petstore this weekend and look at them. There's also been a few up for adoption that I've seen listed, so wouldn't even have to get a "farmed" one.

Was yours a noisy one?

Only noisy when I played with him or he heard food rattling in the kitchen ;)

Which is all expected :D The main concern is that sound caries real well from the livingroom up to the bedroom so getting a squeaker that whines for attention all night would be miserable @_@

My hamster, Oscar, died after only a few years too (Rascal, my brother's simply disappeared. We have no idea what happened to him). He made his nest in a hollowed out coconut so we buried him in that. Future dead hamsters were put in margarine containers. I remember Arlene died while my brother and me were back at Mom's so Dad wrapped her in plastic and froze her until we visited again. :-)

I just never liked that they pissed seemingly at random. You didn't have one of those plastic balls to put them in while they were outside their cage?

We used to for Shou, but never used them for the girls.