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Working on having a party here. It may end up being VERY fuckin' big. we have like 130 adults on the list...a few have said no; others we haven't called yet; a lot have said sure. We'll see what happens.

Tired...bored and excited...alittle irritated too. I'm not crazy about days/nights like these. I want to jump up and down dancing, drink in the dark and sleep for about 15 minutes and do it all over again. weird.

anyways...we've bought all the paper goods and the chicken and dogs (all beef `cause we have a few folk that need/have to). still need buns. my mom told me something very interesting that I really hadn't thought about...if you make a big pot of MD crab soup (yummmmmm!), and some nice corn on the cob sweetened with milk, people will do less crab pickin'. Not that I don't want folks eating their fill, but it's the truth. And also, the people that like crabs but don't wanna pick on a summer day, can have a nice bowl of soup, etc...you get the picture.

The baby ratties are doing well! so pretty and cute, I give the mommy's a couple of days with their kids, but then I clean out the cage and check on all of them. The kids love holding and loving these little gems. 14 days they will open their eyes. A very important time in their socialization...we have to (oh yeah, twist our arms!) hold and touch and explore with them. The mothers are a little distrustful because they weren't socialized, just kept in their bins. `Course, they were social enough with their male rat pack to get impregnated at the 6 week mark! haha, oh well. they do what they are supposed to do.

Today (as it is after 12a) will be the second litters 7th day, meaning their peachfuzz will be visible, not just touchable, fuzz and their coloring will be clear. we saw that with the first litter on Wednesday. so i will get pictures and show a comparison of new (3 days old for the first litter and 1 day for the second) and maturing pics. We're also going to take a trip to Frederick, MD to a Harlan Teklad warehouse. We are getting 2 15 kilo bags of #8604, lab blocks, a balanced maintenance diet for the ratties. That's good. This stuff has less corn and more soybean in it. And we're getting it for an excellent price! We still will give them "treats", I look at it more as a varied diet. They get Total Raisin Bran, and chicken bones, and romaine lettuce, and ambrosia (they love pineapple, oranges, marshmallows, coconut and sour cream) and whatever else we eat in the house that isn't junk food, `cause that isn't good for them. Each of the mom's have certain food preferences , it's cute.

Shaka-Bear is doing very well. He's healing up...AGAIN. I let him run around without his collar when he wasn't fully healed. I wanted to give him moments without his collar and the vet agreed. He was fine with like 45 minutes, and I was able to stretch out the time he had it off too. I thought it was good. I just didn't think about how itchy healing skin is to an animal that only knows it itches and must stop. He tore himself open. But like i said...it's healing very well again. This time, I won't be fooled. I will NOT take that collar off until he is fully healed and not itchy anymore. After that, we can start him on whatever, more steroids or the Buspar, to completely stop his maiming himself. I hope it works. The next step will have to be declawing his back claws. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. I am very much against permanent physical changes to any person under my care. We made the decision to leave our son the way he came into this world, until HE made his own choice. Same with our daughter (no cutting her hair, either of the kids hair, until they did it themselves {what fun!}; no earrings, no circumcision...)just can't do it. So I really hope that it won't get to that point with Shaka-Bear. I don't know how to talk in cat language to get him to understand he has to stop scratching, that it's all in his mind (hahaha).

Everyone on the home front is doing well. Kids are starting to find interests. Guin ballet (of course, she's been talking about it for-ever), Bren is imitating the moves on that Gap commercial where the boys are doing choreographed Kung Fu...we asked if that interested him, he said yes. Who knows, he'll/we'll find out. I wonder if they have a little mini-class for that at the Rec Council? That would be nice, they had that for ballet, we put Guin in it...she wants to go through the ballet school year. I don't know how martial arts schools are set up. I'll have to start making calls.

Mom and I are talkin' more. Able to joke about things normally not discussed. That's cool. She told me I was normal. OH NO!!!! I didn't want to ever think that of myself! *giggling*
holla@me posted by MobiusRazor at 00:11