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[31 Dec 2005|11:47am] |
I'm sad to say that we've returned from our holidays in Thailand. What a fantastic, beautiful, interesting.... the adjectives could go on and on, place. I had the best time and I'm actually feeling homesick for a country that I spent only 6 days in. Even though we got ripped off a couple of times, the people of Thailand are just wonderful. They are so happy and amazingly friendly and polite.
I'll have to add more to this post later as I have a shitload of things to do today before starting on our New Years Eve dinner. We decided to go all out this year and have lobster and steak with a nice pricey bottle of champagne. This is a first and last for us until next New Years I'm sure. On Monday it will be back to Thai curry(my husband's addiction) and Japanese Udon Noodle bowls(mine).
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[10 Dec 2005|05:57am] |
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I'm off to Thailand. Hope everybody has a wonderful Christmas!
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[14 Nov 2005|10:17pm] |
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So much has happened since I last posted in my journal. I adopted a very small, deathly ill kitten and nursed it back to health. That small sickly kitten is now a feisty young tomcat who loves to snuggle, suck on earlobes and bite you till you bleed.
I started and finished a job, today actually. If anybody offers you a job taking care of a 2 year old and 6 year old with Down Syndrome, punch them in the face and run as fast as you can. I guess it wasn't that bad and the money came in handy. So handy in fact that I'm going to do it again in January. I must fucking nuts but oh well, momma needs a big screen tv.
One positive that came out of the mess is that it strengthened my desire to never have kids. My 30 year old hormones were acting up there for a while and I felt that craving for a baby, but trying to teach a 6 year old that rubbing poop all over their hands and legs is not an acceptable form of hygiene, where do I sign up to have my tubes tied?
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[27 Jun 2005|10:18pm] |
I have been so lazy in updating my journal. I read lots of other journals but I just can't get myself to actually post in mine.
I've been obsessed lately with reading the celeb community journal, ohnotheydidnt. It's a sick obsession that needs to be cured ASAP. I get so pissed off at some people there who must surely be brain dead because thinking human beings can definitely not be as stupid as they are. They will believe anything. There are a lot of celebs that I don't like but jezus some of these people are so nutty that they actually wish death on celebs. That is a bit OTT.
I took a part time job starting in September, two days a week, 12:30-5:30. Thankfully it's only until December and I'll be able to use the money for our vacation in Thailand and a nice Christmas present for my husband.
All the animals are doing great. My tortoise, Lunch Lady Doris, was sick when we got her. Hundreds of dollars spent at the vet later, she's thankfully doing great. She eats like a pig and has grown quite a bit. The dogs are doing well, the guinea pigs are doing great. Miso my female Leopard Gecko laid her second batch of eggs today. I think these guys are going to be fertile. Crossing fingers. Yoshi my male Leopard Gecko, is getting a second wife and they are moving on up like the Jeffersons to a large 40 gallon terrarium. The outdoor fish are thriving and the pond looks lovely. I got a new Clownfish for my reef tank. He's aptly named Clowny and begs like a puppy.
It's 10:30 pm and I'm off to go do some cleaning chores. We played Halo 2 all day today and I got nothing done. My right eye looks like somebody stabbed it with a screwdriver, it's all bloodshot and nasty looking. I don't know what got into my husband and his sudden need for video games. He teaches one class this summer at the university and gets home around noon and all he wants to do is play Halo. We think we are only playing for an hour and when we finally stop playing, it's been four hours instead of one. We be crazy.
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[10 Apr 2005|01:44pm] |
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Yay, I got my tortoise. She is fantastic and eats like a cow. Our guests are still here so I haven't had time to take pictures or finish up her house. Will get to that soon.
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[28 Mar 2005|02:26pm] |
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Another quake. The poor people of SE Asia. They must be terrified. At least there are no signs pointing towards another tsunami.
My husband called me asking if I heard about the quake. Seems like he is rethinking our vacation to Thailand. I hope he doesn't change his mind. He even suggested we wait and go to South Africa instead. That doesn't appeal to me in the least.
Terri Schiavo's father is pissing me off so much. He needs to have his head removed from his ass. He is now claiming that doctors might speed up his daughter's death by giving her a morphine overdose. Wow what a concept, ease her suffering by not letting her death drag on for days. How fucked in your head must you be to think that's a bad idea? I think her family are all in it for the attention. They are whoring this poor women out to world, it's disgusting.
At the malpractise trial, Terri's parents praised Micheal Schiavo to no end and gushed about what a good son-in-law and husband he is, but then he decided not to share the money with them and handed Terri's life over to the court and suddenly he is evil incarnate and they even accuse him abusing Terri and that he is to fault for her being in this condition. Hello the woman starved herself on purpose! The irony is that she is now dying the way she lived, starving.
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[21 Mar 2005|07:32pm] |
I haven't updated my journal in a long time, quite evident I suppose. I've been so busy doing basically nothing. I fart around with the animals, do bits of yard work every now and again, some cleaning, laundry, cleaning cages, cook dinner...... same old, same old. I'm thinking of either quiting Livejournal altogether or getting more involved with my journal. Change things up a bit, join more communities, make more friends and post pics and such. Who knows.
I'm hoping to change things around though. I want to start excersizing and get back to using Fitday. I need to loose weight for our vacation. We don't know where we are going yet, maybe Europe, maybe Thailand.
On one hand I would really like to go back to Belgium and do all the fun stuff we missed out on the first time we were there together. We just can't do Belgium though so we would have to combine it with a visit to France or Germany or maybe go back to the Netherlands. I only find Belgium appealing at the moment.
The other option is Thailand. Neither of us have been there and even after the tsunami ravaged most of the parts we will be visiting, it still look beautiful and with 'tsunami' prices, dirt cheap. Another bonus about going to Thailand is that we could snorkel. We would have to postpone our holiday though until Thanksgiving because I don't want to go there in the rainy season.
Hmmm lots of things to think about.
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[28 Feb 2005|08:39pm] |
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Last night I lost my Todai virginity and it was so good! Yum. Before our concert we were walking around looking for a place to eat and up on the top floor of the swanky mall, we found Heaven. We've driven by the Todai in Redmond and to me it looked like a small chain sushi type place, I wasn't impressed. This Todai however was one big mofo that was packed wall to wall with people. I wonder if they are always so busy or if it's just because this is a new location?
We started off with two rounds of sushi. I pigged out on the salmon and tried Unagi for the first time. It was a lot blander than I expected. After sushi we hit the snow crab table. It was really good, the first time I've had crab that tasted like it was boiled in brine.
After the snow crab we did a round of the warm foods. I ate some fried rice, beef short ribs and some large tiger prawns baked with mayonnaise. They were really good. By then however I was so stuffed from the sushi and snow crab and a pint of Kirin Asahi that I was starting to feel very uncomfortable. I had to force myself to eat the delicious baby creme brulee and a small piece of green tea cheesecake.
A brisk walk to the theater made me feel ever worse but I managed to burp out a couple of good ones and that made enough space in my belly to make me not pass out in the warm theater.
I score the Pat Metheny concert a C-(I prefer classical jazz over the modern stuff) and Todai gets an AAA+.
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[25 Feb 2005|10:10am] |
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I just drank a gallon of warm tea and now I'm sweating like mad. It feels so hot in here in the office surrounded by computers and gecko heating setups.
I want to get working on our family website today and get all the pictures and stuff of our animals up. I've been promising my parents pictures now for months so it's about time that I get off my ass and do something about it. I'm thinking of changing over to GoDaddy.com to host my website. They are dirt cheap but I have no idea how their service is.
I really wanted to go down to Portland tomorrow to the Reptile and exotic animal expo but I forgot we have to go to a concert in Seattle tomorrow night. I like jazz but I'm a bit worried about sitting on my ass for three hours listening to a guy play one song for an entire hour. It's also not classical jazz but some new fusion shit. My husband loves this guy though so I'm taking one for the team by going. Gawd knows he does so much for me, this is least I can do for him.
Speaking of things he does for me, in the next couple of weekends he'll be building me a tortoise shed. I'm taking in a Sulcata tortoise that my in-laws are getting rid off because they can't take care of it. I'm so mad at the lack of care the poor thing has received so it will feel like it died and went to heaven once it's in my care. We used to have a Sulcata when I was kid in South Africa. Stoffel lived outdoors and was just a great pet. Our maid, who moonlighted as a witch doctor, was shit scared of him and he would always trap her and her clients inside of her apartment by planting himself firmly in the doorway. They refused to climb over him and would summon me to remove the offensive beast. He was so big that I could hardly move him. I had to lure him out with some produce.
I'm a bit worried about taking in a tortoise that could reach 200 pounds in the cold area that we live in. It(not completely sure of the sex and I definitely want to change it's name so I'm calling it "It" for now) should be comfortable in the warm tortoise shed during winter though.
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[21 Feb 2005|10:24am] |
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I read an article over the weekend that if Red-wing blackbirds show up in the marshes, that Spring is close by. Who's been in the little wetland behind our fence for the last couple of days, yep my old friend the Red-wing blackbird. Whoohoo! He is one bitchin bird that comes back every year to make a nest and mate with some fine ladies behind our fence.
He is the mack daddy of the backyard and kicks all of the other birds off the bird feeders. It's so funny to see him dive bomb the dogs and neighborhood cats. Roo, our Jack Russell, just hates birds but she and the Red-wing seem to have come to some kind of agreement because she'll lie down in the grass and he just walks around her looking for worms and bugs.
Besides the Red-wing blackbirds, I also have a pair of Green Tree Swallows that have been nesting in a birdhouse I made for the last 3 years now. I hope they come back again this year because they are so beautiful to watch.
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[18 Feb 2005|09:47am] |
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On Wednesday night I looked into the face of evil, it wasn't pretty.
So that skank Amy is back on The West Wing. Why God, why!!??!! It was the perfect episode for some Josh and Donna interaction but ofcourse with she-bitch showing up to foul my hour of pleasure, the only glimps Josh caught of Donna was her telling off a guy in a chicken suit on CNN.
Lost was alright but not mind blowing and that just set the tone of my Thursday that hopefully will not put a damper on my Friday which is already foul because my husband had to go into work for some stupid 'pottential new employee' meeting.
I'm going to write a letter to his Dean telling him that because my husband has to work on Friday now, that he deserves to get Monday off so that we can get back to having three day weekends.
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[13 Feb 2005|07:22pm] |
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While I'm here.....
I'm so in love with Zhang Ziyi. I loved her in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and The House of Flying Daggers. If you want do yourself a favor, watch The House of Flying Daggers on the super screen at a good theater. The profusion of color(all of Yimou's movies that I've seen use color as part of the story) is so breathtaking and the scenery is like visual porn. No words can describe the beauty.
The ultimate Zhang Ziyi movie though is The Road Home(English title). OMG that movie is fantastic and had me sobbing. It's another one of Zhang Yimou's masterpieces.
Zhang Ziyi will soon be on our screens in the film version of Memoirs of a Geisha, one of my favorite books. To tie me over I think I'll try and secure a copy of Raise the Red Lantern on DVD.
I did end up watching my DVD of Hero today. It had a little bit of everything, some Zhang Ziyi, breathtaking visuals, beautiful music and Jet Li kicking ass. I liked it.
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[13 Feb 2005|07:06pm] |
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If you are in a bidding war with somebody and there is only 12 seconds to go in the auction, do not, I repeat, do not confuse the [,] key with the [.] key or else your high bid of $59.10 will end up as $5,910.
Ebay 12
Scarlet 0
After putting on a clean pair of pants, I thankfully only had to pay $63 because the prick bidding against me stopped bidding at $62. I still got the item for $23 less than what I would have payed retail, but if waited half an hour I could have got the same item for $21 less than what I originally payed.
Let me adjust the score.
Ebay 13
Scarlet 0
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[10 Feb 2005|10:04pm] |
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Ok so I just recently got my drivers license again. Long story short I had an international drivers license that expired years ago and because of my visa status I wasn't able to drive or so I thought, yadda yadda. For a couple of years there I couldn't drive. Now for a girl who loves to drive around and go places that was a bit of a downer.
After getting my citizenship I finally got my shit together and took the drivers test and now I'm back behind the wheel. I was a nervous wreck when I went to take the test which was so silly of me. I passed my first test 11 years ago after only a couple of weeks of driving practice and I've driven in 5 different countries, on every side of the road, so you'd think that I would be comfortable taking the test while shaving my legs and making blueberry waffles on the passenger seat. So I finally took the test and passed. Only got a 94 because I didn't turn my steering wheel when simulating parking on a hill and I didn't stay close enough to the curb when reversing around a corner. I aced the parallel parking though, which is pretty daunting in an SUV.
It's great to be driving again. I feel so free and it feels like a burden has been lifted of my shoulders. No more waiting around for my fuzzy monkey to take me places. He is feeling a bit vulnerable though because he feels like I've grown up and flown the coop. It's been a week of constant reassurance that I love him more than anything and that I still need him to take care of me.
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[26 Jan 2005|09:55am] |
I feel somewhat accomplished today. Last night I didn't go to bed till well past midnight. Today I have a fleece hammock and a fleece snuggle cup to show for my lack of sleep. Hope the piggies like them. I feel like I've been neglecting the poor things and the dogs since I've been obsessed with Yoshi and Miso the damn geckos. It stresses me out so much though that they don't eat reguarly. Miso has been eating and pooping a little bit but Yoshi, who is a large male, has only eaten a bite here and there and thus no sign of poop from him yet. It looks like he chowed down on some purreed baby food last night and one worm.
Thank god I don't have kids because just taking care of animals is about to give me a stroke.
Off to do some major cleaning and then hopefully I can take some good pictures of all my animals to post in my journal.
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[23 Jan 2005|04:18pm] |
We had a fabulous weekend, well Friday and Saturday was great but today I feel like poop. I think it's from the mystery meat I had on my *Deluxe* Udon Noodle bowl. I've been drooling over Udon noodle bowl pics in my Japanese cookbook and while the one I had last night was good, it wasn't great. I'm sure I can make a better one, one with meat that doesn't taste sweet and funny. *stomache churns*
Friday we went out for beers with the gang. My husband ended up going out later with two guys from work trying to find one of them a woman/date/mistress, gawd knows what. This guy and his wife(who I met once and wanted to hit with a meat cleaver because she was such an obnoxious drunk) separated. He wants her to think that he sits at home every night sulking and hoping to patch things up with her. One part of him wants that but the other part, or should I say his penis, wants to go out and meet up with other women.
The kicker is that this guy is close to 60 and thinks he stands a chance with women between the age of 20-35, and ofcourse only good looking, well built, women need to apply. He actually dated a woman a couple of times who was in her late thirties, very attractive and and well educated.(to give you a slight insight into my life, 94% of the people I hang out with, including my husband, all have PhDs). So he's dating this woman but he's not sure about dating her because although she is skinny, she has a bit of a "tummy". Like I said, this guy is heading towards 60 and is not that good looking and far from rich.
What's up with men these days thinking that they deserve to be with a young, hot, babe no matter what what their age, weight and general disposition? Another guy we hung out with this weekend, he has been through two divorces and while he is a nice guy and fun to hang around with, I would kill him if he was my husband. A miracle beyond miracles, he's seeing this beautiful, well educated 25 year old girl(he is 23 years older than her) and he constantly gives her shit. This girl who can have any man she wanted, she's got a great job and he doesn't have any money so it's not like she is after him for his money, well she can do so much better than him but yet she puts up with his shit. She would love to move in with him and be with him but he acts like he and his cats can do with out her. The nerve!
Other than that my new geckos are freaking me out. They are still stressed out from their trip and won't eat. I managed to feed the female a couple of waxworms and I think the male who is seperated from her for now, has eaten something. I'll try again tonight(they are nocturnal) to give him something. They should be heartily chowing down on mealworms and crickets by now. I can only pray that they don't get ill and die because I've spent hundreds of dollars on them. My other poor animals are feeling neglected because I constantly fuss over the damn geckos.
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[19 Jan 2005|10:45am] |
Oh shit the mealworms didn't arrive.
I loathe dealing with people on the phone. If you have a website then you should be able to take orders through your website. Don't give me that, "oh we want first time customers to speak to us on the phone on their first order", bullshit.
Now I'm an order of mealworms short and I have no physical proof, like an e-mail, to show these people that they screwed me over with their one day shipping that stretches into two days policy.
Argh I'm so mad.
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[19 Jan 2005|10:40am] |
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The Mealworms have arrived!............
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[18 Jan 2005|10:08pm] |
Well I guess now is a good a time as any to start posting in my journal.
Hi I'm Scarlet(not her real name), long time lurker, first time poster.
I'm 29 and married to a kick ass husband of nearly 5 years. I have two kids(dogs). Tigger a pleasantly plump Beagle and Roo, a rambunctious Jack Russell Terrier. Other members of our animal centric family are, Millhouse and Ralph the Guinea Pigs, Fluff the Hamster, Yoshi and Miso - the Leopard Geckos, the outdoor fish(unnamed Koi and various Japanese goldfish) and the indoor saltwater fish, Mr Green Goby, Sparky the Fire Fish, Mr Shrimp the Cleaner Shrimp(how original) and last but not least, Doris the Conch.
My current job consists of taking care of all the critters which in itself is a full time job and trying to be the perfect wife to my perfect husband, scratch the perfect part. In a previous life I used to be a freelance web designer, a nanny in Europe and an English teacher in Madagascar. You might be wondering how somebody like me who so masterfully butchers the English language and grammar can be an English teacher... well let me tell you, the French aren't picky when it comes to learning English and for the pittance they pay they deserve the worst possible teacher, Me!
What else is there to tell, I've been a citizen of the US for exactly one week today and I'm originally from South Africa.
That's as exciting as it gets around here. Sorry.
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