Photo Every Day #239

Today has been a nice day off. I have literally done nothing! I watched some tv and a couple of films, played with my puppy and kitties and then ate ice cream whilst watching Catfish: The TV Show. Perfect!

Ratty Hammock:


Song Of The Day: The Distillers - The Hunger (Live at Reading Festival)
Reason: Just watch!


Highlight Of The Day: Watching Melancholia.

Inspiration Of The Day: Phantom cameras! Such beautiful images!!!

Photo Every Day #223

Today we took Klaus to the vets to get his paw checked out. He's been put on Metacam for the swelling and if he's not improved over the weekend he's to go back and be x-rayed. He seems to be eating, cleaning himself and pooping ok, which are all good signs. But the vet did say his lameness was very severe as he's putting no weight on it. Fingers crossed its just bruised. 

Mousey: 

Song Of The Day: One Direction - The Best Song Ever

Reason: It's been stuck in my head all day. 

Highlight Of The Day: Watching a film with stark asleep next to me on the couch.

Inspiration Of The Day: How animals just get on with life even thought they're in pain. They don't take pills for every little thing like most people do! 

Photo Every Day #124

This evening we gave the rats a bath. They don't have space in their cage to have a bowl deep enough for them to properly wash in so it's nice to help them feel fresh. They were really good and didn't really mind being splashed with warm water. They groomed themselves afterwards and looked nice and clean!

Song Of The Day: Swedish House Mafia - Antidote
Reason: The perfect song for the sun!

Highlight Of The Day: Proper quality time with my boys (the rats).

Inspiration Of The Day: The Apprentice. Inspiring us all not to be prats! Can't wait for the new series!!

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Today has been an amusing day. Asami and Klaus both decided to pull cute little 'superhero to the rescue' type poses. So cute!!

Pets Pretending To Be Superheroes:


Song Of The Day: Filthy Boy - Waiting On The Doorstep
Reason: Not usually what I like, but quite enjoyed my first listen to it.

Highlight Of The Day: Draco cuddles. I love it when I feel his warm breath on my face. A sign of a real cuddle.

Inspiration Of The Day: The beautiful model Robyn Lawley. She's the first plus sized model to be picked for Ralph Lauren, one of my favourite designers. She's lovely and has a stunning figure, so in my book that makes her a good image role model!

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Klaus-y has taken to sitting in his nest with his arm or arms sticking straight out. It looks like he's trying to get out but is too tubby! Super cute!

Fatty:


Song Of The Day: One Direction - Kiss You
Reason: Not a huge 1D fan or anything, but this song is rather catchy!

Highlight Of The Day: Joaquin Phoenix in Signs. Yum.

Inspiration Of The Day: Hopefully getting a new opportunity. Makes me want to keep going.

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This evening we have had a nice half hour or so playing with the boys. We also did the last of their spot on treatments for Quigley's mites so hopefully that will well and truly be the end. Quigley seems to be back to his normal self, nice and groomed with no little cuts/sores, so I'm glad he's much happier now. I'm also determined to find them a new even bigger cage, I've seen some huge ones that can fit multiple platforms in so that would be ideal, the only bad side is that they all tend to have wire floors which I do not like at all. The right cage is out there I just need to find it!

Ready To Explore:


Song Of The Day: Grendel - Dirty
Reason: Not listened to Grendel for ages, they were one of the best live bands I've seen though.

Highlight Of The Day: Takeaway Nandos

Inspiration Of The Day: A catalogue from Butlers that my Mum dropped off, it has some really nice stuff and seems decently priced.

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Today I caught Klaus asleep in his litter tray. He'd dragged his paper towels that he uses as bedding into the litter tray, plumped them all up so they were nice and comfy, and went to sleep! I guess this is the rat equivalent of sleeping with a duvet in the bath.

Makeshift Bed:


Song Of The Day: Will.I.Am & Britney Spears - Scream & Shout
Reason: Didn't really think much of this song at first, but now it's really grown on me.

Highlight Of The Day: Seeing the sun and no snow!

Inspiration Of The Day: We started watching the tv drama Appropriate Adult which was on ITV a while back, it's really good. It's the kind of drama that should be on tv all the time.

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Today we took Quigley to the vets as I'd noticed some little sores around his ears and on the back of his neck. After having a look and taking a skin scraping, the vet said that he seemed to have mites as there were eggs in the skin sample. No wonder he's been looking red and sore. So he's now having spot-on style treatment, one drop on his neck, one near his bum every two weeks until it clears up. Klaus and Jacques are also going in tomorrow to be weighed so they can be treated too, although they seem to be fine. Little Quig weighs 560g! In other news, we're still trying to get rid, ie eat, all o the xmas choccies.

Miniature Pralines:


Song Of The Day: Dido - Here With Me
Reason: I love this album. I remember borrowing it from the library and copying it onto tape and listening to it constantly for months when I was a young teen.

Highlight Of The Day: Getting Quigley on the road to feeling better.

Inspiration Of The Day: Martin Lewis' website/emails about saving money. They're genuinely useful and in the words of Asda; every little helps!

Photo Every Day #268

Today we had friends over, it was nice to just be hanging round the flat doing nothing in particular. I also got Rollercoaster Tycoon 3! It's awesome, I forgot how much I used to love it. Sadly, I didn't save my game and my computer crashed. Boo!

Klaus-y Mousey:


Song Of The Day: Maroon 5 - Payphone
Reason: I have this stuck in my head for some reason. So. Very. Annoying....

Highlight Of The Day:  Buying Rollercoaster Tycoon 3!

Photo Every Day #250

Today I have been uping my search for jobs, training and events that might be of use to me. I've found a few things that may be of interest and I'm hoping to go to BVE North with my friend in November to pimp ourselves out to people in the industry! Klaus helped me look too.

I Iz Surfing The Interwebz:


Song Of The Day: Panic! At The Disco - Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
Reason: Firstly, love the song title! Not that I necessarily agree however. But even though its a bit of a teenage anthem, I still like it. I remember taking one of my sisters friends to see them at the Academy in Manchester ages ago, but sadly don't remember if they were good or not.

Highlight Of The Day: Managing to tidy up and sort out most of the spare room

Photo Every Day #207

Today has been a super long, slow, boring and dull day. I have no idea why, but it did seem to be the general tone for the day for most of the people I spoke to! I'm making good progress on finding a photography course, so hopefully will have some news about that soon! I also have another film job lined up for the end of August, so watch this space for more details too.

Hello, Klaus!:


Song Of The Day: Young Guns - Bones
Reason: Really catchy!

Hightlight Of The Day: Finally getting in my bed.

Photo Every Day #205

Today has ended with a super stressful evening. When I got the rats out for their usual evening play time on the sofa, they managed to knock off the blanket they run about under off and onto the floor with themselves still inside! I didn't see it happen as I was playing with Jacques who was still in the cage. Luckily, both rats had just run under the sofa and I managed to get Quigley out after about 5 minutes. However, Klaus seemed to like his new hiding place and it took me a staggering 2 hours to get him back into his cage! So, I've spent me evening sat on the floor, shifting furniture, lying on the floor to see under the sofa and running back and to to the fridge to get treats. As a result I have a stiff back, numb bum and mild carpet burn on my really sore sunburnt shoulder. Rats! Who'd have em!

In other news, we have added a large round coffee table in brown-black to our front room as well as a large plant with nice white flowers on it. They definately make it seem less like a student house and more like a proper home. I'm still convinced that it's colourless walls and bland carpet stop it from looking like someone really lives there.

Coffee?:


Song Of The Day: Grendel - Soilbleed (V3)
Reason: I still vividly remember hearing this song when seeing Grendel at Eddies in Birmingham. It was the most boring drive there and back (literally in a straight line) but well worth it!

Highlight Of The Day: Klaus finally climbing into the dressing gown to be taken to his cage after several changes of mind!

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More fun times with the rats today! They're getting braver and braver!

Nom Nom:


Song Of The Day: Lana Del Rey - Diet Mountain Dew
Reason: Lyrics I can really relate to at the moment.

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Today we got our new rat babies!! We ended up with 3 males and have called them Klaus, Jacques and Quigley, inspired by characters from A Series Of Unfortunate Events.

Trio:


Klaus:


Quigley (Left) & Jacques (Right):


Song Of The Day: Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
Reason: Super great song when you're angry!