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Greetings, peeps! Things have been a little crazy over here as Sissy and I plan and coordinate a cross team metrics based "Snowball Fight" at work. I may make a post on that later. For now, though, as I'm officially off for Thanksgiving, I have a silly post for y'all.

A few days ago, I received a lengthy text message from Porchae while at work with the following picture. -She had been watching one of the ridiculous GOP debates on DVR.......



"Minni Mause comes to you peoples this evening to tell you, the American Peoples, that Minni needs more Minni bones.

It is a dark hour in Minni's. It is especially important to the safety of the peoples that the Minni bone crisis is dealt with, and dealt with swiftly. Without Minni bones, Minni gets grumpy. And if Minni is grumpy, Minni will ruin international relationships by being impatient, needlessly jingling Minni's collar, and yes, even noisily speakin' when Minni is not apost to. Minni cannot help it. Minni needs Minni bones.

Accordingly, to save the nation, Minni requests that Congress pass an emergency provision now to allow immediately for Minni to get more Minni bones. This legislation should not only be short term so that Minni is not grumpy for today, but it should also address tomorrow, the next day, and even next week.

Ensuring Minni's Minni bones never reach emergency levels again assures the safety of not just Minni, but also of Minni's peoples -the American peoples. Minni urges Congress to take this proposal srsly and pass it as soon as possible.

Minni thanks you peoples for listening to Minni. Have a good evening, God bless Minni's, and eat more chicken so Minni can have some!"



Minni was, in fact, quite grumpy when I got home. Naturally, with such a dire crisis looming -because every problem is a crisis, you know- we took immediate action the next morning. Below the cut, you will see our swift and appropriate response to the Minni Bone Crisis.

Seriously, there are some ridiculously adorable pictures in here... )


And so we have a considerably less grumpy pup. ;D She is pretty scruffy, though. I like her scruffy, (her eyebrows are fun to mess up) but she needs to be sheered! lol

**Most of this post was written by Porchae, not by me**
fantastic_jackie: (Disney - SIMP)
I have a real update to make about work and the like, plus catching up on the book meme, and some other stuff but first, I wanted to introduce you guys to someone...


Meet Terrance the Turtle, otherwise known as Agent T.

Uh... That's a piece of food in the pic there, not a piece of poo.

Ahh, yes. In our family's tradition, he has been named after a cartoon character. Actually, two: Terrance from South Park, (the Terrance & Phillip Show), and the Agency from Phineas & Ferb. Technically we made up Agent T, but it's just in the pattern of the great agents in the show. :D

Isn't he cute? We have to buy him a water filter and figure out a way to stack his rocks so he doesn't keep knocking them down. He's still shy around the family right now and quickly demolishes our careful constructions as soon as he thinks we're not there. lol

Minni can't stand him. We had him in the bathtub for a little while while we prepared his tank, and Minni was just beside herself. She wanted to know what he was, BUT he was in water, and she just couldn't stand to think of getting her paws wet, but... SHE NEEDED TO KNOW! lol She would grab one of us, nudging us along to the bathroom, and then clung to the edge of the tub and whined that there's something in there!!! XD

So, I guess we're back to three pets: Minni the mini schnauzer, Mr. Bird the parakeet, and Terrance the Turtle - aka Agent T. \o/ Animals are awesome!
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I have been actively trying to get this picture of Minni for about 2 years.

See, the little poser sleeps like this often; the problem? She KNOWS when a camera is coming. >.> I'm convinced. Because every time I tried to get a picture of it, she moved. Well, I finally got her last night when she was well and truly sacked out! Mwahaha! Behold the cuteness!



Isn't she adorable?! XD She covers her eyes with her paws like that all the time when it's too bright, or she's irritated with the noise we're making as she's trying to sleep. (Both last night. lol)

The result: it will look like she's playing hide-and-seek or peek-a-boo. XD

I do wish I could have gotten a better angle with better light, but MWAHA! I finally caught it on camera!

What's that? You want to see more pictures of Minni? Well, I happen to have a few! )
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Today, just as I was leaving to get my iPhone, Minni went ballistic. We had thought it was Squirrel, but...

Well. I'll let Minni tell the story below:


Finded it!
LOOK WHAT MINNI FOUND! COME SEE! COME SEE!!!


Follow Minni, peoples! )

We named him Tweek - Porchae's idea - because he was rather twitchy. Poor little dude was scared out of his mind. He kept baring his teeth at us, but he didn't move. I half wonder if he was injured or stuck... I'll check in the morning. If he's still there... What do y'all think we should do? Obviously we can't touch him; are there services for that kind of thing?
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And now, for something lighthearted, amusing, and super cute. ^^

You see, since early fall, a battle of epic proportions has been building on the horizon of our backyard... And today, oh today it went down!

Ladies and Gentlemen! I bring you...

Tiny Titans!



Minni vs Squirrel

The two tiny titans had been locked in glorious combat for the past ten minutes. Neither had budged, one for her steadfast determination and dedication to render justice for puppies everywhere; the other, for fear of his furry life! Finally, it had come down to this: Nemesis vs Nemesis, One on One, Minni vs Squirrel!

Of course, certain stereotypes transcend even species lines. At last, with Squirrel trapped in the tree and Minni trapped by her convictions, the two enemies commenced aggressive negotiations:

Here, in this picture, they monologue! (Aka, bark at each other!)

More furry goodness here! )

fantastic_jackie: (Little Peekin' Pup)
Day 09 - A photo you took

Meet Slinky, Minni's best puppy pal! Kiss! Aren't they adorable?!

Slinky is our nextdoor neighbors' dog, and he's a little older than Minni. Both were named after Disney characters, so they were destined to become busom buddies! He has a problem with digging, so occasionally he'll manage to get into our backyard to visit his best friend...

Day 10 - A photo of you taken over ten years ago <-- Skipped till my scanner works again.
Day 11 - A photo of you taken recently <-- Skipped 'cuz I'm supposed to get my hair done soon.

Day 10 - Whatever tickles your fancy

 
Toffee Mocha Frappuccino!
Try it and add extra coffee! It's amazing! It has a rich, nutty coffee flavor and the mocha is actually tasty in this one. ... Then again, I still can't taste anything properly, so you may want to take my advice with caution. It may not actually need the extra coffee. But what I can taste of this is super delicious! :D

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And now, I have a random question: Does anyone here know how to make homemade sweet dinner rolls?

Google reveals lots of recipes, of course, but I figure real peeps have a better track record. I want to experiment this weekend!

It's irritating, because so many places used to have them here, but only a Grandy's and one out-of-the-way Chicken Express make them now. What's worse is that they know this, so they jack up the prices for them! I paid $5 yesterday for 12 little rolls! It's a little outrageous, so I'd like to just make them myself.
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I came home last night to the Bubber shoving his camera in my face (after I'd shoved a cheeseburger in his which he excitedly took) so I could "watch this video!"

The next thirty seconds were spent giggling as I watched Mr. Bird and Minni comically interact with each other. This is actually common for how they are together (we usually play around and sing the opening lyrics of the Fox and the Hound's theme), but the way my brother captured it, with the camera just sitting there... XD It made it so much better! Plus it's silent!

So, now I say to you, "Watch this video!" I present to you my pup and her our bird:



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I am having the hardest time staying focused on any one thing; I'm not excited. I think I'm just exhausted. I'm stuttering quite a lot, which only happens when I'm tired, and I've a bad headache... I'm not feeling to tired; just...bored, entertained, and ready to burst all at the same time. Maybe I'm excited about only 2 more days left working here and 2 days til I see my parents and little sis...

Anyway, since I can't keep focused, I'll just do bullet points about today, in which a lot happened. They won't be in chronological order, I'm sure...

- Minni got sick today!! She had a sore throat and headache; my mother and I deduced this from her reactions to things. Extremely lethargic, never saying a peep even to things such as, "GET THE MOUSE, MINNI! BIRDS!!! OUTSIDE!!" she wasn't eating even though she was obviously hungry. So I told my mom to give her a popsicle, my reasoning being to find out if she was spitting ham and banana out - her favorites - because of a tummy ache or a sore throat. She loved it, though had a hard time swollowing. And she refused to chew anything. They went to the vet; she got two shots and a "call me in the morning" from the doc. Seems to be doing better; she ate some ham! And even talked to me on the phone! ^_^

- Woke up this morning worse than I'd ever anticipated. Seeing as how I inched centimetered along everywhere today, I'm not sure how I actually made it anywhere.

- I watched 24 today on the compy and taped the new episode. But during 24, entertaining as it was, I kept pausing it so I could read a certain Chapter 5 of Caring for Magical Creatures by [personal profile] mrstater(<-- Shameless Plug) Which I would stop in the middle of reading to go back to 24. It was quite a vicious circle, both vying valiantly for my attention; took me 2 hours to get through it all. Because I got a real hankering for a turkey sandwich in the middle of it all, and hob-along-me took forever to realize there was NO MAYONNAISE. So sad. ;_; I tried to review, but... well, I remembered about finishing Chapter 6 and suddenly became interested in finishing C:JAM. Which lead to thoughts of writing Asylum, which is squeefully centric on AxS, and that got me thinking about plotting a new R/T ficlet. Because I'd just read some good R/T. And Jack loves Audrey, though I'm not sure how that configured in the whole convoluted mess... I decided to save myself while I was ahead and wrote nothing. 

- Things are incredibly tense in our apartment; the whole dishes issue blew up today. Confrontation may or may not be in the near future; I think the roomies are too chicken to do anything after everything we've put up with from them. Not to mention I think I've over-proven myself to them in confrontational issues... *cough cough* <.< Yeahhhhhhhh....

- I used a wheelchair today!! XD It was fun. Far too much fun, some would say. ^^ However, my arms are too short and I temporarily bruised the insides of my upper arms wheeling myself around. O.o Not. fair. >.> I'm 21, and I need a booster seat!! _-_

- This thing is SO much fun!! XD It has SONIC THE HEDGEHOG ON IT!! And Zelda! And Mario Bros!! *Jams* Plus the back music for some pretty cool radio songs! ^^ http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/audio/midi/

I think that's it... Yeah. Supposed to be getting crutches tomorrow from a friend at work; very excited about that since I'll be able to move more freely, though I'm not looking forward to the inevitable soreness of my underarms.

Hmm. My head hurts. And I'm thirsty. Think I'll go to bed. ... Maybe... >.> feel like reading...and writing...

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