guinea piggies...

so we've been thinking that we should probably start looking for a better home for our three adorable little piggies... and it makes me really sad. :( we love them and feed them and take care of them, but i think they might just thrive in a home where people play with them a lot more... i think they need more human interaction than we can give them. *sigh* it makes me sad, because as much as i love them, and as attached as i am to them... i don't think we're loving them the way we should. :( and part of that's our problem, and part of it is just by nature of their species... we can't let them run free because they poo/pee everywhere (and they're easily stepped on!), and so we can't really give them enough attention out of the cage because when we do, it has to be 100%, 24/7 - and as working students, 100%, 24/7 is not really an option.

the problem is, i refuse to just hand them over to the first person who says "gee, i've always wanted a guinea pig!" because i'm crazy, i did a TON of research on guinea pigs when we first bought them, and i feel like we take a lot better care of them than most people would... they have a MASSIVE cage (i think, for the three of them, the cage totals something like 20 sq. feet or something), they're incredibly well fed (and fat!), and we take good care of their health. seriously. when hershey got this funky skin disease, i actually gave him a SHOT every single day for a week until he was better!!! it was traumatic... for both hershey and i. o_O

so yeah.... i'm torn, because as much as i love them, i want them to go to a better home. however, i'm not sure if we're going to be able to even FIND a home that's better for them - maybe one where they get more human interaction, but probably won't have a cage as huge as ours... or there'll be little kids who abandon/torture/neglect them. o_O

so any ideas/suggestions? know any nice people looking for 1 or 2 or 3 piggies?

*sigh*

ode to my cell phone...

so last week i had to retire my old cell phone... a tragedy. we call it our marriage phone because i've had it almost the entire duration of our marriage!

so, in honor of my dearly departed cell, here are some of my FAVORITE photos from the last 2+ years. sorry - there's a ton of photos, but... at least i didn't post ALL of the photos on my phone!!!! :)


this is the funniest thing I've ever seen at DI. :) i really, REALLY wanted to buy it... but it just didn't go with our home decor. :) heh...



This is my awesome Dark Mark that I drew to go with my Bellatrix Lestrange costume for Halloween. :)



The insurance agent whose office was next door to our first apartment... what an unfortunate last name, eh? How exactly do you pronounce it?



Chris and his first true love... :)



We did this to my dad while he was taking a nap on our couch... my sister and I grabbed our nail polish, and attacked his toes. :) hee!



This is one thing I learned during my internship the summer after we got married.... I had very little to do during the internship, so one thing I taught myself was to french braid my hair. *sigh* useful, eh?



Sadie is possibly the most hilarious, adorable dog ever. :) How can you not love this face??



My husband sure is sexy, eh? He and Patrick Dempsey make a lovely couple. :)



A freakin awesome hat I tried on in Alaska!



Another Alaska pic - this is a moose (duh), in the middle of a grocery store parking lot. hee!



There was a chapel made entirely out of ice in Alaska... and I decided to try it out... (no, I'm not actually licking it)



Before we moved from our apartment at Appletree, I wrote this on the inside of our closet door near the floor... just so we could leave a little of ourselves there. :) I'm hoping that the current tenants find it and continue the tradition!



Our little baby chicks - before they grew HUGE and started laying yummy eggs!!! :) The one on the left had a "blocked vent" - basically, poo had solidified over its poo-hole so it couldn't poo. :( We performed "surgery" and she actually survived! We're amazing. :)



First photo, the first day in our new house!!!!



Little puppy Ellie, on the drive home after my parents bought her. :) SO CUTE!!! (note: she peed on my lap, and also in the back window of the car before we got home... heehee)



Although you probably can't read it, this stick note says "Design Something." It was from my graphic design job - my advisor left this for me when she was absent for a few days. Seriously?!?! Design "SOMETHING"?!? What the heck?! A poster? Sticker? Place mat? Brochure? Ridiculous.



And my personal favorite... this is Chris and I, applying for our marriage license. :) AWWWWW!!!!!