Jasmine - Videos

In organizing my photos, I found a couple classic videos of Jasmine I never shared. Hope you enjoy!

This is after getting home from getting spayed. We put the collar on her because she was licking her incision, but as you can see, this arrangement couldn't last long.

Here she is, getting a good bum wiggle in before pouncing.

When she went into heat, Kyle found out (by accident) that his impression of Lil Jon sounded a lot like a male cat!

A new addition to the family: Jasmine

We've recently started fostering a cat for People for Animals Saskatchewan. Her name is Jasmine.

{Jasmine; lounging}

She's a very young cat, about 8 or 9 months old, and she's already had 7 kittens. Her kittens

have been weaned, and are up for adoption now. They're staying with another foster family.

She loves her food, and does a really good job of making a menace of herself in the kitchen.

{helping make supper}

We took her to my parents this Sunday for an afternoon outside. She adjusted really quickly and had a really good adventure outside!

{mom's hands; new harness}

{a nap with Grandma}

She's become really attached to Kyle (who isn't very interested). Everyone agrees that its adorable to watch him interact with her. She'll sit on his lap at the computer, or follow him everywhere.

{helping Kyle weed the garden}

If you live in the Regina area and are interested in adopting a wonderful cat, get in touch with me!

A brief recap

Here's a quick preview of future, more detailed blog posts to come!

{The life of a great friend}

{And having to say goodbye}

{A return to a favourite pastime}

{Kyle's convocation; Bachelor of Science with Honours, Physics }

Including an introduction of our newest family member, Mr. Fish, aka Mista Eff.

Late nights

Kyle just woke himself up talking, and I quote:

"kldsjfLWOEFKJAL DKFJSJ

CRAZY THINGS!


...what?"

"you woke up and said 'crazy things' "

"I said what to the who now?



...



fuck

..."

aaand he's back asleep ~1.5 minutes later

Murderous Carrots Shouting Rainbows

I've rarely had to deal with the highly unpleasant experience of having a cold when it's ungodly hot. Yesterday I was so rundown I could barely stand for most of the day, and it was also one of the warmest days we've had all summer... and my first summer living in a house with no AC. It was a party, let me tell you.

Now, this poor blog has gone ignored for a week or two now, but for good reason, I promise! Okay, now where did I leave off?

The back pain did subside eventually, and we did make it out to go shopping for a bed. Kyle bought a queen boxspring, and I bought a King/Queen frame. Adding these to the decent mattress we were sleeping on made it livable! ( On a side note, the mattress we were sleeping on was actually a double -- no wonder we had trouble sharing! ) Now our newly fixed bed situation didn't last too long; we suddenly had five people living here, and Cody wanted his mattress back. We had thought there was an extra for him, but it had gotten mouldy :C. Ew. We managed for a couple days, because Chelsea had moved most of her stuff here, but wasn't actually staying with us, and Kyle borrowed her bed.

Work finished*. I had a free week to get ready for school. And that meant cleaning. And oh boy did we clean. Kyle put it nicely: "I've been cleaning straight for two days. Cleaning so much I still don't have a bed yet!" We moved my desk downstairs (we have about 6 computers running in the living room on average!) and got a little creative.

Fact: Both Kyle and I have decent twin beds.
Fact: Our new bed frame expands to a King.
Fact: Two twins side by side is roughly the same size as a King.
Fact: I have -no- floorspace anymore.

But oh man is it awesome. Not only that, but I have a kickass bed set for it! I will post pictures of it once it is wintery enough to need more than a thin blanket.

So, cleaning sucked up an entire week frighteningly fast. Here are a couple highlights from between cleaning sessions:

I managed to convince my mom to come with the family to Dessart Sweets for icecream. We were sitting on the steps of one of the nearby stores while we all finished our treats, when a cat wandered over. My mom quickly made friends with it and offered it some of her ice cream cone, and it wasted no time taking some. Mom and I both thought this was hillariously cute, and tried to convince Kyle to let the cat lick some ice cream off his finger (he refused.). Once he had finished my Smore Parfait for me, he did let the cat lick the spoon clean.



A couple days ago (Saturday, Sept. 5th), me, Kyle, Chelsea, Janice, and Ben went on a trek of Regina.








We walked from our house, around the lake to the Legislative Building to go on one of the guided tours (Janice is an expert in the Leg tours!) I gave Ben my camera, and he snapped many a picture for me! Next, we walked through the park to the Royal Sask Museum. On the way there, we passed through the city's Speaker's Corner. Ben and Janice goofed around for a bit.


Oh the museum, how I love it. I've always loved going there, for as long as I can remember. We did the walkthrough, and it was still as great as it's always been. Janice's favourite part is one square of a quilt from a reserve school(?) where young girls were tought to embroider.


Our guess is a Murderous Carrot (see the knife?) shouting rainbows.

To end the trip, we saw Megamunch!



*Hurrah!

Five people, one bathroom! EEek

Argh! My back has been killing me all day. It was worse yesterday, bad to the point that i just took some painkillers and slept because there was no way to be comfortable. Today its just complaining if I move, so that's an improvement, right?

Kyle's sister Chelsea is moving some of her stuff in today. She'll be living with us starting september, as well as Cody*. Five people in our house! Such excitment. I'm thankfully exempt from lifting things as per the killer back pain**. Hopefully they'll finish moving things in with time for us to go look around at Sears bargain center! Kyle and I are on the quest for a better bed, and at least a double. We've got a double bed in the basement at the moment, and my awesome twin in my room, but once Cody is living in the basement, we'll only be separated by a cheap shower curtain. That's hardly what I'd call private. So we're thinking of putting the bigger bed in my room (Goodbye, wonderful floorspace!).

My mind is quite excited trying to figure out what colour scheme I'll go with. It seems to be expecting a bit of a makeover, but I don't think my bank account agrees.











*Kyle's first roommate, along with Luke
** Kiiiiillllllerrrrr baaaaacckkk.... pain.

I'm sooo tired.

Yay its almost the weekend! I just need to survive 3 hours of work and then we're off to the Waterton for camping and hiking. It's supposed to be raining all weekend, and I guess this will solidify in my mind how very not water-proof any of my clothes are. It's actually starting to worry me, so I may wander down to the university bookstore to see if they have anything.

Last night in our quest to find things we'd need for the trip, Kyle and I found a tiny little microphone that hooks up to my iPod and turns it into a voice recorder.
It's actually surprisingly good quality. Kyle was talking at a normal voice and I could pick him up quite well from two or three rooms away. Yeah. Very exciting. So I'm taking this with me and we can hope to have at least some interesting audio from the weekend.

Also taking my camera (of course) and should have a decent amount of pictures!

Well I've got three Youtube posts to throw together now. You'll still get them this weekend if I get my shit together!

Cheers!

of fortunes and hats

You will have many friends when you need them.*

Today has been an eventful day! Kyle's mom and youngest brother Scott are in town today to get some school supplies. We picked up his sister Chelsea and went for lunch at Saigon by Night. That's my fortune up at the top there!
Then we picked up my new bike and took it into the shop. It's going to need a bit of work and possibly a new chain, but ohhh man I can't wait to ride that bike.
Next we went to Walmart for a bit, and to avoid hanging around Walmart being bored, Chelsea and I went to Boes, a handbag store. I found the coolest hat! Chelsea had a great idea to use it for my halloween costume. I'm sure I can swing a superhero costume around it somehow.
On a sadder note, Chelsea's bike got stolen from our place sometime early this morning. Kyle and I hadn't noticed until his mom asked why he would keep a cut lock on the porch. They even tried to cut through my D-lock. I feel so bad for Chelsea. Losing a bike sucks, and I really don't want this to turn her off bikes forever.




*In your pants.

Fact: Janice is awesome

Well, I suppose an introduction is a good direction to go in my first step out into the blogosphere.

Hi there! My name is Alana, and I am what many people would classify a nerd, but I am also a girl. Now, this might not seem like that big of a deal to someone with an outside perspective, but I can assure you that when you are one of very few girls in a faculty that is quite small to begin with, it matters. Last September I started my first year of university studying Physics fresh out of high school. Needless to say, it did not take long for some of the physics crew to start asking me out.*

Janice, sometimes referred to among our friends as 'The Other Girl in Physics', can sympathize with this problem of too many dicks. Nerd bait, or ηεπδ βαιτ, was Janice's great idea for sexy underwear, and she was kind enough to suggest that as a title.

Let's all take a moment to thank Janice for the amazing title of this new blog. As much as I'd like to take credit for it, my only claim in it is the word 'chronicles'.


Ohhh man, it is much too late to try to form sentences. I still have to get my new bike** into the bike shop tomorrow!

Its time to take some advice from (who else?)

Janice: being awake is for chumps and I no longer want to be a chump

*Please note that not that all of these attempts failed. This is when I started dating Kyle, and I live with him now, so I guess him asking me out was cool. :)
**NEW BIKE OMG. I swear I wont be over this excitement for a while.