It's just Cabral after all

Being part of blogging is a way to talk about anything you want. You can talk about your hamster, or your dreams, nightmares or even your husbands elbows. It's so nice to just be able to talk about anything your little heart desires. No one can stop you because lets face it, if they don't want to hear it, they can go spend some time one else's page. Yep, life in blog world is just that darn good.

Anyhow - with my little facebook challenge that I took yesterday, I was able to to reconnect with quite a few people. I found out that two of my friends are expecting babies; two are doing very well in school and have huge plans for the future; one is really interested in being born again, over and over and over again. It's been very interesting.

Now I've decided to trun on the tv and who do I find? Why my good old friend from high school - Cabral Richards. You may know him as Cabbie from the Street. He has this show on the Score where he goes around and talks to athletes and just brings a sense of humor to everything. He's still the same guy he always was and it's awesome. He's always been funny and always been cute. (Don't tell him though - it'll go to his head!) I remember the first time I caught his show. I was sitting in a restaurant and looked up and saw him talking on the screen and I almost fell over!

Back in high school I shared a couple classes with Cabral. The one that brought us the closest was Journalism. We worked on the same yearbook and newspaper. Who knew that we'd both go onto persue journalism as a career... of course he's still working in it and I'm not - but at least I have the diploma! Cabral was also in my gym class for leadership. We got to go camping, and do all sorts of other crazy activities. (I loved that class!)

The main thing I'll remember about him though - was his ability to just be himself no matter who was around. He was always "on" so to speak - always witty, always willing to do ANYTHING. Mostly, I remember him either naked, or in his gitch. In fact, I wouldn't even know the word "gitch" if he hadn't taught me! His main pair that I remember - were deep purple. He swam in those at the grotto. Lucky bastard!

So yeah - I have a famous person that I know and it's kind of cool. But to be honest, I don't think I'm going to sit and lust over him. I mean - it's just Cabral after all.

See him at wikipedia by going here.
See his show's webpage at the Score.
and finally, go see his Myspace Profile.

Facebook Friend challenge

here is the mission should you chose to accept

Go to Facebook
Select one friend
Post a message to their wall.
Find a mutual friend and send that person a message.
Find a friend you share with this new person and send them a message.

Rule: you cannot say the same thing twice. And you cannot write the same person during your cycle.

This will allow you to connect with your friends on facebook and will also show you that people will write you back.

(I tried this tonight, have had 8 private messages and a whole pile of new activity on my "Wall".)

Through my cycle, I reached 48 people before finding one that had no wall to see.

HOW MANY CAN YOU REACH???

Beans Update

My changing of Beans cage yesterday led James to be sparked into changing her cage once again. The picture above demonstrates everything being taken apart. The picture below was how it all ended last night with a really long telescopic room for her to spend some time. Beans decided to go and eat her cage rather than play in it - as you can see by this next picture. It is what sparked James to change it one last time before the end of the day to the following picture. Yesterday was so much fun that I decided to get more curves, and another t-bar for today. All of that was responsible for the craziness that ensued...
With The cage set up, I decided to track down my little pumpkin - she was caught on the rug in the bathroom in her ball and was dying to get out.Because she looked so cute and so eager, I decided to let her check it out. She sure looks like she likes it!I'm sure this won't be the last change, but I'm sure glad that we were able to bring out her fun crazy party side!

Beans gets Tricked Out!

I have spent the past two hours agonizing all over how to make the best use of all these wonderful goodies I got for Beans.

For those of you that don't know - Beans is my pet. My cute, little, sweet, hamster. She is a wonderful pet. When James and I moved into our apartment in Cambridge, I really wanted a dog or a cat. As James is allergic to cats, and a dog didn't really match our lifestyle, we started looking at all sorts of smaller animals that required a little less attention. I really wanted a chinchilla. I don't know what it was, but I figured it would the closest thing in size to cat that I could get. No saying that he wouldn't be allergic to that too!

Unfortunately, as you may already know, Chinchillas don't come cheap! My next choice was a guinea pig. It also had a slightly larger stature, and could still be cuddly. I've always wanted a g.p. of my own!

Growing up I had a hamster or two. First came Turbo. Turbo was a surprise for me. A pet of my very own. My sister and my mother picked it out as they had a deal at the pet store to get a hamster cage and all the fixings and they'd throw in the hamster for free. Turbo was a definite male hamster. Had the balls to prove it! Turbo's cage was a round concoction with a red plastic bottom and a red plastic top. I used to open the top of the cage and let him climb out. Man he loved to climb! Turbo got out of his cage on occasion - normally when my sister chose to let him out. She bore the brunt of the issues with him. As she would let him out and I would run around frantically hunting for him, so he would get her back by eating her socks and making a nest of them. I don't know how she never learned to put her socks away!

After Turbo was long gone and many years had passed I got another hamster by the name of Teddy. Seems pretty simple right? Teddy bear hamster named Teddy? Yeah, well I wasn't that creative during my high school years.

Anyhow, the hamster really wasn't mine I just got the job of taking care of it. You know, cleaning feeding,making sure he had water. He was actually my boyfriends hamster and he wanted nothing but the best for him. Teddy got to live in a three story mansion - which he hated. He never liked the feeling of the wires going under his little paws and spent most of his time on the ground floor. I tried putting treats up higher and his wheel, but never really liked to get around. Unfortunately, he didn't live long.

Beans was another story. James and I had talked about getting a pet. He was really liking the size of a guinea pig, and even though I said we could also get a hamster - being as I knew what I was doing if we got one, we were both thinking of getting something bigger. We went to a pet store near our new apartment and were happy to see that they carried more than just food. At the front of the store they had guinea pigs - truly, honestly, full grown guinea pigs. They look nothing like what they do in the other pet stores. These guys were big, skittish and squealie! I still thought they were cute - but our eyes were really drawn to the back of the store. They had these hamsters that had these fun little things in their cages - but there was one hamster - that really caught our eye. She was all by herself in a really colourful cage. She was going up and down a tube to her little bed that was in the sky. She was fairly active and pretty big compared to the others. We found out that she had recently given birth to baby hamsters - that were all in the lower cages growing big and strong so they can go home to another family. James really liked the look of her and her cage. She was quiet, and active and within a few minutes she was going home with us.

We bought a Critter Trail Cage that was aqua, goldenrod yellow, red and blue. It was colourful and fun and we knew that we could get the tubes and tunnels she so desired. We set her up and she was part of our family. Within weeks James had found a little sky loft for her to sleep in and for a long time life was good. She's come to know us, and our touch. She doesn't mind being held and loves to run. We've had issues with wheels over the past with squeeking, and because of her size, other wheels we bought were too small.

Yesterday I decided that it was time to make a change to Beans life. I was at the pet store in Guelph getting her some shavings and food when I was drawn to the cages. I thought about a new cage, but there's nothing really wrong with the cage she has. I wanted to get her a better wheel - as she LOVES to run and her ball. So I found a wheel. The wheel, needed to be attached to the outside of the cage. Well, why attach a wheel just to the outside, when you can have tubes and tunnels to get there. I picked up a few tunnels and a t-shaped tunnel and a curved tunnel and I started my mission.

As you can tell by the pictures, I acheived my result because before I even had it up and ready - Beans made her way to the end of the tunnel into the wheel and ran. I was so excited and she seemed so happy. She's been up and down and through the tunnel several times already and it's only been 10 minutes. I know that I've made my precious sweet beans happy with my choice.

Baby on the Brain

I had the most vivid baby dream I have ever had last night. Could it be because I am going to a baby shower tomorrow? Is it because of the burgeoning baby bump I saw on a friend last night? Could it be because I saw the pictures of Joel Madden and Nicole Ritchie from People Magazine with their little baby? Was it so vivid from the alcohol? Did my drunk brain think it was possible after talking to a friends mom and asking if she was excited to be a grandmother? (With a big bright smile and big bright eyes she said, "Absolutely!")

No matter how it happened - I ended up having a dream that seemed so real!

In my dream, I had just given birth to a baby boy and he had the tiniest little legs, and the tiniest little arms. He had this cute little tuft of brown soft hair on his head and was perfect as I would ever hope to be. (Strangely though, he did resemble the Madden/Ritchie baby who I saw in the pictures yesterday!) Anyhow, I had this baby and then James picked him up and wouldn't let anyone hold him. He carried him, and sat holding him with his head up. Our little boy opened his eyes wide and he smiled. James was tickling him under his chin and I swear he giggled. Which in my dream I even said "that can't be possible but I swear he just giggled!" I was thinking about how much he was like his father, with a big smile and always a laugh at the ready. I admired looking at them, but I really wanted to hold my baby boy.

In my dream, James mother came over and ran to go see her grandson. Even she couldn't pry the baby from James' hands. She sat on the couch beside him and cooed at this new addition to our family. I watched as they interacted with the baby. Now his mother was seeing the bright eyes and big smile, that I was able to see before she had come. James mother was still sitting there when the doorbell rang and I told James that he should be getting the door. The little bugger went to go get it and rather than passing off the baby to one of us, he went and put the baby down on the middle of our bed. I was so mad. All I wanted was to hold my son and he was hogging him!

The dream was incredibly vivid - and before you ask, this is not my time to get pregnant. We have talked and both agree that we want to wait two years until we are in a house before having a baby. We are going to live vicariously through our friends for now. The dream did not shake that in my brain. I am not in a rush!

What the dream did do was make me want to see what a child would look like if we had one. As my brain was still groggy from the dream, I looked over at my sleeping husband and thought about those photo booths that take one photo of you and one photo of someone else and morph's it together to show you what your baby would look like. I wonder if this technology is online???

I guess I just found my mission for the morning! If you find it first, let me know!!!!

Have a great day everyone!