I love pets. Simple as. We've many pets over the years: In total about 6 guinea pigs (that I can remember), I've had about 14 hamsters. Give or take a few. One of them was pregnant when we bought her giving me 8 little babies. Nawww. That's why the number is so large :p. My brothers have had hamsters as well so the total number is much higher than that anyway. :), 1 rabbit, that ultimately died on one of my brother's birthdays. Bad times :(, 1 budgie, 3 dogs (2 are in the house at present), loads of fish, stick insects, and Ben once had a snail :D Funny story with one of Ben's fish. When he was younger he liked to take the fish out of the bowl and one morning when my mum came downstairs to feed the fish she noticed one of them had gone. Ben, the lovely pet lover, had put it in a tissue box to die. How cruel :p I always find it funny though. Poor little fish. :(
Today I bought, I say I did I really mean my mum did :p, a new little hamster. She's beaut and I want to play with her but she has to settle which sucks :/
I did mention in an earlier post that it was going to be a boy called Ted to match Lucy's future guinea pigs. However, this little girl got my attention more so I now need a new female name to call her. I was thinking Lily to fit in with the How I met your mother theme. It's cute and it can't be called Robyn 'cos that's a bird and this is a hamster :p
Mind my face :p These are the two present dogs we have at the moment. Archie on the left and Alfie on the right. They are little terrors but I love them.
Next on my list of pets that I want is either a toyger. Which is a cat with tiger markings. Looks ace! Or white chipmunks that I saw today 'cos they look mint running over the cage and doing back flips. :D xxx
Been a while since I've posted so thought I'd do a bit of an update. Been quite busy lately with helping my mum with my dad's 60th and trying to get assignments finished for upcoming deadlines.
The party was amazing and couldn't have asked for a better night. Over 100 people turned up and a few people who I haven't seen in years. One couple came down from Scotland who we haven't seen in 8 years, a couple came over from Spain and other people from all over the place. Was so good to see them. About 3/4 families used to go camping with us to France and places. Kids everywhere and adults getting drunk it was an amazing time but over the years the kids grew up and the adults decided to move on with their lives. Ended up going in different directions. However, once we're all back together it's like we never parted and it was great. :) I pretty much class the people that were at the party family and I love them all loads. During the night one lady who has known me since I was born fell over and I got quite emotional and had to be taken outside to calm down. She was OK but it was just worrying to see her on the floor. Other than that it was great. The band played some good songs. I made my dad get up with me for the first dance. :D I was a bit tipsy at the time but I was just getting the party going a bit as everyone was just sat down doing nothing. I certainly got the party going a bit better :D As people where travelling from all over the place my mum let people stay in our house and Mike and I got booted to the caravan, which wasn't bad at all to be honest got us out of the mayhem. :D There were so many people around the house it was hard to be on your own. I loved every minute of it. The weather was amazing all weekend as well. One of the best weekends I've had in a while. I was upset that it had to end so quickly and It made me miss all the big family holidays we used to have. I don't think my mum will ever want to organise another party that big ever again. Bless her. She did a great job. :)
OK I've come home for a bit, to try and get some work done before my deadlines next week. However, I've come home at the worst time ever. My dad is 60 on Saturday and for his birthday my mum has been organising a huge party for him. Woo party! Woo free alcohol! It's not all sunshine and rainbows here though. I'm sure it'll be amazing on the night and will be good to see people who I haven't seen in many years. However, endless phone calls off said people is getting tiring. I haven't spoken to these people in such a long time that I don't really recognise their voices and spend half the duration of the call trying to figure out who it is. The first caller was only recognised 2 mins before the end of the call by mentioning a name that I remembered. I did pull it off pretty well that I didn't actually know it is was though. Go me! :) But now it's happening more and more. Also they decide to ask me questions about the party of which I have no idea of the answer. Where am I sleeping? What's the dress code? Do you need bedding? Are all questions for my mum, not me. My guess work is pretty good though and I seem to give the right answer when I ask my mum the same questions. Though I do tell the callers that they will have to call again to ask my mum to confirm. :p
Also my mum is getting pretty stressed out about it. I feel sorry for her and I am trying to help. I've even given up my bed for the night and Mike, Jon, Katie and I are sleeping in the caravan for the night :| Woopie! Oh well. :p
My mum has a mattress in her room for the time being and today whilst trying to run for the phone I tripped over the plastic cover to it and almost headbutted the window. :/ :p I picked the phone up laughing to myself about it because it almost certainly would have looked hilarious to see by someone else. On the phone was my dad. I risked life and limb to tell him my mum had gone out. :| typical.
One further thing that I'm not going to look forward to is the meet and greet of old friends and the very repetitive phase of "I haven't seen you in years! Look at you!" that I know will be coming my way over and over again. I might make a handout to tell people that "I'm a 2nd year student at Sheffield Hallam studying criminology and psychology. Yes it is a good course but does have it's boring parts. I'm looking to be either a social worker or an A level psychology tutor." Just so I don't get bored of my own voice repeating these statements. Ha! It's going to be a great night though. Really looking forward to it :D My mum has told me I'm not allowed to get too drunk though 'cos she doesn't want me being sick in the caravan. :p Oh dear
After a rubbish trip home of missing my second train and having to walk home from the station with loads of heavy bags I decided to get straight to drinking and grabbed a cider :) It was gooood. The reason I was drinking was because it was one of my mate's 21st going out to York trip last night. It was really good. Before I went out though I tried to put fake eyelashes on. I bought like 20pairs from Hong Kong and decided to do a test run of them. They are so annoying to put on. But finally did it after 20mins of messing about with them. They didn't look half bad either. I was impressed. :D but this morning woke up and my eyelids were glued shut. Bad times. So we went out and had fun. Evil Eye is an expensive cocktail place but I liked the one I had :D I also got reminded about an incident that happened in Revs a couple of months ago. Just because there was a candle on the table in Evil Eye. I didn't know what I was thinking holding a tissue to a candle. What did I expect to happen really? Lol. Idiot. I got told off by a bouncer for swearing at my friend. But he was only joking. It was Jasmin's fault ha! On the way back to the car we went and got food and ate most of it the car before we set off. Sam and Hayley told me to chuck theirs in the bin as we drove past. I was going to keep mine as I wasn't finished. However, I decided to chuck mine away instead of Sam's I was quite upset about it ha! Got home with Hayley and my brother was up and we stayed up for a bit watching stupid videos on youtube. Such as the badger song and the llama song. I was quite tipsy and was just singing along with them. I'm such a douche tbh ha.
This song made me laugh quite a bit. Especially because there was different versions of it. German was the funniest. :) Katie, my friend and my brother's gf, was laughing because she'd never seen them before and I was singing every word. Such a geek. :)
Went to go see my grandparents for grandma day and she gave me a box cheerios because my grandad had bought too many boxes. As we left my grandad said "cheerio" He's so funny. I love my family :D
Sometimes I do out stupid myself and make myself look like a prat. Today is Mike's birthday, a few weeks ago I told him I wanted to go out and do more stuff so prefect day to do that :), so first we went to Costa and tried two very sweet lattes. They were very nice but very sweet we couldn't finish them. Before this we popped next door into Tesco to get some supplies and he said something to me, can't remember what lol, and I decided to say something along the lines of "Don't treat me like stupid", as soon as I said it I knew I said something wrong. How ironic to ask him to not treat me like I'm stupid and say the phrase wrong. Well done Jess :p After that we went and watched "Sucker punch" I have no idea what the film is about even after watching it. Totally weird. Not worth the money I paid tbh. We were going to go have Spanish Tapas as stated in an earlier blog, however, it's location was too far away for my starving belly so we went to Jumbos. I do enjoy Chinese so it's all good. I love duck and pancakes. The pancakes were a bit hard so kept breaking up and I had to shove them in my mouth. I bet I looked so attractive and the way I eat orange slices just makes me look even better. Mike told me I looked like King Louis from Jungle book. Ha!
I got home and started to watch Gok Wan, I love him!, with Clare and she stated that Macclesfield was in the program at which I replied "Who's that?" Even though I knew it was where she lived back home. I am stupid sometimes. Oh well :D
The recent topic of animals has come up as well. For example me and one of my future house mates have been discussing pet names for our animals next year. I want a hamster and wanted to call it Sheldon after the Big Bang Theory tv show. Lucy however, wants two guinea pigs and keeps changing the names to suit her tv show preference. For example Leslie and Penny from Big Bang, Lily and Robyn from How I Met Your Mother, Charlie and Hurley from Lost and Ham and something from Toy Story. I want to keep to the same theme so have multiple names to choose from depending on her preference that day. Sheldon, Ted, Sawyer, Zorg/ Buzz. It's such an effort changing them every time. Also lately I have been stating what animal I would be. If I was a fish I'd be a Lion fish or a seahorse, If I was a bird I'd be a flamingo. Mike thinks I'm so immature :) He said he'd be a unicorn. They are cool however, they might be weaponised horses but they still are a little lame :p
Help on names for my hamster? I'm thinking Sheldon or Ted tbh :D xx
