THIS IS GONNA BE A very short post as I've not much to tell.
My roborovskis are in hamster heaven after I discovered a stash of kitchen-roll and toilet tubes in a back bin yesterday. They now have tunnels galore to ping along...
Also I am beginning to theorize that "Baby" Itchy might not actually be a Baby at all, as he/she shows no sign whatsoever of growing... but might rather be a dwarf dwarf hamster... he/she is very tiny - small enough to fit inside a hen's egg shell...
Well there's no specific news of them really. Except yesterday I accidentally dropped a chicken bone on their heads. Wow! The palaver as they all scuttled and hid. For all of five seconds. Only to emerge in exact unison from three separate places... poking pink noses up in the air as if to say "What was THAT?!?"
Memoirs: I have been slogging away every day. (Slogging might not actually be the right word. "Trying" is perhaps better.) I've put pen to paper at least on a daily basis... and yet have yet to complete even four pages (as printed)! I don't know WHY it should seem so incredibly hard. But hard it seems....
Right I better had go and sort various "things" out....
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TUNE OF THE DAY
(Something very different. I lifted this from Calista's blog...)
Dino Merlin i Zeljko Joksimovic - Supermen
Hey, I glad to see you are still around.
ReplyDeleteIn regards to your comment--yes, pressure cookers cook in 1/3 of the time of normal cooking process.
It makes a better product in shorter time if you know how to use the cookers properly.
Here is the verse I quoted:
"3Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."
So even in the hard times I can be joyful because I know-- if I belong to Him--all things will eventually work out for my good. He promises it. But I have to let HIS perfect work take place. This week has been rough and I have been tempted to tell Him I have had enough. But, that would be like quitting just before the reward was given. The runner looks up at the curve in the road and says, I quit! What he did not realize was that just around the corner was the finish line and no one was ahead of him.
I came home a couple of weeks ago to a dead hamster:( She had pushed her house in front of the water when I was away on a long weekend. Other then getting divorced by the girl of my dreams, life isn't too bad. Hanging in there though.
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ReplyDeletetell me more about yourself and let's find solution 4u.
Please, don't tell me that I can only watch.
That sounds like grave digging.
Wait 4 your book:)
Sharon:... I will try and remember the gist of that!
ReplyDeleteSean: something VERY similar happened to me once... the water bottle BLOCKED UP I honestly had no idea until a bloody dead mouse.... I had as I say NO IDEA what was causing all the illness up till then. Ukk.
Calista: I will try and explain myself in a post... that will at least give me something to write about... ive been SO uninspired of late
I am going to say, "stay fullsize."
ReplyDeleteThat poor Britney looked like a really bored stripper who just dropped a Qualude.
The old foreign guys in the first one look way sexier.
you know what.. surely if she's a professional she knows that live TV aside if your performance is going to get so badly fff'd up you just sit down quicly and pull the boots off - wobble the heel to camera if necessary... then rejoin the routine where you left off... or get 'em to start it again.
ReplyDeletei think that's what i'd do.
i'd rather be all over the papers for a broken shoe than for being inept, wouldn't you?!??!
G'day Gledwood,
ReplyDelete``Palaver'' is a word that should be popularised. I'm all for it.....
Just added you to my blogroll.
Do keep in touch
Cheers
David
yes she does definitely look like a bored stripper as well
ReplyDeletethe british press printed pix of her from that show looking enormous (bc she was slightly bending over making her stomach look far huger)....
which just goes to show why i don't trust the press... they are transparent enough to show stuff from things they know I will see... knowing i will see through their own biased version... don't they get it?
the tabloid press, i predict will not exist in another 20 years' time
hi david mcM... how odd you just posted that comment as i was posting "britney bored stripper" etceteras...
ReplyDeleteaparently the word palaver means a tribal dance gathering in africa or some such oddness....
i will put you on my role in a sec or tomorrow this computer is MISBEHAVING!!!!
That's interesting that you think the tabloid press will disappear in 20 years - why is that?
ReplyDeleteNot surprised to hear that writing your memoirs is a tough job. I know I'd find it hell tough if I tried to write mine. I reckon the only way to do it would be to set myself a daily word count - maybe 1000 words a day? And I wouldn't necessarily write it in chronological order, otherwise I might get bored, or overwhelmed early on by how little of my life I'd managed to get through.
Watched the Britney vid - I didn't see it live, but clearly that heel was a problem. Poor lass. She did look like a bored stripper though, I agree.
a dwarf dawrf hamster ! i would love to see that ...
ReplyDeleteNot that you asked for advice, but I find that if you just make it a goal to sit down and write for a certain amount of time everyday ... that's how you'll get it done. Not everyday is gonna be a great, inspired day. I don't think any writer is that lucky! But it will come; your stuff is great. All those volumes you wrote for awhile about your history were wonderful; are you using those? Methinks you should!
ReplyDeleteI loved "Zen"s comment re Britney! Perfect description. I think that's pretty much what/who she is nowadays. And I liked the girl. But damn. If she wants to make music and be famous, then she needs to get her ass serious and get her ass to WORK. Otherwise, just stop messing around, just quit the industry, puh-leeze.
Stu: I think the tabloid press as printed papers will go because people no longer will bother buying and reading these things, rather want to watch the clips online as Youtube style short films....
ReplyDeleteSurely the future for the press would be to have written stories and pictures that you click on and they play short film clips... THAT I believe is what the public would go for... the technology for a newspaper with readable electronic type PLUS moving picture clips is very nearly available now and I'd say THAT is the future for the "press"...
Mousie: I would love to get a picture of the dwarf dwarf he/she is so tiny... as small as my thumb... maybe if she IS a she I should call her Thumbelina!
ReplyDeleteAin't Never: What you and Stu advised is what I'm trying to do already ... though my word count is more liberal (ie more liberal to ME ie SHORTER) actually I'm completing as little as a couple of hundred words a day...
... part of the trouble is I'm wading through my childhood ... then I've my adolscence to do... I MUST write all this in order I'm certain of that otherwise I'm only sowing seeds to get even MORE confused in future.... not all of this prior time is strictly relevant but something must be set down... maybe as much as 1/2 or more will have eventually to be cut out... anyway I'm still a couple of chapters off actually starting to tell the story of my DRUGS. And even when I DO I have to describe my first (4 doses at once) manic bad LSD trip etc etc... heroin doesn't come along for a good few years after that... but I'm certain if I tell my story in chronological order and in strictly relevant detail I'll begin to detail the roots and threads of where this addiction came into the life of someone who was so very cautious and careful all along....
Top right "writers' blogs" the one link there at the moment said he's putting a memoirs writing post in there just for me so have a look there
Gleds
Marty here -- greetings from Deutschland! I'm feeling a bit more "chipper" (*ahem*) today than I did earlier this week. Hey, while I'm here, I meant to take that "How American Are You" test you posted, but forgot ... how did you find it?
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, you've got the link now. Stop by and say hi!
Any time any of us think we have problems we just need to watch that Britney video and realize as problems go in a personal life, she has us all beat.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure when the chicken bone fell the poor little hampters thought the sky was falling.
Take care of yourself and the little fur guys too :)
Glad to see you are still keeping busy Mr G. I hope the memoirs go well they need to be a bit more than four pages you know. The tiny dwarve sounds fun..
ReplyDeleteMarty:... I'll see yer in a minute...
ReplyDeleteP.o.P.:... they were so entertaining the way they all ran and hid for LITERALLY about 3 seconds then emerged from 3 different places at EXACTLY the same time!
Mutley: A bit more than 4 pages... I know! I've gone and PURCHASED memoirs for £6.99 in order to use as inspirational template. Type thing...
Wie sprichst Du so gut Deutsch? Yeah, it was perfect, as far as I can tell.
ReplyDeleteOh, only if I were one of your hammies, delighting in those too-cool tunnels ...
And yes, your comment was posted. It has some sort of feature that forces you to verify that you're a "real person" but, if all goes well, the comment goes through immediately.
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ReplyDeleteHey you commented twoce? Twice. Hmmm. That is like saying "zwo" 'stead of two, surely....
ReplyDeleteDo you like my Gorillaz tune?
Those hamsters are going to get a megahuge stuck-together tunnellery soon...
i need some time to hang out here and really read... keep it up...
ReplyDeleteyes; i have tapped in a lot of drivel in my time here!
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