My Heart's on Fire for Elvira

[Chrisdoc]

Morgan, I laughed so much at that conversation with your husband that I got a stitch and had to get up and stretch to make it go.

That is so weird that he wants you to buy heinz ketchup that he doesn´t eat and everything else heinz except the mayo. Maybe he´s got secret shares with Heinz lol.

I really do see you as a serious business woman with your chickens. It sounds really interesting and it would be really interesting if you got to be an authorised tester. Love to hear about it so keep us posted.

Glad your son´s healing and I suppose it won´t be long until you have to decide about the dog.

Still laughing at Ellie trimming your broom, she´s such a laugh. I bet it was difficult cleaning with such short bristles but, as you say, better she eats that than something much more expensive.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

I have a broom with synthetic bristles, and Monty loves to snip those off too. She has chewed on a couple after snipping them off (I was teasing her with it when she was little *ahem* younger) so I eased it out of her mouth and keep her away from the broom. It'll have to be hidden when I start letting her run in the kitchen more, because being the monster she is, she'll leave me with nothing to sweep with!

 

[agnesthelion]

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[whitelop]

Lisa I LOVE Aldi! Its great. The ones around my area DO tend to be gross, but there is one that I like a lot. My MIL shops their too, even though she makes a ton of money, she has to pay A LOT of bills and likes to shop for cheap. Plus food and everything else in Chicago is really expensive, so she shops here for cheap.
There is this other grocery store in my area called Save-a-lot, its like a Aldi, but BETTER! Its newer and its really clean and there is never anyone in there! I love going there. The meat there is really good, I've never had a problem. But there ARE some things that I have to get name brand of, like Dawn dish soap, chips-ahoy cookies for my husband (the store brand ones tend to have an odd taste) and coffee, I have to drink Starbucks Blond roast-willow.
I totally agree with you Lisa, even though it is HIS money because he logs the man hours to make the big bucks, I feel like its my duty to save him a few dollars here and there! hahah. We like to spend money on the things we WANT.
My husband is from Pittsburgh and thats where ketchup was invented or something. Its where Heinz comes from and where he come from, so he feels like a traitor when he sees an off brand in the fridge. haha. But its awesome that you and your husband had a very similar conversation! hahaha.

So I figured out the broom thing! I got Ellie a bag of timothy hay, its kaytee I was already at walmart for something so I figured I would grab a bag instead of waiting until tomorrow when my husband went to petsmart. She loves it but I'm a little scared of it. It looks TOO green. Like, I think they dye it. It seems a little unnaturally green. hahaha. Sounds crazy I know, but its odd. Anyway, I've just been giving her coastal and she is eating it, but I think she needed some variety. She ate that timothy like she was starving to death! hahaha. She sat in her litter box for hours just eating little bits of hay. She also didn't eat my broom! hahaha. YAY! Problem solved.

So I've been playing Phineas and Ferb, the cartoon, for my son. I LOVE IT! Hahaha. When I was a nanny, I watched it with the girls but now my son sort of likes it and I really like it! Its so funny. I really love Dr. Doofenshmurtz, hes a riot! lmao.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

i totally agree with him about the chips-ahoy cookies. The other ones DO have a funky taste.

It's like Blue Bell Ice Cream for us Texans. If you buy...what is it called....haagan-daaz? Idk! Anyway, if you buy something else, you're a traitor OR are from another state and don't know the true taste of the best ice cream on Earth... I love Blue Bell, it's so amazing, and I've been to the factory three times lol! I love it! Then at the end you get a free sample, and I got a shirt it says "I get cranky, without my Blue Bell" and then it has one of those crank things opening the carton haha.

I also think that KAYTEE hay is odd, I hear bad things about it but it always smells soooo good like tea kind of, and I reached in the bag once and the hay cut me....I blame them not my fragile skin!!! ''' I hope to get to the feed store one day and get a square bale. One time, I bought Buster the KAYTEE hay with some kind of yellow flowers in them and ooooohmigod, it was like bunny crack, if he heard me even..move the bag over.. he would be bouncing off the walls and when I gave him some he would eat it all....ALL. So I went through that bag within about a week and a half. Never bought it again.

haha, I like the name...Doofenshmurtz hehehehehe. And I enjoy his voice

 

[Chrisdoc]

Wow, we have Aldi over here as well and there´s also a similar store here call Lidl, I shop in both as the stuff if so much cheaper. I must admit, there are some things where I like the branded stuff, maybe Rice Krispies or Heinz beans and I do like branded soap powder too but sometimes it´s just so much dearer than the non branded.

I use some hay for the boys which they love and is really green but it smells lovely. I´ve now managed to get some of the stuff they love from Gibraltar, my friend brought me two bags last week which was all they had left so I´m dying to see if they still like it, I was so excited. I need to ask her now if she can get me more pellets from there as they´re eating the Excel Lifelong right now and they really like them and I don´t want to be having to change them again. I don´t feel bad asking her as I´ve done a major favour for her today so she owes me lol.

 

[whitelop]

Okay y'all. Hold on to your shorts, this one is going to be a good one!

The last week or so I've been getting pretty bad headaches. So I've been behind on my house cleaning and haven't been paying much attention to Ellie's cage. I've been changing her out of the cage litter box, but not the cage one or cleaning out the cage. She's been out of the cage so much, so I haven't been paying attention. Her cage also had a few of her blankets on top of it, one of which is a full sized sheet that I was using under Foo's dog crate and it just fell to Ellie because it was an animal sheet. So I go over to her cage to move the blankets and the whole sheet is covered in poop and pee! There was also a new box on top of there that was filled with poop and pee! AHHHH! I was totally shocked and not very happy! So I'm cleaning all this off and talking junk to Ellie, who was sitting 5 feet from me with that smug little adorable face of hers. And I said to myself, between swear words, 'this cage has gotta go!' Then I get into the cage I realize she's using the whole cage as a litter box. So I talk some more junk to her and tell her to kiss her cage goodbye!

So that what I did, I THREW HER CAGE OUT INTO THE BACKYARD!
And are y'all ready for the most redneck, backwoods things you've ever heard? ... I made Mother Nature my b-tch! Its raining here today, so I poured some white vinegar into the cage to let the rain swirl it around and wash the cage! hahaha.

I put her little litter box and her hidey boxes where her cage was. So I'm all, 'ughh, rabbits!' and she's all -binky-binky-binky-because-theres-so-much-more-space-now!-

Before today I was way up on my high horse thinking, "oh I just have the best rabbit, she's so smart and she is so good with her litter box. She is just so good during the day and the time she is out!" But really what was happening was...I have the most SNEAKY rabbit ever. She likes to sneak her poop and pee into places where she knows I'm looking and its like she knows my head hurts and I've having a hard time doing stuff.
She is so bad! Ahh, but then you look at her cute little face and you're like, ugh, what do I do with you? You're so cute then you come and lick my ankle and I love that, but I'm still made at you, but you licked my ankle again and I'm a little less mad, then you dig at my slipper and I think thats adorable and I'm a little less mad at you! Then I realize I AM really mad and she's trying to trick me into not being mad anymore with her shear adorableness! SNEAKY!

I have to finish cleaning the kitchen now. I've eaten and my head hurts a little less today.
Oh and a raccoon got hit by a car and there is a vulture out there enjoying a meal, right in my front yard. Yay. Thats really nice to look out the window at. haha. I wonder if its my one footed buddy? hmmm.

And now I'm done. I'm still mad.

 

[whitelop]

i totally agree with him about the chips-ahoy cookies. The other ones DO have a funky taste.

It's like Blue Bell Ice Cream for us Texans. If you buy...what is it called....haagan-daaz? Idk! Anyway, if you buy something else, you're a traitor OR are from another state and don't know the true taste of the best ice cream on Earth... I love Blue Bell, it's so amazing, and I've been to the factory three times lol! I love it! Then at the end you get a free sample, and I got a shirt it says "I get cranky, without my Blue Bell" and then it has one of those crank things opening the carton haha.

I also think that KAYTEE hay is odd, I hear bad things about it but it always smells soooo good like tea kind of, and I reached in the bag once and the hay cut me....I blame them not my fragile skin!!! ''' I hope to get to the feed store one day and get a square bale. One time, I bought Buster the KAYTEE hay with some kind of yellow flowers in them and ooooohmigod, it was like bunny crack, if he heard me even..move the bag over.. he would be bouncing off the walls and when I gave him some he would eat it all....ALL. So I went through that bag within about a week and a half. Never bought it again.

haha, I like the name...Doofenshmurtz hehehehehe. And I enjoy his voice

I LOVE Blue Bell! Its SO good. My husband knows the whole song! hahaha. Apparently the radio station that they listen to most often plays the Blue Bell commercial all the time and he now knows the song. ahah. Its really funny. Blue Bell has Bunny Tracks doesn't it? Or is that another brand of ice cream?
Now I want ice cream!

 

[Chrisdoc]

She really is a smart little bunny, imagine her hiding all that from you. I can imagine your face when you moved the sheet and saw all that...smoke coming out of your ears haha.

And yes, I can so understand that she gave you that look and started to lick and play and you nearly forget why you´re so mad at her. She is such a little minx.

And that leaving the cage to be cleansed by mother nature, you are just a scream.

Yuk a dead raccoon and a vulture...you lead such a colourful life, nothing that exciting around here lol.

 

[agnesthelion]

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[whitelop]

The blankets are about to go in the wash and the cage and the box that she was using are gone. I've never used Natures Miracle, I use this stuff called Pure Ayre. Its great. It cleans and takes the animal smell out, it neutralizes the ammonia in the pee smell. Plus, it has this really nice minty smell, and you can just mist it on pet beds or your furniture and it makes everything smell nice; and it takes all the smell out of your furniture or rugs. I just named like 25 different things, wow. Anyway, I love it and I like to mist it on different things, that was my main point as I danced around that bush.

Jeez, I'm having a hard time today. My brain literally hurts because I have yet another headache.

Now she's just happy as a little black and white clam to be in the kitchen, because taking that cage out really did open up the kitchen. haha. I didn't realize how much room the cage took up because its been there for so long, but jeez, my kitchen is MUCH bigger now! haha. My husband said yesterday that we should get one of those 2 person tables to put there once I took the cage out, little does he know, the cage is GONE. haha. I have to get working on her cabinet. I might actually start that tonight.

Weird thing. She hasn't pooped or peed in the cabinet at all. Isn't that strange? I wonder why she hasn't. Hmmm...rabbits are so odd!

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Okay y'all. Hold on to your shorts, this one is going to be a good one!

The last week or so I've been getting pretty bad headaches. So I've been behind on my house cleaning and haven't been paying much attention to Ellie's cage. I've been changing her out of the cage litter box, but not the cage one or cleaning out the cage. She's been out of the cage so much, so I haven't been paying attention. Her cage also had a few of her blankets on top of it, one of which is a full sized sheet that I was using under Foo's dog crate and it just fell to Ellie because it was an animal sheet. So I go over to her cage to move the blankets and the whole sheet is covered in poop and pee! There was also a new box on top of there that was filled with poop and pee! AHHHH! I was totally shocked and not very happy! So I'm cleaning all this off and talking junk to Ellie, who was sitting 5 feet from me with that smug little adorable face of hers. And I said to myself, between swear words, 'this cage has gotta go!' Then I get into the cage I realize she's using the whole cage as a litter box. So I talk some more junk to her and tell her to kiss her cage goodbye!

So that what I did, I THREW HER CAGE OUT INTO THE BACKYARD!
And are y'all ready for the most redneck, backwoods things you've ever heard? ... I made Mother Nature my b-tch! Its raining here today, so I poured some white vinegar into the cage to let the rain swirl it around and wash the cage! hahaha.

I put her little litter box and her hidey boxes where her cage was. So I'm all, 'ughh, rabbits!' and she's all -binky-binky-binky-because-theres-so-much-more-space-now!-

Before today I was way up on my high horse thinking, "oh I just have the best rabbit, she's so smart and she is so good with her litter box. She is just so good during the day and the time she is out!" But really what was happening was...I have the most SNEAKY rabbit ever. She likes to sneak her poop and pee into places where she knows I'm looking and its like she knows my head hurts and I've having a hard time doing stuff.
She is so bad! Ahh, but then you look at her cute little face and you're like, ugh, what do I do with you? You're so cute then you come and lick my ankle and I love that, but I'm still made at you, but you licked my ankle again and I'm a little less mad, then you dig at my slipper and I think thats adorable and I'm a little less mad at you! Then I realize I AM really mad and she's trying to trick me into not being mad anymore with her shear adorableness! SNEAKY!

I have to finish cleaning the kitchen now. I've eaten and my head hurts a little less today.
Oh and a raccoon got hit by a car and there is a vulture out there enjoying a meal, right in my front yard. Yay. Thats really nice to look out the window at. haha. I wonder if its my one footed buddy? hmmm.

And now I'm done. I'm still mad.

I know that you're totally mad but this cracked me up! Love your angry rants!!!! XD

 

[Katielovesleo3]

"Binky-binky-bink-because-theres-so-much-more-space-now" hahahahahhahahah this still cracks me up trying to imagine it and then her trying be make u not mad by licking you and digging at your slipper hahah!

I LOVE Blue Bell! Its SO good. My husband knows the whole song! hahaha. Apparently the radio station that they listen to most often plays the Blue Bell commercial all the time and he now knows the song. ahah. Its really funny. Blue Bell has Bunny Tracks doesn't it? Or is that another brand of ice cream?
Now I want ice cream!

I LOVE their song! "Blue bell tastes just like the good ole days!" :] so true.

I don't know, I've never had bunny tracks?! What all is in it? MMM, going to eat ice cream now.

 

[whitelop]

Its picture! YAY!
The first picture is of Ellie with my wine glass, haha. I missed the good picture of her sniffing the rim of my glass, the really cute picture. This is more like a size reference.

Okay, so the video doesn't want to load? I don't know why. My googledrive is tired I think. Oh well, I'll try again tomorrow.
But until now, there is Ellie and my wine! haha.

I had to tell her that she was underage and she couldn't drink alcohol!

 

[whitelop]

So I would like share my parenting mishap this morning. haha. For breakfast my son usually has some dry cereal and a cup of milk, or some oatmeal and a cup of milk and a banana is usually thrown in there somewhere. But lately he has been boycotting the bananas, and not eating them. This morning, I go into the cabinet and there is no cereal and I think he's a little tired of oatmeal. So I continue on to make my coffee and bagel and I see this bag of chocolate grahams goldfish, and think to myself 'hmmm...that will be okay for breakfast', I pour it into the bowl and hand it to him. THEN like half way through his bowl, I realize "OMG! What am I feeding him? Thats terrible breakfast food!" Hahaha, he seems pretty happy though!
I bought these goldfish for him to have as a special dessert and as a special snack, its a box of 12 little bags and they're different varieties like, chocolate graham, smores and vanilla cupcake. Okay, but I should be honest, who am I kidding about getting these goldfish for my son; they were totally for me. I likes to eat them when I drink, me likes a sweet snack with my wine. hahaha. Those things are great! I highly suggest them!

I would also like to share the words my son says. He is 20 months old, so almost 2. He's picking up words left and right and he does a pretty good job pronouncing them. This morning I went into his room and he was pointing to his coloring book and was like 'culla' hahaha. Like he's cajan or somehthing.
He says 'shippers' for slippers. 'shocks' for socks.
And then the best one is when he asks for juice. My husband just heard him really well for the first time last night and was like 'did he just say...' He says 'jews' for juice! hahahaa. Its so funny! He comes up to the baby gate when I'm in the kitchen and hes like "JEWS! JEWS! JEWS!" My husband was like...wth? Its JUICE AJ! hahaha. But see, when my kid is excited about something, he doesn't ask in a normal speaking voice; he yells it! He's like HEY YOU GUYS! I WANT SOME JEWS! (minus the hey you guys part. lol, but thats basically how it goes!) I think its hilarious and I just go with it. He's pretty close to saying juice, so I figure in a few months he'll be able to pronounce it correctly. I just think sooo funny! haha.

My son put a goldfish bag in my sneaker. hahaha. It made me really laugh. My husband finds blocks and giant legos in his shoes all the time! haha.

Okay, so you guys remember the roadkill raccoon in my front yard? Well, since it was raining yesterday the vultures didn't really come around. NOW its sunny and there were like 10 flying high and circling my house! I think its a little over-kill if you ask me! (hahaha, get it?) Anyway, those birds are SNEAKY! I kind of like them though! They're cool. I should probably get the raccoon out of my yard, but hey...a birds gotta eat.
Another thing with the vultures, they make my rooster VERY unhappy! He has been crowing the whole time they've been in the yard. He is cooped up and he can't get to them, but if he could he would be attacking them! hahaha. He's perched on his perch watching and crowing. Its like a giant parrot, lol

 

[Chrisdoc]

It´s really weird the differences in language, when you mentioned goldfish I was thinking of the fish and thought...yuk chocolate flavoured fish cereal for breakfast, you do eat weird things. Then I realised they must be like the little individual boxes we get over here, I think anyway...now I´m intrigued as to exactly what it is.

I think it´s really funny when kids are learning to speak. i remember with friends that they kid´s talking and I can´t understand a word and mom is answering back...sounds like a different language. And when they talk to you and you obviously can´t understand and they repeat and repeat and are getting really annoyed with you cos you must be stupid not to understand what I´m saying....it just makes me laugh so much at their little face. He sounds like a great kid.

that is so gross with the raccoon and all those vultures circling...I can imaging your roo getting really irritated and making all that noise...you do leave an interesting life Morgan lol.

And Ellie is lovely and she is growing. I can imagine her trying to have a taste of your wine haha.

 

[whitelop]

Chris, I forgot that we might not have the same snack foods as Spain! haha.
Here is a link for the smores goldfish http://www.groceries-express.com/default.asp?upc=1410009362
Its the food kind of goldfish! hahaha. I love them.

And yes the vultures are gross, but its kind of cool watching them. They have very limited vocalizations, so they grunt and hiss at each other. They were grunting at me when I went to get wood for my fire. But they barely run from me, they just watch. They're new world black vultures.
Yes I guess I do live an interesting life. haha. I'm not really bothered by them, its nice to watch the nature. And if weren't for the vultures the world would be covered in gross roadkill and disease. They help clean up the world, so they're good in my book.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Ah, now I see and they are goldfish shapes. I suppose we call them snack bags but they seem like cereal flavours. It´s so funny the difference in some kinds of food. I always laugh on the telly when you talk about potato chips and we call them crisps and you usually call them all cookies and we call the one with the chocolate chips or fruity bits cookies but all the rest are biscuits. funny thing is language.

I suppose you´re right about the vultures but having them watch me, i´d be a bit spooked, I just saw the film "the birds" again the other week lol. Roadkill her, it just stays on the road until so many cars have gone over it, it´s then part of the road....YUK !!!

 

[agnesthelion]

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[whitelop]

She has been that size for a few weeks now. I think she's topped out at that size. haha. SMALL! She's really small. I just think back to Foo, who was this seemingly massive rabbit, but she was only 5 lbs, 6 at her heaviest; but she just SEEMED so much bigger! I don't know why, maybe it was her fur or her personality. But to me she just seemed like this GIANT rabbit wandering around my kitchen.

Ellie has mastered all the levels of her toy! She is so smart. I put it to level two today, with the little cup toppers on top of the cups, she immediately picked the cup up and put it off the board, ate the treat and repeat. I would line the cups up on the floor to wait for her to get the rest of the treats, then she would come to the ones lined up and pick them up and move them to see if there was another treat under them! haha.
Then level three is; you put this middle thing in, that makes the cup toppers slide around on the board, to cover the cups. She tried to pick one of them up, it didn't budge, so she pushed it with her nose. It moved and she figured out she had to slide them, and slid them all in different directions to find the treats! She figured out levels two and three in 10 minutes flat. haha. So I filled all the cups up with pellets and let her go nuts over it. It kept her occupied for like 5 minutes until she ate all the pellets, then she looked at me like...whats next!

Well, Lisa, my husband yelled at me tonight because I kept calling AJ's juice, jews. hahaha. He was like "you have to correct him and make him say it correctly!" I was like, 'yeah I know! I correct him with EVERY other word, but this one is the most hilarious!' I love it. And if you say it out loud, jews is pretty close to juice. haha. He's almost there.
What I really love is that I can now ask him for something that he knows and he'll bring it to me! Like, I'll ask him for his 'baby' which is a stuffed bear. He'll search high and low to find and bring me the baby. haha. Or I'll ask him for his slipper and he'll bring me one at a time. Its great to see him learn! I love it so much.
I was the same way before I had kids, I was like oh my kid will never eat fast food, he'll never know what that crap is! BUT sometimes, if you're running errands chicken mcnuggets are the easiest thing in the world to feed them! I get 2 bags of apple slices instead of fries...most of the time. He does like fries though, and I get milk for him. So thats not THAT bad! hahaha. Tonight we had pizza and he loves pizza! I didn't feel like cooking, plus my chicken wasn't completely thawed out.

Well tonight I put on a hoody and the pocket was filled with hay. Thats a little embarrassing. haha.