I seriously enjoy this commercial waaaaaaaay too much.
Two things I'm really into right now XD I love this song (so Christmas-y and cute/romantic!) and Detective Conan is always good ♥
On that note, I don't know if I'm keeping HK and Coral when they arrive - I really want the outfits more than the dolls themselves, but I preordered because sometimes outfits can be hard to find (which is why I will undoubtably preorder the h.Naoto babies, to steal their lovely outfits).
Looooooooooooooove.
Apple announced their new iPod line yesterday - the new nano, iPod classic and the iPod touch. Both the classic and the touch have good points: the classic goes up to 160GB in capacity, and the touch has Wifi, touch screen, and flash media - but only up to 16GBs. I can't see myself downgrading in space any time soon, especially since memory cards are getting up there in space anyway, might as well use my PSP or something, and I don't really need 160GB of space at the moment. I'm also upset they seem to have moved from white to silver as a main color :/
So, no new iPod for me this round.
But what about PSPs?
Sony is coming out with the PSP Slim in a couple weeks. It's thinner, comes in new colors, and easily outputs to TV via component cables. But is it enough for me to want to upgrade? The rose pink color is really tempting, and if I fall in love with it enough, then I just might go for it. Not immediately of course since 1) there are no non-Sony shots of this color and 2) I want to see if there are any issues with the newer version. The way Sony updates the PSP makes me worry about my current one sort of becoming obsolete anyway... it's a $200 investment though, so even if I was sure, it would be out of this month's budget anyway. I wish I could see it in person before buying, but unless I make it to Japan, that might be hard to do (^_^;)
So I've been following this lead of 8 kittens that were born around July 26th. There was a lot of back and forth, they weren't promised, they were, they weren't really, they weren't up to seeing anyone yet.... and today, I got to see them.
They were so tiny and adorable!
I'd never seen kittens younger than 8 weeks before because my cats were always spayed/neutered and I didn't know anyone whose cat had had kittens. Pet stores won't take them until they're 8 weeks old, and that's the only place I got to see them. These babies were only 4.5 weeks old, not ready to come home yet, but alert and interested (once they got used to their surroundings).
The girl who was in charge brought them to a local pet store that she worked at, and we brought an old baby playpen to hold them in. 7 out of the 8 came - one was at home with the mother - and 6 of those 7 were available. There were three calicos of varying coloring, three orange tabby boys, and one b&w - she was going to be the store's pet. I immediately picked up a sweet little calico girl with tan ears and forehead. Initially she just sat in my arms without moving much, but eventually became interested in climbing all over me XD She was my absolute favorite and I claimed her quickly. I had to consider whether getting two was the best option - littermates would make the best companion for a lonely kitty, and while I don't anticipate going on lots of trips, I do know there will be times when I won't be home for a few days to a week throughout the year. I wanted to choose a friend, but the other two calicos became someone else's choice right away. Only the tabby boys were left.
When we initially took the kittens out of the cat carrier and into the playpen, one of the tabbies immediately rushed over to the side and started to climb out! He got to the top before we noticed! I'm fairly sure that's the boy I picked - he was very playful throughout the time there - at the very end like most of the others he was tired out, of course, but we brought toys to play with them and he was eager to participate. Holding him was a bit of a challenge, he wanted to climb right up and over my shoulder!
We did take pictures of the ones we liked, but they're on my mother's camera so no photos yet (sorry! (^^;;)). The calico is easy to tell apart from the rest, but the tabby has a brother who is very similar, but more dark orange than him. Hopefully I can pick him up before his brother goes off to his location - someone else just wanted "a cat" without caring too much which one so they got the last one available.
Initially I wasn't sure if my husband would be up for getting two at once since he's never had pets before, but so far he's seemed very receptive. He knows I'll be the one to take care of them, so it's not much work on his part anyway XD I'm so excited! They will be ready to come home early to mid September~ if I don't upload the initial photos by then, I'll take lots of new ones anyway!
So last night I thought I'd be good and try to go to bed before the sun came up. And I was in bed, trying to sleep... when the Boy comes upstairs and goes "We have an invader in our living room." He says it's worse than bugs.
What is worse than bugs?
Mice!
I suited up: gloves, shoes, and plastic container. Turned out it was this teeny tiny titmouse that had trapped itself in a large cardboard box in the corner of the living room. Easily caught, but then what? I didn't want to kill it (it was so cute!) but if we let it go outside it would just come back in.
The solution? Drive to the town over and drop it off in the woods there. (If some of you were thinking of a third option: keep the cutie! Rob would never have let me do that. Plus I'm planning on getting a cat soooooo.....)
Well, since we were going out anyway we did a couple late night/early morning errands, including getting fresh donuts from Dunkin' Donuts :9 Yay strawberry frosted! (I still miss Mr Donut, though (T__T))
I really tried to take a photo of the mouse, I really did. But it was zipping around like crazy. I thought I took a video of it... but apparently not? I can't find it on the card so no vid D: If you're crazy to have blurry photos I can upload a couple but it'll only give you a vague idea of what it looked like. Smaller than a credit card, but obviously more three-dimensional.
Tomorrow'll be the first day with me alone in the house (o.o;;) I'm a little nervous.
I'll start off by saying it certainly has returned to summer weather here (-_-;) Usually I love the hothot weather but this weekend is a bad one for it. The past week had become really cool - I was wearing fall clothes (opaque tights, skirts, sweaters) because I was so cold! Today I'm in shorts and a tank top (^^;;) What a change! (笑)
Okay so almost a week ago now I received my Evil Pinky:st girl (she's the "villian" in Kirakira Music Hour) in the mail. It was a great surprise because I wasn't expecting her so soon (EMS is crazy fast sometimes) but before that there was a shock:
Oh well, anyway...
Evil arrived without damage, and she's wonderfully cheeky (^_~) Her shirt is Engrishy awesomeness: "Super Looky" I didn't take a photo with her goggles on because they just magnify her eyes and make her look even weirder! Plus they're orange.
I really meant to post this when it happened, but somehow I lost initiative/convinced myself I had already made a post so it fell off my radar until now! Whoops....
