lizard life

hi there!

i talk about my leopard geckos on here from time to time, so i thought it might be helpful if i showed you their homes, with them in them, looking cute :).

when people find out we have no dogs or cats, but a handful of lizards, we generally get strange looks. don't get me wrong... we love dogs and cats! if we had the room (read: a suitable yard), we would definately have a dog by now, at least. but i have always had a warm place in my heart for geckos. when i was younger, i would catch the little house geckos that would hang out by the patio lights outside at night and catch them, give them a tiny little kiss, and let them go. i was a strange child :p. okay, it continued into adulthood, don't judge me! ;). i only learned after i had a real pet gecko that you can get salmonella from kissing lizards, so i don't do that anymore (you think i'm so weird right now, don't you?), but i do have a lot of fun watching and caring for my little critters.



that's asuka on the top left. she was a gift to me from brandon, on our first christmas together ♥. the first time i held her, she bit the crap out of me, so i named her 'asuka' after the bitchy anime character on my favourite anime, neon genesis evangelion.

trent is on the top right. he's called trent because he looks mad all the time, and that reminds me of the most dreamy, angsty man alive, trent reznor ♥.

sonny is on the bottom (you can only see his illusive tail in this picture, sticking out of the hole in his rock on the right), and he is an albino leopard gecko. he may not be as pretty and colourful as the other two, but he has a lot of character to him (they all do, actually! they each have their own personality and behaviours), he's very sweet, and he often looks like he's smiling. i call him 'cling peach' because of his colouring and how he grabs onto my thumb when he's in my hand. brandon named him after the character from his favourite movie, the godfather.

sonny had a brother named mike, but he died last fall after being very sick and a terrible mishap at the vet :/.

anyway, those are my little ones! definately not your standard pet, but they're low-maintenance (which is great for me!), silly, and bring joy to my little life :).

see what i mean about personality? asuka's being sneaky in her hidey-hole :p.

♥,

melissa

how much do YOU love quidditch?

yes, i'm talking about that game from harry potter.

do you ever find yourself wishing you, too, could play?

well, you're in luck! apparently you can play 'quidditch for muggles' ... if you attend certain outrageously expensive and elite universities :p.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfPij5ABdo

my favourite part is the snitch :p.

enjoy!

♥,
melissa

caturday, 03-11-08

i tried to post this last night, but blogger wasn't cooperating, so here's what should have been posted yesterday (note: it says this is being posted on tuesday, but it is lying. today is clearly wednesday):

it's a tuesday, so that means it's CATURDAY!




i have a few interesting cats to share with you this week. let's take a look, shall we?




^relaxy cat. adorable.





^ tube cat. when i get a cat, i want it to do this. this is one of the cutest things i've ever seen!

and to conclude this week's caturday edition:






^ do not want cat! he is not a fan of oranges.


well there you have it, the internet. next week i will have more (and better!) lol cats for you :).


<3,
melissa

kenya believe it?!

as a permanent fixture on my blog, i've decided to share a different and fun video/flash with you each week, the internet!

this week's is one that i think is super cute (and silly!). weebl even sells the stuffed animals of the tiger and lion in their shop! i love most of the flash videos on the site, but this week we'll just focus on this little gem.

i present to you: kenya

both lions and tigers only in kenya,
melissa

lol cats, omg

during the week, brandon is at work (a vast 5 minutes away up the dirt road) and i am usually at home on my computer, doing something etsy-ish. we are like joined at the hip and can't stand not to talk to each other for half a day at a time, so one thing that brandon and i like to do throughout the workday is send silly pictures to each other through email.

and by "silly pictures", i mean of cats :p. we have a mutual love and fascination for kittehs, so we search the internet for the most "wtf" cat pictures, real and doctored alike.

here are a few of our favourites. maybe tuesday should be "lol cat day" here on my blog!

enjoy! :D

^monorail cat

^ but i eated it cat. too cute, and too sad. long ago, i posted this on brandon's myspace for his enjoyment.

^hugs tiem cat. what we say after a brief, minor argument.

^snakecat. i imitate this face at brandon when he's trying to annoy me on purpose.

^i has snow cat. we say this to each other randomly during car rides to austin on saturdays.

^ and finally, reer cat and long cat, as drawn by me. 'reer' is the sound a mad cat makes. a long cat is a cat that is freakishly long. the one i drew there is pouting.

*all the cat pictures were found using google's 'random cat' gadget, except the one i drew, of course :p. that one is the product of my special imagination.

<3,

melissa