THEY ARE STUPIDLY ADORABLE. They have gotten lots of love and cuddles tonight, and now they are nomming oats and destroying a waffle box. NOM NOM NOM, THEIR PUDDIN FACES.
My mom is mostly fascinated by my gerbils and my brother likes them, but my dad and sister give them the srs side-eye.
Iiiiii am still bored. But I just made mac & cheese, though I ate cake before dinner because I was hungry and waiting for the water to boil was taking forever, and now I'm not hungry. I'LL GET THERE EVENTUALLY.
OH I KNOW THAT FEELING SO WELL. Awkward story time! I was once dragged along post some-Jewish-holiday-I-forget to the same situation, only this time the girl in question had her boyfriend over and they'd clearly been up to ~something~ in her bedroom, and they were the crowd that hung out by my locker snickering and were heavy into drugs (like, not just pot - everyone in my high school did pot, they were into the hardcore stuff) and wore all black and blocked my way to my locker by making out and I would be like AHEM and they'd keep sticking their tongues down each other's throats. And so we sat there making super awkward conversation and I was like "um, sorry to stare, but I think you have some dirt on your neck" (because that's what it looked like! Don't make fun of me!) And she was all "THANKS FOR NOTICING MY HICKEY, I'LL GO PUT CONCEALER ON SO MY PARENTS DON'T NOTICE" and I was like "ummmmm" while she ran off to the bathroom and her boyfriend sat up (oh, yeah, they'd been lying down totally all over each other the entire time.
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I may, or may not, have put reindeer horns on one of my horses. Once. But I could never put an actual hat on him because he didn't like things touching his ears. Anyway.
OMG HAVE I NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT MY DEEPEST DEAREST DESIRE TO GET MY GERBILS INTO TOP HATS AND MONOCLES??!?!??! I FEEL THE ADORABLE LEVELS WOULD BE EPIC.
I celebrate Christmas and am not actually hiding from anyone, but of course I am internet-ing it up anyway! WHAT WOULD I BE WITHOUT THE INTERNET.
So hello, hello! Ahahaha, adorable gerbils. ♥ I've got a deep love for rodents, based on exactly nothing, but tragically they horrify my mother and so that is a NO GO. I have always wanted a mouse. A black mouse with white feet, to whom I could give a name pulled from early 20th century British literature. I don't know what's wrong with me, but there it is!
Alas, it is not to be, at least not until I get my own apartment (my own apartment which allows adorable rodent-type pets).
This comment! I love it! This is like a dissertation on the adorability (adorability is not a word, ahhhhh, how sad :[) of rodents, HOW GREAT IS THAT? REALLY GREAT.
I am actually sort of fond of rats because we had rats as classroom pets when I was in fifth-grade? And they were very, very friendly, that is for sure, but I'm with you: the tails still freak me out a little. Booooo.
He looks more like a chinchilla or chipmunk and I like to smoooooosh his little cheeeeeeeks.
Heeeeee! Also, oh my gosh, chinchillas! I always go straight to chinchillas in pet stores (when they have them) and just stare at them in a way I imagine is probably slightly disconcerting? They're so cute! So fuzzy! I don't even.
Gusgus is going to stay little forever. I've told him he's not allowed to grow up. Currently, though, he refuses to listen to me.
Clearly he needs to be spirited away to Never Neverland so he can become the Gerbil!Lost Boy and fly around besting pirates and making friends with mermaids. LITTLE FOREVER, HOORAY!
Rats are so smart, too! I went to a concert once and people had their rat there on a leash and I said hello to him and he just crawled into my lap and started chuttering and purring. SO CUTE. And they were all "we take him out because he loves people, but everyone else is afraid of him! You just made his day!" and I was like I WILL BE STEALING HIM NOW THANK YOU.
After my last gerbil died I seriously considered getting a chinchilla because I was so devastated when my gerbil died and I love them so much but they have such short lives. But chinchillas live, like, fifteen to twenty years. That's like, if I wanted a pet that long-term, I'd get a dog. Plus they take up so much room and I live in a small house. But one day!
Gus does not like being little. Charlie can jump all sorts of places and Gus tries and just ends up scrabbling and flailing and making miserable little squeaks because he wants to be bigger, why isn't he bigger!?!??! Poooooor Gusgus.
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My mom is mostly fascinated by my gerbils and my brother likes them, but my dad and sister give them the srs side-eye.
Iiiiii am still bored. But I just made mac & cheese, though I ate cake before dinner because I was hungry and waiting for the water to boil was taking forever, and now I'm not hungry. I'LL GET THERE EVENTUALLY.
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I may, or may not, have put reindeer horns on one of my horses. Once. But I could never put an actual hat on him because he didn't like things touching his ears. Anyway.
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So hello, hello! Ahahaha, adorable gerbils. ♥ I've got a deep love for rodents, based on exactly nothing, but tragically they horrify my mother and so that is a NO GO. I have always wanted a mouse. A black mouse with white feet, to whom I could give a name pulled from early 20th century British literature. I don't know what's wrong with me, but there it is!
Alas, it is not to be, at least not until I get my own apartment (my own apartment which allows adorable rodent-type pets).
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I am actually sort of fond of rats because we had rats as classroom pets when I was in fifth-grade? And they were very, very friendly, that is for sure, but I'm with you: the tails still freak me out a little. Booooo.
He looks more like a chinchilla or chipmunk and I like to smoooooosh his little cheeeeeeeks.
Heeeeee! Also, oh my gosh, chinchillas! I always go straight to chinchillas in pet stores (when they have them) and just stare at them in a way I imagine is probably slightly disconcerting? They're so cute! So fuzzy! I don't even.
Gusgus is going to stay little forever. I've told him he's not allowed to grow up. Currently, though, he refuses to listen to me.
Clearly he needs to be spirited away to Never Neverland so he can become the Gerbil!Lost Boy and fly around besting pirates and making friends with mermaids. LITTLE FOREVER, HOORAY!
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After my last gerbil died I seriously considered getting a chinchilla because I was so devastated when my gerbil died and I love them so much but they have such short lives. But chinchillas live, like, fifteen to twenty years. That's like, if I wanted a pet that long-term, I'd get a dog. Plus they take up so much room and I live in a small house. But one day!
Gus does not like being little. Charlie can jump all sorts of places and Gus tries and just ends up scrabbling and flailing and making miserable little squeaks because he wants to be bigger, why isn't he bigger!?!??! Poooooor Gusgus.
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