A sad day

Today was the funeral of my friend Alexander. He was such a cool guy, and I feel horrible about his wife and daughter, who are also both dear friends. I feel I can't do anything helpful for them. I couldn't attend the funeral due to work, but normally I won't attend funerals anyway. Funerals are for people to say goodbye, and I don't need to be near the body to say goodbye to my friend, so I rarely go.

In other news, I decided to start pairing the ball pythons up for breeding. Het pied to het pied right now, and I'll figure out who next as I go along this week.

I'll be pairing the african fat tail geckos too. The two larger females are big enough to breed, so maybe I'll get some cool stripes from Bruin, and maybe albinos from Amper. We'll have to see if I get eggs or even breeding activity.

Been writing like mad! I got over 47,000 words on the main story. There's over 75 reviews on it too. So far I've posted 14 chapters, with more to go. Lovin' it. I even research various bits, to be sure I'm getting it right.

Myself, I've been headachey and hurty lately. I did a ton of needed cleaning yesterday though. Today I'm waiting on one last client to pick up, then waiting for the rat guy to come with my weekly order. I cleaned all the snake bins so they're all ready to eat when I get home.

Also, I had to plug in the heater in the snake room last night! It got SOOO cold! Well for florida. Probably 60.

That about sums it all up. I can't put up a picture, as I am posting from work. You'll survive.

Now hear this...

So today I discovered something really seriously distressing. You cannot, and I'm not joking here!, CANNOT see yourself blink in real time. Yes!! I know!! Try it a few times if you like!! You can't do it! You can see yourself wink, you can see yourself ALMOST blink, but you can't see yourself blink, even if you clean the mirror really super well.

For some unknown reason(ok ok, it's cause I'm OCD and freaky weird), this newly discovered fact really bugs me. I know I could film myself, but that's watching it happen on video and therefor it loses something in the transfer.

In other news, I went and had lunch with my friends, the wife/daughter of my friend who died on friday. They've all been such wonderful friends, and I want to be there for them, whatever I can do. We ate food. Talked a lot, and then they took off to go yell at the insurance company.

I stopped at a textbook store, which also carrys comics, and they had a wall shelf full of $0.50 comic books. WTF?? Who carrys $0.50 comics? And these were not tattered rip-offs. These were mostly newer issue, perfect shape comics, and they had a lot of the new GI Joe titles. So yes, I have some comics, and I also picked up a paperback book, that is a prequel to the movie GI Joe Rise of Cobra. Dunno how good it'll be, and it's of course set in the movie-verse.. but we'll give it a whirl! I was amazed at how much of the GI Joe stuff I already had. Disappointing a little, but I've got a lot of new stuff I didn't have, and got it sooooo cheap, I don't even feel bad for spending money.

And I have leftovers for dinner! Country fried steak, with mashed taters and gravy. I ate the corn on the cob at the resturant.

On the downside, my crickets are dying off at a alarming rate. I'll have to order more, and order smaller ones this time so they don't all die of old age before I feed them off. The cricket bin REEKS. I can't clean it, because although I have another bin, I don't have packing tape to run around the top to prevent them from climbing out. It's one of those "for want of a nail, the universe imploded" things that are so very common in my life.

I've written even MORE on the fic, and I have over 50 reviews on it. Over 46,000 words long, I've posted only 13 chapters of it so far. I've almost posted one chapter per day, while most authors update their fictions about once a week to once every couple months! My readers are spoiled! If anyone is interested in reading the fic, here's the link:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5380121/1/Monsters_Within

And I included a picture of some of the confederate roses, I really love the blooms. When they open in the morning, they are ivory white. By late evening they are deep pink. Each bloom lasts only a day or so, but the bush has a lot of blooms on it.

And... that's about it!

Two blogs in a single day!

Yee-hah!! Just wanted to continue trying this out. I've gotten TWENTY reviews on my storys, boo-YEAH! I love reviews.

The sun is shining brightly outside, and I have the AC turned up. Its gotten really hot outside, so I went and fed the last of the chicks to the lizards.

I've written out two full scenes in the fic I'm working on. I've also been working on the characters I need for the book. Until I decide on the characters I need for the upcoming section, I can't very well write it! LOL! So instead I'm fiddling about writing fanfiction instead. I truely enjoy writing in.

Here's the link to my story I'm working on, there's 3 under my pen-name if anyone wishes to bother reading.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5380121/1/Monsters_Within

Okay, that's it for today! If I feel like it, I'll dig out some of my funnier postings, and put them up here.