Look at the flowers...

I cannot stop thinking about last nights episode of The Walking Dead. Their delivery was so much better than the comics -- please don't hate me for saying that. I knew Mika and Lizzie's story was coming to an end, I just didn't think they would show as much as they did! Creators, I applaud you for presenting us with the best episode to date!

I keep forgetting it's St. Patties day. It just doesn't seem like it.

To celebrate our Irish heritage, we're planing a nice meal of potatoes -- not sure what else yet, but for sure potatoes! We have have a nice Irish beer to have with our meal. And... if things go well, we're going to watch The Boondock Saints. I know, such an exciting day! Most people our age would probably be out at the bar, but I prefer celebrating from the comforts of home.

And more than likely, we wont watch The Boondock Saints, just saying.

Oh yeah, I completely forgot! I didn't go to work yesterday! I had full intentions of going, I got up, dressed myself, and even got 1/4 of the way there. Apparently we were supposed to get some nasty weather yesterday, which we did. Everyone was saying that it wouldn't stick and that we should be fine. Boy were they wrong!

The highway from our house to Annapolis was fine, but the roads in town were awful! There was slush build up all over. Did that stop me? Of course not! After I got outside of town a little, I went around a curve and noticed that the car was starting to slid. Then, like the moron that I I'm, I panicked and started applying too much break. The only reason I did that was because I was on the opposite side of the road that lead to a drop off. Saying I was scared is an understatement.

And, of course, there was a cop right around the corner. I panicked, yet again, and put on my hazards. He flipped his lights on and pulled up next to me. I proceeded to tell him that the roads were horribly slick, that's when he told me that tip top was a sheet of ice. If you live anywhere near Ironton, then you know that tip top is 'supposedly' the highest peak in Missouri, so it freezes like crazy. Not to mention it's a huge hill/curve combo. Basically a drivers worst nightmare in the winter.

That's when I swallowed my pride and called out. Luckily, my boss was more than cool with it.

That's pretty much all that took place yesterday that I can remember. Other than desperately harassing the gliders for joey pictures, I was pretty much a bum yesterday.

It's been a nice day today. It's quite, the weather is beautiful, and things are just nice for once. We've had the windows open all evening, which made everything feel and smell awesome. And instead of sewing today, like I should have, I opted for some Splinter Cell time. Still, it was nice.

Aside from that, we managed to get all the animals fed (dog and cats), fed the chickens some treats, and even did every scrap of laundry in the house! I'd say today was a win.

Now, time for lots, and lot of -- mainly sugar glider joey -- pictures. Be sure to check them all out below. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Photos from yesterday:

So close to detaching, I can taste it!

Charli's little ones have a while longer.

But man I can't wait to hold them!

Just look at the hood on that little girl!

Look at this fluffy bunch!

Milla was feeling very sparky.

Going somewhere, Una?

Photos from today:

Charli somehow managed to squeeze those chubs back inside.

I love that tail!!

Daddy Tyler.

Mama Charli.

Look at those giants! They should be detached already!

Looks like this little boy is a standard, not a WF. Cas is a big phony with his alleged lack of ear bars.

And lastly, Mickey's beer! Nom, nom, nom!

Maybe...

I was feeling unsure about the computers I ordered yesterday, so I decided to contact the seller and ask if the entire computer was in Spanish, like cords and what have you. I breathed a big sigh of relief when he replied and said the entire thing was in English, just a couple keys were in Spanish. It made me feel laods better.

Speaking of, both computers shipped today via Fedex! If the tracking is correct, we should have them both by Wed. For some reason, they didn't ship them together, so one is scheduled to arrive Tues. and the other is scheduled to arrive Wed. Not sure why, considering they were both shipped from the same place at the same time. And even their tracking information is less than 10 minutes behind the other. Lets just hope we do get them both at the same time. Getting one on Tuesday and then one of Wednesday would just be torturous.

In Paypal issue news, I think we have everything settled now. The chick apologized and just asked if we would replace someone. Since we were feeling generous and didn't want to start anything, we agreed to it. But, since we're replacing some things, she's going to send the things back to use. We can't use them for our gliders, but we can use them for our rats.

In more joeys news, it looks like Violet's little platinum boy ended up being a true platinum mosaic! Before you get too excited, no, they're not detached yet. I was just able to get a good look at him and see that he has white ears and a broken stripe! I'm so excited, I can't wait to hold them.

Now, since things are starting to look up, lets hope next week is 10x better! Yes, this past week could have been worse, but it was very stressful and made me what to stab someone and rip out all of my hair. This week has also flew by, I hope next week is a lot slower.

After Sunday, I have basically the rest of the week off. Someone needed to use the car, so I took off work so said person could borrow it for a few days. I know I'm going to miss out, but my pain is their gain. I'm just going to take all my days off and make them productive sewing days! Or so I hope, but you know how that goes.

Well, I suppose that's all for now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's some more joey cuteness:

Milla being a bum:

The cat Army and their feast:

Bart

From left to right: Toby, Lily (in the back, FYI), and Lucy.

Things are looking up... in a way.

Luckily, things may be on the up and up with the Paypal dispute. Apparently the chick that started the whole thing with Paypal only did it because she got pissed that someone recommended us for a cage set. Childish much? Anyways, she sent a big message explaining everything and basically said she was sorry. Well, she did, actually. So hopefully we can put this mess behind us soon!

In computer news, we finally got them both ordered! Awesome, right? Well, as much as I hate to say it, there's a catch. After I got them both ordered and calmed myself down from all the excitement, I decided to go back and check the battery life of the computers. Luckily, there's like a 6.5 hour battery life, which is awesome.

Now... wanna hear the catch? The freaking keyboards are in SPANISH!! Are you freaking kidding me!? I mean, seriously? How did I not see that when it's so clearly listed right at the TOP of the specs?? I was so pissed off and upset, I literally wanted to scream and maybe even cry a little. Who am I kidding, I think I did cry a little.

LaVaughn reassured me that the few keys that are in Spanish aren't as bad as they seem to be. The alphabet is all in English, just keys like Delete, Caps Lock, and so on are in Spanish. I can deal with that.

There is a light at the end of this dark and dreary tunnel, we have joeys that will be OOP in a matter of days!! For the first time, I actually managed to get a decent look at what Charli has been hiding. Wanna know what it is?? A ringtail girl!! The other joey is a ringtail as well, I'm just not sure what the sex is yet. I cannot wait to see what these gorgeous little joeys will look like!!

Then, on top of those joeys, we have Violet's gorgeous little boys that will be OOP even sooner than Charli's. I just wish someone would detach some soon!

So, my conclusion for the day... things can always get worse, so enjoy the little ups that you actually do get. I'm going to stop sulking about the little things, like Spanish keyboards and vengeful glider people, time to focus and appreciate what you have now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's a little preview of Charli's joey:

Of course, a few of Charli:

A little hint of Violet's joeys:

And lastly, some of the yard fowl:

Miss Camille

Mr. Friendly

Harley

Ash

Lucy, the cat.

Wow, can things please stop being awful now!?

Yes, the horrible mess from last Thursday is over -- which was a nightmare, but that doesn't mean this week is any better...

Things were all good Monday. We had everything in order and everything was taken care of. We were feeling spontaneous Monday night and decided to go to Poplar Bluff, mainly because they had our Toshiba laptops in stock that we had been eyeballing. Well, we get up there, mess around with the computer settings and see that the damn things are only 2.19 GHz, which means the 2.39 is a falsely advertised speed of what they are when on turbo. Annoying!

So we ditch those, look around at a few others -- all the while whining about coming all the way to PB for no reason. Then, I spot a Toshiba computer that has a fairly impressive AMD processor, which just so happened to be a quad core. Unfortunately, it was only 1.3 GHz, which is insanely low, but had potential because it was a quad and had a fairly decent processor.

So what did we do? We bought them and left!

We automatically started regretting them when we were stopped less than 5 miles down the road getting gas. We tried to suck it up and tell ourselves that they would be okay and that maybe, just maybe we would luck out and get approved by some online tech gurus.

To make a long story short, the quad core wasn't as good as we thought it would be, so we decided to just take them back to Walmart (today) and get the money put on a pre-paid card, which we did.

Luckily, we found a couple really awesome Asus laptops with a 2.6 GHz processing speed, backed by an AMD processor with 4GB of memory and a 750 GB HDD. Woop woop!! And we're even going to be saving $100!

Things seemed to be looking up on the drive home. We stopped and ate and we're merrily on our way. Well, when we got home, I signed into our Paypal account, only to see that we were negative $60! I immediately went into panic mode and started flipping out. After a few minutes of looking around, I saw that some chick who bought cage sets from us well over a month ago just now decided she wasn't happy with them and started a dispute! Wtf lady!? Apparently she's requesting her $145 back.

So now we're having to deal with all of that shit.

Obviously, when you're in the middle of a dispute, you're not allowed to add a debit card, let alone two. We had to buy two, because the price of both of our laptops exceeded the $500 mark, so we had to buy two cards because the cash load limit is $500.

Anyways, I had to create a new Paypal account just to add the cards so that we could buy our computers, which are coming from Ebay, by the way.

Everything was semi-okay at the time, just until I decided to check out. Apparently, Paypal has to take 1-3 business days to verify your fucking cards. AWESOME!

So at the end of the day, we're negative $60, have two cards with way too much money on them to be just sitting around, and we STILL don't have our damn computers ordered. Seriously, can things please just take a break for a little while?

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here are some pictures from our drive to Fredericktown:

Yes, that is a deer leg. Sickness.

This was real fun to drive around. Had to drive down the ditch and everything!

Blacklist...

I am so exhausted from the weekend. I had two full, actually they were overly full, work days. I've stood on my feet for a total of 15 hours straight. That's no joke. That's also not including my breaks, that's actual work hours. That's one of the hardest things about working in the fast food industry, you never get to sit! It can start to take it's toll as little as two days in a row.

But, I have today off, so we're all good!

Splinter Cell: Blacklist arrived in the mail Saturday. I knew it was supposed to get here then, so it was no shock when LaVaughn told me about it on the phone. I've wanted to desperately to play it since it came out last year, so you can imagine my excitement was overflowing.

I got off 30 minutes early Saturday, so I made it home a little after 10, actually it ended up being a little after 11 because of the time change, which I despise more than anything. So by the time I ate and got settled in, it was way too late to get into a game. I mean, I could have played, but I decided to wait until the next day.

I just played for a little while last night, though. I was too preoccupied with thoughts of The Walking Dead. Maybe Wednesday would be a good day to play, I have that day off. :)

In joey news, it looks like one of Violets little boys is a plat!! We were thinking leu at first, because he had absolutely NO color on him. Well, looks like he's starting to color up nicely, mainly on his tail region. I cannot wait for these little ones to come OOP, I'm so excited!!

I suppose that's all for now. I don't have too much to share, so I'm going to stop there. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's the little plat joey:

And a couple random pictures of Zoe: