Long Shot Of That Jumping Sign~♫

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Today Minnow went to the vets’ to get her rabies booster. She’d had her leukemia & core vaccinations earlier (where we went to Sears to pick-up an order after), but I prefer her to have things split-up since she has reactions. Anyway, after that we went to the Royal Bank of Canada (Minnow was so pissed that someone had taken the chair by the window she usually sits in at the vets’, by the way. And gave a little dog a dirty look when he urinated on the bottom outside step).

My mom had an appointment at the bank just to confirm something with investments, so it was only going to be about 10 minutes. It was cold today too, and I didn’t want to wait in the car, especially with Minn. So I asked the clerks if I could bring her in while we waited, they said yes, though I think they may have thought I had a small dog instead. I sat down, and Minnow sat on the floor beside me, watching people come & go, and the sidewalk outside. The tellers had to all come investigate, ask her name, and tell her she was pretty. I then took her into Kate’s office during my mom’s appointment. She peeked through the blinds & door vent of the office, and it was so damn cute. Afterwards her & I waited in the car while Mom went to Tim Horton’s. I told her she was so well behaved, and I was so damn proud of her.










I had such a hard time getting the new tag onto Minnow’s harness, as the ring was so small. I registered her at { https://www.soslostpets.com/ } too!

I can edit my user-picture, add pictures, & such later with LJ.NET since it loads the raw text to edit & not the messed-up like the new update page does (it changes things to the alt& etc.). The messing-up stuff is why I backed-up stuff to ladys_rambles so much. It can't do 'do not add to RS feeds & Friends' Pages' like the old update page, and I haven't figured-out backdating, but custom Moods & drop-down user-pictures is lovely.

I'll add ■ where I might upload picture's later.

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On Monday I went with Matts to Sushi Fang in Greenwood. We both got their bento boxes, but I got sashimi, and he got beef teriyaki, then we split them 50/50. They give more tempura if you eat in, but less rice & miso soup than with take-out. It was so, so much food though D: We devoured it all, but were both hella sleepy/walking blobs for the rest ofnthe day. Their bento boxes come with: miso soup, rice, salad (lettuce with a mayonnaise like sauce), tempura (eggplant, yam, shrimp, & broccoli), 3 California rolls, & a main [beef teriyaki, sashimi (6 pieces, but we got 7), hibachi chicken, salmon teriyaki, or sushi (5 pieces)]. All for about $16.00 ($12.95+15% tax). I've only had their bento & a tempura udon (so, so good D: But I could eat tempura or/and noodles/pasta all day anyway). We also split (*ba-dum-tish*) a deep-fried banana. They gave us the honey (tasted like maple syrup though) & sesame kind instead of the chocolate & ice-cream kind, but brought us a piddly amount of ice-cream when we told them the mistake. I was so, so good D: My damn tooth (old filling, got am appointment afternoon today though, after my last one had to be cancelled due to sick Nicolas) kept being cold sensitive though, so I had to eat the cool bits on one side :/ I also got iced tea, which besides from Arizona green is not something I drink very often.



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I also borrowed money from Matts and bought a 100 spindle of blank DVDs since they were on sale for about $30. I planned to get a smaller spindle, but he offered so I got the massive one. Now to burn off things I've been meaning to send to peeps.

Ardene (one of my favourite stores) has closed since I was at the Greenwood Mall last. The Inside Story bookstore moved to a nearby old store, and is now no longer in the mall and is also now just one cheap looking room. They just sell books & cards now (I used to get art supplies there & gift items), have a Wal*Mart variety, & pretty much is not the store they were. There old place felt like a bookstore, had variety, & was helpful (I waited over 10 minutes in the new place for one of the 2 workers to assist me in an otherwise empty store). I think they even got rid of the old manager :[ The mall has also lumped together all the clearance items from various stores into where the La Senza used to be. They only have 25% off and most of it left is broken though. There were 2 large faux stone wall arts there that Douchette & I kept joking about (he even laughed saying he'd buy them to put on either side of one of my room's windows):



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After we hobbled to the transit bus & hung-out back at his place. I played more "The Unfinished Swan" [giving the controller to him when the Nighttime level started really creeping me out (you have to stay in the small bits of light, while navigating through a pitch-black forest...where giant glowy-eyed spider things can attack you...and actually kill Monroe. Very little music too, only the sounds of the spiders rustling about, your running, Monroe's heartbeat & cries when not in the light, and crickets)]. I love how creative that game is! But it has to be played in little bits because it can become tedious. I got up until the page about The King creating love, then it was supper time.

Matt's stepdad cooked stuffed & Shake-n-Bake chicken breasts, with mashed potaties, & vegetables. I was glad & surprised he did (the last few times I've visited, Matt's mom has been going to pick us up supper, but he has said we'd already had ate, but tells us she is bringing something, so we don't cook, and thus miss supper. That's the ind of person he is :/ ). And it was delisous~ We were surprised how hungry we were since it had only been 4-5 hours since the massive Sushi Fang meal. After we both were even sleepier D:

I also played with the character creator in "SoulCaliber V". I made a knight!Lorel (or The Lonely Knight) because there is a character named Hilde that is a female knight-type. So I picked her fighting style, but chose a hella long trident & bastard sword. The nose on the face I picked isn't quite right, and she doesn't have that much top-lip-dip-thing, and the cheeks aren't podgy enough (which is one of my favourite things of her), but the rest is close to my head!image (or at least in the SoulCalibur style!).



I even managed to get the right type of voice--except the accent. Her whole under armour (which is not the Hilde!armour, and took me ages to get all the pieces edited to be in the same colour scheme) is bandages under multi button-fronted trousers & a billowy/poet shirt, with a blue leather vest over top. I am terrible at the game so I didn't actually play her much, but I did beat Ezio (from Assassin's Creed) over the head with the trident quite a lot! The Hilde fighting style is a long range melee weapon for the main attacks, but a sword or other such short ranged weapon for closer attacks. Also kicking/stomping and not very graceful tossing (but pretty fast given the whole covered in armour thing).

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{ http://www.sushifang.ca/ }

Here is a picture of a take-out box I had back in February:



Sushi Fang is a restaurant in New Minas that mostly sells Japanese food. They are semi-expensive [at least to me, but then again I don't often 'eat out' (that way too)], but the food is lovely. I've only eaten there once and the service was really slow so I ended-up getting take-out as we were in a hurry (but Mom & I did eat delicious mango ice-cream while we waited). I got a hibachi chicken bento; which came with hibachi chicken, 4 California rolls, miso soup, and a small bit of tempura (they also gave me a free salad that I ended-up dropping on the ground on the way out). I love tempura, and it is also one of the few ways I'll eat shrimp (in stock, dumplings/rolls, tempura, & sushi is about it). The tempura from Sushi Fang was all nice and fluffy & delicious~ I am really, really excited that they are opening in Greenwood (more excited than for Christmas even, but I'm also dreading Christmas :T ) as it's far closer to here than New Minas is. New Minas is about an 1 1/2 hour drive away (with a much longer bus ride, and Sushi Fang is about a 20 minute walk from the nearest bus stop), and Greenwood is about a 45 minute drive (the bus ride is longer, but the bus stop is right at the Greenwood Mall too). I peeked in as the door was open and a lady told me that they were supposed to open 2 weeks ago but that the propane guy hadn't been in yet, so they are hoping to be open next week. She gave me a menu though :D

I am so going to stuff myself with udon, tempura, miso soup, & mango ice-cream~

Firstly here is Lydia yawning (recorded with my RAZR):



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As I mentioned before, I took my 3 brats out for little walks on Saturday.:

"Yesterday I took my 3 brats out for 10 minute walks. I had hoped for a repeat of last year's adorableness in the autumn leaves, but Minnow is the only one that briefly pounced on anything. I have 3 videos from it/them to upload to YouTube once they convert. I had a hard time getting them to even go out though D: Minnow got harnessed fine, but then ran up stairs and hid. Nicolas was freaked-out that he was going to the vets' again.--So I let him walk where he wanted instead of carrying him to the front lawn where the leaves are. Lydia thought that I wanted to play chase with her, and ran up-and-down the stairs and bounced all over the place not letting me catch her. However once all of them were outside, they were fine! Lydia is probably the vest to walk as she doesn't squirm if I have to pick her up."

( 3 videos of walking cats & me rambling... )

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And yesterday (Monday) I took Minnow for a very small one, and Nicolas for an over an half hour one. I wasn't planning on, but my mom had just washed their sweaters, and I just put them on to see if they had shrunk any. Well Minnow ran right to the door & started meowing, so I had to take her out. But once outside she just sat on the stump of the old crab-apple tree & ate grass. It wasn't very cold out (though it looked like it would rain) so I was content to just sit or stand and let Nick do his own thing until it started getting dark.

The rest of the pictures & video can be found {HERE}

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Here is a picture of a robin:

I love watching them hop all over our lawns, getting into scuffles, and looking at people like 'Whut?'. I know ours (Nova Scotia's) aren't robin-robins, but I think the North American robins have better eyeliner :P

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I've also been doing that "Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward" countdown thing I mentioned. I've just drawn Zero & Ace, but as long as I can keep calm and enjoying it, I should be fine. Today/Tomorrow is Snake, but I really am not looking forward to his intricate jacket. Why do you wear such a ridiculous to draw jacket, Snake?

I plan to make an entry with all 9 (maybe 10) drawings when I finish, but here:

Zero → { http://twitpic.com/b4ake6 }

Ace → { http://twitpic.com/b4ll62 }

My point is to get them done, so I'm just doing that cute style with flat colouring. I use Standard layers so the white cutout background isn't needed, but I think things 'pop' more/I like it. To colour Ace took me 1 hour, 40 minutes.

Well I had just posted that my Sea Monkeys weren't old enough for fighting (& mating) yet...:



I checked on them around 7:00AM on Saturday (August 18TH) and they all seemed fine. And then June told me to look at them around 10:00AM and two of the three large adult males were fighting. She thought that they were stuck together & couldn't get unstuck, or that they were "riding" each other. But I had to explain that they were just fighting (like oxen do). Mine aren't 4 weeks old yet which is when they are mature, and none of my other adults seem to be female, so I think they are just acting-up like teenagers or it's a dominance thing. Anyway the larger male involved was Julius, and I haven't yet named the other 2 [{HERE} is a picture of the 3 of them. Any name suggestions?]. The one he fought with was the smallest of the 3 large males, and he has a shorter tail. They fought from sometime after 7:00AM until sometime between 11:00PM & 1:00AM--Since they were fighting when I checked on them during CTV National News, but had stopped when I checked on them at 1:00AM. They even kept fighting when I aerated the water! D: During times they'd unlock one side of their graspers and slow down, but then go right back to slamming & pushing each other about. They are still swimming about relatively normally now though, so I guess they didn't hurt each other too bad. Though Julius was doing what I think were joyful victory circles that night after. I've also uploaded all the video & pictures I was behind in uploading of my Sea Monkeys.

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Jean Havoc is probably appropriate for talking about physiotherapy. Though I prefer his steady happiness in the plot of the original anime over the manga (I've yet to watch Brotherhood). Then again he gets to be more heroic/have a bigger role in the manga, and in the end it works out anyway. Havoc is my favourite "FullMetal Alchemist"** character, in any case.

But anyway; I now have a date for my MRI! October 3RD, at 5:30PM. If it was any later I'd find it even creepier. See the imaging machines are in a secluded lower level of the hospital it's at (and it will probably be dark then). I know because I went there when I had my concussion. But yeah, got an appointment!

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And I heard back from physiotherapy too. All the time I was out Friday I dreaded having to take the call. I had planned to let it go to voicemail, but decided I had better deal with it then since it might mean having to find a different department at another hospital. Well I received none so besides from Twitter*** I relaxed this weekend. I didn't hear my RAZR go off this morning, but I had a voicemail when I woke-up. I had to wait until my mom stopped in after work because I was so anxious about listening to it :/

I was told that I should call during business hours if I wanted to speak to someone (which is why I waited until closing to call). But she says I should come every 2 weeks then until my MRI, since it is helping, she guesses. I'll have to call during business hours tomorrow :/ But I just hope I won't get half-assed treatment because I'm redundant or something :/

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As I said before I was going to the Annapolis Valley Exhibition. Well Douchette wasn't sure he was going, and after waiting all week to find-out, I finally just went with my mother on Friday. I had saved $50 for it, and ended-up spending it all on 8 cat toys (from CAPS!), a ride on the Sea-Ray, and food. I am a very exciting person! I love the Chinese food (the family used to have a restaurant, but sold it), donairs, caramel & candy apples, cider, poutines, and pretty much I love exhibition food. I took a lot of pictures, and a few videos of the Exhibition {HERE}, but I haven't gone through & posted the pictures yet. I just don't like going alone because it isn't much fun by myself anymore. I wish I had someone to go on rides with though. They used to be my favourite part. I don't think my mom & I were there over 2 hours, and I had done all I really wanted to do. Though after I ate the donair I had brought back the next day (Saturday), my mom asked if I wanted to go again to get another one & her some of the fancy fudge a vender sells up there. So she gave me enough to do so, and I even had enough to play 2 midway games. I won a little purple elephant from the one where you shoot cups with a cork-rifle, and a small stuffed anthropomorphic kite (I will mail the kite to whoever wants me to!) at the one where you pay 25¢ to roll a ball down and try to get it stuck in the dip and not have it roll back.

Also 3 of the cat toys were handmade mice (the other 5 were of the 5 for $2 kind),and like always I let Minnow, Nicolas, & Lydia choose which one each wanted. Well not even 2 hours later I went to throw the one Lydie got for her, and noticed she had ripped the tail off of it, so I had to take it away from her until I can make it a new one/re-sew it (the tail could very well have been eaten :/). Then I was getting a drink of Beep when she brought me the one Nicki had picked and dropped it on my foot. The toy was soaking wet and she had dropped it into a water dish -_____- So I rinsed it out and set it up to dry. The next day it was dry, so I rubbed catnip on it and gave it back to Nick. An hour later Lydie brought it to me and dropped it once again soaking wet :/ She has left it alone the last 2 days though.

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**I actually had a messed-up dream a few weeks ago that went from a cheesy actiony spy type to a scientist going all Shou Tucker on his family. The Mina part & the 'can't you fix her?' cat part is why I haven't rewatched the anime or yet watched Brotherhood. FMA was the 2ND anime I ever watched in fansubs (the first being "DN Angel") and both of those parts really upset me & gave me nightmares.

***No-one seems to understand or really care. [But I need to be calm before I reply at all. (Though my Following has already gone from 707 to 706)]

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Well calmness didn't matter. I was getting ready to go up to outpatients (I've been sick and my fever reached 103°F), and checked my e-mail after I got done calling my mom. I had a 'removed you from their friends list' notification from the person I meant to reply to, removing me from one of the RP journals. Why the Hell if not to make me feel awful. But I panicked and tried replying anyway and again no-one cares about anything I say. I also am now at 704 Followers. One of which had Followed me back, just to Block me right after. I just don't know what to do anymore.