My beautiful black bunny, Dusty, passed away in his sleep last night at 5 years of age. He was one of my baby bunnies, and he’s now gone to join his adoring mother, Sooty, and twin brother, Tiny. I noticed he was slowly losing weight recently, but not enough to be called critical. After a trip to the vets yesterday, it was discovered his back teeth were overgrown, but the cause not known. He was due in the vets early this morning to have them trimmed in hopes it would help, but he’d already gone during the night, surrounded by his four sisters, and his father, Sweep.

So rest in peace sweetheart.

I do believe I have abandoned the blogging side of the web for a while now. I’ve been too busy with fanlistings and soaking up ‘Bleach’, my newest obsession now being Renji . My love for anime has come back full force. I can’t believe I’ve watched 180 episodes of Bleach since the beginning of June, and rewatched Gravitation and Elfen Lied! Mwha!

This past week has been a nightmare when it comes to computers. I had a new laptop a couple of days back; A Toshiba Satellite A200, a very neat computer. My previous one (another Toshiba) was buggered. All three USB ports had had it. One was so bad, the interior had escaped inside the computer, onto the motherboard. So, with any movement, the whole thing was shorting out. I planned to have it wiped to start afresh anyway, but with such physical problems, decided to just get this fixed as best it could, and get a new one, with working USBs!

So now with a brand spanking laptop, the tedius task of installing my many list of programs. Everything goes fine until Photoshop which refuses to run whatsoever. I came to the possible conclusion that a rogue corrupt file, simply named ‘Sample’ was preventing it from running. Unable to remove it myself, I took it in the shop for them to do it, save having to pay £200+ for another copy of PS. Lo and behold, once the file is no more, Photoshop is up and running.

Next, while joining a few fanlistings today, I manage to get a corrupt file saved on my computer in the shape of a image code. Try as I might it will not delete, coming up with the message ‘being used by another person or program’ continually. After trying numerious options (rebooting in safe mode, command prompt, registry editor…) to get rid of the pest, which was causing Explorer to freeze, I manage to delete it.

Hopefully it will behave from now on. I’m shattered!

I’ve spent an awful lot of time gardening recently. Been trying to give the garden a makeover, as it’s been a bit neglected these past few years. Anyway, added a bit of colour and a variety of plants. Gardening isn’t a hobby a know a lot about, but I’m beginning to learn. The weather has been somewhat more tolerable these past few weeks, so lots of time in the freash air

So, my stupid horse Buddy somehow manages to slice open his bottom eyelid. Discovering your horse with blood trickling from his eye is not pleasant. The vet told us that it would not heal alone, so he would require stitches.
Both big boys are brought into the stables for the first time this year. Buddy immediately discovers a salt lick on the wall and his attention is lost. Jamie on the hand goes balistic, trotting round the stable, nearly rearing at the door, and generally making a nuisance of himself.

The vet arrives, and gives him an injection to sedate him. Before long he’s twitching all over and my Mum has to hold his head up for him. Anyway, with Jamie in the background screaming his head off, the vet cleans and stitches up his eyelid for him.
After a while, both are taken back to the field (much to Jamie’s relief). Buddy was had to be led slowly, still drowsy from the sedative, with the vet holding his tail to help him keep his balance, which was quite humourous really. He didn’t half milk the sympathy vote afterwards though, in typical Buddy-style.

Last Sunday, I recieved an email in the morning, with the offer of a guinea pig which needed a home nearby. The place was an absolute dump, making a third world nation look desirable. A little girl was brought to us from a horrid hutch in a garden used as a skip. It’s so cliche - kid wants pet, kid gets guinea pig, guinea pig loses novelty after few days. She’s then passed on to another family member who in turn grows bored. So we had her to join our tribe She’s lovely, a golden agouti called Belle, though we call her Bluebell. A bit timid, though she has spent the last few months alone in a hutch at the bottom of a garden.

With my combined birthday and Christmas money, I’ve bought myself a new digital camcorder, the Sony DCR-SR35E Hard Disc Drive Handycam, with up to 15 hours recording time. The 40x zoom on it is absolutely amazing. I can now spy on people at great distance!

Also, new layout, as the other was getting on my nerves a bit

In 20 days, I will be 21. A year ago, the thought would have terrified me, but now, I’m looking forward. My birthday present will be a Nintendo DS. My Mum spent ages trying to get hold of one, as they are out of stock everywhere at the moment (bar Amazon, but they have raised the prices because of the situation, so sod them). Three finally came into stock in our local Argos, and within minutes of going up for reservation on the site, they were gone. Luckily, my Mum was at the right place at the right time, and snagged one. And it was a black one too, the colour I wanted. There was one available in Tesco, but it was pink. I am not a pink kinda girl. Anyway, my Mum went to collect it immediatly, ‘just in case’, as they are in such demand at the moment, and within the hour, I held my DS in my hand. But I’m not allowed it until my birthday, so I can’t wait ^_^. Besides, now I just need a game!

I recently have been busy redecorating… the aquarium! I’ve put the finished piece up on Rate My Fish Tank. So far it’s doing remarkably well, and is at this point in time, rated number 6 out of 148 other freshwater tanks! I’m so psyched by that ^_^ Go see it here. Trying to get a decent photo of the tank is exceptionally difficult with a 15 inch Plec refusing to budge from the front. Nemo really is a buggar!

It’s taken me a while to get back into blogging, simply because it meant I would have to mention Jack, and although I have come to terms with the fact of him no longer being here, I was unable to bring myself talk about it.

We had to say goodbye forever to our dearest PomPom a few weeks before Christmas. One thing that must be known about him, is that he had mental problems; He was extemely hyperactive and had no fear or sense. Although a pedigree Cairn Terrier, he didn’t resemble one in the least. With this, and the mental issues, we believe he probably had some faulty chromosome.

As I mentioned, Jack was overly hyperactive. He was also very friendly, to the point he was anyones. But he also had a short temper which came from nowhere. This occasionally showed through as jealousy towards Rascal; A quick snap at him, and then it was forgotten.

On this particular night though, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, he went for Rascal. He was removed, put in the kitchen and we expected he would calm down and forget as usual. He didn’t. The next time he saw Rascal, he completely lost his mind, and aggression and hyperactivity is not a combination you want. Rascal was held up to the ceiling to protect him from being savaged. He would have no doubt been killed. When Jack was finally caught and taken outside to calm down, a tragic and heartwrenching decision had to be made, and my Dad took him that evening.

The whole atmosphere since has been so much quieter without our PomPom hawooing in greeting, and wiggling his bum when he was excited. But, for his own sake, it was for the best.

We love you PomPom. You will always be a part of the family, and never forgotten.

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My family have bought me the Wacom Intuos3 tablet for Christmas - I’m so excited. It arrived on Saturday, and got to try it out to make sure everything was fine with it. It’s awesome. I cannot wait to get back into my digital art.

Pippin is now an absolute thug. He honestly rules the roost. He has developed obsessions with my Mum’s shoes, shredding paper of any sort, paddling in the water bowl, and consequently splashing water everywhere, so you go flying when you walk in the kitchen.
I gave him a (rather useless) bath the other day. Being though he seems to love water (see above), I thought he would love the have a bath. Wrong. He cried and tantrumed until I gave it up as a bad job. After drying him with my hairdryer, making him all poofy, I realised he was no cleaner than when I started. Oh well, I’ll try again before Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas, I put the tree up yesterday. I’ve bought all new baubles for it, deciding to give it a revamp. So now it follows the same colour scheme as my bedroom; Burgundy, black, gold and cream. And if I do say so myself, I love it!

My Dad suprised me yesterday by buying me Assassin’s Creed for the Xbox 360 as an early Christmas present. I’ve been waiting patiently for over six months for it to be released, so I was extremely psyched when I got it early. I’m certainly not dissapointed so far - the graphics are absolutely superb, even more so than Oblivion, and even better than I thought they would be. Thank you Dad!!!