Life with two pet anteaters.

* They're incredibly intelligent, able to open doors, windows, the fridge, respond to their names

* They're freaking expensive (over $4500 each) and require a highly specialized diet, even if you have tons of ants handy. So they're not for everyone.

* They wear clothes.

* They hug:



* They get romantic:



Click the link above for much more.

Warning: impossible, absurd amounts of cuteness and awesomeness.

Their main blog. Apparently they're both going to star in the next Dr. Doolittle movie or some sh*t like that.

Sauce: Dark Roasted Blend.

Also, on a completely unrelated note, it's my birthday today!

Put some stuff up on eBay. :) More will go up when I can get to my parents house and raid my room.

Now to get ready for work.

A couple of weeks ago I had my six-monthly JSA review at the job centre, and it took me about three days to stop facepalming and headdesking every time I thought about it. My usual adviser (disability adviser in my case) wasn't available so I had to see someone I'd never met. He spoke really, really slowly, typed even slower and it seems his brain wasn't in top gear either. Here goes:

Adviser: So tell me your employment history
Me: *explains about previous jobs and how epilepsy prevents me from doing some of them now*
Adviser: Have you ever thought about going back into caring?
Me: I can't. I'm epileptic *points at details of this fact on his computer screen*
Adviser: Oh I see. *pulls up a ton of caring jobs on screen*
Me: I've just said I can't do that job any more. I need something like a general office job
Adviser: Oh. *finds something that involves having to drive*. What about this one?
Me: That's a caring job. It also involves a car and I'm not allowed to drive *points at evidence glaring at him on his screen*
Adviser: Oh. *finds an admin job that interests me*
Me: That looks interesting
Adviser: *pulls the job details off the screen and starts showing me caring roles*
Me: I can't do caring
Adviser: Oh. Can you drive?
Me: *considers something less painful than dealing with this guy, like running face first into a brick wall, while brain begins to melt and leak through ears*
Adviser: Here's an admin job
Me: That looks perfect for me; what are the details please?
Adviser: *takes job off screen* Have you considered going back into caring?

GAH!!!

And so it went on, with nothing achieved and my disability advisers notes about me so messed up that he had to start all over again when I saw him the other day. However, he couldn't stop laughing when I told him the story...

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DARWIN, Australia- Dr Peter Beaumont, 60, was cooking Thai fish cakes for dinner when he found a fully formed gecko inside an egg shell.

He believes the discovery may be a world first and may help solve a food poisoning puzzle.

"I was cracking the eggs into a pan when I noticed one of them was all cloudy. I looked at the shell and saw a tiny gecko."

Dr Beaumont said the lizard had not got into the shell after he had discarded it because the reptile was embedded between the inner-shell and the egg's membrane.

He said the gecko may have crawled into the chicken to feast on an embryo – and got stuck.

The egg then formed around the lizard.

"If you open up a dead chook (Aussie for "chicken"), you sometimes see the partly-formed eggs," he said. "The gecko could have been looking for a feed and got trapped."

Dr Beaumont said eggs sometimes contained salmonella, a potentially fatal food poisoning often carried by geckos and other lizards.

"Maybe this happens all the time," he said. "Maybe geckos regularly crawl inside chickens for a feed. And this one was unlucky enough to get stuck in an egg."

Dr Beaumont bought the egg from a Darwin supermarket.

He took to health experts yesterday.

Sauce

( Inner Space Page 90 )

No more duty, No more pager, no more paperwork, and I can't wait until sunday when i delete them off my facebook friends...oh the liberation!!!

So I plan to ask my vet when I bring the fur kids in next week, but I wanted to see if anyone had any advice. I use Revolution on my four kits, which kills fleas, heartworm, roundworm, and mites; it does not however kill ticks. I live in the country and ticks are plentiful at this time of year. Does anyone know of a tick prevention product (not Hartz obviously) that can be used in addition to Revolution that will not be harmful to them. I appreciate any advice.

I went hiking with my dad, uncle and some of their friends on wednesday. We started at this church (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreifaltigkeitskirche_Kappl):

( A nice path in the forest... )

Yesterday I took some pictures in my hometown ( Wunsiedel )

I donated blood 10 days ago and got the results of my blood type back. Regretfully, I am type AB+. which is only represented by 3% of the population. I suppose this makes me a little out of the ordinary, but also means that my blood will not exactly be high in demand, as A and o are the most required blood types. Still, I can donate plasma and it's kinda nice to be out of the ordinary, even if it means I won't be saving anyone's life.

On the plus side, if I ever need a blood transfusion, I'm pretty much set! (AB+ is compatible with EVERY SINGLE other blood type).

Work was fun today, at 11.30 ("rush hour") someone had a bit of a booboo with a power cable, plunging the entire mall and half the suburb into darkness. Can't do much in the way of sales with no electricity!

Bust commission fer abyss!
( No biscuit )

- Still waiting about a callback from Apple (submitted a reference/police check a week and a half ago)
This is driving me INSANE. You don't go through all that paperwork for no reason, I must have a good chance, but the wait is fraying my nerves. and my dwindling cheque account. I really am grateful for all those folks who have/are commissioning me, it's really helping!
- My Grandfather is still in hospital, no idea what's wrong with him
- Thanks guys for putting up with the vast amounts of spam.

First you set shows, then cancel them, then add another back on, then change your Seattle venue from Showbox to Elco. Wtfguys, really?


I shall go tomorrow and ask to make sure tickets that say "Showbox" are acceptable at the door for Elco.



and hunt down Morning Glory :3

I'm going backpacking at the end of the month, so I need less stuff and more money.

( £2.50 - Books and bras. )
( £5 - Leopard print and Forever 21 tops. )
( £7.50 - Nightmare Before Xmas, crushed velvet, dresses. )
( £10 - Arena top, leather, and realistic wigs. )
( £15 - Spank set, and rubber. )

Prices include shipping to the UK, but not paypal fees.
I'll only consider trades for summery dresses, and sunglasses.
I accept paypal, well concealed cash, and bank transfers.
I have feedback at purgatori84sale and the LJ communities niceboots, punkmart, and tsuk.

"Deviant ~vivadawolf logout | no subscription | 6,036 deviations, 449 messages"

I think I should just give in and get a subscription again. ...lol.

Here are a few things i have drawn to accompany the fanfic i am writing
Elayrah and her sister

Elayrah and Makaru

A Family of Three

So that's why Tomohisa Yamashita a.k.a Yamapi is so popular. I knew he was hot stuff, but I came across THESE pics and now I understand his popularity, hehe. He is smokin hot! *dies from the hottness* For those who is confused he's from JE group News and Golf & Mike, and he also rolls solo. But he is ripped now, dang. I'm so use to seeing him as a chibi form thats why, lol I forgot that he grew up.

to prove how freakin exhausting Art school is... Went to bed at 12 yesterday and woke up at 12 the next day. thats 12 hour of straight sleep(it was so beautiful!) ^^ I feel revived.

Good gravy, it was warm here today. I think that tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter. Seems like a lot of people really don't enjoy the heat at all, but I love it. Lovelovelove it. The less clothing I can wear and still be comfortable, temperature-wise, the better! I suspect that Australia really ruined me for the interminable Oregon gray.

Dave and I spent the day cleaning and reorganizing the apartment. We moved the Massive Ikea Storage Unit of Doom across the living room and cleaned it up a bit. It no longer lists crazily to one side, nor does it wobble when we open the doors. Which now close all the way without having to shift the frame. We vacuumed, swept and mopped the tile, and reoriented couches/chairs/desk to face the wall that is the projector "screen". I made spaghetti for dinner. We took the dog on a nice, long walk around the block in the cooling dusk and I got blisters from my flip-flops.

And now I'm upstairs, working on a Hefeweizen and about to play some online poker. And maybe art a little. And when Jesse and Mira and David all get here, there shall be Casablanca and some form of alcohol.

And I really should make a post about our plans and how they keep changing, but that will have to wait. :)

Have some egg and hatchling:


Also also, my AIM in case anybody wants it: jivei2

Also also also: I have extra icon space and only 15 or so icons. Anybody up for a sketchy icon trade? I can't work on my commissions yet and I want to draw things for people.

I have established, through considerable, methodical scientific experimentation (i.e.: attempting to do laundry, attempting to vacuum, attempting to walk collie) that it is TOO GODDAMNED CHRISTBITTEN FUCKBUGGERING HOT to do anything except make a pitcher of margaritas, fall over, and watch movies, possibly dreadful movies. (No, not Batman Forever. Possibly Top Secret!, because the only thing that can possibly make the underwater-barfight sequence MORE AWESOME is, in fact, a pitcher of margaritas).

Who's with me?