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Roxas doesnt hate you. And if you want him to stop being afraid of you, don't scare him, but take it in small steps. I suggest offering bits of food from your hand. Such as cooked peas and variety of vegetables along with rice, pasta and even bits of meat. You just have to remember to not get frustrated, it may take time. Even 5 minutes out of your day to try this would help. So what you do is just stick your hand in and offer the food. When he comes up, don't say anything for try to pet him. Do this repeatedly for several days on end, when he comes up readily and stays at your hand to eat or nearby, then speak softly so that he doesn;t get scared of your voice. Once desensitized to your voice, then can move to the next step.

Nekoyaki: I read your posts...I actually read everyone's posts.

m...makes me feel at least a little better to know you guys listen. That's really all I need.. except, you know. $9000....

Albeit thats true, but you should still appreciate the small things. neutral



neutral First of all, I didn't target you. You know i'd rip you a new one all directly. You know, if your eighteen you have no reason to stay when they tell you to stay. Your not under they're law. Get new friends. Theres tens of millions of people on the planet,you think you can't find better friends?If you really think they're only in it for sleeping with you, walk away. You don't have to stay in contact with them. You want money? Get a loan. There are a million loan companies that will give you a student loan. At least one will give it to you.People do have it worse then you. People are dieing slowly when all they were doing was trying to do some good for humanity. If thats not fair I don't know what is. LIFE isn't fair.You know, if life isn't worth living, fix it. Don't just sit on your a** and wait for the answer to fall into your lap, you've got to work for sucsess.Don't have your art? Your art is always there. You don't need a muse to get threw a rough period. Make yourself draw. You'll get over it. Crap at working? Find a new job. How many jobs are there in the world? You can't just live off of somone else. It seems like you want somone to complain to and snuggle with. You've got all of them right here.Take each problem by itself and figure out a way to fix it. Theres lots of people here who have solutions.As for money, well hay, guess what? Gotta work for it. neutral

Well if your feeling attention whorish, this is the thread to do it in. neutral

I'd get rid of the rat, and get some rats from a breeder. Feeders are just that, feeders, and good luck finding a nice feeder. They're pricer, but, they're stronger,smarter,nicer, aswell as live longer. They also tend not to get sick, either. I'm sorry for your loss, though.


Well, I got a venus flytrap a week ago, and called it a She. she was sort of weak looking,but I liked her and I was sure she would survive. I opened her case today, and she's disinigrated in every mouth I fed her in. Ugh.

My leopard gecko i'm going to have him put down or give him to a rescue, I really can't afford the bill of trying to save an animal that I honestly don't feel wants to live anymore.

Robin had a hysterectimy(sp?) on wedsday,and got sick after. She had a fever of 105.6 and was pretty delerious. She might die, still, from the infection.

Ken is still in the hospital. Will be til after christmas.

All of my clothes don't fit me, so i've got to go to HT tomarrow and get somthing new so my boobs stop hanging out of my shirt.

Goliath hasn't been out since the storm on friday of last week. I just am so terribly busy! Sigh. I'm trying,though, really! I'm just so busy.

I'm tired but scared to sleep, even in my clothes with this peep around. It worries me.

My knees are acting up,and it makes me feel sick.

I'm behind on art,and its not getting any better.

Beeper are a bad rat two weeks ago,and i'm watching to make sure he dosen't die or anything,but so far so good.

EDIT: OH goody. feel like im coming down with the flu. =_=

Now for the good news... I went and grabed Ashleigh and Brittney and gave them they're Christmas presents- Ashleigh gave us a card and some candy, and we got her a starbucks card. Brittany couldnt get us a present, and we gave her the corn snake, Candy. It was really cool,because we were like "Oh,Brittany! we got the most awesome thing! we just HAD to show you!" and so we did, and she about cried, and hugged mom and me and was like "You got me my snaaaake!" she squeeled. It was good and fun. Ashleigh, i'm looking for a green tree frog,hers got eaten.

We had bubble tea and stayed at this little teeny-bopper place, and introduced bubble tea to Brittany who liked it alot, but was more interested in our snake. The people at the bubble tea place held her and were all freaked out, and we told them we'd bring beeper in later. <3

We're looking to get a baby Possum. <3

I think that.. I got the best compliment from somone in another forum.

I hope to live up to this one day.

I'll help you! Grabs a spare sodering iron. >.<

Sorry your ferret got sold, I know I've had that happen to me a couple times. See a pet for sale and fall in love with it. Then go home and have a long debate with yourself over possibly buying it. After much tussling with the idea decided yes indeed you want to buy it, only to run back to the store to find it gone. T__T


Fog- I would have ordered eggcasses but they can take a month to hatch, and vacation would be over by then. I need to get the mantis old enough to eat crickets by the time I go back to college. It is also winter out and I wouldn't want to release all the extra babies out in the colder tempetures.


Affy- I'm really sorry Axel died, though I guess I'm just surprised you didn't take him to the vet as soon as you noticed he was starting to act ill which seems to be a few days or so before he died. Not saying that they would have been able to save him, but if nothing more, they might have been able to make his last few days more comfortable.

As for Roxas, I would follow either NG's or Rainy's advice. Either take the time and really try to tame him, or see if you can't find him a place in a shelter or someone else who is willing to work with him, and try going for some rats from a good breeder. Like NG said, the cost is going to be a bit more, but if you truely want a pet who is going to be healthy, happy, and well adjusted, it is more than worth the extra price.


Neko- I read everyone's posts, and try to respond as much as possible, but as Diana stated, sometimes I just don't feel I have anything valuable to add. Like now, I think Diana and NG pretty much covered what you need to do to start trying to improve your life.


I have to admit, I feel guilty reading about some people's parents, because mine are just so awsome. There was never a question about them paying for my college education as long as I was going to put in the work to get A's and B's. It's not like we are loaded either, because we live quite modestly, they have just gone ahead and put aside college money for me a little at a time since I was just a baby. I don't mean to sound like I'm bragging or something, but what NG said about remembering to be thankful for the things you have just got me thinking. I really don't know how I would make it without their love and support.

Just the other day, after the mantis fiasco, my dad managed to dig around and by a miricle find a petstore down here that carries mantises sometimes. They don't have any in right now, but the store owner said he could easily order us some and get them in in two to three days. Thus after Christmas we are going to drive over to it and talk to them and see about ordering one. heart

O.O and before I forget, Happy Christmas Eve everyone!

Long story short, my family is going to be spending Christmas Eve over at my grandma's and appears that I wont be joining them. Why you might ask? Because I have work all afternoon. xp I'll be the one opening the store and shall be the actint manager. We probably wont be open much later than 4 but my family plans on leaving around 3. My only chance to join them is if my boss lets us close even earlier than that, which he will only do if we business is so slow there isn't any point to remaining open. On that chance my family will wait for me so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

On a lighter note, last night after work we had a nice little pot-luck dinner and gift exchange at work for all the employees. Food was fairly decent and I walked away with a neat little gift. It is one of those 20Q devices, quite fun to play with.

Haha, Arty, those 20Q things sells so well where I work. It's such a novelty and people get so addicted to them. What kind did you get? The little ball or the oval one? Or was it by chance the music or sports one? Heaven forbid you got a sports one >.<

Well I have some good news and bad news.

Over the past week, my mom and I have been making truffles and now we are entirely finished. I think we have about 150 truffles of assorted kinds and now we're packaging them up and sending them to neighbors and friends. We're also going to the fabric store to get Minkee fabric to make dog beds from for our dogs and others and I will probably get a pattern in order to make dog coats.

Bad news is that Freddy, one of our ancient cats is on his last leg. He's been bad for a long time, but yesterday, I knew the difference right away. He usually comes for dinner and we have cat crates outside for the two outdoors cats to sleep in. But I put the food out and he didn't come out. I lifted the towel that was covering the crate and looked at him. he was all curled up at the back of the crate so I called to him but he wouldn't stir. I finally dragged him out and his whole body was cold to the bone and he was breathing a little wheezy. When he was petted, he didn't bother opening his eyes, but just hung in my arms. Since he isn't really our cat, we don't have the choice to put him down and we already talked to our neighbor that takes care of the vet bills and she said that she wouldn't put him down. So I'll just make sure he's warm and comfortable and eating until he goes.

Edit: I also have been ahving migraines. They start when I wake up and get worse throughout the day. I took excedrin the first day but it just seemed to get magnified when I took it

I am officially pissed off. My bra broke last night. Freaking strap snapped. And my grandma won't let me have the new one until tomorrow during Christmas unwrapping. We unwrap a present tonight, but they won't tell me which box has my new bra in it, so I have to guess and hope I'm right. It's not like I'm walking around without one. I'm wearing a ******** push up bra. It's all lacey and uncomfortable. I only wore it for Halloween.. TWO YEARS AGO! It's too small and it hurts and I'm throwing a ******** fit because of it and my grandma just stares at me. I showed it to her and she's all, "Oh well I'd never wear that, it's so uncomfortable."

WELL NO DUH!