Mazes of the Mind

That's basically how my life is these days. I'm always running around doing things, seeing people, going places. I don't entirely mind, but it does make it so I often find myself stressed and spread out, with no time to just relax and breathe. That's part of why I haven't posted in over two weeks. I've been too damned busy.

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He's the so far newest addition to the family. He's a betta splendens, also known as a fighting fish. ( Read more... )

Not humans of course, certainly not. I'm talking about two lovely little girl rats! I picked them up last night from Amanda, the owner of the Rats-R-Us Rattery in Ottawa.

I don't have photos right this moment, because the girls have been hiding out in their little house since I brought them home. You would want to hide in a nice cozy place too if you'd just been taken from all your brothers and sisters, shoved in a strange shoe-box that shakes and rumbles, only to be taken out into a strange new cage with a cat staring at you from outside.

My cat Caramel has lived with me when I've had rats before so I'm not too worried about him bothering them. At the moment, he'll sit and stare at the cage for 5-10 minutes and then wander off. He was more interested in the box I'd brought the rats home in last evening than the rats themselves, actually.

I'm hoping tonight that Blossom and Peep are more sociable and willing to come out. Maybe then I'll be lucky enough to get a few photos of them. They're such darling little things, it's impossible not to love them.

In other news... I am planning a trip to Alberta! This is going to go down in mid-July. I have an old friend from high school who moved out there for work and I'll be spending a week with her. We're planning on going to Motion Notion, this crazy four-day outdoor music festival. It's going to be amazing. Plus, my buddy Jesse is going to go to the festival too and I plan on meeting up with him there, and I'm quite excited about that too. If I'm really lucky, I might even be able to see my college friend Jennifer, who moved there last summer after she got married.

I'm really stoked about this trip because I've barely left Ontario in my entire life, and Alberta seems so far away. I mean, I've been kind of planning this trip for ages, but now that things are becoming really concrete... it's looking more real to me. It's almost a little scary, actually!

Let's just hope that the plane tickets I've been looking at are still available once my credit card arrives. I currently have a credit card but it doesn't have enough money on it for me to be able to buy my tickets. I have another card coming, which should arrive late next week... hopefully in time to get those tickets of mine. Technically I could buy them individually, pay off my card, and buy the return set, but I don't like the thought of that. I'm keeping an eye on seat availability though, and if it gets tight... I'll just have to buy them individually and suck it up.

A close friend of mine with whom I was talking about everything I plan on doing this year noted that, all she could think about when I was telling her these things was how much money I was spending. And she's right, I am spending a lot of money this year.

I'm seeing KISS live in concert. I'm going to Alberta, and Motion Notion. I'm seeing AC/DC live in concert. I'm going to be getting my driver's license upgraded and getting a car. And it looks like I'm going to Florida in November, too. That's thousands of dollars I'm spending. And you know what? I don't care. It's just money. I can always make more. And I damn well know I'm going to enjoy spending it, that's for sure!

People are just way too attached to money these days, getting it and keeping it. Sure, it's nice to have, but what's the point if you don't do anything with it? And while I might be spending all this money, I'll never spend so much that I can't pay my rent, or my bills, or feed myself and my many pets. There's an underlying level of responsibility beneath all this seemingly willy-nilly spending of mine.

People need to realize that we work to live... we don't live to work. The whole point of working is so that you can have money to enjoy yourself with when you're not working! And considering that the last 2 and some years of my life have been very devoid of enjoyment indeed, I am totally making the most of things.

Cheers!