I have a new favorite thing.  I make Video Status Updates while holding one of my wee guinea pigs.  If you're friends with me you've probably seen them.  I also post them to YouTube and my Google + account. I just have so much fun with my video recorder.  We got it on sale as an open box buy and to upload videoa I just pop out the SD card and plug it into my computer.  Easy as 1, 2, 3.

Bernadette is sick.  Her Upper Respiratory Infection is back and we can't afford to take her to the vet.  I've asked the vet if we can just buy the antibiotics without a visit so we'll see if she goes for that.

Our snakes are doing well.  Jason insulated their enclosures with insulation boards, so they're nice and toasty warm.  Peanut is still not really eating which is worrisome.  Hopefully he eats tonight.

It's almost New Year's Eve.  I can't wait for next year.  This year hasn't been bad per say.  I'm just looking forward to a new year.  Finding jobs, turning 33, having a clean apartment, moving.  It's all coming up, and I am excited.  The Mayan Apocalypse came and went and we're still here.  It's time for a renewal.  And boy could we use it.  We have to start taking better care of our planet.  It doesn't have to be too late.

Here's a sample of one of my status update videos:

Season's Greetings

Dear Blog,

That's right, I'm starting with "Dear Blog" because frankly that's what I feel like doing.  It's the holiday season and I'm bored as hell.  I'm sitting here listening to my Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit soundtracks playlist, and thinking.  I'm thinking about how happy I am for my cousins, Bruce and Emily, who are both engaged to be married to wonderful people.  I'm thinking about how it's not fair that their mother won't be there to attend their weddings and how I still, even after something like six months, can't believe she's really gone.  I miss you Diane.

I'm thinking about finding work both for me and for my husband.  It seems like no one wants to hire someone who has been out of work for five years.  But I'm applying none the less.  Jason may have a job.  He was sent to do a drug test for the position, which he did, and now we're waiting for an offer.  I'm convinced there's a job out there just waiting for me to fill it, I just have to find it.

I held 3 out of 4 of my guinea pigs tonight.  They were cute and playful as always, chattering away in a language I don't understand.  One of my friends told me the other night that guniea pigs are a delicacy in Peru.  Ew.  I would never eat a guinea pig.  I love them too much.  I suppose that's why my grandmother won't eat birds.  She loves them too much.  It's the principle of the thing.

It's the holiday season and I just can't seem to get into the spirit.  I have no plans for New Year's Eve, so Jason and I will just stay at home and watch TV, probably in separate rooms just like last year.  He'll watch the Three Stooges Marathon and I'll watch the Times Square coverage.  We lead boring lives.  Though I should be cleaning.  I have exactly two weeks to get the apartment clean for my birthday.  It's my present to myself.  Not to mention I'll be hosting my closest friends to celebrate.  This year I'll be 33.  I feel old now. I know that's silly, 33 isn't that old.  Yet there's still so much I want to do and I feel like there's less time to do it.

I saw the Hobbit last night, courtesy of my brother and sister-in-law. It was really good and I'm looking forward to the next two parts.  I have a new celebrity crush on Richard Armitage, the man who plays Thorin Oakenshield.  Something about his dreamy blue eyes...sigh.  Jason's not jealous.  He knows my celebrity crushes are silly.

I suppose that's all for now.  Happy New Year everyone!