http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:08:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dan has been working on modifying the rat cage for a while now, which basically means cutting PVC coated chicken wire to size and ziptying it to the existing structure. The living room is, surprise, currently covered in little bits of chicken wire and the tails of zipties. ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/237 Bwahaha! Highlander finally arrived today.. seriously took like three weeks to get here. I've got the Kurgan's theme song on my iPod (Gimme the Prize) and every time it came on Dan and I would be taken with a desire to watch the movie. After a trip ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/236 I suck so bad at blogging, seriously.  Honestly, life has been fairly boring recently.  Most of my time has been taken up with reading ratforums and sewing rathammocks and other things involved with rat obsession.  I actually registered a new domain name yesterday for ratblogging!  Don't worry, I still intend to ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/235 The kids went to the doctor on Friday for vaccinations.  They've actually had quite a few shots over the course of this year, but this is the first time that Dan was able to go with us (as we scheduled the appointment for after school, whereas previously Anya was only ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/234 So I'm making a trip to the bank today and driving along on our little crappy dirt roads, talking to Dan on the phone.  At the last house on the road there are some guys out working in the yard.  I take my hand off of the steering wheel to ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/233 The cage is completed~! Doesn't it look fantastic? I still need Dan to modify the bars with hardware cloth (since the boys will be small enough to slip through the bars for a few months), but other than that it is all ready for occupants! Isn't it ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/232 Whee! Dan took me shopping today (Petco) to buy some necessary items for the rat cage. Lets see.. we got a nice big wheel, a litter box, an igloo, a water bottle (glass), a little hangy toy thing, a bunch of jingly balls (cat toys), and a few ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/231 Well, I picked up the cage today! It's a Ferret Nation model 142, although the top portion of it has been removed so it's basically an FN141. Which is perfect.. a 142 would have been WAY too big for my living room and for two rats. Quite ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/230 My darling, adorable, wonderful husband took me to Joann's yesterday to buy like $100 worth of fabric to make hammocks for my sweet rats! People on goosemoose make and sell hammocks (and for very reasonable prices) but I figured it would be fun and cheaper to make my own. ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/229 Obsession strikes again. With the rats not coming home until October 10th (we've set the date now) and no cage until Thursday, I really haven't got anything to do that involves rats aside from reading the forums, and there is only so much forum reading that one can do ... http://www.exquisiteturmoil.net/blog/archives/228