Yesterday, we had to make the decision to put our hamster, Snowball to sleep. He was Emelye’s hamster but since she’s only here two days a week most weeks, me and Alex did most of the caring for him (its been me solely for the past two months). I really got attached to him, more than I realised. His kidney’s had failed and he hadn’t even urinated for two days. His stomach was so swollen and he stopped eating. He was just sleeping constantly. Alex took him to the vets on Monday afternoon and they gave him two shots of antibiotic but it did nothing. The vet told him to bring him back today but we didn’t think it fair to leave him another day so Alex took him back yesterday. My bedroom is so quiet without him. I’m used to being woken up several times by him moving around and chewing the cage. I woke up quite a lot last night, panicking that he’d got out of his cage because I couldn’t hear or see him. I know it was the right thing to do but I was more upset than I thought. Everyone is on about getting another one – not now but in the future – and I’m sorry but I just don’t want another. For one I can’t deal with loving a pet for only two years and having it taken away from you. And two, I just don’t want anymore responsibility. I mean, I’ve love a bearded dragon but I don’t want to be tied down even more than I am now. I don’t plan on getting anymore pets full stop after Jak and Daxter have gone. It really is too upsetting when they die.

I’ve been doing most of my blogging over at Love Duckie recently. It was nice to get it back up and running again and I’d pretty much forgotten about here. I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. I have been ill and it wasn’t really anything special anyway. Too much stress leading up to Christmas I think and I’m just glad for it to be over. That sounds so miserable but I can’t help how I feel! Meghan enjoyed herself though and she loved all of her presents and appreciated every single one of them. I had to send her main present back today for a replacement though. We got her Elmo Live and it decided to not work from the moment we took it out of the box. Its not that it doesn’t switch on, its that it doesn’t stand up straight and falls over every time it tries to sit down. Hopefully the replacement will be sent by the end of the week so Meghan can finally play with it properly.

I’ve decided that this year  am doing to be starting the 101 Things in 1001 Days rather than having some resolutions. Its nice to have lots of little goals to work on over the next couple of years rather than one that cannot be broken over a year. One of my main goals for the 101 Things is definitely the weight loss. I’m at a lower weight than I have been in a long time right now and I plan to lose another 10+ pounds to get down to my goal weight. I’m doing it all myself with no need for help from any kind of diet pill. I’m looking forward to getting started with it and I’m planning on really doing it this time so I can be ready for my holiday at the beginning of April. You can view my 101 Things over at Love Duckie from January 1st as I won’t be posting it here. It’ll be too hard to manage it at two blogs at once.

Well I’m off to watch Superman Returns. Its been on for half an hour but its finally getting half decent so I’m going to step away from the computer for a while and watch the rest. Sorry about my pathetic excuse for a blog. I’ll try and fit another one in tomorrow.

Everyone knows I wear glasses (and for those who didn’t know; well I do!). Next month I am due for an eye test and I really want a new pair of eyeglasses. I bought two pairs a year ago but I can’t wear one of them because Meghan has bent them all out of shape and the lenses have loads of scratches on them. The ones I wear all the time are getting the same and they just feel old. Anyone who wears glasses will know how they feel after you’ve had them for a while. You just know its time for a change. I’m actually thinking about going back to contact lenses again to be honest. I really don’t like wearing my glasses all the time. Especially when I’m doing the band photography because my glasses usually end up pushed against my nose and it really does hurt! I feel a little more confident when I wear contact lenses too.

For Christmas this year I have made about five of my gifts. I have only finished knitting one of the scarves I have started and I still have two more to complete, one to start and a hat to start. I use to cross stitch Christmas cards but I don’t really have the time for that anymore. My mum likes to hand make cards and she also likes to do scrapbooking. She made my nana a scrapbooking gift a few years ago and she got no appreciation for it so I think thats put her off a bit. I would much prefer a personal, handmade gift from someone rather than a store bought gift. If its something I can wear or something I can use daily, it would be perfect. I’m not expecting many presents at all this year and I’m not giving out as many presents as I would like but at least the things I am giving out, have been given a lot of thought and I’ve spent time on it and not just gone onto Amazon and clicked “Buy”. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I plan to do that too!

I am officially back. For good. I promise. I messed my website up yet again and finally had the motivation this morning to get it sorted out and it was something pretty simple. Extremely simple actually. I still don’t my other blog back up and running but the amount of opps I have over at PayU2Blog makes me really glad that I have this place back up and running! You’ll see loads of paid posts until I catch up with everything but I promise by weekend, I will be back on track with things.

By the way, WordPress 2.7′s dashboard is going to take a lot of getting used to. Its very nice but everything had moved!

First it was problems with my databases. Then it was problems with my hosting. I’m back again now. I may be doing a move over to my friend’s hosting as she said she will host me, which is lovely. Right now, even $6 a month is too much money. To be honest, I missed blogging a lot to begin with but I think I’m going to find it quite hard to pick up again. I’ve not blogged now for around three weeks and thats a long enough time to get out of the routine of it. I have had no ideas for posts and I haven’t really been that bothered about blogging. I just thought I would since I have five spare minutes and so you know I’m still here. Even though its been off and on for a while!

I’ll go ahead and move my other blog now because that one is just not working at all. I don’t know how I’m going to get my WP files from it but I’ll figure something out.