Pink Fox: its Raining...IN MY HOUSE! :/

[pinkfox]

well firstly
"the monster list"
01. Name? Gemma
02. Gender? Female
03. Disneyworld or Disneyland? Never been to either
04. What is your favorite color? Pink
05. What is your favorite kind of gum? i dont chew gum
06. How much do you weigh? currently 228lbs, but i had gastric bypass in september of 2010 and thus far have lost 93lbs with about 70lbs left to go
07. How tall are you? 5ft 8in
08. Can you swim? yes
09. Do you like to swim? yes
10. Living arrangement? Single, currently living with parents
11. What's on your mouse pad? nothing, I have a laptop
12. Favorite board game? monopoly
13. Favorite magazine? Mother Earth News
14. Favorite Actor? Johnny Depp and hugh jackman
15. Favorite Actress? Angelina Jolie
16. Do you have an accent? Im origionally British, most people however think im from australia or south africa as i have a slightly muddled accent
17. Favorite smells? baking bread, fresh ground coffee, warm fresh hay
18. Least favorite smells? skunk
19. Favorite sound? Rain on a metal roof
20. Do you prefer pools or oceans? lakes, i dont do well with saltwater, but i hate chlorine!
21. Do you watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer? i did, the last few seasons i drifted away though as it started to get silly
22. Pencil or pen? pencil, i like having the option to change things easily
23. Who's better - boys or girls? each has their strengths
24. Would you like to own a motorcycle? no, i want a motor trike!
25. Do you sing in the shower? Yes!
26. Who's the best looking Disney character? captain jack sparrow
27. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? Gotta Pee!
28. How many rings before you answer the phone?depends on how close i am to the phone
29. How do you want to die? either in my sleep or a blaze of glory...
30. Have you ever called a 900 number? no
31. Gold or silver? silver
32. Would you ever go bungee-jumping? i have! dont think id do it again though.
33. Do you like dressing up? yes!
34. Would you rather be short or tall? i like "average"
35. Do you enjoy reading? not realy, i have trouble concentrating
36. What book are you reading now? nothing...
,37. Favorite books? chronicles of narnia, the hobbit, lord of the rings and the beatrix potter series
38. What was the last movie you saw? something campy on sci-fi channel
39. Favorite movies? chronicles of narnia, any of the pirates of the carribbean movies, wal-e, most clasic disney movies, madegascar, peter pan, hook...yes im an adult...i swear!
40. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal? i have a stuffed lion at the end of my bed...and my cat typically has dinner before bed...so sure
41. What is your sign? sagitarius
42. What are your personality traits? im a dreamer, tend to be shy, a bit of a loner, but very loyal to my friends, adventurous and stubborn.
43. What's your biggest fear? never realy living
44. Would you ever have cosmetic surgery? yes, ill probably need excess skin removed and a breast lift after i get to my goal weight.
45. Future child's name? i like molly and toby, but i have very low fertility and no plans for children.
46. Favorite foods? serloin steak!
47. Chocolate or vanilla? definitely chocolate
48. Do you like to drive fast? no, i typically never go more than 5 above the speed limit.
49. Storms - cool or scary? cool
50. Do you like to dance? no...im arkward
51. Do you do drugs? NO, never have, never will, with the exception as perscription as perscribed of course lol
52. Do you smoke? no, cig, cigar and clove smoke makes me realy ill!
53. What do you think of people who smoke? as long as they dont do it around me, your lungs, your life.
54. Do you drink? once in a bloo moon
55. Favorite drink? green tea, chocolate milk, regular milk
56. Do you think men and women could ever be just friends without wanting each other? yes, i have lots of good male frineds..and they are cute!
57. Do you eat the stems of broccoli? no, yick...then again i only just reacently developed a taste for broccoli florrets lol
58. If you could have any job you wanted, what would it be? either flip real estate (i love decorating/landscaping) or a zoo keeper, i was a zoo keeper but an accident made it impossible to continue
59. What's your "type"? sexy lumberjacks!
60. Do you bite your nails? yes, im trying to stop though, honest!
61. Any siblings? yes, a brother 2 yrs younger than me, and a sister 7 years younger than me.
62. What movies have you cried in? bambi gets me every time!
63. Do you believe in God? i belive in an energy higher than ourselves...
64. Did you ever cry over a guy/girl? yes
65. Have you ever stolen anything? no...i know id get caught
66. Do you procrastinate? YES
67. Do you believe in fate? kinda...i belive we all have a starting point and an ending point but what we do between there is pretty much our own doing
68. Who's your favorite Sesame Street character? it used to be elmo, but he got realy obnoxious over the past few years...now i think its the count
69. Do you organize your CD's? no, i have a zune
70. What is your favorite kind of music? musicals, some pop, some lighter rock, and some country
71. What are your favorite bands/artists? hmmm, i like oasis, savage garden, the corrs...
72. What was the last CD you got? ummmm
73. MTV or VH1? I dont watch either
74. Who do you admire the most? my dad
75. Internet Boyfriends and Girlfriends? no, i dont do well with distance relationships
76. Are you single? yes
77. Favorite TV show? i like simpsons, bones, family guy, dr who, torchwood, true blood...hmmm...
78. Blondes, Brunettes, or Redheads? well im a redhead...i dont have a preference in terms of partners...though i dont think id date another redhead lol
79. Glasses or contacts? i dont wear either...in others it depends on the face
80. What color are your eyes? blue
81. What is your natural hair color? strawberry/light red
82. But what color is it now? a slightly darker red
83. Have you ever been in love? i thought so...but now i look back and i dont think it was realy love...
84. Any pets? currently MINE: 2 chinese crested dogs, jasper and ruby, 1 sever macaw, jack, 2 linneolated parakeets, cricket and loki, 1 black DSH cat, Tempi, 1 red parrot cichlid, gigantor, 2 red zebra cichlids little red and spot, 1 unidentified blue african cichlid, shilo, a tiger barb, ziggy, and an orange blotch cichlid OB-one.
adding the family pets: 3 chihuahuas, vixie dodger and rosie, 1 grey tabby dsh cat, pusspuss, 1 cocker spaniel, charlie, lots of goldfish and koi, some have names some dont.
and 11 chickens that include: 3 ee's dotty, gretta and olga, 1 dark brahma, phylis fluffy feet, 1 barred rock, ronnie, 1 partridge rock gertrude, 1 columbian rock, millicent, 1 black australorp, sam, 1 buff orphington Ethel, 1 speckled sussex, prudence. all hens, all egg layers all super cute!
85. Good, decent, or poor grades? i got very good grades untill my 4th yr of college after my head injury...i was an A-A+ student
86. Is the glass half empty or half full? being bipolar, it depends on the day lol
87. Do you type with your fingers on the right keys? no, i tend to use 3 fingers.
88. What's under your bed? a smaller bird cage, some boxes of garb, a box for my wii and my christmas tree!
89. What is your favorite number? i like 13
90. Favorite sport to watch? i dont watch sports.
91.Kids names? no kids
92.Significant other's name? no SO
93.Do you like your parents? yes, im lucky to be very close to my parents
94.what kind of car do you own? 2002 chrysler sebring soft top, got her last year and LOVE her...
95.Naked or pajamas? nekkid, but i like to lounge around in my feety pajamas!
96.Messy or neat? i tend to be a little messy!
97.Did you go to college? yes, got my associates in bio, and am almost finnished with my ba in animal sciences and behaviour
98.Do you work? Not realy, i do alot of odd work here and there after not being able to find suitable work since my injury
99.Weirdest job? hmm, weirdest...id have to say probbaly most unique is definatly working at rennaisance faires...most awesome however was working as a zoo keeper
100.How old are you? 26

and while others said dont bother...
i am bisexual, pagan and liberal but dont get involved in polotics

so yeah, thats the long and short of it...

i currently live with my parents in connecticut...and while its a pretty state...its just too expensive for me.
im currently in the process of looking to relocate and right now eastern TN seems to be winning, i hope to buy an older but functional mobile on 5-10 acres asap...but i need another 7 months of rent checks to qualify for the loan...so im currently looking for a rent to buy option to try and move thigns along, i knwo i wont find much because im looking to spend only about $30,000 but hey, theres gotta be something out there right?!
im planning a trip through virginia into knoxville area and then back up through nc in mid spring to get a better idea of exactly where i want to be.

suggestions welcome, i want 4 seasons but a milder winter than connecticut, within an hour to a city and within 2 hours of an airport, low-no restrictions on land use and preferably within 1/2 hour to a lake/water source large enough to sail

my "plan" is to have a little homestead eventually replace the mobile/cottage with a custom built small earth bermed home with a living roof and eventually work my way off grid switching to solar and wind.
im a LONG way from that yet, but its all in the plan.

i also plan on having a small orchard, berry patches and of course vegatable gardens, herbs too. and i want dairy goats, sheep and alpaca for wool, chickens geese ducks and turkey, rabbits and livestock guardian dogs.

oh yes...lots of big plans, i just know they will all come together eventually though...im determined!

umm, what else...
i grew up on a small family farm in the uk, loved it...

so yeah...i think thats it...
ive been told so many times that as a 26yr old "girl' theres no way i can survive int he self sufficient lifestyle...even now theres so much stigma that only men can pound fences and sheer sheep, but i refuse to accept that

i thought this would be a realy good way to doccument my journey over the next year and beyond.
and to show that anyone can become more self sufficient with the help of books, internet and wonderfull supportive people on forums like these!

 

[pinkfox]

oh my goodness, such cutiepies!
nice ear sets for F1 minis too!
good job there not girls, id have to find a way to fly them up LOL!

 

[pinkfox]

If you got a couple of New Zealand Red does and a Harlequin Buck youd have fast growing meaty babies with harliquinized coats (the harlequin gene is dominant to the red gene)
or those same NZ red does with a nice Tri-colored Rex Buck (keep a couple does from that back and breed back to daddy and you shoudl get 50/50 on the rex pelts in 2nd gens)
the NZ would give you the faster grow out rate and slightly larger size than the rex or hali, but the ej gene in a harli (or tri-rex) would give you that patterning.
youd need a broken red to get the tri-color/calico out of the harli buck which you wouldnt need with a tri-rex...but a harli might be easier to ind depending on your area
a trio would be plenty to start you off

 

[pinkfox]

yeah I was worrying about getting the slope right to get the best slip and slide going...
mabe the DPI hardwood wall paneling might work better, they have a smooth high gloss white that could work nicely...
the oher option with that would be to run it sloped from high in back to low in fron and run a piece of gutter along the front and slow that down into buckets at the ends, buckets would be easier to dump than under bed boxes. and the cost of 10ft vinyl gutter plus a bucket would still be less than an under bed box.
with the guttering I could just use a feed scoop for anything that gets stuck and run a hose on it once in a while...

 

[hqueen13]

Thankfully winter always does pass. Hang in there! Don't feel guilty, if you don't take the time to heal, you'll never be better. Do what your body needs.

 

[pinkfox]

well, some possibly good news, she reached therapudic levels last night and they have weaned her off the heprin and onto jut Coumadin today...
and the infection in the leg has responded well to antibiotics...
there is actually talk of her possibly mabe coming home tomorrow.
dads going to try and get a week of working form home to make sure we wont have any suprises this first week (im TERRIFIED of her coming home having a set back and me not being able to catch it in time or something)
so...
fingers crossed.
I think the possibly coming home news had her happy today a she was chipper on Skype this morning.
dads with her this afternoon and hopefully we should have a better idea by the time he gets home.
im personally jut toodling about a bit before doing some cleaning up...(the more I get done today the less hell freek out tomorrow lol)

we did go out this morning and pick up a fantastic facebook find freebie, a STUNNING solid cherry wood office beuro andbook case.
its designed so the bookcase sits ontop of the drawer unit, but...the piece is just as nice free standing.
the drawer unit is going to be in the livingroom for mums angelfish tank, once we get the tank dad is going to make a canopy to hide the plastic light equiptment and hell match it with stain and trim ot the dresser so the whole thing should look like it mean tot be 1 piece.
the book case dad was originaly going to put in his office...but its HUGE (6ft long by about 5ft tall!) so it may end up going in the dining room as buffet/display.

its missing a single knob on the center door...going to take the other off and take it with me next time I go to town and see if we can find something that matches, if not ill get a pair of something close...
its gorgeous, 22" deep, 6ft long, more than enough room for the tank AND space to put some nice decorative bits.
plus...lots of hidey sorage, the 2 bottom drawers are file drawers, and then the upper draws have fun little dividers (for supplies origionally)
theres shelves inside the front too

cant belive this thing was free, solid dovetail joints real wood...this was a vey expensive piece and beyond a few little dings its in great shape.

because I found him this dad has given me the go ahead on simply buying a new tank, its $150 for the tank, with EVERYHING we need (filter, heater ect) so hes putting in 1/3rd, bros putting in 1/3rd and im putting in 1/3rd...least I know a brand new tank is structurally sound

I might ACTUALLY have this pulled together in time for her birthday.
ive got a much better idea of how im doing the sand falls that will be much less involved/likely to go wrong...and I think im going to simplify the plan some...still inkeeping with th same idea but just not quite as large scale

so with that all said and done..im tired, but I need to do some tidying up so...of I go.

 

[pinkfox]

20ft long and 10ft wide
I was using 2 of them for the same amount of cages so wasn't sure id be able to figure out a good layout to fit everything in 1 but this is actually perfect.
doing bunny chores this morning and this evening was a lot easier, walked down the center isle grabed what I needed form each side...and done.
the center isle is about 4 ft wide so perfect width for my wheelbarrow too when it time to clean out, wheel it in one end along the aisle and out the other.

im still undecided on if the angora are staying or leaving...we'll see after this next round of babies.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Come on in Pink! We miss ya!

 

[pinkfox]

I realy should to to bed...
but theres a puppy sleeping in my lap...and shes not oig to fit there for very long ith the rate shes growing!

been a relitivly quiet day today got my apt seen too, and painted some gourds for my commission
she wanted 2 for herself with "multicolored roses"
so I did these 2

and

they kind of mirror eachother with the one with blue and cream roses having pink and peach flowers an the one with the pink and peach roses having blue and cream flowers...
I dint want to put more than 2 colors in the roses themselves as I think it would have looked too crazy.
realy likeing how they turned out!

then the other 2 she anted "lots of colorful flowers"
so I did a 2nd similar to my cray daizy shastas, using pink and white daisies and pureple yellow and cream flowers, (for some reason the picture didn't take)

and then this one

which icall black eyed susan (even though th centeres arnt realy darkenough lol) with the gold and yellow daisy type flowers and purple pansies and pink and white flowers. to kinda make it look like the color scemes were meant to go together.

ive got 2 more basecoated and ready to be painted...
then ill get another batch painted up. hoping to have enough to set up a littlespot at the flea market and littlefall craft fairs over the next 2 months...
ive also gota bunch of little wooden premade birdhouses that ill paint up, theyl be in the $10-$15 range with the gourds in the $15-$25 range, *fingers crossed*

 

[pinkfox]

yay rexy boy has gone home.

1 bunny left to sell!

still no word about the goats though *grr* lol.