Off to the Circus

The owner of Pet Circus on Bank street here in Ottawa bought up my last baby crested gecko - other than Toffee, my very first hatchling.  Until the last two eggs hatch out anyway. I took a few photos before I sent the little critter off.



I really adore these little lizards, and it was harder sending this one off to a pet store than it was to give them away to friends and family. I won't get to know how this one grows up or know if whoever purchases it will be a responsible owner. I can't imagine how it feels to be a dog breeder and trying to find puppies a good home! Anyway, hope you enjoyed this gecko interlude. Cheers!

Morning Hatchlings

I was already having an absolutely wonderful Saturday when I got an extra little gift. Two more crested gecko eggs hatched this morning, and out popped more adorable little crestie babies. The last two that hatched out have already found homes - with my father and a cousin - so I wonder if any more of my friends will fall under the crested gecko spell and want to adopt these little guys too. I snapped a few quick photos before settling them into their new home.



Aren't they the cutest little things? I really hope the left one keeps some of its orange colouring, that would be fantastic. I thought it would be difficult getting rid of them - I can't keep them all - but it's actually neat this way because I get to enjoy them while they're itty bitty teency weency before anybody else. Then I see them off before enjoying more itty bitty teency weencies. I've finally seperated my male from the female though, so depending on when they last got busy, she'll be done laying in the next one to eight months. Anyway, I should be getting ready for my women's social. I hope you're all having a really great weekend. Cheers!

I have a hair-do!

Well, a half-assed one. Mostly because I am incapable of using bobby-pins. I know... what kind of long-haired girl doesn't know how to use bobby-pins, right? But my hair was super short (think 1-3 inches) for years and years, and I just kinda never learned how to do my hair. And then I grew it. And I still don't know how. I'm trying to learn though! And this is what I wore on Sunday March 13th, 2011.

Top - Thrifted from the Salvation Army

Skirt - Thrifted from Value Village

I got the idea to do this to my hair a while back when I read about a similar hair-do in one of Heather's posts. I'm afraid I can't remember which it was to link you back to, it was weeks ago at this point. Anyway, I've always hated how I look with a pony tail - my hair does weird stuff at the back of my head - and I can't for the life of me figure out how to braid my hair behind my head... so side braids are doable. And so is this. With hair clips. Because I fail at bobby-pins.

If I put some effort into things I could probably manage it without having elastics at the end of the braids... but I'm lazy. Actually, this hair-do is great for when I skip a shower and my hair looks bleh. You can't tell when it's braided, heh.

And the whole point of this for me is just to get my hair up and off my neck, which even a pony tail can't really do. And that's important with summer and warm weather coming. When you have 3+ feet of hair... you need to be able to put it up somehow in hot weather conditions. I used to clip it, but I can't find clips big enough to handle all my hair anymore haha...

The funny thing is that I've always needed my hair to look clean and sleek and perfect, I can't stand stray hairs. I've avoided doing things to my hair because I thought they looked too messy. And yet this braid-crown do-up is messy as all get out. Especially by the end of the day, I'll have little wisps of hair floating around my head like a blond halo. But I like that somehow. Now I just need to perfect the hair braiding and clipping so I can do it everyday without taking up too much time before work.

And as a random end-of-post extra... Here's one of the photos I took of one of my crested geckos this past weekend. I bought some lilies and decided to have an impromptu lizard photo shoot. Turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.

Cheers!