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[oyceter]

I just realized I have not posted many rat updates at all! I think a lot of it is because my primary rat photographer has been out for the past three weeks (aka, fannishly). I take many, many pictures of the rats, but I suck at it, so they are all blurry and out of focus.

So, if anyone was wondering, the rats are indeed still cute. They are also still fat and flat and fuzzy, and they lie on my lap and are great generators of heat, given their small size. I took them to the vet last week, since Fitz-rat is wheezing (again!) and Fool-rat needed his yearly check-up, and the vet was not my normal vet, but she was very nice and has ratties of her own and admired mine a great deal! She also said that hers was going on three years. Mine are two years old, but apparently they are doing quite well for two year old rats.

This makes me happy.

Knitting-wise, I am still trying to figure out a way to do a tubular cast-on for 2x2 rib. My current way only looks good with 1x1 rib. I think I may have found it in a book, but said book is $30, so I haven't gotten it yet. Sigh.

And since I am bored:

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in my comments section. (examples: "5 Sexiest Things About Eliza Dushku" or "Top 5 things to drink"). Then, in a separate post, I'll post the answers to all your Top 5 ideas, according to me. Then you post this offer in your own journal.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Top five tropical fruit, with descriptions.

[maga-dogg.livejournal.com]

The five (I'm assuming this was meant to be the default number) recipes with the most imbalanced (either way) effort/reward ratio.

[livinglaurel.livejournal.com]

Ratties!

Oh, d00d! 5 Sexiest Things About Eliza Dushku! 5 Sexiest Things About Eliza Dushku!

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

5 Most Over-rated movies/books/food/actors. (Your choice.)
5 Most Under-rated movies/books/food/actors. (Your choice.)
5 LJs everyone should read.
5 Funniest books and/or movies.
5 Yummiest foods.
5 Best Shoujo Manga Series.
5 Most Cracktastic Anime Series.
5 Cutest Animal Species.
5 Scariest Insects and Other Arthropods.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

5 Most Embarrassing Moments You're Willing to Share.
5 Accomplishments You Are Most Proud Of.

[hysteriachan.livejournal.com]

Yay rats! *^^*

*bounces* In the interests of allieviating boredom--there's Sorata/Arashi fic in my other journal. I seem to recall that being something you were expressing an interest in when you wrote your wishlist . . .

(The fact that you'll quite likely see the fic in question without this comment makes the comment somewhat redundant, but I'm bouncy about finally having it finished. ^^)

Mmm . . . since a vote has already been cast for "5 Sexiest Things About Eliza Dusku", I'll request your five favorite Buffy/Angel actors (and why, if you feel like it).

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

Five best fictional friendships (any medium).
Five best restaurants.
Top five reasons to have rats. :)

oh, and...

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I meant to include this, because I liked oracne's post about it earlier today:

Five books I wish more of my flist would read and/or discuss

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Five ways to cast on?

[oracne.livejournal.com]

What would happen if you knitted a tubular thing and put it on a rat? Chewing and squirming?

[oyceter]

Heeeee!!! Very irritated rats, I think. Lots and lots and lots of squirming while I put it on the poor guys, and then immediate squirming out of the thing and possibly peeing on it.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I forgot the peeing.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

After reading The Amazing Maurice and his Technicolor Educated Rodents, I will always think of it as "widdling."

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Heh.