alvin's calendar results for dec 2!again, there are no instant wins but he's got two snowflakes in a row on one card ^^ if he gets 6 snowflakes on one card, it will be 200nkr to win!
oh and since we're on lottery stuff, alex bought us some lottery numbers because there was a huge prize draw. for the first time, we won a little something in the lottery... like.. 3 numbers out of 6 i think it was. XD it covers half our cost we spent on buying the numbers. its still better than nothing!and lastly for today, a pic of the card that hilde bought me :D i'm guessing it opens up to form a picture? nonetheless its so cute because each box is half the size of an average short nail XD
Today i stayed home so i could clean up the house, transfer files and do my nails XD i wanted a nice wintery cold pattern since it has started snowing some days (but too warm for it to stay on the ground and the snow quickly becomes rain 10 mins later). i have to say the result is really much better looking in real life because the painstakingly placed glitter at the side of the nails SHINE. electric blue, not black. quite eye catching design, but my husband has failed to notice it thus far. 
These are christmas scratchcards, some costing 50nkr and a bigger one 100nkr. But chances of winning something is pretty high and its really quite fun to get something to scratch everyday XD So these belong to alvin, i wll blog a pic daily for him to see his results. In the card with the flap, you need three of the same pictures to win $$. In the other card, you have to collect a particular amount of the same picture to win a specific sum of $$, AND you can match three of the same amounts in a box to win that amount. so far there is no wins, but its only day 1!
Couldnt resist taking the next picture since the other cats generally dont seem to get along with the kittens, and max is the most paranoid of them all. Right now we're living with 6 cats, 2 of them rather attention craving and 1 is my baby so she must be given daily attention. as long as i clean off their wet nose rub residues, i dont get a rash.
The highlight of today is a trip to a nearby vet, who lived in a very cool looking house with his veterinary practice being held in the basement. The tiny-pawed black cat, mother of the two fattybums, now named Flysa (meaning splinter) by robert, needed her stitches removed since she had gotten spayed earlier. She was a very slim, pretty and petite cat when i first saw her. Now she's this black thing with a huge belly but small everything else. The drive takes maybe 15 minutes, but to get there was horrible because the person directing us on the phone kept blabbing on and on with so much details that both alex and tommy (his sweet cousin who drove us) were confused and i was starting to get carsick just by being driven up and down a road haha.the person didnt mention driving a road downhill.so we finally got there, walked through like 3 sections of the basement to get to the main room to get the stitches out. Flysa didnt want to get out of the cage, but she's so tiny alex could easily and gently flip her in the cage and ease her out.so that's my hubby calming the cat as the doc outside the picture gets his tools.
And thats him snipping the stitches. if you click on the pic you get to see a bigger size, and can see how tiny Flysa blends in with alex's hoodie, but you can see her yellow green eyes.
it took 3 snips.
no cleaning, no slow surgical procedures, no other care.just 3 snips.i was seriously thinking i could have done it myself =.= At least we didnt have to pay for that...The end!
This is what happens when i leave a ball of yarn lying on the floor.
From there, fattybums managed to wind it round my chair and get it tangled there while freeing himself. XD
On that same day, i tried to make bao again. However, the yeast i used this time was different. previously i used a grainy type of dry yeast. this time i used a cube of yeast that was sort of pasty? it didnt cause my dough to rise nicely at all, and the steamed result was horrible!it was like eating raw dough. yucks. since i had spent an hour mixing, cutting ingredients, frying them, wrapping the bao.... plus i was very successful the last times, i was REALLY disappointed and wanted to throw it all away. then alex suggested baking them. at that point, why the hell not, right?
The result was actually pretty alright. quite edible, somewhat tasty. but i think i still prefer my baos steamed!
They say people who dream more often have higher IQs. I wonder what mine is, when i get frequent weird dreams.one of the weirdest since moving here was of my brother giving me a live brain surgery, cutting out some part of my brain. i remember being scared it was painful but it didnt hurt at all, although i could feel it vaguely being cut away. it was so detailed, i could feel the saline water he used to wash my brain with.but the fun part was that a mass of liquid had formed under my skin after the 'surgery', and i was holding the top of my head together so incision wouldnt split, and BOOM a mass of purple ( in my favourite shade too!) fell on the floor. best part of all that? i was more worried about my mother finding the incision scar rather than the effects of having part of my brain cut out.next weird dream was last night, again involving my brother wanting to buy a female friend a birthday present and was ordering 10 turtles and too much goldfish. here's the fun part, the turtles looked somewhat like this :
except its limbs were more rounded, like some hard jellyfish mound. they had the cute smiley faces too btw. ADORABLE. they were selling at 5 for $3.20 and 10 for idontknowhowmuch. well thats the interesting part of the dream. adorable turtles.then i woke up with a mindfuck. to fall asleep faster, i was imagining being back at sg again in my bed (a highly conditioned place of sleep!). when i woke up, i SWEAR it was like waking up at 6 in sg, the most striking detail being the bathroom light streaming into my face. except there is no light source in the actual room i'm in. so i got mildly homesick for the morning. now i'm at the workplace, finishing up the xmas gifts and wrapping presents for the staff. down to the last one now! weather-wise its been CRAPPY. windy,rainy but not that cold at 5 degrees average. i think my body is actually craving SOME sun. maybe i'll go stand in the open for 5 mins if there's sun today.if.maybe.tata!
This morning i woke up at 3:30am despite going to bed at 9:30pm. so after walking around and being sleepy i decided to go back to bed. i woke up again to melodic 'rrrRrrr!'s , and looked down eventually to see...
they snuck into my bed, must have left the door open or something, or they shoved their way in. they were making happy rrrr noises for i dont know what reason, but eventually they started cleaning each other XD
ok, at least the one with the white tip tail was licking fattybums alot, so much that he was purring hehehe. 
isnt it such an adorable sight to see them care for each other like this??
eventually they broke apart to sleep around..
fattybums!
and of course i cant forget my own baby, who keeps sniffing the kittens and then hissing at them violently. or just hiss when they get near.
except last night when i rubbed her wet fur with a towel as she had been out in the rain, and later used the same towel to rub off a kitten. this time she sniffed him and didnt hiss, was very curious instead haha. so maybe to encourage some peace i should rub them with her scent :P
so yeap, thats her highness looking so drowsy because i'm flashing her when shes trying to sleep XD
Two days ago, hilde and raymond came for a visit. It resulted in a mini spa session for hilde with mary cutting her hair while i painted her nails XD
it was fun, lots of laughter and chatter despite the bad windy weather outside. before getting her mini spa, hilde wanted to go to the graveyard to light a candle. i was like 'is that a good idea now? its so windy and stormy'
'thats ok, i got my hat and my mittens..'
'yeah i was worried about the candle'
*insert lots of laughter* but really, in a stormy weather i was wondering how to keep the candle lit XD...
eventually got round to doing her nails. had to dig out the right shade of purple, find matching glitter color and started work on them. it didnt feel like it took too long to do, and i quite like this design cuz its quite sweet and suits most occasions.
after hilde's nails were done, it was on to mary's. for her i used a goldish base they picked, although i was inclined to a greenish color XD then started painting the one stroke roses for her. wah its much harder painting on a hand because unlike a piece of paper or plastic, i cant rotate the hand anyway i wish! but overall the results look okay. looking forward to doing butterfly nails for her next!
yesterday mary and robert left for their holiday, but due to storms their flight couldnt proceed and they were given a hotel room in molde as compensation. today their flight has managed to take off i think, they havent called yet so i'm abit surprised.
the storm was so bad that the greenhouse on the veranda had its panels blown out and blown across the balcony. very luckily it did not go OVER the balcony and smash to bits. i had trouble sleeping at night too because of the random noises the storm makes.
today the weather is still cloudy and windy, but at least its not storming!
so i did my nails today XD
it was pretty quick and easy to do, just that in between i had to go grocery shopping so while changing my clothes and putting on shoes i managed to ruin the thumbs abit . but its fixed, so yay. looking forward to december, where i shall have xmas and winter designs! :D
Raymond brought me a cable for the iphone today, so hooray i can finally upload pics!! Its quite hard to show you the fattiness of fattybums & bro but i try. They are slightly shorter in length compared to lilo but waaay heavier XD.
Gimme food gimme food
Yum, food!
more food plz?!?!
i r so cute
pwease gimme fud.
so yeah, they're really cute. lilo still is very hostile towards them, but then again so is tobias.
We figured out why one kitten is much fatter than the other- he's smarter. Alex used a torchlight to send them chasing and running after the light, and fattybums stopped a few seconds later and noticed the source, and stopped chasing.
the other went chasing for a good while more XD right now i feel like stepping on fattybums because as i was typing this, he came here wanting to cuddle on my lap. as i rolled my chair over to raymond so he could have him, the little bugger FARTED ON MY LAP. GAH.
anyway.
As per tradition, mary bought everyone xmas scratchcards, although this year she bought a more expensive one because it has higher winning stakes. i hope i win something big this year X)
i have another advent calendar from Hilde,which she bought in amsterdam. ITS SO CUUUUTE. i'm a sucker for miniatures so yeah XD and i can actually open the little flaps up!
lastly, a pic taken right before we entered the storm on the boat. it was quite a strong rainbow, with a much fainter outer ring if you notice.
shall blog about nails next hehehehhe
oh and since we're on lottery stuff, alex bought us some lottery numbers because there was a huge prize draw. for the first time, we won a little something in the lottery... like.. 3 numbers out of 6 i think it was. XD it covers half our cost we spent on buying the numbers. its still better than nothing!
These are christmas scratchcards, some costing 50nkr and a bigger one 100nkr. But chances of winning something is pretty high and its really quite fun to get something to scratch everyday XD So these belong to alvin, i wll blog a pic daily for him to see his results. In the card with the flap, you need three of the same pictures to win $$. In the other card, you have to collect a particular amount of the same picture to win a specific sum of $$, AND you can match three of the same amounts in a box to win that amount. so far there is no wins, but its only day 1!
Couldnt resist taking the next picture since the other cats generally dont seem to get along with the kittens, and max is the most paranoid of them all. Right now we're living with 6 cats, 2 of them rather attention craving and 1 is my baby so she must be given daily attention. as long as i clean off their wet nose rub residues, i dont get a rash.
The highlight of today is a trip to a nearby vet, who lived in a very cool looking house with his veterinary practice being held in the basement. The tiny-pawed black cat, mother of the two fattybums, now named Flysa (meaning splinter) by robert, needed her stitches removed since she had gotten spayed earlier. She was a very slim, pretty and petite cat when i first saw her. Now she's this black thing with a huge belly but small everything else.
And thats him snipping the stitches. if you click on the pic you get to see a bigger size, and can see how tiny Flysa blends in with alex's hoodie, but you can see her yellow green eyes.
it took 3 snips.
From there, fattybums managed to wind it round my chair and get it tangled there while freeing himself. XD
On that same day, i tried to make bao again. However, the yeast i used this time was different. previously i used a grainy type of dry yeast. this time i used a cube of yeast that was sort of pasty? it didnt cause my dough to rise nicely at all, and the steamed result was horrible!
The result was actually pretty alright. quite edible, somewhat tasty. but i think i still prefer my baos steamed!
they snuck into my bed, must have left the door open or something, or they shoved their way in. they were making happy rrrr noises for i dont know what reason, but eventually they started cleaning each other XD
isnt it such an adorable sight to see them care for each other like this??
fattybums!
and of course i cant forget my own baby, who keeps sniffing the kittens and then hissing at them violently. or just hiss when they get near.
so yeap, thats her highness looking so drowsy because i'm flashing her when shes trying to sleep XD
Raymond brought me a cable for the iphone today, so hooray i can finally upload pics!! Its quite hard to show you the fattiness of fattybums & bro but i try. They are slightly shorter in length compared to lilo but waaay heavier XD.
Gimme food gimme food
Yum, food!
pwease gimme fud.
i have another advent calendar from Hilde,which she bought in amsterdam. ITS SO CUUUUTE. i'm a sucker for miniatures so yeah XD and i can actually open the little flaps up! 
shall blog about nails next hehehehhe
