RATATOUILLE. ratatouille! Ratatouille is coming out. FRIDAY! friiiday, and hopefully emily and i are going to see it. god i hope.
and hee. maybe i'll bring a bag or something and sneak alice in with me.
hurr, thatd be a dumb idea.

speaking of rats, and alice, and. well alice is pregnant. hee. im excited.
the daddy's a big fatty fat lard of a rat named zuzu. hes a blue hooded with a mismarked saddle. he's so FAT
you wouldnt even BELIEVE how fat
but anyway. emily and i are excited about alice and the little rat babies well have soon. shes due somewhere around the eighth of july.
she's already SLIGHTLY fatter, and shes groomed around her nipples some (rats do that when theyre mentally prepared to care for a litter) so thats a good sign. i hope the litters not too big though. and that there wont be any complications.
in the mean time, we need to plan possible homes out too. emily and i are keeping two each (she has dibs on two females, and i have dibs on a male and a female.. not to breed, but the girl to keep alice company and the male to bond with myself).. and we have somebody else lined up for at least two females. maybe we can con her into getting more, hee.
so far everybody wants GIRL rats though. which might be bad for our boys. they need a nice home too.
and theres no way im selling any of them to a pet store, theyll just end up rat food that way ;; id feel terrible. heyre alice's offspring, and im going to work with socializing them well early on, so thats wasted effort on both her and my part. but i might be selling the rats for five bucks each, hee, because im mean. but that's CHEAP for a rat. and if theyre all in good health and they have good temperaments, then.. well. you get might point. though i also dont really like the idea of depersonalizing them, because theyre meant to be companions, not objects. somehow it seems like selling them for a price would be treating them like things rather than living, breathing animals. but emily and i WILL need the money, and itll pobably all go towards supporting our own rats anyway!
OUTSIDE of that i need to get a spare cage tooo. so i can seperate the rats once they get to be six weeks old, and then so i can keep my male rat that i keep in it after that. definitely not a good idea to keep him with alice and her daughter.

of course ive no idea how many shell have. but signs of pregnancy early ususally indicate a larger litter, and what with her tummy, its possible. but rats can have anywhere between four and twenty-five ratlets per litter.. though the averate is twelve.
twelve would be a perfect number, hopefully shell have around there.

OKAY enough about that.

umm, drivers training starts the ninth of july.


.. bjfj.

i feel like crap.

and my drawing is going about the same ;;.

i have to start laying on about commissions again.

HEY BUTTHEADS

GO TO MY SCRAPS, THAT'S WHERE MOST OF MY STUFF IS AT.

thank you.


</shameless self-plugging>

1- I'll answer with something random about you.

2- I'll dare you to try something.

3- I'll say a color I associate with you.

4- I'll tell you something I like about you.

5- I'll tell you something I always remember

about you / a first memory about you.

6- I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.

7- I'll ask you something I always wanted to ask you.

8- If I do this for you, you must put this in your journal



and yes, outside of that, I'm gone too much. Hurrr whatever. Like it matters.

OH AND PS I've drawn a lot..
who wants to see

School ends next week, and so marks the coming onset of summer. The break will be much-needed, I think. Especially after exams being on the last week of school.

I'm thinking I might start up offering comissions once summer starts. I'm sculpting out some plans for it still, but regardless, I need the money and I'm too young to get an actual job (I can't drive yet, anyway). Of course, I will be doing driver's training, and I'll also be more active socially this year. But I need the experience, and I think it'll help me grow as well as help me feel a little more confident once I get to the point where I CAN be legally employed.
I've decided that, if I do comissions, I'll only take one at a time.. I'm a lot more motivated to work if I don't have a huge list weighing down on me, so it works better.
I'll probably leave the price up for the commissioner, if they'd be comfortable doing so, so that they don't end up feeling ripped off.. I'll probably arrange it so that they pay half before and half after if it'd be easy enough so they can decide whether or not they feel satisfied with the finished product before they pay full. I'll also show them the work a it progresses, too, of course, and maybe if I feel motivated enough or if I feel the need I'll draw several sketches and see which they like best. And, of course, I'd send the finished product to them.
I've also got a deal in mind: I'm thinking I'll offer it that the comissioner pays full-price for their first comission, and any additional order alongside it will be half-off their original price. This only goes for each order, though.. say a client orders one thing for full-price and then orders another comission a month later - they'll have to pay full-price for that one, too. The way I'm thinking I'll arrange it is that they can order one comission and an additional one with it at the same time.

How's all this sounding to you guys? I know people won't be very interested, but those who are, I'd be willing to serve once summer starts up. The first person to talk to me about it will be the first in line.

Otherwise.. eh, my art will be stagnated this week what with exams and all, but I've been drawing, I guess. I'm also getting my hair cut once school ends! AND I'll be ungrounded. I struck a deal with my dad that said if I wait to get it cut until school ends, my groundation time would be cut in half. He only made the deal because he wants to hold off his daughter looking like a dyke for as long as he can, especially with me being in school where people would see me all the time, but hey.. who can argue.

I'm contemplating making another account alongside this one for my scraps.. since my sketches are doodles are doubly over half of my gallery here on DA and the works I'm usually most satisfied with, it seems kind of like an appealing idea. Especially since it's usually scraps I want critique and things on.. but everybody knows the scraps section of people's galleries gets no attention. Of course, I'd still post my more polished works up on this account.
What do you guys think I should do?


I guess I'm going to go find a way to entertain myself now.

I WANT MY HAIR CUT REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD!
And I wanna see Mr. Brooks in theaters.

Gah. Too bad I got myself in trouble.

klidsjldjlfds too much to do. TWO choir concerts, a LOT of homework, Emily's older sister's graduation thingy (on the same day as my fuirst choir oncert so I have to see what's going on with that AND talk to the teacher), autobiography I need to finish, exams coming up, oh crap I'm stressed.

And it's too hot.


Okay that's all. Bye now.