Deck the halls with fuzzy gerbils, fa la la la la, la la la la.

[chibirhm]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I AM A HO-HO-HORRIBLE MOTHER.

I should, for legal reasons, state that no gerbils were forced to endure actual Santa hats, I just Photoshopped them on because I like to pretend I'm funny. Also, because I'm home alone and mildly bored - my family went to a friends' house for Christmas Eve, but I had just gotten up from a nap and needed to shower and didn't feel like rushing and didn't feel like being out two nights in a row with lots of loud people and too much food, so I stayed home. Which I'm sure in the long run I'll like the outcome of more, but in the short-term I am super bored.

Anways, good Yuletide wishes upon all ye who celebrate such things, and if you either a) don't or b) are hiding from people and skulking around the internet, so am I! We should chat.

Yeah, that's really all I've got to say.

Comments

[eldritchowl.livejournal.com]

omg gerbilssss

i have a thing for rodent-pets. to my mother's dismay. i have a history of hamsters.

i celebrate christmas and i'm bored to bits/hiding from people. so. this is me chatting. how are you?

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

THEY ARE STUPIDLY ADORABLE. They have gotten lots of love and cuddles tonight, and now they are nomming oats and destroying a waffle box. NOM NOM NOM, THEIR PUDDIN FACES.

My mom is mostly fascinated by my gerbils and my brother likes them, but my dad and sister give them the srs side-eye.

Iiiiii am still bored. But I just made mac & cheese, though I ate cake before dinner because I was hungry and waiting for the water to boil was taking forever, and now I'm not hungry. I'LL GET THERE EVENTUALLY.

[eldritchowl.livejournal.com]

ahhh adorableness.

(ahh creeping on your top 5 comfort food post-- was it annie's? because that is the best. obviously.)

i-iiii am being hermity because out of nowhere my old (like, from the depths of childhood) friend-by-parental-association came over with her parents and we were pushed off together to ~chat and it's cripplingly awkward and i don't think we ever actually had anything in common and i'm pretty sure she's a homophobe and i am pretending to be in the bathroom right now jfda;lslafjlasfafsda

someday i will be a very hermity recluse. or catlady. except i am allergic to cats? D:

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

OH I KNOW THAT FEELING SO WELL. Awkward story time! I was once dragged along post some-Jewish-holiday-I-forget to the same situation, only this time the girl in question had her boyfriend over and they'd clearly been up to ~something~ in her bedroom, and they were the crowd that hung out by my locker snickering and were heavy into drugs (like, not just pot - everyone in my high school did pot, they were into the hardcore stuff) and wore all black and blocked my way to my locker by making out and I would be like AHEM and they'd keep sticking their tongues down each other's throats. And so we sat there making super awkward conversation and I was like "um, sorry to stare, but I think you have some dirt on your neck" (because that's what it looked like! Don't make fun of me!) And she was all "THANKS FOR NOTICING MY HICKEY, I'LL GO PUT CONCEALER ON SO MY PARENTS DON'T NOTICE" and I was like "ummmmm" while she ran off to the bathroom and her boyfriend sat up (oh, yeah, they'd been lying down totally all over each other the entire time. EXTRA AWKWARD) and was like "YOU'RE COOL, YOU KNOW" and I was like "...thanks?"

AWKWARD FUN TIMES, THANKS PARENTS.

BE A DOG LADY. THAT IS MY PLAN!

[eldritchowl.livejournal.com]

that story. oh man. (ahah oh hickeys. in like ninth grade or something i was babysitting this awful kid that bit and somehow he latched onto my neck at some point and i came to school with this huge thing on my neck because it never occurred to me what it would look like. iiiiiit occurred to everybody else. my trauma, let me show you it.)


ohhhh god. i don't understand how throwing kids/teenagers together and assuming they'll get along because they are the same age is ever a logical assumption.

[blameitonmerlin.livejournal.com]

OMG how cute are Gus and Charlie in their hats??

I may, or may not, have put reindeer horns on one of my horses. Once. But I could never put an actual hat on him because he didn't like things touching his ears. Anyway.

*resumes skulking*

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

OMG HAVE I NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT MY DEEPEST DEAREST DESIRE TO GET MY GERBILS INTO TOP HATS AND MONOCLES??!?!??! I FEEL THE ADORABLE LEVELS WOULD BE EPIC.

[amazingly-me.livejournal.com]

I celebrate Christmas and am not actually hiding from anyone, but of course I am internet-ing it up anyway! WHAT WOULD I BE WITHOUT THE INTERNET.

So hello, hello! Ahahaha, adorable gerbils. ♥ I've got a deep love for rodents, based on exactly nothing, but tragically they horrify my mother and so that is a NO GO. I have always wanted a mouse. A black mouse with white feet, to whom I could give a name pulled from early 20th century British literature. I don't know what's wrong with me, but there it is!

Alas, it is not to be, at least not until I get my own apartment (my own apartment which allows adorable rodent-type pets).

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

HOW I LIVED BEFORE THE INTERNET I DO NOT KNOW.

They are pretty adorable. I've been in love with rodents for a long, long time and met and played with every variety, but gerbils have the biggest hold on my heart. They're much smarter and friendlier than mice, plus they don't pee and poop as much because they're from the desert. But mice are so cuuuuuuuuuuuuute. So cuuuuuuuuuute. Hamsters are the cutest, but the can also be really, really bitey. Rats are marvelous and have amazing personalities, but I just can't get past those tails. Plus, I think with their long, narrow faces, they just aren't as cute. That's a big reason I fell so in love with Charlie, actually. Compared to most gerbils he has a very short, flat face. He looks more like a chinchilla or chipmunk and I like to smoooooosh his little cheeeeeeeks. He doesn't appreciate that so much. But they're such fat little cheeks! The funny thing is, he's not fat, he's just built wide - you can feel his wee bones, he's just a big boy. Gusgus is going to stay little forever. I've told him he's not allowed to grow up. Currently, though, he refuses to listen to me. V. INCONSIDERATE OF HIM.

[amazingly-me.livejournal.com]

This comment! I love it! This is like a dissertation on the adorability (adorability is not a word, ahhhhh, how sad :[) of rodents, HOW GREAT IS THAT? REALLY GREAT.

I am actually sort of fond of rats because we had rats as classroom pets when I was in fifth-grade? And they were very, very friendly, that is for sure, but I'm with you: the tails still freak me out a little. Booooo.

He looks more like a chinchilla or chipmunk and I like to smoooooosh his little cheeeeeeeks.

Heeeeee! Also, oh my gosh, chinchillas! I always go straight to chinchillas in pet stores (when they have them) and just stare at them in a way I imagine is probably slightly disconcerting? They're so cute! So fuzzy! I don't even.

Gusgus is going to stay little forever. I've told him he's not allowed to grow up. Currently, though, he refuses to listen to me.

Clearly he needs to be spirited away to Never Neverland so he can become the Gerbil!Lost Boy and fly around besting pirates and making friends with mermaids. LITTLE FOREVER, HOORAY!

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

Rats are so smart, too! I went to a concert once and people had their rat there on a leash and I said hello to him and he just crawled into my lap and started chuttering and purring. SO CUTE. And they were all "we take him out because he loves people, but everyone else is afraid of him! You just made his day!" and I was like I WILL BE STEALING HIM NOW THANK YOU.

After my last gerbil died I seriously considered getting a chinchilla because I was so devastated when my gerbil died and I love them so much but they have such short lives. But chinchillas live, like, fifteen to twenty years. That's like, if I wanted a pet that long-term, I'd get a dog. Plus they take up so much room and I live in a small house. But one day!

Gus does not like being little. Charlie can jump all sorts of places and Gus tries and just ends up scrabbling and flailing and making miserable little squeaks because he wants to be bigger, why isn't he bigger!?!??! Poooooor Gusgus.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Happy Holidays ♥

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

Thanks darling! Gus is asleep, but Charlie says NOM NOM BOX DESTROY. Ah, the true meaning of Christmas.

[hmittens.livejournal.com]

Hi. I just sort of wanted to introduce myself.. well.. i'm Hallie and i was kind of wondering if we could be friends? :D ..not to mention that i already added you, but.. :D

Merry xmas :)

(insomnia makes me so damn irrational, i don't even know what i'm writing.)

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

Add away! Everyone's welcome here.

[phoenixacid.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! THEY ARE SO ADORABLE!!!

*MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!!!*

[moonie]

♥GERBILS♥

Hope you had a nice evening and that yesterday's (or was it the day before's?) Thing worked out. <3

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

MY LITTLE LOVEBUGS <3

It did! I watched Hawaii 5-0 and made mac and cheese. I KNOW HOW TO PARTY.

[viennajones.livejournal.com]

Awwww, cute!

Happy Holidays ♥
I was bored out of my mind yesterday because not A SINGLE person I know was online. It's only Christmas, people, really :D

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

I know, right, HOW DARE PEOPLE BE HAVING CHRISTMAS WHEN I'M BORED.

[viennajones.livejournal.com]

Yeah right. And anyway, one can be done with all that stuff within a reasonable time, say, 5 hours. I wouldn't even know what to do with my relatives for much longer.
It's actually just the same disaster today *drop* Nobody's online and I even wasted a huge amount of time watching 'Notting Hill' with my parents lol.

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

Of all the pics with Christmas hats shopped into them, yours is most definitely the fuzziest and cutest!

Happy holidays to you <3

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

DAMN RIGHT. They are quite the fuzziest and cutest. I tell them this every day, so at this point they are just like "duh, now feed me".

[puckling.livejournal.com]

Hahahhahahahahhahahaha. LITTLE HEEEETS.

[chibirhm.livejournal.com]

THEIR HONOR, SO IMPUGNED.

[sonicbookmark.livejournal.com]

no gerbils were forced to endure actual Santa hats, I just Photoshopped them on

BUT THEY LOOK SO REAL!

XD

[i-claudia.livejournal.com]

&hearts &hearts &hearts

THE HATS JUST BUILD CHARACTERS. YOU ARE HELPING YOUR GERBILS TO BE STRONG AND HAPPY FUNCTIONING GERBIL ADULTS.