cactus spines + rabbit updates

Yesterday I wrote about my rabbit and how she got ill yesterday but this morning we got a call from the vets saying she'd eaten, was drinking and going to the toilet, seemed brighter and could probably be picked up at the end of the day! Since we were prepared for the worst, this was very welcome news and I think it goes without saying that I was overjoyed (and still am).

Later in the afternoon we went and got her. I kept her in my room for a little while but she went back to her normal hutch and dug into her food which was a great sight. I'm not sure she's still quite herself but she has had medicine and is still on it so we're not expecting her to be 100% yet. She has another appointment on Monday but if she goes rapidly downhill we'll have to ring the emergency vet thing tomorrow as they're closed on Sundays.

So yeah, today has been very happy compared to all the bad news we got yesterday! Although it's cost money that we don't really have (it's been one of those months where it's my birthday and everything breaks and you just end up kinda broke but we'll pull through) it's worth it to have my little Maisie back safely at home.

Now as for cactus spines, I managed to brush my hand against my mini cactus thing (here's a picture of it from my instagram if you want to see) and got three little spines in my thumb. I got one out with tweezers no problem but the other two have kind of lodged themselves under a bit of skin so I can't get them out. I'm just gonna have to leave them and hope they work their own ways out soon. They've really been interrupting my Pokemon playing! (I finally got around to playing Alpha Sapphire and I LOVE it!) But if you know how to get them from under a layer of skin then I'll happily accept all advice (please nothing involving needles the thought makes me feel funny)!

I think that's all I had to write about today.

Goodbye

:)

my rabbit

I've wanted to write this post since the one on my cats and today is the day. It's not the day for nice, happy reasons unfortunately (which I'll go into) but it's the day.

First of all, this is my rabbit, Maisie:

She's a grey and white mini lop (but she's not very mini) and she's around 5 years and a quarter. We rehomed her in 2011 when she was 6 months old from a family who were moving and couldn't take her with them.


She is the cutest little creature on the planet. But she's also very lazy. Like, lazy to the point where she doesn't even clean herself and we have to clean her bum for her (is that tmi? Oh well). She also eats a lot. She actually got a little overweight at one point (whoops-make sure you know what you're feeding your pets!) and we were told by the vets to change her food and diet and then she's been a perfectly healthy weight ever since.

She's been ill a few times. Once she had walking dandruff (which was not a fun experience for anyone) and I can't remember what she was ill with in this picture but I remember a few years ago we had her inside overnight (she's an outdoor rabbit as we don't have the space or anything inside but have space in the garden where she lives in her hutch with a run attachment that my dad built quite some time ago) and my cat, Tango, got up onto the settee with her and even licked her like she was her own kitten to make her better! It was the cutest thing ever. Her eyes also look a little bit weird in this picture as they were originally bright red in it so I did a red eye corrector thing and this was the outcome:

Apart from that she's been fine! She loves cuddles and her favourite treats are these banana bit things which are like dried banana coated in caramel (I think) that we give her as a special treat sometimes. She has even climbed onto my lap and stuck her head in the bag to try and eat them straight from there, that's how much she loves them. She also loves dandelion leaves which we get a lot of in the summer so she's been enjoying have a few of them recently.

And I love her to pieces. I love having rabbits, they're definitely one of my favourite animals and I've had one since my childhood (Sam was my first rabbit).

She's been 100% fine, normal and happy recently, eating and drinking just as usual. That is, until this morning. Now the post is probably gonna get quite sad here and I'm probably gonna cry writing this (I'm welling up already). But don't fear, however, as she's not dead quite yet! I woke up this morning to my mum telling me that Maisie wasn't eating or drinking. And if you know anything about rabbits you will know that if they don't eat/drink then after 24 hours their guts will shut down and they will die.

Maisie's had this happen before. She won't eat or drink but sometimes we can get her back to normal ourselves and sometimes she's fine after a trip to the vets where she either stays and gets put on a drip to give her liquids or we take her home with some medicine. She always turns out fine by the end of the day.

We kept her at home for the morning. We got a big, shallow box, lined it with newspaper and hay and put some food and water in there then put it in my room so I could keep an eye on her. We tried to get her to eat (even her favourite treats) and syringed some water into her mouth (with a special clean bunny syringe we had from giving her medicine previously). But when she still wasn't eating at lunch we rang the vets.

We took her in and the lovely vet checked her over and everything and told us she was going to have to stay in and have some liquids and make sure she starts eating and drinking again. She'd had this before so we were expecting a call meaning we could come and get her before they close later on in the evening. But the call we actually did get was quite different news.

Maisie has to stay in overnight now. And apparently there's a lump in her stomach which could just be food that got stuck but could also be...well you can put the pieces together. Apparently her back teeth aren't looking too hot either. So there have been some tears since that news came. I don't think I really need to say that I'm sad but I am very upset.

But even though Maisie may not live much longer and I'm close to crying again, I'm content with the fact that she's had 5 happy years of life and we've given her the best, happiest and most love filled life we could. And to quote The Lion King, "IT'S THE CIIIIIIIIIIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIFE".

So yeah. This is Maisie. My beautiful, lovely, greedy, lazy, happy, adorable bunny who I wouldn't trade for the world.

Goodbye

:)

UPDATE: It's the next morning and the vets rang to say that she's eaten, is looking brighter and we might be able to go and get her at the end of the day! They want to keep her in for now but Maisie's not being defeated yet :D

showering (and the important of hygiene)

I'm not a massive fan of showers. I know lots of people say things like "oh I love showers they're so relaxing and I get so much inspiration in them!" but really I just see them as a chore and never really think about anything in there.

I'm definitely an evening showers person. Mainly because the thought of having to wake up super early to shower makes me shudder. Also I don't get why anyone would face towards the shower. I get enough water and shampoo in my eyes with my back to the shower how do you do it??? I don't tend to sing in the shower but I think that's partially because I know my entire family can hear me and I'm not really about that life.

I like to take as short a shower as possible (which isn't easy when you have to wash your hair) and I just find it so difficult to get in the shower. I find myself just lying on my bed and thinking "I really don't want to shower" longer than I'm actually in the shower for.

The part of showering I really enjoy is all the self-care stuff I get to do afterwards. I love doing my nails (not always a thing I do after showers but still) and I love doing my big, full on skin care routine (face mask, spot scrub etc.) 1-2 times a week. I also just love feeling clean and smelling nice really.

This is where I talk about something that I think isn't talked about enough but is really important: hygiene and just generally taking care of yourself.

It is so important to clean yourself and keep yourself fresh, whether you're out and about all day or in bed all day. Also, in the least offensive way possible, it's just nicer for the people around you if you don't smell awful.

Skincare is so important! I do the basic cleanse and moisturise daily (more cleansing if you're taking make-up off! Your skin will love you!) and like I said before, more so a few times a week. No matter who you are, what gender you are, what you put on your face I stand by my opinion that you need to take care of your skin. Also Superdrug's own cleanser and moisturiser are really good, cheap and 100% cruelty free would recommend.

As well as that, keeping yourself clean just makes you feel so much better (well, it makes me feel a lot better, I can't really speak for you). I was in quite a shitty mood today but after having a little cry (to quote Baymax: "It is alright to cry. Crying is a natural response to pain"), randomly deciding to try out space buns (which I quite liked on me and my family approved of) then showering and doing my big skincare routine I felt 1000x better. I am in such a good mood right now (listening to Vessel is also helping tbh).

So, moral of this blog post: go take a shower. Or a bath if you're a bath person.

(The amount of times I typed "smeel" instead of smell while writing this blog post is ridiculous)

Goodbye

:)

social media phases

I go through phases which which social medias I predominantly use. It largely depends on my mood I think. I find myself using Tumblr more when I'm not in as good a mood as you don't really have to do anything aside from scroll, occasionally reblog and like but when I'm in better moods I use Twitter more as I think I want to talk about my life more.

Currently I'm going through a Tumblr phase (I definitely haven't been on it most of today what no way). I've even tried to organise my Tumblrs, making my main one the place to go for just general Tumblr shitposting and memes with the occasional fandom post/cat video. I've then restarted my original Tumblr as a place to mainly dump fandom stuff as I'm following a lot of fandom blogs on there already so thought it easier to just put it largely on there. I've then made a new Tumblr as a place to put my nice aesthetic-y posts as I felt I wasn't doing them justice burying them in memes.

I'd say Pinterest is a constant as there is no effort involved. I also like to go on it in school as my irl friends know about it and I feel it's probably the safest social media. Although I have been using it less as the app I use for it on Windows phone suddenly stopped working so I tried deleting it but it now won't redownload so I'm not sure what's happened there. I find it quite annoying to use on desktop/on the family tablet so I hope I can get it back on my phone soon.

I've also been using Instagram more recently as I'm enjoying posting and looking at pretty pictures. It's just nice to look at really.

I realise this post just kind of turned into me promoting my social medias but oh well I'm certainly not complaining. And I'm pretty sure there was a point to this post...somewhere.

Goodbye

:)

i love ratatouille

I should first of all clarify that I'm talking about the film Ratatouille not the meal. Honestly I've never eaten it so I have no opinions on it.

Ratatouille is a film that will always make me feel better. I can always put it on. I wasn't feeling amazing today (still not 100% honestly but no-one feels great all the time) but Ratatouille just made me smile and feel a bit better.

I'm not even sure what I love about it so much. Just the characters and the story and the friendships between characters and just everything it just makes me happy. I never really knew anyone who loved Ratatouille like me until the internet because I've seen so many people online say they love it but many people I know in real life either quite like it, are indifferent or don't like it so I was very excited to see other people who loved it too.

Yeah. I'm not really sure what the point of this post is other than to say that the film Ratatouille just makes me really happy and if you're not feeling amazing I'd definitely recommend putting on your favourite film/TV show. Even if it doesn't 100% cure your mood it might still make you smile.

Goodbye

:)

picnic in the park with friends!

The other day me and two of my friends decided that we wanted to go to the park and have a picnic so that's what we did today! We met up, went around a few shops (I bought a bubble wand because I am a child) and then went to set up our picnic. It wasn't healthy as you can see by this picture:

But it was delicious! Also if you're wondering why there is a GIGANTIC box of caramel freddos my friend bought them back for us from Cadbury's world to eat (we didn't eat them all I promise).



It was a lovely, sunny day (although it was quite chilly) and it was just so nice to snack and chat with my friends. We had a rather in-depth conversation on Doctor Who. It was nice.

I'd definitely recommend just going on a little picnic with a few friends/family (although maybe try and bring some healthier food unlike us) as it's just a nice way to get outside AND you get to eat, what are the negatives? Just remember to put on sun cream!

Also since there's a kids park right next to the field we then got to go in there and swing and play like the little children we truly are.

Goodbye

:)

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I have no clue what to write about today because I haven't done anything interesting/thought of anything interesting I want to write about so here's a picture of my cat Rory being an adorable little dork:

I've noticed him lying in this position a fair amount recently and he looks happy, comfortable and cute so I have no problem with it.

(also please ignore my carpet it was like that when we moved here years ago and who has the money for changing carpets?)

Goodbye

:)