On Hols for Two Weeks!

Hello everyone!

GM and I are going to be on hols for the next two weeks. See you when we get back with lots of holiday snaps!

Millie X LX3

GM surprised me again today!

He’d told me in an email that a dress I’d ordered had arrived (I got it sent to his work address) so I didn’t think anything of it when he was digging around in his bag tonight and took out a parcel.  I soon noticed though that instead of just the one parcel there were two so I asked him what it was and he said, “A present for you”!  How exciting!

And it was…………………

The Panasonic Lumix LX3!

Wow I was so surprised!  I’ve wanted this camera for ages, MONTHS.  I contemplated buying it when I was in HK in early May but because I’d already spent lots of money in Perth and just bought a new bag in HK I was feeling guilty so I didn’t.  And regretted it after I came home.

Here’s what it looks like.  I borrowed this pic off google images.  GM has even ordered me the leather case from Japan!  It’s on its way.

I tested it on our Millie.  She’s grown a bit, can you tell?

GM and I have made real progress this last week in terms of bonding with her.  Tonight I lured her to my cupped hands with a bit of broccoli and instead of snatching it and running off to eat it somewhere else, she stayed in my hands.  But the most amazing thing is, she not only stayed in my hands, she actually sat down!  Isn’t she cute?

The pic is a bit blur because she moves a lot, very quickly.

After eating she did her normal grooming.  Soooooooooooooooooo cute!

And finally, a good shot of her looking straight at me.   Hehe.

Today has been a lovely day because it was really quiet in the office so I had a good time slacking off haha.  I met GM for lunch and we tried out a little Thai restaurant in the area which was actually pretty good.  Work gave me a mobile, a Nokia 3109, not great but at least now I will be able to call and text my friends free of charge haha.   My application for funding to study a Japanese language course was approved over the stipulated maximum amount (£200, I got £255) and I was informed that I have been accepted into the course to start on 29 September.  I came home and got the dress that I’ve been wanting for a long time which I thought might have gotten lost in the post since the Royal Mail are going through a series of strikes at the moment and apparently have a backlog of millions of letters and parcels undelivered.  And then I got a surprise gift that I have been coveting for ages!  And Millie sat in my hands and ate broccoli!

What a wonderful day!

But I feel a bit bad because GM keeps buying me all these surprise gifts and I never buy him any.

Millie Says “Hi”!

Hallo guys!  Miss me?

I’ve been keeping myself busy, exploring my new home.

Once a day I get to go out in my new green ball.  At first I didn’t quite know what to do in it and just sat there and groomed myself but I soon learnt that it’s really fun!  I get to go around the house looking at new things!  I even turbo-ed up to the carpeted hallway once and hurtled into all the rooms, wow that was an exciting experience!

Here I am in one of my more pensive moments.

My mummy is always trying to get me to sit in her hand – she tries to trick me with lots of seeds in her palm.  I still don’t like to be held much though, but I don’t mind stepping all over her hands to get somewhere.

My other favourite activity is running in my wheel.  I run in it lots and lots.  After I run I groom myself and sometimes have a nibble, especially if mummy and daddy are on hand to feed me.  But sometimes I get tired and fall asleep mid-groom.

Here I am, fast asleep on my wheel.

Sometimes I am in such a deep sleep that I roll off the wheel.  On this occasion I fell off head-first and faceplanted into my lavender sawdust.

I still stayed fast asleep though.

Obviously I also love to have lots of little nibbles.

My mummy was disturbing my feeding time, yodeling “Millie menini~~~” and other silly names at me so I looked to see what she was on about.

Aren’t I a pretty girl?  My mummy and daddy think I am very photogenic!

Tata everyone, till next time!

Tiny, Adorable Little Thing

GM and I were dying to come home today to see our little hamster.  I was worried that she wouldn’t be comfortable so it was a huge relief to see her alive and well.  In fact, this morning the first thing I did when I got up was check on her and she was curled up in a ball sleeping in a corner of her cage and I was actually worried that she wasn’t breathing and had frozen to death =(  It’s not even cold since it’s summer!  Either I’m really paranoid or this sort of anxiety is common for first time small pet owners.  It’s just that she’s so tiny and sweet, she just seems so vulnerable.

I think GM and I are doing well with her and have broken new ground!  I’m really happy.  Apparently it can take months for a hamster to get to know its owners.  When we got home today she was standing on her wheel in a “heightened alert” state and shivering.  I think she was scared of us =(  I was really sad because I feel bad that she’s probably terrified and unhappy when all we want to do is love her and be good to her.  But then later on in the evening I put some seeds on my fingertips and stuck my hand next to her whilst she was running in her wheel.  At first she pretended to ignore my hand but then after a while she’d sniff my hand for a split second and turn back to her running again.  She did this loads of times.  I just sat there for ages with my hand in her cage,  not moving in order not to scare her.   She gradually sniffed my hand for longer and at one point she started gnawing so I thought she might start eating the seeds from my hand and she did!  First she nipped the seeds from my hand really quickly but as she got more confident that I wasn’t going to hurt her she got more daring and ventured closer and put her hand on my finger!!!!!  It was the cutest thing ever!  She grabbed a seed off my fingertips and stood really close to me, resting both her hands on my fingers whilst holding her seed and nibbling it.  Seriously adorable.

We’ve decided to call her Millie =)  She looks more like a Millie and it’s an easier name to say over and over again.  Sigh, so cute.

Nice to Meet You Everyone!

We’re really excited.  I don’t think I can sleep tonight.  Because we bought a hamster!!

We got her tonight at around 8pm and we’ve been watching her all night.  And we want to keep watching her.  It’s a girl hamster and she’s really sweet.  GM is besotted because it’s his first ever pet!  In fact, it was his idea to get a hamster, I think he has been hankering after a pet ever since we went to my mate’s and played with her cat who is really affectionate and lovely.  Even I love that cat, I even miss it sometimes!

We’ve bought her a cool country-style home complete with rustic cottage.  Isn’t it cute?  Her bedding is lavender scented!

This is her first step into her new home.  Aww.

Syrian hamsters are nocturnal creatures so she’s been really active the last hour or so, exploring her new house and all its nooks and crannies.  At the moment she’s doing some running in her wheel!

Halloooo!

We still don’t know what to name her.  I’ve been looking at baby names on the internet the whole night.  We’ve kind of narrowed the choices down to Millie or Daisy.  What do you all think?