The final episodes of Avatar were AWESOME! XD Sure, "The Ember Island Players" wasn't so much of an episode as it was a series recap, but it made me giggle to alarming extents. *LOLz at Zuko's ever-changing hair* *Giggle giggle snort* The first two episodes of the four-part finale were good, but nothing compared to the last two eps. I'd even read all the spoilers beforehand from the book but these episodes were so gorgeously animated and the fight scenes were so kick ass! I freaking LOVE firebending, seriously. I am a giant geek but I don't care, I tell you I want to shoot fire out of my palms and do crazy spinning fiery back kick shit. :B

I'd have to say that aside from the fight scenes themselves, my favorite part of the finale was seeing Azula transition from the perfect, put-together (and horrifyingly boring) character she's been all this time to stark raving insane. Finally, Azula got interesting. That girl got her crazy on and it fits her like a glove.

But OH GOD, THE ROCKET SHOES. WHY DOES EVERYONE SUDDENLY HAVE ROCKET SHOES?! How can I keep a straight face while Ozai is tripping on his murderous rampage when he suddenly blasts off into the sky like a space shuttle? Zuko can hold his own (well, when he's not busy being lightening pwnzored by his crazy sister) without flying around like a prat, why can't the rest of his family?! Was there some special fire-flying class that Zuko missed out on as a child? Was he home sick from school that day? D: Speaking of Zuko, an interesting little scene at the end of the finale raises possible spin-off possibilities~ VERY EXCITING.

Okay guys, when does the who giant series boxset of awesome dealio come out now~? Gimme gimme gimme.

Compared to Spook, who apparently is in fact also a boy and not a girl as we all originally thought. LOL, poor Spook, him her him…she's he's having such a gender identity crisis.

Toby had his first checkup on Friday at the vet and was given a perfectly clean bill of health. He behaved so well during the appointment too, he didn't freak out or squirm with the doctor at all. I was so proud of him~ ^^

He's become so comfortable at home, I can pet him now and he doesn't get skittish. The litter box training is moving along still, I find that when he's left in his cage over night he actually goes in the box, but as soon as you let him out he leaves a little trail of bunny poops where ever he goes, but we're making progress. I think I may add the second litter box out in his playpen, since he doesn't seem to want to bother going back in the cage to do it. I can't wait until I can start giving him treats, it may help move the training along. Plus the image of him munching on a piece of carrot or a slice of apple is squeefully adorable~

Toby's also very affectionate it seems. Every time I've gone into the pen lately and sat with him, he gets all happy and starts licking my pants, my arm, and then tries to sneak around behind me and lick my back. It tickles and is so very cute, but I get a little tense when he does it because occasionally he accidentally gets his teeth in there and ends up nipping. It's very sweet though. He's a very attentive groomer.

I forgot to mention in my last post because of obvious new bunny excitement, but we renovated our kitchen last weekend! YAAAAAY! :D New countertops, new cabinets, new pantry, and this weekend we finished it off with some fresh paint. My kitchen is officially nice and shiny now~ La la la la. Mason and his dad are renovation machines. *Glomps her wonderful Mason*

Okay, I just watched the teaser trailer for the Twilight movie and it was so full of LOLz cheese, I just can't handle it anymore. I have to suck it up and read this book and see if it really is as much of a wreck as I'm told. *Gmail pings* Oh goody, big sister to the rescue with a copy of the Twilight ebook. I look forward to hilarity.

Our newest member of the family~ He is by far the most adorable bunny EVER.



He was such a trooper for the 45 minute car ride home on Monday too, I was so proud of him. It took a little coaxing to get him to leave the cover of the carrier into his new cage, but once he did he started checking out the new digs and playing with all his new toys~ He's really only skittish when you try to pet him. I'm letting him set the pace for when he wants to start being touched; occasionally he comes up and sniffs or nudges my leg and this morning I got in a few quick pets before he shied away, so that's progress!

The first night Toby was home he completely made a mess of his cage. I work up in the morning and stuff was thrown everywhere and turned upside down, it was pretty funny actually. He loves chewing on his wood cabin, there were wood shavings completely covering the floor of his cage in the morning. Toby totally pwned that house. He made that house his bitch. He seemed a little affronted when I cleaned it all up, in an adorably cute way~

We're working on litter box training right now. I hope he's a quick learner, he peed out in his playpen this morning before I left for work, silly Toby. The general rule is that when they have an accident like that you're supposed to pick them up and put them in their litter box, but we're at a no-contact point in our relationship so I can't do that yet. Hopefully the scent of the poop pellets I've put in there from the floor of his cage will help him catch on to the idea.

More pictures to see in my Facebook album!

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I love Dreamhost! They have this new crazy support ticket system where I logged a question about a new client domain that's been refusing to work since I registered it over a week ago, and then BAM! not even five minutes later a guy emails me back apologizing for a bug on their end and suddenly the site is online and running fine. Give this guy a raise, Dreamhost! :B

Went for wings for the first time last night with Chelle and the guys from work in which I was teased mercilessly and ate one two many salt and pepper wings methinks, because when I crawled into bed afterwards my stomach was doing angry, vengeful things. This morning when I got in to the office I also received one our new branded t-shirts which is made of pretty much awesome: "Nexopia. Because your Mom's on Facebook." For a social networking t-shirt it's pretty sweet, and I shall wear it tomorrow in all of my geeky product placement pride.

Spook was possibly even more adorable than usual today; when I let her out this morning she started zipping around like mad and then circling around my legs over and over making soft little humming sounds. Apparently this means that one or both of the following: a) Spook enjoys my company and thinks I'm the best thing since fried bananas, b) Spook is in love with me but in a completely different way which involves her wanting to hump my leg. Both of which are flattering but I'd much rather not experience any bunny humps in the future. Spook, m'dear, you need to go in and get spayed. *Pat pat*

OMG, only four days until Toby gets to come home~! ^^

I hate public washrooms. Mostly because the female gender unfortunately has some very strange bathroom habits which I guess somewhere down the line during my years of being a tomboy I no longer understand. For example, I would like to express how very disturbed and uncomfortable it is to be in the washroom at work and have a girl from the office next door come in, not so much talking as trilling obnoxiously on her cellphone; wander around aimlessly for a minute, and then finally go into a stall beside me and urinate while still gabbing on her phone at the same time. Why are you so desperate to go to the bathroom always accompanied by a gaggle of your girlfriends, so much that you have to talk to them on your mobile while you pee? Please go use the washroom in the YMCA across the street.

I broke out a bit from the bubble and went paintballing for the first time this weekend for Coleen's birthday. It's pretty intimidating and does nothing for my already rattled nerves to be pulling on some oversized jumpsuit while watching a troop of enormous arms-as-thick-as-my-head men dressed in hardcore commando garb and boasting automatic CO2 rifles, looking like Rambo and with three times the rounds of ammo strapped to their back. These were the people we were up against.

I have to admit it was a lot more fun than I thought it would be though. But damnit, getting hit hurts. I wasn't wrong about that. It was just a painful and stingy as I feared it would be. Fortunately I realized very quickly that the way around that is to hide very well and very far back and thus not plunging into the deadly fray where you can get shot. I came out of the day with only five or six shots on me. Whoever nailed me in the back of the head when I was walking off the field to get more ammo is a giant douche though! I was close to pistol-whipping someone in the face!

Okay, I have to apologize profusely to Coleen and Amanda. I could not finish 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I just couldn't. I was all right with it in the beginning when they make it out as a rip roaring chase after some crazy sea beast with untold adventure and mutated sea monsters — right up until they found out "Oh, it's a submarine. Oh joy. Now let's spend two whole chapters talking about the strength of reinforced steel plating under 800 meters of underwater pressure." It wasn't so much the language or style of writing that annoyed me, but more so that the book wasn't so much a novel in the normal sense of the word as it was a text book full of nothing but lists and lists of fish and coral and different sea life; scientific facts and figures and classifications and names. There is only so much I can take before I go and drown myself in the bath tub. I'm somewhat bitter though that I never made it to the rumored giant squid, that sounded promising, but I never got far enough. Perhaps if they had restricted all of the science class reference material to the appendixes, they could have actually progressed with the narrative. *Is disappointed about lack of giant squid shenanigans.*

On the upside I did finish reading a delightful book called Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the idea of an orgy of Greek deities living in modern day London in a tiny flat surrounded by their own filth and trying nothing more than to get a good shag in before the world ends. Hades is hilarious and Apollo is a big lovable man slut.

For anyone not aware, I'm currently bunny-sitting Nickie's little Dwarf bunny, Spook, while she and Brock are away in San Diego. And she is adorable. :B She was a little freaked out the first night but quickly got over the new surroundings and starting running and playing and doing binkies~ She seems to love her ramp that Mason made her. SO CUTE. One week until Toby gets to come home too~!

His name is going to be Toby, and I'm buying him from a very nice woman and her daughter who live up in Clyde. They're going to reserve him for me until I'm done bunny-sitting and can bring him home in the middle of July. I'm so excited, I've completely fallen in love with him~

Toby's charming pictures from his kijiji.ca ad:



I love his markings and especially the cute white stripe down his forehead — he is by far the most adorable bunny ever (and so photogenic.) I can't wait to bring him home!