Ratties!

Dunfalach requested, so:

My rats:

Sweetie (small white girlie, born Feb 11th)
Small Rat (small white girlie, born Feb 11th, identical-looking to Sweetie)
Merlyn (big agouti hooded male, fixed, born ~Marchish two years ago)
Arthur (dead; smaller agouti male, brother to Merlyn)
Caramel (big caramel-coloured male, fixed, brat. Maybe a year old now)

Bah!

I'm sick. I have razorburn. I refuse to get properly dressed.

So there.

Food

Says:

Jinyuan Chestnut is produced neat the Great Wall, in the deep mountain of Yanshan, in He bei Province of china. It is best green food for health. Eating it for long time will prolong your life. "Chestnut, the nourishment of kidney. It can promoting kidney. Eating it for long time will prolong your life". said in the Compendium of Materia Medica.

Method Of Keeping: Avoiding light in the normal temperature.

Still Sick

I'm still sick, and I can't really breathe through my nose.

I am making veggie soup. As always, somehow the pot ends up almost everflowing. Anyone want veggie soup? It has lots of shiitake mushrooms, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, tomato, potato, and garlic, and some other stuff.

I got masago and surf clams, which I will mix together with mayo for sandwich fillings later in the week.

...I'm still sick.

*whine*

And Here...

Marge Piercy - To Have Without Holding
Learning to love differently is hard,
love with the hands wide open, love
with the doors banging on their hinges,
the cupboard unlocked, the wind
roaring and whimpering in the rooms
rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds
that thwack like rubber bands
in an open palm.

It hurts to love wide open
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Though not, stritly speaking, terribly accurate.