All's Fair...
Feb. 4th, 2010 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormI'm reengaging in grown-up life. This would be the life where you don't spend all your time playin' with the livestock, lounging around playing video games and cooking and getting laid, and hanging out with friends. Tomorrow I have an 'interview' with my old indoor plant company-- my old boss said they'd 'have me back in a heartbeat' and there's a lot of outdoor work involved in what they have to offer me as far as I can tell, with the balance made up of indoor. I'm pleased. This should enable me to do the BCIT thing and have something stable while I do it. More details afterwards, of course.
Angus and I have had a pissy couple of days that are luckily over -- oddly enough, it helps to eat regularly and sleep regularly if you're living in tight quarters with someone. Shocking, no? I definitely don't feel like myself while I'm flipping my schedule to get up later-- I'm a zombie all day, and apparently sorta irritable. Going to the gym and vitamin D supplements will have to help me with that. Luckily I won't have time to talk to anyone meantime (though if you are going to one of the free concerts at David Lam park in the evening, I live close by and if my house is clean enough I will offer you an hour's conversation and tea).
Now I'm trying to cram in everything I really don't want to put off for a month-- seeing a couple of people one more time, doing a couple more driving lessons (today was scary- residential neighborhood, so no major roads, but lots of stop signs at rush hour with a standard on a very hilly neighborhood. I AM learning to start on hills, yessir), doing some time trade I owe people, cleaning everything including all the rat cages... I have to be careful not to start this thing too exhausted though.
Looks like we're doing another round of babies, too-- I'd like to have them ready for Rattapalooza on April 10th, so they need to be born super quick. That means the end of my busy time with the Olympics will coincide with some births... but I am going to try to take a break between that and working right away, or at least full work, so that should be okay. The babies I have now are... moulting. This indicates that they'll have super spectacular rex coats (think curly, as opposed to velveteen which are wavy) but it means that they're naked right now, especially the show quality ones. Eep! They're really starting to be comfy and happy with people, though, and they're learning that we're not food. They are also super incredibly totally very cute.
I'm really starting to feel like my ducks are in a row with the rat breeding. I know basically what my lines are, what qualities I'm looking for for outcrossing, and what I want to solidify with line breeding or what have you. I'm at a period of stopping to assess my lines a little more thoroughly with some inbreeding, and I'm very very pleased with my personalities. I have more ratties than I've ever had, but I'm also happier with the ones I have than almost ever before, and I'm feeling reasonably professional about the whole thing. Professional enough to be budgetting my time and money reasonably for it, anyhow, because now I know about how much of each it takes to keep operating at this scale. I really should look into a business license and see if I can't get some GST benefit from it though.
So much to say, but no urgency behind anything. I am comfortable. I thought that comfort and contentment would be elusive for me always, or that I would hate them, when I was a teenager. Now... this is me.
Angus and I have had a pissy couple of days that are luckily over -- oddly enough, it helps to eat regularly and sleep regularly if you're living in tight quarters with someone. Shocking, no? I definitely don't feel like myself while I'm flipping my schedule to get up later-- I'm a zombie all day, and apparently sorta irritable. Going to the gym and vitamin D supplements will have to help me with that. Luckily I won't have time to talk to anyone meantime (though if you are going to one of the free concerts at David Lam park in the evening, I live close by and if my house is clean enough I will offer you an hour's conversation and tea).
Now I'm trying to cram in everything I really don't want to put off for a month-- seeing a couple of people one more time, doing a couple more driving lessons (today was scary- residential neighborhood, so no major roads, but lots of stop signs at rush hour with a standard on a very hilly neighborhood. I AM learning to start on hills, yessir), doing some time trade I owe people, cleaning everything including all the rat cages... I have to be careful not to start this thing too exhausted though.
Looks like we're doing another round of babies, too-- I'd like to have them ready for Rattapalooza on April 10th, so they need to be born super quick. That means the end of my busy time with the Olympics will coincide with some births... but I am going to try to take a break between that and working right away, or at least full work, so that should be okay. The babies I have now are... moulting. This indicates that they'll have super spectacular rex coats (think curly, as opposed to velveteen which are wavy) but it means that they're naked right now, especially the show quality ones. Eep! They're really starting to be comfy and happy with people, though, and they're learning that we're not food. They are also super incredibly totally very cute.
I'm really starting to feel like my ducks are in a row with the rat breeding. I know basically what my lines are, what qualities I'm looking for for outcrossing, and what I want to solidify with line breeding or what have you. I'm at a period of stopping to assess my lines a little more thoroughly with some inbreeding, and I'm very very pleased with my personalities. I have more ratties than I've ever had, but I'm also happier with the ones I have than almost ever before, and I'm feeling reasonably professional about the whole thing. Professional enough to be budgetting my time and money reasonably for it, anyhow, because now I know about how much of each it takes to keep operating at this scale. I really should look into a business license and see if I can't get some GST benefit from it though.
So much to say, but no urgency behind anything. I am comfortable. I thought that comfort and contentment would be elusive for me always, or that I would hate them, when I was a teenager. Now... this is me.
