It's time to... [Revitalize]

Lately I've been slacking on a lot of things. My dishes are piling up to an absurd height and clutter abounds. Granted these past few weeks I've gotten more hours at work, which is great because I need the money, but not so great when it comes to my being productive outside of work. I definitely need to work on my time management skills and even more so on being more proactive overall, because let's be honest.... I'm just flat out lazy. I'd prefer to sit and watch countless episodes of Supernatural on Netflix than to get up and start scrubbing the near-living grime off my dishes. 

So what's the plan, Stan? The plan is to get my junk together, hold myself accountable, and not give up this time. I'm going to start cleaning the dishes before they come alive, putting away my clutter before it buries myself and my cat alive, and try to keep up with it all as I go so I'm not stuck spending an entire day catching up. In addition to being cleaner, I also really want to strive towards living healthier: cutting down on soda, drinking more water, actually using my yoga mat that's sitting in the corner, and perhaps eating a little healthier. 

On that note, I'm off to do some dishes! Wish me luck, guys, I'm going to need it...

Little Things

Lately I've been letting a lot of things get to me way too easily, and therefore have been spending a lot of time off by myself wallowing. Fortunately, I also find joy in lots of little things, so here is my little list of Little Things:

1. Midnight walks to Circle K
2. Netflix
3. Thunderstorms and my porch
4. Kittens
5. Back freckles and a scruffy face
6. Poetry
7. Ending things on my favorite number

Definitely kittens.

Easiest Cat Toy Ever.

I think I'm going to call this the "This Is So Easy To Make I Can't Believe I Ever Spent Money On Cat Toys" Cat Toy. It seriously could not get any easier than this. I started by looking up easy cat toy ideas with yarn because I had some extra yarn lying around and a bored kitten who needed to be entertained. The idea that I saw the most was the little yarn pom poms that typically go on the ends of knit hats and what not. However, pretty much all of the tutorials I read required either some sort of tool or at least a cardboard cutout, neither of which I had. I decided to take the basic idea, get rid of the tool, and add a long string to make it a more interactive cat toy instead of just a ball for the cat to bat around.

Things you'll need:
Yarn
Scissors

The first thing you do is wrap a good little bundle of yarn around your middle three fingers (not too tight so you can slide it off after). The amount of yarn is really up to you. Basically, the more yarn you use the thicker and denser your pom pom is going to be. Make sure you leave a length of string at the end, not wrapped, to hold onto while playing (unless you don't want to, it works both ways).

When you're done with this part, slip the bunch of yarn off your fingers, holding it together so it doesn't unravel.

Take the length of yarn that isn't wrapped and tie a knot around the bunch so it stays together.

Once it's nice and tight, take your scissors and begin cutting the loops along the top and bottom, being careful not to cut the knot in the middle.

Fluff out the pieces after they've all been cut, and there you have it. Easiest cat toy ever.

After running around the house with the toy (with Binx in hot pursuit) I got lazy and tied it to a chair so he could continue playing by himself. He seemed to enjoy it just as much.

Updates!

I realize I kind of disappeared from the blogging world after only my second post, but I'm hoping to come back and actually stick around this time.
Originally I had a few other posts drafted that never made it live on the interwebz, but since I started them so long ago they aren't really relevant anymore and I've decided to start fresh. My posts may still be slow coming for a little while, but hopefully soon it will become a habit and I won't let it fall on the back burner again. After all I'm still a baby crawling around the blogging world. For the time being I've got a few posts in the works and then hopefully soon I'll be wearing my big girl blogging pants.
Peace out,
Chloe*

Story Time... [An Unusual Memorial Day]

It all started late Sunday night, also known as early Monday morning, around 3 am. My roommate and I finally decided to hit the hay, so we went our separate ways to get ready for bed. Now, I say roommate, but that's not completely accurate... yet. I don't get to move into our wonderful apartment until August, so this weekend I was sleeping on the couch. As I was getting ready for bed I walked back into the living room and saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I bent down and found a 4 foot long, ball python hanging out on our Wii balance board. Let it be known that I am terrified of snakes (and many other things but we'll just leave it at that for now), so naturally I ran away. Honestly, I couldn't believe it even though I saw it myself, so I went back to look (from a safe distance) and it was gone. Of course, then the little sucker decided to show up on the other side of the entertainment center popping out next to the TiVo.

I may or may not have been standing on top of our desk at this point, where all of my stuff was rather conveniently placed. Seeing as how fast the snake disappeared the first time, combined with the fact that I didn't even believe I saw it myself at first, I grabbed my camera to get some proof. Then the evil little thing starts moving around and coming closer, probably just to scare the pants off of me. It slithered its way onto the floor, over to our lanai door, and behind the blinds where I couldn't see it anymore. Until it came to the other side anyways...

Keep in mind I was terrified and across the room with a super zoomed in camera, so don't judge the picture quality!

Finally, after pounding on her door again, my roommate woke up. We hid in her room with the door closed and sheets shoved up against the crack of the door. As we were locked up in the room she started looking for numbers to call and I started trying to figure out what kind of snake it was based off of the pictures I took. After my research I was pretty confident it was a ball python, which we got confirmed the next morning by people on facebook. However, you would not believe how hard it is to get someone to remove a snake from your apartment. We called some domestic animal control number first and they told us they only dealt with cats and dogs. Then we found a number for another animal control place and they told us that they couldn't do anything until we went through our landlords, so we called them and with nothing left to do but wait, went to bed.

We never did hear back from them, and spent most of the day at the kitchen table with our feet up trying to contact someone to come get the snake. Eventually we found the snake (curled up next to a cabinet in the above picture) and a couple of our friends came over to save us. They put her in a pillow case and took her away, after we affectionately named her Moey, a mix of Megan(my roommate) and Chloe(myself). It's a lot easier to be cool with a snake after it's out of sight.

In the words of my roommate: This is a Memorial Day I will memorialize.

And here is the video of them getting the snake. Warning: It's very anticlimactic.