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Meet Neesha, our latest addition to our “zoo”.  ;-)

My brother wanted to get another pet so I told him that as long as it didn’t have more then 4 legs, I’d be fine with it.
He eventually decided on getting a kitten (cheer!) and I came across this cute little kitty on Marktplaats (a website similar to Craigslist).

The people we bought her from life in a huge house and even have their own gardener. They were really nice people and had already taken care of deworming her twice. Next week I’ll take her to the vet to see which shots she needs and have them take care of that.

She was born on April 15 2010 en is now about 9 weeks old.
She can be really feisty, loves to be petted and played with but, so far, hates poor Chewie. She’s just not used to dogs.
Here you can watch her play with her blanket.

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My contact lenses are working out great and now I can finally play with all the pets without my glasses getting in the way or having the rats stand on it. I don’t know why but they like to do that.
They like to pull on your clothes and jewelry too to see whether they can take it off. I’m glad that they’re mostly in their cage or we’d end up with all kinds of things missing.
Putting in the lenses again for the first time in 9 years was a real pain and it took me at least 15 tries. Getting them out for the first time took me ages too lol. Right now they both take only 1 or 2 tries so I sure have improved.

Yesterday I had the talk at the pound in Krimpen aan den IJssel about doing charity work there and I’m going to start next Tuesday. I’ll work Tuesday afternoon from 1 to 4 and Thursday morning from 8.30 to 12, or shorter if my back starts to hurt to much. My “job” will be to give attention to some of the cats and to walk at least 1 of the dogs. If there is small stuff that needs to be done (like laundry) I’m encouraged to do it too of course.

I just removed my dog walking service page since I haven’t had anybody respond to it.
Oh well, at least I’m doing enough now to keep myself busy : I go the gym on Mondays and Fridays, Tuesdays and Thursdays are for working at the pound and on Wednesdays I still do the language coach charity work. Since nothing lasts longer then 3.5 hours a day I should be able to keep on doing it without having to many bad weekends after it.

Haria hasn’t been doing to well lately and it looks like she has a tumor. Her belly is hanging low which makes her back look skinny. She is still eating well but she’s not as active as she used to be since I never see her in the wheel again. It doesn’t look like she’s in pain so right now I’ll stick with keeping a eye on her.

Update 22.30 : Haria just died in my ams. :’(

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The schoollunch daycare thingie didn’t work out at all because it involved to much slow walking and standing.
I really liked it so it’s a real dissappointment that I couldn’t do it.
Due to the work my left lower leg and foot have been tingling for nearly week now. It really annoys me that every time I do to much, my body responds that way.
Pain is 1 thing but nerves being pressed on due to doing to much causes tingling and strengthloss…

Last Saturday a friend came by for dinner and fun and we ended up playing Rock Band until 1.30 so that was a lot of fun. Even Ray finally tried out singing and he’s getting pretty good at it.

The woman from the bureau that’s trying to help me find a job came by earlier this afternoon and we discussed some more job options.
In about 3 weeks she’ll let me know what the results are. She has some ideas like working as security and at a call-center but finding a company that’s flexible enough to give me enough breaks can be a problem of course.
We also talked about our many pets and she told me that pounds (asiels) are looking for a lot of charity workers.
I’m sure that all the regular readers know by now that I love animals so I instantly signed myself up for the 2 closest.
The work I signed myself up for is dogwalking, cathugging, and taking care of animals in general so I hope that I’ll at least be able to do that.
The main problem will be that I don’t end up taking half the animals home.

Edit : I just got a call from the daycare place and I will now be on the back-up list in case someone is sick.

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