Cannibalistic Hamster

My step-daughter’s mom is leaving town for a week and asked if we could take care of  V’s pet hamster.

I must say, I’m not really fond of the vermin. I L-O-V-E animals , absolutely adore them. But when my kids were younger, they had pet hamsters too. Djungarian hamsters to be more specific.I think they were about 5-6 of them. We didn’t know at the time, but we had a female and a male hamster, and well, I don’t need to tell you the specifics of what had happened, but we ended up with a bunch of hamsters.

Anyway, one day, I realized that we were missing one. I frantically looked around the house to see if it had escaped, checked the cage, checked under the furniture, in all of the rooms, but it was never found again. A few days later, the same thing happened. I asked the kids if they took the hamsters out to play and lost them (My friend had once lost his hamster while playing in the couch with it and that hamster too, was never found again. The hamster went into a hole of the coach and never came out, yuck) But the kids almost in tears and had said that they didn’t.

In the end hamsters kept on disappearing until only one was left, covered in blood. Only then did I know that we were the unfortunate owners of a cannibal hamster. Ta-Da-Daaa!

I wouldn’t go near that thing anymore, I was traumatised. So I gave it away telling the new owners to definitely never buy him a friend !I don’t think that I ever told them why. Then, I told the kids that he too  had disappeared, bad mama! But they know the truth now. Like the time I replaced one of my son’s fish when it died. “ Euh,Mom, why does my fish has more freckles on it’s back”…I can’t remember what I had said, but knowing me, it was probably a load of baloney. Oepsie!

Now having this hamster stay with us for the week is making me uneasy. It took me some time before I would go near it and now that I have, he looks kind of cute. Not in a “I’m going to hold you in my hands so you can eat me cute” just cute in a fluff ball kind of way. Yet, I can’t help it ,I’m still holding a grudge on the entire hamster species. While I’m writing this post, it’s looking at me with his black googly eyes…eating.

BTW, did you know that according to Uncyclopedia, these rodents are communists? Building an army? Click on the link if you don’t believe me.

Oh well, I guess it will only be for the week. If our cat Snowflake doesn’t make the hamster …“disappear” that is.  Moehahahaha!

Bad bad mommy.

HEY, GIRL - DAAAANG

Reblogged from KILL SHARP CHEDDAR:

Hilarious!

WTF?

Perception of being a teenager

When you were young and your parents came home from work

I miss those days...the days when MY kids did that. Now they just role their eyes.

Take your stupid pic but leave me aloneeeeeee!!!

Since the advent of cell phone cameras, people have been craftily taking their own photos in bathroom mirrors in an effort to look either cool or alluring, usually using the trout pout…  YUCK! Often times this backfires terribly as you can see by just typing “mirror picture fails” into Google search.

I never really have understood why people take pics of themselves while standing in front of a mirror. Everyone seems to be doing it, teens, celebrities, cats….but this pic is actually cute.

A boy wanting a pic with his cat…..the cat doesn’t seem happy about it though.

Römertopf cooking – Healthy way of cooking

I just love my Römertopf.  I have inherited it from my husbands grand mother and she has had it for many many years. Such a healthy way to cook. You can use it for a number of things, poultry, beef, lamb.This organic chicken I made was f-o-r-m-i-d-a-b-l-e !

Clay pot cooking is a technique of cooking food in an unglazed clay pot which has been soaked in water so as to release steam during the cooking process. This technique has a long history, stretching back at least to ancient Roman times, and is commonly used in several cuisines in Africa, Europe and Southeast and East Asia.

Typically, an unglazed clay pot is submerged for 15 to 30 minutes to absorb water before cooking, then filled with the food and placed into an oven. The walls of the pot help to diffuse the heat, and as the pot warms it releases the water as steam.

The food inside the clay pot loses little of its moisture because it is surrounded by steam, creating a tender, flavorful dish. The evaporation of the water prevents burning so long as the pot is not allowed to heat until it is completely dry. Because no oil needs to be added with this cooking technique, food cooked in a clay pot may be lower in fat compared with food prepared by other methods, such as sautéing or frying. Unlike boiling, nutrients are not leached out into the water.

Because of the heat lost to the evaporation of water, clay pot cooking requires lower oven temperatures and longer cooking times than traditional roasting with dry heat. Clay pots may be cleaned by scrubbing them with salt; soaps or detergents should not be used, because the clay may absorb them.

Römertopf (Wikipedia)

Tattoo regret?

The horror !

 

Tattoos can be a beautiful form of self-expression, or they can be a permanent homage to stupidity and bad taste. While some tattoos take months of thought and planning, others leave you wondering, “what in the world were they thinking?!”

Don’t yell at your kids!

It does get worse you know.

 

No, it get’s much worse, they become teens.