Wow, I just realised that I actually haven't blogged about my dog Mango. Disappointing really...
I REALLY like dogs, and always have. In fact, I used to wake up at 6am and search through dog-selling websites for breeders with new litters. I'd look at websites from pounds, like Doggie Rescue and the RSPCA, and then I found a new litter of Spoodles.
We wanted a girl, so I emailed the breeder, and she replied that there were definitely some girls available. And so the emailing began, and the breeder sent some photos, and I'd show the photos to my family, and then it got to the point where I'd pretty much bought 'Girl No. 2'. She was in Melbourne, so on the 26th of June, 2 months after she'd been born, I came home from tennis and TA DAA! There was a little bubby dog sniffing all over the carpet. We'd set up toys and blankets and a cardboard box for her, and the little baby puppy just slept. Mango went to puppy school where she could be very naughty, but usually by the end of the lesson she'd be so tired we had to carry her out to the car before she slept on the floor. Spoodles are great dogs because they don't shed fur. Although that might seem like a small issue, it really does help. There's hardly any fur on clothes or furniture, and it saves a lot of work with the cleaning. Mango is obsessed with food, like any dog, so as soon as she hears the fridge door opening, it's like she's been called by some strict army trainer, and she MUST go.
Hard to believe, but in April this year Mango is turning 3. Oh, my little baby's growing up! She's the most beautiful, loving, protective, adorable, hilarious, happy, caring, affectionate, amazing dog. :P You'll hear that from every dog owner.
But it's all true.
Yes, I'm perfectly aware that it's not always a good thing to be thinking about stuff that won't happen for ages or might not happen at all in life... I'm just very good at doing that sort of thing and now that we're all getting older, it's even more exciting to be talking about life in 5 or 10 years time!
My plans? Have a part time job while I'm at university (I'm at a dead end about what exactly I'll be studying but I'll figure it out later). Once I have an ample amount of money, and Christine as well for that matter, we'll rent a tiny one bedroom unit and buy lots (or hardly any, depending on our budget) of second hand furniture. Score! ... Puis, we go to the local Coles every week and buy a stack of 2 minute noodles, bread and spreads. We don't need a toaster because we've already got the 15 year old crusty oven built into the moulding kitchen, and we have toast EVERY DAY. Lunch... more bread, with some of the lettuce and cheese we remembered to buy. We have to make a dinner plan so we know EXACTLY what to buy for the week. Home brand and Vinnies are our new best friends. We have a tiny square table to fit an absolute max of 3.5 people (half of the fourth person doesn't fit so they're sitting at an angle). We actually have to clean up after ourselves... Which means... the... BATHROOM! Shock horror.
Who knows what secrets and surprises the past owners of the unit have left behind for us...
We share our car. It's a small, rusty, in-need-of-a-service car we bought off a friend. We sleep on mattresses on the floor, but then find the revolutionary new world of Internet Shopping. We need to pay electricity bills, water bills, internet and phone bills... Just a lot of bills. Then the rent. The people living upstairs go wild on Friday nights so we do what we can to hear Leonardo's last words in Titanic on our microwave-sized television. Titanic is only on video though. No DVD players just yet. BUT our parents upgrade to Blue Ray and donate the DVD player anyway so it's all good. We have a problem with the wardrobe. Our one bedroom unit doesn't allow for the clothing requirements of two twenty year olds, so half our clothes are in cardboard boxes hidden in a build-it-yourself cupboard in the living room. The bulb in the bathroom has blown but we can't find the time (or will) to buy a new one, so we make sure there's a torch in easy reach from our beds for any middle of the night call-of-natures.
It all sounds good, right? I think so too.
Except for that ever growing army of dampness that's taking over the living room ceiling... Just wait for our next promotion. Then we'll think about taking care of it.
I'm very flexible.
I'm talking about mentally by the way. Doing the splits and stuff is totally out of the question. Anyway, being quite flexible and understanding, I like an assortment of things (I don't know about you, but when I hear the word assortment, I think of lollies...) so just so you can kill time and procrastinate from those Science assignments, or you're just curious, here's a list of... STUFF that I quite enjoy on Youtube.
Youtube: "Summertime by Janis Joplin" <-- THIS IS PURE TALENT. Not everyone will like it. Definitely. But I do, and I think it's very cool. I think the best video on Youtube is the Live Grona Lund 1969 one. GAH! It's actually cooler than me. That's hard to beat.
Youtube: "Brahms Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 Nikolai Lugansky" <-- I'm playing this peace on the piano right now, and it's SO beautiful. Almost as beautiful as me (... I'm not self centred...)
Youtube: "Kina Grannis" <-- This is a young lady to keep watching. She's already got a CD, and I think she does really nice covers and songs.
Youtube: "Sunny Choi" <-- She does piano interpretations of popular music, like Firework by Katy Perry, or Raise Your Glass by P!nk. Unfortunately she doesn't have any scores; she just memorises her whole piece (Yeah, she's amazing).
Youtube: "Bond Explosive" <-- Bond is made up of some electric string players I've liked since I was a little girl, and this song is my favourite.
Have fun Youtube-ing!
We wanted a girl, so I emailed the breeder, and she replied that there were definitely some girls available. And so the emailing began, and the breeder sent some photos, and I'd show the photos to my family, and then it got to the point where I'd pretty much bought 'Girl No. 2'. She was in Melbourne, so on the 26th of June, 2 months after she'd been born, I came home from tennis and TA DAA! There was a little bubby dog sniffing all over the carpet. We'd set up toys and blankets and a cardboard box for her, and the little baby puppy just slept. Mango went to puppy school where she could be very naughty, but usually by the end of the lesson she'd be so tired we had to carry her out to the car before she slept on the floor. Spoodles are great dogs because they don't shed fur. Although that might seem like a small issue, it really does help. There's hardly any fur on clothes or furniture, and it saves a lot of work with the cleaning. Mango is obsessed with food, like any dog, so as soon as she hears the fridge door opening, it's like she's been called by some strict army trainer, and she MUST go. 