Celebrated my birthday this past weekend -- which was loads of fun!  My boyfriend cooked the most amazing meal ever.  He's such a good cook.  Here's a pic:

It was a little depressing at the same time though.  My best friend came down from NY to visit me for my birthday for the weekend and she has changed sooo much -- or maybe she hasn't changed but rather I have.  She has a daughter and she's only 21 and her daughter will be two next month.  And it just astonishes and appalls me really... that she is so irresponsible with her baby.   It makes me angry really.  She loves her but her parenting style is definitely not one I approve of.   Maybe I'm just being too hard on her.  She is a 21 year old single mother.... who knows. My boyfriend made my birthday AMAZING though so I can't be too sad about the weekend!

I've been having so much trouble with one of my boy buns, Fleury.  He's been neutered since June and is STILL spraying.   He just won't catch on to his litter box and we've all been getting so frustrated that he's been even worse.  And since he gets put in his litter box as soon as he comes out now he won't even come out.  And if he does he'll run back in as soon as he thinks you're going to make him go in.  He's becoming less friendly so I told my boyfriend we're going to have to go a  different route with him.  He's getting flustered at us, we're getting flustered at him and it's putting some tension in our relationship with him and I definitely don't want to do that.  If anyone has any ideas, lemme know!  I made a post about it on here.  Any input would be GREATLY appreciated.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Tanlover I have to say, I totally and completely want to grab into the screen of my computer and steal that steak. It looks so darn good!!! But I totally feel you with the friend. I don't think it has anything to do with her being a single parent though. My mom was one and raised my brother and I fairly well. If anything she's using her being a single parent as an excuse for her lack of good parenting. My bf has a much older sister who had her first kid at 21 and she has a husband and her mom helping her out with raising the kid.  And if I'm being completely honest, even with all that help she is not doing a good job. I just don't agree with her parenting style. She refuses to discipline her son and lets her mom do it. And if her husband tries to discipline the kid will run to grandma and tattle! It's just not right in my head. The kid, love him to death, is a total brat. And my bf's sister just had a second one a few months ago. Good golly. It's just craziness. I would never raise my children that way.

I think that as long as someone is mature, responsible, and ready, she can be a good mother - it's just that the probability of this happening increases with age. Not saying that there aren't bad older parents...there are most definitely those too, as well as good younger parents. Haha who am I to judge; I can't even imagine having kids anytime in the next 7-8 years.

Speaking of kids though, I got to play with babies today which was really fun. I spent the afternoon in the hospital nursery and learned how to do physical exams on newborn babies. Literally newborns...less than 24 hours old!

I was looking on etsy for bunny things again and found this cute keychain

I been trying to look for one for Mimzy. I would like a plush one though because I have a collection of plush keychains I hang on my small purse. I like getting one from wherever I travel :]

Know what you mean Mimzy's Mum... I had 4 ceramic lamps at the beginning of the year. The most expensive and elaborate, a gift from my Mother worth several hundred dollars, fell into bun range and now needs a new cord (but Mum it was in our space, how were we to know it wasn't a chew toy ?), second was crushed in the ceiling collapse and this morning the third did battle with Finn Gall my youngest cat who looked most aggrieved when he knocked it off the shelf toppling but not destroying a collection of cloisonne ginger jars. The forth is circa 1965 and came from a garage sale, of course it has survived unscathed and gone completely unmolested. Oh, and lamps #2 and #3 were personally custom glazed to match my rooms.