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I hope no one minds if I start a November Chat thread almost 30 minutes early, or at all really. I was going to try out NaNoWriMo this year but as usual I chickened out… I didn’t really do anything for Halloween other than re-watch Holloween Baking Championship and I’m currently watching Christmas movies.
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Chewie’s tummy, Podge, Olaf.
We did NOTHING special for Samhain this year. Not even a nibble of chocolate. Torrential rains nonstop since Tuesday (still going strong), some flooding, vegan takeout for dinner
A&B – sorry about the hair woes. Did you try to use a dye stripper first, or just tackled it with powder bleach? I’ve been a bottle blond for a pretty long time and do my own hair now because I’ve had scary powder bleach results from salons. lol I think they see my hair and never suspect how easily my pigment lifts. Of course, henna would complicate matters immensely (as would indigo). Natural dyes and synthetic ones rarely mix well due to metallic salts not playing nicely with the altered hair. Ho hum… hopefully you won’t have to wait much longer for your hollaback girl hair. So… your law firm doesn’t go for the fun anime hair?
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Happy belated gotcha day Boo and Bobby!
It was all done at the salon. This girl is really good too and knows her stuff, so I do feel like I’m in good hands. I just wished the place that sold me the henna would’ve informed me about it. HR actually commented on the change back to brunette. Nothing about when I went blonde, but the brunette she had to mention *eyeroll*
Chewie: I don’t think she used bleach at all. She used a mixture of Olaplex, a different type of lightner, and dye all at once. And yes about the pigment! When I went in 2 weeks ago Heaven had prepared me to be in that chair for a good 8 hours, but it lifted all the way down to the darkest blonde shade with one process (naturally dark chocolate hair). So thank goodness for thin hair sometimes xD
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A&B Familiar with Olaplex. Lovely stuff but sooo expensive. I currently use Wella Colorcharm liquid in the 12A with a 30v developer – brush application to roots only, and daily tiny dollop of blue shampoo to prevent brassiness. Takes me from a medium brown to a light blonde in the span of a movie.
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@Tony’s Mum: Oh no, I hope they’ll find the dog again soon
@A&B: hope that this time it’ll work out well!
More pampering and salon time: I gave Breintje a mani/pedi and a massage today. Nail clipping was a disaster last time because I accidentally cut the quick. This time I tried to file his nails, holding the nail still at the base. That went a lot better, he still struggled a bit but he doesn’t flinch when something touches the nail. No thumps afterwards either, just two huge eyes begging for raisins. Oh, and a cleaning session which included both my hands as well
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Posted By I’m with Boo on 11/03/2018 10:38 AM
@bunnylass honestly the bunnies don’t care nearly as much as we do about anniversaries ? just make them feel extra special, lots of cuddles, maybe a few of their favourite treats
Lol I know XD thanks for the suggestions!
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6th months since Blossom and Thumper came in to our lives!!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Pets-Passed away: Hailey (9 years old, half rat terrier and miniature pincher, Feb-5-2019),Monster (13 years old, mixed breed, Lhasa Apso and some form of terrier, Sep-14-2020), Demon (14 year old Lhasa Apso, Aug-3-2022) Blossom (6 year old bunny breed(s) unknown, April-7-2024) Thumper (6 year old bunny breed(s) unknown, April-12-2024)💔💔💔💔
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I have a funny bunny Luna story for you all
I was laying in bed watching a movie when I heard lots of banging sounds from the lounge room. At first I thought it was the cats chasing each other around, but no. Since the sound stops I assume it’s just the bunnies chasing each other around. I forgot about it for about 5 minutes before I think to get up and check. Both Apollo and Luna are nonchalantly chewing on hay in the litter box, but there are bunny toys and treats in bags all over the floor where they’ve been pulled off a shelf. The shelf also has two distinct chew marks on the edge, lol. So I pick everything up and just dump it on my desk for now (which is right next to the shelf). I go back to the movie and about 15 minutes later, more banging and crashing. I come back out to the lounge room to find Luna on top of my desk, trying to work out how to get into the treat jar. I’m going to have to reconfigure some of the bunny storage boxes so that she can no longer get up on my desk, otherwise we’re in for a whole lot more trouble, lol. I’ve gotta say though, I’m pretty impressed. The gap she used to get up there is not very wide. -
Ellie: I use the same technique for Az and it works like a charm
Skittish buns are sometimes the best buns. So much accomplishment when they lighten up. Also so many tears xD Az: that too funny! I have to agree with Q8, sounds like you need a bunny net xD
Asriel has taken to wanting to get out the door and stroll down the hall. So we have 2 rooms on the second floor of John’s uncle’s house. The first room is storage and the second one is ours+bunnies room. The storage room we used when we were going to bond them, and neither one really had an interest in it before. For whatever reason Asriel has no taken to trying to escape the bedroom and either go in the storage room or towards the bathroom. Last night around 2am the little bugger decided to wait at the door for me to come back in the room, then he BOLTED to the stair case so I couldn’t catch up. 15 minutes to wrangle him 10 feet down the hall. smh.
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I come back after five days of yellow and am now anxious about all these reckless buns and grandmas and dogs and noggins. What’s happening this fall!?
We’re ok. Chewie has started hibernating like a bear since experiencing his first snow (although his room is toasty… go figure).
I’m procrastinating a lot about getting work done on the new book. lol And a new approach to our Instagram accounts is in the works for the new year. They’re both very haphazard at the moment and it’s bugging my OCD. Plus on my personal one, I’ve gotten DM’s from strangers asking why my photography had no captions, or what my theme is (uh… none atm). lol
So that’s all the news.
Glad everybun’s ok despite bouts of exploration lunacy.
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Hubs and I are big on Marvel, so we’re pretty bummed. The movies won’t be the same without his cameos. “What’s the matter with you kids?!? Haven’t you ever seen a spaceship before?” xD cracks me up!
The blonde hair saga continues. So after the color correction went horribly wrong and we needed to dye it back to brown in the interim (story above), I was told to do oil pulling masks once a week for the 3 weeks until I saw her. We found out it did nothing but really moisturized my already oily head
So we scourged the internet finding a way to get rid of the indigo remnants in my hair, because it’s in chunks all over and not at my tips and therefore can’t be cut out. We discovered people having luck with vitamin C masks. So I did my first mask on Sunday, and aside from dry hair it lifted the brunette dye from my hair and has left me with a copper color. Like I am a red head now. Which would’ve been great the rest of my life when I was trying to get this exact color 
So mask 2 was last night and it just made me more of a red head. HOWEVER… the indigo is still there. I can see it plain as day. It’s not the green it was when I was briefly blonde, but it’s much darker than the red of the rest of my hair, so I really don’t think this is working at all. A little bummed. We were hoping to Gwen Stefani on Sunday, but it looks like I’m gonna have to wait until the indigo grows out/finally fades. SOOOOO in the mean time I’m thinking rose gold blonde. That way I still get to be blonde, but the rosy reddish tints will cancel out the greenish blue of the indigo. -
I figured I’d join in with the November chat.
My two girls Kumquat and Papaya will be 7 months old next week. They were not spayed (until yesterday), our Vet wanted to wait til they were 6 months old. So right at 6 months, they ramped up their bad behavior. Papaya was trying to bite my youngest kiddo continuously. More like threatening, I think. But we were sorting out the billing arrangements because spaying is insanely expensive (at least here). Then last week, I was sitting with Papaya and she narrowed her eyes, went behind me and suddenly scratched (repeatedly) at my back. I guess she was trying to show me who was boss, but it didn’t hurt even the tiniest. I laughed it off, made a joke about her moving to the right a bit, because it was itchy. I knew she was being cranky and we needed to get the spaying process handled asap.
So, their surgery was yesterday. After the 15 minute pre-op appointment, and the Vet mentioning repeatedly that surgery is very risky with rabbits – I was terrified that they would die on the operating table.
I even cried on the way home. I was so relieved when they called me and said the buns went through surgery with zero issues and recovered from anesthesia. We had them boarded overnight so the medical techs could observe them, make sure they were okay. And we picked them up today. I was not prepared for the post-op conversation we had with the Vet. I just had to share, because it was too funny (at least to me).
So, the Dr is telling us about the surgery, it went well. And boarding went well.
After surgery, they need pain meds daily for a week.The Vet tells me, “It tastes like honey. Usually it’s an easy task but not with your bunnies. It took 3 techs. It was not easy…”
Me : “Oh, okay. So wait, what? Bunnies in general or MY bunnies??”
Vet: “YOUR bunnies.”
Me: ….
Vet: “We have a sign that we use for some dogs or cats, ‘CAUTION: WILL BITE’ and we had to use one for both of your bunnies.”
Me: …
Vet: “We’ve never had to use it for buns before.”
Vet: “You have naughty bunnies.”
Me: ?
I LAUGHED.Our bunnies run with the wolves. If you’ve never read this article, I love some of the quotes in here. “Runs across the room with murder in his eyes” is one of my favorites. And pretty much describes Papaya, who apparently was the worst at the Vet.
https://rabbit.org/faq-aggression/Funny thing is, she never acts like that with me (other than the rather bad attempt at scratching me once). And when we brought them home, they nuzzled our hands, acted calm and not bitey at all. I guess they only have love for us.
Hope my story wasn’t too long!
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Quin: Hilarious story. The convo and quotation made me snort my cocoa. But I’m glad they’re ok.
A&B: Sorry the colour wheel is messing with your hair and sanity. A thought did cross my mind last time we chatted about this: is it at all possible that the indigo was not pure? I’ve never tried it on anything but cloth, but wouldn’t have guessed that one tiny little plant could produce such pernicious pigment. lol Either way, rose gold sounds extremely pretty.
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@Quinn: lol, I hope your mischievous ladies make a quick recovery! Great story ^_^ One of Bas’ former roommates had a part-time job as a vet assistant, and he met enough feisty bunnies in his career to be impressed. He’s training to be a marine, but he’ll always have a healthy respect for a bunny and its teeth…
@Muj Mum: these were the websites I found helpful:
https://rabbit.org/deepening-the-bond-how-to-connect-with-your-rabbit-through-massage/ (Especially the part under the tab “Giving Your Bunny a Massage”, they explain the technique there). I start out by a soft stroke from head to tail, to check if Breintje wants to be massaged at the time. When you arrive at the tail you put your other hand on their head and stroke to the tail again, to make it a continuous pattern of strokes. With practice this will help your rabbit to adjust to two-hand touching. It took Breintje a while too, he was always scared of being picked up.
There’s also a Youtube video of rabbit massage, and massage for gas pains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnuxGLa2reg
This one is helpful too: https://www.catsandrabbitsandmore.com/massage_for_rabbits
I hope that it’ll work for the both of you
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When Bombur had stasis a few time I tried tummy massages first, and he was 100% not having it. Sure had enough energy to belly crawl away from me xD
The Blonde Hair Saga Part 3: After all the vitamin C treatments and oil pulling masks, we are finally back to blonde. Had to go with ashy blonde with some shadow roots. I was so ready to go in there with the rose gold, but the stylist was phenomenal with how much the color lifted after an hour of lightener in the open, and then another hour of lightener in the open. The blue is very much still there, but not as noticeable with how she toned it and the shadow roots. Before all of that it was a gorgeous silvery blonde with soft blue almost balayaged into it. If I didn’t work for a law firm *sigh* But here’s the final product! We’re waiting about 8 weeks and then hopefully by then we can go platinum!
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I love that snuggle pic A&B, you look so comfy together ^_^ Colour looks great on you too, it reminds me of Billie Piper’s fierce look.
Winter is announcing itself here, we’re constantly having temperatures around 2 °C and ice cold rains. Great times for introverts, and a perfect excuse to have a large pan of soup or stew on the stove. I’ve been stocking the pantry like a squirrel and I’m slow-cooking some Dutch pea soup. The peas fall apart overnight and the soup becomes so thick that it’s nearly a puree. It also passed the wooden spoon test: the spoon stands upright and the smoked sausage won’t sink. Time to stock the freezer and to share some care packages with friends who are always too busy to cook a proper meal
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