MOTW - Feb 17 - Feb 23 2013 - Lija

[Sasha]

Congrats! I love that your daughters are into reptiles, a lot of girls would be creeped out.

[Jenste]

Wednesday, show and tell. Wow us with your pictures/videos/sound clips.

Lija, just do Tues and Weds together

[Lija]

so sorry guys, life got in a way big time, but tomorrow will get on top of it, will spill all the beans about everything, it is my day off finally
you will get sick of me lol and my pictures lol

[Lija]

will continue what I should have done this week

I believe in science,that everything can be proven, i also believe in balance and harmony around us, for every Yin there is a Yan, for every negative there is positive, for every stupid there is a smart, everything around us will keep a balance if only we let it be.

favorite color - turquoise
favorite season - summer
hobbies: well lol a lot and actually that is one of the reasons i haven't got my vet license yet, my hobbies got in a way and before i go through the hell called getting north American license for internationally educated veterinarians i better know for sure that is what i want to do.
so.... i like art, i like to create, i like to do things myself, i like to learn and i like a challenge and i can't sit still i need to so something all the time, either it is painting or foil art, cross stitching, knitting or sculpting. Right now after seeing Bills tanks I'm all in into learning how to do it will show my creation soon
When my older daughter just started rhythmic she needed a competitive suits, there was not much of a choice, it was super expensive to get anything nice and chances are exact same costume will have tons of other girls, so i got a sewing machine and that is how it started.
here is an examples on why sometimes i'm away from FF for longer periods of time, when i start making usually I'm in until I'd done, i find it difficult to stop when you are in a creative "zone", i love it! it has everything, designing, painting, sewing, you are making something out of nothing, the first pic ( colorful one) made out of plain white fabric, it is all paint and swarovski

[Lija]

so now my non human family
first one would be a ball python, she has a interesting story. Actually majority of our animals came this way more or less.
so one day my husband called me from work saying firefighters brought her to his clinic, she is very cute and he'd like to adopt her. She was found in somebody's house, all curled up in a bathroom, the lady went to use the facility, saw her and freaked up. firefighters said that they found the lady standing on the top of toilet and screaming lol all that for tiny ( then ) ball python. pic taken soon after adoption, can't believe she was that tiny, she is a VERY big girl now.


so after required wait time with spca we adopted her. And that is how our reptile journey started. we kept some before, but never so many as we do now.

here is our first cat Nora, she is Abyssinian blue and the only one so far who we got knowing ahead of time what we want. She passionately hates everybody but me and would love to live on my bed or at least anywhere with me in sight, in her mind I'm her mommy probably. She is one of the smartest cats I've ever came across.

and the other 2 cats - Nika and Siamese cross Maya, both rescues. Maya is comptete opposite of Nora, she is the stupidest cat on earth probably, honestly, if cats IQ could be measured Mayas would probably be at 10 at max. Nika is a happy medium. in pic - Maya when she was a kitten, she climbed up the tree in hopes of catching our budges, whose cage is hanging on a wall.



to be continued .......

[Lija]

Congrats! I love that your daughters are into reptiles, a lot of girls would be creeped out.

lol they are not typical lol that is for sure, but i think lots of girls are this way because of stereotype, it is like almost expected for them to be this way. it is actually sad, when we have kids to come over and stay without parents they are very interested in things scaly, but if parent is present it is very different. From time to time I'm bringing one or 2 snakes or geckos to school for "show and tell", i think it is important to educate kids and give them opportunity to not be scared, to know how to respect reptiles and that they are not slimy as most of the people think. You won't believe how interested they are and how many whys I'm getting at schools, sometimes kids are coming to chat about something reptile related after school too. And we are talking about elementary school here.

[Sasha]

lol they are not typical lol that is for sure, but i think lots of girls are this way because of stereotype, it is like almost expected for them to be this way. it is actually sad, when we have kids to come over and stay without parents they are very interested in things scaly, but if parent is present it is very different. From time to time I'm bringing one or 2 snakes or geckos to school for "show and tell", i think it is important to educate kids and give them opportunity to not be scared, to know how to respect reptiles and that they are not slimy as most of the people think. You won't believe how interested they are and how many whys I'm getting at schools, sometimes kids are coming to chat about something reptile related after school too. And we are talking about elementary school here.

I'm learning that when people learn more about frogs and reptiles the less scared they are, me included. One of the doctors I work with is always asking me about them and wanting to see pictures. One of my coworkers came over to see them and she was amazed at the whole set up. Of course when the coworker came over my frog PERFORMED! Jumped on the glass, gave her a smile and even went into a shed! People just need to be educated.

[Sasha]

Love the pictures of your cats, as far as Maya being the most stupid cat I think it must be the breed, we have a Siamese mix that is pretty stupid too!

[Lija]

it way be true, although real Siamese cats are pretty smart, the skinny ones that look like rats lol