Að vera eða vera ekki.

Now that I have wings, the next thing is to get off the ground.

 It is almost the end of April now. Another birthday has gone by. The blue has almost faded from my hair. Rachel sent me a pair of Isis Wings, here is the video I just finished making for her.

 

 

Just drove 4 hours for 4 minutes of burger

Ghost!

Got a funny story to tell you about last night....jer,binh,daniel & I went to the movies and we were trying to find a parking spot when out of no where jer yells "ghost!' and binh stops the car and my brother looks up from his psp and I lean forward and it is this japanese lady with her hair blowing in the wind and her face illuminated with a green glow from her cell phone! She looked right at us &  Binh put his hand on his chest & said "Oh my  god that scared me!" It was so funny, I swear she looked like an onrio( a japanese ghost who seeks revenge) from "The Grudge." :P

Posting a comment for the first time in an online herp group is always irritating.No matter how perfect your terrarium or how healthy your reptile, if your not a breeder 65% of the time your welcome will be a long list of why you shouldn't be there. If you stick it out graciously & somehow manage to not tell everyone to go stick their head in the sand, you will be accepted. It is kind of like sorority hazing, I think.

Leap of Faith

One thing that I admire about chameleons is the way they don't seem to have very good frontal vision and use their front legs like a blind person's cane, yet it never stops them from reaching for a higher branch.  My chameleon does this thing sometimes where she stands up on her back legs and streaches out as far as she can, front legs spread wide and thrusts herself  into the air. Although it is more like free falling than a jump, I have nicknamed it "the chameleon's leap of faith."

 

Febuary is for Friendship ^^

 

 

The thing about Chameleons is...

They are arboreal-
 
-which means they will always try to get to the highest place :P

 

Karma's Colors

 
 

Valintine's Day 2011

Things have been hectic around the Smith house these past 2 weeks. Both my husband and I had dentist appointments this week, plus I was overseeing my brother's move from Va. to Ga.. So you can bet that I was pretty darn surprised when my husband handed me  a bouquet of yellow roses! (which began a desperate search for something to contain them and they ended up in an empty sugar container :P) And earlier that day, my bestie  sent me a huge box of chocolate covered strawberries!

 
 

Chameleon Crazyness!

Thursday my husband told me that on the way to work he was listening to the radio and heard about a place he thought I would really like and that he wanted to take me there Saturday as a surprise :)

Repticon 2011 had came to Atlanta! There were reptiles,amphibians and insects for sale as far as the eye could see and it didnt take 5 minutes for a man to hand me a gargoyle gecko and I was in heaven!  Its skin was like warm silk. There were many many geckos, pac man frogs, boas & pythons of all sizes.Tarantulas, scorpions, centapedes and tortises too. An old woman was selling baby dart frogs that were so small it could fit in the center of a dime and still have room around the edges!There was even a Camen with its mouth taped shut that was for sale. It was the chameleons that I couldn't pass up though.

 
 We ended up going home with a  female baby veiled chameleon that I named "karma", a screen cage, double sided heat lamp, and a box of  100 small crickets.  The 13 watt uv ray bulb would not work when we plugged the lamp in and PetsMart did not sell any thing below a 70 watt. Sunday morning I was going to teach my husband about giving food and water to the crickets, when we discovered that during the night a huge colony of ants had attacked the crickets!  I had never had this happen before, but luckily we are both good at improvising. I told him to take the box of crickets out to the porch. He grabbed some oven mitts to protect his hands. Then we had to figure out how to get enough ants off to rescue whatever survivors there were. I came up with using a swath of duct-tape to remove the ants. My husband liked that part, but was less enthusiastic about the time it took scooping out the survivors and putting them in another container until I explained that we were like ranchers and we had to save our prized cattle. That took most of the morning. Then the afternoon was spent doing laundry, buying groceries,going to home depo to get a broad leafed plant for the terrareum, (chameleons only drink droplets of water that collects on plants) and traveling to a small family owned pet shop as a last resort to find the 13 watt uv bulb . Oddly-fortunatly enough, they had one.