5thJanuary2013

My day has consisted of getting ready for work, working, and spending an evening at my nans for a small family gathering which usually happens on Saturday nights. As it's the start of the year my work place decided it would be a nice time to start spring cleaning, which I'm not too keen on. My job was to take shoes off the shelf, dust the shelf, and put the shoes back onto the shelf. It wasn't a fun job, and I don't appreciate dust at all. I only managed to get half of the shoe collection done, but I'll possibly be carrying this on tomorrow through my four hour shift.

I came across a familiar face today at work, but couldn't put a name or a reason to it. It was a little embarrassing / awkward when that person approached me and said "hello, remember me then?". Once he told me his name it all came back to me. I met them at my friends private party in December 2011, which is understandable to why I wasn't remembering them completely. They were involved in a big blow out I had with my cousin at the start of the year, which led the both of us not talking for around six months. It was hard as my cousin and I were very close, but she was completely over-reacting to the situation and I was a little clueless to everything. Thankfully my cousin and I have made up now, but I wouldn't say that we are as close as we use to be. The familiar face buzzed around me while I was working, and it was a nice catch up to have, even if I did have a lot of work to get through and it wasn't a nice reminder.

There's not much to say about my family gathering, as most of my time was spent on my laptop looking through social media sites and playing games. I did enjoy my families company, but I feel it would have been more beneficial for me to go home and rest as I wasn't too lively. I'm off to sleep now though, in preparation of a long day tomorrow consisting of cleaning out my animals (fish tank, chinchilla cage and multiple hamster cages) and room, working, and then coming home to let one of the baby hamsters go.

Seems as I have not written about my baby hamsters as of yet in 2013, I will do so now. I currently only have two more baby hamsters left, one of which that has an owner that will be collecting her tomorrow. I have six of my own hamsters that I will be keeping; Mini (mum), Nibbler (dad), Scramble and Marble (boys), Mash and Barley (girls) which were from the first litter of the parents. The four babies were purposely bred, and were not planned on being kept, however the decision to keep them was made when there wasn't a lot of hamsters to sell. The second litter was not a planned pregnancy, instead the mother and father both escaped from their exercise balls at the same time. The first pregnancy didn't go too well, as quite a few of them didn't make it past the first few weeks. I think the death of the first litter was down to the fact that the mother wasn't prepared with efficient nutrients and that she was inexperienced. The second and last litter was much more successful, resulting in around seven surviving pups. The baby hamsters were very cute, and a detailed process through them growing up has been stated previously through the blog.