Party at my journal \o/

Ladies and gents, I am proud to announce that today I have gained another year! That's correct: I am now twenty-three :Db (BTW, thanks so much for the virtual gift, rhap_chan ^___^)

Some things:

1) NaNo is now almost over, and I never got much farther than I did that first week. Oh, well! I'll probably be typing up and sharing the more story-like bits over on DW (first one is already up), and I do plan to continue with the novel, but. No longer NaNo. Not sure if that's a load off my mind or not :|a

Well, there's always next year.

2) For my birthday, my parents got me a new rat cage ♥♥♥ It has replaced my old home-made one that was difficult to clean, and should be at least a little easier to maintain. It also holds more rats than my last one, which leads into my next number...

3) I gave into temptation and adopted the four boy ratties that were available at PetCo ^^a They are currently settling into my smaller "travel" cage. The lady at PetCo said she'd done her best to make sure they were well socialized, and when I asked for a little litter/bedding to take with me so their new cage would smell more like "home", she threw in a yellow chewing block with it ^__^ Thank you, store lady! (I also think she was glad to know that all four would be going to the same home together. Yay, less separation!)

I'm currently planning to name them directionally: either Up, Down, Left, and Right, or after the cardinal directions, though I'm leaning towards the latter. I'm also planning to train at least one of them to do completely adorable tricks :Db

Incidentally, the four of them are currently hiding under the empty tissue box I put in their cage. Not in, under. I can already tell these will be very special rats, s-sigh.

4) Several of you will, I'm sure, be glad to know that I talked my grandmother into getting me the first three seasons of Supernatural for combination birthday/Xmas gifts. I've decided to accept the first one now, and the next two will actually wait for Xmas; it should even out to about an episode a day that way. Other than that, the cage, the rats (actually purchased for me by cat-owner roommate), and a pair of comfy socks/$20 from my other grandparents, I haven't gotten any RL gifts yet; I'm saving them for Family Dinner Night on Wednesday. I'll probably do a bigger report on that then.

5) Finally! In celebration of my aging, and also in celebration of learning just how many people also think it is awesome, I'll be taking prompts for Mononoke Girls' Academy in the comments ^^v