Micks Little Page

Hello! I know I haven't blogged for nearly 6 mo, But i've started a fresh new blog! You can check it out at http://micksmarzipan.blogspot.com/

All the New things have called for the begining of a New Blog!

Hahaha, if you don't know about Settlers of Catan then this makes no sense. If you do, you can appreciate how badly resources are needed. We have had a great deal of fun playing the last few nights. I'm the only one who hasn't won yet, BUT I built the most epic road complex tonight so I'm pleased enough.
Christmas has been wonderful this year not only because I was home in Greenwood, but I also got to have Scotty with me :). We had a lot of fun preparing for christmas (wrapping and decorating) both in the Nish and Greenwood. I'm enjoying relaxing, but also working at Peoples for the holidays. It has been so fun being around the diamonds again and of course all of the wonderful people :).
We spent boxing day afternoon at Wendy's, and so I prepared some cupcakes to bring over. I wanted to so a design from the many cook books I received as gifts, but i didn't have any fondant or my collection of icing tips, so I improvised with a chocolate orange. Thankfully they turned out great and were popular wih the crowd. See picures below :).

Can you see the kitten? Neither can I, because it's not there.


But I assure you it was very close by! For those of you that don't know, I'm on the hunt to trap a little kitten (with a live trap - one that doesn't hurt them) that is surviving in the bog behind my apartment building. No, unfortunately I can't keep it, but I have been in contact with the Antigonish vet, SPCA and Animal Control and together we are going to secure some medical attention and home for this little Wabbit. I have affectionately named the kitten Wabbit (with some help from the official cat namer - Steph), as in wascally wabbit, because it has proved difficult to trap so far. But I have some help, I've been in touch with the man from animal control on the best methods of trapping kittens. He is a very sweet man who is compassionate about helping stray or abandoned animals, which completely baffled me as I assumed all "dogcatchers", as he is referred to by the vet office, were mean and hateful towards animals. He volunteers as a crossing guard, and is running to be re-elected as a schooolboard something.
I will keep EVERYONE posted via this blog on my progress with Wabbit, I am going to leave some more food out for it tonight to get it used to one location of eating. More to come!

This week has been a very busy with, I've been FULL to the brim with homework, but also enjoying wings and mixology and the regular stuff. I've even been getting some good wedding plans worked on! I've been too busy to blog, BUT I have been keeping photos in line for when I got a chance!
This week I baked a bit, some cookies and cupcakes. I Have big dreams to bake something fun for halloween but I am quickly running out of time! I'm going to do my best to get something put together this week for a girls night we're all having on the 30th. I am torn between making a cake or doing another round of cupcakes... we will see! Anyway as you can see from the picture my Pink velvet cupcakes turned out to be more red looking than pink, but its a nicer red than the brown/red the recipe made. I made a cream cheese icing to go on top and had some fun piping it out. I think it looks/tastes better with a little less icing than the usual ones I make, just because the cream cheese icing is SO rich. Instead of eating these ALL myself, they were shipped off to the boys house and megans house :). All found good hungry tummies.




And a kittykat update. The kittens are growing big! Apollo had his second vet appointment and is very very healthy. He weighs in at 3.2 pounds, and met two dogs while waiting in the reception area. Needless to say, they didn't become friends. The vet ooogled over how cute Apollo is, and how fluffy he is getting. Apollo even licked the vets nose, I think he loved the attention. Sirius and Apollo go back to the vet on November 19th together to get their last needles. Which will be so fun to try to control both of them. But I do think they wil be a good comfort to each other. Here are some cutie pictures of them from the past week and a bit!

I painted my toes last night, and I brought out some Q-tips from the bathroom. And it began. I noticed that i was short quite a few Q-Tips after they were in the living room for 5 minutes. I peeked under the couch and Sirius had them with him and was rolling around and acting like a fool. This morning I threw one into the garbage and he dove in after it wildly. Not being a kitten expert I thought this was like tinfoil balls or bells, but it seems like this may be a Sirius thing afterall. Apollo tried to get into it, but after a while he gets bored. Enjoy the film! (there isn't any sound sadly, but I am laughing a lot)



I Will upload another one soon!!

Okay if you are thinking that we've made a mistake with determining the kittens gender again, you are right! Our newest addition to the family has followed in Apollos footsteps and dooped us all! At the vet we learned that we have gained another little boy, and that in fact 'Phanny the girl kitten' was never meant to be. So I'd like to introduce Sirius, our new little boy kitten! Named after Sirius Black, from Harry Potter! (so it is pronounced Serious)
On another note, I had my eyes examed and sadly... I will NOT be getting cool fun amazingly awesome glasses. :( My vision is still perfect. BUT i had a lot of fun getting my eyes checked, as Dr. Noseworthy was fairly young and had a great sense of humor. We shared a long laugh over a family guy joke, "Jafar at the optometrist"... he thought it was hilarious because sadly it is so close to reality of optometrist life. He reccomended not to take the Jafar approach but rather to go with my first impression lol (see video).

(poor Quality but it is the only one i could find.)
Jafar Needs Glasses



And now, please enjoy silly pictures of Sirius and Apollo!

OKay, i Promise. This will be THE LAST blog where I introduce a new member of our family. We have officially become a zoo. But I would like to introduce, PHANNY (formerly known as Binx) has become a part of our family. She came to us is dire need of a home, as a friend of ours had to get rid of her. Phanny is a recycled name, but we just couldn't let it slip away. Apollo and Phanny are meant to be friends. He is kinda plump and goofy, while she is wirey and fast. They make a hilarious team, sharing kibbles, a litter, toys and sleep times. They took a little encouragement to warm up to each other, but they have been GREAT for each other. Both kittens were a little wild before (as Haley, Phannys other mommy, would compare scratches with me in medieval history class) but now that they have each other to play with they hae really calmed down and even become a little cuddly :). Haley got Phanny(Binx) the same weekend we got Apollo, so the two kittens are close in age. Now for many pictures!
(please bare with me its not uploading properly i will upload them tomrorow!! )