Happy Raturday

Welcome to a new weekly blog post I'm calling, Raturday! I've seen Caturday and while that's really cute, I think the rats needs some photo time so everyone can see how cute these little animals are. I've gotten permission from Rat Logic's fb page to share their pictures on my blog. So get ready to smile because these are cute. 

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Happy Mother's Day

I wanted to wish all of the mother's out there a very happy Mother's Day. 

Weekly Rat Facts: Cage Accessories

Scribbles and Flower needed new houses so I opted for fleece cubes to accessorize their cages. 

So I bought this one for Scribbles. 

And this one for Flower. 

They are pretty cute and soft and look comfy. Now while Flower loves hers and sleeps in it all the time now. 

Scribbles has yet to stay inside it for more than a few seconds. He sleeps under it, beside it, in front of it. But not in it. Silly boy. I might put a cardboard box in his cage and see if he likes that, all rats seem to like that for some reason. 

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a 'Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

  You can find links to samples like these at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week  received: 

Suave shampoo and Conditioner

Colgate tooth brushes and toothpaste

I also received a couple of Kindle books from blog contests.

This is an entire book set!

How To Build A 10 Year Old, A Dog House

You probably know by now that I live in an apartment complex. The doors are pretty close together and we have some courtyard space in front of our doors. The BBQ at the bottom of this picture is directly in front of my door and that is mine. But my next door neighbor, I will call her door slammer...went all out and put the chairs, flower pots and...dog house out in the courtyard in front of our doors. This picture was taken directly in front of my door. She thinks she is going to grow tomatoes, cantaloupe, strawberries and other fruits in those little pots. 

Yeah it looks nice and I wouldn't even be bringing this up but she went and got a dog house and spent all night, up until 3am building this thing outside for her 10 year old daughter who is coming to spend some time with her this summer.

See that dog house in the back? Yeah, doesn't that look like something a 10 year old girl would like? Not! I know every little girl wants a dog house to play in, right? lol 

I don't know what this woman was thinking. No kids or even dogs have gone in it. she might as well crawl in it and take a nap herself and we just found out that our apartment manager plans on adding more small rocks to the courtyard and putting in some cement slabs in the middle so people can put their BBQ's on them. So door slammer will have to move all her stuff anyway. Maybe she can set the dog house up in her apartment for her boyfriend? lol 

I just can't make this stuff up...

Chatabout.com

I think I told you all about Chatabout.com a couple of month's ago when I found it. I added it to my master list of sites that I use *just click the link to see the list*. I like to tell people about great sites they can use to make a little extra money online when I find them and this is a good one. 

A few weeks ago I cashed out enough points to get a $25 Amazon gift card and it only took me 20 days to do it. 

You get points for doing really easy things like making comments, sharing news articles on twitter and facebook, asking questions, taking surveys and answering the daily poll. I average about 100 points per day but it does take a while but it's totally worth it. 

500 points will get you a $5 gift card. 

2500 points gets you a $25 gift card. 

I waited until I had enough points for a $25 gift card so I can show others that it is possible to get that much and it only took me 20 days. I did some of the bonus activities like signing up for free accounts on other sites and that sometimes got me as much as 85 points.

So do you think you would use Chatabout now? 

Want to sign up? Here's a link for you. 

Happy Cinco De Mayo

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No, this picture has absolutely nothing to do with Cinco De Mayo, but I had to share it when I saw it on fb because as you all know...the Scottish accent just does it for me. I've never hidden that fact from anyone. That, coupled with this picture and what it says just had me giggling like crazy this morning.

Happy Raturday!

*Hades*

Welcome to a new weekly blog post I'm calling, Raturday! I've seen Caturday and while that's really cute, I think the rats needs some photo time so everyone can see how cute these little animals are. I've gotten permission from Rat Logic's fb page to share their pictures on my blog. So get ready to smile because these are cute. 

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A couple of these appeared on Rat Logic's page but I made all of these meme's myself using pictures of my own rats. Enjoy. 

*Lucky*

*Flower*

*Scribbles*

*Flower*

*lucky*

*Lucky*

*Jasper*

Understanding HIV

Recently my husband had an anniversary. He passed his 21st year of living with HIV/AIDS so I thought I would take that opportunity to write a couple of articles about HIV. I always say that he is living with the disease instead of what people used to say, that people with HIV are terminally ill. Thanks to the medications people with HIV can lead long, healthy lives for 20, 30 and even more than 40 years. No longer do we fear that our loved ones who have the disease are going to get sick and die right away because the medications that are available are really good at suppressing the virus in the body. 

Weekly Rat Facts: Scritches and Other Rat Related Words

If you ever wonder into a rat forum or see rat owners talking about their rats on fb or twitter you might see some words that make no sense to you, like pancake, scritches and heart rat. We rat owners have several words to describe our little friends and I've written down the most popular ones with an explanation in one of my new articles. 

Rats 101: The Unique Language of a Rat Owner

Freebie Friday!

Welcome to another edition of Freebie Friday, where I tell you what free samples and full sized products I received in the mail and how you can get them too. Someone asked me why I do a 'Freebie Friday" each week, so I'll tell you.

A while back I listed all the free samples and wins that I had received that previous year and so many people didn't believe that I could have gotten so many free things. So I decided to prove it by taking a picture every week and sharing the sites that I found the links to the freebies at. So now you too can get great free samples coming to your mailbox each week.

You can find links to samples like these at Hey It's Free and Freebie Shark.

This week I received: 

9 boxes *3 flavors* of Triscuits Thin Crisps

A serving and dip dish

10 Triscuit Tote bags

10 Coupons for a FREE box of Triscuits

This box was from House Party.

In my box were 3 boxes of Cinnamon and Sugar, Wasabi and Soy Sauce and Sour Cream and Chives flavored Triscuits, also a serving and dip dish.

Did you receive any freebies this week?

Review of V8 VFusion 100% Juice

Hubby bought this because he likes V8 juice and he likes fruit juice and we have been seeing commercials about how great this tastes and how it gives you a full serving of fruits and vegetables. So he wanted to try it. He poured a glass and took a sip...all I can say is the face he made was not one of delight. 

He handed me the glass and asked me if it tasted bad or if maybe it had gone rotten. That's right, it tasted so bad to him that he actually thought it was rotten.

So I bucked up and took a sip and it was the most foul thing I've tasted in a long while. I took another sip because I knew it wasn't rotten or hadn't gone bad but what was it that made it taste so bad? So I took another sip and realized what I was tasting..there was the banana and strawberry but there was also a taste of tomato juice. That's right, just picture pouring tomato juice all over a banana and popping that succulent edible in your mouth and you might understand how this just doesn't work at all.

Some say it's like sunshine in your mouth but for me it was more like a tornado destroyed my taste buds.

And kids are supposed to love this stuff? Doubtful. 

A To Z Blogging Challenge: Z Is For Zoomania

Zoomania- meaning...a passion for animals.

If you've been visiting my blog for very long, you already know I have a passion for animals. They're just too cute not to. Am I right?

Let me share some of the reasons I like animals...especially rats

They wear hats for you.

Celebrate their birthday's with you and share their cake. 

Pose for Easter Pictures.

Wear Santa Hats.

Give you Christmas Presents.

Play Santa for the kids.

Snuggle with their duckies.

Love kids.

I can't think of any better reasons. 

A to Z Blogging Challenge: Y is For Yawning *rats of course*

If you like rats, then this post is for you. Is there anything cuter than a rat yawning? Probably not, so with permission from the owner, I've shared some of Rat Logic's pictures from their fb page. Enjoy.