Part I.

Yay, it's mah barfday!

I got a venus fly trap! It'll probably die within a week or so but it's still awesome. I love venus fly traps.

I also seem to have gotten a cold (or the first symptoms of swineflu, I dunno) but I'm not sure if I should count that as a gift... yet. We'll see how much other stuff I get, if I don't get anymore then I might count it as one to raise the gifts-per-birthday ratio... o_o

I mentioned in my previous journal I wanted to draw something to celebrate my birthday, but had no time and no computer to do it on/with... so just as I predicted, I haven't been able to draw anything.
Huge shocker there. I'll let it sink in before I continue...

...I've started a pic, but it's traditional art with pen/pencil/whatever you call it on normal notebook paper.
It's not like I can get it done in a day, what with all the erasing and stuff that's needed when I draw traditionally, so it'll probably not be done before midnight tonight either. We'll see...

Other than that I'll update later in case something else happens that's worth mentioning..

Oh, Rat said he was gonna give me my gift later... I can't help but think it's the breadcrumb he's been trying to "catch" lately. It's just been layng on the floor like any other breadcrumb, but he's been shuffling around it like he's hunting for about three weeks now. It's cute, but I think he way have overanalyzed the situation a little...

End of Part I.


Part II.

The day is now over and I didn't get any art done at all, been way to busy with family members comming over and eating up all my cake...

I got a venus fly trap plant, wich is AWESOME, some other crap, some birthday cards and some candy.

Rat has not given me anything yet... actually I haven't seen him at all for several hours. I wonder what he's up too...

End of Part II.


Part III. (almost two weeks later...)

I finally got my gift from Rat!

It turned out that when he found out that I got a Venus Flytrap, he wanted to give me something related to that. So he had set out to catch a fly!
And not being very large in size, he didn't exactly have an easy task ahead of him...
He had gone out of the city to the countryside, because he knew there were lots of flies on the different farms with farm animals like horses and cows.
To bad he didn't take a map with him, because, as always, he got lost in the woods pretty much instantly.
Luckily with the help of some helpful forest animals he managed to find a farm where they had more flies than they needed. Now he just had to catch one, and ithad to be alive at that!
He started trying to set up what in his mind were infinitely clever and unescapable trap devices (like placing a sugar cube on the floor, wait for a fly to land on it and then jump the fly to catch it), and after a few days of trial and error he actually caught a fly WITHOUT killing it in the process!
So now he had the gift and only had to return home with it...
We all know by now that he got lost again and the fly died after a relatively short time, so I won't bore you with those additional details...
He finally returned home, sad that he wasn't able to give me a live fly, but I explained to him that flies when they get captured go into hibernation and that it wasn't dead at all and that he had done an absolutely amazing job (wich he in all honesty had) and that it was the best gift on them all! And concidering what he went through to get it it was without any doubt the most thoughtful gift of them all.
We then fed the fly to Omnom (that's what I named the Venus Flytrap) and it was the best birthday ever! =3

Oh, and Rat finally caught that illusive breadcrumb as well. It is now on display in his trophy cabinet.

End of Part III.