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I'm going camping tomorrow! Yippee!

The family ward are all going out to a campsite near Salem for the annual family campout. I was in charge of dinner, so I decided to marinate tiny pieces of steaks for steak kabobs! I found a marinate sauce online, and I decided to try it out! It involves soy sauce, lemon juice, pepper, garlic, liquid smoke, and Worcestershire sauce. It smelled yummy, so hopefully it tastes good as well!

For dessert, we are going to make campfire cones! You take a waffle cone, spread peanut butter on the inside, and put in pieces of bananas and chocolate chips and marshmellows, wrap the cone in tin foil, and cook it in coals for 5-10 minutes. It sounds delicious, so I'm a bit excited!

My very messy bedroom

I also enjoy camping simply because I get to play with all the little kiddos I babysit all at one place, and last year I brought my nail polish (yeah, I know..) and I painted all the little girl's nails while the parents set up and took down the tents! It is pretty fun.

To keep me busy, I've just been watching Netflix (I have no social life), and preparing the food and such. I also decided I need to clean my room sometime soon, but I decided to take a nap and clean the gerbil cage afterword's. It's always an enjoyable experience interacting with my pet gerbils, because lately I have had a distinct love for all furry or feathery animals. My dad advised that I look into becoming a vet, which would be awesome, but the problem with that is that I would not be able to handle any surgery or blood or pee or gross stuff like that...I'd just want to play with the cute animals and hand them over to someone else when they get sick.
PS. did you know that they have Animal Rescue shelters specifically for Gerbils? And that in England they host Gerbil Shows? (similar to a cat or dog show).

Methos I think is the funniest, he has gotten very plump, and when you hold  him you can literally feel a fat-density difference from the other two gerbils (even though Franklin is very chubby as well). Whenever I clean their cage, I put all 3 of them in the dust bath together, but when it's time to get out Methos likes to stay in there as long as possible. I think it's because he enjoys the alone time without his brothers! Haha!

I know that I sound like a crazy gerbil lady, but these are the only pets I have owned that didn't live in a fish bowl. I've wanted a cute cuddly animal sense I was about 5, and now that I have them I am definitely Not wasting the opportunity to enjoy them as much as possible! (I just hope my little brother takes good care of them while I am off at college, otherwise I would take them with me)

July Sucks

So I started off this month by getting food poisoning from some Nachos that I ate at the movie theater. It sucked. I was only puking my guts out for about five hours, but that made my body super week and not really functional for the rest of the week, making the 4th of July very painful and groggy.
My mom originally thought it was the stomach flu, but I disagreed. Just to be safe, we put our 3 pet gerbils back in my little brothers room away from the germs that I produced while sitting on the couch, it made me sad to see them being shunned to the back of the house!

But on brighter news! My gerbils are finally starting to run on their exercise wheel! For a while I didn't put the wheel in the cage at all because all they would do is tip it over and chew on it, yet I saw online that if you hung the wheel up-side-down, so it was hovering over the ground and hanging from the lid of the cage, the gerbils will be more curious and use it properly. They are starting to get more exercise now because of it! Yippee!

I can tell snowy is getting old though, he is thinner than the other two gerbils, and as you can see in the picture, he sleeps a lot. sometimes he even shakes when he stands up on his hind legs. Poor little guy.

***63 days until I move into my apartment at college!!***