I figure I should write about our pets at home, since I haven't done that before.

Echo the kitten is literally tearing up everything in the living room. He's been messing with the blinds, knocking things off the table, climbing up on my dad's guitar case (which involves clawing his way up the side, which could leave permanent scratches.)

Our dog Jackson wants to chase him and play with him, but he knows I don't want him to, because they have such a huge difference in size and aggression levels.

Waffles the cat was in here earlier sort of playing with Echo, but he got freaked out by the tiny ball of energy and ran away.

Our oldest cat Ginger is hiding somewhere else in the house, probably sleeping on some clothes and getting hair on them. She has perfected the art of being a grumpy old woman.

Aussie the bearded dragon laid some unfertilized eggs last week, and she's been bobbing her head up and down at us. My mom read somewhere that it signals a desire to mate, so she's pretty much been flirting with us.

Meredith's bunnies are just psychopaths. You have to catch them if you want to pick them up, and they hate both activities. If you do catch them, you'll most likely walk away with scratches from them kicking their way out of your arms.

All three turtles all dive underwater and hide when anyone walks into the room.

And the fish are just fish. They get fed and are pretty to look at.

(Side note: Jackson was sitting next to me as I was typing this whole thing. He just farted and walked away, leaving the smell for me to appreciate.) >o<;;

Corey and I just discussed possible baby names for an hour. Our friend Ailea has been trying to convince me that she's pregnant, even though her boyfriend has been in Japan for about five months now. We were trying to think of ways to get her back at her little game of "Freak Out My Friends," so we thought that discussing baby names would probably be the best way.

We thought of baby names just so Ailea would know that we've talked about it, as if we're planning on having a kid in the next year or so. AGAIN: the name of the game is "Freak-Out-Ailea-Because-She-Tries-To-Freak-Us-Out-On-A-Daily-Basis-And-It's-Only-Fair." I'm not pregnant, and if Corey and I were to get married and have kids, it would be in the very distant future.

He already knows that I would keep my last name, because I like it a lot. It's part of who I am, and I don't believe in changing my identity just because I get married to someone. Also, I'm a feminist. He shouldn't expect me to change my name if he's not willing to change his. Anyway, that would mean that our kids names would be hyphenated. We decided on "Schuler-Higham" because "Higham-Schuler" requires you to close your lips to make the "M" sound, and then keep talking to say my part of the last name.

For a girl, I really like the name Hazel, and so does he. It's my great aunt's name (on my dad's side) and I think it's strong, yet still feminine and pretty. It is kindof an old-lady name, but it sounds like it could make a comeback by the time I'm ready to have kids. I also like Siobhan (pronounced shu-VAHN), because it's REALLY irish, but it's also difficult to say and to spell out.

On the subject of boys names, he vetoed Anakin and said "Do you want 'our son' to become evil?" hahah. He also vetoed Calvin, because it made him think of the comic strip immediately. I still think it's a nice name. Fionn and Finlay are both maybes. We thought that Adkyn (pronounced AD-kin) would be kinda cool, but hard to pronounce at first. David is a good middle name, because it would be passed down from both of our families.

So here's what we tentatively came up with:

Hazel Ann(?) Schuler-Higham
Adkyn David Schuler-Higham

You like? :)

Corey's parents went to Canada a couple weeks ago to visit relatives and renew their visas or something, and they brought a few of these chocolate-covered almonds back for him and his siblings, among other things. He gave his bag to me, because he doesn't like almonds.



They were delicious. ^_^