Uh...Joel, we need to go to the hospital

*WARNING: This blog is very graphic and gross*

Ah frick. I had a good day yesterday!! And then we went to Fudon, and even though it was all about onions, it was so much fun and awesome how it always is. Then we went home and i promptly fell asleep like always....

Until i woke up at 1230a.m. with the wooooorst urge to pee. So i went to the bathroom. And it wasn't as much pee as i was expecting for how horrible it felt. And the feeling didn't go away. By this time i was feeling nauseous and hot so i layed on the floor for awhile. But i stillllll felt like i had to pee. So i got up and peed again, and i wiped, and there was blooood. and i was like woah...i don't think i'm starting my period....

So i went and layed down for awhile, but pretty soon i had to pee again, and when i did, i watched the stream ( i know that sounds gross ) and there it was...blood, in my urine, blood...and then some blood clots, oooohhhh it hurt so bad!! I thought i was passing stones, because they run in my family...so i looked it up on webMD and woke up Joel and told him we had to go to the hospital....Then i called ask a nurse and they told me to come in right away.

So sweet sweet Joel, drove me to the hospital at one in the morning, and i peed in a cup, which was soooo disgusting and just blood red.

And i sat in a gown for a couple hours and finally got an answer that i had a UTI...they gave me drugs, and i took them as soon as we got home.

Holy Jesus, it was sooooo painful, i never ever ever want to pee blood ever again. It was so terrifying.

-Chanda

The History of my hair...

I hate going to the hairdresser...I understand they went to school to inform people of the health of their hair, and blah blah blah, but if i don't ask for advice on how to hydrate my hair, or condition or whatever...then don't give it to me.

I don't condition my hair, i haaaate the feeling of soft, silky hair...i know that sounds silly, but when my hair is soft and silky it's staticky, and hard to keep out of my face, i loooove to have hairspray in my hair, and its always stiff and icky when i go into the hairdressers....so suck it.

The other thing is i never get my hair cut on a good hair day, if i'm having a good hair day, there is no need to get it fixed, when it looks awful, i get it cut so i can fix it differently...there's a whole system to my madness, Also, ya know the whole conditioning thing...if my hair is dry and gross it's easier to ratt it up and make it look how i like, haha. I'm a goober.

So now...a look at the history of my hair, because i love pictures...




After i bleached the black out of my hair.

When i still had the black in my hair

Red.



Purple, before i went to MN

Pink in MN




Pink the week after i moved to MN

Red, and flipped.



Blue, not to mention the burst blood vessels.

Black, i like the most...

Red again

When Joel and I met, i had a sweeeeet A line and Red tips (In this pic they're faded)

I got sick of posting pictures, so i'm done now. I hate that this blog seems very self-absorbed because all the pictures are of me...haha, i like to take pictures to tell the stories of my life...or hair. I'm done now.

-Chanda

The Gnar family...

His and Hers!

Clifford...the little, big horn sheep

I can't take credit for either of those pictures, i stole them off of two of my co-workers facebooks, that i'm not actually friends with...(I'm such a creepy stalker)

So that's the lil' fella i've been going out at midnight to feed. He's soooo cute, it just sucks because i can only do night feedings because i deal with the other big horn all day and they don't want to transfer disease or anything, which is fine, but he's the most active during the day...when i don't see him, and then when i show up at night he's exhausted and i think is dying in front of me, he's never interested to eat and just lays his head down and passes out, and i feel like i'm a failure, and then the next day he's just great and dandy when he wakes up, i think he hates me, he's all pissed that i wake him up everynight, hehe.

I crawled in his crate with him last night, i told my dad we should have brought extra blankets and a pillow to make him more comfortable...maybe a heating pad...He said he's even more spoiled now than he would have been in the wild, psh. Not if i was his mother....

Anywhoser....last night the sandwhich and wine party was so much fun!! Yay, i can't wait until Joel and I get our own place and we can have classy lil' get togethers!

We're also getting our otters in next week, which is going to be crazy, there won't be anymore fighting over who gets to feed the baby....there will be Three babies to feed!! I think we'll all get our share....maybe i can take them home and keep them in the bathtub, atleast until they're grown and ready to go on exhibit.

Oh last night when i was at the zoo, i had to go in the building and check something, and most of our inside animals are nocturnal, so when i went in with the flashlight, everyone was up, running around and being crazy, it was so cool!! The Chinchilla was insane running around and leaping over branches, i never knew he was so active! It was fun to see them actually doing stuff.

Tonight Joel and I are going to Cabaret, and tomorrow i'm getting my Narwhal tattoo i'm soooo excited!!

-Chanda

Oh maaaannnnn...

OOOoooo, i am horrible at keeping secrets. No, i take that back, i'm horrible at keeping exciting secrets that are eventually going to be told anyway....i'm realllllly good at keeping juicy, naughty, and weird secrets....there, i'll put it that way.

I realllllly want to tell everyone, but we're not suppose to tell the public, because it's like stupid, i don't know....Get me drunk enough, i'll tell you...teeeehehe. Just kidding!!

Okay, okay, it has to do with a baby......,.No, i'm not pregers.

But i will be caring for it, aloooottt. And it's coming tomorrow!!

OHHHHhhhh, it's so exciting! Okay, i'll stop now.

Yeah, i'm going to be even more exhausted than i already am, and Joel is going to hate me, i've turned into such a brat lately, i don't know what it is, but i catch myself doing it, and also when he points it out....I don't mean to be. I'm just a poopy butt.

Okay, well i'll let you guys ponder awhile, and i'll probably have pictures tomorrow and you'll totally find out what's up. :]

-Chanda

They said i had a battery in my throat...

Oh yesterday was insane...there were a bagillion people at the zoo yesterday. Today wasn't too bad, but there were three birthday parties and produce, and all sorts of other crap i couldn't get done...

But the birthday party is the best....so when we get a birthday party at the zoo they get to pick what animal we'll bring in and talk about, they don't get to touch the animal (which i think is stupid, who cares then?) But basically we talk about it for 5-10 minutes and they can look but not touch, and then we leave...pretty exciting?? Well i had one today with the three toed box turtle, the kids had no attention span, and they kept trying to touch it, and no one was paying attention....it was really stupid, then as i'm trying to explain why we don't let them touch; specifically the turtles, cuz it could make you really sick, this little girl goes..."I was really sick a couple weeks ago and they said i had a battery in my throat." Uh...huh? what?? Where are your parents?!?! I left after that....

Bahahaha.

I also had my first run-in with the Hognose snake....eeeeee!! So when i first started working there debra told me these horror stories about how he would hiss and spit at her and strike at her when she would go in his exhibit...well for the past two weeks, he has been really chill and i was getting really comfortable going in and changing his water....whatever, he was usually in his little box....Well this morning he shed his skin, which was gross, and i had to get it out and that was fine because he had gone back in his little box....until later..................I was gonna get a dead stick out of there and i thought he was still in his box, so i put my key in the back (You have to also realize that these boxes are very high and the door practically opens above my head and when completely open swings down right level with my face.) So i put my key in the back, and i hear this "Hisssssssss" and i'm like huh, that's weird, and so i open the door alittle bit and i hear a louder "Hiiiiiiiiissssssssssss" and then something whack the door from the inside, He striked at the door!!!! Ahhhhhh, jesus, i shut that door so fast, and peed my pants, and my heart just about pounded right out of my mouth....it was terrifying!!!!! I went to the front of the exhibit to see through the glass, and he was right there, just waiting for me to open the door and rip my face off....oooooo so scary!!!!!! ekkkk.

Anywhooooooooooooooooooooo.

Gotta go back tomorrow, there are no quitters in baseball....or something, i stink.

-Chanda

Icky Crawly things

Today was gooooooodd, there were two of us on the "Ed Wall" and so our chores went by really fast, and my parents and Joel came and brought me lunch ...it was very nice of them. :-)

As we were leaving the parking lot there was a Ginormous snake on the road, like ridiculously huge, i mean anaconda size. okay i could be exaggerating...but honestly, HUGE! It was a bull snake, and Kari said to be careful and not run over the snakes....pssssshhh, i will totally go out of my way to shmush those little, i mean huge, bastards!

Eck, yea....she also said "You'll have to start watching out for guys like that when it gets warmer out." ewwww, i'm just going to carry a stick, or better yet, a gun with me, so i can shoot the snakes, i mean haven't they invented snake repellent yet?? Is that not a top priority in this country?? I mean with all the scientific advancements they have now days can't they come up with a snake repellent i could bathe in everyday before i went to work?! someday...

Miss Iggy Iguana scratched me today...i look battered. Ooooo, Joel is getting a tattoo on wednesday i am sooooo excited! it's gonna be kick ass, i'm alittle jealous, i want one, maybe i'll get a matching one. ;-) I do wanna get some more on my arms since tattoos aren't a problem at work! But not until i get my first pay check...in which i will find out how much i'm getting paid, tehehe, i'm ridiculous, i've been working for almost two weeks and i still don't know what i'm getting paid....eck.

Alright, that's all today.

-Chanda

Pictures!

So, work is exhausting...i really hope i'll get used to it. It doesn't seem like so much work when you think about it, but actually doing it, makes it crazy. It's fun though, i really like the porcupine..Pauhi.
She's my babe...and she loves peanuts.

This is Angie...
She kind of reminds me of iris, she's curious of everything, but also scared of everything...haha.




-Chanda

May day...a sad day

Bunny Little died last night...When Joel and I got home and played with her alittle bit she seemed fine, she drank her water and ate some straw, she was even grooming herself, but right before we went to bed i said to Joel, i didn't think she was going to make it through the night...and when i got up this morning she was dead... :-(

So my dad competed in the hardbat budweiser competitions...he made it pretty far, but lost to one of the guys he plays TT with on a regular basis.

In other fatty mc.fatty news....i squatted down to pick up bun bun today, and ripped my pants!! Right down the butt..like you always see in the movies! These jeans weren't too old, but holy cow, that sucks...that was my only other pair of pants that fit, so i had to go buy some other ones today...i need to start loosing weight, but i'm sooo not motivated. grrrr.

I've been dealing with this headache for over a week now, i'm so sick of having my head throb...i've been taking all sorts of different medications, it just won't stop, i can't figure it out.

Anyway, Chase and Mara's bbq is tonight..

-Chanda