Crossing It Off ...
Mar. 20th, 2011 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
texchanSeems I have one of those never-ending "to do" lists. It never fails that I'll get about halfway down it, only to realize the list was much longer than I ever imagined. Thus, I never seem to get more than half of my "gotta do it" stuff done. Very frustrating. And even worse since the depression has hit in full force, as I have a lot of trouble motivating myself to get much of anything done.
Today, though, I managed to cross one big weekly chore off: the cleaning of the hamster cage. It's not something I hate doing. Or something I particularly dread doing, which is good, since I do it every week. But it is time consuming, so it feels great to be done with it for another little while. This week was even worse than usual, because I was sick last week. So HPH was a week overdue for his regular cleaning. And let me tell 'ya: Hamsters are messy! He had had a great time in his filthy cage. I don't think it bothered him at all that the cleaning was so late in coming. He had food stored EVERYWHERE. He even dragged a bunch of stuff up to his little look-out tower (which we call his sunroom) on top of his cage. And he had buried food pellets all over the place. Silly guy. He wasn't too happy with me when I put him back in the sparkly-shiny-clean-like-new cage, and he discovered all his stashes were gone. I love watching him run all over the cage looking at everything. And he rolls on his wheel and the top of his little hut, too -- like he's trying to get everything back to smelling "just right".
I added a new tower thing to the cage today, too. It'll mean more tubing to clean in the future, but I think it's worth it. (Of course, I might change my mind next week, when cleaning time rolls around again and I have to take all those new tubes apart for washing.) The new tube goes from one of the connectors on the side of his cage, up the side (on the outside) and ends a little bit above the top of the cage. It also has a little house area where he can sit and watch stuff -- kinda like a second sunroom for him. And it has what the manufacturer called a loop-the-loop: basically a round bit of tunneling that he can run through. It's all capped off with a little bubble thing he can pop his head into to look around. He seems thrilled with it. I can see him in there now, climbing all over everything. I think it's pretty cool, too, although I'm a little paranoid about how well the tubing fit together with the cage. I've checked it several times, but still ... I feel a bit of uncertainty as to whether I put it together correctly or not. It seems tight enough, though. So I'm going to try not to fret too much over it. >.O
Today, though, I managed to cross one big weekly chore off: the cleaning of the hamster cage. It's not something I hate doing. Or something I particularly dread doing, which is good, since I do it every week. But it is time consuming, so it feels great to be done with it for another little while. This week was even worse than usual, because I was sick last week. So HPH was a week overdue for his regular cleaning. And let me tell 'ya: Hamsters are messy! He had had a great time in his filthy cage. I don't think it bothered him at all that the cleaning was so late in coming. He had food stored EVERYWHERE. He even dragged a bunch of stuff up to his little look-out tower (which we call his sunroom) on top of his cage. And he had buried food pellets all over the place. Silly guy. He wasn't too happy with me when I put him back in the sparkly-shiny-clean-like-new cage, and he discovered all his stashes were gone. I love watching him run all over the cage looking at everything. And he rolls on his wheel and the top of his little hut, too -- like he's trying to get everything back to smelling "just right".
I added a new tower thing to the cage today, too. It'll mean more tubing to clean in the future, but I think it's worth it. (Of course, I might change my mind next week, when cleaning time rolls around again and I have to take all those new tubes apart for washing.) The new tube goes from one of the connectors on the side of his cage, up the side (on the outside) and ends a little bit above the top of the cage. It also has a little house area where he can sit and watch stuff -- kinda like a second sunroom for him. And it has what the manufacturer called a loop-the-loop: basically a round bit of tunneling that he can run through. It's all capped off with a little bubble thing he can pop his head into to look around. He seems thrilled with it. I can see him in there now, climbing all over everything. I think it's pretty cool, too, although I'm a little paranoid about how well the tubing fit together with the cage. I've checked it several times, but still ... I feel a bit of uncertainty as to whether I put it together correctly or not. It seems tight enough, though. So I'm going to try not to fret too much over it. >.O