Snake Charming

[naomi_jay]

So! I have completely worn out my arm this weekend. I wrote about 4k on BLOOD HUNT and started a short story, as well as doing some brain storming for a sekrit projekt, and woke up this morning very achey and stiff all down my right arm and across my shoulders. I'm at a point with the arm injury where it doesn't really hurt at the time anymore, so I have no warning bell telling me to stop, but the next day I always suffer. Still, since I'm edging ever closer to finishing that mythical first draft, I'm not going to complain. Another 20k to go and I'm there!

 

48000 / 70000 words. 69% done!

In other news, we have acquired* a corn snake!



There he is, along with my hand. Not the best picture, but he's not feeling too sociable at the moment because he's shedding his skin. We'd been talking about getting either a bearded dragon or some leopard geckos for a while, and then a guy we know in the village mentioned he needed to rehome his snake because he was getting a puppy. Or something. So anyway, we picked him up on Saturday. He's six months old and we've named him Ket. He hasn't really been handled very much yet and is a bit tense whenever he thinks we're going to touch him, so we let him just settle in and burrow around the vivarium all day yesterday, and today we're going to spend some time getting him used to being handled. Stay tuned for my adventures with Ket, in which I will undoubtedly be bitten a lot!

*I've been thinking about the word "acquired" and how it makes it sound like we stole Ket or found him roaming the streets or something. Is that just me? It seems like a word you generally follow with "by illegal means." For the record, we did actually pay for him and didn't rob him from an unsuspecting passer-by or anything.

Comments

[naeko.livejournal.com]

SNAAAAAKE! I would love to have a reptile pet, but I am too squeamish to feed them.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not crazy about the idea of cutting open frozen mice heads for him, but I like to think the rewards will be worth it! And if not, I can just make Kyle do it.

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

that is so cool that you got a snake, I had a couple of little ones when I was younger, and I want a bigger one now, but the boyfriend is afraid, he has nixted the idea.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's a shame! I'm already excited about expanding our reptile collection, lol.

[laburton.livejournal.com]

Beautiful snake but it's not for me.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Each to their own!

[blythe025.livejournal.com]

Yay! on the writing. :)

And very, very cool snake. I've wanted to own a snake for a long time, but have decided that in general I'm not so good with pets, or rather, I know that I don't want to have to deal with caring for them, which is probably an important thing to know about oneself.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Too many people get pets on a whim then realise they can't handle the animal. Definitely better to know beforehand you can't!

[craving-vintage.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your arm. Hope it's feeling better today.

Congrats on your new snake!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I was able to be quite lazy at work today, so the arm is much better. And thanks on the snake! We had him out today for a play, and he's incredibly sweet and cool.

[craving-vintage.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Good to hear! :)

Wow, I've never heard of people taking their snakes out like that, which is a good idea. I probably would have never thought of that. Well, I wouldn't have a pet snake either. lol I'm more the furry pet lover. Is that normal or just something you two do to give him some exercise/fresh air?

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Yep, they do need lots of handling. They're very sociable and curious, so they like being out and about. I've just had him trying to get under my hair, lol.