hi guys. been a while!

im still alive n kickin.......

sooo.... this weekend was interesting. the boys had a show in vallejo... good show.... but ended up with some jackass drunk dumbfuck getting all high and mighty and starting shit... including throwing one of our boys into a table... and then tryin to start a fight out front... which didnt work till he sucker-punched the drummer in the face.








he learned fast, don't fucking punch the little guy, cos the little guy's bigger friends will defend him.

that guy went to the hospital, and one of our boys went to jail (drunk in public, fighting in public - no charges pressed)... once dude gets outta the hospital, hes going to jail for while, there was a warrant out for him.





what a fucking weekend.


i had gotten up at 12:45 in the afternoon.... did errands, packed more stuff in the car... drove to here (new apartment), unpacked, showered, drove 2.5 hours to vallejo........ started driving back after the brawl.... backtracked cos the boys had a flat..... rearranged traveling accommodations to take home those who NEEDED to get home.... drove back home..... faster than i should ahve in PEA SOUP THICK FOG....... dropped everyone off in their homes.... then drove BACK to the truck... helped them get a new tire, drove and had them follow me to the jail (..... yes, i know where the solano county jail is. dont ask.), then finally around 11:20 dave told me to go home cos i ahdnt slept. so i did. i made it as far as the old apartment before needing to crash, so i crashed on the couch and slept..... and im still tired.





what a weekend

LOL. almost done moving into the new apartment.... woohoo! set up Hades' cage.... my baby has a HUGE cage now. 6 feet long, 3 wide and 1.5 tall. i love my baby.

the rack is setup too, to house the balls, corns, and hognoses, but i will prolly be putting the corns, hognoses, and the bulls into hibernation this fall.... either that or just keep them cooler and feed less. i need to decide if i want to breed or not. OH!!!!


and ill be posting pics of the hatchlings i had soon

yay! im moving to Yuba City! just gotta find me a house... AND a new job. *grumble*

you see a label reading "contents may be hot" and reach for your snake hook

you see the "BCC" option on your email and wonder what a boa constrictor is doing there

you think not eating for a month is perfectly acceptable

you see someone with blue eyes and wonder if they are shedding

You get giddy with excitement when the FedEx man brings you a box of dead rats.

You're the customer at the pet store but answer all the herp questions

Your arms say you're an I.V. drug user...your python says you're dinner

your roommates dont even bat an eye when they see a plate of rats thawing in the fridge

While everyone else heads to the local cafe for lunch break at work; you go out and flip rocks.

You have ever driven 10+ hours to pick up a reptile, or attend a Reptile Show. (For most of us..LOL)

You have taken out a loan for pet meds, but you yourself have not seen a doctor in years.

You can tell a dead vs. regurge smell from the other end of the room.

You walk down the street and will notice the lizard running away before the dollar bill at your feet.

You have rubbermaid containers in your car.

You travel with a pillowcase.

When you go to a family reunion at a park, and instead of bringing a casserole, you bring a snake hook, pillow case, and delicups

You wont go grocery shopping for yourself or your family, but you will shop for hours at the 99 cent store looking for new tupperware hides, bowls and soak tubs.

You have a herp evacuation plan in case of fire. And it involves going back into the burning building. More than once.

You go into the garage to get rats, and can feel the weight of them without needing to go to the scale.

Your husband does not have any illusions about who is blissfully soaking in his brand new expensive pyrex dish.

You keep your snake room at a warmer/better temp than you get during winter.

You have full sheds displayed like trophys

You have put over 200 miles on your car at 4 mph

You think "designated driver" means the one who holds the tail when the hot needs a shot

You slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the car for the rubber snake some jerk left on the trail to the campsite (or hooked it...you know who you are)

Everyone you work with knows there's no such things as a "poisonous" snake...venomous, on the other hand...

Instead of the "Beware of dog" sign, you have a "Beware of snakes" and oddly find it more effective.

You have a release form for any repairman to sign if they enter your home to do repairs.

You have been offered jobs at all the local pet stores

You check youtube daily to see if Al (viperkeeper) has posted a new video.

You can look at any rodent (guinnea pig, hamster, gerbil, rat, mouse, etc) and the first thing that comes to mind is "would that make a good snake-snack"?

Your snakes have their own myspace accounts.

You'd rather eat ramen than let your pets go one week without food.

You frequently visit yard sales for a cheap cage...

Every time you go to the local pet store you always ask if they have any cracked or busted cages for sale cheap or even better to give away..

You can not stand the sight of a empty cage.

You get in trouble (on a regular basis) at work for being on the internet on some herp forum..

You have years worth of breedings and potential offspring already planed out...

You forget where you are, and talk about how many herps you have... then get confused when people back away from you, looking disgusted.

You know youre a herper when you say youre going to go thaw YOUR food out, and you fall over laughing cos you realize that youve been converted to eating f/t

You've bred rabbits for 15 years, yet have no idea what their average life span is.

You answer the door holding a big fat snake & wonder why the Jehovah's Witnesses won't talk with you.

Your mom knows about you & your excursions out into the woods and into the local pet store, and now frisks you down as soon as you enter the house!

You feel guilty picking your "pet" rabbits in front of a group of bunny-adoring children.

The employees at the local pet store give you dirty looks every time they see you heading for the small animal section.

You've said "Are aquariums all right?" to a prospective landlord and don't own a single fish.

Your girlfriend tells you to choose between her & the snakes, and not only do you tell her you'll miss her, but calculate how many shoebox racks will fit in her half of the closet.

You & your significant other consider an afternoon spent cleaning rodent cages "quality time."

Your boss yells at you to come into his office and identify the snake that just slitehered in.

Your significant other refuses to let you go to Lowes by yourself anymore for fear of how much extra stuff you will bring home. "But honey, this will be the perfect shelf system for that new rack."

Other people keep scrapbooks of kids pictures and birthday cards ... yours is full of perfect sheds.

you're the only apartment with a second freezer hidden in a closet.

your the only apartment with a table saw and shop vac.

you're the only apartment who has flooded the hall way filling up your monitors pond.

you're visiting family thinks you have a self mutalation problem.

you work at Round Table Pizza, and while signing the company christmas cards, you sign "from RTB #18" instead of RTP, and you address all the envelopes to the other rtp's as "RTB ##"

the kids idea of going to the zoo is going from one room to another...

Things make you fell cold and scaley inside....but that's a good thing

your wifes friend has twins and you say "thats a pretty big clutch"

your fridge is filled with all sorts of juicy and healthy greens but all you eat is pizza pops and hot dogs

3/4 of your room is covered with delicups, rubbermaids, and racks

the mailman is afraid of putting his hand in your mailbox

the bull mastif is afraid to leave his kennel because the water monitor escaped

you put a big huge boa cage right in the front window of the house so any would be robbers would be afraid

kids in school dont even blink when you walk into school carrying a bag of rats from your trip to the reptile shop at lunch time and put them in your locker (me again)

You downgrade to a twin bed so you have more space in your room for animal cages

someone says, "if that would have been a snake it would have bitten me" and you say, "Do you have rat on you?!"

you can't figure out why all the local business are looking to hire part-time, frozen-thawed workers (P/T, F/T)

you plot out a trip and actually try to include as many back roads and dirt roads as possible.

you do your laundry and every pillowcase you shake out has a spare ziptie in it.

from March till Late September, your GPS is your lifeline back to civilization.

you have assaulted more than one UPS guy for shaking boxes or twirling them while walking down your driveway to deliver them.

you get thinking about all the rat blood and what if the cops ever came and sprayed luminol.

you start ordering any meat you eat at restaurants by it's latin name.

while courting, you prefer to get "feeders" over flowers

You decorate your house and xmas tree with perfect sheds..

you get confused by common names.

you have enough syringes, needles, sutures and medication to stock a small clinic.

you categorize people using terms like "piebald" "leucistic"

you constantly confuse "hatching" and being "birthed"

Or if someone is sick/has a cold, you tell them to up their temperature so they can cook it out.

You almost make a dead rat smoothie because the dead rat in the freezer looks just like the frozen banana right next to it.

if youre sick in bed and you take a breath, hear wheezing and rattling and actually think to yourself "i need to up my heat, and lower my humidity" then you realize what you just said, smack yourself and go take a steaming hot shower.

all your best tupperware containers have air holes drilled into the lid.

half of your income goes to the utility company so you can keep your house at 80 degrees, even if you can't afford food for the week.

you find yourself saying silly things like, "Wakey, wakey, little snakey" to creatures that cannot hear.

you missed out on meeting your friends for lunch because you had to stay home and 'soak your snakes.'

explanation of that term no longer seems wierd to your friends.

you're a herper when you listen to a song called "Blue Eyes" and get all misty-eyed thinking about your little snake who is in shed.

you are typing that you love something to bits..... and you realize you typed you love it to bitis instead.

your mom had to learn the hard way not to 'open those pillow cases of laundry' you brought with you the last time you came home for the holidays

You live in the midwest, its winter, and you own a generator, not for your food or warmth, but so your 'babies' can stay warm during the power outages

The local hardware store staff think you must be remodeling a house with all the MDF, tile, caulk, sealant, linoleum, storm windows, dimmer switches, etc that you buy

You have ever been to a reptile show 'just to browse and pick up some feeders' and ended up having a conversation that goes something like this --'Well we could put the BP in his old aquarium, and downsize the cages that the boas are in, then we could put soandso in this enclosure, and put this new one in the enclosure that x is in now just until we can get something built'

You giggle at the thought of someone breaking into your house.



and the kicker....

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A HERPER WHEN YOU GIGGLE, SMILE, OR NOD YOUR HEAD IN AGREEMENT TO EACH OF THESE!

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