Bunny love...

So Ruby and Peter "got married" today. Which basically just means I dressed them up and took photos, and then tried to get them to live together in the same cage. No such luck. Peter wanted to do a lot of things that Ruby didn't want to do so much of...typical male, he is :S Anyway, got a few cute pics. And I'm totally exhausted so I'm going to bed now. Goodnight.

Things I just don't understand...

There are some concepts in life that just don't make sense to me....

Why everyone likes sports so much. Twenty guys running up and down a field, risking serious injury, over a ball- which is not even made of diamonds, chocolate, or anything good. People spending hours hitting a ball with a stick, attempting to get it in a hole- dude, pick up the ball with your hand, put it in the hole, and you saved five hours.

Calculus. Enough said.

Tea: it's just leafy water. You might as well drink from a puddle. I drink it from time to time, but I don't understand it.

Why society pressures women into removing hair from places it naturally grows. God probably put it there for a reason. And it keeps coming back. Give up.

Bruises- Why is it that when I hit my knee so hard that I almost cry, I never have a bruise to show for it? Yet other times, a huge black and blue bruise appears on my body, and I have no idea what I did to cause it.

Why when I tell my Cockatiel to STOP chewing my ear, she stops chewing my ear....and then starts chewing my OTHER ear!!!!!!!

So tell me, what are some things you don't understand??

French...

I've been trying to learn French for....almost 7 years. Since I became a Celine fan. Until recently, I haven't been getting far, mainly because while I have the information I just don't have the time to study it! So while I have a little more time at the moment, I'm making myself work on it whenever possible. And I'm hoping that by the time Celine does her next French interview, I'll be able to understand at least some of it!!!! While I'm irritated by the fact that objects have genders (My table is a boy? The car is a girl? Whyyyy? And if I forget, it's not like I can just look under and check!) And the fact that there are a million different words for words like "have" depending on whether you have it, someone else has it, a whole bunch of people have it, or someone you respect has it....ughhh! How will I ever remember that!? Plus, I can't speak in a French accent at all. Seriously, it comes out Indian-sounding! But I am determined lol. One thing I love though is French song lyrics- they're so much more deep, poetic, beautiful and romantic than English songs! Here are some lines that really stood out to me in my translating experiences:

"Apprends-moi l'art du sacrifice, qu'on est plus vivant quand on meurt d'amour."
"Teach me the art of sacrifice, that one is more alive when one dies of love."

"Empêche-moi, de préférer la nuit au jour, de dire 'Je T'aime' sans 'toujours.'
"Prevent me, from prefering the night to the day, from saying 'I love you' without 'forever'."

"Donne-moi, ce que j'ai perdu un jour, dans ces routes et ces détours, a chercher le chemin, de te mains, de te mains. Retiens-moi."
"Give me, this that I have lost a day, in these roads and these detours, to search the way, of your hands, of your hands. Hold me back."

Nouvelle France

So I FINALLY watched this movie yesterday. I wanted to watch it a few years ago when it came out, because Celine sang the theme song (Ma Nouvelle France), and she said it was so sad and good- but it's so hard to find! Maybe because it was made in Quebec? I don't know. I can only imagine the amount of work that went into it though, since they made both a French and an English version! Anyway, it was on Foxtel yesterday and Marne convinced me to take the time to watch it- and I'm really glad I did! It's probably one of my favourites now. Very emotional and upsetting, but beautiful. I can't really say much about the story without spoiling it, but everyone should watch it!

My beautiful Ruby...

This photo is from a while ago...she was 6 weeks old when it was taken, and she's 17 months now, but I recently found it again and it's one of my favourites. I love her so much. Ever since I was a little kid, I've been somehow magnetized to animals, and them to me. My parents didn't want me to have any pets though- I had two goldfish, Wanda and William (don't blame me, I didn't name them!) But you can't really play with, or hug a fish...So I found a snail in the garden and kept it as a pet. That was great until I took it to school for show and tell, and my 6th grade "buddy" killed it. On purpose. Mean. If I remember right, it's name was Sunbake. When I was 8, I was allowed to get my first bird- a budgie called Pecksie. He had a wife, a few kids...I've now had 15 birds in total, over the years! I got my first bunny when I was 12- mainly because to mny parents, it seemed like a quieter, less messy, alternative to a dog. But I ended up really loving rabbits! I've had 6 over the years (Cottontail, Misty, Lucky, Cottontail Junior, Ruby April, and Peter Cottontail.) They were all lovely and equally special, but as a kid, I would always dream of having a particular type of rabbit...the kind that Ruby is! She looks exactly like a stuffed toy bunny I had. She's the most gentle and sweet animal. She would never hurt anyone and just wants to be loved. She's also very shy. I was going through a pretty bad time, when I got her...reflecting on that, she's the one good thing that came out of that chapter of my life. "Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers."

The Moon...

I like the moon. The one in the sky. It's beautiful, with the stars shining around it and clouds floating by. It's peaceful to just stare at it sometimes. We had a full moon last night.
Unfortunately, I was also subjected to another type of moon, by Missy the cockatiel! At first I found it funny, but now I wish she'd stop doing it, because it's not exactly polite when guests come over! Plus, now Belle has started doing it too! Great. I wish I knew how to make it stop. Anyway, here are some pics, to hopefully make you laugh and not offend you too much!

Conversations with an old guy...

I probably mentioned, my Mum's father (my Grandfather, Opa) recently got out of hospital after 9 months, and came to live with us.
During his hospital stay, maybe because of the trauma, or medication...he became kind of strange in the cute way that some old people do. This included telling me I look great (in all seriousness), and I should "wear that dress more often", when I was wearing a plastic gown and hair net to visit him in the ICU, and him calling a male nurse a "handsome young thing."
We're glad to have him home with us now, but man...sometimes we have some strange conversations!!!! There was the fight about pancakes that I'm gonna try to forget, and the time I was arguing with my parents and he interrupted to randomly tell us that when he was 20 he used to make clothes out of rabbit fur, and a few conversations we had at dinner last night....

Opa: I think I should try to live another year.
Me: Um. Ok. Why don't you try a lot more years. You have to make it to 100.
Opa: 100?
Me: Yes. I'll be 47 then.
Opa: Oh. Maybe you'll die first.


Mum: Do you want to watch the football?
Opa: Yes.
Opa: I've already seen this game.
Mum: No you haven't, Dad, it's live.
Opa: I saw them score that try before. I have definitely seen it.
Mum: That's not possible. They're playing right now. David and Matt even went to watch the game.
Opa: Maybe they played at lunch time.
Mum: No, Dad, they're playing now! Right now!
Opa: No, I don't think so....

And it went on for about 10 minutes. Sooo hard not to laugh! :) I love him though :)

Cake, coldness and other....crap.

It's Jessica's 28th Birthday today! I love cooking, so every year I make a cake, just for the sake of being creative (and because it tastes good!) The one I made this year kind of fell apart, so I'm posting a pic of one I made a few years ago :)
It's sooooo cold here at the moment. Apparently yesterday was some kind of coldness record in Sydney. Dad had a job interview in Canberra today and he said it was almost snowing.
Randomness...Opa's Doctor told him that singing will help to make his vocal chords and breathing stronger...instead he walked around all morning, mooing like a cow!
I have a few days off work, so I decided to watch all those classic girly movies that I always hear people refer to, but never know what exactly they're talking about. Wuthering Heights, I could tolerate. Did not like the end though. Pride and Prejudice was good. Probably because the version I watched was made less than a million years ago. :) Now I'm watching Shakespeare In Love, and I'm thinking...enough already. I'm sure it's a good movie, but all the big words and British accents are making me think too much LOL. Next, I'm watching Chicken Little. Maturity is so overrated ;)
Problem: Ever since I was sick a few weeks ago, around 5pm every day, I start to feel sick. I know I have to get dinner, but I can never figure out what I want, so that I don't feel worse. It's weird.
That's all for now :)

On S'est Aimé À Cause...

This is one of my favourite Celine songs. It's from the D'Elles album. I've been translating a lot of lyrics lately for the purpose of learning more French, and this was one of the songs I did. French lyrics have so much depth and meaning to them...

On s'est aimé à cause
À cause de l'été
Qui peignait tout en rose
L'amour et la cité
À cause des grands rêves
Que nous avions bâtit
Autour d'Adam et d'Eve
Et de leur paradis

À cause de l'ambiance
Du lieu et du moment
Et des lambeaux d'enfance
Collés à nos vingt ans

On s'est aimé à cause
À cause, à cause, à cause
Mais maintenant vois-tu
On ne peut ignorer
Qu'il nous faut voir un peu
Différemment les choses
On s'est aimé à cause
Il faut s'aimer malgré

Malgré, malgré la pluie
Tombant sur nos été
Malgré le ciel de suie
Et les jours sans clarté
Malgré les grands rêves
Dont on est revenu
Comme Adam et Eve
De leur paradis perdu

Malgré les clairvoyances
De nos cœurs indulgents
Malgré l'accoutumance
Tissée au fil des ans

Il faut s'aimer à cause
Malgré beaucoup de choses
Mais maintenant vois tu
On ne pet ignorer
Que l'amour se transforme
Et son apothéose
C'est quand on aime à cause
À cause des... malgré

We loved each other because
Because of the Summer
Who painted all in pink
The love and the city
Because of the big dreams
That we had built
Around Adam and Eve
And of their paradise

Because of the ambiance
Of the place and the moment
And of the scraps of childhood
Stuck to our twenty years

We loved each other because
Because, because, because
But now you see
We cannot be unaware of
What it is necessary we see a little
The different things
We loved each other because
It is necessary to love each other despite

Despite, despite the rain
Falling on our Summers
Despite the sky of soot
And the days without clarity
Despite all the big dreams
Of which we are returned
As Adam and Eve
Of the paradises returned

Despite the clairvoyances
Of our indulgent hearts
Despite familiarisation
Woven into the wire of the years

It is necessary to love one another despite
Despite a lot of things
But now you see
We cannot be unaware of
That the love itself transformed
And its culmination
This is when we are the cause
Because of...despite.

Movies...

I thought since I've seen a few movies lately, and I don't often watch a lot of movies, I'd make a blog about them :) My all time favourites are probably The Notebook, Beauty and the Beast, Titanic, and Master of Disguise. I like romantic stuff, some comedies, and kids movies...the kind that don't leave you feeling confused and depressed, thanks! I don't like violent stuff at all, those "boy movies" as I call them haha. So this past week or so, I've seen;

Alvin and the Chipmonks- Sooo cute! And I always loved that Chipmonks Christmas song- I can never resist bouncing up and down everytime I hear it, no matter how old I am!
Blonde Ambition- I have to see every movie Jess ever does, you know. And I think this was her best one so far! I liked her character, Katie- she had a lot of her real personality in her. And I gotta say Daisy always makes me smile, cute little doggie!
The Bridges of Madison County- Usually after I read a book and then see the movie, it drives me nuts how different the two are. The book and movie versions of this were pretty similar though, and both were good. I actually like some of the changes made to adapt the novel into a movie. I think also because a lot of it was based around photography, it was nice to actually see the scenery in the movie, rather than just imagining it as we somewhat had to with the book. The end even made me cry!
Bella- I read about this movie having a pro-life message, which is an issue I feel strongly about, so I'd been wanting to see this one for ages, and I finally got around to it. It was good! Not in the same way most movies are though. It required a lot of thinking, and I feel like I'd need to watch it and analyse it again before I'd fully understand everything. The flashbacks and forwards confused me a bit. The Spanish parts got a little irritating after a while, but it probably shouldn't have bothered me. I think it really pointed out how sacred life is, how important love is, and how rarely life turns out as we expect. I also read some reviews that said the lead character was supposed to represent Jesus in some way.
Anyway, I wanna watch more movies now! Tell me some that are good!